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Old 05-17-2022, 06:55 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I don't know, the jury is still out on this one. I think for some people they wear "music snobbery" as a badge of honor, for others it's a pretty serious accusation to hurl at them. So before I call some a music snob I have to know whether I am stroking their ego or hurting their feelings. Neither of which I consciously want to do.
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a music snob as long as he/she doesn't somehow feel superior. We do have a few of these snobs here, after all

I'm curious about your username, Ayn. Could there be a connection to the author, Ayn Rand?
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Old 05-17-2022, 06:20 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I'm curious about your username, Ayn. Could there be a connection to the author, Ayn Rand?
As a teenager I was besotted with her writing. Later on I came to realise only her metaphysics makes any sense. Have a look at Ronald E Merrill’s “The Ideas of Ayn Rand” Publ’ 1993 Page 94. On other forums I’ve often used either ‘Ayn Marx’ or Karl Rand’ given I regard both as mistaken in their political philosophy . But hey, this really isn’t the place to start delving into all that.

As to any connection to Ms Rand I attended a lecture given by her in NY many decades ago where her chain smoking gave me such a headache I had to depart.

By the way I still think Atlas Shrugged is one of the 20 th Century’s most significant novels the effects of which are still abroad (often unacknowledged) in the world. Mind you if Rand knew anything of today’s American ‘Right’ she’d be rolling in her grave.
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Old 05-17-2022, 06:25 PM   #13 (permalink)
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She'd hold her nose and shake hands with them the same as every reactionary capitalist.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 05-17-2022, 06:27 PM   #14 (permalink)
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the Stones are the quintessential gutless dilution of the blues to my ears

what bands are you even talking about otherwise
You may be right in describing The Stones efforts as a gutless dilution of the blues but they were one of the first groups outside the US to attempt anything like the blues. At least they didn’t commit the crime of early white rock and roll in attempting to totally remove any apparent influence of blues or black music.
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Old 05-17-2022, 06:32 PM   #15 (permalink)
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She'd hold her nose and shake hands with them the same as every reactionary capitalist.
I think neither of us can prove our speculations but remember, Rand was a refugee from one of the many variants of Marxism and had an extremely, almost puritanical idea of political and economic reality.
I terminate my contribution to this discussion here having observed the content of your avatar.

Многочисленные заблуждения марксистской идеологии не знают границ.
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Old 05-17-2022, 06:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Lol I'm not pro-Soviet, I'm pro-killing Nazis and for a few years the Soviets were the undisputed kings of killing Nazis and nobody has before or since touched their kill streak. And so while I denounce Stalin I stan the T-34.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 05-18-2022, 11:55 AM   #17 (permalink)
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But hey, this really isn’t the place to start delving into all that.
Oh how wrong you are. This place talks more about psuedo intellectual jumbo than music at times.
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Old 05-18-2022, 02:43 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Oh how wrong you are. This place talks more about psuedo intellectual jumbo than music at times.
Perhaps even most of the time.
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Old 05-18-2022, 05:24 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Oh how wrong you are. This place talks more about psuedo intellectual jumbo than music at times.
Not as much since you stopped talking about movies.
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Old 05-18-2022, 05:41 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Not as much since you stopped talking about movies.
Dude I stopped WATCHING movies. I miss it to be honest. I'm like at one a week or two at the moment.
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