Entitlements to opinions

DerekD Goldfish

This thread is in reference to my rant in the sgt. pepper must die thread
Basically a poster said
"How can some guy in cornershop slag of dark side of the moon"
So the poster was saying unless you have created a "great work of art" yourself you cant criticize another one.
but who is to say Dark Side of the Moon is a better album than When I Was Born for the 7th Time.
The same thing also happens when musicians dont beleive the opinion of non musicians is relevant often when I have criticised one of the many dredful local dublin bands someone has come to their defence with crap like
"How would you know your not even in a band"
I dont need to play music to have an opinion on it as indeed cornershop dont need to sell 30 billion albums or whatever it is Pink Floyd have sold to criticize them.
Musicians of all levels are far to precious about their music and equally fans are to closed to criticism of their favorite bands.

Tchocky

There's a giant subjectivity cloud over all of this.

You're already arguing from a private opinion, so you don't have a leg to stand on when someone else uses this kind of tactic.

Any argument about music is not about music, it's about you. I actually hate talking about music & songs. Meh.

But no, you don't have to create in order to criticise. We're not as successful as Pink Floyd, because there can only be a few bands at the top. It's kind of a non-point.