That's an interesting point of view. But I disagree. I'll give a real example of a craft show that is held here each year in Montreal called Le Salon des Metiers D'Art. Smiths, crafters, artisans.. whatever you call the people that expose there, all have to submit their work for peer approval before being accepted at the event.The review process is not about who likes what, but rather on quality control to make sure that what is on offer is of a sufficient level that people from outside their community will be interested.
That isn't how CM.O works though, that parallel is kinda silly, Netlabels fill that role, places like CM.O and other forums are for exactly what you've been talking about as a negative, a rolling discussion of the medium.
Anyways. I find it funny that people tell me to move on and just don't listen when something doesn't strike my fancy. It's as if you people imagine me there, going through every second of every song raging at the world because it's bad. Of course I skip the songs, of course I pick and choose what I like, of course I listen to chipmusic from outside this forum...ffs I was making chips in the 80s. Give me some credit.. But the whole point of the thread was to open a discussion about whether or not people find chipmusic to be of lower *musical* quality than other genres.
Coming into a forum less than a month ago and expecting people to know exactly what your history in chip is is a bit presumptuous, isn't it? People see a name they may not recognize and treat them like a new person, seems like people were just trying to help someone they didn't know, who may not be aware of such things.
In six pages, there has been like 4 replies that were honest opinion with a sense of discussion.. the rest is just people taking shit personally or saying there's no point in discussing it and making all kinds of parallels with things other than chipmusic.
I think this discussion has been beat to death, the sentiment that there's no point in talking about the state of chipmusic is not a new one. It might not be one that I agree with entirely, but I can't say I haven't been there.
Is there no place for discussions without getting one's panties in a ball here?
Yes there is, I've seen some wonderful discussions on this very topic take place, saying stuff like this is not the way to go about it.
