You're right, my mistake. You picked songs that weren't even hits (one wasn't even a single) as being representative of an era of popular music. Why should I have even taken your comment seriously in the first place? Not to mention that your comment was so tangential that it had fuckall to do with the discussion that…

Assisted reading software reads tags verbatim instead of interpreting them? What the hell does it do with "a href target='_blank'"?

There's a terrible Righteous Brothers song to that effect.

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Stagger Lee was about killing a someone over a gambling debt. Venus was about booty, as is Come Softly to Me. Mack the Knife is about a gangsta slitting throats. All #1 hits.

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Not to mention that there were multiple waves of growth. You had the initial wave of rock & roll, then an even bigger wave with the renaissance led by the British invasion. Movies skyrocketed in the 70s, cable came around the 90s and then the internet in the 2000s.

Also it's a temporal paradox! A strange loop!

Little Richard would like a word with you.

40% of the first R&RHOF class is still alive. That's not bad for a bunch of guys born in the 20s and 30s.

And Chubby Checker.

It's because a bunch of 18-25 year olds starting getting famous 60 years ago.

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Better than Hendrix ever did stateside.

Produced by Neil Young.

Also, Futurama is right and the sooner we shift to from "ask" to "aks" the happier we will be. "Ask" is a phonetic abomination.

*Eats Rosy Fingers, shoots Rosy Fingers and leaves.*

I think it should be a little more complete. "Decrease your vehicle's speed in this residential area; children may enter the roadway unexpectedly and your lower speed will decrease your stopping time and, thus, the likelihood of injuring them."

Well your username is really dumb, so we'll call it even.

Or the form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface.