jmc105
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 | | 08 May 2005 8:02 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Una
like, if I know more about a subject than you do my OPINION on it is more valid.
of course, like doctors and lawyers... not music tho, oi tink. | | | |
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Una
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| | 08 May 2005 8:35 PM |
| | hmm.
I dunno, I suppose there are extremes. If all I ever listened to was Irish rock music, I think it was the best.
If I only listened to nu-punk, I'd think it was punk, until someone would lend me a sex pistols CD.
I still think there is a lot of swatting up to do in music if you want to make the ULTIMATE INFORMED OPINION, or, you could just go with what sounds good to you.
Like the new Weezer single, which rocks. | | | |
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Gar
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| | 08 May 2005 8:43 PM |
| | New Weezer album rocks.......looking forward to Vicar Street gig!!!! | | | |
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mick
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| | 09 May 2005 1:56 PM |
| | in my opinion a music snob is someone who will change their view of a person because of the music they like
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emu
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| | 09 May 2005 3:45 PM |
| | i would have to say gar is a music snob | | | |
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klootfan
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| | 09 May 2005 3:57 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by emu
i would have to say gar is a music snob
explain please. Does having an extensive knowledge of a subject make you a snob on it...not in my opinion. | | | |
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Daragh
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| | 09 May 2005 4:12 PM |
| | i think it was meant as a joke, since Gar originally started the thread saying someone had called him a music snob that morning. I could be wrong of course... | | | |
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spurtacus
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| | 09 May 2005 4:22 PM |
| | Weezer are crap | | | |
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Una
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stroller
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| | 09 May 2005 5:42 PM |
| | I'm a big fan of Weezer but their latest single is rubbish. It sounds like a half-arsed hybrid of Stacey's Mom and I Love Rock N Roll. | | | |
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Karlito
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| | 09 May 2005 5:48 PM |
| Sorry if i haven't read all the posts - i just wanna answer Gars question - I currently in Hong Kong on a Travelling Wilbury kinda thing so don't have much time here - this post just caught my eye.
Music snobs are music snobs because they want to be - they feel superior to people who may not know as much as them, it's an ego trip, same applies to all things in life - same applies to saying Chinese food is better than Indian - it's down to personal preference in what you like, some people like some things, some people don't.
what i will say since i have I have been travelling this great wide world is that there is a lot of music you people and me have not listened to so we tend to think in our own little box as it were.
there are such tyoes of music which we have not listened to so therefore people in japan, Oz, USA may think that we are musical recluses because we haven't heard thei music.
As I breifly glanced at i think it was unas reply, listen to what you want and who gives a f**k what other people think, if you do then it's just peer pressure yeah?
Sorry for bad spelling in this and sorry if i don't get to give a reply, but thats my opion and I'm sticking to it, oh yeah!!!
Anyway, hopefully i can give a review of a band that you guys have not heard of and turn yis o to something other than an arguement!!! | | | |
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jmc105
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| | 09 May 2005 5:50 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Una
I still think there is a lot of swatting up to do in music if you want to make the ULTIMATE INFORMED OPINION, or, you could just go with what sounds good to you.
i think we might be talking about slightly different things. i think i'm saying that if you like or dislike a band/album/ then that's simply your reaction to it, and it's no more or less valid than anyone else's. two people who've heard the exact same music all their lives mightn't end up liking the same music - like siblings who don't share the same tastes in food despite eating at the same table growing up. likes/dislikes are completely subjective. the more music you've heard, the better you understand the context of a band or the development of a genre, the more reasons you may have for liking/disliking something, but you still can't speak for anyone but yourself.
i agree with you that listening to more music will help you understand where something came from, but even if you'd heard everything ever made, you'd still be responding subjectively to it...
jaysus, i'm confusing myself here - deep philosophical meanderings should not be undertaken on an empty stomach... | | | |
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Binokular
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| | 09 May 2005 6:10 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by jmc105
jaysus, i'm confusing myself here - deep philosophical meanderings should not be undertaken on an empty stomach...
Indeed, a phenomenon noted by Douglas Adams in "life, the Universe and everything": "He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion." | | | |
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Una
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| | 09 May 2005 6:47 PM |
| | yeah
i think it also comes down to the ideas of 'appreciation' (opinion based on measured knowledged) and 'liking' (opinion based on personal preference).
I don't particularly like Motley Crue's songs, but I appreciate that they rock.
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