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Alex 06-25-2010 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 327316)
can anyone truly have better taste than someone else

I vote yes. My taste in music is clearly superior to everybody else's.

I know a person who thinks that honestly thinks that the first Jackass movie is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. That person is objectively wrong.

Alex 06-25-2010 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 327317)
See, you're wrong again. When Devo joined forces with Archie Bell (after he broke up with the Drells) and Beverly Bivens (previously of We Five), they changed their terraced hats to blue.

You had to ruin it. I've heard of Devo (though I exhausted my knowledge of them with the hat thing; well that and Kevin Yee is very proud of the time he did some Disney CM event wearing the hats). No idea on the others.

Oh, and Devo endorsed huffing canned whip cream.

Bornieo: Fully Loaded 06-25-2010 07:07 PM

Michael Jackson died.... :(

flippyshark 06-25-2010 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded (Post 327320)
Michael Jackson died.... :(

I almost wish somebody would, so we can get this thread back on track.

Tref 06-25-2010 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 327321)
I almost wish somebody would, so we can get this thread back on track.

Worldwide, approx. 155,000 people died to-day, surely we can find one to post.

(Pic related)
And all these people in the photo below -- dead.

Morrigoon 06-25-2010 09:22 PM

The interesting thing about that picture is that it was taken in that small sliver of time when women still hovered in distant doorways wearing long skirts, yet there is electricity in the town.

edit: Ah... actually, I can narrow it down better. I'm gonna say early 19-teens, somewhere between 1905 and 1915-ish, because there's a woman in the crowd on the right hand side and her hem is at least 8 inches off the ground.

Not Afraid 06-25-2010 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 327316)
While you have confirmed that you didn't say what I was worried you were saying (long story), can anyone truly have better taste than someone else (in any given topic, but we can focus on music for now)? When you get down to it, it is all about opinion and no one's opinion isn't any more or less valid than another person's.

I disagree. Just like in fashion, there is good taste and no taste or just bad taste. It doesn't have to do with a statement such as "if you like the Talking Heads, you have good taste, and if you don't, you have terrible taste" but more to do with the breadth of music knowledge and the ability to see what is just simply awful music. I'm not saying that I have the ultimate taste in music because there are plenty of people who have a broad range of music knowledge and have explored a lot of genres and prefer completely different music than I do.

As with fashion or art, I appreciate people MORE when they have a decent knowledge of the art form. If they have that and continue to prefer schlocky crap, well, maybe they just have no taste.

Ghoulish Delight 06-25-2010 11:34 PM

Yeah, I'm okay with people who have different music tastes, as long as they can articulate why.

Morrigoon 06-26-2010 04:28 PM

What if you appreciate tacky in its own right. Is there such a thing as unintentional art? (Eg: the art of tacky?)

Cadaverous Pallor 06-26-2010 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon (Post 327353)
What if you appreciate tacky in its own right. Is there such a thing as unintentional art? (Eg: the art of tacky?)

If you could articulate why, I would most appreciate it, since this is a blindspot of mine.

I do appreciate movies that are so bad they are unintentionally funny. To me there is a huge difference between the relatively short experience of watching such a film and the eternal experience of owning and/or wearing something that is so ugly it's funny. The funny wears off for me...almost instantly, in fact.


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