So if we can get Bill and Ted together the world will be all right? - CW™

There has to be some sort of birthday paradox around graphs. Given a large enough library of graphs, you will find a strong correlation between two. - Joe Beda ()

Mean global temperature correlates quite well with the decline in the pirate population, after all. Actually, we can test causality now -- will the rise of Somali and Asian pirates bring the temperature back down? Or are the required to wear 17th century pirate regalia? - Joel Webber

This also confirms my conjecture that there have been no new good artists since 1975. - Gabe

This is why we must start drilling in Alaska. - τorƍue

Will drilling in Alaska improve rock music? - Gary Burd

Speaking of birthdays, I think a histogram of the birthdays of music critics would probably look a whole lot like the red graph... shifted 13-18 years or so. - Ken Sheppardson

'Songs in "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of all Time,"' huh? That's some ground truth for ya. - j1m

I'd like to see the graph for Pitchfork, but the lists are segmented by decade. - Gary Burd

@Ken - "predicting oil production by music critic's birthdays". Who'd have thought we could solve the whole running-out-of-oil thing by getting Rolling Stone to hire 16 year olds!!! - Nick Lothian

Ken: I think you might find more correllation with a histogram of drug use than age of critics. - Gabe

Plenty of good rock out there: http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... -- though can't argue that we're not in an age of decline - Christopher Galtenberg