So, How much of an Insufferable Music Snob are you?

9...I think. Where did Geir say this?

I am officially 50% insufferable music snob! That's about right, actually.

Of those, I've just got Discrete Music. I used to have Neu!, but didn't like it.

Eight. Nine counting the Schoenberg, but classical music is actually my wife's stuff.

I've got eight.

Out of these, I only own Trout Mask Replica, and that's because I inherited the vinyl from my dad's dead hipster cousin. Would never had bought if myself, I don't care about that sort of music.

Incidentally, if anyone's interested in buying/trading that album on vinyl, I'd be happy to get rid of it.

I have four.

Obv, TMR is one of them, sorry Tuomas.

The only one I properly own is Trout Mask Replica. I've got Discreet Music on cassette, and the Neu! album on my iPhone (on an offline Spotify playlist). Other than attending a performance of In C, I've never heard the rest.

just the one : miles davis
and that only happened last year

None of these, except burned copies of a couple of them.

i've listened to/once had a dubbed cassette of the VU, should I vote that I own one or own none?

50/50

I think it comes down to "would you miss it at all if you didn't have it" (xpost)

picked three, though i can't remember what neu record i have

am counting digital copies. 5. precisely the 5 you'd expect me to have, as well

Have owned all of them except Zappa/ Glass/ Miles - currently have 5: TMR, WL/WH, Neu, Stockhausen, Schoenberg Would never own Zappa, would like to get OTC.

List originated by Geir, amended slightly by Dog Latin

Errr... what? I don't remember playing a part in this.

On the other 'current' music snob thread (the pick 12 thread)

i've got four of these but only really listen to the aphex one.

own 3 of them, would consider some of the rest

own none, heard 2

eight. a disappointingly low score.

VU, Neu!, Captain Beefheart, that's it.

i've got 50% - glass half full half empty, etc.

I own three of them but decided to go with 50/50 as a compromise as I know and like almost all of them and own variant albums by most of the artists/have mp3s of several more. I probably should have just voted three, though. Sorry for corrupting the science here.

(For the record, the only artist I don't like is Zappa.)

I have three and I hate music.

3

i own 1, most of these are boring

Four (Miles/Beefheart/Neu!/VU). I don't have Terry Riley In C, but I do have the Acid Mothers Temple version.

vu.

trying to think of the most insufferable music snob-esque hiphop record you could get- the complete metal fingers records maybe?

My three are Miles, Neu!, and VU. Own other Eno, but not that one. Used to own some Zappa and that Beefheart, but those were sold in a purge at some point.

9. Y'all are makin' me feel real snobby. I feel like that list aims a little too much towards people who like a specific style (drone and experimental). Like anyone who likes Neu! probably likes Glass and Riley and it's not much of a jump from there to include Aphex, Stockhausen, Eno and VU.

I've got:

Miles Davis: On The Corner
Eno: Discreet Music
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3. (way lol at this; it's good but not that great)
Neu! : Neu!

Five got, seven not

I'm on my way!

zero

five

two & i've got different albums by three of the other guys. this list has aged.

this would make sense if this is yr platonic 'snob' ideal

ha i've got 9 of the top 10 in that list

I am not the biggest Zappa fan (nor the biggest hater) but is he really a music snobs' favorite?

7, but i have other albums by most of those artists if i don't own the one on the list. and i probably have good reasons.

"I don't have Terry Riley In C, but I do have the Acid Mothers Temple version."

shocker... gonna have to track that down.

I can believe scaruffi's old neighbour was a perfect triangle.

I've only got the Beefheart.

I'm such a gigantic music snob that I don't own any of these albums and furthermore feel that those who do are timewasting cretins.

Miles Davis: On The Corner
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Eno: Discreet Music
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
Neu! : Neu!
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy
Terry Riley: In C (only on mp3 but I paid for it so I'm counting it...)

I've got other Soft Machine and Aphex Twin CDs but not the ones listed.

only miles, but I have an On the Corner tshirt

I have 5, but it ought to be 6; own loads of Aphex just not that.

Same here. Five. I think I got rid of some. Ah well.

4 for me: Zappa, Beefheart, Miles, VU.

own none, only heard the VU iirc

think i'd like at least half of them tho

zero irl, three on my hard drive

presently own trout mask, in c, einstein on the beach

used to have white light white heat, it stayed behind in a move at some point

will have soft machine 4 before long

I am not the biggest Zappa fan (nor the biggest hater) but is he really a music snobs' favorite?

