is canonicity a question of popularity or of something else? Maybe I misunderstood
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Replying to @blue_traveler @fire__exit
hm maybe me too. i'd think the music that ends up representing an era? the beatles, led zeppelin....smash mouth?
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @fire__exit
incidentally, a coworker didn't know a band or a song that was on the radio the other day, but said "sounds like '67"
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and he was right. I was floored. Don't think he was just trolling either
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It's about production technology and instrumentation as much as style.
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makes sense
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If you hear a Roland 303 you *know* when the song was made, with pretty high confidence.
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that's still a span of years; this was a song with just rock instruments, constrained to a single year
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Replying to @blue_traveler @St_Rev and
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dl61S672uM … This was it. Okay, maybe there are some notable tells, now that I listen again
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The production says between 1959 and 1969. The content says between 1964 and 1974.
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So 1967-68 is where to place your bet.
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ahh.
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