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Willem:
I was wondering. Do you think it is important to know about musical history? Do you think it's important that you know who made what music and influenced who? Is it okay in your opinion if people say that Joy Division is a mediocre version of interpol or that they even can say 'yeah Green day are super, but who's this Johnny Rotten guy you're talking about?'. Or does one have to be capable of saying 'yeah, Nirvana was awesome but they did steal a lot from the pixies' before (s)he gains your 'respect' (wrong word for that, i know, but I can't think of anything better)

decklin:
I really don't see what factual information (say, that 1979 was earlier in time that 2002) has to do with having cool/important/respectable "taste".

Be happy that someone else likes Interpol! Not everyone has to like Joy Division.

I'm sure if you dig into it you will find that they are not saying the older band secretly invented a time machine and went into the future to steal their ideas from the newer one. What they are actually saying is that they just like the newer band. I can think of several people I know or knew for whom I could play both and they would say "WTF?" to Mr. Curtis et al. The zeitgeist that Interpol taps into is a lot wider than simply "post-punk is cool again". This is why there are *always* bands that are more popular than their influences.

Hitting them over the head with how they "should" be "cool" is not the best way to explain what you like to them. Of all bands, you've got a huge in here: New Order! Go play them some.

ForteBass:
Besides all that, music history goes further back than indie or rock. Having some kind of history on everything that came before is really hell of fun.
(Monteverdi ftw!)

KharBevNor:
THE COMPLETE LINE-UP CHANGES FOR CHRISTIAN DEATH!

</goth injoke>

Thrillho:
I make it my business to know as much as I can about musical history just because I enjoy to know it.

And that kind of thing annoys me and I usually correct them, but it's not like I hate someone because of their music taste. I can hate their music taste without hating the person...

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