伊安·麦克唐纳（Ian MacDonald）在1994年的《头脑中的革命》（Revolution in the Head）结尾写道：> 按照单曲排行榜来衡量，流行音乐可以说是于1966年初达到了巅峰，自那之后整体质量便开始平缓下滑，而到了1970年跌势已然加剧。虽然有人会把这个时间点定在……
Ian MacDonald in 1994, at the ending of Revolution in the Head: > Arguably pop music, as measured by the singles charts, peaked in early 1966, thereafter beginning a shallow decline in overall quality which was already steepening by 1970. While some will date this…
…The rest came from the sum of the parts of the record as a whole. [They] rarely thought long about their lyrics. This is, of course, about John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the 1960s. (Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties) This is how pop music has worked for nigh-on fifty years.
…book is from 1985, still pretty solidly in the pre-Internet mass-media world, illustrates that the cultural-decline issue probably isn't really, or mostly, a computer or even a consumer-Internet problem. Revolution in the Head is another book of the same kind of cultural pessimism, also from (basically) the pre-Web era.
伊安·麦克唐纳（Ian MacDonald）在1994年的《头脑中的革命》（Revolution in the Head）结尾写道：> 按照单曲排行榜来衡量，流行音乐可以说是于1966年初达到了巅峰，自那之后整体质量便开始平缓下滑，而到了1970年跌势已然加剧。虽然有人会把这个时间点定在……
Ian MacDonald in 1994, at the ending of Revolution in the Head: > Arguably pop music, as measured by the singles charts, peaked in early 1966, thereafter beginning a shallow decline in overall quality which was already steepening by 1970. While some will date this…
……剩下的魅力全来自整张唱片各部分融合在一起的化学反应。[他们]很少在歌词上琢磨太久。这说的当然是1960年代的约翰·列侬和保罗·麦卡特尼。（伊安·麦克唐纳，《头脑中的革命：披头士的录音与六十年代》）近五十年来流行音乐一直都是这么运作的。
…The rest came from the sum of the parts of the record as a whole. [They] rarely thought long about their lyrics. This is, of course, about John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the 1960s. (Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties) This is how pop music has worked for nigh-on fifty years.
……这本书出自1985年，当时还处于非常纯粹的前互联网大众媒体时代，这表明文化衰退问题可能根本不是、或者说主要不是计算机甚至消费级互联网带来的问题。《头脑中的革命》是另一本带有同样文化悲观主义倾向的书，同样基本上出自前Web时代。
…book is from 1985, still pretty solidly in the pre-Internet mass-media world, illustrates that the cultural-decline issue probably isn't really, or mostly, a computer or even a consumer-Internet problem. Revolution in the Head is another book of the same kind of cultural pessimism, also from (basically) the pre-Web era.