From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>

> I patently disagree with this statement, and I am somewhat taken aback by 
> your use of the word "sane", whether it was meant to be personal or simply 
> as a figure of speech.

Lighten up Francis, it's a figure of speech. (And in case you are wondering, 
that is a movie quote and also meant to be humorous and non-threatening)


>>Does this sound like someone who is simply saying "I really love this 
>>album, and I want to shout it to the mountaintops", or rather "if you 
>>don't like this album (or don't *admit* to liking it), there is something 
>>sociologically wrong with you?

I don't know what that has to do with what I wrote. I think you're pursuing 
your own argument with the arrogant jerkiness that you and several of your 
friends suffered at an earlier time.


> Hopefully when I write reviews or lists which include reviews, I don't 
> come off that way, either.  Having said that, my hesitancy to use the term 
> "Best Of" comes from my concern that someone out there *might* see me as 
> being arrogant and pedantic, and I never want anyone to feel that way 
> about me.

Dude, I love you, but you are taking yourself way too seriously and this 
conversation way too personally.


> Hopefully people will always think of me as a big fan of whatever music 
> I'm writing about, and that I'm just really excited about it.

And *that* is the point I'm trying to make, that when we all post our lists 
here we are writing from our hearts, not as music historians.

cheers
b