Songs not sounds

The ever-excellent Invisible Oranges has a cool best of 2007 'mixtape' for download. He prefixes the tracklisting with these wise words.

As I age, I find myself gravitating towards song over sound, at least when making year-end lists and other notations for posterity. Sounds come and go, but songs stay. Anyway, sound in metal has become basically moot. It's hard to imagine sounds faster than Agoraphobic Nosebleed, slower than Khanate, or blurrier than the Crucial Blast roster. Anyone can dial up amp settings, but few have the focus and je ne sais quoi necessary for lasting songwriting.

It's interesting as I argued (in a much more pretentious way) something similar in a previous post here.