What would an insufferable music snob definitely NOT have in their collection?

the second sinita album

christmas records (except that one spector did)

anything with helium vocals

scooter

Early 90s alt-rock is about perfect (Gin Blossoms, etc.), except that many of these music snobs probably came of age during that time & still have a few of those in their collections.

No, not even that rap record Dollar did.

-- A Nairn

I was rather assuming that this was what was meant by the question - hence my suggestion of post-Beatles Macca & Dollar.

Would an insufferable music snob buy a burger from David Van Day?

Off the Ground by Paul McCartney

The Bends by Radiohead

Duets II by Frank Sinatra

Blowback by Tricky

The Honeydrippers Vol. 1

Celebrity Skin by Hole

finally, official confirmation that i am not a music snob! just wait until i show this to my ex-girlfriend!

hang on... was this whole thread a clever ploy to get me to admit to the embarassing parts of my collection?

fuck.

Anything that's been played over the last decade on Country Music Television...

Anything that's been played over the last decade on Black Entertainment Television...

Anything that's been hyped by Greil Marcus within the past 15 years...

Anything that sounds remotely like a track from the "Almost Famous" soundtrack...

Of course, all contemporary Christian and gospel (except the bluesy stuff from the 1940's back)...

Limp Biscuit, Korn, and all that father figure displacement alt. rock/rap shite...

Creed...

Pedantic, Noam Chomsky ass-licking, "issues"-based drivel snivel- fests like Rage Against The Machine, Spearhead, and Saul Williams...

Late 80's hair metal (I don't care how fashionably nostalgic it gets, fuck off)...

Anything by Janet Jackson since she became menopausal...

All ska recorded after 1984... really 1981, but hey I liked some of the Special A.K.A....

Anything recorded by the fartist formerly known as talented ( O+> ) after 1993...

Anything recorded by Fishbone after ther guy with the crossed eye left the band to join a commune...

Jennifer Lopez, P. Diddy, Master P., and all that half-assed trustfunded Manhattanite posuerism...

Anything Oasis, Pulp, or Blur have ever touched...

and...

Princess Stephanie of Monoco's dance record.

anyone covering Kraftwerk

Kenny G

i am crying

In other words "the early stuff was better" --> "oh God how embarrassing I would never own that late-period more-expensive record I was done with them after the third album."

In all of my caustic snobbery, how could I have forgotten the OBVIOUS choice...

PHISH!!!

Are you in North America? Dunno about Oasis or Blur, but Pulp have hardly conquered the charts here. Surely the pre-Common People material is fair game for snobs?

Oh Boy-I stand corrected...Big Black's vesion of The Model is exempt also.

Wait a minute! I have something that sounds exactly like that by the Sun City Girls. Its called Mrs.Claus does Greek in Lahasa. Keep scowering Ebay for it I'm sure its got a high reserve.....

...Yeah, that Mike Pickering is a strange one. Have you heard Quando Quango? [pulls up 12" factory records of Love Tempo plays several milliseconds then turns the volume down]. Quite interesting post-punk funk huh? All the hip people seem to be rediscovering Crispy Ambulance, but I think the real forgotten gems are the slightly later stuff from 83 to 85 or so. like Kalima and the Quandos.... Course I still like Crawling Chaos and X O Dus. [Laughs in a phoney self depreciating way] .. So anyway, your Mike Pickering, goes onto make T-Coy - great southern soul (hey did you see what I did there?) [plays several millisecods of 'Carino']. Isn't that fantastic... Of course I much prefered the early M People singles, like 'Someday' [pulls a very large case of singles seeming covering every m people record ever and tried to hide the heather small solo singles at the back.] Now their genre hopping post modern classic cover of Itchycoo Park is the one that I think best realises their vision of reinvienting.. hey wehere are you going?? come back... [sound of running footsteps and slamming door]

Insufferable music snob checks their audience, erm, I mean visitor has gone and then plays 'Testify' really loudly, doing the Heather Small sideways arse shaking thing and muttering to themselves "of course the 'skynet uk' remix is the best version of this"..

I am so not making this up.

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Kendall? Crossed-eye!?? COMMUNE!??!

