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From: cds@duke.UUCP (Craig D. Singer)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Results of bad music survey 10/28
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:04:55 EST
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With regards to the "bad" music survey which appeared on the net:

C'mon, now, this "survey" placed an album on the worst list if it received a
single vote for badness???  Why post such a limited poll at all?  Everybody
has their own best and worst, but unless a poll of such albums is taken from
hundreds of people (or more), it isn't going to provide any kind of
information whatsoever.  Certainly some people dislike Fleetwood Mac's
Rumors LP (and/or Fleetwood Mac in general), but I don't think it qualifies
for badness in a popular vote; after all, over 16 million copies of that
album were sold in the first two years of its release alone.  Many of the
other albums on this list are platinum sellers, and while I don't claim
popularity makes an album artistically good, it certainly supports the
belief that the album in question is popular; i.e., considered good by many
people.
I would love to see what the folks on the net really think are the worst
albums around (i.e., considered bad by most of the people polled), but
unless a reasonable sample can be obtained, why not refrain from airing the
opinions of the few in this format?  Individuals can certainly express
themselves as individuals; presumably they don't have to be another
statistic.
-- 
 

Craig D. Singer, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University
Durham, NC 27706-2591.  Phone (919) 684-5110  (ext.20)
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