How many bands would you consider yourself a hardcore fan of?

PITCHBLENDE (own a portion of the original cover art to their last record, take a guess which one!)
BOREDOMS (played first super aRe era material in the united states live at my radio station when i was in the booth)
MY BLOODY VALENTINE (getting my copy of loveless signed by all 4 members)
PAVEMENT (saw them live over 25 times between 1991-1996)
DRIVE LIKE JEHU (own original LPs/7" with custom artwork, saw them live over 12 times)
FURTHER (words can not say)

daft punk, jacques lu cont. maybe just daft punk really though. or maybe even just thomas bangalter.

there are tons of bands I like equally but know that there are WAY more hardcore fans out there:
Pulp
Roxy Music
Spacemen 3
many more.

YOU CALLING ME BORING, BIYATCH?!1

Uhmmm...nice choices, dude...

disco inferno
galaxie 500
kendra smith
the clientele
love as laughter
the fall
the marine girls
the stockholm monsters

and many i forget!

It almost surprises me, that I'm not that hardcore fan of that many bands. Yet, my obssesion for Soundgarden its almost to the point of religious fanatism; you know, ala Alex in NYC with Killing Joke.

elliott smith
wilco
tom waits
opeth
radiohead

got all the above's records and have played them all to death, have seen them live numerous times (except waits :( ), have dug out most of the rarer stuff, etc.

i'd like to include other bands like the cure, my bloody valentine, katatonia, fugazi, but i'm not quite there.

working my way up to:
Beach Boys
Love
Eno

And that's about it, I think.

and 1000 others

There are considerably more Genesis tracks that I dislike (OK, I could have said Genesis 1970-1980 to make it more accurate)

MX-80 (Sound)
Led Zeppelin
Beatles
Love
John Coltrane Quartet (and, eventually, Quintet)
Velvet Underground
P-Funk
Captain Beefheart
minutemen

Black Sabbath, Pere Ubu, Van Halen, Motorhead all coulda made this list but for unfortunate changes in personnel that altered 'em forever. (My support for most bands is mile-wide/inch-thick.)

high school:

The Misfits/Samhain
Throbbing Gristle
Velvet Underground
Swans
Sonic Youth
Einsturzende Neubauten

college:

Nurse With Wound
Enoch Light
Borbetomagus
Autechre
AMM

grad school:

Iannis Xenakis

In terms of sheer number of releases owned it is a tie between Nurse WIth Wound and Enoch Light.