Are we snobs?

I've found that most people listening to popular bullsh*t are the worst snobs of them all, because they think their music is best and can't be any further from the truth.

darren wrote: I don't think prog has any more snobs than any other genre of music. I have a friend who is really into country music and country fans can be snobs. We went to a country bar and talked to a few people. Any country song made before 1979 is a classic. Period. No discussion. Anything popular is not cool. There were more rules but they were so arbitrary that I couldn't keep up. It's very much like some on this board can be; either you like x, y and z or you are not truly into prog and any song released that may have become popular means the band isn't really prog... etc. etc. etc. I know there are some into punk that have their own set of exclusionary rules as to if you are truly punk or not. I know that hip hop is fairly rigid, either you have "street cred" or you're a poser. Yes, we are snobs but it's just like any other genre of music... except our music doesn't suck.

     That's just what I was going to say, that snobbism
is certainly not limited to intellectuals or
connaisseurs of erudite music...truck drivers can be
snobs about their special little culture, jazz lovers too
(I'll never forget seeing John Zorn announcing a
song called "Jazz Snobs Eat sh*t"), opera lovers we
don't need to even discuss. Everyone thinks their
sub-cult or mass-cult is the best, techno-freaks,
punks, hip-hoppers, it's always "we know what's
really better". Which is just close-mindedness.

As a newcomer to the scene I haven't really found anyone's personality to be any form of barrier. However musically I feel that the genre as a whole looks down on all the others... For example the complex time signatures, relentless solos and mysterious artwork!! All of these seek to elevate prog's status as a musical form. But I believe the genre is all the better for it

Mike

I don't think prog has any more snobs than any other genre of music. I have a friend who is really into country music and country fans can be snobs. We went to a country bar and talked to a few people. Any country song made before 1979 is a classic. Period. No discussion. Anything popular is not cool. There were more rules but they were so arbitrary that I couldn't keep up.

It's very much like some on this board can be; either you like x, y and z or you are not truly into prog and any song released that may have become popular means the band isn't really prog... etc. etc. etc.

I know there are some into punk that have their own set of exclusionary rules as to if you are truly punk or not.

I know that hip hop is fairly rigid, either you have "street cred" or you're a poser.

Yes, we are snobs but it's just like any other genre of music... except our music doesn't suck.

 

 likewise!

What a topical thread! I'm just arguing with my girlfriend about prog and music in general, because she said she liked that stupid new "JCB song". She can't seem to understand that progressive rock is the key to human evolution and that we are better than everyone else.

Yes we are !!! 

No, I'm not, I live in a 3rd world country, and don't have much money so I don't see the snob in me.

Chipiron wrote: Yes. Of course, I love Iron Maiden and The Stones, like every snob...

I actually know a snob who likes Slipknot and Ozzy. I find it funny.

I am so far from being a snob it's not funny. I'm just the modern nonconformist. I don't limit my music tastes to only one genre and try to be different. I am a huge Our Lady Peace and Nirvana fan- I know you may think that's weird, but 90s alternative rock is what I grew up hearing, so it's always been my favourite. I'll still be listening to Nevermind and Bleach when I'm 80. 

Edited by Peace Frog

tardis wrote: You're all a bunch of snobs. Why would I want to talk to you?

To bathe and frolic in the fountains of our illuminating wisdom, of course.