Mweh? I’ve never noticed a large portion of Who fans worth hating…
(Unless this is just some weird sideways reference to your .sig, in which case I accept my ‘whoosh’.)
I love punk but I pretty much hate everyone that listens to it, they all seem to miss the point. And it REALLY sucks because I rarely see the one or two punks that I do like so I never get to talk to anyone about the music I love or listen to it with anyone. NO ONE in my tight circle of friends likes punk so it’s virtually off limits when they’re around.
ICP - I love ICP but there is this group of rednecks immerging in my town that all drive ford rangers and all have the little Psychopathic Hatchet Man sticker in their back window RIGHT ABOVE THEIR CONFEDERATE FLAG STICKERS! Haven’t these idiots heard ICP’s first album, with the song “FUCK Your Rebel Flag”? Haven’t they noticed that ICP expresses their hate for rednecks and racists* in almost every freakin’ song? God those guys piss me off.
Tool - agreed. I’m sooooo tired of hearing how great Tool is. Yea, they rock, now shut up about it.
*I realize that not everyone with a confederate flag is a racist but I actually work with two of these guys and trust me, they are very racist.
As some of you may know, I’m possibly the only self-professed fan of a-ha on the SDMB. And yup, some of my fellow fans are a bit… well. I’m thinking of the fans whose attraction to the band is based in erotic fantasies about Morten Harket (the singer). He’s their dream man, he’s perfect, he can do no wrong, and he of course hasn’t aged a day in fifteen years. (The bald spot and crows’ feet around the eyes were original equipment, I guess.) Creepy and annoying all at the same time. Especially for those of us who know that the band’s greatest physical asset is Magne Furuholmen’s buttocks 
Then there are bands with “ex-fans” who loudly proclaim “Sure, I used to love them - before they SOLD OUT.” This happened with R.E.M. for example. Cranky’s complaint taken one step further, I guess. It’s not only that they’re unhappy that “their” band has been discovered by peons like you - they refuse to even like the band any more because they’re no longer obscure enough!
I don’t know that there’s a large portion worth hating; I know many lovely Who fans. It’s just that those who are worth hating are perhaps the most obnoxious people in the entire history of fandom. There is one rather infamous fellow (whose name I dare not speak) who is so loathsome that he is hated not only by other fans but by the members of the band and their management! The message board on Pete Townshend’s official website was removed just because Townshend couldn’t stand to see this guy’s posts anymore.
He also cyberstalked me for years, but that’s another story.
No, my sig is just there because I like The Who…and bands. 
I’d like to take this moment to get you started on Cure fans. Please? Misery loves company, you know. (Speaking of which, didja ever see the Ben Stiller Show with the segment about the insurance salesman who followed the Dead to try and sell his wares? At the end he was trying it with Cure fans and said to a ghost-faced goth boy something to the effect of “no, suicide isn’t covered.” Ah, Cure humor…)
I absolutely love Blur, and I wouldn’t say I really hate their fans, but they are sooooooo young. By the time I was in my mid-20s I was already tired of being one of the oldest people at their gigs.
I’ll agree with the punk rock thing. There are a LOT of posers out there. I only have a few punk friends and i was friends with them before any of us got into punk. Anyway, my point is that most people who are into punk rock are in it for fashion and for the incredibly sexy punk girls.
I agree with HenrySpencer on the old Neubauten fans. Get over it, guys. They were metalbenders before metalbending was popular, and became a much err… subtler (need word now, please) band when metalbending was picked up by every Tom, Dick, and Rage Against the Machine.
I was scared away from KMFDM by their fans. Seriously. I looked at a few unofficial KMFDM pages, and every third word was either an anarchistic slogan, a curse word, or an unclever pun (like ‘Back in the USSA’). Usage of their lyircs, as in any band, as catch phrases do not one clever make, either.
In my humble opinion, the quickest way to kill love for any band is to meet their fans. That’s why I’m sticking with bands that that are so obscure as to make it a rather slim chance of meeting one in person (see die Einstürzende Neubauten, and why have I never met a Depeche Mode fan in person?), or are long dead (Pink Floyd, Beatles), so that I may like them long enough to finish my CD collection.
Amen, brother! (Or sister. Whatever). Morrissey’s lyrics are filled with wry humor and irony, and my impression is that many Smiths/Morrissey fans just don’t get the joke.
The stuff is not meant to be taken so seriously, friends…
Speaking of The Smiths and The Cure, I once saw an interview with Morrissey during which Morrissey accused Robert Smith of being a poser, and informed the interviewer that he (Morrissey) was the one who was really depressed. I laughed out loud. Folks, if that doean’t clue you in to the fact that it’s all a big leg-yank, what would it take?
I have to agree. I’ve been a Rush fan since 1976, and when I found the BB for Rush last year it was so snobby and cliquish in tone that I stopped posting there.
It may be a reaction to the snubs Rush gets from the mainstream music industry, but the attitude of superiority pisses me off. Doesn’t stop me from listening, though.
