comparisons

[StevenTice]

I think it's important to recognize that there is significant basis for
comparing BOC and tBS.  A lot of people seem to believe that because two
things are not identical or at least virtually so, they cannot or should not
be compared.  Nothing is farther from the truth, almost anything can be
compared to anything else in some useful way.

Heck, if there were nothing else, both BOC and tBS are rock bands.  This is in
itself a tremendous basis for comparison.  After all, even comparing BOC to,
say, Beethoven could be a useful exercise...an examination of two different
styles of music and their respective degrees of success, perhaps.  Heck, it
can even be useful to compare art forms themselves: literature to music, art
to music.  So comparing BOC to tBS is obviously valid...and comparing any two
given pieces of music is also valid, whether it's comparing Godzilla to
Beethoven's Fifth or any BOC song to any tBS song.  Whether one WANTS to do so
or not, or whether one is personally capable of making a useful comparison in
this regard, doesn't mean that such comparisons are not valid.

SET