Comments on: Money Through Time

By: BlubbaClubba

BlubbaClubba — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:13:59 +0000

Actually, I’m 14 years old and I understood all of the references. Don’t say that people are too young to understand.

By: Queen of the Universe

Queen of the Universe — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:16:28 +0000

It’s perfect.

By: Person who understands music

Person who understands music — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:22 +0000

I got all of these references. I don’t understand how some can’t. Kids these days…

By: Old Person

Old Person — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:54:04 +0000

Silly young people – music + exlnt graph =

By: knifewounds

knifewounds — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:17:35 +0000

aw, thanks everyone. except maybe ilolzattehnubcakes for gender-assumption fail but it’s the thought that counts

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:51:49 +0000

But the Beatles’ version is far more rockin.

By: forge

forge — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:04:46 +0000

Totally left out and that!!! is a CRIME!! –

“Meeeeaann, meaaaaannn… MEAN GREEN” (the O’Jays, 1973)

(song is called “For the Love of Money”)

By: Koriina

Koriina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:44:35 +0000

Am I the only one who tried to highlight it to reveal the white text?

By: Wewtationarystickwtfomgbbqlamename

Wewtationarystickwtfomgbbqlamename — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:52 +0000

instant epic win for any pink floyd reference. by the way, wtf is with my name?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:35:03 +0000

Uhh, Straits

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:34:42 +0000

“Money For Nothing” by Dire Straights

By: Laura Czarnecki

Laura Czarnecki — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:06:07 +0000

Brilliant! Subtle until you can’t get the songs out of your head.

By: ilolzattehnubcakesmisfortune

ilolzattehnubcakesmisfortune — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:37:15 +0000

you sir, are a genius with the song references

By: Maraxus

Maraxus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:10:41 +0000

Well, it would have been more funny, if “that’s what I want” from 1959 would have been covered 1969 and 1977 and “mo problems” would have originally been sung 1981 before 1997.

But I guess, the Y-Axis is meant to represent the positiveness of the depiction of money in music.

By: Oh Noes

Oh Noes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:32:51 +0000

That the readership of this site skews young is no excuse for so many people not getting the joke. If Santayana was right and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, it follows that forgetting pop culture history dooms us to recycle the same fashions and trends. Do we really want parachute pants to come back in style?

By: Ferdbags

Ferdbags — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:12:31 +0000

I love this. The first graph in who knows how long that actually pertains to the purpose of the website, and half the readers don’t get it!

By: mr. bungle

mr. bungle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:02 +0000

nubs don’t get musical allusions.

By: rangerzep83

rangerzep83 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:38:50 +0000

If one has to explain a joke, it has lost all humor. It is understood by those who get it, and find it funny. That’s all that matters.

By: Stufreddy

Stufreddy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:39:43 +0000

So if you don’t find this funny you’re dumb, under 19, and musically unaware? Explain what’s so funny and intelligent that people can’t grasp.

By: knifewounds

knifewounds — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:03:52 +0000

i realise i forgot to label the axes. fail.

but i can’t think of another graph format that would make more sense… and i’m not sure that graphs on this site are really required t be mathematically viable. just funny (which is pretty subjective, admittedly) and have some element of truth to them.

thanks for your comments, RJ i was born in 85 so most of these are before my time, but CLASSICS!!
and i forgot abba.

By: JOnathan Madison

JOnathan Madison — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:30 +0000

Dire Straits song: Money For Nothing

By: JOnathan Madison

JOnathan Madison — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:03 +0000

Lets see… Its a gas… Thats pink floyd… Can’t Buy me love is the Beatles, For nothing, is dire straits… I dont know the other two

By: imapepper01

imapepper01 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:11:07 +0000

This is cute.

By: Me

Me — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:19:13 +0000

i thought mo money mo problems was by chiddy bang- the opposite of adults

By: rangerzep83

rangerzep83 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:10:43 +0000

It’s because the kids who frequent this site, in general, have no knowledge of any song prior to 1995, and one’s mother vacuuming is a much more well known thing.

