The Syndicate

I think 'Ten Years Gone' is the best Led Zeppelin song, the end. 'Night Flight' is among my favorite lyrical accomplishments of theirs. I think 'In the Light' is more interesting than 'In My Time of Dying'. 'Sick Again' is one of my favorite Page riffs. 'Down by the Seaside' never fails to hit the spot. 'Black Country Woman' and 'Boogie With Stu' don't offer much, but I appreciate efforts at diversity.

I hate 'Trampled Under Foot' which drags down Disc 1. 'Kashmir' is great for the first five minutes. 'The Rover' is probably my favorite on that disc.

I prefer Disc 2 of Physical Graffiti.

It's a good thing the RYM:OT forum is gone or they'd have made fun of your prog ratings.

0.6% of my ratings on RYM are 5 stars, and one of them is After the Gold Rush. Great album.

Actually I'll take one thing back: there is nothing good about popular country music. All of it is bad. Every song.

Epignosis wrote:Do I like it?

Yes?

Then it's good music.

Yep. That's it.

G-Man wrote:Yes, but what qualities of the music tell you that it is good? Some people take music at face value and others go all nitty-gritty about things like chord progression and rhythmic complexity. Where do you fall in?

For me this is a question without an answer. There is no single characteristic which makes music good or bad to me. I am a firm believer that there is no such thing as objective goodness or badness in any form of art, and that means all of the measurable standards cannot by nature define what makes something good. My favorite music is all over the spectrum of genres, because I think every genre boasts really awesome and really grating stuff (much like Golden said).

If there are any trends in my preferences at all, it'd probably be:

~ I struggle to appreciate most metal music, especially metal with guttural or screechy vocals, because it often seems childish to me.

~ I appreciate songwriting virtuosity much more than technical virtuosity. I don't give a flying eff how "well" someone plays a guitar, I care about how well they write guitar music. Even that is still subjective though.