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]

Actually, I had every intention of posting a list, but I got distracted and never got around to it.

Not a bad list, not a bad list. A number of the bands I at least have respect for. I'm glad that you listed a Modest Mouse album that was pre-Good News (though I would say that my favorite is actually This is a Long Drive). Same idea for Pavement, I like Crooked Rain and Brighten the Corners more than Enchanted. I should start listening to Pavement again. That is also my favorite Books album. I also dig Ted Leo. He puts on a good show.

Also, it seems like you put thought into this and such. You listed albums instead of just artists. Etc.

You're in. One of us. One of us.

ARE YOU f**kEN KIDDING ME? GTFO OF HERE

I guess we can count this kid out.

This took longer than I expected it to. Oh, well.
Here is a list I'm decently happy with, expect it to change in a month. Thank you.

Even though yours was done in no particular (I'm pretty sure Dead Kennedys is your definite #1, though) I like that some of ours had the same ranks... and that neither of us can figure out when Johnny Hobo releases shit. I didn't know you liked Passion Slays the Dragon more than The Devil, The Metal, The Big Booty Beats. I also like seeing a compilation on a Top 20, even if it's one that I haven't heard in full and have only listened to when at your house.

One of us. A horse is a horse, of course of course.

Huh? I thought most people did give a list. I see quite a few, and I gave my own.

The ratio was too unbalanced for my liking. Also, I meant to reply to your list in the same post, but forgot about it as soon as I added the reply. I would have just editted it, but instead I said, "f**k it" and went to sleep.

As for your list, there were a few too many bands that I just don't like, especially on a Top 20 list. A few that I mildly enjoy, but a few that I don't like, nonetheless.

I like the cut of your jib, though. You got spunk. You can be the cheerleader, if you so desire.

I tried for a happy synthesis of the two.
My musical interests are very pliable, it's just in my nature.

Agreed. About half of that was all-time (or at least albums that I still love after listening to them over and over again for a long time now. I Hate Myself was the first screamo band I listened to. Four to five years later and they still blow me away.)

A few months ago, there probably would have been more crust. A few months ago from that, more skramz. And so forth.

my Top 20 Artists/Composers. music majors ftw!

I like that you added composers, though I am not familiar with a lot of them. I think I'm going to actually look into some of these (at least read Wikipedia entries and then decide which ones I want to look for).

I just have one question. Why do you like Boys Like Girls, Eisley, and Keane? Keane is probably my least hated out of those and I could kind of understand why someone would like Eisley (I just don't find them particularly interesting), so I guess the real question is why Boys Like Girls? Oh, and Billy Joel, why Billy Joel?

I hope if you have never heard these bands that you check them out.

I have really mixed feelings about this list. I love with Misfits, Danzig only as well. I love Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. The Beach Boys was the first band that I liked ever (so my mom tells me.) The Blue Album was easily my favorite album in middle school. I also like a little Postal Service and am okay with really old Death Cab and Mighty Mighty Bosstones are nostalgic as f**k for me. Also, I'm all right with Rush and I have respect for old Saves the Day (though their later stuff blows penis.) I also saw Maps and Atlases a couple of times a few years ago. They put on a pretty decent show.

But I really don't like 311. I hate seeing The Beatles on Top 20 lists. NOFX and I are enemies. I can't respect any band that has ever been on Drive-Thru records. I always thought Brand New was pretty boring. Not as boring as Underoath or any other band that most other people listen to in conjuction with Brand New, but still.

Do you have a last.fm? Give me some more insight into your tastes. Like I said, mixed feelings.

[misoshiru]

I just have one question. Why do you like Boys Like Girls, Eisley, and Keane? Keane is probably my least hated out of those and I could kind of understand why someone would like Eisley (I just don't find them particularly interesting), so I guess the real question is why Boys Like Girls? Oh, and Billy Joel, why Billy Joel?

Why BLG? because I think they can really pump the crowd up. They opened for HelloGoodbye at my school last year and they were so much better than them. I feel that a rising band with so much stage presence should be admired. Why Billy Joel? Everyone loves some Billy Joel.