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Old 04-23-2003, 02:11 AM   #96
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
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Originally posted by Melusine:
I tell you I know a band who deliberately recorded a crappy song, you have never heard of something that, so you discount it completely
Because in music, what's good and bad is SUBJECTIVE. There is no absolute on what is good and what is bad. So a band record a song they write in 5 mins? That doesn't make it a bad song. Many of the most popular songs around are written in a short time. SO a band throw on a song they don't really care about? Many "hits" bands have are songs they don't care about. Like Ween's "Pushin' daisies" (or whatever it was called) hit that was bizzare, yet sold volumes. I gave examples of artists hating their hits.

It's the subjectivity that I was pointing out makes such a statement of yours impossible to make.

There is no such thing as good and bad in music. No such thing as "crappy". Many would call Arnie deFranco's recordings "crappy" unbalanced recordings of inaccessible grating music. Others would call it quirky, inspired, emotive, rebellious and carefree avantgard folk of benchmark quality.

Subjectivity is what makes labelling a song a "filler" pointless.

That's what I'm saying Sarah. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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