― t\'\'t (t''t), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
What about Snakefinger's version?
Princess Stephanie of Monoco's dance record.
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
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
or Low's, for that matter.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― George Smith, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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― gear (gear), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Vamos!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris O., Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Goo Goo DollsCounting CrowsMatchbox 20Material IssueFastballGin Blossoms
― SWA fan (SWA fan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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― latebloomer: i hate myself and want to fly (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Earth Dye (u s steel), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― straightola, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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....
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
NKOTB's breakthru album I mean, which was their second one, "Hangin' Tough".
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
he'd mostly stay away from the entire soft rock genre and all the great albums that have been released within that genre too....
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Beatles, Revolver
― Ceci n'est pas une display name (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― hey hey hey, smoke persian every day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
...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.
― Ceci n'est pas une display name (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Garden State soundtrack
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
EnigmaEraEnyaDeep ForestAdiemusThose albums where Gregorian Monks sing rock tunes or whatever.Il DivoHelmut LottiPretty much any "new age" album made after the 1970s.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Surprised not to have seen the Dave Matthews Band mentioned. I saw Phish upthread.
― musicfanatic, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
How about Primus?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
otm, 90s Modern Rock is still poison. Hootie, Bush, Blues Traveler, Sugar Ray, Korn, Rage, Bizkit. Woodstock 94 & 99.
― a man, a plan, a canal...PANAMA! (herb albert), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
but Contemporary Christian ftw
― a man, a plan, a canal...PANAMA! (herb albert), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
No you didn't... J0hn D. to thread...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, there was more than one ilxor gabbing about Amy Grant the other day.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think cracker is a good answer cuz dude has 80s indie bonafides from camper van beethoven
― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen 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