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.

[PFM]

you're stanning for 3 bands gayer than 2 dicks touching yet you wanna throw around calling other people faggots?
righto cunt jog the fuck on

I don't even know what the fuck "stanning" means. Sounds like something a faggot would say.

 

[ShotgunTasteTester]

I've only heard about them once and, of course, it was from a fucking tranny.

Thread Tax: Anyone who says they'll listen to "anything". No specific genre. Just "anything". It's basically the quickest way to tell me you're the most boring fucking person in the world whose first question to someone you just met is "so, what do you do for work". But since you're up for listening to "anything", I guess you won't mind me playing some Anaal Nathrakh.

I fucking hate those retards. I always make it a point to play the most visceral heaviest thing I can think of at the time and watch them squirm. They always mean "I'll listen to anything that has been through the process of being retard approved and played on the radio"

Fucking modern country fans are some of the dumbest most braindead mouthbreathers I've ever come across. No, I don't give a shit about your big green tractor or your red solo cup. Most of the people who listen to that slop have never even seen a piece of farm equipment yet feel the need to larp as a "country boy" or "country girl" lifted truck (or jeep for women) cowboy boots and absolutely not a single thought running through their head

 

[Nigger Cobson]

I would mention female rap artists as a warning sign but the type of people that listen to that slop are negresses so I already know that it's a good idea to avoid them.

 

[Chick in Jockey]

Fucking modern country fans are some of the dumbest most braindead mouthbreathers I've ever come across. No, I don't give a shit about your big green tractor or your red solo cup. Most of the people who listen to that slop have never even seen a piece of farm equipment yet feel the need to larp as a "country boy" or "country girl" lifted truck (or jeep for women) cowboy boots and absolutely not a single thought running through their head

Yeah from my experience, most people out in the country only listen to country music because other people do. It's peak conformist-core. Unless they do hunting, hard physical labor, or something, 9/10 times, they don't actually like listening to it.

 

[Would]

Thread Tax: Anyone who says they'll listen to "anything". No specific genre. Just "anything". It's basically the quickest way to tell me you're the most boring fucking person in the world whose first question to someone you just met is "so, what do you do for work". But since you're up for listening to "anything", I guess you won't mind me playing some Anaal Nathrakh.

Lol I said "Anything" to my best mate in college (at the times I really was listening to anything- bachata, rock, jazz, blues, pop, breakcore, you name it) and he replied exactly as you did.
I told him it better be either Codex Necro or In The Constellation of the Black Widow, because Vanitas & Hell is Empty sucked.
His face still makes me chuckle to this day.
I agree with the sentiment you posted though; most people who say "anything" or "a little bit of everything" usually mean "Top 40" or "Whatever the radio or my social surroundings dictate is good", and it's annoying.

Same with Limp Bizkit. I mean yeah if now in 2024 you're a huge Limp Bizkit fan unironically, especially if you weren't old enough to remember when they first hit it big, I could see you being a massive faggot.

Defending LP while bashing LB is hilarious. They're the same bland one-trick Nu-Metal. LB's trick is fratbro party rock & LP's trick is pretending to be emotional angst.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Hell is Empty sucked.

Defending LP while bashing LB is hilarious. They're the same bland one-trick Nu-Metal. LB's trick is fratbro party rock & LP's trick is pretending to be emotional angst.

Wes Borland is holding that band together.

 

[Would]

Wes Borland is holding that band together.

I'm quite partial to John Otto myself. Fred is...Fred, and Wes is talented but incredibly up his own ass despite every project he started (BigDumbFace, Black Light Burns) being a dud and thus why he returned to LB.
John and Sam though? They just do their thing and do it well enough.

 

[Thomas Talus]

I listened to TMBG a bunch back in middle/high school, dropped off a bit in college, then The Spine came out and I listened to it once and it was so unmemorable that I not only never replayed it, I can't recall when I last listened to any of their music since.

