dumbest music journalist term

(so "long and epic" = "I'm paid by the word")

Wow, I'd never noticed how annoying that is. You'd think somebody might've pointed out that it was annoying before.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 12th, 2003. (Ned)

Snarfing is "the act of sniffing a bicycle seat after a lady has just been seated upon it"

-- Jerry (everet...)February 13th, 2003. (Jerry)

i always thought snarfing was when you laugh when you're in the middle of drinking and it comes out your nose,no?

-- robin (robin_lace...), February 13th, 2003. (robin)

I'm sure there are snarfing e-groups on Yahoo.

-- Vic (Iodine99...), February 13th, 2003. (Vic)

Dagnabbit! I thought I had found a usage of "snarfing" in a song. It turns out I haven't but I feel I'm closing in. My misheard lyric comes courtesy of Ed Sanders and Ken Weaver from the Fugs album "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest": the track is track 7 on side two of the LP--"We're Both Dead Now, Alice."

We're both dead now.

No more Viceroys

No more K-Y

No more slurpings at the narthax

All is over

Over the lee.

If anyone has used Snarf(s/ed/ing) in a song, it has to be the Fugs.

can we gamble on music? An ILM dream I'm sure.

here's an excerpt of a review on stylus today:

While searching for information regarding Camille's Le Fil, the most frequent description you’ll run into is that the album is "the French pop equivalent to Björk's Medúlla." A bit troubling, considering that the Matthew Barney stroke-a-thon is one of the most pretentious, unlistenable albums of the last five years.

ooh, the pretentious/unlistenable double whammy! i've heard medulla plenty of times now and i can't say it's ever occured to me to describe 45 minutes of sound as "unlistenable."

Obviously it's forgivable to discuss blogs if you're talking about the marketing of a band, (which itself is quite overdone as a story these days), but it doesn't say one thing about the music, and it's always used to seem *in-the-know* but blase while avoiding actually saying anything new about the artist.

It's like calling a band "e-mail blastcore"