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Certif1ed 
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 Posted: June 09 2005 at 03:33 |
 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  
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James Hill
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 03:19 |
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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?
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 02:37 |
Snob is not the right term, because a snob person believes his taste is superior to the rest when he/she really doesn't have a clue about good taste, often snob is a synonym for tasteless new rich, who eats caviar with his taco or drinks Scotch with Fanta, only because caviar and Scotch are exepensive and despite the fact they hate the taste of caviar and Scotch..
We really believe Prog' is the best music ever, and most of us have enough knowledge to debate the point.
So call us pedants, proud of our taste, an elite or whatever except snob.
Iván
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 02:18 |
"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 ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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valravennz
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 02:09 |
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp
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Velvetclown
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 00:34 |
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con safo
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 23:39 |
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Well over the last few years ive been into many different genres, so im
usually not one to bash someones music taste, unless they're into truly
bad music, then i can probably get pretty irritating. Only time i ever
get snobby is when my music taste is criticised, i can get extremely
defensive.. But i don't see myself as a snob, i respect most genres.
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Ben2112
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 23:30 |
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. 
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Storm-Crow
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 22:43 |
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Yes i definetely am a snob because i love to be arrogant and egotistical when it comes to things such as music because i have enough understanding of music to know that progressive rock is superior than mainstream music in every way. Yet im an even bigger snob when people give me a hard time for not conforming to more popular music of the present day.
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Take a salt tablet!!!
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Hangedman
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 22:22 |
Arsillus wrote:
King of Loss wrote:
Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds 
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I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......
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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 
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 22:14 |
King of Loss wrote:
Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds
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I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......
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Mharo
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:20 |
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Yes, we are snobs.........
so?
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Joren
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:08 |
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I am a f r e a k
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King of Loss
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:03 |
Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds
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gdub411
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:03 |
alan_pfeifer wrote:
I'm not that much of a snob, and I'm glad that I am. There's good music in every genre, you just gotta get off your soapbox, stop judging people, and listen to music for what it is:
MUSIC.
And that's my rant.
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Bah...prog is better.
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:02 |
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:00 |
When I was getting into prog early on in high school, I was very snobbish etc. etc. I would talk about it to people who didn't care and convince them that what I listened to was better than their "musical tastes" and proceed to belitte it and them. I'm surprised these people now are still my friends... .
But not long after, I realized what I did was wrong and came to a realization that everyone is entitled to their own opinions whether I think it's garbage or not. I wouldn't like anyone to belitte the music I love, so I try no to do it to people who may like something different. I may say "Oh, I don't particularly enjoy [that type of music/artist/etc]" or "Eh, that's not my thing."
*But deep down I know that prog is better than everything else, and those who don't enjoy it obviously aren't able to handle it's greatness, and therefore settle for less.*
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 19:50 |
I'm not that much of a snob, and I'm glad that I am. There's good music in every genre, you just gotta get off your soapbox, stop judging people, and listen to music for what it is:
MUSIC.
And that's my rant.
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gdub411
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 19:50 |
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.
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Lyzarrd
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Posted: June 08 2005 at 19:45 |
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A very defiant and resounding yes! I'm suprised I haven't been shot,
the way I have lambasted other people's crappy music and irritated them
with good reasons on why their music is far inferior to prog.
Now...how's that for snob!
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Can you tell me where my country lies...
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