 

[Nameless One]

Mostly rap and industry plants. Often these indie themed bands. Regretfully even HEALTH nowadays as they cater to an insufferable audience. Sadly Death Grips too. Or bands with history like DEFTONES who attract all sorts of these "im14andthisisdeep" folks. MCR fags who only know the Black Parade. Artists who have no general value musically, some of the lolcows like Colton here listened to bands like GHOST unironically. The unsophisticated sort of bands that can seem like white noise, people who will recommend mainstream bands but only skim their most popular works if that makes sense, who get all their music from algorithms instead of intentionally searching for music to listen to. Be on the lookout for algorithm bands, it is just infested with normies. Be aware of people who misuse emo and goth, people who consider shit like MCR and Three Days Grace, even Green Day emo. But, hey, I'M the warning sign sort of autist with music not them. These days any band could be considered a warning sign.

Overall though you should stop giving a fuck and just appreciate music on its own in my opinion. I wouldn't be able to enjoy music I thought I'd never listen to if I allowed fans or controversies stir me away from genres. Oh, yeah, one huge one, a whole GENRE as a warning sign will be BREAKCORE and SHOEGAZE often anything that attempts to emulate the sound of older eras of music but fail spectacularly, its infested with a lot of retarded faggots. I've made my case if you know how insufferable it gets. Breakcore attracts troons like flies to shit.

 

[Broadside]

They Might Be Giants is always a massive red flag

Edit: can't believe how many people have mentioned TMBG literally just above me lmao, stupid me

 

[Xev]

I would mention female rap artists as a warning sign but the type of people that listen to that slop are negresses so I already know that it's a good idea to avoid them.

La Chat and Gangsta Boo get a pass mainly because they were usually on tracks with 3 6

 

[Coolio55]

then The Spine came out and I listened to it once and it was so unmemorable that I not only never replayed it, I can't recall when I last listened to any of their music since.

You shut the fuck up nigger

 

[Darth Insanius]

Is there something about TMBG in particular that makes redditor-types flock to them?

I've only listened to the song Particle Man so I don't really have a good frame of reference on their music.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

>no one mentions U2
Grim. Absolute globohomo fake and gay retarded gigaslop, much like Taylor Swift.

 

[Kulee Baba]

>no one mentions U2
Grim. Absolute globohomo fake and gay retarded gigaslop, much like Taylor Swift.

U2 is fascinating to me because its fanbase is seemingly just Gen X. Baby Boomers don’t listen to that shit, I’ve never met a millennial who liked it. Just a narrow group of teenagers/young adults who grew up in the 80s. I think most bands that go for decades have a much wider fanbase.

Aerosmith was cooler & more relevant in the 90s to me than U2. I see U2 I think of Beavis screaming Boner.

 

[Spunt]

U2 is fascinating to me because its fanbase is seemingly just Gen X. Baby Boomers don’t listen to that shit, I’ve never met a millennial who liked it. Just a narrow group of teenagers/young adults who grew up in the 80s. I think most bands that go for decades have a much wider fanbase.

Aerosmith was cooler & more relevant in the 90s to me than U2. I see U2 I think of Beavis screaming Boner.

U2 are one of those bands that nobody will admit to liking, but that somehow sell gigantic numbers of records. Though I'll agree on the GenX thing, I'm from the next generation after that (early millenial) and even by my time U2 were a desperately uncool band for losers. Not quite dad-rock, because our dads hated them too, but I guess older-brother-rock or lame-ass-cousin rock. Other bands like U2 include ABBA, Coldplay and Train - I've never met anyone who has admitted to liking those bands, but someone is buying their albums and going to see their concerts. I've even met unironic Imagine Dragons and Nickelback fans, but nobody, ever, will admit to liking U2.

