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Was 1960 Really The Worst Pop Year Ever?

Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, March 2010

KIDS TODAY. And the music they listen to! As I write, Billboard's (U.S.) Top 10 features three songs with the F-word in their title, one enumerating the joys of sado-masochism, another urging immoderate consumption of vodka and cocaine–preferably as one "freaks it off" on the dance floor.

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