What percent music snob are you?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/what-percent-music-snob-are-you

I got 50%, so..

Buzzfeed? Cute

not clicking the link; is there a percentage greater than 100

bow down, 100%

There's several questions which seem hateful traps. There's one which asks if you think remixes are better than originals. How is this snob? There are thousands of remixes which are better than the originals, whats the point of remixes if not?
Another asks if you think mtv doesnt play music videos anymore. That's a fact not a snobbish opinion.
There's nothing snob about liking some artist's earlier material. I love early material because it's where you can really tell how much of the magic comes from the artist vs the producer(s).
Worrying about quality of sound is not snobbish. Neither is liking jazz or krautrock.

70% music snob.

70%

"You're a music snob by most standards, but thankfully you're not a TOTAL dick."

Internet snob here. I'm not clicking on buzzfeed articles.

I know it's kind of a joke quizz and debating some of the questions is snobbish itself but I still have to disagree with half of the questions there.

I only clicked because it's a Perpetua article and I love him because I'm 70% a music snob.

Too many questions for this to be fun though.

Well you have to be a 100% snob to write a poll that can detect a 100% snob

Took the test a second time answering no to everything and got a 0%. I don't know what happens if you answer yes to everything and I don't want to try since it's honestly a ridiculously long test. the last time I only answered yes to 7 questions. I guess every yes earns you 10% music snob so after 10 yes questions you get a 100% music snob score.

75% snob, which I guess just makes me a nob

70 % snob, but apparently the poll seems to think that you're a music snob if you listen to anything else than rock and pop, including such notorious hipster genres like reggae and house music. And I don't listen to rock but I love dance music of all sort, so I guess I'm a snob?

I'm a 175% snob, with added all.

brianv48f53cc38
about an hour ago
Why would the term world music make me cringe?

I have such sights to show you

70%

70% seems the norm. I don't know what a DIY show is though.

http://www.ethann.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/onemanband.jpg

Possibly. I've probably been to loads without realizing it. Also had to answer 'no' to a lot of American based questions, so, all in all, I reckon I underperformed.

diy show = a band playing in a basement or someones front room. everything set up by themselves. Usually punk related but not exclusively. An american thing mainly. They dont call these gigs.

What is Perpetua's current username on ilx?

I think people permanently chased him off years ago.

I'm a 50 percenter

BTW, this chart is much more accurate

Wow i am only level 3

Or 4 i guess bc "noise pop." I do like noise music too but it's not at the core of my listening.

HOW MANY QUESTIONS ARE THERE

WHY WON'T IT LET ME KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE

THIS HAS TAKEN 6+ HOURS

I think I'm Level ∞, or at least I enjoy field recordings, musique concrete, and throat singing.

Lol i gave up on it too. Use the chart!

hahaha, yeah, i saw that the other day (my music snob % just went up 2% when i typed that), and i think i topped out at the second image from the bottom, where it says "every song from a particular artist played at once", because that's a real thing! maybe not every song that an artist has done, but every song on the album, sure. it's kinda neat!

i didnt know who some of the ppl were & had a few other 'no's but i nevertheless managed 100% and i feel like i should give myself a round of applause

50% for me, 4 with some 5 on that chart. But I've probably (definitely) mellowed over the years about all this stuff.

But I've never had a "heated" argument about any artist ever.

I was probably "casually dismissive" about the Beatles when I was younger but now like them fine, but not enough to own their music.

All this reveals nothing.

You Got: 70% Music Snob
You're a music snob by most standards, but thankfully you're not a TOTAL dick.

I mean, the fact is, I know I'm a music snob. Wish I wasn't, but I DESERVE THE BEST.

I've had heated arguments defending bands like neutral milk hotel and belle & sebastian with someone i dated, who found had a pavlovian hatred of anything branded "indie."

That's it though. I've never had a heated argument where I was the one telling the other person something they liked was garbage.

Except on ilm

I never get into heated arguments either, and I don't care about vinyl. But otherwise, snob. Also, that chart says "kreatrock" SO FALSE!

Is that a misspelling of krautrock? Better not by or else I've lost my faith in the creator of that chart

I can pull almost any record out of the vinyl bin at Urban Outfitters at random and instantly I'll have an opinion about it. Doesn't even matter which Urban Outfitters.

*whispers of "the chosen one" are heard from the shadows*

Sounds like a new board description

Kreatrock is totally a genre. Iconic albums of the genre include So Far by Feast, Nau! 2 by Nau! and Tego Mego by Con.

Lol

Well worrabout SuckerSite by Cleaster?

To earn that extra 10% snobbishness, we should definitely do an ILM covers Kreatrock project. Useless non musicians like me can contribute with field recordings and the "all the discography of an artist played at once" options.

http://www.dme-promotions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kreator_nh_0709.jpg

It's weird that they put krautrock ahead of free jazz on the music snob-o-meter

Have you ever skipped over someone on a dating site or app because they had bad taste in music?

I have never used online dating, so no.

I knew someone who would shudder with revulsion when I mentioned krautrock, she hated sauerkraut that much

Have you ever spent hours making sure your entire mp3 library had consistent metadata?

No, I bought a piece of software to do it for me in minutes.

some of the questions are inapplicable (e.g., I don't have a digital music library), and others are really just asking if you're a general asshole.

and of course i don't go around complaining about how mtv isn't cool anymore. mtv was never cool.

I laughed at the question about contemporary classical composers; apparently being a singer in a choir that does contemporary music contributes to my music snobbery

Because his name is in the URL?

― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:05 PM (9 minutes ago)

lol touché but i didnt even see that, i just saw the thread title and stopped reading the url after buzzfeed

http://i.imgur.com/keXlaad.jpg

No, I bought a piece of software to do it for me in minutes.

Pfft, true snobs enjoy the rote tedium of entering things into a computer!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Crete_topographic_map-fr.svg/500px-Crete_topographic_map-fr.svg.png
Creterock

diy show = a band playing in a basement or someones front room. everything set up by themselves. Usually punk related but not exclusively. An american thing mainly. They dont call these gigs.

what's it called when it's just like a local band playing a party?

same thing. I think the confusion with "diy show" itt is that britishers don't use the term "show"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/do-you-actually-prefer-sex-or-food

It seems unfair to compare sex in general with particular foods.

Or DIY unless it's putting up a shelf or two. (xp)

that's not actually true btw:

http://diyspaceforlondon.org/

/diy snob

it's bizarrely pretentious. pretty much everyone i know irl has probably been to some kind of party or event where a local band set up to play and none of them are music snobs.

Yeah but that's in that London (xxp). Britishes generally don't live in big enough house to be puttin' on gigs and whatnot.

wow that was a long quiz. i kinda wanted it to keep going with the "have you heard of x" thing, like mostly questions about that, and it progressively gets more and more obscure until he starts using fake names, and you earn snob points for saying that you have heard of the fake ppl.

and it should be even longer, and there'd be an option to "give up" or "get my score" at any point, but the more you keep going, the more snob points you earn, because clearly you are invested in the idea of being a music snob

A real music snob would be able to know fake names, no?

xposts similar expectations crossed my mind

"Have you ever heard of Arthur Russell?" "Have you ever bought a bootleg?". Going by this, being a music snob in the old days was a lot harder than it is these days, let me tell you. "How many Arthur Russell bootlegs do you own?" should be the question.

Is one of the questions "Did you laugh at the fact that Matthew Perpetua is writing Buzzfeed quizzes?"?

the last question seems to decide if you get 70 or 100. if you say you dont want a high score you get 70%. If you say you want a high score you get 100%

70% ... with a somewhat patronizing assurance that I'm "not TOTAL DICK," ... which some might beg to differ with.

I like sarahell's idea

xp no, but I did laugh at the fact that my strongest associations with the name "matthew perpetua" are
1. a pineapple
2. his frequently vandalized wikipedia page

oh how the mighty have fallen

fluxfeed

Yeah but that's in that London (xxp). Britishes generally don't live in big enough house to be puttin' on gigs and whatnot.

― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, March 24, 2016 4:42 PM (1 hour ago)

Been to house shows in both Nottingham and Brighton. Also rehearsal space shows, etc. The house shows tend to be band members at a max of three, practice amps only, playing to maybe only five people... where I get the impression that US ones are more like actual gigs? Might be wrong about that, though.

I have been to one of these too... in Perth of all places... actually there was a New Year's Eve once in Glasgow, now I come to think of it.

there are lots of house gigs in the UK guys stop being so old

How do you do that?

there are lots of house gigs in the UK guys stop being so old

― ogmor, Thursday, March 24, 2016 6:52 PM (5 minutes ago)

Wait, why are you including me in this? I'm saying the same thing as you!

Also you're not old.

haha sorry i just wanted to say it

only legit great house gig I've been to was magik markers in a levenshulme bedroom with about forty people crammed in plus another 25 or so in the landing/stairs. my housemates put on a band in our living room a few years ago but i elected to he elsewhere for most of it. turns out having 30+ random ppl in yr house actually feels a bit stressful/invasive

Also you're not old.

― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:02 PM (2 minutes ago)

Sadly, I am. ;_;

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/do-you-actually-prefer-sex-or-food

It seems unfair to compare sex in general with particular foods.

― jmm, Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not gonna click, is pineapple on there

im 70%. i didn't get a lot of the music as consumer fetish object ones like do u spend hours cataloging from a to z or subscribe to streaming yadda yadda. disappointed there weren't any questions about Devo, tbh. was Philip Glass mentioned? i think there was one part about modern classical guys but don't remember.

Philip Glass was mentioned. I assume you're not a music snob if you like him.

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2016/01/21?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uclick%2Ftomthedancingbug+%28Tom+the+Dancing+Bug+-+GoComics.com%29

100%

no joke

they don't always ask the same questions

I think there are factors explaining "Have you ever avoided seeing an artist perform in a large venue, like an arena?" other than snobbery

Like pregnancy or epilepsy.

Or if you suffer from enochlophobia or agoraphobia but those mildly count since they're snobbish phobias.

buzzfeed grossly overestimates how easy it is to get me to click on things

though maybe if doing so also allowed me to crush the visigoths i would consider it

or if arena shows are very fucking expensive even if you liked crowds

Poor music fans are snobs.

^Me in a nutshell.

turns out having 30+ random ppl in yr house actually feels a bit stressful/invasive

― ogmor, Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

This is why I do my house shows in other people's houses.

I got a 70%. Partly because of the "have you ever"-ness of the questions, so my affirmative answers sometimes apply more to a younger and (somehow) even more irritating version of my present self. And Matthew probably had a direct influence on me answering yes to like a quarter of those questions, so my ballot is probably invalid or something.

70% too, though I'm pretty sure I AM a total dick. Amusing how that orchestral violinist discovered he "knows very little about music" (on the basis that he's, say, never been to Coachella or "gotten way into" various pop music microgenres, or whatever)