Translation: there was still genre diversity on Top40 radio.

Late great year? I'd say early 90slast good year, late 90sall downhill since then
"When life presents you with lemons, squeeze out the juice and squirt it in your enemies eyes."

Oh, if we're going for a nostalgia driven thread about when our emotive connection to a broad span of music (released within that year) suddenly dropped, I'm going to have to go with 1987 as the pivot year.
Damion Crowley
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you.R.E.

Even though I won't deny there was some great music released that year, 2007 was the year I quit listening to modern popular music, because there was so much popular music then that I didn't like at all.

Re music in general, every year is great.
Re Top 40, I'd say the last great year was mid-80s-ish, and the last few years have been particularly dire for Top 40.

Why don't you explain your 'thinking' - cite some examples as to why - & perhaps you could also have the fuqqing decency to reply to those who've replied to youor do you suddenly feel silly & out of your depth?
What difference would 'accepting it' make anyway?

i'd say the last great year in music was 1994. It's kind of been downhill every since.
What are words for when no one listens anymore

Could you maybe expand on that theory? Or are you so intellectually bankrupt that you can't?
Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.

I don't recall anything significant from 2007.
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan

You sound like me in 1989.
Damion Crowley
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you.R.E.

to be the last great year of music, once "Macarena" became a major hit that was around the time when music really started to go downhill (at least Top 40 music that is)
Yeah, after that, it started to shift towards bubblegum pop artists and groups that the late 90s/early 2000s are notoriously known for.
"Arnold, my love, why must I worship youand NEVER EVER tell?"

Me I consider 1995 to be the last great year of music, once "Macarena" became a major hit that was around the time when music really started to go downhill (at least Top 40 music that is)

No. There have been many great music albums released since then.
Bender: Do I preach to you when you're lying stoned in the gutter. Noooo! So beat it!

although it was an AMAZING year for music. it wasn't the last greatest.

I suppose if I'm going to accept some arbitrary date to be the last great time for music - and I do feel that I
have
to - it may as well be that one.

There is no noun that cannot be verbed.

I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal saviour. Because someone on a sh!tty blog told me to.
No valley too deep, no mountain too high.

I would say the early 2000s.
"Arnold, my love, why must I worship youand NEVER EVER tell?"

Based on what, you dolt?
And no, it's certainly not.
Fighting the frizzies, at 11.

I would say 1999 or so.

You're clearly forgetting 2010!

Nope.
CG gore is the worst thing that has ever happened to the horror genre.

Based on my album purchases, I would say no.
For example, I bought nine 2007 releases and literally twice that number of 2014 releases.

Uh, no? Seems like a year picked at random.
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