Stupid Things Fake Music Lovers Say
 

You've heard them, now display them.

Things like:

Them: I love [insert artist here]
Me: Really? What's your favorite album?
Them: Oh I don't know, I've only heard their stuff on the radio

Or things like:

Them: I love heavy metal
Me: Really? What's your favorite band?
Them: Linkin Park

or nightwish

On the flipside, indie pricks are equally intolerable. The kind that'll **** all over you for not wearing the right shoes, right clothes, or listen to stuff that isn't "obscure enough".

.

Yeah. Ya feel me?

I think what's often worse is that you'll be told someone loves an artist, but ask them to name a favourite track and it's ALWAYS something they released as a single, leaving you with the clear impression they never bought any of their albums.

Examples: I love Prince, but all they can name is 1999, Little red Corvette, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret etc.

Big fan of Metallica? Favourite song? Enter Sandman. :rolleyes:

Like Genesis? Yeah, that song Abacab is great isn't it?

And so on....

This happens far too often too.

Like...

What's your favorite Kanye West track?
Oh, I love Stronger.
The one with Daft Punk, right?
Who the heck is Daft Punk?

"Hey! Nice shirt! What's your favorite song by them?"

"Hmm? Oh, I'm just wearing this 'cause it looks cool"

:D

Accurate.

I'd be surprised at people my age even knowing four of his tracks though.

:clap:

"Dude I was at Ozzfest too!"
"Oh yeah? Oh this! This is just my brothers shirt. I didn't actually go. Haha lol"

Don't really see anything wrong with the t shirt thing tbh.

I once bought a shirt at a show for an opening band whose set I missed and had never listened to previously. The shirt said "Fuck Cancer" so what was I supposed to do?

Bye lads.

Are you saying I'm cancer, bitch? Oh yeah, and you might want to edit that. Telling someone to kill themselves is now a temp ban offense around here.

"I listen to everything."

I haven't broken any rules.

yeah, everything are pretty overrated imo.

I was going to post this :D

"I listen to everything really... Beyonce, Kanye, Coldplay, Oasis, MJ... a bit of everything."

:rofl:

Led Zeppelin sucks.

Never listened to Coldplay so I guess I don't listen to everything.

@Chula Nah, fake music lovers don't have unique opinions like that.

"Yngwie Malmsteen is killer, dudes."

"That's not music."

"Now that's what I call music."

"I don't listen to screamo."

Genuinely pisses me off when people say that to mean that they don't like screaming.

A lot of people think this is what Heavy Metal is.

That one always confused me. By the time I knew enough about music to even learn about screamo I already knew it wasn't metal. I feel like you need an odd and specific blend of ignorance and stupidity to make that mistake.

This is true because I used to think it, most of the people I know would think it as well. I had pretty much no knowledge of any kind of Rock music. Heavy Metal to me was stuff where people are screaming and smashing drums as hard as they can. Shit you can't even listen to because it's so extreme.

And hopefully you have since learned better.

I remember saying that when I was a kid, which is weird because I exclusively listened to rock and metal (with clean vocals, like a ***got) at the time. Although maybe it's not that weird because I had approximately zero knowledge of punk or hardcore music at the time as well.

I've never actually met anyone who wore a band t-shirt without being a fan of their music. Even though I'm very suspect about a lot of fashion-oriented people wearing Ramones and Rolling Stones shirts, they could own their entire discographies for all I know. I had a girlfriend once who used to wear a Metallica t-shirt despite only owning the Black Album and St. Anger. But at least she was a fan of them to some degree, and she didn't have much money to spend on CDs.

Name a cover version and then claim it's by that band, ie "Oh I love that Boyzone song "Father and son."
"That's a Cat Stevens song, you do know?"
"Cat who?"
:rolleyes:

Afterward I ended up listening to them and not giving a ****. Still wore the shirt. More for the caption than the ****ty band though.

Now that's what I call music :cool:

Also why do so many Metal bands have strange names?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_****

At least she still had the sense to skip Load and Reload.

Edit: The biggest offender I've seen is the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures shirt. I know it looks cool..but damn, please at least know that it's album art and not just a cool shirt. I had a server once with the shirt and I complimented it and asked if she was a fan. Her response was "Oh, this is a band?". She didn't get 20% that night.

Dizzee Rascal

I meant in person ;)

One of my friends back in school also wanted to get one of those explicit Cradle of Filth t-shirts despite not being a fan of the band. He never did though.

Not that strange but a lot of the Grime artists have names where they spell stuff incorrectly which has always irritated me.

But the Metal guys go for shocking ones, names like The AIDS Riddled Thundercunts, Munching On Faeces or Prolapsed Anus.

Dizzee Rascal is retarded. Pretty much all the genres have ****ty naming conventions. I always wondered why punk bands wanted to follow garage rock down that same boring road of lame names.