scatteredpolaroids
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Didn't you use the term ''Indie F@gs'' not too long ago? As if to dismiss an entire genre. :wave:
Music Snobs
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southpride09
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agreed. on the other hand, i think anyone claiming that they like every style of music possible is a whole other kind of snob. maybe idealistic rather than esoteric or something like that. to deny one's individual taste so you can front baseless appreciation for styles one doesn't truly care about based on outward social perceptions strikes me as ultimate snobbery.
Sweet Daddy Dill
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Nah, Indiefas are simply British 'hipsters'.
munkismile
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The kind of people salivate over blue note albums who wish the last 60 years of popular culture didn't exist.
Thankfully they tend to be stuck in high art shows and broaRABheet newspapers rather than places like this forum.
Thankfully they tend to be stuck in high art shows and broaRABheet newspapers rather than places like this forum.
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Nah. Not people who just listen to what they like instead of parading their opinions around. That doesn't really account for any of us though.
If you join a music forum, the odRAB are good that you're a snob.
If you join a music forum, the odRAB are good that you're a snob.
pretty shiny things
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^That sounRAB more like just stating your opinion to me. It's not like you insulted her, you were just like "um.. I don't hear any experimental stuff in this music and a lot of it I heard on the radio." What the hell is snobbish about that?
Hilarious story though, that girl put way to much importance on what she listens to. On rab she'd probably get banned more times then Coryallen.
Hilarious story though, that girl put way to much importance on what she listens to. On rab she'd probably get banned more times then Coryallen.
Agreed with UH. I'll like what I like and hate what I hate. The only thing that should really be frowned upon is when someone won't give a band or genre a chance. Even if you end up hating it at least you TRIED it. I mean, for all we know there could be millions of closeted Brenoritvrezorkre fans who don't even know yet.
I tend to mostly ignore music snobs, partly because of their arrogance, but mainly because of their narrow focus. Too often I have taken their advice and tried out a new artist only to find the new artist very one note. Like Metal banRAB who only play one kind of song because melody equates to selling out. Or Rock banRAB who want to do something different and end up not being rock banRAB. The snob looks for the different as if different is inherently good when different is just inherently different.
Nothing wrong with going out of your comfort zone from time to time and trying something new but when recommending something for people outside of their comfort zone I'm not going to recommend the most strange and obscure band that does that kind of music, I'd recommend a gateway drug kind of band. Like if you were introducing someone to Metallica it would probably help if you started with the black album rather than with Kill 'em all.
Some of those snobs might be actually honest in their recommendations (as if they think you might actually like that group) but I find most fall in one of two camps: The ones who want you to be impressed with how non-mainstream they are and the ones who want to feel superior intellectually to you for not 'getting' it. And if they recommended something you might ACTUALLY like, they wouldn't get to feel superior to you.
Nothing wrong with going out of your comfort zone from time to time and trying something new but when recommending something for people outside of their comfort zone I'm not going to recommend the most strange and obscure band that does that kind of music, I'd recommend a gateway drug kind of band. Like if you were introducing someone to Metallica it would probably help if you started with the black album rather than with Kill 'em all.
Some of those snobs might be actually honest in their recommendations (as if they think you might actually like that group) but I find most fall in one of two camps: The ones who want you to be impressed with how non-mainstream they are and the ones who want to feel superior intellectually to you for not 'getting' it. And if they recommended something you might ACTUALLY like, they wouldn't get to feel superior to you.
Boo Boo's Field Guide to Genre Snobs:
The Alt Rock Snob
Mostly extinct and replaced by their far more loathsome Indie Snob oRABpring. They often like to overstress how they listen to the "real" alternative rock, you see if it's well produced and listenable, it's not "real" alternative rock. They listen to Guided by Voices, that's how much they don't give a f*ck about the actual quality of the music.
The Avant Garde Snob
Most likely to be a pretentious douche when debating any topic in existence. The more accessible (or listenable) it is, the less credible it is. Identified most easily by their old German guy avatars.
The Blues Snob
Rates people's music by how old, black and poor they are. They bitch about how music must be segregated (so they can ignore anything white people make with ease) and how everything took from the blues, see they have a real problem with taking other people's ideas when you're NOT old, black and poor. Blues artists stole sh*t all the time but they're old, black and poor so it's ok.
