RIP 2010

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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]

Michael Jackson died....

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

Michael Jackson died....

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

[Tref]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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]

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

[Morrigoon]

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

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

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.