the fact that the Beatles and Beach Boys aren't complex compared to lots of other music only goes to show that it's impossible to capture quality in a few concepts like complexity.
Anyway, of course quality isn't objective. But the opinions people have about quality are universal enough for us to effectively consider it more or less objective (if not across the entire world, at least within smaller, culturally similar communities). So shutting down a discussion like this because quality is subjective may be technically correct, but I think it's not as interesting and not as true to how we experience culture. My biggest objection to 'music from a certain era was better' is that it's such a big statement that, even if it would be semi-objectively true, it's virtually impossible to make an intelligent argument for it. And the people who make the claim never do. And that's the thing: I think many music snobs react strongly against that opinion partly because they sense someone with musical opinions they look down upon (and as a minor music snob I'm guilty of this too, to some extent).
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I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.
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