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Old 09-26-2018, 01:15 PM   #287 (permalink)
Frownland
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i can acknowledge that my personal favourite is not an artist's best work, for instance if i liked it for nostalgic reasons or reasons that are very uniquely personal to me. i think it's called cognitive dissonance.
Music appreciation in itself is a personal experience. From where I sit, assigning the label of "best" to an album while thinking that another one is better is just arbitrary conformity. Don't devalue your own opinion man*!


*don't get too wrapped up in it either
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