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Old 02-22-2018, 08:28 PM   #204 (permalink)
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Not necessarily: something can be very influential for doing something very much the **** wrong. But, that's not the case here, and I certainly agree about the second part of your post. That's not what I'm asking though: if you listen to something old and it just seems really dated despite how influential it was (say after you've listened to it a few times), should it get any 'bonus points' for being influential in a rating thread like this where we are determining 'classics'?
I don't think we're talking about ratings, just in how you approach music in general. Obviously the only thing that should matter when rating something is how much you dig it.
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