10 Random Questions for Elitist Music Snobs

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. What is your favorite independent music label?
2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists to you enjoy purely out of irony?
3. which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else?
4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect?
5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn?
6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous?
7. Digital recording- yea or nay?
8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.)
9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it?
10. is rock dead?





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[johnnie]

1. .

:thumbsup:

That is hilarious.

[taterguy]

2. better answers than yours

1. What is your favorite independent music label?
Merge, because the founder used to work in a copy shop

2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists to you enjoy purely out of irony?
None

3. which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else?
An autographed Five Royalles CD

4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect?
Blues fife made from bamboo

5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn?
Who is Simon Cowell? Never heard of him

6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous?
They Might Be Giants

7. Digital recording- yea or nay?
Depends on whose being recorded

8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.)
My Rio

9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it?
do not let the opinions of others effect my opinion of coolness

10. is rock dead?
No, it's on life support

[HughBeaumont]

3. Mein:

1. What is your favorite independent music label?
Relapse and slowly, The End

2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists to you enjoy purely out of irony?
Spanky and Our Gang, yet there's nothing really pedestrian about what they did, at least not in arrangement.

3. which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else?
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper's long-out-of-print gem Bo-Day-shus on cassette. Le Orme's Felona Y Sorona, because Italian nearly guitarless prog is kvlt.

4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect?
A Doumbek and a soprano didgeridoo. Those aren't really obscure, though.

5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn?
He's a burp in the universe.

6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous?
Mastodon. Well, they're not famous yet, but they will be. They might. I don't know. I just remember seeing them when there was like, 50 people there.

7. Digital recording- yea or nay?
Eh, why not? I still say there ain't no production like the 70s.

8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.)
Cylinder.

9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it?
Post-rock. Now every smelly record-store clerk Explosions in the Sky/Mogwai/gy!be-wannabe is hopping on this train. Same with stoner.

10. is rock dead?
Not especially. It's thriving once again in the underground

[bbernardini]

4. My answers...

1. A tie: Shimmy-Disc (before it was bought out by Knitting Factory) and Seeland (Negativland's label)

2. Early Britney Spears (before she sold out), Hillary Duff

3. The New Monkees only album (and was that a King Missile reference?)

4. The Booper (a Negativland/Weatherman creation)

5. I only know that I want to hit him in the face with a baseball bat over and over and over again.

6. Barenaked Ladies is the closest one. All my other favorite groups haven't become famous yet.

7. Sure.

8. CD, but mp3 is fine for portability. I don't listen to anything that requires absolute perfection in its reproduction.

9. All the subgenres I think are cool haven't been discovered by everybody yet. (Sound collage, math rock, modern prog rock)

10. No, it's pining for the fjords.

[Phillycat]

5. The best part of this thread

is the people actually answering the questions.

[seemunkee]

6. ..

1. What is your favorite independent music label? Astralwerks
2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists to you enjoy purely out of irony? none that I know of
3. which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else? 45 of Brian Eno's Seven Deadly Fins
4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect? not really obscure but I like analog synths
5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn? Yes
6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous? Devo
7. Digital recording- yea or nay? Meh, it can be done well but usually is not.
8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.)vinyl
9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it? New Wave before it evolved into the god awful 80s pop
10. is rock dead? No, just splintered to beyond recognition

[NashVegas]

11. Astralwerks Is Part of EMI

Sorry to have to inform ya :(

[seemunkee]

20. Hmmm

That was the only label that popped into my head, I usually don't really care about labels.
I guess I should have put Ghostking which is my son's noise music label
http://existest.org/ghostking/

[BulletproofLandshark]

7. Okay, I'll play

1.Century Media
2.None
3.Don't Know
4.The mellotron (not really obscure, just think it sounds cool)
5.Yes, people like him are why the music industry is at it's nadir right now
6.Lacuna Coil
7.Nay. Analog all the way
8.MP3 (ironic I know, given my last answer)
9.European (particularly Swedish) metal. There's been a trend over the last couple of years of the sound being co-opted by sissy-ass emo bands (I'm looking at you Victory Records) and being passed off as "metal"
10.That's impossible

[tjwmason]

8. Here we go then...

1. What is your favorite independent music label?
Probably Priory Records - specialists in organ and church music.

2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists to you enjoy purely out of irony?
I think that I'll have to go with Mozart.

3. which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else?
A recording of Alles mit Gott a strophic aria by J.S. Bach which was only rediscovered last year.

4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect?
Shawm, hurdy gurdy, and perhaps above all ondes Martinot

5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn?
Who?

6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous?
Define famous - probably The Sixteen, but they're very famous now.

7. Digital recording- yea or nay?
It pains me to say so - yea. Mostly because it allows the far easier propogation of rarer music.

8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.)
M.P.3 - see above.

9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it?
Early music...they're even handing out knighthoods to Early Music conductors these days. :eyes:

10. is rock dead?
Rocks are usually dead, yes. Rock music - I've no idea.

[Initech]

9. My answers:

1. Four-way tie between Ipecac Recordings, Neurot Recordings, Dark Symphonies, and The End. Also as a major fan of Porcupine Tree, I've found that Burning Shed is one of the best internet mail-order / label services around.

