Can we just finally admit that no one can explain why a piece

>>72146385
Just shut the fuckin fuck up

No, I am the one who understands what is good and bad. If you like something that I think is bad, then you are a fucking idiot who should KYS

>>72146385
I believe compelling arguments can be made for or against the artistic merit of musical pieces by those with the musical training, experience and vocabulary to comment on music.

If there was no baseline quality marker then musical discussion would be too free form and charts would consist of coincidental overlap.

There may be no true objective measurement of "good" or "bad" but there are definitive qualities that can be discussed for centuries.

>>72146385
Do people actually think this? No wonder this board is so terrible. Try reading some real music critics, not memes like Fantano or Scaruffi.

https://www.amazon.com/Shaws-Complete-Musical-Criticism-Bernard/dp/0370303334

https://www.amazon.com/Nat-Hentoff-Reader/dp/0306810840/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492116698&sr=1-1&keywords=nat+hentoff

Saying that you "like" or "dislike" music is basically meaningless to anyone else unless you can explain in objective terms WHY.

No, music critique is fine in theory. Just learn to accept other people's opinions and understand that just because it can differ from yours in a variety of ways that it doesn't necessarily have to invalidate yours. Just try to understand where they are coming from so they will afford you the same courtesy which can help everyone appreciate and understand music and other people better and enhance the musical experience.

>>72146481
please buy these for me

In some ways it's true. But every album/song can be compared to others, and in this way we can see if the music is more ambitious, brings something more, something nothing to genre or just masters this. The progress of genre, experimentation and perfectioning a skills can be seen in(quite) objective way.

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>>72146385
Kubrick agrees with you mang

>>72146450
this actually

You don't have to preface your opinions with "I personally think/In my opinion blah blah blah." People who get autistic about that are, well, autistic. We know it's just your opinion.