Does subjectivity really have a place in a serious argument concerning music?

Frank Kogan feat. Tom Ewing, "Subjectivity And Objectivity Must Die"

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/156836.html

Boy that digs up an old note of mine, doesn't it. (Took me a second to remember which JD I was referring to.)

agree w/ kogan in a general sense, esp wr2 the basic social practices that govern critical conversation (though i have some tangential history in this debate). but would not be so quick to throw out "subjective" and "objective". in discussing what they like, people often conflate the two, what they feel with what they know. and it's therefore useful to have simple words to pry the concepts back apart.