Take The Music Snob Oath!

Surfer · July-14th-2005, 05:59 PM

I [state your name here],

Do hereby swear off using my impressive-albiet-limited musical knowledge to impress, intimidate or influence friends, family, acquantances, employers, co-workers, prospective employers and prospective sexual partners.

I realize that erecting a mental depository for history, detritus, ephemera, rumors, urban legends, apocrypha, liner note musings and cryptology was a defense mechanism acquired in adolescence from being [pick one or more] unpopular/fat/uncoordinated/pimply/ awkward/socially maladjusted.

I realize that, at the time, identifying with musical artists was an easy and reletively acceptable form of escapism. I realize that being able to intellectualize my quasi-rebellious obsession with [pick one or more] jazz/eai/classical/improv/world music/etc, was a way to forge a personality and justify my leanings. This helped me feel "validated" when people made me feel worthless.

Now that I am an adult, my well-honed habits of hermetic absorption and intellectual browbeating serve me no purpose. I have met many people who enjoy my company because of the quality of my character, not because of the entertaining ways I spout trivia factoids... and certainly not for the depths of my ability to deride things in clever ways. I am currently employed because of my strong work ethic and pleasant demeanor, not because of my judgemental nature and/or the number of records that I own. I have had, at the very least, an adequate number of sexual experiences.

I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

LOL! [from Poisson D'Avril http://aprilfish.blogspot.com/2005/06/das-oath.html]

patricia · July-14th-2005, 07:45 PM

Love it!!

But, pass. I've grown accustomed to my snobbism.

JamesH · July-14th-2005, 07:53 PM

Funny stuff. I can relate to at least part of it.

Felix · July-14th-2005, 08:03 PM

Hey, I'm a jazz nerd, there's no way I'm gonna take this oath! My life would be over!

chuckyd4 · July-15th-2005, 03:37 AM

Hold on, let me go turn down this ultra-rare Fela Kuti bootleg; I couldn't quite hear what you were saying.

Gentle Giant · July-15th-2005, 09:44 AM

I am afraid I cannot participate because I do not find this funny at all.

Boris Badenov · July-15th-2005, 10:07 AM

Universal adherence to that would spell death for Speakeasy. Lois, delete, before it's too late!

Gary Sisco · July-15th-2005, 10:11 AM

Nah. Things that are dead still change.

Chris D · July-15th-2005, 10:11 AM

No, no, no, Jimmy Page was NOT on that session!

Gary Sisco · July-15th-2005, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris D

No, no, no, Jimmy Page was NOT on that session!

Yes, he was, but he didn't play the solo. Dave did.

Doc Martin · July-15th-2005, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

Yes, he was, but he didn't play the solo. Dave did.

Are we sure it wasn't "Big" Jim Sullivan?

Il Anto · July-15th-2005, 10:39 AM

Although I've toned down my snobbery in the last few years, I still like to whip it out on some people once in a while. It keeps me vibrant.

clinthopson · July-15th-2005, 12:13 PM

I have worked like a dog to develop my high level of snobbery over 72 years.

I refuse to give ground to those tin eared,
culturally depraved, musically degerate philistines who don't love every thing I do.

Il Anto · July-15th-2005, 12:17 PM

Exactly. They need us to show them "the way"

Felix · July-15th-2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Il Anto

Exactly. They need us to show them "the way"

To prevent them from going over to the Dark Side...

patricia · July-15th-2005, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by clinthopson

I have worked like a dog to develop my high level of snobbery over 72 years.

I refuse to give ground to those tin eared,
culturally depraved, musically degerate philistines who don't love every thing I do.

Well Clint, I for one still love every thing you do.
But, I digress.
Having worked my ownself loop-legged to catch up with my fellow snobs, even a polite request that I renounce my relatively recently acquired jazz snobbism will result in a controlled violent outburst the likes of which have seldom been seen. I will be carried out of the room, cursing and flailing, eyes bugged out like a runaway bride.
Sacrilege!!!

clinthopson · July-18th-2005, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by patricia

Well Clint, I for one still love every thing you do.
But, I digress.
Having worked my ownself loop-legged to catch up with my fellow snobs, even a polite request that I renounce my relatively recently acquired jazz snobbism will result in a controlled violent outburst the likes of which have seldom been seen. I will be carried out of the room, cursing and flailing, eyes bugged out like a runaway bride.
Sacrilege!!!

patricia, just point out the miscreant who would make such a disguating suggestion and I shall smite him/her.

And don't get me started on food, literature or painting!

frankenmeister7 · July-18th-2005, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Felix

Hey, I'm a jazz nerd, there's no way I'm gonna take this oath! My life would be over!

first line from deacon blues(steely dan) is " this is the day of the expanding man"!!!

listen to that song, do it and quit complaining.

i need to listen to more jazz and get more snobbery

patricia · July-19th-2005, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by clinthopson

patricia, just point out the miscreant who would make such a disguating suggestion and I shall smite him/her.

And don't get me started on food, literature or painting!

I love it when you have my back.