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Bjork's early career often had a heavy ethno hippie vibe, largely forgotten by most. like with Kraftwerk.

Like Zizke's postulation that the old school dogmatic authoritarian father who says "you have to visit your grandmother." is better than the post-modern liberal father who says "you have to visit your grandmother and you will like it!", because with the former the possibility of revolt, which of...

why i'm happy with just that 0.5 second GIF animation of him slapping Geoffrey

yeah i'd like to see the results of anyone stupid enough to actually follow the orders on this one. this is what is troubling about this stuff, is that it is exactly like the ideological apparatus of oppressive regimes. we all implicitly know that a shit is a shit, but everyone knows, without...

thoroughly enjoying this thread, especially the agency wankery... from my office at sky tv. did i tell you guys that i had to take the blue pill for a while? well anyway, no shortage of corporate wankery here i can assure you. wish i could remember some of them printed on big posters during...

Roska's stellar collaboration with Algerian Grandmother of Rai https://soundcloud.com/djzhao/mohammed-ay-sidi-roska-squark what the shit. SC script don't work so just go here: https://soundcloud.com/djzhao/mohammed-ay-sidi-roska-squark

well my taste has certainly been ruined: no italian pizza can compete with american pies-on-steroids with 3 cheeses and 27 toppings... no rigid adherence to tradition there! :p

well if he can come up with very good arguments for the superiority of Mozart, great. it would be nice to listen to it. and perhaps counter with an argument. these conversations and different arguments are not testament to the fact that no objective criteria exists, but they are ONLY POSSIBLE...

the mistake your dad is making is one of context: you can not say Hemingway is a better writer than Brancusi is a sculptor. you can not say Debussy is a better composer than Ludacris is a rapper!

please answer the question, Dissensians.

well if someone tells me that Pink is a more important artist, a greater vocal talent, than Nina Simone, they better have a pretty fucking good, or at least amusing, argument, or else, yes, i am afraid the conversation is very much dead! :D

question: do you lot think it is demonstrable, in an objective sense, based on form and physical attributes, that Burial's first album is above average in terms of originality, in terms of emotive power, in terms of quality, compared to most of the UGK coming out at the time?

the truth is that there is no ABSOLUTE objectivity, like with science (but even that is questionable at times it seems), but working, practical objective criteria DOES most CERTAINLY exist. for some activity these sets are more obvious and clear: a pair of jeans that falls apart after 3 days...

Of course Rothko is considered to be amazing by most: and hundreds of critics will make very convincing cases for exactly why, based on physical, formal attributes of his work. nothing is written in stone. but if there were no objective criterias, and it's "all personal taste", then why...

no that's not the point. the point is that the phenomenon of ALL (or very, very nearly all) ceramics and pottery enthusiasts in 500% agreement that specimens from the Ming Dynasty China represent some of the finest examples of the "genre", and all such agreements in EVERY "genre", is...

lol wut. :D i'm sure there are Chinese people who don't like rice either. maybe 12. lol me the super racist, making OUTLANDISH generalizations that most, maybe nearly all, Italians think pasta should be enjoyed with wine :D why i'm practically like Nick Griffin!

so they don't agree that the tomatoes should be fresh? Some think they should be stale or perhaps in various stages of decomposition? they don't agree that the noodles should be not too hard, not too soft? Maybe some Italians think the noodles should be under cooked and chewy? perhaps...

The violence of liberation struggle, Winnie and Nelson Mandela, Algerian War of Independence, the history of slave revolts, (of which the Baader Meinhof gang are a misdirected distortion, only slightly belonging in the lineage), can only ever be a minor fraction of the pandemic systematic...

art is not algebra. we all know that. besides "very context specific" i also said "constantly shifting", and "not written in stone". but that doesn't mean the quality of creative work can not be judged because it's "all personal taste" i mean come ON. that is clearly AB. SURD.

i said "very context specific" or did you miss that part tea. meaning, of course, objective sets of criteria for hiphop only exist within hiphop communities. for ceramic making, amongst people who know about it! the same for abstract painting or haute couture or anything humans ever do.