Music inspires a unique passion in those who truly love it. We collect it, we catalog it, we talk about it, we share it, and we fall like dominoes from one band to another in search of recapturing that moment of recognition certain artists inspire within us upon first listen. We also read about it, from the hardened memoirs of those who barely scraped out a living sharing their work with the world (or who nearly buckled under the weight of that world's expectations), to the ruminations of professional critics who strive to pinpoint what defines genius where genius is subjective.