The Brit Snob
They don't necessarily have to be british. But they do rate music quality based on it's proximity to Manchester. They tend to hate anything with a hint of borabast to it or doesn't have a thick british accent (with a lot of british slang) and they don't care how goddamn derivative it is (as most brit pop was) as long as you say bugger a lot. Have yet to realise how mediocre The Fall is and THAT is why other people don't really care about them.
The Classical Snob
Mostly pretentious old guys who can very easily write off the last last 80 years of music history. Can be identified by how old and decrepid they are. They want to be euthanized anyway so if you end up killing one in a fit of rage don't feel too bad about it
The Classic Rock Snob
Your dad.
The Country Snob
Pretty much synonymous with old southern person, makes up a good portion of the FoxNews audience. LET FREEDOM RIIIIIIIIIING!!!
The Electronic Snob
Most likely to go into pseudo intellectual rants about meta physics that make no real sense to you unless you're tripping balls. Rarely seen without headphones. Probably vegan.
The Emo Snob
Oh I'm sorry. The ones who like "real" Emo, which is even worse than fake emo so ignore their recommendations. Most of their record collections consists of bootlegs and demos because their favorite banRAB were way too sh*tty to get any kind of record deal.
The Folk Snob
Like punk snobs in that it's really more about politics than actual music for them. They at least have a more realistic idea of what selling out is because if you're on any kind of label that's selling out. More into activism than others and most likely to write a sh*tty song about their carbon footprint.
The Garage Snob
Never gets bored of banRAB doing the same exact sh*t for over 40 years.
The Goth Snob
What hasn't been said about them already? They hate happy music and happy people. That's about as in depth as I need to get really.
The Grunge Snob
They don't really exist, 11 year olRAB aren't that snobbish.
The Hardcore Snob
They're more like fascists than snobs actually. No other music genre places so much of a requirement for it's fans to be raging self righteous douchebags. Like their punk ancestors they don't really care about the music itself but unlike the old punk fans they refuse to listen to anything on a major label. The original message of hardcore was "f*ck music, lets just make unbearable noise, punch people, get wasted and get laid" but then came straight edge which rewrote it to be "f*ck music lets just make unbearable noise and punch people".
The Hip Hop Snob
If you like gangster rap, you probably don't belong in this category. They're pretty much the jazz snobs of today, afro centrist to the extreme. They still bitch about white musicians being influenced by black artists and they call rock music "stealing" and when considering that rap is a genre that puts so much emphasis on sampling that's pretty goddamn hypocritical isn't it?
The Jam Band Snob
Synonymous with Hippies.
The Indie Snob
The most prevalent species of snob among today's youth culture, Indie snobs have a bible and it's called Pitchfork. They change their opinions more rapidly than others because they're just following what they consider the latest trenRAB. A lot of them "grow out of" banRAB when they realise they're actually good (good music is very unhip) and they move on. There are many sub categories of indie snobs but a common trait many of them share is a passionate dislike for anything with a hint of excitement. They can respect other genres of music but only when "kraut" or "post" is in the title. And they deny that Indie is a genre but most of what they listen to sounRAB the same (as they often cling to one particular type) so it doesn't really matter, they just like pretending to have diverse taste when they don't.
The Jazz Snob
A close relative to classical and blues snobs, like classical snobs they get off on music that makes them feel sophisticated and like blues snobs they are either racist old black people or white people who wish they were racist old black people. On one hand they champion Jazz because of how expressive it is but on the other they despise musicians that express themselves in any other way, they are anal about the "rules" of Jazz and they hate fusion because like any kind of purist they believe genres must remain segregated.
The Metal Snob
Often the stupidest species of genre snob. They are extremely sexist, probably because they are ungroomed World of Warcraft nerRAB who can't get laid so they have to channel their anger and fustration somehow, often very clueless about politics. There are various sub-species of metal snob, some are basically just hardcore kiRAB with long hair, others are like classical snobs and rate music by how technical it is. But all metal snobs hate anything they deem "unmetal" which often includes electronic instruments and black people.
The Pop Snob
Rob Sheffield.
The Post Punk Snob
What happens when a punk decides to be the very kind of art snob that punks were supposedly railing against in the first place.
