gleuch: A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say. I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production. from The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs Despite the fact that Rolling Stone is now terrible, this made me laugh.

gleuch:

A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say.

I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production.

from The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs

Despite the fact that Rolling Stone is now terrible, this made me laugh.


Posted: Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 3:22pm
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    can the US PLEASE produce more oil or something
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    I just found this. Note that the oil curve doesn’t quite fit with the music quality one, in fact it implies that rock...
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    Peak oil = peak rock?
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    Despite the fact that Rolling Stone is now terrible, this made me laugh.
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