In Reply to: Today's music really is worse than older musics posted by Mike K on July 29, 2012 at 20:11:53:
Thank goodness we've finally come up with an empirical metric for deciding which is the best music. I won't have to waste so much time listening to music in the future.
This strikes me as very much an audiophile, and an American, stance, first the insecure need to numerically quantify the goodness in something and then using the specified criteria as justification of that false premise.
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Follow Ups
- So the criteria for judging music is now compression and the amount of changes........ - viridian 11:50:10 08/01/12 (3)
- I think the numbers are just quantifying what our ears have already told us * - Mike K 12:50:00 08/01/12 (2)
- I appreciate that you have decided for everyone else, but the collective "our"......... - viridian 13:02:34 08/01/12 (1)
- It's perfectly acceptable to like current pop music - Mike K 21:26:32 08/01/12 (0)