Do you ever feel like a music snob?

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Oh, but Im a Total music snob . Trouble is I STILL dont get any f*****g streetcred from those damn hipsters for listening to the MOST obscure bands. Ive always has obscure tastes and interest and have always bragged about it .

My brother often accuses me of being a music snob. I like a lot of bands outside the mainstream, and I don't listen to commercial radio because I can't stand most of it. I don't automatically hate bands that are popular though. I must admit I have recently come to like some of Justin Timberlakes songs.

I listen to what I like and don't really care if its popular or not. It just happens that most of it isn't.

I am an audiophile, but not a snob. I simply like music whether or not it falls into my preferred genre (indie/alternative) all it has to do is be good (like Outkast's "B.O.B." which despite being a hip-hop song is the song I consider to be the single best of this decade). I dislike alot on American pop radio, but there's some good songs here and there.

Then again, I listen to The Fall which alot of people simply proclaim is noise. In fact I have a blog (click on the www button on this post) and a last.fm page where you can see what I like. http://www.last.fm/user/IRONICtypo/

There's still a lot of good music being made - just as much, if not more, than in the past. But it's getting harder to find this good music. You have to take the time to track it down, assuming you know where to look.

I might call myself a snob because I am very discriminating. I might make a joking wisecrack about someone else's taste, but I understand that we each have our own preferences.

For a while, like some of you, I thought there was actually NO good music being made post-1970s. I was wrong. You just have to look outside of the mainstream sources. Some outstanding stuff is still being made today that is quite comparable to the amazing work we know from the past, but it just doesn't get on the radio and therefore never gets any significant exposure. Due to this, I have a rather difficult time tracking down music that I like.

I swear, music has to pass a shit-test before it gets put on the radio. Anything remotely listenable or interesting is thrown out. If you want good modern music, skip the radio.

Now for the popularity thing. I would say that MOST popular music is crap, but not all. F'rinstance, my favorite artists are Pink Floyd and Joe Satriani. Pink Floyd is absolutely legendary, and Satriani is very popular with fans of instrumental rock. I just don't understand why today's most popular music happens to be scraped from the bottom of the barrel, and why people like the mass-produced-from-the-same-blueprints sound from the radio...

My line of thinking is this: I have great taste in music and others don't. In fact, I can't understand why others don't have good taste in music because it's so obvious to me they're bad.

All the time. Even though I try not to.
Nearly everyone I know likes nu-metal, metalcore, modern rock or pop-punk, and I just hate these genres sooo much. I cannot help myself

I was called a music snob the other day from my brother I think, for not liking the Donnas. I personally find their 25-years-too-late primitive + pompous hard rock unbearable, and aurally malnourishing. I've found that very obscure bands are seldom good, and similarly with mainstream bands. It seems something like a bell-shaped curve to me. However, I don't listen to the radio, so if I hear something good that's mainstream it's always a nice surprise.

I'd promptly subject them to some Sutcliffe Jugend, Masonna, Prurient et al.

Was raised on classical music and my sister studied grand opera. I'm a music snob, but I also have an eclectic music taste. Popular bands mostly suck.

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there is allot of crap going around, but there are some pretty big, current bands or artists who are worth listening to(Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Daft Punk)

i guess i don't really fit the description i like allot of music ranging from a bit of classical to current and from 70 million plays on last fm to quite a few with a couple thousand

And if you dont... dont. Spot on observation, and the razor that cuts through muso-fascist BS.

I spend most weekends being forced to listen to small-time nowhere league bands who are either trying to break into the system, or are slowly falling away from it like pieces of wet cake...

Many of them are "obscure", and most of them were dire unlistenable shite. Mind you, so are the ones who made it.. Arctic Monkeys never stopped being dire, even when they were noobs.
Thus I have come to the informed decision that all bands will create some s**t, and all bands will create something thats not bad. Few bands create brilliance, and the ones that do should be acknowledged for it, but not neccesarily worshipped, because they can also suck hugely. After all, have you heard St Anger?

I've never heard of The Fall, but a lot of music I listen to would be dubbed "noise rock".
I love Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and The Jesus an Mary Chain.
These bands are often lumped into a sub-genre called "shoegaze".

Yeah, I can be a music snob.
At the same time, I'm open to any genre.

I'm into Indie.
That's about it.
I don't listen to much mainstream stuff.
I'm currently in love with the New York Anti-Folk scene.
It took me forever to open myself up to rap.
It started with Beck, Rage Against the Machine, etc.
Now, I'm pretty much open to anything but country.
(of course, I do listen to The Avett Brothers...)

The Fall is great, I got onto them via the recomendation of another WP member.

All great bands. I didn't know that.

If you have trouble with Country then you might try Country mixed with Punk or Goth, such as The Gun Club or 16 Horsepower, or maybe some modern Rockabilly like the Big Red Goad (Also suggested to me by another WP member) or maybe bands from the Psychobilly scene like the Meteors.

ive gotta get more Psychobilly http://www.myspace.com/zombieghosttrain

I'm a music journalist, it's kind of my job to be a music snob.

I listen to a lot of 'indie'. Whatever that is. I listen to plenty of obscure bands, but I have no problem admitting when I like a more popular band. Generally it won't be manufactured Britney/Hilary/Christina/Jessica/Etc crap-pop or 'hip hop' (some underground hip hop is good though, I will admit, just not the rubbish that dominates the charts).

I listen to a lot of British music, a lot of Danish music, and a lot of European music. Some is very obscure, some is very mainstream in its place of origin.

Yes.