Kendall Jones' eyes both pointed the same direction. He was bipolar/manic depressive. He left to join a CULT. The bass-player tried to rescue him, and got charged by Kendall's dad with 'kidnapping'. The FBI was interested in this cult (it was about the time of Waco), and questioned Norwood about it on LIVE TV. He was acquitted, Kendall was allowed to join the cult.

Anyway, his eye was SO NOT crossed. I remember him staring right at me at a concert, quite an intense gaze, it kinda hurt. Great fuckin' muso, though. He wrote alot of my favorite old Fishbone songs, like "Sunless Saturday" and "Fight the Youth", which he won't play anymore as he seems to believe they're the work of 'The Devil'.

So, which member of Fishbone DID have a crossed-eye? One of their post-Chim Chim, pre-crappy-Disney-album drummers? I'm so confused.

What about Snakefinger's version?

Princess Stephanie of Monoco's dance record.

OK, this is weird enough to grab my attention. Tell me more.

1. Any Nirvana album
2. The Shaggs (depending on their opinions regarding form vs. function)
3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn era Pink Floyd
4. Z.Z. Top- Tres Hombres
5. Black Sabbath- Sabotage
6. G. Dead -- Anthem of the Sun
7. Deep Purple -- Machine Head
8. Blue Oyster Cult circa 1st/2nd releases
9. The Dixie Chicks new album
10.Wham's 1st Record...

Know I'm not saying these albums are classics, but they're definitely solid beyond kitsch value. So many hipster types have such narrow minds they can't even see decent source material when they find it. Hell, even Black Flag liked the Cult...

or Low's, for that matter.

Vamos!

Goo Goo Dolls
Counting Crows
Matchbox 20
Material Issue
Fastball
Gin Blossoms

But as for the actual QUESTION, I'd say Yes' 9012Live: The Solos is a pretty good contender. Even huge Yes fans tend to hold that record (obvious stopgap product) in contempt.

TRY HARDER. Wouldn't a real music snob not have a fourth or fifth album by some one-hit wonder eighties artist? Just asking.

Cracker? Kenny G? Nah. A snob might buy Kenny G. just to hear if it's really that cheesy or not. If you make fun of something enough, someone is going to pick it up out of the used bin just to hear if it's that bad.

im scared to listen to any kenny g just in case i enjoy it as much as i am clannad's atlantic realm album at this very moment

I don't know if he'd be insufferable for that, but he'd definitely not have New Kids On The Block's debut album in his collection.

What worse, he'd mostly stay away from the entire soft rock genre and all the great albums that have been released within that genre too....

NKOTB's breakthru album I mean, which was their second one, "Hangin' Tough".

he'd mostly stay away from the entire soft rock genre and all the great albums that have been released within that genre too....

Beatles, Revolver

Was gonna say the likes of Enya...although I'm sure plenty give it plenty to ''Orinico Flow'' and the HITS these days.

Late 80s middle of the bill Reading festival types. Grebo merchants.

Depends on what an insuf music snob is, really.

I mean, I'd add "James Blunt" but you don't have to be an etc.

XXXP: I don't see "Musos" as insufferable music snobs though. For me, the most insufferable music snobs are those who stick strictly to the values of punk as an ideology, and they absolutely cannot see any kind of value in any soft rock.

A snob might buy Kenny G. just to hear if it's really that cheesy or not.

i've never known anyone to to this

...Capitol Records 11-track edition, that is. (xxxxpost to myself) Unless they just think the album cover & swirly rainbow label look nice as wall decorations (like me.)

Really, though, that's the only kind of answer I can think of right now: A blatantly inferior version of an album that the bulk of music snobs WOULD have in their collection. I tend to agree with zebedee upthread, in that I can theoretically imagine practically ANY album appealing to a certain sort of music snob, even if only ironically or as kitsch.

Garden State soundtrack

Q: How many music snobs does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: It's an obscure number, you won't have heard of it

Enigma
Era
Enya
Deep Forest
Adiemus
Those albums where Gregorian Monks sing rock tunes or whatever.
Il Divo
Helmut Lotti
Pretty much any "new age" album made after the 1970s.

Surprised not to have seen the Dave Matthews Band mentioned. I saw Phish upthread.

How about Primus?

otm, 90s Modern Rock is still poison. Hootie, Bush, Blues Traveler, Sugar Ray, Korn, Rage, Bizkit. Woodstock 94 & 99.

but Contemporary Christian ftw

No you didn't... J0hn D. to thread...

