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There are two things my musical world-view is based on. One: my taste in music is exceptionally good *coughs*, and two: everyone else’s sucks. And what better way to prove this is there than coming up with your own, homebrewn statistic.
For the sake of scientific inquiry I decided to take a look at the yearly top ten songs from 1990 to 2007 as compiled by TsorT and calculated the percentage of songs that ranked high on the I’d turn that shit up if it was on the radio-scale:

So in the top-ten list of 1996, for example, were four songs that I would now rank somewhere between kinda enjoyable and fuck yes. Among them – and I’m not ashamed to admit that – is Toni Braxton’s Un-Break My Heart. Cause she’s hot. Or at least she was eleven years ago.

You really shouldn’t read too much into this. For one, I basically pulled this out of my ass and didn’t really take the time to listen to all the songs (that would’ve taken at least 7 hours, which is basically 6.5 hours longer than I am willing to spend on any one blog post). Just thinking about that Macarena song made me want to lacerate my ears with a hedge trimmer. And yes, you may call me an asshole for linking that.
Secondly, I assume that the farther back you go in your memory the more you start romanticizing things involuntarily. With the exception of Bryan Adams, his suckage reigns supreme.
Also keep in mind that this is based on my likings on the day of writing which can differ significantly from what I thought back then. At least to the degree that I ended up with the graph that I wanted.

So what’s my point here? I can make pretty diagrams with Excel and Photoshop Nothing, really. I would very much like to conclude that my taste in music is evolving away from the mainstream, but this line of argument is weaker than Stephen Hawking’s biceps and so inconclusive that even a Texan creationist wouldn’t buy it.