if you've never any of it the reason is because you are the snob, since you stick to the same mainstream indie bands and don't bother looking for other music.

who mentioned anything about being a music snob? I am just blown away at how many artists y'all listen to that I have never fucking heard of in the slightest, and I don't know anything mainstream at all. I am stuck in reggae vaults from the 70s, y'all wouldn't know half of the artists in my iTunes, but it is understandable, you are not reggae fanatics, but I just can't figure out where you find all these indie bands and how you sort them out and find out if they are any good..

maybe I am just not adventurous enough in this regard

What a snooty reply. Are you Little Lord Fauntleroy?

So you like listening to stuff which others think is crap. Nobody's perfect. :D

the only people i've ever met who use the term music snob are the people who are insecure and don't like the thought that someone might consider their taste "uncool"

My excuse for not being super up-to-date and only being able to name a few good albums from each new year is that I'm still exploring all the music that was made prior to that.

Is it really all that imperative that I discover new music when I'm discovering music I wasn't aware of from every other musical period? I can see myself finding out about some awesome band from now 10-20 years down the road.

Not that I'm opposed to finding out about new music I like, more that I'm not actively searching for it all the time.

Since I haven't heard 100 albums from this decade, or any other decade, I'll just do a top 10.
In no order:
1. Boris - Feedbacker
2. Rowland S Howard - Pop Crimes
3. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
4. Boris - Smile
5. Ed Kuepper - Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog
6. The Verlaines - Pot Boiler
7. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - World is Yours
8. The Strokes - Is This It
9. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn

I'm not sure what I'll make number 10 right now.

Surely these should be included.

Xiu Xiu - Knife Play, A Promise
Crystal Castles
The Carter II
Cat Power - You Are Free
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Madlib - The Beat Conducta Vol. 1 & 2
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings

I'll compile something more organized and sincere when I'm not all fuzzy from the flexeril.

not in order

Jaybird
Sopra L'Influsso
Inside The Fantastical Cave
Wildanimal
The Book Of Pressure
The Agoraphobic Christcycle
Headdress
Closer To The Bone
Magnetic Drugs
The Trickle Down Theory Of Lord Knows What
Hoof Trip/Plague Pipe
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Soft
Rare Wood
The Secret In Disguise
No Magic Man
Live At The Eagle's Nest
A Manhunt In D
Clarity
Zample Volume One
Anatomy Volume One
Complexion
Wedlock
Knifelife
Live In Shit
Puppet Heaven
When The Shit Hits The Jazz
San Diego Heroes
Blues For Game 2
Blues For Jaco
The Mylar Tantrum
The Splintering
Double Puberty
Antwerp Cassette (Jelle Crama Bootleg)
Feel The Wind
A Taste Of Never
Earth Do Eagles Do
High
Blacker Market
The Pegadrift
Zample Volume Two
Z
Zample Volume Three
My Accident
Zample Volume Four
Two Whats
Roach
People
Civil Complaint
The Blaze Game
Get Fuck
False Joker
Fire Escape
Unmuzzled Ox
Locked/Loaded
Terminator 9
Sunburned/Emeralds
Weekend At Burnie's 2
Attica Rectangle
Bootcamp: Moses - 1996-97 (The Loft Tapes Vol. 1)
Chinese Perfume
Do It
Sunburned/Bill Nace
Sugar Mongolia/Process Of Weed(ing Out)
Charlie's Itch
Glik
Fuckethead
The Sweeter Natural
Weekend At Burnie's
Four Rockets
The Mouth At The End Of The Finger
Memorial For A Black Limb
Exit Pigs
Irrational Body Poem In Real Time
The Spatial Crime Symbol
Schmetterling
Glak
Gluk
Glek
The Dry Triangle (The Loft Tapes Vol. 2)
HAZ (The Loft Tapes Vol. 3)
Glok
Ego Enema
Acid-X
Silence Of Color
Drifting Mist
Spraycan In Space
The Ox Of Oh
A Grand Tour Of Tunisia
London Zero
Idgey Bath
Loose Bugs
Tailwind
Cheap Blood
Unrock Instore Gig Series Vol.8
An Ant's Death
Übervloob (The Loft Tapes Vol. 4)
Bone For Sky Baba Ganoosh
Remember It Wet

who are those by?

they're all sunburned releases but i'm joking this isn't my real list.... although some of these would be on it.

ahah i began wondering "what the fuck" when i saw "gluk" "glak" "glek"

You've clearly been called a music snob.

yeah, and i doubt there's anyone who listens to non-mainstream music who hasn't at one point or another.

