What type of music fan is the worst?
 

I no doubtedly say Metalheads. Mannny of them are arrogant, self proclaimed, stubborn, ignorant sons a bitches. They think you are a pussy and coward if you cant take there style of music, regardless of cheesiness and lack of creativity.

(do not be insulted though, not all are)

Metalheads, because anything that isn't metal 'is for pussies'.

Mallcore Kids (kids who shop at hot topic and listen to ICP & Slipknot)

don't even get me started on these walking abortions. Every time I see a 'juggalo' I get sick.

I say indie fans. Now now. No rants. Its my opinion that everybody already knows, lets leave it at that.

Metalheads of course tend to be huge douchebags as well. Theres some of them that can be pretty damn illiterate and socially inept. Punk fans can also be pricks, and hardcore fans are just assh*les. And of course everyones favorite. Emos.

And I know I'm biased when I say I think prog fans tend to be pretty open minded. But as with any kind of fan, there are exceptions. We have our share of idiots. I remember this one guy at progarchives who called Radiohead music for people who like Britney Spears and that Amnesiac was a bad ripoff of Pink Floyds The Division Bell. :laughing:

As a fan of metal, metalheads are the worst type. Most of them are just too close-minded. I would complain about the elitism of some of them, but elitism is present with many other genres too.

Some indie fans can be quite annoyingly close-minded too.

I find them all annoying.

I would love it if just once one of the indie kids came in saying how great The Groundhogs were.
Or a classic rock fan saying how great the last Double Leopards album was.

But that'll never happen.

Even as a classic rock fan myself, I have no problem saying that a lot of classic rock fans are just, well, stupid.

Not to mention they are always the least creative at making up usernames.

Any type of music fan can be annoying if they're unreasonably close-minded. Sometimes, if a person doesn't like a certain type of music, would it be soo hard to acknowledge that some talent went into it and just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it totally sucks ass? Maybe this is asking too much...

Actually a pretty big percentage of people on ProgArchives refuse to listen to anything beyond Prog or Classic Rock. It can be really annoying. Mickey is awsome though...He taught me the way of the Mellotron in Country.

Dream Theater fans easily.


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Well the other proggies here seem to be pretty open minded towards other genres, you included.

Forgotten Son and Pnoom are both very open minded. And me and Mickey go a while back, he posts on DDD under the name mikey, I know from the posting style that its him.

But yeah there are some closed minded individuals. One that comes to mind is Ivan Melgar Morey, the guy is like in his 40s (but so are most prog fans, lol) and though he knows his prog, he seems to be pretty ignorant of anything else. Add to that its hard to be taken seriously when you call Bjork talentless and "bubblegum pop" and give 5 star ratings to albums by Kansas.

Calls anything that's not uber-complex juvenile, has crappy taste, yah Ivan kinda' sucks.

Yeah, but to his credit I found some good stuff based on his recommendation.

Then again. Some of his progarchives ratings make me cringe. OK Computer and Whos Next get only 3 stars, while he gives a Styx album a 4. :laughing:

So yeah, we butted heads on DDD once, didn't get along very well, got into a nasty argument over weither or not Bjork makes progressive music (and anyone who thinks she dosen't is clearly deaf) and well, its funny because that was at least 4 years ago. And looking back on it now, knowing that this is the guy I was arguing with........

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1203306989

ProgArchives biggest weakness is the gang post-rapes...Ivan seems to always be in on them.

Mallcore kids give me the hebbie jebbies...:shycouch:


but yeah metalheads,scenekids and Juggalo/Jugglets are the most close minded individuals I've ever seen.

Nothing like being gang raped by a bunch of middle aged guys who are more interested in literature than socializing with women. =D

yes true, but they don't creep me out, just piss me off

I've actually been hit on by mallcore kids...which is like ewww!!!

omg! i don't know wether to laugh or puke, i'm sorry to hear that. =\ srsly they're like the ugliest out of all the genre fans.

I guess it's a pretty big weakness...

Juggalos/lettes/clowntards are by far the worst pieces of subhuman fecal matter to ever grace the Earth. Even Hitler wasn't half as vile as they are.

I've witnessed fans who take classical prestigiously are usually anal about everything, but they have to be that way as wasps I guess.

The most irritating are prog fans in general, as they think music has to be really complex and shiz in order to have the slightest semblance of value...which is a load of utter rubbish. In fact, the irony is that complexity comes over creativity for that lot, especially given the fact that the vast majority of the neo-prog music they listen to is so completely derivative of early 70s music as to induce laughter. And does virtually nothing new or cutting edge whatsover.

Then, Pitchfork-type indie fans are often twonkish as well. Actually, indie kids are frequently complete idiots. But firstly, Pitchfork types are idiotic because they are just as elitist as prog fans! They openly scorn various genres (particularly prog, in fact) just because they're not supposed to like it according to "party lines", so to speak. As for many indie scene kids in general, then they're annoying because they put "cool" and "image" over the music itself. They couldn't give a damn how uncreative the Libertines were or the point that none of them could play their instruments at all and that their second album was a load of tripe. The fact is that they had the best image of all time and that's all that matters.

Metal fans are twonks for, as has been pointed out, thinking that all other music is for pussies. I've seen at least one friend turn into a metalhead from having been a massive Coldplay fan, and the result was not a pretty sight to behold.

Many rap fans can be complete twits for being uninterested in listening to any other sort of music under the sun simply because it's not "cool" enough for them. Well, so some of that type of fan might listen to a bit of cookie-cutter contemporary r&b too. Whoop-tee-bloody-doo.

Country fans...I'm not even gonna go there.

Music "fans" who listen only to stuff on the radio, in shopping malls, TV advertisements and MTV and stuff...they're tolerable. But then, they have no refined tastes and are thus boring, so they suck too.

