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.

[malapropism]

I've enjoyed every post in the thread despite not agreeing with half of them. The intersection of bands, artists, and fans is fascinating to study.

A red flag to me is anyone espousing EVERYONE to stop listening to a particular artist or genre from an inability to separate art and artist while also hypocritically glossing over artists they love.
i.e. "pop punk is bad cuz groomers" while they make exceptions for domestic abusive west coast rappers
or "Michal Jackson was a pedo" while they make exceptions for Jessie from Brand New
or "x member is totally a nazi trust me" - applied to the recently deceased frontman of Smash Mouth
or any of the countless projections i've seen from forums and IRL. The asshole that I think of when writing this - their most listened artist was Lostprophets
Basically the moment someone jumps at others to stop listening to (or even liking) music they better apply that judgement evenly with their own shit, or better yet, not try to control people.

A second (which I covered in the unpopular opinion thread) is anyone with such an appeal to authority they don't explore past the rym approved top album especially if its a band they claim to love. Doubled if they plaster that particular album's art on their living space, social media, or body itself. There is no $ argument anymore, slsk, youtube, spotify, torrents, searching "gdrive". Even If I adore a certain era of an artist I love I'll explore more to find out exactly when that golden era ended or began.

 

[Pee Cola]

Which is a worse Genx/millenial Australian music red flag? Powderfinger

That just says you're a dude in his 40s that spends what little spare time he has between work and taking the kids to sport on polishing the Ranger or Hilux in the driveway.

the Whitlams

There's a red flag right there. Greens-voting vegan cyclists with an incurable case of Dunning-Kruger, the lot of them. Thankfully you don't see too many of those outside of Melbourne and Sydney's inner suburbs. Definitely the worst of the bunch.

Something for Kate

Probably like fans of The Whitlams, only less radicalised. TBH I don't remember the last time I met a Something For Kate fan.

What about regurgitator?

Dudes who reckon that farts are funny and unironically listen to The 12th Man when his kids are in the car i.e. based Gen X dads.

 

[Begemot]

That just says you're a dude in his 40s that spends what little spare time he has between work and taking the kids to sport on polishing the Ranger or Hilux in the driveway.

There's a red flag right there. Greens-voting vegan cyclists with an incurable case of Dunning-Kruger, the lot of them. Thankfully you don't see too many of those outside of Melbourne and Sydney's inner suburbs. Definitely the worst of the bunch.

Probably like fans of The Whitlams, only less radicalised. TBH I don't remember the last time I met a Something For Kate fan.

Dudes who reckon that farts are funny and unironically listen to The 12th Man when his kids are in the car i.e. based Gen X dads.

Pretty good run-down, mate...
What about Augie March *shudder*

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Tool fans have becoming increasingly a red flag for me. If someone says they like Tool I instantly start picturing gas chambers in my head, for some reason.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Tool fans have becoming increasingly a red flag for me. If someone says they like Tool I instantly start picturing gas chambers in my head, for some reason.

I'm a Tool fan (I have to be in the mood to listen to them) and I understand what you mean.

 

[Drain Todger]

Anyone who likes Taylor Swift or Imagine Dragons. For that matter, any dipshit who says "I'm into rock, sure", and then gives you examples that are all bleep bloop fucking Thom Yorke crackhead yowling over some minimalist synth with no guitars and no riffage. I hate that shit.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

Tyler, The Creator fans - as reflected by the Bastard-Goblin to Post-Flowerboy shift: are all too frequently dudes who had a past history of openly/flauntingly doing the most heinous/nefarious shit; and are now larping as saccharine 'le innocent UwU woke artsy fartsy smol beans' as soon as it became trendy/fashionable.

The common denominator profile typically being economically privileged but behaviorally disheveled kids - either spoiled to hell and back by their daddies and never taught discipline nor empathy - or otherwise had a sleezy, superficially charming 'crown prince of the uncanny valley' high end sales commissioner/entrepreneur parent living a shady double life (and likely assraping his son behind the curtains) - hence the overcompensation by acting like a tryhard 80's cartoon schoolyard bully caricature.

You know that recently emerged trope of rapacious college-aged fratdouches who abruptly start they/theming just to conveniently evade/dodge cancellation? That encapsulates Tyler and his greater listenerbase to a T.

 

[TVB]

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The most ironic thing is that I like Tyler the Creator's music, but I despise him and/or his fanbase for trying to use his music as leftist political ideology

 

[._.]

