The Top Ten Most Infuriating Music Fans Ever

boo boo · 06-07-2009, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

8. Second-gen Nirvana fans

Kurt Cobain is such a weathered punching bag. Immortalized upon his death in 1994, we’ve had scarce precious moments since that day devoid of some sort of slavish obsession with his music. Whether it comes from people lamenting the latest succession to the Twenty-Seven Club or the idiots from VH1 Storytellers, in some form or another Kurt and his band Nirvana have been shoved down public throats in gross detail for about fifteen years. For me, it was a bit of a different story.

Like most other people my age, I really couldn’t give less of a damn when Kurt Cobain died. I’m sure my day was spent just like every other happy five-year-old. Nirvana remained on the radio in solid repeat for a good ten years afterwards (and they might be there still, I don’t know), so I was fairly acquainted with their music. Well into my teens I began to see people – people my age – pay homage to the dead celebrity with butchered covers of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” rank throughout talent shows and garage band performances.

I didn’t understand.

Maybe it was their neediness for a hero, but these kids my age were stepping back ten years or so and latching onto a man who ironically disdained the commercial pap smear that music had become. Whatever their reason, there seemed to be an upshot of idiots that incarnated the fucks brigade incorporated as “the last great rock band”. Since when did heroin abuse and an uncompromising obsession with Neil Young constitute a musical genius?

It didn’t stop there. Fast forward five years or so, I’m in my early twenties now. My first few bands are all projects of my friends and somehow I’m still subject to overexposed morons who grew up on a solid diet of bullshit and Nevermind. Even today, I’m constantly reminded of the conversation I had in seventh grade with a fat fuck on the school bus exalting the virtues of some washed-up grunge band that long outlived their welcome. He said he cried the day that Kurt Cobain died.

Yeah, I would have too if I would have known what blind, toady cunts his death would conceive.

You have a point, Nirvana fanboys can be very annoying.

But I think obsessive Nirvana haters are significantly worse, especially when it comes to metalheads.

crash_override · 06-07-2009, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

You have a point, Nirvana fanboys can be very annoying.

But I think obsessive Nirvana haters are significantly worse, especially when it comes to metalheads.

Agreed. People who refuse to recognize that Nirvana did anything productive for rockmusic are much more annoying than the people who think they re-invented it.

Mirrorball95 · 06-07-2009, 12:16 PM

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Ah, so Westlife and Take That are br00tal metal then? I thought they were teeny-pop.

Yeah you dont get much more brutal than Westlife man. Damn they rock!

dac · 06-07-2009, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by lightStevOo

i hate the jonas brothers they suck ass

Antonio · 06-07-2009, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by lightStevOo

i hate the jonas brothers they suck ass

well sorry, but this is about the worst fans, although there could probably be a spot saved for fans of Disney pop

Neapolitan · 06-07-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by crash_override

Agreed. People who refuse to recognize that Nirvana did anything productive for rockmusic are much more annoying than the people who think they re-invented it.

What did Nirvana do for Rock? Nothing!
Before Grunge broke, college radio rock bands had bands like REM, U2, Black Flag, Husker Du, The Dead Milkmen, The Guadalcanal Diary, The Cure, The dBs, XTC, The Smithereens, The Mighty Lemon Drops, New Order, They Might Be Giants, and every other name I can get off wikipedia and add Metalica, (when it was thrash, I know that from a rockumentary). Now they were at the forefront of pushing the envelope of Rock way, way before Nirvana like by two or three years or more.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-07-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

What did Nirvana do for Rock? Nothing!

They released a couple of commercially successful rock albums that made a lot of people happy.

Credit where it's due now

music_phantom13 · 06-07-2009, 08:31 PM

Absolutely true. What did Nirvana do? Brought it to mainstream popularity more than any of those bands you named (I'm pretty sure... I wasn't alive... and excluding Metallica). I really like Nirvana, that said he was by no means the martyr that saved rock n' roll like all his fans said. What really annoys me, to tell you the truth, about Nirvana fans, is when they try to argue with me that Kurt Cobain didn't overdose and shoot himself. He was killed by ______ (insert Courtney Love, the electrical guy, whatever the **** you want here). These people will continue to spurt random bull**** about how Kurt Cobain was the second coming of Jesus while completely overlooking the fact that he was a massive heroin addict suddenly catapulted to a level of fame he never imagined and still wasn't happy. Sorry, it's been 15 years... let it go.

dac · 06-07-2009, 08:33 PM

I don't think any one band "saved" rock and roll, but I think Nirvana was a pretty f'n big part of what came out of the 90s and got us out of hair metal.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-07-2009, 08:33 PM

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Absolutely true. What did Nirvana do? Brought it to mainstream popularity more than any of those bands you named (I'm pretty sure... I wasn't alive... and excluding Metallica).

I gave them credit for making 2 commercially successful albums.

I never said it was a good thing.

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dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	I don't think any one band "saved" rock and roll, but I think Nirvana was a pretty f'n big part of what came out of the 90s and got us out of hair metal. __________________

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music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	Absolutely true. What did Nirvana do? Brought it to mainstream popularity more than any of those bands you named (I'm pretty sure... I wasn't alive... and excluding Metallica). I really like Nirvana, that said he was by no means the martyr that saved rock n' roll like all his fans said. What really annoys me, to tell you the truth, about Nirvana fans, is when they try to argue with me that Kurt Cobain didn't overdose and shoot himself. He was killed by ______ (insert Courtney Love, the electrical guy, whatever the ** you want here). These people will continue to spurt random bull** about how Kurt Cobain was the second coming of Jesus while completely overlooking the fact that he was a massive heroin addict suddenly catapulted to a level of fame he never imagined and still wasn't happy. Sorry, it's been 15 years... let it go.