Not neccessarily, but "Lumpy Gravy" is this very avant garde piece of contemporary "classical" music that may be right up the as.. alley for those snobs.

own White Light/White Heat, plus burnt copies of Trout and Neu!...would like to own On the Corner and Soft Machine 4...

own discreet music, owned wlwh and ab3 at one point but sold them for food money years ago. i'm guessing selling cds for food must be grounds for disqualification

I own 5, and I'm not planning on owning the other 7 in that list either.

I own On The Corner and have no desire to own the others. I've heard most of Trout Mask Replica, never really liked the VU, and the rest, meh. I've got some other Schoenberg somewhere that I got off of eMusic a while back, but haven't listened to it in forever.

How about "I own a physical copy of White Light/White Heat, and have downloaded/been given on CD or pen drive/stolen bits of most of the rest of those"? Where does that put me?

I've got 6, but it was the wrong Eno ambient record, Analog Bubblebath & Philip Glass recording or I could have had 9. I guess technically, I have Bang on a Can doing In C, not an original Terry Riley album.

Haven't got Eno/Scheonberg/Glass. Of the rest, three of 'em are only digital; but I've owned ELEVEN different copies of Beefheart/Velvets/Zappa - 4 vinyl, 3 CD, cassette - so I figure it evens out. I'm gonna say nine.

I keep intending to check out "Einstein" just in case I should ever find myself with 5 hours to kill.

...in fact, I'm gonna ask my manservant to go out and buy it for me, once he returns with my wine and cheese.

I've heard several, but only own the VU.

Oh wait, I own the Beefheart too. I just remembered. So that makes 2/10.

Why that particular Schoenberg work? Seems a bit random. Would e.g. Pierrot or Piano Suite (op 25) or Klavierstucke (op 33a/b) be too mainstream for an insufferable snob or something?

6/12

(It is a really nice piece though.)

precisely the 5 you'd expect me to have, as well

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic)

Let's hear it.

nine for me, I think I used to have the Stockhausen, have never heard the Schoenberg or Soft Machine 4.

Own, love:

Miles Davis: On The Corner
Eno: Discreet Music
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
Neu! : Neu!

Own, not crazy about:

Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3.
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica (much prefer other albums by both Aphex and Beefheart, pretty big fan of both, just not these albums)

Never heard:

Arnold Schönberg: Suite Opus 29
The Soft Machine 4
Karlheiz Stockhausen: Kontakte
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy (don't generally care for Zappa, though)
Terry Riley: In C (though I do own the Acid Mothers Temple version, which is fantastic)
Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach

In short, 50/50.

I haven't heard the AMT version of In C but why would it not count? It's still Riley's composition, isn't it? The OP doesn't specify any given recording.

two irl two on my hard drive

i have only 3 but i have other albums by most of the rest of them

have owned 9 at some point, now only 3--neu, velvets, glass. actually i might still own In C too but i should get rid of it cuz it's not as good as Persian Surgery Dervishes or Harp of New Albion.

(never owned lumpy gravy, analog bubblebat or the schoenberg.)

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Have 8 of 12. (Missing: Schönberg, Analog Bubblebath, Kontake, Einstein)

Not only do I not own any of these, I've never even heard any of these.

I've probably listened to a couple of tracks (2 or 3), maybe.

Only two for me - Velvets & Neu! Used to have On the Corner, have a rip of Trout Mask but I never really 'got it' so never listen to it.

6 on vinyl, most of the others on mp3. never heard the Schönberg before though, going to track it down now.

Miles Davis: On The Corner - Got, love
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica - Got, love
Eno: Discreet Music - Don't got, but mostly out of laziness
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat - Got, love
Arnold Schönberg: Suite Opus 29 - never heard
Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3. - I don't listen to that techno garbage
The Soft Machine 4 - I think I had this at some point but didn't keep it. kinda boring
Karlheiz Stockhausen: Kontakte - Don't have this/never heard. I do have C.E. #18: Sternklangg tho and that is pretty fun
Neu! : Neu! - lost my copy unfortunately, but love it
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy - I don't listen to that comedy-prog garbage
Terry Riley: In C - never heard. would probably listen tho, since I've heard some of Riley's other stuff and liked it (Church of Anthrax, w/Cale I think...?)
Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach - not interested.

I have music by everyone on this list except Schonberg and Zappa, but only 7 of these particular records.

Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3. - I don't listen to that techno garbage

Are you Geir?

Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy - I don't listen to that comedy-prog garbage

Oh... nevermind.

My husband has 11/12, I have 6/12, plus we have both vinyl and cd of some of them.
Oh dear.

