There is a difference between merit and enjoyment.

You can enjoy what has great value and enjoy what does not. As people have said, popularity is no guide whatsoever to quality. We can all provide innumerable examples of very popular rubbish in many fields of endeavour.

Thread title doesn't make much sense.

At the very least there is good music and bad.

Lots are swerving between "it's all in the ear of the listener", and "There are such things as good and bad music.'


Does anyone here never say, "That was marvellous/brilliant/fantastic/great/cool etc." and "That was crap/terrible/rubbish etc."??

i bet everyone does, so debating whether there's quality in music (films, books etc.) seems to me a red herring. We all already know there is.

Naturally people will not want to be described as having crap taste

And any number of composers, writers, painters etc. who were fabulously popular in their day sank without trace.






       Ivor