One of the things I find to be the most amazing about the Internet is how people have spare time to create such interesting content. I know it’s my own time management because of TV or video games, but thanks to the wonderful World Wide Web, you can find anything from video mashups to movie stills taken completely out of context. And if you still can’t find what you’re looking for there’s always YouTube.
Case in point, i09 posted this article/infographic recently listing out The Most (and Least) Obscure Hit songs of the Last 114 Years. Check it out for a moment, I’ll wait.
Back? Cool.
This is a pretty good list of tunes. I found myself searching for some of the more obscure tracks to see what I could find such as Olive Kline’s Hello, Frisco! or Marguerite Farrell’s If I Knock the ‘L’ Out of Kelly. It’s interesting to see what was popular for the era. I can easily see our descendants looking at a similar list in another 114 years and seeing songs like “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Tacky or Submotion Orchestra’s All Yours.
It’s easy to forget the importance of data – we presume it’ll always be available and we end up taking it for granted. But articles like this one by Ria Misra are great reminders to save what we hold dear because with a lot of data and a little spare time, you can create something incredible.
So what music would make your own “Obscure” playlist?
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