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[Sean]

Peace guys. I think you're okay.

[Parsifal]

Sean,

So exactly (or even roughly) how much music does anyone have to know before being able to express educated opinions about it?  Clearly, if a listener had only heard 10 pieces of 20th-21st century music, his opinions would not be worth much.  But suppose he'd heard 500, or 1000 - when would he start to get taken seriously?  And suppose someone had actually heard more pieces than you, if such a thing were possible - would that mean that you would then bow to their opinions and change some of your own?  And what about people with whom you agree, yet whose listening figures don't match yours? - let's say, for example, that of my 2000-disc collection about a quarter is modern music, does that mean that my opinion that Davies's 3rd symphony is a masterpiece, although in accord with yours, isn't worth considering?  It seems to me that you're in danger of creating a very lonely world for yourself, where no-one but you has a right to express any aesthetic judgement at all.  I don't usually express myself so bluntly, but you're a plain-speaking sort of chap yourself, so will understand.

DF

Dave F.

Sean has a long history on this site of trying to portray himself as a luminary who is above the rest of us.  Here's a golden oldie. 

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,13498.0.html

He's also a card-carrying member of the tinfoil-hat brigade who is apparently taken in by every conspiracy theorist on youtube.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21862.0.html

[DaveF]

Sean has a long history on this site of trying to portray himself as a luminary who is above the rest of us.

He's also a card-carrying member of the tinfoil-hat brigade who is apparently taken in by every conspiracy theorist on youtube.

Well, you know what Joe E. Brown says at the end of Some Like It Hot.

[Parsifal]

Well, you know what Joe E. Brown says at the end of Some Like It Hot.

Actually I didn't, but I googled it. 

[North Star]

Actually I didn't, but I googled it. 

Well, nobody's perfect!

[Sean]

Thanks for that Scarpia, a good laugh for a couple of minutes to revisit the indignation a thinking person can always arouse unwittingly in the subhuman dullards they find, to their surprise, all around them.

Another thread already filled up with irretrievable vitriol, my lot in life for being alive. Best, S

[some guy]

you wackos

Peace guys. I think you're okay.

subhuman dullards

Make up your mind.