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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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Cheval Blanc, Château. Bordeaux estate in St.-Emilion whose wines are a slightly offbeat target of Snob adulation—the Thelonious Monk to Château Margaux’s Miles Davis. Lush and generous when young, Cheval Blanc, which has an unsually high percentage of the Cabernet Franc grape in its blend, has a fervent cult whose members consider its 1947 vintage to be the greatest wine ever made. My most recent tasting of the ’47 Cheval Blanc showed it to be very much alive, almost port-like in its intensity. Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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