Poptimists Demographics

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

HI DERE POPTIMISTS AND LURKERS

Could you fill this in please? I've made it viewable-to-none in case some of you don't want to give yr age. If you can't think of 3 years in the second question, give 2 or 1, but do answer it if you can as it might provide VITAL SCIENCE EVIDENCE about when people's interest in pop hits/peaks/recurs etc.

EDIT: Sorry, can you give calendar years in question two?

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Comments

[koganbot]

The question is highly ambiguous. I think you mean "name the three years that you were most excited by the music that was popular at the time" (as opposed to, say, name the three years that you now think were the best and most exciting for popular music, whether or not you felt the excitement yourself at the time); but you could also mean, "name the three years of the current pop era - say from Spice Girls on - that are the most exciting" (this is how I originally interpreted the question, until I realized that my interpretation didn't quite make sense).

Anyhow, the three years I was most excited by music that was popular at the time, and by popular I mean really really popular in the U.S. so not the Sex Pistols unfortunately: 1967, 1969*, 1999. (* = I was no longer listening to Top 40 but was listening to the new "progressive rock" FM stations, and if you're not willing to count that as popular music despite its being extremely popular then I guess I could substitute 1988 for freestyle and hair metal or 2003 for crunk and Fiddy or 2005 for teenpop but all three of those years not to mention all others I could potentially list also involved discovery and excavation of previous work in the "genre" and neither of those years encompasses "Top 40 as a whole," in fact Denver can't really support a Top 40 station since the formats are really "niche market with a lot of crossover" and the most recent Top 40 station threw in the towel last year and switched to reggaeton/latin pop and its ratings immediately doubled!)

Most exciting years for pop music whether or not for me: 1966, 1977, 1999. 1988 was good as well, leading me to believe that either we go in eleven year cycles (keep your ears open for 2010) or we have fab years when they end in repeat digits (2000 was good too, the year of Eminem!), so keep your ears open for 2011!

The three years of the modern pop era that excited me most: 1999, 2003, 2005.

(And the three years when I was most excited by music whether the music was current or not or popular or not would be 1973 for the Dolls and Stooges and Mean Streets and the retrospective discovery of Shangri-Las etc., and 1978 for the Clash and Contortions and X Ray Spex etc. etc. etc. and 1989 for freestyle and the Disco Tex essay.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

All of the above.

(I do think I should have put 'current at the time' but LJ won't let you edit polls)

[(Anonymous)]

25;

1989
1991
1997

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