Most Fanboy Ridden Bands?? (hardcore, metal, genre, fan, metallica)

Crowe · 11-14-2006, 09:09 AM

the beatles.

~~Ekset~~ · 11-14-2006, 04:28 PM

Metallica fans are like Raider fans... well, they used to be. Other crazed fans, ICP, but, not really metal.

rsnjeff · 11-14-2006, 11:37 PM

Hoestly there are a lot of new bands with anoying fans out there but some just get creepy.

Story time children,

I had just started dating this girl. She said her favorite band was My Chemical Romance. k.... I could live with that. I went to her house one day and went into her room. She Had 532 pictures and posters of the group or people from the group and she also had written three stories about the band where she and her friends were main characters in the stories..........The relationship didn't workout.

Seltzer · 11-16-2006, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by beat yr own KID

Have you posted at any metal forums ever? I've never heard so many kids cry when someone calls that band boring in my entire life. They jock them like they're the most talented people to ever pick up instruments. This was earlier this year and last year though. Can't say i've heard many people even talk about em lately.

Well the number of people crying can be attributed to a high number of fans - it's not that they're particularly bad, but just that there are more of them to defend the band I guess. I can imagine the same reaction for many bands.

Having said that, it's not just Opeth fans who would defend them - it's the fans of all prog bands. I can understand why fans of prog bands might feel incensed when people deride them. Prog isn't particularly mainstream, therefore when a prog band does become mainstream, many people who hate prog are going to hear it and be incapable of being listening to it fairly and understanding it due to lack of prog understanding. This is the case with Opeth. Their popularity ensures that most metalheads are going to hear them, regardless of whether they like prog or not. Many will find them boring simply because it's prog, then there will some elitists who hate them for their record label or popularity, and then there will be some who genuinely just don't like them.

I would say that the lack of talk isn't that fans have forgotten about them because they haven't, but more the fact that it's a while since Ghost Reveries was released as well as the Grand Conjuration single.

So while fans are still there, there are fewer elitist haters bitching about them and starting up antagonising threads because they've forgotten about them.

Rhia · 11-16-2006, 08:20 AM

Bullet For My Valentine.

Especially over this side of the pond, it's like some severe form of rabies, spreading like wildfire.

beat yr own KID · 11-16-2006, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

Well the number of people crying can be attributed to a high number of fans - it's not that they're particularly bad, but just that there are more of them to defend the band I guess. I can imagine the same reaction for many bands.

Having said that, it's not just Opeth fans who would defend them - it's the fans of all prog bands. I can understand why fans of prog bands might feel incensed when people deride them. Prog isn't particularly mainstream, therefore when a prog band does become mainstream, many people who hate prog are going to hear it and be incapable of being listening to it fairly and understanding it due to lack of prog understanding. This is the case with Opeth. Their popularity ensures that most metalheads are going to hear them, regardless of whether they like prog or not. Many will find them boring simply because it's prog, then there will some elitists who hate them for their record label or popularity, and then there will be some who genuinely just don't like them.

I would say that the lack of talk isn't that fans have forgotten about them because they haven't, but more the fact that it's a while since Ghost Reveries was released as well as the Grand Conjuration single.

So while fans are still there, there are fewer elitist haters bitching about them and starting up antagonising threads because they've forgotten about them.

Having a lot of fans can mean fan boys dude. Yr arguing over semantics. I'm just stating a point. I am a huge fan of prog and I think opeth are a pretty good band but fairly boring. That's just my opinion.

Zombie_Fetish · 11-16-2006, 10:54 AM

Hinder - they may be slighlty new to the music scene but their fans are insane
Fall Out Boy,Hawthorne Heights,bands like that

For Me:Avenged Sevenfold...def.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-16-2006, 11:59 AM

Hinder fanboys can`t be that annoying because i`d never ever heard of them until this thread started.

So where are all these Hinder fanboys , I don`t see any here.

Seltzer · 11-18-2006, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by beat yr own KID

Having a lot of fans can mean fan boys dude. Yr arguing over semantics. I'm just stating a point. I am a huge fan of prog and I think opeth are a pretty good band but fairly boring. That's just my opinion.

I'm not arguing, just discussing, and it's not semantics IMO.

E.g. Band A has 100,000 fans and 1 in every 1000 is a fanboy. So we have 100 fanboys. Band B has 1000 fans and 80 in every 1000 is a fanboy. So we have 80 fans. This is relevant because it might seem like Opeth is particularly fanboy ridden, but it could be attributed to the simple fact that Opeth has a large fanbase. Another band might have a much higher ratio of fanboys amongst its fanbase, but its fanbase might be small, so there won't be that many.

I don't know which part you're saying is semantics, but IMO there's quite a difference between a fan and a fanboy. A fanboy tends to be biased towards the band and flouts them all the time. A fan is just a fan.

It's hard to say whether having a lot of band merchandise makes you a fanboy - it depends on your definition. You can have a lot of merchandise and still be practically impartial and judge fairly.

MoonlitSunshine · 11-19-2006, 03:50 AM

My definition of a fanboy would be someone who never shuts up about the band and believe everything else is sh*t not worth listening to. Hero worship and the like.

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11-16-2006, 11:59 AM	#48 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Hinder fanboys can`t be that annoying because i`d never ever heard of them until this thread started. So where are all these Hinder fanboys , I don`t see any here. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

11-19-2006, 03:50 AM	#50 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	My definition of a fanboy would be someone who never shuts up about the band and believe everything else is sht not worth listening to. Hero worship and the like. __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?"* - Arthur Dent

11-14-2006, 04:28 PM	#42 (permalink)
~~Ekset~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 10	Metallica fans are like Raider fans... well, they used to be. Other crazed fans, ICP, but, not really metal.

11-14-2006, 11:37 PM	#43 (permalink)
rsnjeff Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 56	Hoestly there are a lot of new bands with anoying fans out there but some just get creepy. Story time children, I had just started dating this girl. She said her favorite band was My Chemical Romance. k.... I could live with that. I went to her house one day and went into her room. She Had 532 pictures and posters of the group or people from the group and she also had written three stories about the band where she and her friends were main characters in the stories..........The relationship didn't workout.

11-16-2006, 08:20 AM	#45 (permalink)
Rhia Groupie Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: UK Posts: 31	Bullet For My Valentine. Especially over this side of the pond, it's like some severe form of rabies, spreading like wildfire.

11-16-2006, 10:54 AM	#47 (permalink)
Zombie_Fetish music mastermind Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 108	Hinder - they may be slighlty new to the music scene but their fans are insane Fall Out Boy,Hawthorne Heights,bands like that For Me:Avenged Sevenfold...def.