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

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?