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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (39)	6/23/2014 11:26:48 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 157

> What is "good" music? The idea that the opinion of a person who has a 40,000 lp collection has the equivalent expertise and gravitas of a 13 year old teenager is sort of silly I think. Its not all just opinion. Its not all "I don't know much about music but I know what I like." In fact I frequently tell people I DON'T know what I like, yet, because I'm still being educated. Why is it that the arts are the only discipline where amateurs think their opinions have the same weight as people who've spent their lives studying the art form? Among people with huge collections there are mutually understood factors that qualify things on a scale of importance. There are no hard and fast rules of course. But I'd certainly give my collecting friends, particularly if they are musicians themselves, more credence than my non-collecting friends. Just as I'd give anyone well educated in a discipline more credence on the subject they study, than I would an amateur. Critics too get a bad rap. A bona fide critic's opinion is worth more to me than the idiots they have on PBS "reviewing" music. Because a bona fide critic is usually a music FANatic. The idiots on PBS are journalists who know very little about music. > the lowest common denominator Of course. The rules of pop music are pretty simple. 4/4 time. Guitars and drums maybe synths. Major minor keys. Attractive singer. Good hairdoos, clothing. Of course they now pander to demographic blocks, hence judgement by genre. Its a business, like prostitution is a business, rather than an art form which is more like an intense love affair. And when a song makes money plagarism is rampant. Just youtube Led Zepplin plagarism.