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Originally Posted by screamingskull

people on this board have a problem with separating favourite with best in my experience.

yes. thank you.

favorites have a lot to do with emotional associations, memories, experiences, etc, and not always with "quality".

i can recognize the high quality of many a musical work, but for reasons other than musical they may not hold a place in my musical pantheon.

for the same reason, i own cds of such musical crap as rilo kiley (pre-more adventurous, mind you). i recognize they are crap, but they are crap of such nature as to tickle me, and i like that.

glice makes the same point with the crap bands that he likes, which are crap, but they are among his favorite, for what obscure emotional reasons i will never know, that's between him and his psychiatrist.

"evol" is my favorite sonic youth record. because it is the best? i do not know. but it's my first one, i bought it when dirty was out, bought those 2 actually, but evol left a deeper mark & remains my "favorite" sonic youth album until today, it strikes a profound emotional chord with me. people claim ddn is better, but for whatever reason it doesn't do the same to me, i am more indifferent to it.

anyway it's funny when people pigheadedly refuse to differentiate between concepts. what's so hard about recognizing obvious differences? don't we have dictionaries that explain the nuances of meaning in words?