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Lets face it, we all probably know about a wider range of music than your average Joe. However, now and then we'll all invariably know someone who is an absolute POWERHOUSE of musical knowledge. I know several, and I suspect many of you do too. So what I want to ask in this thread is if there is a point where a person's musical knowledge becomes so absurdly broad they stop being music fans but rather music experts, or music historians?
I personally relate to and understand the desire to explore the musical spectrum, but I feel there is a point when people that do this a vast amount don't have time to really LOVE music anymore, to sit down and listen to a record until you know all it's twists and turns yet still hear something new in it everytime. I feel I know people who have forgotten the joy of discovering and loving music and it's been overtaken by the will to research and know about bands. I feel alot of this has to do with people feeling discussions with fellow music fans are competitions, somehow feeling superior when they can name-drop the best new band they've discovered, or failed if they can't.
I guess the issue here is the difference between 'knowing' and 'liking'. I know about The Cure, but I do not like them. Same with a good few bands. Maybe its justified to take a record-shop-owner approach to knowing about music you don't neccessarily like yourself- Just understand their place in the history of music. So maybe 'knowing' abbout music is justified, but I guess whats really disagreeable is passing off something you know about as something you listen too. Maybe what I'm getting at is that empty 'liking' of bands, of listing thousands of bands on your myspace and yet clearly not having taken the time to explore and grow to love or even like the band.
Quite frankly I'm not sure what I'm getting at anymore, I've confused myself, hopefully you can extract some meaning from these detatched and unstructured thoughts. Though, one thing I do know is, and remember this people, the number of bands you've heard of is directly proportional to the size of your dick. Right?
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