Fell into a youtube rabbit hole last night, the best song each month during the 50s and 60s,  and then someone's ranking of 100 best songs of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Someone was a dude, though even-handed, but the dudebros in the comments sneering at the bubblegum music of the '60s Beatles was mildly annoying. Was glad that someone else pointed out that bubblegum was much later than '63 and the Stones were middle-class poseurs pretending to be raunchy working class, while the Beatles were actually working class (Paul *maybe* squeaking into middle class, I don't know) doing pleasant middle. I can half see the bubblegum charge: much as I love their early stuff for the nostalgia, it is indeed simplistic. But their later work may be sophisticated and all but doesn't grab me in the least. The Beatles end at Sergeant Pepper AFAIC.

Of the 50s, the less said the better. Music so white. The Platters' Great Pretender being the honourable exception.

I ff'd a lot in the 80s. The decade when people stopped singing and started shouting incomprehensible garble against a background of Noise, I believe. If Cohen or Graceland or any Springsteen but Born to Run from the 70s  made it into the 100 best of the 80s, I must have missed it.