Whats the most overused word in the rock snobs vocabulary?
David: There is this compulsion to describe guitar solos as “coruscating.” The word “plangent” is confusing to people, because they take it as onomatopoeia. They think it means soft and chiming, but it means loud and resounding. Also, “seminal,” as in the seminal band, the seminal song, which basically means any rocker who was in on a trend too early to make money. Steven: With the book out and exposing these kinds of things, the snobs are going to be so self-conscious about using these terms, no one will be able to use them after a while. We’ll have to leave them out when we update it. If you could dispense with one figurehead embraced by rock snobs, who would it be? David: I know who Steven is going to say. Jobriath, right? Steven: I would say Jobriath. But I don’t mind a little cheese in there. I don’t like the category of alt-country at all. I just think it’s horrendous. It would be like when I was a teenager and Dixieland Jazz would be playing. There’s just no reason to carry that
