"Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in a message
>> Oh his music is so good. You just don't get it.
>> That say's a lot about me.
> I'm not sure what your point is, but yes, I'd say that says something
> about you. Not necessarily negative - if you don't get it you don't get
> it, and there's no reason you have to. But if you're saying, like the
> troll who started this thread, "I don't like it, therefore it sucks"...
> that's like saying, I can't see planets on distant stars, therefore
> they don't exist. It's a short-sighted, selfish, unprovable, probably
> just plain wrong proposition. Any number of people can prove that a
> certain music, Zappa's for example, has value and interest. That right
> there disproves anybody's contention that it "sucks."
If the like or dislike of music were an absolute, you might have a point.
"I don't like it, so it sucks"
"It sucks, therefore, I don't like it"
"Any number of people can prove that a certain music, Zappa's for example,
sucks, has no value and is of little or no interest."
...are all as valid an assessment of what Zappa did as is the claim "Any
number of people can prove that a certain music, Zappa's for example, has
value and interest."
