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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
It's still so vague and relies on someone's subjective judgement which has little to do with anything but personal taste.
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Tastes arent really subjective since theyre generally conditioned by objective factors; it would be expected that the average pereson today would have a personal preference for the sound of rock music over inuit throat singing for example, because of the culture in which they grew up. When it comes to judging art, the most important factors arent really the personally/culturally-relative aspects ("do I prefer the sound of this melody to that one?"), but the sort of principles and attitudes which the work is trying to convey. It doesnt make sense to say that one tune is objectively 'better' than another, but it can be reasonably argued that (eg) music written for the goal of producing intense positive emotional experiences is inherantly better than music for teenage girls to dance to.
Personal taste isnt really the most important thing here; I prefer Belle And Sebastian to Miles Davis but I obviously dont think that the former made better music.