Boy, pop music is just as bad today as it was in the early 60's..

[WCGreen]

Before the Beatles...

Frankie Avalon with Mousse....

Annette Funicello with 'tude...

[billyskank]

1. I find it instructive

there is a programme on BBC Radio 2 that plays all the music from the pop chart as it was exactly 40 years ago, or something.

Everybody remembers the storming records that came out of the 60s. But it is sobering to hear this programme - the majority of the chart's content back then was diabolical, just as it is now.

[WCGreen]

2. And that is why the beatles stuck out like a sore thumb....

[RebelOne]

3. It was better in the '70s.

That was the best era for music.

[billyskank]

4. Born in the mid-to-late-60s, perchance?

[Jokerman]

5. The bulk of pop music has alway been bad.

IMHO most music, like most movies and TV shows, at any given time is bad. The few with talent stand out and are remembered while most of it falls by the wayside.

I imagine that Mozart had plenty of untalented contemporaries who's names have long been lost.

[mvd]

6. Pop's always had its good and bad

Just like any other genre. I think pop's definitety better now than it was in the mid to late 90s, and the early 60s will be remembered as the dawning of rock.

[hsher]

7. I wonder if another "Beatles" are coming, then

Maybe I should post this and see what people say.

[ChoralScholar]

8. Don't forget Neil Sedaka!

Pop music took a nosedive, around the time that Buddy Holly's plane crashed, and Elvis was drafted. Not much was happening until the British Invation.

[mvd]

9. Personally, I loved Elvis and..

very early rock like Chuck Berry.