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Mar 26, 2019 10:25:36 GMT
Post by oh oooh on Mar 26, 2019 10:25:36 GMT
Often though I think it's genuine. I was like that when I was 19 - had no time for anything with synths, any pop at all, really. My mates were the same. And we thought we were the bee's knees.
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Mar 26, 2019 10:28:53 GMT
Post by tory on Mar 26, 2019 10:28:53 GMT
I bet you were a right dick!
(I was too at that age)
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Mar 26, 2019 10:36:56 GMT
Post by oh oooh on Mar 26, 2019 10:36:56 GMT
Oh fuck yeah! We all were.
Mind, in our defence, the charts were dire - full of SAW - and that kind of entrenched our views. Things were very divided, very tribal back then. Remember how Smiths' fans saw Rick Astley as the enemy? That kind of thing.
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Mar 26, 2019 10:51:09 GMT
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Post by tory on Mar 26, 2019 10:51:09 GMT
Definitely. There was a lot of "how could you like x if you like y" logical thinking back then. Very peculiar.
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Mar 26, 2019 11:56:40 GMT
Post by loveless on Mar 26, 2019 11:56:40 GMT
I can get that and I do know what you mean. It's the sort of taste cultivated from reading too many books and articles, and not actually going out and having your perceptions changed. The sort of thing where secretly they might really enjoy ABBA but can't admit it to ANYONE. I went to a jolly up about 15 years ago (I think this was right in the middle of the Mojo/BCB migration) near Henley-on-Thames - there was some driving involved and four of us carpooled. I mention this because after the JU, on the ride back to the train, I was asked to pick a CD out of the driver's booklet for listening, and I selected Saturday Night Fever. It sounded fantastic, of course, but it was hard not to laugh at the underlying apparent comedic premise of people from a music board (nominally, some assembly of opinionated snobs and experts) all going their separate ways after the get together and four of them (as soon as the coast was clear) immediately reverting to the most cartoonishly populist music imaginable.
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Mar 26, 2019 12:59:53 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 12:59:53 GMT
And yet to play something like that is the most normal thing in the world. If I'd been there it wouldn't occurred to me to think of it as strange. I probably went through the 'snob' phase when I was about 15 and listening to Peel. I grew out of it pretty quickly though. It probably helped that I came of age during that whole period when post-punk acts were going down the 'new pop' route. Pop music was something to be celebrated in the early 80s and the old rock orthodoxies of what was good and important were being challenged. Unfortunately the division between the underground (to be endorsed) and the commercial charts (to be despised) came back in a big way in the early 90s.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:07:42 GMT
Post by oh oooh on Mar 26, 2019 14:07:42 GMT
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a 'snob' (for want of a better word). Everybody draws lines. This idea that we should give everything a chance is prevalent on music boards and it's never sat well with me.
As the old Russian proverb goes, "don't keep a mind so open that your brains fall out"
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Mar 26, 2019 14:26:25 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 26, 2019 14:26:25 GMT
I think it's perfectly natural to be a snob as a teenager. It means so much at that age and it's how you define yourself to a significant degree so it's inevitable battles lines are drawn. When I think back I can remember saying some remarkably snobby things to friends! I remember a lass saying that The Bends had to be one of the "greatest albums ever made" which I thought was total bollocks so I actually sat and wrote down 100 albums that I believed were better.
We all grow up and that's good but I sorta miss Young Dougie occasionally despite his obvious dickishness.
I used to think dance music was shit and that electronic music in general was inferior bollocks when I was a teenager.
I also thought Opera was middle class bollocks for cunts.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:37:38 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 14:37:38 GMT
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a 'snob' (for want of a better word). Everybody draws lines. This idea that we should give everything a chance is prevalent on music boards and it's never sat well with me. As the old Russian proverb goes, "don't keep a mind so open that your brains fall out" Sure, but rigid, binary default positions just show a lack of imagination for me.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:39:33 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 26, 2019 14:39:33 GMT
They do but it is just music after all. I mean it's worse when it's somebody's politics.
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Mar 26, 2019 15:14:15 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 15:14:15 GMT
They do but it is just music after all. I mean it's worse when it's somebody's politics. Are you speaking from personal experience there Dougie?
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Mar 26, 2019 15:37:03 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 26, 2019 15:37:03 GMT
How dare you!
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May 13, 2020 23:11:48 GMT
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Post by oh oooh on May 13, 2020 23:11:48 GMT
Tago Mago is fucking KNOCKING ME OUT right now.
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Post by tory on May 14, 2020 7:41:44 GMT
I bet you don't listen to sides C and D though!
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Post by oh oooh on May 14, 2020 9:53:41 GMT
I played the whole thing through, but turned the volume down for bits...
It's SO much a night-time album.
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