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Schmung:
Despite what many people ehre claim, the vast majority of people here are elitists because this place and the comic is innately about how certain types of music/bands are obviously vastly superior to others.

sp2:

--- Quote from: Schmung meant to say ---Despite what many people ehre claim, the vast majority of people here are elitists because the entire indie scene is innately about how certain types of music/bands are obviously vastly superior to others.
--- End quote ---


Yep.

nickyandthefuture:
There's a difference between having strong preferences and problematic elitism, though.  A person can like the music he likes and dislike other music, but if he just listens to what he wants, I don't see the problem.  If he makes sure to make a big deal about it when other people mention that they like music that he puts in the latter category, he's an elitist asshole.  Any music-based discussion will involve people with differing opinions on music, but nobody has to be a dick about it.

KharBevNor:
You're not a real musical elitist till you've trumped an equally matched elitists by making up bands, releases and labels. I love doing that. Also, testing a fellow elitists depths by referring to bands by the name they formed under rather than the name they currently perform by.

I will admit to being a terrible music snob. But there's so much crap people will listen to.

sp2:
No.  A person is an asshole if:

A) He confuses his personal taste with actual quality.  Quality of music is a real thing that is, for the most part, not all that subjective.  If you assume that everything you like is awesome and everything else is shit, then you're an elitist asshole.  Pitchfork Media does this a lot.  Example: Blonde Redhead.  Pitchfork gave only lukewarm reviews of BR's earlier work, but gave very good reviews of their latest, Misery is a Butterfly.  Misery is a sellout album.  It lacks all the great avant experimentalism that made albums like Fake Can Be Just As Good and their self-titled so damned awesome.  Pitchfork thought it was awesome, though, because it was much more indie-friendly.

B) He extends his judgement of a particular band to judgements about its fans.

C) He assumes a band or album must suck because it falls into a given genre or falls outside the realm of his personal taste

D) He takes it personally whenever someone else states, with good reason, that a band he likes may not be as good as he thinks

E) He listens to The Postal Service*


A person is not an asshole if:

A) he makes judgements about the quality of a given band or album based on his impressions from listening to the band or album.

B) He can accept that bands he doesn't like may still be quality, and that some of the music he likes may actually be sort of crappy (including bands he has a strong emotional attachment to).



*It's a joke, guys.  A JOKE.

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