I can see where you'd get that opinion but really I think most fans of his just enjoy listening to thesaurus-rap with interesting production and themes.



I genuinely do not understand fans of this band. I tried to listen to a few albums and like, a single song is fine but the biggest issue I have with them is that the albums all feel like a big long energetic cacophonous song that just never fucking ends. I don't have the stamina to listen to that.

lol I came in here kinda looking for this especially because I was just listening to it. I was scrolling youtube for anything different than what the algo usually shows me and had None Shall Pass on my favorites which I know got a lot of shit, so it was showing me some newer shit he made.

I like his weird cadence and the interesting lyrics and verbosity, I could see how people could think its all kind of the same but if that does it for you.... My grandma was an english teacher and self published a few books of poetry, but it was mostly limerick types where its focused on the doublet rhyming, so when you hear something like that thats a biot different than most hip hop (still about rhyme and flow but maybe less about 'spitting') and has weird samples and a weird tempo youre like 'Oh thats interesting'.

Sigur Ros, Wilco, Arcade Fire, The National, Fleet Foxes, - These bands... I'm convinced don't exist because I've never met a full-fledged fan of them. I see their albums online but they can't actually be real bands. I've at least MET people who know or listen to Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Bjork and Tame Impala. Not true for these. Are there enclaves or large villages and cults of people scattered around the planet who are the only people who have listened to an album by The National? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE? I lie awake at night ruminating the terror I would feel meeting someone who's actually listened to "Funeral" and has it as one of their favorite albums, not because I would hate them but because it would actually prove to me a fan of Arcade Fire actually was out there in the real world, was real, and that there would there would be millions of others within a close vicinity of them.

I feel like these are bands you get into because you hear one or two songs you like, or its at a certain period in your life. I had a friend playing double bass in orchestra introduce me to Sigur Ros once and I went 'Oh yeah, this sounds pretty cool' so I downloaded a torrent of their discography in like 2009, but really only listened to Glosoli and one or two others.

Wilco I think mostly exists because hes a legacy band and a big name but still playing, or maybe because at leas Jeff Tweedy was a kind of famous name before internet diaspora of music really took off, idk. Now that Im thinking, most of his most famous songs and albums are from around the 2000s to maybe late 2000s and I think hes famous for his drummer and guitarist too. I kind of feel like the lyrics are more poetic, kind of like what Nick Cave became and maybe some Tom Waits--I imagine someone like Fantano would call these guys an 'artists artist' or some shit.

This is getting spergy but I like Arcade Fire and have listened to Fleet Foxes when they put out that album during covid, listened to it a lot while taking walks.

 

[CobraPlissken]

Folk metal: autists who think they're badass viking warriors but have the muscle tone of a plastic bag filled with pancake batter no matter what their BMI is and think drinking beer is a personality trait.
Power metal: autists who think they're badass medieval fantasy warriors but have the muscle tone of a plastic bag filled with pancake batter no matter what their BMI is and think drinking beer is a personality trait.
Thrash metal: autists who think they're badass mosh pit warriors but have the muscle tone of a plastic bag filled with pancake batter no matter what their BMI is and think drinking beer is a personality trait.

Also if you like neoclassical metal, Van Halen, or prog rock I assume you're an insufferable turbosperg who hasn't listened to anything new (or eaten a single vegetable) for the past 35 years.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

I understand people on here defending Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Wilco and such. I guess my point is I've never met another literal human being in person who brought them up... at all. I don't really live in an artsy community but still. None of you guys' really exist so any points you make are moot.

Oh, here's one I hate.
Anyone who tries to defend an album that was critically maligned when it was first released and proselytize it to the world, even when seemingly everyone is defending it now. Good example would be something like Pinkerton by Weezer. It's decent enough and a solid second album. But better than the first? Some great artistic emotional triumph? It's just pretty good.
Just stuff that everyone says "is actually, like... GOATED bro!" when in reality it's just fine. Igor is another album. It's not enough that the black sheep isn't bad. It has to actually be a triumph of genius.

 

[Sultan Bin Jewstar]

Girl: "Tool is my favorite band." This chick hates her father, has had sex with thirty year-olds while in high-school, and goes by a nickname, or "babe" even in her thirties. She does whip-its like it's the mid-nineteen nineties and most likely has dimple piercings, saves used condoms, and fucks her just-friend's friend out of boredom.

