What would an insufferable music snob definitely NOT have in their collection?

he'd mostly stay away from the entire soft rock genre and all the great albums that have been released within that genre too....

Beatles, Revolver

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.

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.

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.

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

...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.

Garden State soundtrack

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

Enigma
Era
Enya
Deep Forest
Adiemus
Those albums where Gregorian Monks sing rock tunes or whatever.
Il Divo
Helmut Lotti
Pretty much any "new age" album made after the 1970s.

Surprised not to have seen the Dave Matthews Band mentioned. I saw Phish upthread.

How about Primus?

otm, 90s Modern Rock is still poison. Hootie, Bush, Blues Traveler, Sugar Ray, Korn, Rage, Bizkit. Woodstock 94 & 99.

but Contemporary Christian ftw

No you didn't... J0hn D. to thread...

Yeah, there was more than one ilxor gabbing about Amy Grant the other day.

i don't think cracker is a good answer cuz dude has 80s indie bonafides from camper van beethoven

Otherwise, I guess the lowest rated albums are RYM are an answer as good as anything. RYM is pretty much dominated by snobs.

I played "Songbird" like five times in a row one night and my husband was like, "How fucking long is this song?"

How about Primus?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

get bent

Any Tarantino Soundtrack is a spot on choice. A music snob would get the original french 'chick habit' album, then pretend he didn't even knew it was used in a Tarantino film and get annoyed because people refer to it as 'that song which was used on the end credits of death proof'.

xp:.You like Primus, Whiney? I'm not saying I hate them or they are bad - just that I wouldnt think insufferable snobs would have their records.

Also: Every album Geir Hongro has purchased in the last 20 years.

Any Tarantino Soundtrack is a spot on choice

disagree mostly because I own the two Kill Bill soundtracks because QT is a huge music nerd who digs up some odd (and occasionally kinda hard to find) stuff. also, the RZA.

Ok those RZA songs aren't featured anywhere but i think a real music snob would find most of the original albums for the most obscure songs in the soundtrack and then discredit Tarantino and say he owned those way before Kill Bill. Music snobs are pathetic pricks just like that.

Of course, shortly after the music snob will give a jerk apology by saying Tarantino has a good music taste and that he'd love to hang out with him sometimes and talk about music and movies and stuff.

Also: Every album Geir Hongro has purchased in the last 20 years.

― Moka

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. I could be wrong tho.

but Contemporary Christian ftw

― a man, a plan, a canal...PANAMA! (herb albert), Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:15 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No you didn't... J0hn D. to thread...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:21 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I may be insufferable but I'm no snob

first gin blossoms record has at least three great tracks and anyone who says different is frontin'

also both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have great tracks ("Fool For Love" and "If Love Is A Red Dress") not available elsewhere. so.

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.

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. :)

Hall and Oates

^^^Hahaha, you have clearly never met my friends.

Yeah, seriously, Hall & Oates is as 2000s record snob as it gets, AFAIK.

really? huh! ok...
billy joel

The Iggy mix of Raw Power.

any decent music from movies populist shoulda known chick habit already from But I'm A Cheerleader

Molly Hatchet-Flirtin with Disaster.

Awesome record.

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

^ otm

97% of the suggestions on this thread are way offbase. you guys need to be thinking ... FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS.

If in UK - Bush, even as a learner-wheels band.

yeah i think we're over-thinking this. r|t|c otm

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.

Rammstein?

I can't believe no one has mentioned Santana Supernatural.

^great album tho

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, March 12, 2010 2:37 PM (8 hours ago)

crystal vibrations blog is great for this stuff pro tip

Oi, anything by linkin park or my chemical romance. bollocks 'n not worth shit off'n outhouse

crystal vibrations blog is great for this stuff pro tip

thanking u