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Originally Posted by blunderbuss
Just to clarify, I'm not for one moment suggesting that anyone has to understand musical theory to either play or enjoy music. I just started thinking about knowledge of musical theory because of the math rock thread, and the fact that, to properly categorise a band as math rock (if that's what you really wanted to do), you'd need to know a regular time signature from an irregular one.
I don't generally think of music as being within a particular genre, unless I'm in a record shop and want to ask "where's the post rock section", or something like that, but I wondered... something to do with genre categorisation... which I can't now remember well enough to put into words.
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There's also the fact that you don't have to be necessarily a master of the guitar/drums etc to play this math rock thing. Di Lacuna - a band that vaguely had some staccato/fragmented time signatures on some of their instrumental tracks - are less than masters of their own instruments on closer inspection, yet they trick you into thinking that they know exactly what they are doing more than they probably do.
I think it was Glice (who has a better knowledge of music theory than most of us posting on this thread) rightly pointed out about some math rock band on a thread a while ago thet they were prog rock without the balls to be fully prog, either because of technical shortcomings or inverted snobbery. That sums up a few things about all this ''knowledgable'' nonsense that you get on similar threads like this.