Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-curium!jackson From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Good and bad music Message-ID: <2893@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 13:37:44 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2893 Posted: Tue Jun 25 13:37:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:10:34 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 20 >Seems to me that Seth Jackson is saying nothing more profound than, "If >you don't have any criteria for judgement, you can't say a piece of >music is good or bad". Well, that's close. What I'm saying is that you can judge music against certain criteria, but you can't put an absolute label of "good" or "bad" on a piece of music. If there is some criteria by which SOMEBODY judges the music to be good, then the music is good -- to that person. Essentially what it all boils down to is that it's just a matter of taste, and we run into trouble when we start to believe that our personal tastes are absolute truths. __ "We used to play for silver, now we play for life..." Seth Jackson dec-curium!jackson