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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: 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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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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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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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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Everyone here is a snob except me.  That must mean I'm better than all of you!
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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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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?"

My typical week:
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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You're all a bunch of snobs. Why would I want to talk to you?
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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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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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Points: 1864 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 14:14
Originally posted by undefinability undefinability wrote:

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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Originally posted by tardis 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.
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Yes. Of course, I love Iron Maiden and The Stones, like every snob...
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Points: 994 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 15:20

Originally posted by Chipiron 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. 



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Points: 4318 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 16:03
No, I'm very poor, in mind as in pocketts. I just have a soft spot for poetry and complex conceptual constructions. But everyone is welcome in my heart.
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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.
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Points: 120 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 16:47
So 3rd world country people can't afford to be snobs? I don't know, I live in a 3rd world country too and I know some snobs...


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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 16:52
Yes we are !!! 
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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2005 at 16:54
We are the Upper Class twits of the year 
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