Schlock vs Schmaltz! A Taste Minefield!

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Shlock vs Schmaltz!


Which is the more irritating?


  • Schlock: n. [Yid. schlacke==dregs] anything cheap or inferior. Fake and poorly executed trash without even the campy "so-bad-its-good" tang to make it interesting. Example: Branson Missouri "country lounge" acts or Pat Boones Metal Album. (Or Pat Boone's entire career, if you want to be broad.)
  • Schmaltz: n. [Yid schmalz==rendered chicken fat] highly sentimental, banal. Gag-inducing crocodile-tear drenched piffle. Example: Most 70s AM rock, or better yet Bette Midlers "Wind Beneath My Wings.


Subthread 1: Nominations for the Schlockiest Album you've ever heard!;
Subthread 2: Nominations for the Schmaltziest Album you've ever heard!
Subthread 3:Is what Celine Dion and Michael Bolton do fall more into the Schlock or Schmaltz camp. I say Schlock for Bolton and Schmaltz for Dion. Agree/Disagree?
Subthread 4: Same question, but aimed at Hair Metal Cock Rock Road Songs and Hair Metal No-Cock Rock Power Ballads.

Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Thursday, 26 December 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)


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