What makes you think it was ever intended as a philosophical question? Why bring positivism into it?
Because it is. Discussing what can be learned, what is known, and how knowledge is generated, is sort of core philosophical questions.
I see critical listening as in critical thinking. listening as opposed to measuring. and taught as opposed to experienced or innate. who said I was biased by objectivsm? ^_^
You seem to claim that experience and learning is in opposition? I lost you completely on this.
Do you mean "instead". Instrumental measuring in the natural sciences is usually done without human inference, while any meaningful listening is full of interpretation. Are you claiming that "listening" is raw data? Humans also need language to express themselves, which by definition is highly intersubjective.
As for "critical" it still is a term used all over the place. In this forum, positivistic thinking is the only form of critical thinking, at least that was pushed insanely hard by many for a long time. The irony in that, is that such a claim is insanely uncritical. The rainbows got colors, it's not only black.
When listening to "Angie" by the Rolling Stones with a few friends many years ago, I noticed the track of Mick whispering the lyrics through most of the song. You can hear him distinctly whisper Angie at a certain point in the song but he also does it in the back ground very softly through out most of the song (it is barely audible ). When I pointed this out to my buddies, some where able to isolate the track and follow it while others though us crazy. All of us were around the same age and nobody has had any issues with hearing. What is also weird is there are times when I am unable to isolate it (always on the same equipment)
Some speculate this to be a scratch recording, a ghost recording, or a lead recording that was played for the rest of the band. Nobody seems to know anything. There seems to be some singing in the left channel from time to time, and there also is some piano sounds that appear odd.
If what you all heard was him
"whispering the lyrics through most of the song", that appears awfully far off. Have you ever heard anyone whispering in a tone resembling that? Really? All of you? Sure you are not mixing up muted audio for whispering?