Sinister: Not in the face! Not in the face!

[Evan Gregg]

i don't have much to say but heres what i do:
Music is 70% subjective and 30% objective
nothing outside of our own little heads can be completely subjective
says i
music is certainly mostly about what you enjoy but there is such a thing
as good music and bad music to a point
i dont really claim to know how to judge it except by instinct (i may
dislike some kinds of music but for most of it i can appreciate it as
good or bad based on what i learned in music classes which i attended
when i didnt oversleep
i spose the way you choose to judge is subjective which sort of makes
everything i say meaningless but i dont mind being meaningless so i
guess ill continue
i mean if someone is playing a, c, and g chords and screaming and
banging their heads on drums in straight quarter notes and just hitting
the strings on their bass with no particular reason, its pretty safe to
say that is bad music, stupid music, perhaps you enjoy stupid loud music
but that doesnt make it good as far as im concerned, and if you're
pushing some buttons that give you 3000000 beats per minute and another
one that makes a funy noise at the down beat and another that makes
another funny noise at the up beat that aint no good music its silly and
painful and evil you may like inducing a brain hemerage (sp) dont make
it good music
for me it pretty much boils down to two factors:

1)how one uses what one has, if you have an acordian and play it like
the chick in Revenge Of The Nerds then you suck, but if you use it in a
godly manner as did Saint Astor Pizzolo then you should be worshipped
for your almighty powers

2)what you intend to do with what you have and whether or not its
successfull, if you're trying to be simple to express something or
droning to represent a mood or whatever then thats perty cool assuming
it works

1 alone would leave me an annoying jazz and such snob and i cant be that
cause i like to bop around to bouncy fairly simple music, and 2 alone
would leave me accepting hip hop and pop shlop dumbasses and icky gooey
people as good which i just cant do

there are sub categories lik: is it inventive, but that doesnt mean that
only the first band to do something is good, and is it creative (did the
person not just poop it out was it conscious to a point or was there
some magical power at work that made it spiffy)

as for having good taste, i use that term way too much, good taste goes
so far and then educated uneducated taste comes in, there are really
spiffy people who like wunnerful music on instinct without knowing that
the song is a chaccone (i love that word) or has a wacky time signature
or something along those lines and a lot of the time i wish i was still
like that, it was simpler and i didnt get as defensive about music as i
do now 
and then there are people who dont know that and have bad taste in music
and listen to evil things becaus ethey dont know what they're hearing 
thats just sort of ignorance
then there are people who learn all the theory and what not and still
like crap and thats bad
or something
i hope at least some of this made sense, god its long, there was more i
was gonna say but no one will want to read it so i wont bother

oh if anyone thought this was sposed to be some all encompassing i know
how to judge music so if you dont do it this way you suck thing and it
sounded like it i apologize it wasnt sposed to, though this seems the
best way to me
----ev
np-Eggs-Teenbeat 96 Exploder (definitely good music once it hits, though
im sure not for everyone)
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