Re: (TV) The best album of all time

[Ty Burr <tyburr@comcast.net>]

Well, the best novel of all time is obviously Nabokov's "Ada." And  
the best movie, clearly, would have to be "The Sweet Smell of  
Success". Or "Touch of Evil." But, yeah, trying to pick the best ever  
album is just silly.


On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Rex Broome wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, grntg <grntg@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It's been decided, the best album of all time... I can't even  
> > comment on
> > this
> >
> >
> > http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/fashion-beauty/articles/archive/bang/ 
> > thriller-named-greatest-album-2009-04-09
>
>
> Well, I can. It's incorrect!
>
> Why do people even try this kind of thing?   What's the "best"  
> novel of all
> time?  The "best" movie?  How could you determine such a thing?  And
> furthermore, who cares?  Even if it was scientifically provable,  
> there would
> be many people to whom the proven "Best" of anything would carry no  
> personal
> meaning or value.
>
> Meh!  And that's an emphatic "meh!"... as passionate an expression of
> indifference as can be humanly mustered, by my reckoning.
>
> -Rex
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