Is everyone on Musicbanter at least a little bit of a music snob?

**Frownland** · 03-04-2015, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well you don't have to be a dick about it, but don't you find yourself thinking that your music taste is better than someone who only bothers with Top 40 radio? Objectively it might not make sense, but can you really say you don't feel the slightest bit superior in that respect?

I see it as being more invested in music, because even though there are some people who are all up on the top 40 stuff, the majority of them are passive listeners.

Neapolitan · 03-05-2015, 09:44 PM

I don't see why I have to consider myself a snob when I hear a band play horrible music.

I am not the type that likes everything I hear and likes every band/artist in music. I do consider myself passionate about music, and I figure my hate runs equally deep as my love for certain things music-wise. It's usually the personality of an artist or musician I can't stand before I start to dislike their music.

Music snobbery isn't about disliking a band or type of music it's when you look down on someone for liking music that you dislike. I do my best not to transfer my feeling of a band to their fans. I am usually the recipient of a music snobbery than a perpetrator.

**Frownland** · 03-05-2015, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I don't see why I have to consider myself a snob when I hear a band play horrible music.

I am not the type that likes everything I hear and likes every band/artist in music. I do consider myself passionate about music, and I figure my hate runs equally deep as my love for certain things music-wise. It's usually the personality of an artist or musician I can't stand before I start to dislike their music.

Music snobbery isn't about disliking a band or type of music it's when you look down on someone for liking music that you dislike. I do my best not to transfer my feeling of a band to their fans. I am usually the recipient of a music snobbery than a perpetrator.

But if I don't put them down, how will they know that they're WRONG?

The Batlord · 03-05-2015, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

But if I don't put them down, how will they know that they're WRONG?

Trollheart · 03-06-2015, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

That's you behind the wheel, isn't it? "Down with heavy metal? I'll give ye down with heavy metal ye bastard!"

The Batlord · 03-06-2015, 06:12 AM

That's one of those times where, it's not like he deserved what happened to him, but still, that's what you get, *******!

Guybrush · 03-06-2015, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well you don't have to be a dick about it, but don't you find yourself thinking that your music taste is better than someone who only bothers with Top 40 radio? Objectively it might not make sense, but can you really say you don't feel the slightest bit superior in that respect?

Yes, in some way I do feel my tastes are superior to the average music consumer. My taste is the result of years of dedicated and often challenging listening. But I'm not sure that necessarily means that I get more enjoyment out of my taste than they do theirs .. I probably do, but I can't really know. I feel it is ultimately about what you get out of it and if someone gets something out of listening to something, I generally respect that, whatever it is.

Plankton · 03-06-2015, 08:28 AM

You could almost look at one's musical education in an academic sense, in that a person with years of calculus knowledge would surely look at a person who only has basic arithmetic knowledge with a bit of contempt.

Chula Vista · 03-06-2015, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

Yes, in some way I do feel my tastes are superior to the average music consumer. My taste is the result of years of dedicated and often challenging listening.

I'm the same way. But that doesn't mean I won't totally enjoy being in a club and listening to the house band play Brick House, or Oops I Did it Again.

**Janszoon** · 03-06-2015, 08:34 AM

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I'm the same way. But that doesn't mean I won't totally enjoy being in a club and listening to the house band play Brick House, or Oops I Did it Again.

I'm trying to visualize a club with a house band but all I can picture is 1940s dance halls.

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