I am a huge music snob

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by DeathJag » Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:25 am

budda12ax7 wrote:
Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:05 pm
To OP....I can list ten bands you never heard of and your eyes will glaze over.....so I guess we can't be friends. :-*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOibIxl3dLo

Can't hang with this? We can't be friends.
I kinda like that video, the ridiculous factor is awesomely high there...

Name your ten bands. Let’s have a snob off. These bands are brilliant:

The Brentwoods
Subsonics
Manic Attracts
Little Mack
Dead Ghosts
TRMRS
The Traditional Fools
Grass Widow
Striborg
I Shalt Become

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by panoramic » Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:41 am

DeathJag wrote:
Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:25 am
budda12ax7 wrote:
Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:05 pm
To OP....I can list ten bands you never heard of and your eyes will glaze over.....so I guess we can't be friends. :-*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOibIxl3dLo

Can't hang with this? We can't be friends.
I kinda like that video, the ridiculous factor is awesomely high there...

Name your ten bands. Let’s have a snob off. These bands are brilliant:

The Brentwoods
Subsonics
Manic Attracts
Little Mack
Dead Ghosts
TRMRS
The Traditional Fools
Grass Widow
Striborg
I Shalt Become
this was a fun list, i like grass widow, neat
I used to be cool, now I just complain about prices.

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by shadowplay » Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:48 am

panoramic wrote:
Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:41 am
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this was a fun list, i like grass widow, neat
I prefer Hannah as Cold Beat, though Captured Tracks was a decent label back when Grass Widow was on it.

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by TeenageShutdown! » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:07 am

DeathJag wrote:
Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:25 am
budda12ax7 wrote:
Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:05 pm
To OP....I can list ten bands you never heard of and your eyes will glaze over.....so I guess we can't be friends. :-*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOibIxl3dLo

Can't hang with this? We can't be friends.
I kinda like that video, the ridiculous factor is awesomely high there...

Name your ten bands. Let’s have a snob off. These bands are brilliant:

The Brentwoods
Subsonics
Manic Attracts
Little Mack
Dead Ghosts
TRMRS
The Traditional Fools
Grass Widow
Striborg
I Shalt Become
Damn, I never thought I would see The Brentwoods listed in a forum...well...ever! I’ll have to check out the rest of the list.

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by dinosaurkale-> » Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:03 am

Striborg and I Shalt Become

thumbs up


however, that list isnt snotty/ snobby enough for me

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by Jaguar018 » Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:16 am

dinosaurkale-> wrote:
Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:03 am
however, that list isnt snotty/ snobby enough for me
So are you saying you liked this list before it was cool?

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by DrQuasar » Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:29 pm

Back when I was in a band and trying to make it, this list of bands things was always a test from others to see if you were "cool." I remember just making names up and people would be like "Oh yeah, I've heard of them but I haven't heard them yet" and I'd say "Oh they're fantastic." If I recall, The Elvis Frogs was the made-up name I would always use.

Lists of bands are pretty useless to me because I will normally only like maybe 2-4 tracks out of 10 on albums of bands I already like. So if somebody says check out such and such band, chances are I won't like whatever random song I happen to stumble upon. I love it when people recommend a specific song. I tend to get obsessed with a song or two for a couple weeks and just listen to that over and over. Then I'll fall into a valley of not listening to much or just background stuff until another song captures my attention. Shadowplay's thread has become a go-to for me when I feel like finding something new. I really appreciated the Hampshire & Foat: Galaxies Like Grains of Sand recommendation from several months ago.

Right now, I'm in a valley, but a couple weeks ago I couldn't stop listening to Fists of Fury and Streetfighter Mas from Kamasi Washington's new Heaven and Earth record. I didn't recognize any of the bands on DeathJag's list.

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by mezcalhead » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:08 pm

DrQuasar wrote:
Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:29 pm
Back when I was in a band and trying to make it, this list of bands things was always a test from others to see if you were "cool." I remember just making names up and people would be like "Oh yeah, I've heard of them but I haven't heard them yet" and I'd say "Oh they're fantastic." ..

.. I didn't recognize any of the bands on DeathJag's list.
Maybe he's using your trick?

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:13 am

any of my fellow music snobs into the dischord records band the black eyes? 2 drummers, 2 bass players (on some songs) and some insane fucking noise. the first album is super cool. the 2nd album is super weird but i still love it.
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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by DrQuasar » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:41 am

mezcalhead wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:08 pm
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Maybe he's using your trick?

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It worked really well pre-internet! :D

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by shadowplay » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:08 am

panoramic wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 4:35 am
i'm digging this goon sax shit, noyce
You might like the Stroppies who are also from down that way and come on like The Go Betweens or maybe The Perfect Disaster or The Clean go early Stereolab or a wee bit like Snapper. They are a wee bit too floppy jangle for me to love wholeheartedly but i like some of their songs likeNothing at All.

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Re: I am a huge music snob

Post by blacktiger » Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:34 pm

I am a music lover, though I have been accused of being a snob. I like what I like and I don’t care if anyone else likes it - ok, that’s not 100% true, because I do get annoyed sometimes when people with similar tastes (generally speaking) refuse to acknowledge the goodness of something I know damn well they’d like (based on THEIR tastes) if they’d stop being assholes and just give it a proper listen. Sure there is plenty of music I don’t like, but I will give pretty much anything a fair chance before I dismiss it. Hell, there are records/bands that I’ve gone back to multiple times based on the fact that people with decent taste like them, even if my initial reaction was a big “meh.”
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