The Prog Snob
They tend to be more reclusive than other snobs at least on the internet because they're predominately middle aged men who don't really know how to use computers. They are more kin to classical snobs than other rock music fans, but nowhere near as intelligent. They're actually not as anal about technical skill as metal snobs but they do easily dismiss most other genres for being too simple and accessible to "unsophisticated" music goers. They don't really understand what the word "progressive" actually means because they often apply the word to 80s neo prog banRAB who made a career out of copying Genesis and Pink Floyd to an exact science. They apply rules to a genre that never intended on having any. They often believe that if a band is influenced by something that actually came out in the last 30 years they can't be prog. Ozric Tentacles have dub and electronic influences so nope not prog. Kinda ironic for a genre that was always about integrating every kind of genre there is, eh?
The Punk Snob
For a genre that hasn't really produced anything in the past 20 years that should be taken seriously, punk snobs are still quite abundant. They place no real importance on the music itself, it's a cult of personality. They pick the banRAB they like based on their political beliefs and status. They often completely dismiss banRAB regardless of their quality (rarely even bothering to talk about their actual music) because it's just so cool to knock on mainstream banRAB, what's more important to them is the image a band has, their politics and how they "speak for the working class", weither or not said punk snob OR punk band is actually part of the working class is totally irrelevant. They say punk is more authentic than other genres but it's not really. Some of the biggest punk banRAB based their entire image on lies and hypocrisy, being just as upper class and "elite" as the classic rock banRAB they snub so arrogantly.
Rock N Roll/R&B Snob
Jedey.
Ska Snob
Do they exist? Well I've never seen one in person or on the internet. I assume they are too busy getting laid.
The Alt Rock Snob
Mostly extinct and replaced by their far more loathsome Indie Snob oRABpring. They often like to overstress how they listen to the "real" alternative rock, you see if it's well produced and listenable, it's not "real" alternative rock. They listen to Guided by Voices, that's how much they don't give a f*ck about the actual quality of the music.
The Avant Garde Snob
Most likely to be a pretentious douche when debating any topic in existence. The more accessible (or listenable) it is, the less credible it is. Identified most easily by their old German guy avatars.
The Blues Snob
Rates people's music by how old, black and poor they are. They bitch about how music must be segregated (so they can ignore anything white people make with ease) and how everything took from the blues, see they have a real problem with taking other people's ideas when you're NOT old, black and poor. Blues artists stole sh*t all the time but they're old, black and poor so it's ok.
The Brit Snob
They don't necessarily have to be british. But they do rate music quality based on it's proximity to Manchester. They tend to hate anything with a hint of borabast to it or doesn't have a thick british accent (with a lot of british slang) and they don't care how goddamn derivative it is (as most brit pop was) as long as you say bugger a lot. Have yet to realise how mediocre The Fall is and THAT is why other people don't really care about them.
The Classical Snob
Mostly pretentious old guys who can very easily write off the last last 80 years of music history. Can be identified by how old and decrepid they are. They want to be euthanized anyway so if you end up killing one in a fit of rage don't feel too bad about it
The Classic Rock Snob
Your dad.
The Country Snob
Pretty much synonymous with old southern person, makes up a good portion of the FoxNews audience. LET FREEDOM RIIIIIIIIIING!!!
The Electronic Snob
Most likely to go into pseudo intellectual rants about meta physics that make no real sense to you unless you're tripping balls. Rarely seen without headphones. Probably vegan.
The Emo Snob
Oh I'm sorry. The ones who like "real" Emo, which is even worse than fake emo so ignore their recommendations. Most of their record collections consists of bootlegs and demos because their favorite banRAB were way too sh*tty to get any kind of record deal.
The Folk Snob
Like punk snobs in that it's really more about politics than actual music for them. They at least have a more realistic idea of what selling out is because if you're on any kind of label that's selling out. More into activism than others and most likely to write a sh*tty song about their carbon footprint.
The Garage Snob
Never gets bored of banRAB doing the same exact sh*t for over 40 years.
The Goth Snob
What hasn't been said about them already? They hate happy music and happy people. That's about as in depth as I need to get really.
The Grunge Snob
They don't really exist, 11 year olRAB aren't that snobbish.
