People, try and resist starting threads that pit songs against each other or albums or artists...

Thank you Steve!I agree this is juvenile,and I,for one,am sick of it.Album "weakest link" threads should count as such threads too.

 

Some of these generate interesting discussion.

Some are silly, but the posts in response can be funny.

Maybe there are too many threads of this type, at times, but I don't think they're all bad.

 

I think it depends how the question is framed. I enjoyed reading, for example, what version of "These Days" members liked best (and discovered some enjoyable renditions in the process). I mean isn't this forum somewhat based on "pitting" masterings against each other?

 

Guilty as charged, Steve, but I do try to restrain myself. I don't start them but after a few pages I can't resist adding my 2 cents.

 

Steve, this is your place. You should just have Gorts remove the threads that start, continue and end as purely negative. And I've started a few, so now I know.

 

YES ! That's the ONLY purpose of those threads, one song against the others.

 

Ok, whatever.

 

I disagree. I think those "weakest link" threads are pretty good. Not only does the OP ask you to pick the songs you like but he asks you to give your personal experience with the said record. I think those threads generate some great reflection and commentary. My 2 cents

 

The ones that kinda bug me are the totally random comparisons...

What is a better album The Cars Shake It Up or Johnny Cash Orange Blossom Special? Who's a better keyboardist Christie McVie or Mark Mothersbaugh?

I understand the weakest link ones, or polls of favorite songs/albums by artists (guilty of several Dylan polls here ) but the non-sequitur comparison threads are a bit puzzling...

 

Agreed. The weak link threads are somewhat entertaining.

 

That's silly.

 

Thank you, boss. These threads are often the angriest of them all, as people rise to defend THEIR band or THEIR cut at all costs. I avoid the threads, but perhaps now I won't have to pass over page after page of them.

 

I totally agree, I don't think I have ever opened one of these types of thread.

What's the point?

 

Good sense keeps me from answering that.

 

I don't think we were talking about the well established 'Weakest Link' threads. The ones that bug us are 'Milli Vanilli vs Elvis vs Sinatra' or 'Beatles vs Led Zeppelin, pick the most overrated' kinda threads.

 

Can I say "amen!" to that!

 

I can't say that I particularly dislike those type threads but the thinly-veiled hate threads disguised with a title like "Which band do you just not get?"...those suck.

 

Agreed.

 

Good point, why spoil anyone's party....live and let live. People can spend their dough as they see fit and no sense in denigrating anyone's taste...or choices.

 

No more X vs Y threads. Good.

 

No more a or b.....can be a AND b...

 

Well, one's a song and the others a song.

Not exactly apples and orange blossoms.

I have no issues with these; I find them interesting.

 

I'd rather see a ban on Led Zeppelin threads.

 

Maybe if people understood that "weakest" doesn't mean "weak" and relaxed a bit.