Yeah, there was more than one ilxor gabbing about Amy Grant the other day.

i don't think cracker is a good answer cuz dude has 80s indie bonafides from camper van beethoven

Otherwise, I guess the lowest rated albums are RYM are an answer as good as anything. RYM is pretty much dominated by snobs.

I played "Songbird" like five times in a row one night and my husband was like, "How fucking long is this song?"

How about Primus?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

get bent

Any Tarantino Soundtrack is a spot on choice. A music snob would get the original french 'chick habit' album, then pretend he didn't even knew it was used in a Tarantino film and get annoyed because people refer to it as 'that song which was used on the end credits of death proof'.

xp:.You like Primus, Whiney? I'm not saying I hate them or they are bad - just that I wouldnt think insufferable snobs would have their records.

Also: Every album Geir Hongro has purchased in the last 20 years.

Any Tarantino Soundtrack is a spot on choice

disagree mostly because I own the two Kill Bill soundtracks because QT is a huge music nerd who digs up some odd (and occasionally kinda hard to find) stuff. also, the RZA.

Ok those RZA songs aren't featured anywhere but i think a real music snob would find most of the original albums for the most obscure songs in the soundtrack and then discredit Tarantino and say he owned those way before Kill Bill. Music snobs are pathetic pricks just like that.

Of course, shortly after the music snob will give a jerk apology by saying Tarantino has a good music taste and that he'd love to hang out with him sometimes and talk about music and movies and stuff.

Also: Every album Geir Hongro has purchased in the last 20 years.

― Moka

Not that I have anything against Geir. It was the easiest way to target all the melodic, derivative and socially adapted rock music released in the last 20 years. I think he does have several albums from the 60's, 70's and 80's which a music snob would enjoy. I could be wrong tho.

but Contemporary Christian ftw

― a man, a plan, a canal...PANAMA! (herb albert), Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:15 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No you didn't... J0hn D. to thread...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:21 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I may be insufferable but I'm no snob

first gin blossoms record has at least three great tracks and anyone who says different is frontin'

also both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have great tracks ("Fool For Love" and "If Love Is A Red Dress") not available elsewhere. so.

There was a great Biff cartoon from years back where a music snob at a party rifles through a record collection at a party, dismissing every genre suggested "pfft...cultural snacking", "fetishising the past" etc. Finally, the guests settle back to listen to beautiful silence.

Not that I have anything against Geir. It was the easiest way to target all the melodic, derivative and socially adapted rock music released in the last 20 years. I think he does have several albums from the 60's, 70's and 80's which a music snob would enjoy.

The bulk of my record collection was purchased in the last 20 years. However, the majority of those purchases were probably recorded 20 years ago or more. :)

Hall and Oates

^^^Hahaha, you have clearly never met my friends.

Yeah, seriously, Hall & Oates is as 2000s record snob as it gets, AFAIK.

really? huh! ok...
billy joel

The Iggy mix of Raw Power.

any decent music from movies populist shoulda known chick habit already from But I'm A Cheerleader

Molly Hatchet-Flirtin with Disaster.

Awesome record.

Pretty much any "new age" album made after the 1970s.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This isn't my area of expertise or anything but people who are big into Emeralds/'hypnagogic pop'/Skaters type shit seem to be unearthing 80s new age stuff quite a bit like it's a lost goldmine or w/e

^ otm

97% of the suggestions on this thread are way offbase. you guys need to be thinking ... FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS.

If in UK - Bush, even as a learner-wheels band.

yeah i think we're over-thinking this. r|t|c otm

Mmm mainstream rock since 1998 or so has been overall pretty awful. Nickelback, Coldplay, Limp Bizkit, Rammstein Creed, Kings of Leon, yellowcard... everything in between... I tend to disrespect people who have a heavy dose mainstream rock albums in their collection.

Rammstein?

I can't believe no one has mentioned Santana Supernatural.