Jimmy Buffett. I hear “Margaritaville” and suddenly I’m on a front porch in Key West, watching the surf with a beer (or margarita) in my hand. Same goes for most of his stuff; it’s almost universally easygoing and inviting.
But it seems like most of his fans are stupid frat boys or ex-frat boys who run keggers every weekend. Bleah.
Dave Matthews.
I LIKE Dave Matthews.
I DESPISE 90 percent of his most devoted fans.
Well, it’s not exactly connected to theme, but because of one particular fan of Nirvana I had unpleasure of being in school with just few years ago, I still haven’t got much affection of Nirvana.
It’s not even that he was so unpleasant because of Nirvana. It’s just I have associated Nirvana with him to such level.
I had no idea how intense some Tori fans were till I joined a mailing list. They nearly lynched me when I told them I just bought the latest Fiona Apple. I mean, I know Tori is good, but oranges aren’t the only fruit.
I liked Rammstein, but unfortanately a lot of their fans don’t understand their odd sense of humor - therefore they attract more than a few out and out neonazis and skinhead wannabes. So my enthusiasm for them dampened. That’s a more extreme example.
While I am not a fan of Marilyn Manson or Eminem, I’d say the same about their fans - too many of them are a little too serious about them - when to me that music is a bit of an inside joke. And too many “Rage…” fans who think they are making such a big political statement by being a fan, when they wouldn’t know Chiapas from Macchu Picchu.
On the gentler side, I like solo Paul McCartney/Wings, but I find many of his fans insufferable (a lot of PETA types, veggiefiends, watered down hippies). In fact I find Sir Paul insufferable too.
I like Rush, but I remember being in 9th grade algebra and having a teacher that was a huge Rush fan. Right after I heard my math teacher say " Man, they are just the most awesome dudes" … I discretely removed the Rush logo I pencil drew on my spiral notebook.
I dunno man, I kind of like going to see bands before anyone else knows them. Sometimes it’s a really cool experience. I saw Rammstein play in a club in New York for just fifty people. That was pretty cool. I also like being the one that gets people into music. I think it’s fun.
Erek
The fans of just about every industrial band ever. Neubauten and KMFDM were both mentioned. I think KMFDM gets a bad rap because people either think that the tongue in cheek lyrics are either overly campy or they just don’t get them and think they are just bad neo-anarchist lyrics. Velvet Acid Christ fans make Marilyn Manson fans look like standup intellectuals. Marilyn Manson is another band that I really like that has sucky fans. As well as Nine Inch Nails, who also has the anti-fans (They were good once upon a time etc…) Neubauten fans are almost insufferable. I saw Neubauten during the last two tours and the last show I saw with them was so boring because it was all the old hardcore fans who were at least thirty and felt like they were gipped because Neubauten didn’t sound like they used to but went to the show out of some sense of obligation or something. Yeah, Punks are annoying but I don’t like the music, I just like going to the shows. Brian Eno fans are really annoying as well talking about what a genius he is and talking to you like you’ve probably never heard of him not realizing that EVERYONE’S heard of Brian Eno, I mean for god’s sake the man did the windows sounds, though I doubt most of them would know it, and might cry if they found out. Fans of every good goth band out there go without saying.
Erek
Awww, thanks ruad.
I love hardcore music, but most of the fans are the most judgemental, self rightious pricks I’ve ever seen. And those are the nice ones.
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Ok I’m hijacking this thread to “Bands You Love With Lead Singers You Hate”
Suspects #1: Limp Bizkit - The band itself is excellent, nice and tight laying down some really innovative rock/metal. And Wes Borland (their lead guitarist) ubertalented. But Fred… Fred just can’t rap (and he’s an ass too). If Limp Bizkit got a new lead singer I’d be happy. I’ve heard some intrumentalised versions of their tracks and it’s just crying for a better lead singer. He might be a good businessman… but a leadsinger he is not.
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Someone mentioned a single Nirvana fan, but I’ll put on the big target t-shirt and come right out and say Nirvana fans.
Now, it’s not they’re fault - most of them have been told from birth that all important music began and ended with Kurt Cobain. They have been told for eight years or so that, had Kurt not comitted suicide, Nirvana would be the hugest band in the world and would be changing the face of Music As We Know It.
And they are more than willing to tell you this. At length.
My local “alternative” radio station plays Nirvana and it’s cursed spawn all day long - Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, anything that came out of that grunge movement is played incessantly there. For them, this was the pinnacle of modern music. For them, it will always be 1992, and there’s no point in looking any further.
But here’s the thing that’s gonna get me flamed beyond recognition - maybe I missed something, maybe I was a little too old when “Nevermind” came out, but whereas I thought it was good, I have never really understood what was so Great about it. And “In Utero”, to me, wasn’t the sound of a band emerging to greatness, but of a band crashing and burning. I’ve always assumed that if Kurt hadn’t killed himself, Nirvana would have broken up in six months anyway.
But you’re not allowe dto question the glory of Nirvana, because you’ll be torn apart by the mouths of the fans who have been sold this story of the little angry band that changed the world.