Let’s leave Ministry out of this one:
Insane Clown Posse (hands down)
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Dave Mathews Band
KISS
Tori Amos
String Cheese Incident
You’re missing Marilyn Manson in that list. I don’t think he could measure the tool-ocity of Kiss fans (the worst of the worst), but they definitely take some of the cake. The fanboys/girls have shown to be nothing more than mere sheep (sounds a little PISSy, I mean familiar), and show no thoughts of their own, and can be the most annoying people you’d ever come across.
Most NIN fans i’ve come across seem pretty civilized compared to the others you’ve listed. The “juggalos” are just…sigh…and tool fans range of pretentious douchebags to complete idiots trying to be pretentious douchebags…but I do like tool. Not a hardcore fan though.
Also, the kids that wear the tight girl pants makeup. Because Green Day and those other bands do it, doesn’t mean it should be a trend. They look silly, and guess what? So do you.
kiss
neil young
crowds are what they are.
ICP
yeah,it’s hard to rate in a bad way, what the fallout is.
but, i think kiss wins.
Slayer
slayer is sliding in.
anything bowie related.
Juggalos on average are the fan-base i’d least want to be trapped on a bus with.
previously I’d have said Deadheads. Maybe String Cheese fans are horrid, i only know one and he’s a hippy.
the rest (apart from some ICP fans) tend to at least bathe…
I hate KISS the most on the list, but that’s cuz I wanna break Paul Stanley’s face.
Tool fans. Tool fans by far.
They’re the sort of people who go on about “the amazing mathematical patterns in Danny Carey’s drumming, I think he plays a Fiba-ba-ba-lucci sequence in all of their songs, yeah, it’s amazing”, yet were the same people who probably didn’t get past 5th grade math class.
It’s Fibonacci, I know…
And the way they go on with all the ‘song meanings’ and ‘mystic, amazing ideology’ behind it. Half the time, Maynard is taking the piss if you read between the lines.
But most people don’t. And it’s even worse when the same ignoramuses feel intellectually empowered, which idiots like that tend to feel after hearing a couple of big words and occult references in Tool’s music.
Maynard is still a funny man. Best call: when he said to the audience ‘All right, all of you I want you to repeat after me: think… for… yourselves’. Funny on account of the idiots that took it to heart and the equally self-righteous morons who took it seriously.
When I was in high school, in year 8 I was a massive Tool fan. Just me and my best friend out of about 220 kids. We went and saw Tool play live with the Melvins. We got given so much shit. ‘How can you like that weird band with the weird videos on MTV, they’re shit!!! Check out linkin park or nickleback, fags’.
Fast forward 5 years to year 12, and Tool is releasing 10,000 Days and touring Australia again. Out of nowhere, it seems every man and his dog loves Tool. All those tossers who gave me and Dave shit for our taste in music were suddenly asking me if I was going to go see them live and if I’d heard 10,000 Days. To fuck with them, I told them Tool were shit and they should listen to Throbbing Gristle instead.
Ironically, ‘Five Knuckle Shuffle’ became a big talking point on the school bus home for about a week or two.
I ain’t bitter. I’m glad. It’s probably the main reason those people showed up out of the blue to my gigs after high school was finished. [laugh]
Anything remotely associated with Green Day makes me nauseous.
I fucking despise those cunts more than any other band. They are truly horrible and I wouldn’t piss on them to put out a fire.
Their fans are a waste of resources.
Girls big into Tori Amos can be trouble and girls big into Courtney Love are even more trouble.
The Grateful Dead…
and Jimmy Buffett.
The Grateful Dead…
and Jimmy Buffett.
Amen wempathy. Some of my friend’s parents are parrotheads, or whatever you call them. Extremely annoying.
I find most bands have a degree of followers who take it to the extreme in an unpleasant way. They Might Be Giants is one I can think of that while I enjoy their music, the rabid fans almost ruin it. Anything remotely goth or industrial is bound to be plagued by this as well, the elitist snobbery that goes on is quite sad.
The ultra-seriousness of some black metal fans though is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Anything remotely associated with Green Day makes me nauseous.
word!
I’d throw slipknot fans in there as well as mudvain losers!
Late,
grmpysmrf
And the way they go on with all the ‘song meanings’ and ‘mystic, amazing ideology’ behind it. Half the time, Maynard is taking the piss if you read between the lines.
I’m too busy to ‘read between the lines’. Too busy bakin’ cakes and honkin’ tonks.
But most people don’t. And it’s even worse when the same ignoramuses feel intellectually empowered, which idiots like that tend to feel after hearing a couple of big words and occult references in Tool’s music.
Yeah…um…YEAH!!! <snorts in contempt and takes sip from martini glass>
Pfft!! I hate those ‘pretentious types’.
…which reminds me. I left my copy of Lucier’s ‘Bird And Person Dyning’ and Genet’s ‘Querelle Of Brest’ at my art school friend’s house last Friday after that cocktail party we held to discuss the merits of negative space in contemporary European photography. I’ll need to take the Volvo for a spin later and pop over and pick them up.
When I was in high school, in year 8 I was a massive Tool fan. Just me and my best friend out of about 220 kids. We went and saw Tool play live with the Melvins. We got given so much shit. ‘How can you like that weird band with the weird videos on MTV, they’re shit!!! Check out linkin park or nickleback, fags’.
Fast forward 5 years to year 12, and Tool is releasing 10,000 Days and touring Australia again. Out of nowhere, it seems every man and his dog loves Tool.
Yeah. Those bastards!! Pfft!!
Wow you are a youngin’. I was…20 when Tool released Undertow all them dem fine years ago, sonny. All them dem fine years ago.
Ironically, ‘Five Knuckle Shuffle’ became a big talking point on the school bus home for about a week or two.
Yes. That is ironikle.
Also: These fans have the worst bands…
Guns N Roses
Il Divo
The Proclaimers
UB40
Boyz II Men
Queensryche
Any band who has released a ‘dancefloor anthem’ in the last 20 years
NKOTB
Garth Brooks
Any band trying to emulate the look/feel of Joy Division in the last 20 years
Pantera (and any band that proclaims that Pantera “ROOLZ”)
Also: What’s ‘Insane Clown Posse’??
Also: I own 2 Kiss records. Does this make me the worst kind of fan?? Cos if it does I’ve got some soul searchin’ to do over the weekend.
Wow. That’s fucked up. You were 20 when Undertow came out. I was five. I am 20 now.
Be my daddy? [:P]
well this is a “it depends” kinda question… whhat do you mean by worste fans? to talk to, to be in the parimiter of and listen to, to fuck, to have to serve in a work settings, to explain things like simple directions to etc.
Doesn’t ICP have the worst everything?
And I’d like to know just what exactly is wrong with David Bowie fans.
Wow.
All this and not ONE person has yet mentioned Limp Bizkit.
Or Smashing Pumpkins (“You just DON’T understand us…”).
Unbelievable.
I would also go with Guns N Roses BTW.
Wow.
All this and not ONE person has yet mentioned Limp Bizkit.
We were all collectively trying to forget that brief splotch in music history . Kind of like the end of that Michael Crichton movie Sphere where they will themselves to forget it ever happened. Yeah.