Are "entertainment snobs" who discount anything mainstream, truly snobs?

[ultrafilter]

It all comes down to the human tendency to divide people into “like me” and “not like me”. Shared artistic tastes are a quick & dirty way to estimate how much you have in common with someone, and there are a lot of people out there who look down on those who are not like them.

Are they really snobs? I don’t see why not.

@OneCentStamp

You may be the only other person on these boards that I can ask this of, and even you may not be able to respond: do you have the new Celtic Frost album, and what do you think of it?

I haven’t bothered picking it up because I’ve just never been wild about Celtic Frost, but so far I have yet to see a neutral opinion. Everyone seems to either love it or hate it.

[OneCentStamp]

@ultrafilter

I haven’t bothered picking it up because I’ve just never been wild about Celtic Frost, but so far I have yet to see a neutral opinion. Everyone seems to either love it or hate it.

I fall firmly into the “love it” category; however, unlike you, I am wild about CF.

Even if you aren’t crazy about the Frost you’ve heard, it’s worth a listen. It’s very different from any of their 1984-1992 stuff. It’s all mid-tempo, incredibly dark and gloomy, with just a hint of the industiral tendencies Fischer picked up in Apollyon Sun. It sounds like the Sisters of Mercy with really heavy guitar.