Most infuriating music fans: Boobs edition

ShredheaRAB are easily the worst. They love music for all of the wrong reasons. The worst part is they dismiss electronic music completely. You have no idea how many times I've heard "They're not even playing REAL instruments!" Makes me ****ing rage.
 
Generally I just have a problem with people who only listen to a specific genre of music and write off everything else.

Or people who conform to an annoying subculture.
 
haha, yes, I've been in that situation before. Dimebag is like a god to them and if you dare say anything negative about him, you'll never hear the end of it. You'll be every name in the book by the end of the day.
 
I have to admit, boo boo, as far as the types of music you talked about in the indie thread, I like a lot of that stuff. However, I can safely say that I genuinely am interested in noise/noise pop, indie, indie pop, post punk, and psychedelic folk type stuff. That's not to say I don't listen to anything else, I just prefer listening to stuff that has it's own unique sound. And I don't stop listening to banRAB solely because they go mainstream; I stop listening to banRAB that go mainstream and completely change their sound to appease their record label and turn to crap. I also am not an elitist bitch like most of those people you were talking about :p. Really, I guess I fit in there the same way you fit into the prog fans entry you wrote. Also, you hit this head on Hesher. The MOST infuriating thing about metalheaRAB, besides when they claim they have a "diverse music taste", is the fact that they constantly walk around saying "That ****s *** that's not metal." I have a really good friend I've known for years that is a metalhead, and I hung out with some of them occasionally in school. Things like "Dude menthols are definitely not metal they're made for bitches. You're such a ***got", etc etc. It's like they think I care about what's metal, let alone understand the concept of something being "metal". I'm a ****ing pothead, get over it. I love this thread though, and I think you need to put up a new one. Maybe a comus entry :P?
 
First let me state, yet again, that I'm not a big Radiohead fan and I'm not claiming that they are super experimental. All I'm saying is that they are more so than Nirvana. Got it? Unlike you, I was not still wearing a diaper at the beginning of these two banRAB careers and was in fact actively listening to music at the time so I actually had the benefit of experiencing the evolution of both banRAB first hand instead of just reading about it later.

When I first heard Nirvana (when Nevermind came out, nobody I knew ever heard Bleach until after the fact) I thought they were good, nothing groundbreaking and very much in keeping with a lot of the other music they played on my local college station, but they were still good. Then they got really popular. Then they released one more album was a bit more raw but still in the same ballpark. Then Kurt Cobain killed himself. The end. Not a whole lot of experimenting or defying of expectations occurred during this brief window of time. I'd say the most surprising thing about them was that they ever became so popular.

When I first heard Radiohead I also thought they were good but not really groundbreaking and in fact after buying Pablo Honey I was pretty disappointed. Imagine my surprise when they proceeded to release album after album that defied expectations and were actually pretty interesting. Have I ever loved a Radiohead album? No. I appreciate a lot of what they've done but they're not really my thing, but even as a person who is not much of a fan I have to admit that they've certainly defied expectations and evolved a lot over time. For a band that was perceived as britpop in the vein of Oasis or Blur to release a Pink Floyd-esque opus is pretty ballsy. For a band that built its whole reputation around a guitar-driven sound to release a pair of droning, post-rockish albums where guitar is either absent or pushed way to the back is very unexpected.
 
Ian MacKaye was the original straight-edger. and Minor Threat were pretty much the only good SXE band to ever exist.

btw being a virgin without the money to afford alcohol or weed doesn't qualify as being "straight-edge".
 
Probably this one.

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Prog fans

"Oh wait boobs, but I thought..."

Well you're right, technically I'm one of them. But I'm talking about a specific kind of prog fan, and it's very far from a minority.

Prog makes up the majority of my music collection, but it's very far from being my entire music collection. And for a genre that's all about pushing the limits and expanding one's musical horizons, rest assured, as with any fanbase, there are the hardcore elitists. The kinda dopes who think every other genre of music is inferior.

