{"id":2009,"date":"2015-03-23T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:35:31","slug":"my-peak-music-year-project-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/my-peak-music-year-project-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8220;Peak Music Year&#8221; Project &#8211; Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/my-peak-music-year-project-conclusion\/\" data-text=\"My &#038;%238220;Peak Music Year&#038;%238221; Project &#038;%238211; Conclusion\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Regular readers of this blog know that some months ago I undertook a project to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221;. \u00a0I arbitrarily and capriciously devised a method that I would use to make this determination. \u00a0I decided to examine the BillBoard Hot 100 chart for the years 1965 through 1975, determine a &#8220;winner&#8221; for each year and then pick a favorite from the winners and declare the year that my favorite won to be my &#8220;Peak Music Year&#8221;. \u00a0Now I have finished that process and it&#8217;s time to reveal my conclusion and declare my Peak Music Year.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the &#8220;winners&#8221; of the BillBoard Hot 100 for the relevant years (you can click on the year to read my post summarizing the chart for that year and how I declared the winner):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1965<\/a>: \u00a0The Beatles (five #1 songs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1966<\/a>: \u00a0The Beatles (two #1 songs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1967<\/a>: \u00a0The Beatles (three #1 songs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1968<\/a>: \u00a0The Beatles (two songs, a total of eleven weeks at #1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1969<\/a>: \u00a0The Beatles (two songs, a total of six weeks at #1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1970<\/a>: \u00a0The Jackson 5 (Four #1 songs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1971<\/a>: \u00a0Three Dog Night (Six weeks at #1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1972<\/a>: \u00a0Disqualified &#8211; I declared No Winner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1973<\/a>: \u00a0Disqualified &#8211; I declared No Winner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1974<\/a>: \u00a0Disqualified &#8211; I declared No Winner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1975<\/a>: \u00a0Elton John (three #1 songs)<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;my favorite among the winners? \u00a0Duh. \u00a0The Beatles. \u00a0That makes my peak music year&#8230;what&#8230;.the 1960&#8217;s? \u00a0Crap. \u00a0OK, while the Beatles are my favorite group among these &#8220;winners&#8221;, they are not my favorite group of all time. \u00a0So there was obviously a flaw in my format. \u00a0In reviewing my summaries I would have to say that the year I was most enthusiastic about was 1969, even though the two Beatles tunes that earned them their &#8220;win&#8221; that year are not even my favorite Beatles songs. \u00a0On the other hand, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1969\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seventeen songs that reached #1 that year<\/a>, I liked (and still like) fifteen of them. \u00a0So is 1969 my peak music year? \u00a0It is true that there was a lot of great music that year, and I liked and still like a lot of it.<\/p>\n<p>But I also listened to a lot of music \u00a0in 1972, &#8217;73 and &#8217;74, years that I disqualified as my peak music year because the BillBoard Hot 100 chart yielded no winner for me. \u00a0A lot of the progressive music I listened to during those years was anti commercial and the artists probably would have been insulted if their songs charted on the Hot 100. \u00a0Groups like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pink_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pink Floyd<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Alan_Parsons_Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Alan Parsons Project<\/a>. \u00a0And even though the band that is most likely my favorite of all time, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steely_Dan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steely Dan<\/a>, was (is?) not an alternative group, and they did have significant commercial success, their successes came later than 1975. \u00a0I can only conclude that the BillBoard Hot 100 was not the appropriate database to use for purposes of determining my peak music year. \u00a0Also the only conclusion I can draw from my little exercise is that 1969 was my Peak BillBoard Hot 100 music year, and a good music year overall for me.<\/p>\n<p>After having reached this wishy washy conclusion to the project, I present two songs related to the year 1969:<\/p>\n<p>First, The Beatles (featuring honorary 5th Beatle, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Preston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Preston<\/a>) with one of their #1&#8217;s from that year, <em>Get Back<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oI8Aw0IGM1I?si=zPiCxCVSDOrQDKLl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next, Steely Dan with a song that was written in 1969, <em>The Caves Of Altamira<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwOzwFUjg5U\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and sticking with it. \u00a0This, however, will not be my final word on my Peak Music Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Regular readers of this blog know that some months ago I undertook a project to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221;. \u00a0I arbitrarily and capriciously devised a method that I would use to make this determination. \u00a0I decided to examine the BillBoard Hot 100 chart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}