Admit it, as a bonified music snob, you love to teach people about music. You love to be the one that knows who was in the frontier of a new sound revolution. You love to know the names of bands before anyone else does. You love it that you know more about music than any of your friends...and above all else...you love to turn them on to music you have discovered...don't you?
*Nodding* It's ok...I know. I'm a snob, too.
Now, I have to tell you that I am sort of, how do I put this and not lose my credibility...I am a newly converted snob, previous tier to this tier, thanks to a friend of mine.
I will not give my friend total credit for what I now know about music. I have always loved music. The difference is that at this moment, I refer to songs on the Hinder CD, for example, by their actual names instead of going, "I like track 4." I am also much more open to new music than in the past because of my friend. But the love of music, sorry...that's mine.
I love turning people on to Alice in Chains. Everyone thinks of heroin addicts and loud raunchy music with them, -(and here is where I am going to give it my damnedest to turn someone on right now)-, if you feel that way, then I want you to do for Voices is this...find a copy of 'Jar of Flies'. Its an EP, just six songs. You will experience musical bliss listening to this cd. It is also, if you happen to be an AIC fan who also wants to convert, the most likely cd to get someone onto AIC. There is a profound amount of talent and variety on that cd.
Now, back to the tiers, you may be asking, "What do you mean, tier?" Well, I think there are different tiers to music knowledge and snobbery. I am not introducing anything new here. Music has always been, in and of itself, snobbish and upperclassman-like. When a new artist comes out, what do they call their debut album? Their freshman cd, then sophmore and so on.
Tiers of snobbery are similar.
FIRST TIER: You are the person who just loves the songs you love. You don't listen to anything else and you may not even really pay attention to the lyrics of the songs you do like. You may be a purely "If it's got a good beat and I can dance to it" kind of person. Just so you are aware, if you relate to this particular tier...you are on the bottom of the music snobbery food chain. Just because you are listed first, well, we save the best for last.
SECOND TIER: You love music. But you are pretty limited to one genre. Usually its even more defined that that and includes one decade of one genre. You do like the lyrics but you are more impressed with how many hits someone has or awards they have won than you are with actual talent. You also refer to songs on the cds not by title but track number. It apparently has not hit you yet that grammys are a dime a dozen and real talent is often passed up. Don't worry, you will get there.
THIRD TIER: (This is where I am at right now, btw.) You are discerning. You do not take someone's word that music is good, you have to really like it to buy it. You immediately read cd jackets and you are a little anal with your cds. You aren't likely to loan them and if you do, you will demand that they are returned in the same condition they left in. You spend time looking up lyrics, finding out who wrote them. You are in a good place musically. You are getting there, you make efforts to learn and you want to learn more, always more. Lyrics need to mean something to make it worthwhile to you. Good on ya', Mate!
FOURTH TIER: You are an avid concert goer. You know things that most people, well, honestly could care less about. You know all about where sound orginates from, you know all groups, you also know music that you don't like. You ridicule people for their music choices. Not just the groups they like, but people. You like to think that you know more than anyone else does about music. Well, you do. And most people don't care...but you do have an impressive amount of knowledge. Kudos to the Master.
And finally,
FIFTH TIER: You are a walking encyclopedia and no one likes you anymore. Well done, Sinsai.
Tell me where your influence came from to love music the way you do. If you could pick one artist to turn someone on to, who would it be? Include name of artist, song title and why...
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