Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!cds From: cds@duke.UUCP (Craig D. Singer) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Results of bad music survey 10/28 Message-ID: <6524@duke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:04:55 EST Article-I.D.: duke.6524 Posted: Wed Oct 30 23:04:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:32:24 EST References: <924@udenva.UUCP> Reply-To: cds@duke.UUCP (Craig D. Singer) Distribution: net Organization: Duke University Lines: 29 Summary: 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) CSNET: cds@duke UUCP: ...!decvax!duke!cds ARPA: cds%duke@csnet-relay