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akuma587 on 04 November 2008
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amp316 said:
akuma587 said:
amp316 said:

Isn't their something like Metacritics that you can point to as indisputable truth to find out what's a good or bad song?

On a serious note. No Safety Dance= bad taste in music.

With movies and music it doesn't work as well.  Opinions of movies and music can drastically change in just a few years.  Some albums and some movies just don't age as well as others, and some that people hated when they came out, like 2001: A Space Odyssey, are ranked about as highly as they can be.

Its really not a bad thing, and the same thing happens in the video game industry, just at a different pace.

 

 

It doesn't work with games either.  Opinions are opinions.  If I think that Olivia Newton-John is the greatest, than she is to me.  If I think that E.T. is the greatest game ever than it is to me.  I'm just saying that people that push off another group of people's opinions as facts are foolish.  That was my point.  

Not everyone's opinion is equal, I'll just come out and say it.  Who I am going to trust more?  Someone who has listened to over 1000 albums and has a working knowledge of musical history, like some of my closest friends do, or someone who downloads only songs from the Billboard Top 100 on Itunes?

And why should everyone's opinion be equal?  Some people don't care about music and don't claim to care about music.  On the flip side of that, some people think there opinion is worth way more than it should be, but don't you trust some people more than others if you ask them to recommend you a movie or a band to listen to?  Isn't that normal?

 



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