Rock Snob Questionnaire
Submitted by JohnnyW on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 04:16
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- Favorite Album Covers: Bob Dylan/The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Santana/Abraxas, Roxy Music/For Your Pleasure, John Cale/Vintage Violence, Black Sabbath/Black Sabbath, Amboy Dukes/Journey to the Center of the Mind, Iron Butterfly/Heavy
- Least Favorite Album Covers: Blind Faith/Blind Faith (the British cover—creepy and wrong), Shelby Lynne/Love, Shelby, Manic Street Preachers/The Holy Bible
- Favorite Music Movies: The Kids Are Alright, Woodstock, Almost Famous, Nashville, Tender Mercies, Hype!
- Favorite Music Books: Legs McNeil/Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Bill Flanagan/U2 at the End of the World, I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era: 1965-1969, Peter Guralnick/Lost Highway
- Singers Who Make Your Skin Crawl: Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, Tracy Chapman
- Singers Who Make You Swoon: Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Bono, Elvis, Tanya Tucker, Roy Orbison
- Artists You Will Always Defend: U2 (even Bono!), Elvis, The Byrds
- Albums You Will Always Defend: U2/Pop, Rolling Stones/Their Satanic Majesties Request, David Bowie/Diamond Dogs
- Song You Can’t Stand by Artist You Like: The Who/”Squeezebox”, The Byrds/”Mind Gardens”
- Artists You’re Supposed to Like But Don’t: Prince, Leonard Cohen, James Brown, Nick Drake, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, Husker Du
- Artists You’re Not Supposed to Like But Do: Foreigner, The Eagles, Kelly Clarkson, Eddie Money, The Moody Blues
- Good, but Overrated: Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, The Sex Pistols
Author Comments:
Of course most members of listology are either rock snobs or film snobs (and in many cases, both), so after I came across most of these categories under the name of one of the reviewers on allmusic.com, I decided to post my own rock-snob opinions. I'd love feedback, as well as to see how you guys would answer differently!
Glad I'm not the only one who finds the Sex Pistols overrated.
Gonna have to disagree with you on the Velvet Underground though. ;-)