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| Rock snobs | | Date Created: Apr 16, 2005, 08:57 AM |
 The secret is out. Critics-without-a-portfolio like Dr. Reptile are really rock snobs. Fortunately we now have a dictionary so other folks (listeners, musicians) can translate and attempt to know what we know. It's called The Rock Snob*s Dictionary: A Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge by David Kamp and Steven Daly.
A fellow rock snob (even more knowledgeable than Dr. Reptile) says:
"It's great. Based on a series of annual articles in Vanity Fair's music
issue. A feast of trivia with a sarcastic but not-too-nasty edge to it."
Here's the blurb from the inside cover:
At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of "Rickenbacker guitars" and "Gram Parsons."
We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about "the MC5" or "Eno" or "the Hammond B3," not wanting to let on that we haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. Well, fret no more! The Rock Snob's Dictionary is here to define every single sacred totem of rock fandom's know-it-all fraternity, from Alt.country to Zimmy. (That's what Rock Snobs call Bob Dylan, by the way.)
You can just read the introduction and find out if you're a rock snob or not. If you're not, you might find this slow going -- like a radio station that plays all music you've never heard of. On the other hand, you might want to look up a few entries and impress your friends.
Other interesting titles in this genre are:
Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders The Classics by Jim DeRogatis & Carmel Carrillo, editors
So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned A Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales From A Drummer's Life by Jacob Slichter
Who's Jacob Slichter? You couldn't be a rock snob....
(he's the drummer of the band, Semisonic, one of Dr. Reptile's favorites)
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