Miles Davis: On The CorneR
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica - Got, love
Eno: Discreet MusiC
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
The Soft Machine 4
Neu! : Neu!
Terry Riley: In C

BOOM

4 5 vinyl, 3 5 CD, cassette

fixed

Blimey, you been shopping?

Eight... oh no, fuck... I've got nine... forgot "On the Corner" on vinyl!

^ note insufferably snobby emphasis on vinyl

FWIW, don't have any Schoenberg (an oversight on my part, no slight on Arnie), don't have the Aphex Twin one (but no objections to it if I saw it going cheap somewhere), not really interested in the Philip Glass

Miles Davis: On The Corner NO
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica NO BUT I DO HAVE THEIR DEBUT
Eno: Discreet Music NO BUT I DO HAVE ANUTHA GREEN WORLD
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat HELLS YES
Arnold Schönberg: Suite Opus 29 WHUT
Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3. NO BUT... SOME OTHER AFX
The Soft Machine 4 NO BUT GOT THEIR BEST OF
Karlheiz Stockhausen: Kontakte NO
Neu! : Neu! PROBABLY
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy WHAT AN APPEALING TITLE. NO.
Terry Riley: In C YES!
Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach NAH

"In C" man, how did you end up with that?

god knows. i also have a tony conrad record. but i like it! listen to it more than neu.

I got mine in an Oxfam shop for £2. LP, Brand new condition, looked like an original.

How insufferable

'In C' - that's the one about the spider, right?

No, it's the one about the combative Manchester United midfielder

"win C"

Miles Davis: On The Corner YES, but only recently
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica YES, two quid from charity shop but never play it.
Eno: Discreet Music NO
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat NO
Arnold Schönberg: Suite Opus 29 NO, but do have 'Verklarte Nachte'
Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubblebath 3 NO
The Soft Machine 4 NO, but have 'Third'
Karlheiz Stockhausen: Kontakte NO, but have 'Stimmung'
Neu!: Neu! NO
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy YES
Terry Riley: In C NO, but would probably buy for a fiver in Fopp
Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach NO, but have some early Glass ('12 Parts' etc.)

Is that Schoenberg a particularly notable piece?

I have two of'em.

'In C' - that's the one about the spider, right?

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:03 (2 hours ago)

No, it's the one about the combative Manchester United midfielder

― The Oort Locker (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:06 (2 hours ago)

nice

The Schoenberg is a substantial work and is quite nice but I've never seen anyone single it out before, especially considering the importance of Einstein and In C in their composers' respective oeuvres.

i lolled at that too xp

I could be unaware of some of the discourse though. xpost

the schoenberg selection is somewhat awry yes, unless yr hypothetical menopausal avant prog fuck happens to be rly into second viennese school minor classics, also the afx choice not very likely i'd have thought

also the afx choice not very likely i'd have thought

yeah... i mean it's a while since i was paying attention, but i don't remember being told that BUBBLEBATH THREE was the one to get. whereas "trout mask replica" is relatively mnstrm.

Well, Geir's original list had the "Richard D James" album, but I figureed it was more likely to be the type of thing people would get to see "what the fuss was about" then not play it again ever (maybe unfair, I don't have it), and DogLatin's substitution seemed more likely of a purchase 'on purpose'.

Are you Geir?

I'm not Geir, I love black people!

some of my best friends are rappers!

lol i own 6 of these i dont even no who i am ne more

Miles Davis: On The Corner
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
Neu! : Neu!
Terry Riley: In C
Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach

though i don't think WL/WH, neu! or In C are terribly snobby records and I really haven't listened to the others thoroughly, just grabbed them on the recs of others. want that discreet music

Well, Geir's original list had the "Richard D James" album, but I figureed it was more likely to be the type of thing people would get to see "what the fuss was about" then not play it again ever (maybe unfair, I don't have it), and DogLatin's substitution seemed more likely of a purchase 'on purpose'.

I can see where you're coming from. On the other hand, I would argue that "Analogue Bubblebath" is musically probably more accessible than "Richard D. James Album", which is perhaps the weirdest and strangest thing he has ever done.

Blimey, you been shopping?

― Mark G

A+!

I'm still at work! Never mind...

WTF, Geir? Richard D James Album is probably the poppiest Aphex Twin album I own. What makes it stranger than e.g. Druqks or Selected Ambient Works Vol II.

?

maybe geir is a milkman's wife

's tits

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ew guys

avg = 4.14141414

not very snobby, ilx

I own all twelve. 12

ha.