This girl also enjoys nine inch nails

Dude: "White Chapel is fukken brutal!' FAAAAT dude who lived with his parents until his thirties. Took shopclass in high-school because math is hard. Really fat. Has a lot of money for tattooes because parents don't charge him rent. Basically Eric Cartman but METAL!

Yes

Dude: "A Day to Remember is the best to see live..." most likely date raped a chick between 2006-2009. Has two kids from two different ex-scene girls.

Are we talking about the band members or the fans?
The only right answer is "both"

Die Antwoord:
* You should be on lithium
* You have a bowl cut
* You have a nearly-full abortion clinic punch card (next one is on the house!)
* Your boyfriend should grow a spine

Corpse Husband:
* See above

Hank Williams III:
* You need a shower
* You're like MacGyver, but at manufacturing meth

Out of high school and listen to EDM:
* You have brain damage
* You have conducted sex acts in a portapotty
* You complain about men "looking at you that way", but you're wearing pasties and fingerless gloves- nothing more

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

EDM is a sign of BPD

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I can't edit posts on this forum for some reason, so...

David Bowie: he's just okay, but his fans are all hobnobbers and cockslobbers. Bowie is overrated and his fans just follow a cult of personality.

 

[Tablet County]

Anybody who unironically likes Imagine Dragons is secretly a reptilian and you should kill them.

David Bowie: he's just okay, but his fans are all hobnobbers and cockslobbers.

I can't believe I was a cockslobberer this whole time.

This is for all Dream Theater fanboys:

You will never be real metalheads.
You have no edge. You have no growling. You have no emotion.
You are Rush fans twisted by Hot Topic culture and depression into a cruel mockery of Ozzy's perfection.

You say that like being a Rush fan is a bad thing. If this is so then I may have to kill you too.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Even If I adore a certain era of an artist I love I'll explore more to find out exactly when that golden era ended or began.

By doing this I've often ended up finding albums I like even better than the album I originally thought was the artist's peak.

 

[Echo_Ender]

Off the top of my head:

• Lady Gaga. Her fans are almost all genderspecials and seem to think she's some kind of legitimate LGBTQBBQ+ icon who understands their plight, when she's just an artist who found an easy fanbase to pander to.
• Taylor Swift. She's practically the mascot for BPD girls these days.
• Every Green Day. I don't know a single Green Day fan that can resist sperging about their political beliefs nonstop.
• HIM. Emo kids in denial that they were emo kids. Those stupid "Heartagram" tattoos they have might as well be a warning sign.

there's a whole pop-adjacent genre that's all just damaged BPD girls making sad/angry songs about how super difficult it is to have their problems, or how they're totally over That One Relationship even though they've made like eight songs about it, or how they're so psychologically dominated by needing love that it makes them unstable, etc, like a whole genre made by and for ex-girlfriends. like Halsey, Banks, Billie Eilish, the new Demi Lovato (after her Disney Channel years), I'm unfortunately familiar with these artists cause I was with a girl who was into them and man. if you ever meet a girl that listens to that shit on the reg, turn the other way and run for your fucking life

Yeah, this one is hilariously accurate. One of my friends described it as "Emo shit, but made exclusively for emotionally messed up, attention-seeking girls that think being proud of their mental issues and emotional baggage makes them special."

I don't have any specific bands for this one, but dudes who are into that viking war chant music, or like viking gothic metal, are devastatingly cringe posers who need to cling to somebody else's of image of toughness so they can adopt it as a facade.

These guys are some of the ones that will also insist on showing everyone an "Awesome new song" they found on YouTube that turns out to be 6 straight minutes of repetitive, guttural chanting.

They will think it's the greatest thing ever and be so into it that they're blissfully unaware that everyone they're showing it to couldn't give less of a shit.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I don't think Taylor Swift is a sign of BPD girls. But basic, high drama, high-maintenance gossipy ones, for sure.

Every Dead Kennedys fan I've ever met was a political Jello Biafra-esque tier of faggot.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

Radiohead is just Tool but for anorexic crybaby twinks instead of morbidly obese fedorian bloatbags. I would say that any prior history of dedicated Radiohead fanaticism is a reasonable litmus test for predicting future troonage.

As for (s)tool fans in particular:

 

[Art Corvalay]

100 gecs fans are just trooned-out Death Grips fans.

And male Death Grips fans are pretentious degenerate redditors who are likely to either be trying to groom teenage girls or are part of a furry diaper fetish discord