Music Snob

moshkito wrote: And this is one of my favorite issues ... I don't trust the top 40 chart ... why? EASY ... check these numbers out! A band in NY sells 75K albums in 3 days ... and it makes the VARIETY LIST because only 2 other artists got that far and further. That same artist only sold 1400 albums in LA, and around 600 in SF ... but it is still listed in VARIETY because it is "considered" the standard in all of America ... and this is one of the "charts" that get copied to USA Today and many other newspapers, and ... we believe it more than we give a damn ... and the likelihood is that band in NY only sold 7500 albums, not 75K, or somewhere else in the country some folks would have noticed! My take is that a "number 1" on that list is worth a bit of money ... but the folks that run a few of those artists don't like the idea that the name of their artist is not listed with the best ... btw ... did you audit the supposed sale of 75K albums in 3 days in NY? How many stores? NOPE .... we just accepted the "information". And this is my only problem with a Top this or that ... the situations are never clear, and they are not listed so we know how the numbers got there ... so, if a store in Manhattan sold 5K albums of BandHooplah2, no one will know it, and it won't even be mentioned. Again, in that store, that band whooped the supposed number 1 ... that more than likely did not sell that much ... but the numbers make it look like they did! And worse ... we believed it. Our only hope is that one day we find out how fake these numbers were ... and that the artist will produce his/her bank account, and show that for all the numbers, he/she only brought home ... this much ... now, just sit back and watch the IRS and 157 lawyers go to work ... and 55 people end up in jail and some hard time!

moshkito wrote: richardh wrote: ... So I think what I have is better than top 40 chart music which tends to be mass produced and unoriginal. But people love that stuff for a reason because it's undemanding and they can go about their daily business with it in the background (radio or whatever). Not understanding music and dismissing something is a whole different thing. That's more to do with ignorance. I admit I am also guilty of that quite a lot!  And this is one of my favorite issues ... I don't trust the top 40 chart ... why? EASY ... check these numbers out! A band in NY sells 75K albums in 3 days ... and it makes the VARIETY LIST because only 2 other artists got that far and further. That same artist only sold 1400 albums in LA, and around 600 in SF ... but it is still listed in VARIETY because it is "considered" the standard in all of America ... and this is one of the "charts" that get copied to USA Today and many other newspapers, and ... we believe it more than we give a damn ... and the likelihood is that band in NY only sold 7500 albums, not 75K, or somewhere else in the country some folks would have noticed! My take is that a "number 1" on that list is worth a bit of money ... but the folks that run a few of those artists don't like the idea that the name of their artist is not listed with the best ... btw ... did you audit the supposed sale of 75K albums in 3 days in NY? How many stores? NOPE .... we just accepted the "information". And this is my only problem with a Top this or that ... the situations are never clear, and they are not listed so we know how the numbers got there ... so, if a store in Manhattan sold 5K albums of BandHooplah2, no one will know it, and it won't even be mentioned. Again, in that store, that band whooped the supposed number 1 ... that more than likely did not sell that much ... but the numbers make it look like they did! And worse ... we believed it. Our only hope is that one day we find out how fake these numbers were ... and that the artist will produce his/her bank account, and show that for all the numbers, he/she only brought home ... this much ... now, just sit back and watch the IRS and 157 lawyers go to work ... and 55 people end up in jail and some hard time!

 

I am the very definition of a music snob. I'm not proud of it.

Take the most horrendous sounding music you can think of....do you have it mind? Alright, then imagine an old lady listening to the very same but with goosebumps rolling across her body.

That’s music for ya right there.
We say it so much that the meaning has wandered out the backdoor but: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Works for women too

I absolute detest Hansi Hinterseer...with a burning passion. It’s everything I loathe about music: syrupy, unimaginative, forseeable, safe and most of all highly muzaky....yet when I one day caught my old grandmother watching a show of his on tv - closed eyes, heavy breathing and with goosebumps all over her body...well I couldn’t quite escape the thought that she looked exactly like your’s truly listening to Atom Heart Mother or some other music that takes me to Goosebumps City.
Is her soul orgasm less worth than mine just because I find her music to be utterly cringeworthy? Is my soul orgasm less worth than her’s because she finds my music cringeworthy?
Let’s find a horse to judge the tournament!!!

After listening to a week or so of current pop and auto-tune in a client's warehouse, I have no problem with being some sort of snob. 

Edited by axeman - August 20 2019 at 11:30

Anarchists ruling ok...

To me the key word is "snob". If I think about wine snobs then I don't act that way with music, I am sure when I was a bit younger I may have so my answer is yes and no.

I finally bit the bullet and voted no. The reason I voted no is because I like a lot of different kinds of music besides just prog and while I have preferences of some stuff over others that shouldn't matter because pretty much everyone does. So while my taste might appear snobbish to some I don't really see it that way. I just know what I like and like what I know. ;)