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hdfisch 
Prog Reviewer
Joined: December 25 2004
Location: Germany
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 Posted: June 09 2005 at 17:33 |
I have as well about 50% of my collection which is non-Prog, but I've to say I rarely listen to those ones any more since I discovered that many and versatile Prog bands. I think the spectre in Prog music is so broad (from soft to heavy and from pop-ish to highly intricate) that in fact you don't need any other kind of music. Apart of some blues, or old stuff like Beatles,Deep Purple,LedZep sometimes maybe, but anything from the newer stuff.
Regarding the main question I don't see myself as a snob, since I usually accept everyone else's musical taste. If someone prefers Pop or Death Metal who cares? I'm doing suggestions to try this or that but everyone has a different taste!You can't force people to like Prog.And actually why?Music which is loved by many people is usually what????No I am not a snob!Maybe I am!Who cares?[QUOTE=Zargus]
Well i only have say 40% prog in my cd collection the rest ather types of music so i am not 100% prog nut, I think it gets boring to lisen to the same music style all the time i need variation, but i am sure its the same for everybody here i dont think anyone here got only prog albums, or?
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BaldJean
Prog Reviewer
Joined: May 28 2005
Location: Germany
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Points: 10387
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 17:06 |
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We have lots of different music in our collection, and we don't
segregate at all, we sort the music by artists (in the case of Western
classical music by composers), so for example Gustav Mahler follows
right after Magma or the Strawbs right after Stravinski. We prefer not
to categorize music at all, except for 2 categories: good and bad
music. What we consider to be bad doesn't land in our collection. There
are a few artist we debate over, but if only one of us likes some music
then we consider it to be worthy to get into our collection.
Nevertheless I'll always pull a face when Friede puts on System 7, for
example, just as she will pull a face when I put on "The Mamas and the
Papas" (I admit I like them, it is music I grew up with). What does
that have to do with me being a snob? I don't know, I didn't understand
the question in the first place; I just react to some of the answers to
this thread.
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:42 |
We are snobs, and in the words of the late great John Lennon, "You're still f**king peasants as far as I can see!"
(So what if he's been dead for 25 years? He's still alive in my mind... God, I feel old)
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frippertronik
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 19 2005
Location: Argentina
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Points: 173
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 15:41 |
the people who doesn´t like music, like to hear the fashion groups, and the fashion groups are really poor.
we're not snobs, we like the music
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a plague of lighthouse keepers
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abyssyinfinity
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 13 2005
Location: Italy
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Points: 443
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 15:07 |
As normality=mediocrity
Mediocrity isn't Prog but also isn't snob so are we snob or not?
Great problem... 
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dalt99
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 23 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 454
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 14:50 |
 Arsillus wrote:
I think we all are. 
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DITTO! DITTO!
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Best of 2006 that I've heard:
PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione
Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album)
Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific
2007:
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo
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colin007
Forum Groupie
Joined: May 31 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 88
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 14:00 |
Arsillus wrote:
"We've got tooooo much *clap* *clap* time on our hands!  |
dude, it's : "Attention all PLANETS of the Solar Federation..."
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This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.
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Arsillus
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 26 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 7374
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:48 |
fandango wrote:
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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Arsillus, we could be brothers who were separated at birth... my film collection is also in Director & Chronological order, and both libraries are catalogued, with star ratings...
I really ought to find myself a girlfriend.....
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"We've got tooooo much *clap* *clap* time on our hands!
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:47 |
I think we all are.
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Moogtron III
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Location: Belgium
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 10:05 |
snob - supposedly from Latin, abbreviation of "Sine NOBilitate", without nobility. (But pretending nevertheless that you are superior to the masses / the proles.)
Sorry, I'm just a bit of a Latin snob . Had to take the discussion on a higher level.
Pretentious, moi  ?
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 09:41 |
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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Arsillus, we could be brothers who were separated at birth... my film collection is also in Director & Chronological order, and both libraries are catalogued, with star ratings...
I really ought to find myself a girlfriend.....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 09:37 |
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
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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!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Gentle Ronnie
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 17 2005
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Points: 540
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 09:14 |
Prog is the best kind of music, and if you disagree with me...
YOU'RE WRONG!
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atomicbomb
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Joined: May 22 2005
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 08:46 |
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.....
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PROGMAN
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Joined: February 03 2004
Location: Wales
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 08:10 |
I don't act or dress like one so I'm not one.
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CYMRU AM BYTH
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Winterfamily
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Joined: March 13 2005
Location: Spain
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 07:43 |
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.
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InfinityCascade
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Joined: June 06 2005
Location: Antarctica
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 06:36 |
Were not pompous, we've just go a larger share of brain cells than everyone else, and we've got a better taste in music and we rule the world...
Oh wait I guess that makes us quite pompous then!
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While your reading signitures, your losing brain cells...
The average internet geek spends three years reading signitures...
Thankyou all for your brain cell donations...
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
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Points: 20590
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 05:09 |
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?
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Dragon Phoenix
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 31 2004
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 04:23 |
No, I don't think I am a musical snob.
I listen to whatever I like, be it classical music, jazz, new age, prog, rock or pop. And I will never criticize someone else's taste in music. I only pity those who do not like music at all.
Sample from our pop/rock CD collection, under A: ABBA, Aerosmith, Aimee Mann, Alan PArsons Project, Alainis Morrisette, Alice Cooper, Alice in Chains, Alicia Keys, Alison Moyet, Alquin, Al Stewart, America, Ange, Angra, Anne Murray, Anne-Sofie von Otter & Elvis Costello, Annie Lennox, Apocalyptica, Autour de Lucie, Ayreon. Rather mixed! 
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Jim Garten
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin & Razor Guru
Joined: February 02 2004
Location: South England
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Points: 14693
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Posted: June 09 2005 at 03:59 |
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.
Edited by Jim Garten
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