I listen to alternative music, but I've never been called a music snob. I think it's because I've never been an insufferable, overopinionated, elitist cunt towards those who don't listen to alternative music.

grrrr

well... i got called a snob just through someone looking at my records, and another time for playing a james brown record at a party. not that i really care about it, i'm just saying.
anyway, if you want to call someone an insufferable, overopinionated, elitist cunt just do it and don't imply it through what you presume to be the motivations of others.

My fave albums from this decade, in no order or set number:

Sonic Youth: The Eternal
Porcupine Tree: In Absentia; Deadwing; Fear of a Blank Planet
The Good, The Bad, And The Queen: The Good, The Bad, And The Queen
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Take Them On, On Your Own; Howl
The Vines: Highly Evolved; Winning Days
Primal Scream: Evil Heat
Minus The Bear: Planet Of Ice
Damageplan: New Found Power
The Strokes: Is This It
Tool: Lateralus; 10,000 Days
Radiohead: Kid A; Hail To The Thief
TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes; Return to Cookie Mountain
Deftones: White Pony; Saturday Night Wrist

I have called many a user that on other music boards. And I will continue to kick their ass until the pseudo-muso, Wire reading poseurs stop pathetically haranguing others for liking popular, mainstream music.

pseudo muso? so they aren't really muso's? what's a muso?

"wire-reading" WHAT CUNTS! THEY READ THE WIRE! WHAT SCUM!

"poseurs?" what are they posing as? knowing more than you about music? reading the wire? posing at being a muso who reads the wire? how do you know they don't read the wire and have something to do with music? is it because you are the real anti wire - wire reading anti muso - muso who is against hating popular mainstream music just because it's popular and mainstream but still is clued in enough to know that it is mainstream. are you this mighty king?




keep fighting the good message board fight. you'll win in the end.

I've clearly hit a nerve with some of the users of this board who know only too well what I'm talking about, and hate being tragic figures of fun on the net over their eulogising of painfully obscure, mostly unlistenable music only a handful of others have heard of.

so you find some music "painfully" obscure? that's just bizarre and stupid. and not in a good way. does it need to have a certain level of popularity for you not to feel self conciouss about listening to it. is it some sort of "oh i can't like this because not enough other people do so i don't make the right cultural statement about myself by listening to it" thing?

didn't you say earlier that this was the worst decade for treating music as a commodity rather than an inspirational art form, and yet you find music painful and attack people who listen to it if it isn't popular enough?

"tragic figures of fun on the net"? what? why should anyone worry about being made fun of for liking music that somebody else hasn't heard of?

methinks it is you that has the sore nerve. might i suggest a ceasefire in your war against the wire readers or whoever and turning that crossfire inwards until you wise up and stop douche-tarding up the thread because i ripped on you for saying the best band of the 00's was fleet foxes/british sea power back on page 1.

I think I could manage a top five...

1. The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones
2. Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo
3. Heart to Elk - Point Juncture, WA
4. Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
5. MACHINA II - Smashing Pumpkins (whatever)

thanks for being bothered to reply to stupidity

great that that guy took time to make a list about a describing a pretty much fictional category of people. how fucking old are you?
some people just like weirder stuff than you, get fucking over it.

ahahah repped

I'll get you a "Music Snob" t-shirt for xmas. This is what is on the t-shirt. :)

Goth Pop and Instrumental Hip Hop are real genres. Fail.

whatever makes you feel good i suppose

and you could say that "skate folk" is an apt term for something like gogol bordello, and "ambient metal" pretty much describes stuff like sunn o))), nortt, and the more slow and droney end of doom/black metal crossover

music snobs like mash-up bands?

news to me

hipster irony.

Keeping It Simple:

What's really funny is that you're accusing others of being music snobs and being insufferable cunts, when you're acting like a huge music snob and an insufferable cunt.

You seem to be rather quick to a completely uninformed opinion about this decade, when it really seems that you haven't explored this decade's music.

I don't see how a lot of the bands that have been mentioned who are all that painfully obscure. In this age, nothing's obscure. It's all a matter of where you get your news from.

Yeah I was thinking about those too. Skate folk could even be like that folk-punk shit. Industrial Soul, I've seen that term in reviews before too, for stuff like the early Frontline Assembly junk or something.

I'd rather never hear the words "skate folk" ever again. The actual content is different.

Edit, or the older "folk-punk" or anything attatched to the word "punk" or...haha, industrial soul, Really?

I've really enjoyed some frontline assembly. They were perfect for a particularly mind phasering time in my life where bathroom stalls and acid were my classrooms. Theres this one time where I could swear that there was this intense night-long programming of variously orchestrated experimental sounds going on inside the intro to this one song, but all it turned out to be was a 5 second segment of bleeps and blops. oops?

been there dude

and ?

and it ruled.

Do you ever feel like its way harder to invent a meaning to life, when before all you had to do was do shit like that and cause distraction ?