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Youtube has rundowns up for the Billboard hits of every year back to God knows when. I listened to 2010 back to 1970 and that's a strange experience. I was astonished at how many '70s songs I recognized, however sketchily, but of course not from childhood - they just filtered down, most of them from movies, covers, and five second clips from those cable ads for $19.95 Disco or Funk compilations they used to play constantly. My earliest song memories seem to be from 1981 ones - "Physical" and "Mickey," and I don't remember having full, contemporary awareness of almost all of a year's included songs till about 1986. Maybe that was the first time we had MTV in the house. The reason I notice this is because the songs feel very different depending on if they're from childhood or some percolation source.

( Scattered observations on the last 40 years of pop music: )