What you say is true Panto but then if I was to try and think for myself what I thought was the 'best' album then I would be applying criteria which, to be honest, is probably learnt largely from music journalism. Sure, if you understand that what music journos is to be taken with a pinch of salt then you can be less 'influenced' but ultimately we are all coloured by our own circumstances ie, 90% of people on this board, myself included, are approacing music from a western perspective and all the baggage (music theory stuff which I'm sure Noumenal or Glice or someone could elaborate on) that entails...no matter how many Gamelan records we own.
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