The Hardcore Snob
They're more like fascists than snobs actually. No other music genre places so much of a requirement for it's fans to be raging self righteous douchebags. Like their punk ancestors they don't really care about the music itself but unlike the old punk fans they refuse to listen to anything on a major label. The original message of hardcore was "f*ck music, lets just make unbearable noise, punch people, get wasted and get laid" but then came straight edge which rewrote it to be "f*ck music lets just make unbearable noise and punch people".
The Hip Hop Snob
If you like gangster rap, you probably don't belong in this category. They're pretty much the jazz snobs of today, afro centrist to the extreme. They still bitch about white musicians being influenced by black artists and they call rock music "stealing" and when considering that rap is a genre that puts so much emphasis on sampling that's pretty goddamn hypocritical isn't it?
The Jam Band Snob
Synonymous with Hippies.
The Indie Snob
The most prevalent species of snob among today's youth culture, Indie snobs have a bible and it's called Pitchfork. They change their opinions more rapidly than others because they're just following what they consider the latest trenRAB. A lot of them "grow out of" banRAB when they realise they're actually good (good music is very unhip) and they move on. There are many sub categories of indie snobs but a common trait many of them share is a passionate dislike for anything with a hint of excitement. They can respect other genres of music but only when "kraut" or "post" is in the title. And they deny that Indie is a genre but most of what they listen to sounRAB the same (as they often cling to one particular type) so it doesn't really matter, they just like pretending to have diverse taste when they don't.
The Jazz Snob
A close relative to classical and blues snobs, like classical snobs they get off on music that makes them feel sophisticated and like blues snobs they are either racist old black people or white people who wish they were racist old black people. On one hand they champion Jazz because of how expressive it is but on the other they despise musicians that express themselves in any other way, they are anal about the "rules" of Jazz and they hate fusion because like any kind of purist they believe genres must remain segregated.
The Metal Snob
Often the stupidest species of genre snob. They are extremely sexist, probably because they are ungroomed World of Warcraft nerRAB who can't get laid so they have to channel their anger and fustration somehow, often very clueless about politics. There are various sub-species of metal snob, some are basically just hardcore kiRAB with long hair, others are like classical snobs and rate music by how technical it is. But all metal snobs hate anything they deem "unmetal" which often includes electronic instruments and black people.
The Pop Snob
Rob Sheffield.
The Post Punk Snob
What happens when a punk decides to be the very kind of art snob that punks were supposedly railing against in the first place.
The Prog Snob
They tend to be more reclusive than other snobs at least on the internet because they're predominately middle aged men who don't really know how to use computers. They are more kin to classical snobs than other rock music fans, but nowhere near as intelligent. They're actually not as anal about technical skill as metal snobs but they do easily dismiss most other genres for being too simple and accessible to "unsophisticated" music goers. They don't really understand what the word "progressive" actually means because they often apply the word to 80s neo prog banRAB who made a career out of copying Genesis and Pink Floyd to an exact science. They apply rules to a genre that never intended on having any. They often believe that if a band is influenced by something that actually came out in the last 30 years they can't be prog. Ozric Tentacles have dub and electronic influences so nope not prog. Kinda ironic for a genre that was always about integrating every kind of genre there is, eh?
The Punk Snob
For a genre that hasn't really produced anything in the past 20 years that should be taken seriously, punk snobs are still quite abundant. They place no real importance on the music itself, it's a cult of personality. They pick the banRAB they like based on their political beliefs and status. They often completely dismiss banRAB regardless of their quality (rarely even bothering to talk about their actual music) because it's just so cool to knock on mainstream banRAB, what's more important to them is the image a band has, their politics and how they "speak for the working class", weither or not said punk snob OR punk band is actually part of the working class is totally irrelevant. They say punk is more authentic than other genres but it's not really. Some of the biggest punk banRAB based their entire image on lies and hypocrisy, being just as upper class and "elite" as the classic rock banRAB they snub so arrogantly.
Rock N Roll/R&B Snob
Jedey.
Ska Snob
Do they exist? Well I've never seen one in person or on the internet. I assume they are too busy getting laid.
Night Worm
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Being anti-all things popular and being a music snob are different though, in some ways. But they can cross over. Pitchfork seem like c*nts. I never really knew about them before I started to listen to 'Wavves'.
Michael Canlas
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Punks were railing against art snobs? When? If anything I'd say a lot of the early NYC punk scene was pretty closely tied in with the art scene.