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.

[Richard_Wetpasta]

Please be patient with me here I'm not super great at structuring things. I will stress not all of this is necessarily bad music but more about the fans.

Neutral Milk Hotel fans are usually the "nice guy" incel kinda type. They browsed /mu/ in 2013. The fans of this don't seem to understand that all the shit about semen and sex in that album is kind of fucking weird and sounds like someone trying to groom a goddamn 15 year old. As a teenager I liked this album but man it weirds me out now and makes me uncomfortable now.

Folk punk, its all girls who smoke and dudes who want to fuck girls who smoke. The men who listen to this will brag about being "worldly." While the women say they're "old souls" even if they're only like 19.

Punk fans. Punk is like this weird husk of itself that got occupied by really statist leftoids that have really bad cognitive dissonance. I feel like it as a genre is kind of antithetical to the thought processes people that listen to it have. It almost feels like its meant to fullfill this subconscious desire to rebel but everyone involved has really status quo ideological thinking. The fans of this will tell you how bad trump is every waking minute of the day and rejoice in the trump indictment of the week.

Rage against the machine. I'll specify I like the first album, a stand out track for me is Wake up (the song where they talk about the government orchestrating assassinations). The rest is really controlled opposition that doesn't really target any specific ideas. Its nonspecific protest songs. Kinda like punk as a whole, so the fans of this also have really bad cognitive dissonance about functionally everything.

Tools been mentioned a fuckload in this thread. I really like undertow so...any tool album except undertow. Its all just romanticizing psychedelics where as I feel like undertow expresses a lot of frustration with substance use. A lot of the post here seem to talk about girls that like it but I've maybe met two women ever who like it; one is like a 50 year old mom of a former friend, she was cool but she got aids from her husband because he was in the navy and she was kinda pissed about it all the time(I mean rightfully so). The other was this black FTM tranny I dated once for like a couple weeks, I think she just liked the romanticization of psychedelics.

Eminem. Anyone who listened after the relapse/refill albums. Everything after that is like the whiniest first world problem shit. His fans punch holes in dry wall and try to convince you to sell them your shit. Upon recieving said goods they pretend they have never interacted with you. You never got payed for anything, and it's probably your little brother who does this shit.

Nu-Metal fans, Very large overlap in behavior with eminem fans, with a splash of cognitive dissonance from the punk fans. They all will tell you they were physically abused as a kids though.

Rap fans very materialistic group of people, there are subgenres that don't seem to promote that as much but like damn the behaviour encouraged by most of it is gross. Prone to chimping out on a moments notice when they feel theyve not been "respected." Whatever the fuck that means. It's more of an "if they don't like you its more of a matter of did you or didn't you submit to their antics" kind of thing..

Nirvana, not bad music but man all it's fans are zoomer girls that really really romanticize the fictionalized idea of kurt cobain as a character. They all tell you and everyone they know they've got PTSD and other self diagnosis.

Death Grips fans. Now I love me death grips but like if a dude listens to it, almost universally they're a dude in a discord server full of furries. If a woman likes them, she likely has BPD and wants to fuck anything that moves. She probably had an ex that liked them and thats how she found out about them.

Marilyn Manson fans. lol put the banana down TJ kirk. Anyone who can defend Manson knowing the groupie tape exists is fucking retarded. and one of the only 2 people that confirmed it existed was Andy Dick. Andy Dick has seen the Manson groupie torture rape tape, and even he was all "dude this is fucked up"

Nine Inch Nails. a lot of fans of this seem to romanticize columbine and/or antisocial behavior. Case in point this dude. They will also tell you they were abused not just by family but also lean on society as a whole.

Mastodon if you like this you like IPA. I like crack the skye though I can't judge you for it.

Theres other stuff I can't think of off the type of my head. I might add to this later.

 

[Retard of the Month]

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.

 

[iSaidShhh]

This might not go here but I've seen her mentioned a couple of times and it just occurred to me: I predict that there will be a reckoning for Phoebe Bridgers within the next couple of years, because she CANNOT stop fucking married men (Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, Bo Burnham). She'll blame Adams for it and say that being groomed by him gave her unhealthy ideas of what romance means or some bullshit and she'll be forgiven, but it'll cause a lot of boring discourse about whether or not cheating is bad if it means they're banging a very sad and emotionally in-tune woman rather than whatever boring, unfamous harpy they're married to now.

Wait fuck thread tax:
- SuicideBoys. Have never met someone that was genuinely super into them that wasn't 1. under 18, 2. a recently released felon, or 3. in active addiction.
- Kylie Minogue. Exclusively annoying gays that love Drag Race.

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.

There are definitely large, active fan groups for Sigur Ros, the National and Fleet Foxes on social media! And people will get fucking insane about Fleet Foxes in particular. I'm not sure how fan groups for Sigur Ros can stay active because of their Icelandic-induced narcolepsy, but whatever, more power to them.

Tame Impala,

You have met some weird motherfuckers to include them in the same list as Marilyn Manson and Emilie Autumn. All the Tame Impala fans I've ever met have either been high-waist skinny jeans BPD 20 year old girls that desperately want to fuck Matty Healy or guys that think dropping acid one time in high school, like, really expanded their consciousness, man, and who also probably want to fuck Matty Healy.