The world would be a better place without music fans...

On the contrary, most of the metal-heads i know aren't like that at all. True, they're not really that open-minded, but they don't go around insulting other's tastes and they seem to have a real genuine love for what they listen to. Must only be where i am!

Those ICP type fans sound horrible but i've never really encountered any, there was one on here a while ago though wasn't there?

Classic rock fans for me, the epitomy of close-mindedness. There's a whole group of people in my school who think music begins and ends with Led Zeppelin, which is very sad.

1.Rap/hip-hop kids
I just can't tolerate ppl singing along ALL THE FREKN TIME.

2.Metal heads who diss other genres.

3.People who keep saying "Modern day music sux blablabla"

The rest...i can tolerate upto an extent.

emo/nu-they just don't listen to other genres at all. All they do is stick to their SH!T and i really don't care as long as they don't bother me saying "xxx/yyy band sux".

The prog group some of you talk about...umm never heard of them...so donno much there :\

ppl who listen to MTV/Radio and say this is the greatest band blablabla can also be managed...since they don't know better music exist, they really don't comment much on it.

oh god dont get me started, my friend is obsessed with them and liquid tension experiment. he wont listen to anything that doesnt have pounding double bass and guitar shredding.

no but in all honesty, metelheads are the worst kind of fans.

the worse kind of music fan is the pretentious close minded individual who thinks only their taste is great yet refuses to educate others in regards to their music in fear that it would dilute the purity of their chosen style.

I feel behind asking this but can someone give me a good definition of mallcore?


edit: And agreeing with other posts in this thread, i had forgotten to mention indie fans. Once that happens it reaches beyond music, everything they wear say or do can not be considered "popular/mainstream". And also classic rockers, as said before it starts with Zeppelin and ends with Zeppelin.

IDK all music fans have their douche-fags.

U got the elitist indie fans. The elitist metalheads. The annoying scene kids that don't even listen to the bands that they wear shirts of. Apparently there are Mallcore kids. I don't know any mallcore kids so I don't really know if their as bad as you all say or not.

Then you've got people like my group of friends who listen to MCR and think that All American Rejects are the most talented band ever conceived (no joke, he actually thinks they have talent).

So really there are a lot of annoying music fans. It just comes down to your preference. I personally think scene kids are the biggest assholes on the planet, so I'll go with them.

classic rock and metal heads for the same reason as everyone else

also those who dismiss anything electronic "cus it's not made with real instruments"

I hate Tool fans probably the most, but not really in a musical way. They think that pretty much everything is a conspiracy, which gets really annoying. Punk fans can be like this sometimes.

I honestly hate any fan of any genre of music who isn't willing to accept any other genre, including pop. There are elitists in every genre so I can really pinpoint one genre.

BTW, there are three general types of metalheads:

HEAVY!!!!! metalheads - mostly the metalheads that talk about how heavy their death metal is or whatever. They are usually the ones who denote old metal bands because they are "troo" or heavy enough. Favorite bands almost always include Metallica.

Prog/Elitist-influenced Metalheads - These are the ones that only like the really fast death metal with technical solos in it and stuff. A lot of them masturbate to COB and Alexi, which is kind of odd, but whatever floats your boat. right?

Stoned/Doom metalheads - easily the coolest of them all since they are so laid back. They are obviously into the heaviest metal forms including sludge, stoner, and all the doom genres. These ones, while somewhat laid back, are great at trolling black metal fans and death metal fans. This is because while they are into doom metal, they know the other genres pretty well, so they no the right bands to say to the right fan.


A really general list, but whatever.

15 year olds who just learned to play guitar and thinks anything without a huge amount of solos is pointless.

I suppose the first scene I latched onto was the metal scene but the narrow minded attitude of most of them annoyed me then, even though my musical tastes were barely defined. I tired of the scene quickly not in a musical sense though (I still listen to a lot of Metal) and cut off my hair and ditched the pretence.

I find narrow minded fans the worst in whatever genre they prefer although Dance and Metal fans seem to be pre-occupied with millions of sub-genres, with many sounds being small variations on the same scene.

I do think as you get older you don't need to fit into any particular social scene and end up expanding your tastes.

:( I like Tool. I don't think I'm like that though.

Honestly I can't say I no more than 1 other Tool fan in person, and they weren't all that bad.

I don't know that many prog fans that actually think this way, sure they exist as I already explained, but they're not that plentiful. I find the prog fans here and the other forums I visit (including progarchives) to generally be very open minded. Not including prog metal fans though, they are awfully annoying.

Also I don't see why its so laughable to like something even if its not that original, sure Flower Kings are about as original as Stone Temple Pilots, but they're still a very talented band with the knack for composing really good prog songs. I'd rather listen to them than something I think is crap regardless of how original it is.

I mean you're a Nirvana fan (I am too) and lets be honest, they weren't hella original, they too were just recreating a sound that already existed, but its a sound you love, and thats all that matters right?

I think pitckfork types are way worse than any prog fan (Ivan included) you could throw at me. I certainly consider them way more pretentious. Try making a point of comparison this way. Read reviews from progarchives, people there tend to be very specific in discribing every song in great detail, yeah thats goddamn annoying, but at least their reviews are about the music.

Then go to pitchfork and read their reviews, where they basically pull any random word they can find out of a thesaurus regardless if it actually discribes the music. I mean just read this to see what I mean.

Amazing how many adjectives they can use and still manage to say absolutely nothing about the music.

My favorite pitchfork description of music ever is: "jolly melancholy"

So back to earlier, what exactly is mallcore...?

3rd definition was definitely the best.

I hate bad music fans.

The worst is the kind that confines themself to one genre.