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Kurt Loder’s iTunes celebrity playlist is Snobworthy enough, with rootsy trax by Willie Dixon and Etta James and a song from L.A. sessioneer extraordinaire David Lindley’s side project El Rayo-X (pronounced, as Snobs know, “El Rye-O ECK-eez”), but he’s also got some refreshingly counter-Snob-tuitive stuff in there: “I Know There’s Something Going On,” the “In the Air Tonight”-like breakup song by Frida from Abba (produced, as it happens, by Phil Collins), and a live version of “Tonight,” a putrid Tina Turner-David Bowie duet from the nadir of Bowie’s “happy” Eighties period. Give the Lodester credit for following his heart and not doing a phony list conjured up just to impress fellow Snobs. April 18, 2006 More Rock Snobbery »
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Stone fruit. The large-pitted fruits of the prunus genus, among them peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots and cherries; exalted by Fruit Snobs for their sensual juiciness and delicacy as compared to hardier fruits like apples and pears. The received Snob wisdom is that most Americans have never properly experienced stone fruits in their ideal ungassed, unshipped, unhybridized state, in which they are so succulent and dribbly that eating them qualifies as an erotic experience. In the tumid fullness of the August night, we feasted on just-picked white peaches, the most luscious of stone fruits, their effluvia streaming down our heaving, perspiring chests.