quoted 9 lines Perhaps this is not the correct forum for such musings, but I think it's>Perhaps this is not the correct forum for such musings, but I think it's
>an interesting way to look at the ever-recurring
>"music-was-better-10-years-ago" lament. One problem with all of this is
>of course definining what makes music good, and thus better than other
>music. Most of us are not musicologists, I suspect, so it's a very
>subjective business. Which lends credence to my argument, I guess: in the
>absence of an objective "good" in music, any evaluation will be based on
>the evaluator, and not the music, so if the evaluation changes, it's
>becuase of the evaluator, not the music.
It's not entirely true -- 80's popular "new wave" music was and always will
be awful.
derek
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