Music Snobs (cds, genre, album, members, copyrighted)

boo boo · 08-05-2010, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

That's sort of true for the early UK punk bands but definitely not the US ones. The US bands by and large didn't have any kind of social or political axe to grind in the 70s. I'm also not sure why you you seem to the think railing against the upper class equals railing against art snobs. I realize rich people buy art, but most art snobs I've known in my life pretty much live hand to mouth since the art would isn't particularly profitable for 99.9% of people involved in it.

I never said punks weren't or couldn't be art snobs. I think prog rock got a lot of crap for being both upper class and into classical art. Even though some prog bands weren't upper class at all but that doesn't really matter. Knocking musicians because of where and how they were raised is f*cking stupid.

I always thought early metal was way more sincere and less hypocritical when it came to class status.

Anyway. I never even found prog bands that snobby. They liked classical music and fantasy literature they were more like nostalgiac nerds in that sense. Punks were always about being "modern" and all that Andy Warhol stuff.