RE: To Thrill Or Not To Thrill: The Greatest Selling Album?
July 16, 2009 at 2:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2009 at 2:24 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
I have never heard Thriller and no have no intention of doing so. I admired the man's talent,but his music has always left me cold.
It seems to me each generation tends to have at least one outstanding popular entertainer and/or group.The choice may not be by complete consensus,but widely accepted just the same..It seems Michael Jackson is considered the greatest popular entertainer of his generation by many.
For my grandmother, Al Jolson
For my Mother it was Frank Sinatra.
As an adult,for me it's Sinatra and Elvis Presley.In my teens it was The Beatles,followed closely by The Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.---- Poor Amy Winehouse also knocks my socks off.
I never argue relative merits of entertainers,as for me it's completely subjective with no pretense of any kind of objective artistic or musical merit.Perhaps that's why my opinions change.
Popularity is often an inverse measurement of merit and worth,in many areas of life.
It seems to me each generation tends to have at least one outstanding popular entertainer and/or group.The choice may not be by complete consensus,but widely accepted just the same..It seems Michael Jackson is considered the greatest popular entertainer of his generation by many.
For my grandmother, Al Jolson
For my Mother it was Frank Sinatra.
As an adult,for me it's Sinatra and Elvis Presley.In my teens it was The Beatles,followed closely by The Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.---- Poor Amy Winehouse also knocks my socks off.
I never argue relative merits of entertainers,as for me it's completely subjective with no pretense of any kind of objective artistic or musical merit.Perhaps that's why my opinions change.
Popularity is often an inverse measurement of merit and worth,in many areas of life.
