# Bands/artists you hate, primarily because their fans are annoying **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583 "2009-01-23T04:24:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/21 "2009-01-23T13:29:00Z")
Guns 'N Roses. Sorry, they are NOT the reincarnation of Led Zeppelin, and Slash is not fit to carry Angus Young’s luggage. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/22 "2009-01-23T15:14:59Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > I agree with many of the above band mentions, but I would like to add just one: > > Fall Out Boy. > > Not only are they themselves offensive to every single sense (as well as on a few extrasensory levels), their fans are almost entirely of the whiny, emo, works-at-Hot-Topic variety. You know the kind of person I am talking about. > > I’m not kidding. You want to get into a really, really, really stupid argument with somebody? Go to any Hot Topic, any Hot Topic in the United States, and say, “Fall Out Boy sucks.” You will get the whiniest, most one-sided debate you have ever experienced. I say one-sided because, really, I don’t give a damn what Mme. Tubs in the black-and-red t-shirt has to say. > > Grrr. Fall Out Boy brings out the mean person inside me. :mad: ☹ They’re one of the few emo bands that have appeared multiple times in the Orlando area that I just haven’t seen, only partly because of the fans. Mainly cause I can’t be arsed and their music is somewhat generic. But then, a couple weeks before their concerts I try to get tickets anyway, in case they have a nice opening band I can discover. But their concerts are always sold out at that point. Of all the bands of that genre to sell out their concerts, I wouldn’t pick Fall Out Boy. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/23 "2009-01-23T15:20:30Z")
I know next to nothing of the work of John Prine, but I have harbored a visceral lothing for him ever since encountering a JOHN PRINE LIVE T-shirt, several sizes too small and coated with an even layer of dirt, on an obese and poorly socialized used-record dealer in a New Jersey motel parking lot about 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/24 "2009-01-23T15:30:58Z")
Curt Cobain/Nirvana fans. I liked some of his music and he seemed like a simple but troubled guy. But the fans that put him up on such a pedestal, act like he was the second coming of christ, and think grunge was invented by them and sounded different than anything else previously in the history of music can suck eggs. I never hated them or their music but certainly never considered them groundbreaking in any way the fans did. ---
**Author:** ![Chase\_Ransom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Chase\_Ransom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chase_Ransom)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/25 "2009-01-23T15:42:06Z")
I would like to make it clear than any fanatical behavior bothers me to no end. Therefore, I Second: The Grateful Dead, DMB, Phish, BEATLES (maybe the worst kind of fan), Rush. And here is some more food for thought: Nirvana, Madonna, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Cristianity, Soccer (or any other sport), Steve Jobs (anybody want to argue he isn’t a celebrity at this point?), and I could go on forever. Just wanted to vent some of my many years of frustration. ---
**Author:** ![Chase\_Ransom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Chase\_Ransom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chase_Ransom)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/26 "2009-01-23T15:43:26Z")
Sorry I forgot: Britney Spears fans. I don’t know if I spelled her name right (and I honestly couldn’t care) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/27 "2009-01-23T16:04:42Z")
Rush. They’re the definition of a “meh” band, but their fans make them sound like their are the gods of progressive rock (which does not describe their sound in the slightest). ---
**Author:** ![Gwyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/858c86/32.png) [@Gwyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gwyen)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/28 "2009-01-23T16:13:18Z")
King Diamond, Marylin Manson, Slipknot, and pretty much every other “scary” rocker group out there. I actually like King Diamond and Slipknot… no way in hell I would ever go to a concert. Those people are just insane at the live shows. I also want to second ICP fans, never met a normal one. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/29 "2009-01-23T16:22:46Z")
Deathclock. Their fans are just cattle being slaughtered, and whenever Deathclock plays they destroy the local environment like a plague of locusts. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/30 "2009-01-23T16:24:55Z")
Why am I not surprised that DMB was the first band mentioned? I like the music (both with the band and Dave’s solo stuff) but the fanbase is scary. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583/31 "2009-01-23T17:06:00Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Deathclock. Their fans are just cattle being slaughtered, and whenever Deathclock plays they destroy the local environment like a plague of locusts. You mean Dethklok? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-you-hate-primarily-because-their-fans-are-annoying/482583.md?page=1)