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Points: 20337 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 09:41
Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

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.

Gdub ^, !!

I saw it after I posted my reply....

Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds

I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......

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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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 7374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:47
Originally posted by valravennz valravennz wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

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.

Gdub ^, !!

I saw it after I posted my reply....

Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds

I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......

 - Count me in this fray - my prog albums are separated from everything else - not in alphabetic order at the moment but different albums by the same band are definitely in order of release. I am a prog snob at heart...  

I think we all are.

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Points: 7374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:48
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

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.

Gdub ^, !!

I saw it after I posted my reply....

Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds

I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......

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.....

"We've got tooooo much *clap* *clap* time on our hands!

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Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

"We've got tooooo much *clap* *clap* time on our hands!

 

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Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by valravennz valravennz wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

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.

Gdub ^, !!

I saw it after I posted my reply....

Wow! That is on the edge of amazing. I have my Prog cds stacked on top of my Grateful Dead cds

I have all mine in alphabetical order, and different albums by the same band in order of release......

 - Count me in this fray - my prog albums are separated from everything else - not in alphabetic order at the moment but different albums by the same band are definitely in order of release. I am a prog snob at heart...  

I think we all are.

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As normality=mediocrity
Mediocrity isn't Prog but also isn't snob so are we snob or not?
Great problem...
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Points: 173 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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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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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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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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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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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.

 
Still alive...
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SnobArchives GREAT !!! 
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i don't think we are snobs. i never judge a person because of his music tastes. 
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Points: 703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2005 at 18:24

I love myself better than I love myself... I think...

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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: 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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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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