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.
― everything, Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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. :)
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Hall and Oates
― iago g., Friday, 12 March 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^Hahaha, you have clearly never met my friends.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:55 (fourteen 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