Are you a rock snob?

[Saddleworth2]

There are good bands and bad bands. Good artists and bad artists. I am in favour of good but pretty snobbish towards bad.

 

[Saddleworth2]

“Poodle rock” lol. Wounded by Guns ‘n’ Roses, except they were drunken buffoons, then killed by Nirvana using weapons built by The Pixies.

To me, rock snobbery begins with a distaste for prog rock along with unrestrained displays of musical show-off-ery, pompous lyrics not out of place in a Dungeons and Dragons game (with apologies to certain Zeppelin songs) and rampant misogyny. A lot of Poodle Rock meets this last criteria; a lot of King Crimson, Rush, ELP and Yes meets the first and/or second criteria.

Rock snobbery also requires an affinity for at least a few of the following bands: Velvet Underground, MC5, New York Dolls, The Ramones, early Talking Heads and Television. It’s fine to like if not outright love the Sex Pistols, Wire and The Clash as long, says the snob, as you admit they all owe a debt to The Ramones.

Also, you are required to think The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” revolutionized music as much as if not more than Sgt Pepper.

I like either some or all of the music by all of these bands. However, I am probably a snob simply because I think I know what snobs would like and not like.

I am probably not a modern day snob in that I detest Radiohead so much that I would chase the band members off my property with a shotgun if they showed up (and I owned one). I do like Sonic Youth however.

Rock snobbery also requires an affinity for at least a few of the following bands: Velvet Underground, MC5, New York Dolls, The Ramones, early Talking Heads and Television. It’s fine to like if not outright love the Sex Pistols, Wire and The Clash as long, says the snob, as you admit they all owe a debt to The Ramones.

Also, you are required to think The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” revolutionized music as much as if not more than Sgt Pepper.

you got me bang to rites mate. I have been known to say all those things. Hangs head in shame.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

There are good bands and bad bands. Good artists and bad artists. I am in favour of good but pretty snobbish towards bad.

Exactly where you want to be to be fair - that's what I'm going to aim for........ ;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

“Poodle rock” lol. Wounded by Guns ‘n’ Roses, except they were drunken buffoons, then killed by Nirvana using weapons built by The Pixies.

To me, rock snobbery begins with a distaste for prog rock along with unrestrained displays of musical show-off-ery, pompous lyrics not out of place in a Dungeons and Dragons game (with apologies to certain Zeppelin songs) and rampant misogyny. A lot of Poodle Rock meets this last criteria; a lot of King Crimson, Rush, ELP and Yes meets the first and/or second criteria.

Rock snobbery also requires an affinity for at least a few of the following bands: Velvet Underground, MC5, New York Dolls, The Ramones, early Talking Heads and Television. It’s fine to like if not outright love the Sex Pistols, Wire and The Clash as long, says the snob, as you admit they all owe a debt to The Ramones.

Also, you are required to think The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” revolutionized music as much as if not more than Sgt Pepper.

I like either some or all of the music by all of these bands. However, I am probably a snob simply because I think I know what snobs would like and not like.

I am probably not a modern day snob in that I detest Radiohead so much that I would chase the band members off my property with a shotgun if they showed up (and I owned one). I do like Sonic Youth however.

Not up on my terminology - what the f#ck is poodle rock? :-)

Do I need to start reading NME again?

 

[bennyboy]

If you think the Smith's are depressing I would say you are a rock snob.

 

[BimboBob]

If you think the Smith's are depressing I would say you are a rock snob.

They are depressing. That's the point of them.

And onto poodle rock.

I like Bon Jovi. There, I said it. "Wanted, dead or alive" and "Dry County" are fine songs. As are others they wrote. I've even seen them live. I own a few albums. Early stuff granted.

I'll also say this, Extreme's Pornograffitti is an excellent record.

 

[JRockBlues]

I'm definitely not a snob but do have some stuff labelled as Americana in my collection.

 

[Magicpole]

Rock snobbery threat hijacked into another morrissey thread shocker MES should be banned from music threads ;-)

Snob.

 

[Magicpole]

Fuck me the smiths and that boring prick morrissey,rather have my ears chopped off than listen to that crap ..

You do realise you can still hear if you get your ears chopped off? Fucks you up if you're a specky **** and hats may be problematic. But How Soon Is Now will still be gloriously audible.

You lucky ****.:)

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Not up on my terminology - what the f#ck is poodle rock? :-)

Do I need to start reading NME again?

@Mad Eyed Screamer called it that; I’d never heard the term but I love it. It’s for late 80s “hair metal” bands like Whitesnake whose members all had three foot long manes, but permed. I assume it carries over to Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Ratt, etc. to some degree.