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The idea that there is "best music" is nonsense. There is music you like and there is music you don't like. Good or bad is subjective. I know composers who will

The idea that there is "best music" is nonsense. There is music you like and there is music you don't like. Good or bad is subjective. I know composers who will wax lyrical on the genius of some piece and to me it sounds like two tortured cats in a sack but give me some great Cuban rhythms I can dance to and those same composers will look at me like I'm daft. We agree to disagree. The concept of "best", "new" and "original" is a teenage thrall to marketing. I assure that there is enough depth on Spotify to satisfy any taste but if it's only important to you to virtue signal then good luck with that.

whstl 2y ago
I think you're both agreeing here. Bitwize's answer was sarcastic, and definitely not aimed at you. People really like to romanticize those things.
- bitwize 2y ago
  Yeah, there was literally a Hackernews a few years ago who pretty much said what I said, but unironically: that there was music out there better than you've ever heard, but you'll never hear it because it's only released in print runs as few as one copy, and that copy is owned by a DJ who will never let it be heard again, and that this was by design because a wide listening audience would spoil the goodness of this impeccable music. I can't be arsed to find this comment just now, but I remember reading it. See also: Prince's Vault (from which I believe his estate is now compiling material to be released).
  - Projectiboga 2y ago
    Here is another example of exclusives from the old soundclash culture. A dubplate is an acetate disc usually of 10 inches diameter, traditionally used by studios to test recordings prior to mastering for the subsequent pressing of a vinyl record, but pioneered by reggae sound systems as a way to play exclusive music. They would later become an important facet of the jungle/drum and bass, UK garage, grime and dubstep music scenes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubplate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubplate
  - dpflan 2y ago
    But this phenomenon is real among music purists. There is not irony in the real act of exclusively guarding the sharing of music that is known to put the listener into the state of mind of musical enjoyment unlike anything one has heard before. I would argue that is the a main point of music, and replaying the same sounds at every concert can work but what if the audience had no idea what to really expect? Their minds cannot predict and hence the stimulus hits different. But again, some minds may not want that.

whstl 2y ago

I think you're both agreeing here. Bitwize's answer was sarcastic, and definitely not aimed at you. People really like to romanticize those things.

bitwize 2y ago
Yeah, there was literally a Hackernews a few years ago who pretty much said what I said, but unironically: that there was music out there better than you've ever heard, but you'll never hear it because it's only released in print runs as few as one copy, and that copy is owned by a DJ who will never let it be heard again, and that this was by design because a wide listening audience would spoil the goodness of this impeccable music. I can't be arsed to find this comment just now, but I remember reading it. See also: Prince's Vault (from which I believe his estate is now compiling material to be released).
- Projectiboga 2y ago
  Here is another example of exclusives from the old soundclash culture. A dubplate is an acetate disc usually of 10 inches diameter, traditionally used by studios to test recordings prior to mastering for the subsequent pressing of a vinyl record, but pioneered by reggae sound systems as a way to play exclusive music. They would later become an important facet of the jungle/drum and bass, UK garage, grime and dubstep music scenes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubplate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubplate
- dpflan 2y ago
  But this phenomenon is real among music purists. There is not irony in the real act of exclusively guarding the sharing of music that is known to put the listener into the state of mind of musical enjoyment unlike anything one has heard before. I would argue that is the a main point of music, and replaying the same sounds at every concert can work but what if the audience had no idea what to really expect? Their minds cannot predict and hence the stimulus hits different. But again, some minds may not want that.