What music do these guys find acceptable?
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reynardtfox — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 03:10 AM)
I think one of the implications of the story is that you'll never know. It's labyrinthine and esoteric and bordering on ineffable, and they might capriciously get sniffy about something you like that they also like. It's all about their attitude and perception of you than you getting it right in their estimation.
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bhoover247 — 11 years ago(March 25, 2015 11:54 AM)
I think the key to these guys and other record store snobs is popularity. The more popular with mass appeal the less likely they are to admit they like it. For example the band U2 has admitted they took their sound from the 70's group Joy Division. I'm sure that these guys would give great praises to Joy Division, but would look down their nose at U2. No matter how good U2 eventually became.
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mphsss — 11 years ago(March 25, 2015 01:01 PM)
So if music they love ever becomes popular, they just can't like it anymore? I've always thought that kinda thinking is stupid. There's tons of movies and songs I wish would receive a little more attention. Doesn't mean that once they did I'd focus my attention elsewhere, I'd be all excited to watch it go from extinction to success.
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munky_funky — 10 years ago(April 22, 2015 12:22 AM)
Truthfully I think they are more anti pop than anything. If anything, they are root snobs. The Green Day example is best. They are not fans of Green Day, but instead are fans of the Clash and Stiff Little Fingers: Bands that Green Day looks upon as their inspiration. They mention not liking rap, probably because it samples from other music, but I am guessing if you asked for some Lost Poets or Gil Scott-Heron, they would be impressed.
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Huskie_Jon — 10 years ago(January 25, 2016 10:24 AM)
Apparently, Barry like Katrina and The Waves, unless he was only playing their one hit to be ironic. After all, later in the movie, he wears a Yanni concert T-shirt, and he did not strike me as a Yanni fan.
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TeenGangDeb — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 09:18 PM)
Guys like this are a joke, even in real life. If they don't like you they will think you're an idiot anyway. Like Comic Book Guy. Same premise.
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majormet — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 10:33 PM)
I had a friend in college who was like this, he almost liked anything that didn't sell, which gets complicated when a band lumbers for a few years and then hits it big. A music critic could easily like a band like the Goo Goo Dolls before the Boy Named Goo album and herald them as geniuses mainly because they are more esoteric and then they get recognized for the same exact sound and they turn on them.
What I always hated about snobby record store owners was their facial expression when they are ringing up your records, as if they can't tolerate your guilty pleasures. I remember I bought a Bauhaus record on the same day I bought Whitney Houston's eponymous record. I don't think that clerk/owner ever chatted me up again. -
bhoover247 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 01:06 PM)
Funny story about Bauhaus and Whitney Houston on the same purchase. The record store owner might have later on started getting second thoughts about Bauhaus especially when they got attention for the exposure they received after the movie "The Hunger". He might have had to talk to fellow snob the movie rental store man.
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majormet — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 02:05 PM)
LOL Bauhaus was the ultimate indie snob record store band at one point, it was a band you never heard on the radio, then it became Fugazi I think
The Hunger David Bowie playing an old man right? Did not realize Bauhaus was featured a lot in there, certainly the snobs had to change quickly when Love and Rockets were a success.
It would be the equivalent of Tame Impala today having a popular song in a Miles Teller movie LOL