 

[BIG_BRAD]

Ghost

Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls

 

[Gypsy Man]

I'd say fans of Mountain Goats, Kero Kero Bonito, Godspeed You Black Emperor or Boards of Canada also land onto that same spectrum as either Fleet Foxes or Aphex Twin fans. These type of people are really relaxed, comfortable and very cool people to talk to.

No. Too many troons around there, especially on the dedicated Discord servers.

 

[TVB]

No. Too many troons around there, especially on the dedicated Discord servers.

I've never been to an actual Aphex Twin Discord server. That's probably why

 

[Unsane]

Rolling Stones are so boring it defies belief.

 

[Hrafn]

Mitski.

I quite like her work tbh as I think she channels her emotions into her songwriting very well, but her work attracts mentally ill white and mixed race women and pooners who insist that her entire catalogue is sad girl music, like flies do shit. She has a lot more to offer than that, IMO.

If you see one in the wild, start running in the opposite direction as quickly as possible, peak insufferable.

 

[User names must be unique]

Aesop Rock, they think pretending to understand the dense and complex verbiage makes them intellectual, when they're reading genius or watching "dark souls lore" tier youtubers explain what's going on.

King Gizzard and the lizard wizard, They think liking weird stuff for the sake of it being weird makes them interesting

Brand New, they desperately romanticize being sad.

Queens of the stone age, it's the safe side of a weird spectrum of music, they probably fantasize about taking way to many psychedelic drugs and running around bollock naked.

Dead Sara, Flyleaf, The Joy Formidable, Blue Pills, Hop Along (insert rock band with female vocalist here) if it's a man. Its a man who will do anything to make out that he's safe, pro-woman, feminist, ally, probably a rapist.

Elbow, The National, The Good The Bad and The Queen, The Future of the Left, Klaxons, RUN they're either british or don't understand being british is weird.

System of a down, they're either 14 or never grew up.

Anyway that's just some of my favourite artists.

 

[Calandrino]

Thanks everyone, it helps when you name specific artists instead of genres, so I know what to fave on spotify

 

[Gypsy Man]

I've never been to an actual Aphex Twin Discord server. That's probably why

The fans outside Discord and Reddit or RYM are pretty cool to talk to. Sadly, the fans from Discord invaded the forums and started to spread the most mundane and unfunny memes.

 

[Begemot]

Foo Fighters is for Australian dads in their 40s who drive a Ford Ranger Wildtrak yet never take it off-road, and the biggest thing he carries in the tray is his kids' footy boots on Saturdays. He'll spend half of Sunday morning cleaning and polishing said tray whilst rocking out to the Fooeys and maybe a bit of Powderfinger if he wants to change things up a bit.

Which is a worse Genx/millenial Australian music red flag? Powderfinger, the Whitlams or Something for Kate?
What about regurgitator?

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Aesop Rock

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.

King Gizzard and the lizard wizard

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.

 

[waratteruN]

Taylor Swift, Adele, literally any female artist that promotes man hating

 

[Begemot]

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.

Fan of the Arcade Fire and the National, sorry. Neon Bible is one of my favourite albums. Forgive me.

 

[TVB]

Taylor Swift, Adele, literally any female artist that promotes man hating

And mostly consisting of middle-aged single white women and other female normies.

The fans outside Discord and Reddit or RYM are pretty cool to talk to. Sadly, the fans from Discord invaded the forums and started to spread the most mundane and unfunny memes.

It goes to show you that Discord, Reddit and KYM ruin almost everything

 

[Beige]

King Gizzard and the lizard wizard, They think liking weird stuff for the sake of it being weird makes them interesting.

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.

I know some people who are really into King Gizzard. Best I can tell, they almost never actually just sit down and listen to the music by itself. They always have it on in the background in their car and at parties/hangouts. The only time it has their full undivided attention is when they're tripping/rolling balls at a live show. They like it more for the "vibe". (Both in the atmosphere of the songs, and moreso how they think it makes other people perceive them).

So yeah, I would file the fans under "Basic bitch who doesn't know the difference between weird/artsy and actual creativity/art."

I put the band itself under the same category as Phish. Not terrible, but way too meandering, exhausting to actually listen to for more than a couple minutes.

 

[TVB]

I mean I like King Gizzard a lot, but its fanbase really confuses me

 

[iSaidShhh]

King Gizzard put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen but the above comparison to Phish is spot on - they're in the Phish/Government Mule/Trampled by Turtles category where it's more of an experience than anything and their recorded stuff is just kind of a byproduct. The quirky name has attracted a lot of ~quirky people~ too.

 

[AgendaPoster]

I personally despise most pop. At least half of my breakups were because I couldn't fucking stand the "artistic" tastes my GFs had. Imagine unironically listening to latino music. Imagine being a Ricky Martin fan "bitch this fucker is gay you'll see" - nuh-uh you mad cause he handsome - 2 years later dick sucking beach frolicking. The sacrifices I had to make for pussy have marked me for life. Do you know I watched Gilmore Girls, with at least 3 GFs? THREE of them, all GG enjoyers, all wanting to watch that slop together.
As for warning signs, sigh.
Who cares.
You do what you have to do. Life's tough, masturbation sucks.