What are some of your "warning sign" bands? - When you hear someone says they like X band then it's time to ask for the check.

[Betonhaus]

twentyone pilots and Billie Eilish fans are basically, "I totes have a mental illness, fuck you if you don't agree with me."

At this point claiming you have a mental illness is an excuse for bad behavior so you never ahve to learn to improve yourself

 

[fake farts]

KISS- A cryptid. KISS has sold billions of dollars in records and merch, but I have yet to meet a single person who listens to them. Even boomers I know with classic rock collections don't have a single KISS album. Possibly a fake band. Met one guy that claimed to listen to KISS, asked him about it. He stuttered furtively, gave half-answers. After that I never saw him again. Got a strange headache. Saw some men in a van outside my house. My headache disappeared the moment they left.

In my experience, KISS fans are exclusively "metalheads" stuck in the 1980s. You know the type. Ones who actually listen to Eddie Trunk, long for the days when MTV showed the same three shitty Motley Crue videos over and over again, and still, in the year 2023, bitch about Nirvana killing "metal" AKA their buttrock. Sometimes still involved in the scene, so they may actually like a few modern or even 90s bands, but have an irrational hate for grunge.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

No warning sign bads per se for me, but if someone mislabels genres, run.

Also if they like only 1 song from a band it was probably featured on some netflix show (*AHEM* *AHEM* MASTER OF PUPPETS AND STRANGER THINGS) and they only like it because it was featured.

 

[Betonhaus]

Imagine Dragons?

 

[GilaCutter]

If they say they like electro swing, they're a redditor. That's the only one that's a hill i'll die on, ever since Lone Digger by Caravan Palace showed up on that site and gained popularity, it's kind of taken the brand of "reddit music". In other words for dudes who listen to fucking shitty anime music and video game sound tracks but you ask them what genre of music they actually like this is probably the only thing they can put a name to.

Probably the first post that I can actually relate to. I've ran into so many people who like that shit for some reason and I can't understand wh---

redditor and/or a tf2 brony

Oh my God.

 

[Racist Trash]

The Clash were posh-boy posers (well, Strummer and Jones anyway). Refused to go on Top Of The Pops, wankers. TOTP was good enough for Bolan, Bowie, Roxy, and all the rest. What makes you so special? Plus all that happened is you got the indignity of Legs & Co hoofing it to your songs instead. The Ruts were far better and more authentic.

Madness did it way better considering they managed to get banned from TOTP four times for their antics but were still good enough performers that they got invited back, that and they apparently dressed up as police and staged a fake raid on the clash during rehearsal in which two of the clash members ran off to the toilet when they broke in which is hilarious.

 

[Budgie]

I've complained about them before in a similar thread, but squeaky pooners/fags who are VERY into Machine Girl or The Garden. I've had better, more fruitful conversations with my 52 year old gay coworker about electronic music than I ever had with people who think being an annoying spaz and knowing jumpstyle are personality traits.

Also, people who goon over bands like Rammstein and Queens of the Stone Age.

Spoiler: PL for fun

I've worked at record stores before and KISS and Beatles collectors were the absolute worst, most pretentious people I've ever dealt with.

 

[draggs]

As I only go to metal concerts 99% of the time I usually just look at people's metal vests before I decide if it's worth talking to the person bc there are several red flags on a vest.

- only patches from mainstream metal bands bc you don't dig deeper into what the genre has to offer
- only bands signed to Nuclear Blast bc all Nuclear Blast bands sound the same and suck
- patches from mainstream labels/mailorder brands like EMP
- patches from Wacken Open Air
- festival wrist bands sewn onto the vest
- mostly/only patches from bands that only release digital shit on bandcamp but have no real physical releases. Fuck all these bandcamp-only bands.

I am a simple man. If your vest sucks, you suck.

Debate the ethics of proper vest adornment

 

[diametricity]

mgk, yungblud, travis barker, suicideboys, lil peep, xxxtentacion, etc. basically any of those pseudo-emo rap/pop-punk losers. common traits among their listeners are personality disorders (or worse, self-diagnosed ones), deep-rooted insecurity yet raging narcissism, abhorrent fashion choices, drug abuse, and the burning desire to off themselves (just do it already jesus fucking christ)

Death in June. Weird buggers seem to like him

you wouldn't understand

 

[diametricity]

Brother, people who like later bladee don't magically hate earlier bladee. He might have fallen off a bit but singles off Crest are still good.

Anyone who says they like Eversince are just hipsters BTW, that shit is ass.


Fight me, Lorde is probably as good as it gets for female pop.

please name something off of crest that is listenable

 

[Markass the Worst]

TMBG: terminal soy band

Looks like you were right:

source (a)

 

[whogoesthere]

How is it were 4 pages in and yet nobody mentions negative xp or incelcore in general? Even the very name tells you who listens to it.

I think that band is very obscure for most people, and incelcore seems more an insult that a clear genre. Either way, they are both gay.

I don't think its wrong to enjoy any music, its when you make it your identity. Thats the key thing people are picking up on here, the strange attachment to media people engage in. Kinda like how gaming has its little things as well, people who identify with some type of game. Same with movies, and books. Some people really lack any personality beyond the things they consome.

You can always catch people out by asking them to list their interests or define themselves, and its always the same handful of statements most people make. Almost always centered around consumption as well.

