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The title was difficult to word, so lemme explain. Imagine there’s this guy, let’s call him Phil. Phil is your friend and he’s cool and all, makes you laugh hysterically, but he has this one flaw. Phil is an insufferable music snob. Terrible, right? He refuses to listen to anything you try to play for him and thinks the stuff that he listens to is the best, doesn’t understand why you like what you do (whatever that might be). You’re still buds with him, you’ve just realized not to play your music around him. It’s all good.

Now, which would be worse?

A) Phil only has a couple hundred songs in his music library (of whatever genre/s). He’s not interested/too lazy to go search out anymore, or maybe he can’t comprehend how much music is really out there. Whatever. Point is, he doesn’t have much variety.

B) Phil has about 300GB of music. He even carries around an extra laptop everywhere just to hold it! There are dozens (if not more) genres of music, and thousands of albums. He’s got Paula Abdul next to Pink Floyd; bubblegum dance pop next to black metal. He has hundreds of well-known bands and thousands of obscure ones. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Brokencyde or The Beatles, it’s on that laptop. Unfortunately, he listens to approx. 1% of it – say, oh, three thousand songs. See, Phil for whatever reason collects all this music (maybe he’s OCD). He tells others how great it is to be musically broad. If you say "Nah dude I don’t really like dig rap" or "I can’t stand metal, man", he gives you a look and tells you how you’re missing out***. He’s a good friend but he’s not perfect, and you hate his superior attitude. Funny thing is, Phil might hear a song and think "Well that doesn’t sound bad" so he adds the entire discography to his library. BUT, if it doesn’t automatically catch his ear, he never listens to it again. He doesn’t realize this though and continues to add music to his collection and tell people what a wealth of knowledge he is.

Now – which is more annoying to you? In both cases, Phil isn’t the All-Knowing Music Guru that he erroneously believes he is. Which would you prefer him to be out of these 2 options and why?

Try to answer in terms of the question, not in terms of "Well he doesn’t know a lot so I could introduce him to good bands" or "Whoa he’s got a ton of music I’ll never have to pay for another album again!". Thanks.

***For the sake of the question, let’s pretend that you happen to enjoy the only type of music he loathes – perhaps he was trapped in an elevator as a child and forced to listen to it all day. Poor guy, not his fault really.
Haha just random thinking, then I embellished it a bit while making the question. ;D
Sorry Clampinon, let’s pretend it’s a couple dozen. I don’t have the biggest library myself but I know a lot of people in R&P do, so I figured I’d try to make it a small number without being laughable, like 10 songs or something. We would never be able to take Phil’s claims seriously then.
Thanks idiot kid! I’m just curious as to what others thought, and where better to pose this question than R&P?
sugaree: True, but nobody’s perfect. Phil really is a cool guy once ya get to know him – but everyone knows not to bring up the subject of music around him. :O

Lol I dunno this isn’t based on anything in true life so I’m trying to make it up as I go along, but you’re right – it is choosing the lesser of two evils. So which is the lesser for you?
Okay so I think a few people misunderstood my point – whether he (or you) have 50 songs or 50,000 is irrelevant. The point is, he’s being a butthole either way, but which would annoy you more? It’s not so much a question of the music as it is how you would react….it’s more of a Psychology question I guess but I was still curious about what the members of R&P thought. I didn’t mean to offend anyone.

I love dance remixes. I have about 65GB of them. I wager that I’m worse. But, I look back fondly on remixes, years down the line. I remember where 25 years ago Shep Pettibone did his first remix for Madonna. And, up to today, I love the Wideboys Club Mix of Cascada’s "Evacuate the Dancefloor".

EDIT: I thought I typed this already. B is worse. But, I am reflective of B. Oh well.

EDIT: Well, in that case, A is worse. If Phil was represented by option B, it would should show that he had an open mind to what is actually out there, before sorting out his dislikes. Being the A personality would simply be foolish.