Billboard Hot 100 #1s that you love or impacted you significantly

[Torn Mind]

Long as you enjoy her music that's the only thing that really matters.

I have the need to understand the "nuts and bolts". Hence...I bought an 86 CD Beethoven set...biggest lesson there...Beethoven could arrange music.

I put Eminence Front on months of repeat listening for the same reason.

 

[Torn Mind]

Vincent is better for me. And I don't think it's the best song ever.

Exactly the song my mom loved off the album...and risked punishment from Commies for. That's the one she'd loop on super loud in the car.

 

[Torn Mind]

Didn't say it's a popular opinion or even terrible. I said it's absurd and silly But honestly, when I see that comment next to a Pantera song, come on. Plus, it's on most songs I see. Music isn't the reason you survived a rough time in your life. It's a bit silly to put that faith in music and not yourself or those around you that may have helped.

There are real physical effects.

Music as medicine

Researchers explore how music therapy can improve health outcomes in populations such as premature infants and people with depression and Parkinson’s disease.

www.apa.org

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Not to mention the presentation of whatever concept in the song is precisely why it can heal.

I was going to put some explanation as to the why for some songs I listed.

 

[Torn Mind]

Some of the songs I included are because I heard them in the "primoridal times" of early childhood. Songs I didn't know who but I could recognize them.

Sweet Dreams, I actually somehow managed to remember the title.
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, I didn't know at all. Michael Bolton was just someone referenced in Office Space but I didn't know he wrote and sang that song. But, when JoJo did her Masked Singer cover of that song, well, that song was somehow all too familiar.
The Sign and All That She Wants were also such songs.

 

[Torn Mind]

Don Felder about writing Hotel California.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Bad Guy(Because of my contempt towards the artist is unlike any other, thus it is impactful in a negative manner)

Curious about your contempt for Billie Eilish.

 

[Torn Mind]

Curious about your contempt for Billie Eilish.

Well, I was just curious about the music scene in 2019 at the time. A laceration gave me some free time to just do stuff to fill the time, and I had come across "Old Town Road" earlier in the year. So I came across some article mentioning her.


Her way of singing triggers what can only be described as an allergic reaction. I gave her a fair shot. Tried listening to that album. The experience just became so bad....I just had to stop.

Generally speaking...I'm rather neutral towards music. If it's something I don't grasp...I just don't feel anything. But Eilish...I could not handle the torture.

I literally feel the life force being sucked out of me. Like if I continue with the exposure...I'm setting myself up for my own postmodern version of a funeral. I feel a deathly cryptic white room enter my imagination.

Also, she challenged my mind to toe the line between expressing contempt without uttering falsehoods myself, like saying she can't sing. Yes she can, it is just the most perfectly abominable way possible for my mind.

That boy got some ugly teeth issue, it seems. He can't sing either. At least Eilish can hit the notes.

 

[Tsinni Dave]

There are real physical effects.

Music as medicine

Researchers explore how music therapy can improve health outcomes in populations such as premature infants and people with depression and Parkinson’s disease.

www.apa.org

.

Not to mention the presentation of whatever concept in the song is precisely why it can heal.

I was going to put some explanation as to the why for some songs I listed.

I remember a CBC radio blurb about how Stevie Wonder's Superstition was surprisingly helpful in rehabilitating patients relearning to walk, regardless of whether they had ever heard the song before.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I dunno about the 'hot 100' as this is something that is constantly changing. But, checking my balls at the door and accepting a complimentary pair of overlies ... I'm still not participating.

 

[Captante]

I remember a CBC radio blurb about how Stevie Wonder's Superstition was surprisingly helpful in rehabilitating patients relearning to walk, regardless of whether they had ever heard the song before.

Energetic music played in the car has also been shown to improve drivers hand-eye reaction times.

 

[Torn Mind]

I remember a CBC radio blurb about how Stevie Wonder's Superstition was surprisingly helpful in rehabilitating patients relearning to walk, regardless of whether they had ever heard the song before.

Energetic music played in the car has also been shown to improve drivers hand-eye reaction times.

CPR to Stayin' Alive beat helps keep proper rate - ProCPR

Ironic, isn’t it? The name of the song is Stayin’ Alive, by the Bee Gees. A study was just completed that confirms that med students and physicians who were trained to do compressions, while listening to the song, would maintain the ideal rhythm of 100-120* compressions per minute. Not only...

www.procpr.org

Stayin’ Alive for CPR.

