Originally Posted by roachboy

pan:

so i if i understand you correctly, what you are effectively saying is that to ask questions about music is to put down other people's opinions, as if those opinions were sacrosanct and should not be discussed.
so no questions.
no conversation.
we should basically say "i like skippy" or "i like jiff" and the only appropriate response is "well that's nice, x like skippy, y likes jiff"...because music is just an entertainment and because it is an entertainment it is no more or less interesting to think about than peanut butter and one's preferences are just one's preferences.


but riddle me this: what the fuck is the point of a music forum if you can't *talk about* music?
and who decided that to talk about music is to list the songs you like best in a particular genre?
that that is ALL such conversations can or should be?
seriously---who decided that?
was there a vote that no-one told anyone about?
when did that happen?

this forum has in the main been a joke. what happens in it? what is it for?

open the place up.
there is certainly no reason to leave it the cramped, tiny, stuffy little room that is has been.

this is an interesting thread--so for that matter is the bluegrass thread in that people posted to it as a way of showing each other stuff that they might not have heard, providing access to it via the strange medium of youtube (a huge, strange reservoir of music clips btw)---you might think of these as attempts to do something differently within a basically dead forum.


open the place up....let some air run through it...there is nothing that prevents making little lists of stuff that you like and sticking them up in a thread (i do it too from time to time)--but there should also be nothing that prevents another kind of conversation.