― A Nairn, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jez, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lek Dukagjin, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- 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?
― Tim Bateman, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― J Blount, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Dave M., Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Steve K, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― maria, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyone covering Kraftwerk
Kenny G
― brg30, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos III, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Karl J Kretzschmar, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
i am crying
― chaki, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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."
― nabisco, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
In all of my caustic snobbery, how could I have forgotten the OBVIOUS choice...
PHISH!!!
― Andrew, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― ciaran, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christopher, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh Boy-I stand corrected...Big Black's vesion of The Model is exempt also.
― brg30, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.....
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ray, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
...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.
― Alexander Blair, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Jan Geerinck, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― , Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t''t), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
What about Snakefinger's version?
OK, this is weird enough to grab my attention. Tell me more.
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. Any Nirvana album 2. The Shaggs (depending on their opinions regarding form vs. function) 3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn era Pink Floyd4. Z.Z. Top- Tres Hombres5. Black Sabbath- Sabotage6. G. Dead -- Anthem of the Sun 7. Deep Purple -- Machine Head8. Blue Oyster Cult circa 1st/2nd releases9. The Dixie Chicks new album10.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...
― T.C., Thursday, 26 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 December 2002 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bill McGill, Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Juan (Juan), Monday, 3 February 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 3 February 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 3 February 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 February 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― douglas bagley, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, seriously, Hall & Oates is as 2000s record snob as it gets, AFAIK.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
really? huh! ok...billy joel
― iago g., Friday, 12 March 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The Iggy mix of Raw Power.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
any decent music from movies populist shoulda known chick habit already from But I'm A Cheerleader
― zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Molly Hatchet-Flirtin with Disaster.
Awesome record.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 12 March 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 12 March 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
^ otm
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
97% of the suggestions on this thread are way offbase. you guys need to be thinking ... FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS.
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 March 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
If in UK - Bush, even as a learner-wheels band.
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 12 March 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think we're over-thinking this. r|t|c otm
― king willie style (will), Friday, 12 March 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Rammstein?
― Bill Magill, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't believe no one has mentioned Santana Supernatural.
― sofatruck, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
^great album tho
― plax (ico), Friday, 12 March 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― plax (ico), Friday, 12 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Oi, anything by linkin park or my chemical romance. bollocks 'n not worth shit off'n outhouse
― Sexplosion!, Friday, 12 March 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
thanking u
― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Friday, 12 March 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 12 March 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Friday, 12 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.pedroflute.com/resources/pedro-lyricon2.jpgthis guy's playing lyricon on the next dirty projectors record iirc
― tylerw, Friday, 12 March 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://iasos.com/artists/erial/celestial-soul-portraits/Iasos-after.jpg
thx ico for the 3rd eye contact lenses!
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 13 March 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― marc loi-y jagger (history mayne), Sunday, 14 March 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Cattle Grind, Sunday, 14 March 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
who even knows anymore huh
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 20 October 2014 08:43 (nine years ago) link
bernie rhodes
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 20 October 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
me too. i just have to zip it.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 11:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 20 October 2014 11:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
That's pretty much my position now - took me a while to achieve that kind of equilibrium though.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 20 October 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
oh man... that's where pragmatism just gives up and dies.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link