There are of course bands that are the opposite, and tend to be red flags: bands that people say they listen to but that very few people actually do: Death Grips, Die Antwoord, most Black Metal. Music that exists to be seen to be listening to, rather than just to be listened to. Not saying that any of that music is bad, necessarily, but you have to be suspicious of someone who has curated their music taste to impress people, they're usually deeply insecure and shallow.

Back in the late 2000s/early 2010s you had "Landfill Indie". This one is a bit personal to me because of my visceral hatred of the Strokes. The Strokes make bad music, sure, but it was what their breakthrough in 2001-ish did to the indie music scene. Before "Is This It", indie music was creative, weird and passionate - stuff like Radiohead, early Muse, Starsailor, Weezer, but when the Strokes turned up with their rich parents and industry connections all that was crushed and swept aside in a tidal wave of leather jackets, power chords and floofy hair. Suddenly Indie music was about who wore the most fashionable clothes. All the bands looked and sounded exactly the same because they were trying to be the Strokes. They were called "The [something]s", they hacked away at the Gibson ES-335s their parents bought them, and they all posed and preened and tried to get on the cover of GQ. The music was an afterthought. And the people who liked that absolute garbage, particularly the British scene which produced utter talentless dross like The Enemy and The View, were, in the truest sense of the word, posers. They didn't care about the music any more than the bands, they just went to the gigs to look cool. This was the genesis of the hipster phenomenon of the 2010s that raped the art, fashion and music worlds with a dick made of daddy's money and fashionably torn jeans. And some of those people are still around, and those people are walking red flags. If you still like the Strokes or Razorlight now, you are the very definition of "peaked in high school" and should be given a very wide berth by everyone.

 

[Kulee Baba]

There are of course bands that are the opposite, and tend to be red flags: bands that people say they listen to but that very few people actually do: Death Grips, Die Antwoord, most Black Metal.

I was a very hard sleeper a decade ago, if I put on Death Grips as my wake alarm I would wake the hell up. To this day if I’m feeling tired on the drive back home I’ll play Death Grips. MC Ride screaming in my ear just keeps me alert. For some reason Metal doesn’t really do that for me, Metal comes off largely corny or boring to my ears. True story I fell asleep at a Post-Metal concert.

But back to U2 I think the closest thing to them is 30 Seconds to Mars, another soft pop-rock band that got shilled hard no doubt thanks to Jared Leto already being an established actor. I’ve met ONE U2 fan in my whole (who I suspect was a literal gay man) but I’ve never met the millennial women who apparently have this cult like devotion to such an insipid band. But they have to exist right?

 

[Calandrino]

Other bands like U2 include ABBA, Coldplay and Train - I've never met anyone who has admitted to liking those bands, but someone is buying their albums and going to see their concerts.

ABBA have no weak songs,I'm actually concerned for the soul of anyone who won't admit that ABBA is great

 

[Spunt]

True story I fell asleep at a Post-Metal concert.

You probably had the most fun out of everyone there.

But back to U2 I think the closest thing to them is 30 Seconds to Mars, another soft pop-rock band that got shilled hard no doubt thanks to Jared Leto already being an established actor. I’ve met ONE U2 fan in my whole (who I suspect was a literal gay man) but I’ve never met the millennial women who apparently have this cult like devotion to such an insipid band. But they have to exist right?

I suspect you haven't met them because they've all moved to his cult compound and shaved their heads.

 

[Gingervitis]

Thread Tax: Anyone who says they'll listen to "anything". No specific genre. Just "anything". It's basically the quickest way to tell me you're the most boring fucking person in the world whose first question to someone you just met is "so, what do you do for work". But since you're up for listening to "anything", I guess you won't mind me playing some Anaal Nathrakh.

Honestly, I usually say “anything” when I’m in the car with someone and I’m trying to be polite. My taste is pretty much jazz, rock (prog and radio) and power/heavy metal.

Idk if anyone mentioned this yet, but anyone who listens to pop country is either a boomer or a self-proclaimed “party animal” (future child support payer/reciever)