What music group do you absolutely despise along with their fans ?

[flyingillini]

You can only name one band.

My pick is U2. They absolutely are horrible and their fans are the worst. Absolutely pathetic in every single which way. Bono is the most annoying frontman ever. U2 sucks.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

Elton John
Green Day
GNR

 

[jjgold]

U2 overrated
Taylor swift vastly overrated

 

[flyingillini]

U2 has the worst following ever. They are like the Grateful Dead fans , a cult. But the band absolutely sucks. And Bono is the worst.

 

[keithrichard]

Chicago

 

[keithrichard]

Got to add
Steve Miller Band

 

[BMR Genie]

As much as possible, I focus on the music, not the singer or fans. So I can't think of any band/fans that I despise.

 

[flyingillini]

As much as possible, I focus on the music, not the singer or fans. So I can't think of any band/fans that I despise.

The music of U2 is as horrible as it gets, the fans and Bono just put the icing on the cake.

 

[djefferis]

Got to seperate the musician/band from their fans.

A lot of these groups “images” are made up by the image of their fans. The Dead are a great example - musically, pretty diverse and actually pretty damn good…but think Dead and the mind immediately goes to the horde of dirty hippies following them (at least to music fans of a certain age)

U2 has “fans” ?? I thought it was just middle aged white people who were forced to buy a shitty album when they bought an iPhone ? Got to seperate U2 of the mid 80s vs the shitty version we’ve been given since the mid 90s - up until Zooropa they were tolerable and somewhat enjoyable…then Bono decided to be a world ambassador and became unbearable.

Journey/Chicago and whatever other ProgRock group you can name - again - the groups themselves not the issue - it’s the idiots who blindly follow.

A sure to be unpopular pick of mine - Eric Clapton. Dude has always been a Prima Dona - he was good for a short period and been riding the “legend” of his skills for 30 years now despite not being half the guitarist he was at one time. I get it - aging rock stars still want to earn - but at a point just kick back, enjoy retirement and doing one offs and having current musicians coming and worshiping you and asking you to sit in on a song on their current album.

Any current “country” singer from the bro-country movement…singing about the good old days of outlaw country. These candy asses would have been whooped senseless by anyone 50 years ago for posing as a country singer.

The Doors another great example - as are Zeppelin of bands where the “mystique” far exceeded the band - thanks to fans. Both musically great - but the whole hyped up story behind Morrison and Page is just annoying. Morrison was a crazy drunken singer - Page was a skinny white boy who liked to “impress” 13 year olds with his weird occult stuff - nothing more.

 

[BMR Genie]

The music of U2 is as horrible as it gets, the fans and Bono just put the icing on the cake.

Really? They have a lot of hit songs and I like them. Maybe just not your type of music?

 

[drunkenhorseplayer]

Anything rap.

 

[flyingillini]

Really? They have a lot of hit songs and I like them. Maybe just not your type of music?

I hate that band with a passion.

 

[jamesy2422]

bruce springsteen. sounding like an old country boy and talking like you lived on a farm when you are from NJ bothers me. i also think his music is OK, not great.

also not a jimmy buffet fan with all of his following

 

[djefferis]

bruce springsteen. sounding like an old country boy and talking like you lived on a farm when you are from NJ bothers me. i also think his music is OK, not great.

also not a jimmy buffet fan with all of his following

Springsteen does more than country - again, a lot depends on the era. Early Springsteen stuff very much about his life and what he saw in NJ - current stuff - yea, he is singing about growing up middle American (which he of course didn’t). He understands no one’s buying another song about NJ and alt-country has a massive following - so trying to stay relevant.

Jimmy Buffet fans are probably U2 fans too - same demographic. Went once many years ago to a show in Detroit - aside from the concession stands - I did not see a single black person in a crowd of 20k - being Detroit, that’s pretty damn hard to do. Middle aged - white and lots of disposable income. I’d sooner sit through a root canal than crowd like that.

 

[Tanko]

Kid Rock

 

[phillyflyers]

I would say any Satanic/Heavy Metal.

 

[JDS]

I fuckin’ hate Ed Sheeran & his music, so bleep his following as well lol.

 

[aikman.tr]

Being Canuck i have heard my lifetime limits of Tragically HIp. Enough already

 

[djefferis]

Kid Rock

Son of a multi millionaire who likes to act like he grew up poor in a trailer park.

Rose to mediocrity in the days of Vanilla Ice riding coattails on the novelty of white rap acts - and having the good fortune to not need to sign a shitty label deal - was able to stay independent.

Of course the rap thing began to fizzle and he suddenly remembered he was just a good ole boy raised in the affluent suburbs of Detroit on his families “farm” - so decided to get back to his roots and become a country star.

What’s not to love about his story or the dumbasses who buy it up and follow him like he actually lived that life he portrays? I mean - I’ll give him credit for being smart enough to stay independent - but let’s be honest, that’s likely more a result of his families team of attorneys. Then again - TSwift had a shit ton of family money AND industry exec dad and no one told her not to sign away her shit to the first label offering a few bucks.

 

[jjgold]

Springsteen was overrated also as was Bon Jovi

I get Taylor Swift has sold massive amount of records, won awards, etc. but she’s just a social media marketing machine came at the right time, talent wise. She couldn’t make the top 100 women singers all time.