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Points: 148 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 13:59
I'm not sure for myself,  but many prog listeners are snobs.
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Hmm... I don't consider myself as a snob, but sometimes my comments to other people's taste of music may sound snobby.

Like, you all know that real music lovers despise the MTV-crap. But unfortunately, 'bout 90% of the young people here in Finland listen to that kind of music, or then "metal", like Slipknot, Children of Bodom, Limp Bizkit or Korn (which I of course don't consider as heavy metal. CoB maybe, but the others aren't at least). My taste in music is very, very wide, but these kind of crappy poser-bands are just horrible.

For example today, on the ADP-lesson, I played bands like Floyd, Rush and Dire Straits. Well, of course some dudes started whining when I put on Mike Oldfield's Taurus II and that bagpipe part, and turned their volume up with some god damn Black Eyed Peas. I certainly have a more elegant taste in music, don't I?

So, would you consider me as a snob, elitist or just an ordinary music lover?
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You're all a bunch of snobs. Why would I want to talk to you?
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Points: 232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 20:32
If snobbery can be defined by not going along with the mob but deciding for myself what I want to listen to, then yes.

I live by this motto (which is also the title of a brilliant book by the late physicist Richard Feynman):

"What do YOU care what other people think?"

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Mornings - light classical
Afternoons - heavier classical or prog
Early evenings & all day Saturday - prog
Late night - Jazz (sometimes trad, sometimes modern)
Sundays - Good old fashioned radio comedy!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 19:30

Snobby is the wrong word but with the lack of eclecticity in todays (pop) music,to listen to prog makes a lot of more linear music seem like crud.
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Everyone here is a snob except me.  That must mean I'm better than all of you!
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Points: 235 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 19:03
I would have to agree with Alan on this one. Though, I have found myself, on occasions, thinking other people's tastes (not having anything to do with prog) are not up to par, compared to mine...and then I hit myself a few times and am fine.
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If a fondness for music that challenges the listener to keep up in order to enjoy it is snobbish, then yes, we are snobs. Say it loud, I'm a snob & I'm proud!!
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I don't have patience to talk about music with people in general, because they just can't explain the reason why they like what they like. I'm not talking about "mine is bigger than yours", but just a justification to yourself about what makes your decison to listen this, and not that. What your kind of music has that no others have, etc. People simply can't answer these questions to themselves. So, as a matter of fact, I can be described as a snob, but just because I know the reasons why I listen to the music I listen, and the opposite as well. 
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 18:20
Evolution forced us to get snob. It is not our faults.

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Points: 31644 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 18:12
Yup! We are snobs!! We hate all kind of music that isn't prog....well, not always (example: Im a HUGE AC/DC fan, and Im proud of it!!), but we are still snobs
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Points: 1298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2005 at 14:17
yes, we are snobs. this is because we are right and they are wrong. 
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2005 at 23:49
Originally posted by Syntharachnid Syntharachnid wrote:

But seriously, YES. We are snobs because we believe our music is better than anyone else's.

And we're right.

we are such snobs

but when i see my friends listening to rap and punk, i can't help but get all snobbish.
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I love myself better than I love myself... I think...

-Zappa

But seriously, YES. We are snobs because we believe our music is better than anyone else's.

And we're right.
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Points: 400 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2005 at 12:08
i don't think we are snobs. i never judge a person because of his music tastes. 
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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2005 at 06:06
SnobArchives GREAT !!! 
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Points: 396 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2005 at 05:51

Last year I was in London and i bought about 40 prog CD at HMV.

My wife told me I was crazy crazy crazy, not snob.

 
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2005 at 12:53

Maybe we should call "our" music  snobistic rock.

Welcome to the SnobArchives  
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Points: 208 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2005 at 08:52
I love being referred to as snobbish, because I can use the retort, "Yes, but I'm a snob who has exceptional taste," which usually angers people even more because of how snobbish the tone is.
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