Official Music Elitists Club, To be used in conjunction with Official Film Snobs Club Options

[AThorpedo]

Come one, come all! In the same vein as the Official Film Snobs Club, exclusionist attitudes come free with every top 20 favorite albums or artists list posted! If you feel like you should be entitled to tell people to never listen to music again, then apply. As someone that has been telling people to listen to better music for years now, I will let you know how qualified you aren't to push your taste in music onto others. I hated your favorite band before you knew they existed; I know what I'm doing.

If I like the cut of your jib, you can tell people what bands to listen to and why the music they listen to is just recycled, trite bullshit. We can also exchange soulseek usernames. <3

So, as I said, post your Top 20 favorite ALBUMS or ARTISTS. I'm not terribly interested in hearing about your favorite songs. Chances are those change all the time. Artists and albums offer something a bit more consistent.

We will be like a bowel irritation with a dope record collection. 1 2 3! 1 2 3!

ALBUMS
1. Death to False Screamo compilation (N/A)
2. Pretty Hot / Ghost Mice split (Anti-Creative, 2005)
3. Andrew Jackson Jihad / Ghost Mice split (Plan-It-X, 2007)
4. Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains - All Power to the Wingnuts! E.P. (Spare Change, ?)
5. I Hate Myself - 2 Songs (No Idea, 2000)
6. Ghost Mice - The Debt of the Dead (Plan-It-X, 2004)
7. Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo (Robotic Empire, 2004)
8. Mischief Brew - Smash the Windows (Fistolo, 2005)
9. Orchid - Gatefold (Ebullition, 2000?)
10. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Just the Best Party Ever (Chunksaah, 2002)
11. Anti-Product - The EPs of AP ( ?, 2002)
12. Defiance, Ohio - Share What Ya Got (Plan-It-X, 2004)
13. Raein - Il N'y a Pas de Orchestre (React With Protest, 2003)
14. Countdown to Putsch - Ideas for the Living and the Willing to Act (Ebullition, ?)
15. I Hate Myself - 10 Songs (No Idea, 1997)
16. Iskra - Untitled (Profane Existence, 2004)
17. Saetia - A Retrospective (Level Plane, 2001)
18. The Devil is Electric - I've Never Trusted a Revolutionary That Was Afraid to Dance (Plan-It-X, 2001)
19. Soophie Nun Squad - Passion Slays the Dragon (Plan-It-X, 2003)
20. Michael Jordan Touchdown Pass - Cash, Money, Etc. (Spare Change, 2006)

[AThorpedo]

Are you people insane? How insecure and defensive towards your taste in music do you have to be in order to take this so damned seriously? In order to know anything about music I would have to major in music? Is it really that hard to believe that it is possible to appreciate music and explore it without taking f**king classes for it? As opposed to listening to tons and tons of music for years and years, I have to have a doctorate in music before I can say that I probably know more than you? Are any of you even reading what you are typing? Do you know how marketing music works? How familiar with tongue-in-cheek humor are you, really?

I don't know if it wasn't obvious enough that I wasn't completely serious, even mocking myself at points when I ended a post with something like, "REPRESENT TRU PUNX" but wow do you guys take things seriously. Even my inital post said, "We will be a bowel irritation with a dope record collection." I told that tung idiot that he should be called Mario because he just got one up'd. None of this struck any of you as just a little silly? I can understand being even a little offended by this, but I don't feel like I was being exceptionally cryptic here.

I'm not going to lie, I was a little proud that I was able to embody so much chaos with just one thread telling people that I have better taste than them, but now I'm more confused than anything. I honestly wanted to continue on with this, I really did. I was going to keep telling you guys how you should stop listening to music, and I was going to have a grand old time. It just went over pretty much everybody's head, though.

"If my list isn't like yours, you would just tell me I have shitty taste rarararar." Like, three of you actually tried. Considering how defensive everyone got regarding this issue, I really should have seen more lists. You all obviously feel some sort of passion for the music you like, based on your reactions, so why didn't you give it a shot? If I could at least tell that you were open to exploring music, liked things that are a little different from the norm, and if I could find something respectable regarding your taste, it wouldn't have been this bad. Instead, you just assumed that I was going to hate what you put no matter what. How presumptuous and insecure. Stop being so serious and get silly.

I still want to keep this going. I want to see more lists. I want some opinions of my list after someone has actually listened to the majority of the albums/bands instead of just assuming it's bad. (For the record, if I said you listened to bad bands, it's because I have listened to them; I didn't write them off before hearing them. "It's obscure for a reason." Yeah, because there is no profit to be had in a 3-song E.P. performed by a homeless, alcoholic punk f**ked up on drugs. A band that is a mixture of hardcore punk, screamo, and freeform jazz is not marketable in the least. That's how the industry works, guys.) This can still be fun. Like I said. Stop being so serious and get silly. If you guys feel that sore about it, tell me to make a top 20 for something you are passionate about. I don't know shit about cars. Tell me why I shouldn't be allowed to drive one on the basis that my favorite cars are lame. I don't know shit about fish. Tell me why I'm an idiot for liking those little fish that suck on the sides of the tank. I don't drink. Punch me in the face and tell me that I just need to lighten up and go to a few parties, brah.

I don't want to post this. I want to go back to having fun. I think less of myself for posting this. I don't owe you anything; there is no need for me to explain myself to any of you. So, in other words...

YOU ALL HAVE HORRIBLE TASTE IN MUSIC. MY OPINION IS ABSOLUTE. UP THE PUNX.
I wonder how many of you will get it now.