The Top Ten Most Infuriating Music Fans Ever
 

Alright, so it's been a while since i pissed a bunch of people off, i figured that it's high time i take a swing at someone else.

Instead of going the conventional route and listing some bands i could do without and having people yell at me for offending their taste and being an idiot and not knowing what i was talking about, why not go right to the source: the fans themselves.

I'm sure you all know the odd fucker that bugs you about music for some reason--there may be a few from this site that probably do it to you (myself included). Well, i'm going to do my best to rip on the idiots that really piss me off (not just the ones here) maybe a story to explain why these guys irk me so.

i hope you enjoy.

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10. Beatles fans

Consider this a sign of peace for how low these shitholes are on this list.

I’m sure we’re all accustomed to the occasional Beatles fanatic, the guy that mumbles on incoherently about how they were at the vanguard of every movement from prog rock to proto punk. He’ll explain that Lennon and McCartney weren’t just two songwriters, they were two GENIUSES, while Harrison was an amazing guitarist and Ringo – well, you know it, he’s a really underrated drummer. He won’t understand why you haven’t listened to Revolver thirty times yet or bought a box set of their works in the last three weeks. And regardless of how obviously disinterested you might be he’ll push every one of their farts into your face, no matter how dull or incendiary those escaping whiffs of idiocy are. Want to know how deep the shitheads dive?

I’ll tell you. I was over my friend’s place one lazy weekend just hanging out with a few girls, listening to some music and trying to stave off sobriety for another day. At the time we just had some laid back stuff playing, probably Morcheeba or something of the like. A dude I recently met came into the apartment to bum alcohol and just hang out with us. About five minutes in he turns to me to explain that my music ‘wasn’t party music.’ Okay, so what? Everyone’s allowed their own preferences, and it wasn’t my place so I took it off like a gentlemen. The guy leaves and comes back in, making a playlist consisting solely of the Beatles. Solid party music indeed.

He then proceeded to spend no less than four hours lecturing me on why the Beatles were the greatest band in the world.

Excuse me if I don’t fucking care.

Elitist prog fans better be up there.

I mean seriously, if you guys think I'm an annoying pretentious prog fan, you need to go to ProgArchives, because you ain't seen NOTHING yet.

Read some of the reviews by Ivan Melgary Morey and Sean Trane. I dare you.

you should make this a top 20 at least, there's some real ****head fans out there

nah, it's mostly people i encounter in real life.

and considering maybe 0.01% of my friends actually like prog to begin with...

I hope you'll be including an entry on how fucking annoying Phish/Widespread Panic/String Cheese Incident/etc. fans are. People, I know you like to imagine that these bands are are crazy and edgy and unique but I'm here to tell you they aren't. They're bland as hell and are the kind of thing boring people listen to in an effort to seem interesting. Oh wow, you smoke pot? Whoopdie fucking doo. So does everybody else. It's like defining your taste in music by the fact that you eat french fries.

oh trust me, there's an entry that Phish will fit kindly well into. :)

I hate prog fans who can't shut up about how inferior every other genre of music is. The kind that always rants about pop music but doesn't really know what the f*ck pop is, they need to realise that having a poppy melody or a hook doesn't completely strip a song of artistic merit. I'm talking about the kinda people who give one star to Talking Heads albums and King Crimson's Discipline, calling it "generic pop". What a bunch of idiots.

Progarchives is full of people like this. So for me, they're the worst. Mainly because I have the misfortune of being associated with them.

i like Phish, and i guess you can call me a fan, but i don't go around saying or doing stuff like that you mentioned. honestly, i enjoy their albums more than their live shows at times, cause while i do like a good jam session, they really overdo it.

and i can say that they're very proficient musically. Trey Anastsio is a damn good and underrated guitarist

This being Sam, I probably won't agree with a lot of it, but it's a great thread idea.

I might rip it off, and ripping off other peoples thread ideas is something I do on a regular basis.