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

Oh Boy-I stand corrected...Big Black's vesion of The Model is exempt also.

Wait a minute! I have something that sounds exactly like that by the Sun City Girls. Its called Mrs.Claus does Greek in Lahasa. Keep scowering Ebay for it I'm sure its got a high reserve.....

...Yeah, that Mike Pickering is a strange one. Have you heard Quando Quango? [pulls up 12" factory records of Love Tempo plays several milliseconds then turns the volume down]. Quite interesting post-punk funk huh? All the hip people seem to be rediscovering Crispy Ambulance, but I think the real forgotten gems are the slightly later stuff from 83 to 85 or so. like Kalima and the Quandos.... Course I still like Crawling Chaos and X O Dus. [Laughs in a phoney self depreciating way] .. So anyway, your Mike Pickering, goes onto make T-Coy - great southern soul (hey did you see what I did there?) [plays several millisecods of 'Carino']. Isn't that fantastic... Of course I much prefered the early M People singles, like 'Someday' [pulls a very large case of singles seeming covering every m people record ever and tried to hide the heather small solo singles at the back.] Now their genre hopping post modern classic cover of Itchycoo Park is the one that I think best realises their vision of reinvienting.. hey wehere are you going?? come back... [sound of running footsteps and slamming door]

Insufferable music snob checks their audience, erm, I mean visitor has gone and then plays 'Testify' really loudly, doing the Heather Small sideways arse shaking thing and muttering to themselves "of course the 'skynet uk' remix is the best version of this"..

I am so not making this up.

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Exeptions are:
Give Your Body Up to The Music parts 1-3 on Rhino. Very ugly cover art, one of the best comps of the nineties (genre:dance)

Jan Geerinck

Kendall? Crossed-eye!?? COMMUNE!??!

Kendall Jones' eyes both pointed the same direction. He was bipolar/manic depressive. He left to join a CULT. The bass-player tried to rescue him, and got charged by Kendall's dad with 'kidnapping'. The FBI was interested in this cult (it was about the time of Waco), and questioned Norwood about it on LIVE TV. He was acquitted, Kendall was allowed to join the cult.

Anyway, his eye was SO NOT crossed. I remember him staring right at me at a concert, quite an intense gaze, it kinda hurt. Great fuckin' muso, though. He wrote alot of my favorite old Fishbone songs, like "Sunless Saturday" and "Fight the Youth", which he won't play anymore as he seems to believe they're the work of 'The Devil'.

So, which member of Fishbone DID have a crossed-eye? One of their post-Chim Chim, pre-crappy-Disney-album drummers? I'm so confused.

What about Snakefinger's version?

Princess Stephanie of Monoco's dance record.

OK, this is weird enough to grab my attention. Tell me more.

1. Any Nirvana album
2. The Shaggs (depending on their opinions regarding form vs. function)
3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn era Pink Floyd
4. Z.Z. Top- Tres Hombres
5. Black Sabbath- Sabotage
6. G. Dead -- Anthem of the Sun
7. Deep Purple -- Machine Head
8. Blue Oyster Cult circa 1st/2nd releases
9. The Dixie Chicks new album
10.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...

or Low's, for that matter.

Vamos!

Goo Goo Dolls
Counting Crows
Matchbox 20
Material Issue
Fastball
Gin Blossoms

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.

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.

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

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....

NKOTB's breakthru album I mean, which was their second one, "Hangin' Tough".

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.

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?