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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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this guy's playing lyricon on the next dirty projectors record iirc

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thx ico for the 3rd eye contact lenses!

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

:D

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.

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

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.

who even knows anymore huh

bernie rhodes

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?

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.

me too. i just have to zip it.

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.

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.

That's pretty much my position now - took me a while to achieve that kind of equilibrium though.

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!

oh man... that's where pragmatism just gives up and dies.

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.

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?