the term "music snob"

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so a girl in my class was talking about her friend "the music snob." he made her a mix tape, so she was showing it off. i looked at it and, you know i'm not a music snob by ANY MEANS but um the songs on the tape were like the beatles, steely dan, liz phair...i can't think of any other ones, except to say i was hardly impressed.

so what is a true music snob? maybe i'm thinking of indie snobs, i dunno, but the beatles? LIZ PHAIR? people think too highly of themselves and their tastes!

― rebekah (rebekah), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm increasingly impressed by ANYONE who likes the Beatles, but my references are pretentious. Liquid Liquid are a good sort of snobby example, but they're really cool. I'd really like to spread the obscurish bands I like, so I'm prob not a snob, just a nerd.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What would an insufferable music snob's 12 CDs be?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought music snobs were the kind of people who annoyed the shit out of you because they were so pretensious. I never considered it a badge of honor. I know people who would fall into this category because they will not listen to anything that's been played in a commercial, or could be considered "mainstream" music. I hate talking about music with people like that. They give off this air that their musical taste is so much more important than everyone else's. If it sounds good to you, what business is it for someone else to tell you that you have no taste? True, I think a lot of pop music is souless and as a unique as a fastfood hamburger, but I don't look down on people who's days are brightened by it's existence!

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i am a music snob. i only listen to jud jud.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow who are they?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

jud-jud-ja-wah-wah

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Thursday, 24 April 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

xxxthanxxx for reminding me di xxxxxxx

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Thursday, 24 April 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

jud jud are the thinking girls fugazi

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Thursday, 24 April 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

music snobs are boring and lurve ilm

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Thursday, 24 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

And are just as snobby about liking pop. NO MUSIC CAN ESCAPE snobbery. Bummer. I like the Static Sound of Static.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 April 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

a music snob is nothing to be proud of, but you cant very well love liz phair and call yrself a music snob, can you? maybe so...

― rebekah (rebekah), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

music snobs are boring, live with anton and only talk about how they got reviewed by bruce russell and The Wire. sadly, they have been known to look like tom verlaine.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh is that Anton's new boyf?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 April 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i didnt know anton was gay, did i?

― rebekah (rebekah), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think he knows it either, otherwise he wouldn't have "whos more masculine" fights with hamish.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

They will not listen to anything that's been played in a commercial
Wow, they must have been really pissed off when the Velvets were in that commercial then.

music snobs are boring, live with anton and only talk about how they got reviewed by bruce russell and The Wire. sadly, they have been known to look like tom verlaine.
Looking like Tom Verlaine is SO NOT BORING. (Also Di, you owe me an email - get to it!)

― Livvie (Livvie), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

tom verlaine crossed with shakira

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anton reckons I look like Shakira. You should go on AIM w/DI and ME etc tonight Beth

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh he says I have to shave my chest first tho, THEN we can start a Shakira porn site

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

what

― webber (webber), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them w/mountains

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

beth has a gig tonight, i don't think she'll be able to. we can hope she will be on tomorrow night tho.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 25 April 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Who will be next to join antrons magical harem of shakiraxindieboys?

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 25 April 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

come see the toothy Tom Shakira Verlaine and the smooth chested Ian Shakira Curtis

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 25 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha. I'm trying to lure Anton on to the internet, like he's a frightened rabbit. Someone else reckoned I looked like Ian too, if that's what yr saying

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i thought you were aiming at an Ian look plus i think i saw you in an joy divison t-shirt and t-shirt=identity

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 25 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never had a JD shirt. Also I've never aimed at any kind of look, I'm not foxy enough... I dressed a bit like Carrie Brownstein for a bit. Wait I aimed at MES for a while, but just cos it was pretty close to what I was doing already

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Saturday, 26 April 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

you should be honoured to even see the word 'Beatles' written! the Beatles were/are amazing!>:|:P

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: indy boys who only talk about getting reviewed in The Wire vs indy bois who think manufactured pop is a damsel-in-distress that only they can save.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 27 April 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

esp if its a damsel-in-distress-in-school-uniform

― ducklingmonster (ducklingmonster), Monday, 28 April 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

i no man its such a pain. i get called a music snob and mi favourite 2 bands r the deftones and stereophonics-hardly similar and i go 2 a busted concert 1 week and a marilyn manson 1 the next. that is SO not snobbish!!!

― katherine m, Monday, 9 June 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

lucky that my breasts are big and mountainous, so you don't confuse me with shakira.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 13 November 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

a burning question for ya'll: is there a difference between a music nerd and a music snob? i've created this imaginary dichotomy in my mind that i like a lot that goes like this: music nerds know a lot of music but don't hold value judgments about a piece of music's worth aside from their own personal tastes, music snobs also know a lot of music but do hold value judgments about music. for example a music snob might think jazz or (to use a snobbish friend of mine's tastes as an example) math rock, are superior because of rythmic or melodic complexity, refinement and sophistication. whereas a music nerd would primarily consider the immediate aesthetic enjoyment of a piece of music, and a result has a more er, honest relationship to music?

fwiw i consider myself a music nerd, at least in theory, according to this definition. is what i wrote above total crap? or maybe just totally obvious? i figure i should get some sort of feedback on this before i start shouting it from the mountaintops and stuff.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

admitting you're a music nerd means you're probably way snobbier than you know or admit.

― sexually blount country matters (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

that post is music snob material xp

― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:52 (sixteen years ago)

i mean, if you only "hold value judgement on your personal tastes", and your personal taste just happens to be Albert Ayler, Diamond D, Das Damen and Snakefinger, then I got some fuckin news for you.

― sexually blount country matters (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:53 (sixteen years ago)

er i think what i meant was your value judgements only extend as far as your personal taste, and are perceived as personal, as in not anybody else's business and not to be imposed on other people.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

that's a very generous interpretation of the word "snob" and a distinction no one will bother to make.

― strawtrekman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

er i think what i meant was your value judgements only extend as far as your personal taste, and are perceived as personal, as in not anybody else's business and not to be imposed on other people.

― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:24 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

i made this unclear, the above is what a non-music snob does.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:44 (sixteen years ago)

er, non-snob

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)

an important part of this is evaluating a piece of music on its own terms, something a music snob might be unable to do in some cases. for example the math rock snob i mentioned above dismisses nearly every punk band as shit, because there's no rythmic dynamic. but it's like, there's not supposed to be any fucking time changes man it's punk rock.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:48 (sixteen years ago)

You should play him some Fear

― strawtrekman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Fear:Camarillo:465901:s2775102.8526664.14339398.0.2.85%2Cstd_d99ec20eba064c75aed4251ed93f8a60

― strawtrekman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

lucky that my breasts are big and mountainous, so you don't confuse me with shakira.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:03 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― I have all the print out about Dimebag and his murder (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

She wasn't lying

― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Friday, 4 December 2009 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

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