@ogili That was a Wurzels album ...
Hmmm. Wonder of those have ever been picked for #ListeningClub - or would that result in a return visit to the naughty step, like DuranGate?

@SimonLandmine Durangate? #ListeningClub

@AqiDraco Some time back, I picked what is generally reckoned to be among the world's worst albums - 'Thank You', a covers album by Duran Duran. Visit it at your peril. #ListeningClub

@SimonLandmine ok, I will check it out. Why did you choose it? #ListeningClub

@AqiDraco There were a number of reasons - among them the fact that I'm rather fond of covers albums, and that a previous album I really like had received a somewhat dismissive reaction from folk.
Some of the tracks that Duran Duran decided to cover on the album were quite ... interesting choices.
If I've still got the HearThis link for it, I'll pass it on.

@SimonLandmine isn’t that what #ListeningClub is all about. You choose something to share together with all of us listening to it at the same time… good or bad is really all about personal music taste. The act of intent focused shared listening in itself is a big part of the joy here. I found the album on Spotify.

@AqiDraco @SimonLandmine gotta say I disagree that 'good or bad' is just a matter of personal taste. Whether you like a particular piece of music is a matter of taste, but there are ways of deciding whether it is good or bad. There is a canon. What's in that might change over time but it exists outside of yours or my personal taste #ListeningClub #PhilosophyClub

@corin_ja @SimonLandmine assigning good or bad is always a subjective determination. There may be influences to that regarding decade, genre, musicability etc. In the end, it is always dependent on human fallibility what shapes their musical taste. I can’t stand certain music, I love others. It had little to do with objective reasons. #ListeningClub

@AqiDraco @SimonLandmine yeah as I said, I think you're mistaking what you find to your taste or not with what is good or bad. There are evidence-based criteria for deciding what's good or bad in aesthetics as well as ethics. One of the fundamental problems humanity has right now is a lack of education on how to apply evidence to reason about qualities across many domains of knowledge #ListeningClub #PhilosophyClub

@corin_ja @AqiDraco @SimonLandmine #ListeningClub It’s easier to judge architecture as good or bad than music.

@soundclamp @corin_ja @SimonLandmine we are talking about personal taste here not if a building has sound bones. But even in architecture I can have a liking for say Brutalism and others just hate the look of it, independent how well it is build for its time. I am no longer sure what we are really debating about. #ListeningClub