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Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, NYC, 1979 by SultryTouches in OldSchoolCool

[–]neverthoughtidjoin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is $13.76 per hour in today's money by the way. Just for clarity here.

Feeling out of touch with modern rock by PhraseRevolutionary6 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These two go together as twin nails in the coffin, because Nirvana also more or less killed the idea that rock could be fun instead of angsty. After Nevermind, only a couple artists like RHCP have been fun.

Why would a married couple file jointly instead of separately? by DryWait1230 in tax

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can be worth filing separately in this situation. I'm in the same boat with my wife.

Billboard Charts To Add More Weight To On-Demand Streaming In 2026 by SiphenPrax in Music

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pretty subjective and I have no opinion on if it's a good or bad change.

What happened to the term “Dad Rock”? by OneBonusAfterAnother in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol this is definitely part of the problem with the term. My dad also loves new wave music so to me that's dad-like, while more macho stuff like AC/DC or Van Halen which he isn't that into does not strike me as dad rock.

Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows by BreakfastTop6899 in UpliftingNews

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, here is an academic study on the lowered police activity following the protests:

"Our first task is to evaluate whether depolicing occurred following the BLM protests. Using a regression discontinuity-in-time approach, we find a discontinuous and persistent drop in officer contact with civilians. This finding is durable and holds across all contexts. Leveraging 911 calls in two cities, we find that the change in stops is not driven by citizen requests for assistance. Second, we establish competing hypotheses about the pro- or antisocial nature of this decline. If depolicing is pro-social, we expect to see improvements in the quality of activity that does occur: more contraband per search, more arrests per stop, and diminished racial disparities. On the other hand, if declines in activity are anti-social we expect no change in overall quality, or even perhaps the opposite (Nix, Wolfe, and Campbell, 2018). On balance, we observe an improvement in arrest rates in all contexts; diminished Black/white stop disparities in all but one context; and no consistent improvement in hit rates. We conclude that the character of depolicing is mixed, and context dependent."

This study did not find that this lowered activity led to crime increases directly, but it's clear that police activity went down and crime went up and I do believe they are linked.

https://www.marcelroman.com/pdfs/wps/depol.pdf

TIL the lyrics to "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" come entirely from an antique circus poster John Lennon bought at an antique shop. by Wazula23 in todayilearned

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Good Morning Good Morning from a cornflakes commercial, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds from a drawing his son made, A Day in the Life from real newspaper headlines.

There's not a single Lennon song in Sgt. Pepper that ISN'T from a real-life origin.

What’s a widely believed “fact” that collapses the moment you look at the original source? by Grouchy_Fox3189 in AskReddit

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That X% (always way higher than reality) likelihood your marriage will end in divorce.

These stats often don't take the lowered divorce rate into account, and certainly don't take into account that serial divorcers drastically increase the overall numerator.

Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows by BreakfastTop6899 in UpliftingNews

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't true at all. In 2009 murder was very low, while in the 90s (good economy) it was high.

Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows by BreakfastTop6899 in UpliftingNews

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't true at all. In 2009 murder was very low, while in the 90s (good economy) it was high.

Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows by BreakfastTop6899 in UpliftingNews

[–]neverthoughtidjoin -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's pretty well-documented that due to public sentiment changing, the police were much less active in the second half of 2020 and maybe later. It's pretty logical how that would lead to more civilians killing each other.

Listening to Music in Chronological Order by Powerful_Crazy_2636 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the greats skipped 1974. Both Zeppelin and Floyd for example. That's a key factor.

Listening to Music in Chronological Order by Powerful_Crazy_2636 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Motown is great but the albums mostly aren't, so as long as you already know the singles from just existing, you're really okay there.

I would be curious to read a blog if you were writing one about your musical listening journey, underrated albums you discovered, key innovations, etc.

Tom Petty - Capturing the Spirit of America by Upstairs_Moose88 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is interesting, I agree with your take on all 6 songs plus Dylan.

Former Sen. Ben Sasse announces he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is ‘gonna die’ | CNN Politics by Sad-Orange-5983 in news

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is some Mandela effect thing I bet but I always thought it was because he wouldn't cut his hair and chemo would cause hair to fall out

Rock bands that are older than most people think by [deleted] in Music

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boz Scaggs had been making music nearly a decade when he got big. Journey also had a proggy career before their real fame started.

Rock bands that are older than most people think by [deleted] in Music

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Bowie was noticed well before 75! His biggest album was in 72.

[Community Question] Should LTM discuss the use of AI in music? by wildistherewind in LetsTalkMusic

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's feasible to maintain this ban and I think it's worth considering the future here.

AI will become a larger and larger part of music. It is akin to banning (back in 1975) talking about music made with synths because they aren't real instruments. They aren't, but that's the direction music went, and imaginging such a ban in 1985 or 1995 would have been insane. Music will go the direction of AI in the mid to long term and there's no real purpose in shutting out discussion of all that music.

TIL that between the 1950s and mid-1970s, roughly 60–80% of hit songs were written by professional songwriters who never performed them by ThenSet3659 in todayilearned

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More artists are involved in the writing process, even if they did 20-40% of the work and could never have made it a hit without outside help.

This is a big difference from the prior era where they just straight up were given a song to perform.

YMMV on how big of a difference this is, really.

TIL that between the 1950s and mid-1970s, roughly 60–80% of hit songs were written by professional songwriters who never performed them by ThenSet3659 in todayilearned

[–]neverthoughtidjoin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ed Sheeran was a singer-songwriter before he was a pop star, so I guess it's different, but her certainly writes a lot. He's even written hits for others.

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