This is the correct answer.
Being a music buff among music buffs is as much about having a well-developed taste in music as it is a knowledge of music that influences others.
So start by developing your taste in music. Here’s how:
Using a site like albumoftheyear.org, listen to the first one to three tracks on the top rated albums from every genre.
Do this every week on Monday. New albums come out later in the week and it helps to see the how reviews change after more critics and fans listen repeatedly.
Your goal should be to find albums that you want to listen all the way through.
Sometimes, You’ll listen to the whole album and want to start it over as soon as you’re done. Other times you’ll find the album doesn’t live up to its first few tracks.
Albums you consider great you’ll be lucky to come across once out of a dozen times, so you have to be patient with the process.
You’ll know you found something you like when It feels exciting to know about a piece of music like you’re in on a secret. And it makes you want to tell other people about it.
Share the album with someone and tell them what you like about it.
Going through this process won’t only be a great experience—-you’ll learn your own taste.
And you’ll have convinced yourself that you in fact do enjoy discovering and listening to music as much or more than the other art forms you mentioned.
You’ll find you naturally learn about historically important pieces of music from reading reviews and from talking about music with other people who are impassioned by it.
The key is to then follow up like you would when you hear a word you don’t know the definition of, or library that solves something you were considering coding by hand.
Make a note, listen to the album and think about the context it was mentioned in.
If it appeals to you go back and listen to the greatest hits if that appeals to you go through their entire catalog.