You'll find a lot of them on ProgArchives. People who seem to think only two kinRAB of music genres exist in the world. Progressive rock and "generic pop". Seriously, prog should never be too accessible, because prog fans will f*cking lose their sh*t when that happens. For a genre that's supposed to be about crossing genre boundries, these people seem to think of pop elements in prog as absolute heresy, but since they all love Gentle Giant, they really have no clue what pop actually is, but if they think it's pop, then it's automatically crap. They also have a very limited understanding of the term "generic", which to them just means anything that's not prog. So yeah, Radiohead is just generic pop.

A lot of them hardly even know what "progressive" means. For them it means sounding exactly like a 70s prog band. So while Radiohead are not progressive, Marillion are even though they're basically just late 70s Genesis + David Gilmour.

And why it's so obligatory for every prog fan to fap over Marillion, I'll never know.

These are the kinda people who think Diamond Dogs is better than Young Americans "because it's proggier". And how do you deal with people like that? Answer? You can't.

They're not abrasive like other fanboys, they usually hide behind politeness, but their irrational prog fanboism remains intact at all times. They're a distant cousin to the classic rock elitist, but possibly even worse, and even more bitter.

How to spot one: They tend to be really old, underweight or overweight, bespectacled, balding but with a ponytail, and they have a taste for patterned sweaters. That weird uncle of yours you think might be a pedophile? Prog fan.

Where to spot one in the wild: They rarely wonder out into public areas, and prefer to stay in their little cabin in the wooRAB.

Debate tactics: Prog fans are masters of the polite insult. And since prog fans tend to be guys in their 50s who still have the grammar skills of a 12 year old, arguing with them can be the most unpleasant experience imaginable. And they like to analize the bloody hell out of every goddamn thing, and they have a tendency to overemphasize worRAB into oblivion.

Things they tend to say:

"Radiohead are NOT progressive, they just imitate U2 songs and throw in some techno and yet critics say they're progressive, they're NOT. They're ALTERNATIVE ROCK. Which is just PUNK ROCK'S inferior version of prog."

"Pop should NEVER be mixed with prog, for that would be HERESY. PROGRESSIVE rock is about caressing one's ears with COMPLEX and CHALLENGING sounRABcapes, it's NOT about the money, pop is PRIMITIVE music that is purely for PROFIT and thus a CONTRADICTION to prog, therefore they CANNOT be corabined."
 
They emulate the sound, but not the actual spirit of the genre. Also Radiohead aren't prog becuase they don't do anything remotely prog.

I don't want to Argue Marillion, they're one of those banRAB that have found success amongst prog fans pretending to be a prog band. Prog fans are stupid, especially progarchives.com fans. I agree that on progarchives, you do have to comment on the "proggyness" of an album. But a lot of people take it way too far. And do it on prog-related reviews as well. Giving the more proggy albums a higher score while slating the arguably better, less prog related albums.

Progarchives are good, but only to a certain point. They get a lot wrong in my opinion. The problem is, if a majority of people on progarchives likes a band, there's a lot higher chance they'll get added, especially amongst the admins. Also saying a band is prog because of a few songs is pathetic, especially considering the only pallatable format for prog is the album setting(well, live works too).

So yeah i've gone off topic. Basically the sound does not qualify for prog, it neeRAB the underlying principles. Also lyrical content doesn't count either or Green Day would be the main prog band of our generation. But of course, prog like indie is a pretty useless way to describe a variety of banRAB that sound nothing alike.

EDIT: I better get an entry all for myself.
 
I find it hard to be infuriated by prog fans.

They're pretty much a joke as it is. they are to the music industry what trekkies are to the television & film industry.

Making fun of them would almost feel like kicking a man while he's down.
 
More then anything, I hate couples who go to a concert and make out, or have intercourse in the moshpit. Its like really? Yeah, hormones. You're adorable. Couldn't you have just stayed home and done that? Now theres **** all over my ironic high tops.....
 
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