Otherwise Cool Bands Ruined By Their Irritating Fans

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Who are you quoting?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 November 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

And if you aren't quoting anyone who are you addressing actually? I don't see any mention of the Beatles on this thread at all and see only that Radiohead fans are passingly noted as being "jerks" which you sure aren't disproving.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 November 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sheesh. It's just a post from a Radiohead fan forum. I was just trying to follow the thread's theme of "Otherwise Cool Bands Ruined By Their Irritating Fans". What was I thinking?

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

shoulda used italics

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 5 November 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link

shoulda used italics

point taken.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The premise of this thread is impossible, imo. Most music fans are extremely irritating, in general. I don't give a shit about them or even the musicians themselves. Totally irrelevant to the music.

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 5 November 2006 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone recall Don McLean praising Madonna's "American Pie" because he thought it shed light on "what had gone wrong with music" or something? Honestly, everything was fine right up until "Vincent," Don.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 November 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Does this mean The Bends is finally falling out of favor among the Radiohead Superfans? Because I'm really really really ready to start liking that album unashamedly again.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Does this mean The Bends is finally falling out of favor among the Radiohead Superfans? Because I'm really really really ready to start liking that album unashamedly again.

Actually, right after the post I quoted above, a few superfanz immediately criticized him for not giving The Bends the props it deserved.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Rush

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Steven Malkimus

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Radiohead fans locked in face-off with VOCAL NON RADIOHEAD FANS for "most irritating" bunfight.

see also: NIRVANA

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Most Rush fans seem alright, it's not like they give a shit about any of that Rand-y bollocks.

― You've Had Your Chances (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Death Cab!

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Most Rush fans seem alright, it's not like they give a shit about any of that Rand-y bollocks.

But they are incredibly fanatical, and are the kind of fans who don't only see Rush personally as the most important thing that has ever happened, but they also believe most people think the same way.

See also Kiss, Guns'n'Roses and Marillion. (And Beatles - except they are right, in that The Beatles are considered the most important band ever)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

bloomin' radiohead. if i want to stand in a tent and listen to thommy's take on minimalist french techno (or whatever the divil it is) then i want to do so without people throwing beer and me and pondering whether or not they'll play the creep song. it was a fucking joke boys, the creep song is not real. he's laughing at *you*, i'm laughing at you. you're not even american, so you can'thave that as an excuse. what the hell *are* you doing here? aaaaaaaarghhhh. make them go away.

A radiohead fan myself, these "this band belongs to ME, if a song of theirs charts they have sold out and I must die" minded fans drive me nuts. (See also: Modest Mouse ca. Float On on radio scandal!)

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Grateful Dead should be #1 on this list.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Radiohead super fans drive me crazy too, but they're nothing compared with the legion of annoying SoCal Echo & The Bunnymen and Depeche Mode fans around 1981-1984.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Poco fans are the worst, folks...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

80s Depeche Mode fans may have been annyoing, but then, today, they are the ones who are right. Depeche Mode, in spite of most of their material from "Violator" onwards being really great, were at their best from 1983 through 1986!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, all fans of any power pop band ever.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Le Tigre

I might even have a chance of liking them if it wasn't for their annoying fans who stormed in and stood right in front of me, and then proceeded to keep poking me with their elbows.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but see in twenty years history will have proven that Le Tigre fans were right.

― Geir Bongro (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

radiohead fan quote upthread is perfect

― niels, Monday, 7 May 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link

surprised no one mentioned Tool.

― campreverb, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link

ween

― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link

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