theoreticalboy wrote:
Well, if they called in a genuinely eclectic list of experts, it might be more interesting, but usually it's just some AFI bullshit...
What's great about lists is that it does always default to an intensely personal reaction
I totally agree with your 1st point. It's not usually, it's usually all the time.
The intensely personal reaction is why I pay no attention anymore to those type of lists-unless I'm simply looking for amusement. My default is, as I stated earlier, all art is subjective.
Well, if they called in a genuinely eclectic list of experts, it might be more interesting, but usually it's just some AFI bullshit...
What's great about lists is that it does always default to an intensely personal reaction; my top 3 songs in my current list are In Love by The Raincoats, Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, and Theme de Yoyo by The Art Ensemble of Chicago; there is nothing even remotely resembling an appropriately objective manner of contrasting those three songs, they're just too wildly different. So I have to choose which one makes my heart flutter most, and that's a fine criterion.