Are we snobs?

Arsillus wrote: King of Loss wrote: Arsillus wrote: gdub411 wrote: i am such a prog snob I have even segregated my non prog cds from my prog cds as they are not good enough to hang next to the prog ones. Gdub ^, !! I saw it after I posted my reply.... Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......

Me too, and my prog albums used to be segregated (just recently I threw all my albums together).

As for the snob thing, yeah i suppose but im way better than i was. I pretty much like every genre of music, and can get along with most music fans. Unless they bash something I like then I bite my toungue. Or if they like pavement... then I let em have it  

I guess I'm a snob, but not as much as some here. My last girlfriend used to call me a musical snob, but she'd crap if she saw the things some of you guys come up with.

"I like to listen to music. Whatever plays on the radio on I see on MTV. There was a good song I heard the other day ... by Jessica Simpson ... take my breath away, I think ... nice song ... sounds a bit like an oldie though ..."

How does your inner voice react to that? I'm still a snob at heart, I'm afraid, although nowhere as bad as I used to be ...

Of course we are and im proud of it.Have you heard the crap they call music nowdays?How is it someone can speak ebonics over a drum machine and get a number 1 hit?We need to be snobs.The reason for the success of dance music and rap was the simplistic revolution of punk rock which preached stripped down music and allowed for crap like hip hop to exist in the first place.Who needs to learn how to play a instrument these days?

Tony R wrote: Garion81 wrote: I'm such a snob I turn my nose up at myself. Surprised you can see your nose through all that face fungus!

Oi!

Watch it - there are many more of us here with the facial mirkins, you know.

Us beardies are the elite of the prog-snobs - we're far too busy listening to superior music to worry about baby-bottie-smooth-face-panty-wasting-shaving-type...er...th ings.

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I had to have plastic surgery to remove the second nose growing on my forehead, as most people called me a snob regarding my music tastes.

More seriously , I avoid making fun of other's musical tastes , this allows for me not to appear snobbish , and makes it easier for others to accept my tastes, and even have them to enjoy the musicx I listen to . Of course I will avoid UZ or DT as a prog introduction to these poor lost souls only waiting for their musical taste saviour - MOI , en l'occurence (in this case).

 The origin of being a snob is so: Snobbery is technically being at the avant-garde or fads or arts , therefore being a bit of a groundbreaker , an original , an Artiste! Once the fad has caught on , the snob realizes that his tastes are now obsolete (or that even the most backwards province know of the cause he was championning ), and will move away from this where he does not want be seen with such trend-followers and find new unexplored space where he can be seen again the trendsetter.

so technically progheads are not snobs but the ones saying they are snobs because they are saying their tastes are better than most are being sectarians.

How was that for such pedantic snobery?

James Hill wrote: Of course we are and im proud of it.Have you heard the crap they call music nowdays?How is it someone can speak ebonics over a drum machine and get a number 1 hit?We need to be snobs.The reason for the success of dance music and rap was the simplistic revolution of punk rock which preached stripped down music and allowed for crap like hip hop to exist in the first place.Who needs to learn how to play a instrument these days?

Well, Gil Scott - Heron and The Last Poets started to make rap (or proto - rap) records in the late sixties. A decade before sex Pistols, i think. Blame it on cheap drum machines and Emulator keyboards, not on punk rock.

Hierophant wrote: I love making fun of my friends' sorry taste in music.

 

ehehheh thats very fun, indeed....

of course we're snobs.......everyone is, that's human nature.....some about their body shapes, other by their popularity....i say our music snobness is quite allright.....

Certif1ed wrote: fandango wrote: Probably not as much as people who listen only to classical music, and think that any music from the popular culture has to be further down the evolutionary scale... I listen to a lot of "classical" music, and would agree with that sentiment anyway... Musical snob - and PROUD of it

Thanks for your comment Certif1ed...

That isn't having a stab at classical by the way, if I don't listen to prog, then classical is my second choice... its just that on several occasions I have come across this attitude, both in real life and thru the media, which I don't think does the genre a lot of favours.

Prog people on the other hand are such a chilled out, laid back, easy going group, who would embrace you whatever your musicality!