Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
as long as it's either a) "the only real Beatles albums are Rubber Soul, Revolver, or the White Album, man" or b) "I only listen to the first four albums when the Beatles actually knew how to rock."
I've always been partial to: "Wouldn't it be great if the Ramones had covered 'Polythene Pam'?"
It's also cool to cite McCartney's bass playing.
My favorite Beatles is "One After 909," especially the early version from Anthology 1.
t hastily hides Abbey Road under the couch cushion....
That's a whole new level to Rock Snobbery, David. Maybe it's something different.
Rocky the Raccoon. That is all.
I think the only Beatles album that no one thinks is cool to like is Sgt. Pepper.
Not that it's not good. Just that it's not "cool" to like it.
They may well have been referring to "That 70's Show", but I have a vague memory of hearing them during an actual WB show -- maybe "Gilmore Girls"
That was it Jon! I couldn't remember and kept wanting to say 7th Heaven, but I knew that couldn't be right.
Don't you have to disagree with popular opinion to be a snob? And if so, when you make public what snobs are supposed to like, doesn't that become a popular opinion so you have to change yours to something else?
it reminds me of middle school when the cool kids started wearing Guess jeans instead of - can't remember what was popular before that- anyway, suddenly everyone had to have the Guess jeans, so the cool kids had to move on to Gasoline.
I prefer to wander through AMG and iTunes or get recs or even go to a local show than to try to figure out what I should like. Though I have to admit, I have to respect people who listen to enough music that they can be all snobby about it.
music snobbery is so low on the scale of things I am snobby about. I'd say it takes up less than 1% of my snobbery pie chart.
DavidS: It's also cool to cite McCartney's bass playing.
StephL: hastily hides Abbey Road under the couch cushion....
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
To be fair, though, I feel like I've internalized the Beatles to the extent that I hardly ever listen to them.
Just that it's not "cool" to like it.
Obviously! Followed by eye-rolls from here to Waukeegan when Sgt. Pepper tops any Greatest Albums list.
Where's boucher? He can make an excellent iconoclastic rock snob case for one of the American editions over the British one from the Beatles mid-period.