 

[Fareal]

The warning sign for me is when someone claims to like something I'm deeply attached to. That can never end well. The only thing worse is when they claim to like your most beloved authors.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

2010's indie music was a huge red flag for me. Everyone I met back then who liked shit like Cold War Kids or Decemberists were socialist junkies who just didn't want to do anything to better their lives and wanted free hand outs. I don't know what the 2020's equivalent of that indie shit is now.
On the opposite of that, basic radio rock like Foo Fighters or Five Finger Death Punch usually means you're dealing with a low iq individual.

 

[Cnut]

So people under 30 actually like Tool, the Clash, Grateful Dead, Kiss, etc?

Tool is for grim 40-somethings, formerly disturbed 90s teens, but does fill an interesting prog-metal niche.

I know Kiss sold out arenas for decades but I've only met one person who even liked them, and he was a megafan with literally a hundred or more live bootleg cassettes he showed off at a party when it got brought up (by him.) The tapes were all meticulously labelled, color coded and ordered by date. Guy must be about 50 now.

The Clash can be fun but we know is for those "rebellious" Gen X-ers. The band did have a generational push through the 90s and Rock the Casbah will stay on the radio indefinitely. But how many of their fans know what they were bitching about exactly? I'm American, I don't really know. How much of political/topical punk like Dead Kennedys actually holds up? (Another band to watch out for fans of.) I'm reminded of when I was digging some Bob Marley tune until I realized the lyrics were all about celebrating the African diaspora. As a certified Whitey how am I supposed to jam out to that? What do I care about Margaret Thatcher? What relevance does raging against Ronald Reagan have in this day and age? Christ there are people still digging anti-Vietnam music.

Amazing the Dead culture is still going but for the general public I think the Dead is just Dancing Bears and Truckin/Casey Jones, if anything.

It seems like some fanbases age with the groups. Then there's the Beatles who never went away (but I think are increasingly seen as old people music) and Bowie R.I.P. who people seem to love more than ever.

Plenty groups mentioned in this thread are fine in doses (Ramones) or have different periods appealing to different tastes (Grateful Dead) but hardcore fans of anything are pretty dreadful.

Either you:
a) want nothing to do with it, or
b) are yourself a hardcore fan and develop a downward spiralling codependent relationship resulting in bankruptcy and mutual acrimony.

The band that is the biggest red flag for me is U2. I cannot bear their songs, and anybody who digs it is someone I would be on an opposite wavelength with.

 

[Sqwe-wi_Farmer]

Slipknot = Pending or resolved Failed suicide attempt

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Anyone who only listens to One Direction and Maroon 5 and anything like it is an indicator they're not sentient. Aphex Twin, Xxtarlit, Goreshit, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks and Cabaret Voltaire listeners are most likely the Sanctuary for truth finding on any side of the political spectrum they are. Western Christian music is relatively boring except for P.O.D and Sixpence, none the richer.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Women that listen to Muse are almost always cat ladies.

Yup. And the men that listen to Muse are the sort of guys who say "thanks for the gold, kind stranger!" or "you, sir, win the internet today".

I was thinking of what would be the pop version of KISS or Motley Crue, ie bands that were hugely popular but we can never find anyone who actually claims to like them: Train. Never encountered anybody who likes their music but they always seem to be big.

 

[Gutter Twin]

I agree with a lot of these posts so far, so I'm gonna try to talk about ones that haven't been discussed much yet. I try not to judge anyone too harshly for liking certain kinds of music, but I might raise an eyebrow. Unless you're an asshole, in which case you and the music you like suck.

Kinda been touched on already, but while you have your pretentious Fantano types, you also have those people who are obsessed with one band or genre only. When you're a teenager, I'd say this is pretty normal ( and usually has the mindset of "I will always love X band and nothing will ever top them!!"). But then you grow out of it. Those motherfuckers who go "Oh, you like that album by the band? Well, you should listen to this album instead because it's way better and that other album sucks" or "You only like that popular song by X band? LOL you're not a real fan" are mentally stunted. I'd say this is most common in metal and rock fans.

Closely related to that one is people who wax poetic about how much they love classical music. People who only listen to classical and brag about it think they are smarter and better than everyone else. If you are one of these people, you are a pretentious fuck.

I've had the fortune of never meeting anyone who has been a fan of a tranny that makes music. However, if I do meet one, I will know to avoid him like the plague. It's impossible to separate your image from transgenderism if you're a tranny artist. So if you are into that music, I'm assuming you're liable to troon out or are a foaming-at-the-mouth "ally."

Liking Green Day, Fall Out Boy, or Panic! At the Disco is a concern. However, if you encounter someone who claims to love all three, RUN.

I'm shocked no one has brought up Queen yet. I admit, I wasn't around when they were still active. From what people have told me, though, they weren't nearly as popular back in their time as they are now. I enjoy some Queen songs myself, but a lot of these Zoomer fans are clearly into them because "OMG Freddy was so gaaaaay!" They're basic pick-me bitches who think liking Queen makes them seem cool (it doesn't).

Another one for me is Elton John. I've never met anyone in this day and age who likes Elton John, and I don't know why anyone would.

Finally, as a Queens of the Stone Age fan, there is no bigger red flag than being a Queens of the Stone Age fan. You are either a pretentious stoner who can't go a single day without getting high, a middle-aged woman who has divorced at least once and desperately clings to the hope that 49-year-old Josh Homme will fuck you (you think I'm joking, but check the comments on some QOTSA YouTube videos and you will see what I mean), or you like alt-rock and want to look cool by liking a now somewhat obscure band (I'd put myself in this category ).

 

[Betonhaus]

If a guy likes Lady Gaga, there's a nonzero chance he likes butt stuff with other guys.