Musical snobbs like to scoff at popular music.
If you don't like their music then so be it but don't dislike them because they became so popular with everyone else.
( girlinthehole, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 12:41, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm guilty of doing that with Robbie Williams and Oasis
I feel like I'm being told to like them so I begin to despise them, where I used to have a passing fondness for some of their stuff.

I try to be objective, but I do think Oasis could have fucked off after Definitely Maybe and not pissed me off so much.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 12:45, Reply)

agree.
Definitely Maybe was a cool record and everything they've done since has been boring.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 14:28, Reply)

Didn't say that though, did he?
There are people who look down on those of us who don't like the Beatles for having the gall to think that their music was a bit... Well.. Pants. And that's even worse.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 12:56, Reply)

It's intimated in the magazine article.

( girlinthehole, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 13:30, Reply)

It is indeed.
And whilst I probably could be described as a bit of a music snob, I should probably clarify my sentiments:

I like a lot of '60s music. I adore the Who, Beach Boys, Doors, Floyd, Kinks, Hendrix, as well as a lot of the Chicago blues recorded around that time. My parents never saw the appeal of the Beatles and so I wasn't bought up with anyone telling me how wonderful they supposedly were.

So when I first heard Sgt Pepper I was entirely nonplussed. Some of it I actively disliked, some of it just left me cold...and this was one of the all-time great albums? Lost on me.

But when I voiced this opinion, as I mentioned above, people seemed, more often than not, to look at me in disgust like I'd just admitted to being the main orchestrator of the Holocaust. Having met such hostility for harbouring such an apparently controversial opinion, it's kind of strengthened my resolve.

So admittedly, part of it is just me being obstinate in defending the opinion I thought I was allowed to have: The Beatles were just a band and I thought, on the whole, they were pretty crap. What annoys me is the vast number of people lining up to stone me to death for not believing the sun shone out of their arseholes. They were just a band: will the general public please get over it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 14:29, Reply)

Watch Out!
I'm about to admit to being wrong:

I thought you had directed your comment at Crow-Boy. Je suis desole.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 15:45, Reply)