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Originally posted by Yorick:
Er... no. Didn't I just do that? You did read my post didn't you? 
I did make my taste secondary in my brief appraisal of Michael Jackson.
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What kind of music teacher would I be if I told my students what was good and bad based on my own taste? Some of us do have to look past such inconveniences. 
Who was it that said "taste is the enemy of art"?
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Being a teacher, you have a different viewpoint than most other people, I guess! [img]smile.gif[/img] I had to do the same thing with literature at university, but it did not change my opinion about much writing that was highly thought of, and some that many others disliked. Though I DID change my views about SOME.
Yes, I DID read your post, and noted you had no Jackson in your collection. [img]smile.gif[/img]
And 'taste' might be 'the enemy of art' but some so-called 'art' is just a big con-trick, imo! Some damn-fool exhibition of 'art' in London has a bare room with white walls and a light switching itself on/off at intervals of a few seconds. MY taste is definitely the enemy of this sort of 'art'! The guy who came up with this one is laughing his socks off, imo. What is artistic about switching a light on/off in a bare room with blank walls? If this is art, I'm a Philistine! There might be some value in it if there were objects in there, and lights came on from different angles to create varied shadow-effects, but as it is.....
Hey! If we are going to discuss this maybe it should go in GD since we are taking this thread off-topic? I think a lot of people might enjoy a music debate, Yorick... what do you think?
Totally off-topic again.... I have been 'off sick' in the forum the past few days so may have missed posts about the funeral... How did it go? And how are you and the family?
[ 11-10-2001: Message edited by: Fljotsdale ]