It also topped the charts and I forgot to list it.

 

[Muadib]

Very few extremely popular songs have had much effect on me so the list is short.... here are a few that immediately occur:


(1) Beatles ~ A Day in the life

(2) Queen ~ Bohemian Rhapsody

(3) Gary Jules ~ Mad World

(4) REM ~ Everybody Hurts

(5) Peter Gabriel ~ Biko

Will add to list as I recall more.

Mad World is a Tears for Fears classic! That Jules guy just did a poor remake.

 

[Captante]

Mad World is a Tears for Fears classic! That Jules guy just did a poor remake.

True but I like the Gary Jules version better anyway.

Btw music like any art form is 100% subjective.

 

[Torn Mind]

True but I like the Gary Jules version better anyway.

Btw music like any art form is 100% subjective.

Subjective....but not without attempts at "standards-making".

Polemics and all other forms of declarations always manages to come up in some form, be it amongst musicians themselves or the populace. There was lots of heat put down on paper on how music should be in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Romantics

 

[Captante]

Subjective....but not without attempts at "standards-making".

Polemics and all other forms of declarations always manages to come up in some form, be it amongst musicians themselves or the populace. There was lots of heat put down on paper on how music should be in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Romantics

AND what people like is what they like.

(you're WAY over-thinking this!)

 

[Torn Mind]

AND what people like is what they like.

(you're WAY over-thinking this!)

I am merely pointing out observations of humans doing human things.

Except manifestations have had real world consequences, such as the death of disco.

Well, even composers themselves start hating one of their own works. Like Beethoven and his Septet, where he stated he wished it was burned. Thus highlighting the ever present tension between popularity and often "lighter works" vs more "deep" and "cerebral" matters of composition.

 

[Muadib]

True but I like the Gary Jules version better anyway.

Btw music like any art form is 100% subjective.

LOL, then carry on!

 

[Torn Mind]

Don Felder on how to play Hotel California. Someone got this off Guitar World.

 

[RLGL]

What is Billboard Hot 100?

 

[nakedfrog]

Generally speaking...I'm rather neutral towards music. If it's something I don't grasp...I just don't feel anything. But Eilish...I could not handle the torture.

I literally feel the life force being sucked out of me. Like if I continue with the exposure...I'm setting myself up for my own postmodern version of a funeral. I feel a deathly cryptic white room enter my imagination.

I'm a bit on the other side, as far back as memory goes music has been an important thing in my life. There are songs I've been listening to for over two decades that can still give me goosebumps (Tori Amos' "Silent All These Years" is a good example).
However, most of the songs in your OP are ones I would prefer to never hear again
I don't want to trawl through important songs to me to see which ones hit #1 though.

 

[Torn Mind]

I'm a bit on the other side, as far back as memory goes music has been an important thing in my life. There are songs I've been listening to for over two decades that can still give me goosebumps (Tori Amos' "Silent All These Years" is a good example).
However, most of the songs in your OP are ones I would prefer to never hear again
I don't want to trawl through important songs to me to see which ones hit #1 though.

Music has impacted me. Just that for everyone but Billie Eilish(and maybe Brahms) and who are not in my shrine of sacred cows...I just don't have feelings either way.

I don't hate rap. I would not listen at its intended volume but I think some value can be obtained hearing a few tracks. I tried to listen to one of those albums DigDog listed in a previous thread. I just felt nothing for the first listen. Then again, I need repeat listens to really like or dislike something. My first viewing of Frozen was like that...the songs came in and out...but somehow...they stuck and then I got sucked in.

Maybe you should listen to Brahms. Since I don't like him that much....you probably will.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I've probably seen 100 billboards. Some places it seems there may be that many in a row.

 

[IronWing]

What is Billboard Hot 100?

Anachronistic marketing from a time when radio was the gateway to new music for most people. The most popular music was the music shoveled out by major record companies. Those with the biggest shovels determined the tallest piles of manure.

 

[Torn Mind]

Anachronistic marketing from a time when radio was the gateway to new music for most people. The most popular music was the music shoveled out by major record companies. Those with the biggest shovels determined the tallest piles of manure.

Snobbish philistine detected.

 

[skyking]

Anachronistic marketing from a time when radio was the gateway to new music for most people. The most popular music was the music shoveled out by major record companies. Those with the biggest shovels determined the tallest piles of manure.

payola baby!