Out of touch with music? Get help from ‘Rock Snob’

You may consider yourself a true music fan, but if the words “coruscating,” “plangent,” “seminal” and “sun-drenched” don’t effortlessly roll off your tongue when you’re talking about rock, then your critical skills are in serious need of regrooving.

David Kamp and Steven Daly, two very witty Vanity Fair writers, have compiled the perfect solution: “The Rock Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge” (Broadway, 176 pages, $12.95).

It runs the gamut from those with music equipment fetishes to obscure obsessions.

There’s a mean streak to the book, which makes it so wickedly funny, but the writers’ point is to be helpful. They want to let nonsnobs hold their own at parties while “sparing them the trouble of actually listening to the music in question.”