2. Cant think of any off the top of my head.

3. Maudlin Of The Well - Bath, all three Steve Wilson Cover Version CDs.

4. The sitar (admire but yet to own one)

5. Fuck yes! (although not nearly as much as Dr. Phil, but I'll save that for a different topic)

6. Isis - I've been a fan of theirs for about 3 years now and they're not famous yet but after the upcoming tour with Tool, just about every poseur Tool fan will be scouring the music stores for copies of Oceanic and Panopticon.

7. Yea, how else can I carry a 400+ record collection around with me?

8. CD, dont own a record or cassette player anymore.

9. progessive death metal (ie Opeth, Nevermore, Dream Theater, etc)

10. To quote Frank Zappa - "Rock is not dead, it just smells funny."

[HughBeaumont]

21. I don't know that the Toolsheep will ride Isis' nuts just yet.

Turner's vocals are still too harsh and not "Perfect Circle-y" enough for them.

Saw them at the Grog Shop up close last May, WHAT a show. So I probably won't be spending $9,000 to see them from miles away at the Wolstein Cave in Cleveland.

[Initech]

22. $9,000 for tickets?!?!!?!?!

If that's the case I definately wont be trekking up to Fresno to see them. But the concert will still kick ass - two of my favorites in one show.

[HughBeaumont]

23. Exaggeration.

I think they'll be around 40-50 though, which I think is too much considering the horrible view I'll most likely get.

[Initech]

24. Yeah, that's the main reason I hate Ticketbastard.

You pay $40 - $50 for tickets plus a $10 service charge plus a $4.50 "convenience charge" (whatever that is) plus a $2.50 "facility fee" (whatever that is) but then they stick you in generally the worst seats in the house.

[HughBeaumont]

26. Yet for a show like that, you'd have to get it from them

because you aren't going to be able to get it at the door, since it'll likely be sold out. That's where they know they can stick you.

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Hokay!

1. Sony
2. Mario Lanza
3. "Dookie" by Green Day
4. Musette/Flesh Horn
5. The Devil can't have kids.
6. Nicole Richie
7. I see this question as a series of ones and zeroes, therefore it in unasnswerable
8. HTML
9. Snuff Film soundtracks
10. Rocks are inanimate objects. They never lived

[XNASA]

12. .

1. Cherry Red
2. ABBA
3. "The Off-White Album" - Martin Newell
4. Oboe
5. No. He's the Devil's Prawn.
6. Ministry
7. Sure.
8. Vinyl
9. Power-Pop
10. Yes.

[NashVegas]

13. Hmmmm

1. Anti
2. ABBA but I'm not sure it's irony.
3. Soundtrack from the motion picture Zacharia.
4. I have a 70(?) year old fiddle my great-grandfather made. It has frets with the notes marked in them.
5. Who?
6. He's still in obscurity, but I'm rooting for Sondre Lerche.
7. Sure, why not?
8. CD - no skips(for the most part) and they don't get sticky.
9. They're all cool until someone pees in the pool.
10. Rock has been a walking corpse since 1992.

[joneschick]

14. sure. this is from Daughter #2

1. don't follow labels
2.Kelly Clarkson
3.Kill Hannah's Beauty & Sinking Ships
4.nose flute
5.nah, not so much. I know the devil's spawn and it's not Simon Cowell, it's Jared Leto
6.30 Seconds to Mars and Kill Hannah
7.yay, but not always
8.M4A, it must fit my hard drive
9.Emo was cool in the '90's dude.
10.it just has leprosy

[miss_american_pie]

15. Jared Leto?

:rofl:

How old is your daughter, if you don't mind saying?

[joneschick]

17. Daughter #2 = 16

I have three, 18, 16 and 15. Never a dull moment here

---and now she's hacking my DU account on her machine. dang kid.

[joneschick]

18. Joneschick's daughter here...

Jared Leto is the devil. As a 16 year old girl, I am qualified to inform you that Jared Leto likes 16 year old girls. Also, 30 Seconds to Mars sounds like My Chemical Romance being sodomized by the Watered Down Pink Floyd, and I can't believe they used to be my favorite band.

That is all. *bows*

[miss_american_pie]

19. OMG

Thank you so much for posting. :hi:

[Tikki]

16. Oh no!!! Tikki's answers....

1. What is your favorite independent music label? Dangerhouse
2. Which pedestrian musicians/artists do you enjoy purely out of irony? Bay City Rollers.
3. Which obscure recording do you possess that makes you different like everyone else? Silver Apples…vinyl albums: Silver Apples and Contact.
4. What obscure musical instrument do you admire and/or collect? Maybe not obscure…5 string electric bass guitar.
5. Is Simon Cowell the devil's spawn? Poor baby.
6. Who was your favorite band before they became famous? I had a grand and ongoing debate with an 8th grade student in the early 80’s…He said that The Beastie Boys were going to revolutionize music with their funk/pop, I argued it would probably be TRHCP who would make the lasting impression…...You did ‘call out for the music snobs”, correct?
7. Digital recording- yea or nay? They say half the battle is ‘just showing up’
8. What is your preferred format (go ahead and say vinyl.) With the correct kit behind it…vinyl is superior…You know the highs and lows, thing.
9. What musical subgenre was cool until everyone else discovered it? Psychobilly…oh wait the average person hasn’t even scratched into the corner of the complexity that the sounds of psychobilly contribute to the joy of listening to music.
10. Is rock dead? NO…just snoozin’


Tikki

[chaska]

25. I'm just entirely too cool for this thread...

Ta!