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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Good and bad music
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 21:30:27 EDT
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>I assume that music that is unoriginal and formula is bad. 

>I know I'm right, but there isn't any way I can prove it.  And this is
>just one of the many fustrating facts one has to learn to deal with.

Of course there's no way you can prove it, because you're wrong. You
are trying to place an objective judgment on a subjective matter. 
Obviously, formula music does scores low on some scale that is 
important to *you*, but calling it 'bad' is clearly wrong.

If you say that music is bad, you are saying that it has no value.
If something has no value, than nobody would give something of value
to obtain it. Funny thing, though...an awful lot of people are 
exchanging something of value, namely money, to buy records that
you would call bad. In fact, more people place value on 'bad' 
music than music that is 'good' by your standards. There must be
something in that music that all these people find valuable, eh?

I guess you haven't developed the ability to appreciate whatever it
is.
__

"Once in a while we get shown the light
 In the strangest of places if we look at it right"

				Seth Jackson
				dec-curium!jackson