^great album tho

Pretty much any "new age" album made after the 1970s.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This isn't my area of expertise or anything but people who are big into Emeralds/'hypnagogic pop'/Skaters type shit seem to be unearthing 80s new age stuff quite a bit like it's a lost goldmine or w/e

― Get a Grip (if Grip is the name of my dog) (DJ Mencap), Friday, March 12, 2010 2:37 PM (8 hours ago)

crystal vibrations blog is great for this stuff pro tip

Oi, anything by linkin park or my chemical romance. bollocks 'n not worth shit off'n outhouse

crystal vibrations blog is great for this stuff pro tip

thanking u

yeah i honestly think about going out and buying shitloads of dollar windham hill and ECM type shit cuz i could see that going through the roof

if i had spent the early 90s buying up weird looking prog and 70s beardy hard rock records for $2 and $3 a piece i could have retired by now.

was pretty close to going to see George Winston last year, but the tix were too $$. I can see some of the ambient-er new age shit getting hip as hell. Brooklynites trading Shadowfax records like there's no tomorrow.

yeah i honestly think about going out and buying shitloads of dollar windham hill and ECM type shit cuz i could see that going through the roof

for the record & my band can back me up on this a working title for our 2003 LP was NEW AGE MUSIC WILL SAVE YOUR WRETCHED SOUL

http://www.pedroflute.com/resources/pedro-lyricon2.jpg
this guy's playing lyricon on the next dirty projectors record iirc

http://iasos.com/artists/erial/celestial-soul-portraits/Iasos-after.jpg

thx ico for the 3rd eye contact lenses!

ECM record covers are the best...all austere on the front, beardo scandos with flutes and standup basses and ugly eyeglasses and proto cosby sweaters on the back

:D

Surely a music snob doesn't exactly like mainstream rock, but he would like even less what is even more popular.

As in surely, yes, he'd hate Coldplay and Nickelback, surely. But he'd hate Justin Timberlake and Rihanna even more, because they are even more popular and gets even more airplay and (at least in terms of singles) hitlist top positions.

i think this answer is s.thing like this:

http://fuzznut.net/images/covers/rogue-traders-voodoo-child.jpg

kinda b&t dance-ish shit

this is a bit of a lesser entry, but I have to think no music snob would ever have Goo Goo Dolls "Jed" in their collection. they would probably dismiss the sloppy guitar playing, and I'm fairly sure most rockists would decry the deconstructed cover of "Gimme Shelter" that appeared, as well as the "Down on the Corner" remake with Lance Diamond.

and it's a shame, because there's a lot of good pop-punk on here. an album where J. Rzeznick was actually the second fiddle as far as vocals were concerned - and I really think Robby Takac better fit the music on this album than on later releases.

who even knows anymore huh

bernie rhodes

Thinking about it, maybe some hard dance stuff in the Andy Whitby vein. What about mid-level post-grunge emo-punk like Biffy Clyro or something?

Cat Empire and their ilk maybe? I've got friends who are into all that shit and genuinely love it, and when I'm at one of their parties I just have to sit in the corner scowling and feeling like a cunt.

me too. i just have to zip it.

Ha, yeah - I've tried to voice my opinions a few times, but I just end up feeling like I'm ruining everyone's fun.

sometimes you just have to let people get on with it. after hanging out with a bunch of extremely snobby trve metal kvltists way back when, i made a conscious effort never to be the guy sitting at the back of the room with his arms folded. cat empire might be a bit cringey and facile to those who like to think they know better, but i can see why CE appeal to other people and I'd rather just say they're not entirely 'my thing' or 'what i'd usually listen to' and leave it at that.

That's pretty much my position now - took me a while to achieve that kind of equilibrium though.

Then again...

I was at a party, back in the day, and somebody brought in the new Dire Straits album(cassette) "Brothers In Arms"

each time it finished, somebody would make to change it to something else, then someone else would say "no play it again" and everyone else said yeah! and the first dude would say "OK, great. If you're now tired of it, I'm not" and they all were all "how could we be?"

ALL NIGHT!

oh man... that's where pragmatism just gives up and dies.

tellin' me.

Up till then, those people had a varied music taste, always interesting even if I didn't like it loads.

But you know that phrase "I saw the great minds of my generation..."

etc.

i mean, i endured a whole cat empire set with a sore back on the last day of a festival where this one surfer/hippie type prick kept flicking his fucking dirty dreadlocks into my eyes, and i did that shit just because i'm nice and i expose my friends to my own music all the rest of the year round so i figured i could put up with it but jeezus mark, what did you do?