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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Good and bad music
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 13:37:44 EDT
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>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.
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"We used to play for silver, now we play for life..."

				Seth Jackson
				dec-curium!jackson