1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
Mp3s are just a list of times and volumes - if you convert an mp3 into a text file, you can read music that way. I do think that when you lay out time in this manner, as a static list of numerical values, that you can easily see how time travel is possible. If you rearrange these times, for instance, in order of volumes rather than times, you are shifting the order of time itself. It's true! Yes. When you hear these songs of the '70s and re-experience old memories, you are actually in the past. Do not lie to yourself and dishonor the realities in your mind - you are constantly reentering the past and also you travel into the future constantly.
Consider this: if cause and effect is behind all activity in the physical world, then you can simply make a list of times, position and velocity of every particle - and that's actually an accurate description of the physical world. You can store all of history in a digital file, a table of values. Then you could also rearrange those time values in any order, since that list has no particular order it must be read in. The appearance of time is an illusion of perception. Lift the veil, my friends. All songs are being played in all orders forever in all directions. Furthermore, they are being remixed in all conceivable ways all at once. Listening to chartsweeps and cut-ups in general is moral because it is closer to the truth about the unreality of "time" than any other kind of music.
To hear all the hits of the 60s, click here. To hear 1956-1959, click here. I'll tackle the '80s in a few weeks!
"the thought of war...blows"
genius edits!
Posted by: Jason | November 07, 2011 at 12:50 PM
This shows that 10 seconds is actually a pretty long time
Posted by: Tim O'Brien | November 07, 2011 at 02:25 PM
One outstanding inclusion from 1972 is Jud Strunk. He was from Laugh In and deserved more time in the charts. Luckily he got there once with a very sweet song about growing up, growing old, and staying in love no matter what happens. This is a message we all need to be reminded of daily.
Posted by: Bill C | November 08, 2011 at 06:26 AM
Make that 1973 for Jud Strunk. The separator goes on the other side...
Posted by: Bill C | November 08, 2011 at 06:28 AM
Spiffing series old chap. Thanks for the tracklist for the 60s. Got one for this lot?
Posted by: The Cheese Knees | November 09, 2011 at 12:22 PM
May I ask, can you provide tracklist for the 70's playlist?
Posted by: Dante | November 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM
Ha - just linked to this at my Early '70s Radio blog. Nat's using the Billboard year-end charts. You can see these at Longbored Surfer.
Posted by: Kim Simpson | November 12, 2011 at 10:48 AM
It's like those commercials for 12 record sets of the hits of the 1970s presented to you by Time Life or Readers Digest, but better.
Posted by: non person | November 23, 2011 at 04:22 PM
Nice, but your 1971 compilation is missing the #1 song, Joy to the World! also noticed you go well past the top 100, where do you get those from?
Posted by: dan | December 18, 2011 at 02:37 PM
Hey Dan,
I'm surprised you're the first person to point this out! I'm using a computer program to make this...occasionally there are errors and a song doesn't get processed. So there are certainly some errors, not to mention that the computer doesn't make very elegant cuts a lot of the time.
I'm pulling these clips from FMU's mp3 library, which has "top 100 by year" folders of mp3s...not sure exactly where they're getting them from.
Perhaps "every" is hyperbole. But you get the point, at least. This process is far from perfect, I do readily admit.
Posted by: Nat | December 19, 2011 at 05:45 PM