By: rangerzep83

rangerzep83 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:08:41 +0000

Yes, I had thought it had 1963 listed for that one, which would’ve been The Beatles version.

By: The Ghoul

The Ghoul — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:56:08 +0000

WIN!

By: forge

forge — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:47 +0000

I **HOPE** you’re not disrespecting The Knopfler. That man is a GOD. A GOD!!

By: Miroku

Miroku — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:23:29 +0000

Money, that’s what I want was originally for Barrett Strong.

Note I said, for because he didn’t write it.

By: Miroku

Miroku — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:23 +0000

Money, that’s what I want was originally for Barrett Strong.

Note I said, for because he didn’t write it.

By: pete

pete — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:21:54 +0000

thank you

By: pete

pete — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:21:29 +0000

no they are placed on the year of their release.

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:17 +0000

You know the official title of this web page is ” GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.™”, right? Music is right there, and the people who operatate this site expect music and song references.

Just because you are too dumb to get them does not make the references bad or the graphs un-funny. It just means you don’t get it. Now, for all the idiots and under 19 crowd for forget music has been around a while:

Money, that’s what I want: The Beatles
Money can’t buy me love: also The Beatles
Money, it’s a gas: Pink Floyd
Money for nothing: Dire Straights
Mo money, mo problems: Notorious B.I.G

By: disabilitree

disabilitree — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:03:49 +0000

That was actually the original purpose of the website.
Look at all the older graphs.

By: Whisperia

Whisperia — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:00 +0000

What about those of us who did get it, but found it unfunny?

By: Mort

Mort — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:37:07 +0000

yup, and the references are just kinda randomly placed

By: go4

go4 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:34:03 +0000

^ OP

By: go4

go4 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:38 +0000

i forsee a huge string of graphs in the near future where x is an item (i.e., money) and the y-axis is a bunch of song references

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:43 +0000

amen

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:13 +0000

This graph finally fit in the description of what a graph on graphjam should be. Just because you are musically ignorant does not mean this is not funny, you are just lame.

Thank you for making me laugh, oh graph creator.

By: go4

go4 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:28 +0000

agree

i dont think a graph can be used to represent song references

By: that guy

that guy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:59 +0000

It shouldn’t have been a graph at all.

The only way this could have been a graph is if the statements on the y-axis were some sort of quantity or units. But they aren’t – and that’s why the OP just put “Y-Axis” instead of a unit.

This is a fail.

By: that guy

that guy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:41 +0000

Anything you have to Google to understand is un-funny.

By: Seymore

Seymore — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:03:20 +0000

I find it hard to believe that this graph only got 2.5 so far and “When my mom decides to vacuum” got over 4.5. At least this one required some thought to make? And no it’s not mine.

By: T.M.

T.M. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:56:23 +0000

what’s the best presentation?
a bar graph?

By: M.Z.

M.Z. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:19:27 +0000

Yep. Basically. shouldn’t have been a line graph.

By: zarchasmpgmr

zarchasmpgmr — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:52:05 +0000

And your chicks for free.

You must be in some dire straits if you don’t get that.

By: dire straits

dire straits — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:55 +0000

and chicks for free

By: Hahaha

Hahaha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:43 +0000

Or the presentation is so terrible that even if you get the reference it just doesn’t make sense. Maybe it’d work better in a different format?

By: rangerzep83

rangerzep83 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:17 +0000

And that’s pretty sad.

Here it is for those of you who don’t understand, which will ruin the joke, and make it be not funny for you.

1963: Money (That’s What I Want), by The Beatles.
1964: Can’t Buy Me Love, by The Beatles (the line is “Money can’t buy me love.”)
1973: Money, by Pink Floyd (the line is “Money, it’s a gas.”)
1986: Money for Nothin, by Dire Straits (Most people who didn’t live through that time know this as “I Want my MTV”)
1997: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems, by some rapper. Horrible song. Speaks for itself.