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What artist should one never admit to being a "really really big fan" of on the first date?

― fritz, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or, more generally, what groups have the nerdiest, most unattractive followers?

and who has the hottest fans?

who are better artists, babe-magnets or troll-attractors?

― fritz, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(now that I've posted this, it seems eerily familiar. anyone remember if I cribbed this from an old thread?)

― fritz, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's wise not to talk music on the first date. Although Billy Joel is pretty much a deal-killer.

This thread is familiar. I think someone's going to post how wrong it is to judge someone based on their musical taste.

― Dave225, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once read a review of the Fall which said "If you play the Fall to your girlfriend, then you will not get a shag". So maybe its Mark E. Smith & co.

― MarkH, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well that would depend on the other person, wouldn't it?

― Harry, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The night I played the Fall to my girlfriend I did not get a shag.

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amazing as it may seem, I managed to get off with someone BECAUSE I was wearing a Smiths t-shirt.

― Daniel, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rush. Rush has got to be the all-time datekiller. There has never been a more asexual, or dissexual, band in existence. Every other band in any other genre will have some converts, some believers--from Celtic Frost to Nobukazu Takemura, you will find someone who loves them who might love you. Even GG Allin and .38 Special fans will have a better chance of getting laid than a Rush fan.

This is always true unless, of course, said Rush fan is a girl--in which case she will immediately be ambushed by legions of pimply Rush- loving boys.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unacceptable in males: Skid Row t-shirt. connotations of Grease Monkey, White Trash and other trailer park related archetypes.

strangely this is not unacceptable in females

Unacceptable in females: Slayer t-shirt. they're wearing the Top Shop version that they've seen Kate Moss and the other fashion sluts parading around Vogue. They're either doing it because they're a) vapid or b) being IRONIC. run to the hills!!

strangely this is not unacceptable in males (because its Slayer)

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oasis fans tend to look like they've had an ante-natal encounter with thalidomide.

― DG, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who makes better music, sexually frustrated people or sexually fulfilled people?

did free love destroy sixties rock n roll? (the midsixties speed n' frustration era soundtracked by fantastic proto-punk and r&b-derived mayhem, the love-in late sixties and early seventies pot n' fulfillment era soundtracked by noodly psychedelic experiments and languid funk)

― fritz, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No no, if you're trying to pull an *ahem* indie girl, Fall T-shirts work all the time. Most of them will be like, rilly rilly impressed, cos The Fall are soooo obscure. Ye-es.

If you're wearing a TopShop Motorhead T-shirt you may not get a shag, but that's only if I manage to catch you and kill you slowly and horribly first.

― emil.y, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No one should wear band t-shirts, ever.

― Ally, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The night I played the Fall to my girlfriend I did not get a shag.
Hate to break it to you, you need to stand up and approach her. Not remain sitting in front of stereo.

It's not the t-shirt, it's the person in it. Once went to White Stripes club, in the big room they had Satriani. Jesus, these guys all looked like weirdos who only get out when there's a trekkie convention or an air guitar competition.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

back when i thought the fall were the beez nees and arguably might've been to youngster w/ limited musical experience i had oh so much plentiful unremitting sex action. now i scare them away with abstract improv twanklings and lab coat music. it probably doesn't help that i've been hideously misfigured in a bear attack, either.

― bob snoom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unacceptable in males: Skid Row t-shirt.

Ha! I think this would be totally hot! IF you could find a good condition one here in San Francisco, I guarantee you'd pay dearly.

― Sean, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The inverse is also true. If you meet a girl who says "no new york" is one of her favorite albums, don't take your eye off of her.

― Gage-o, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you meet a girl who says "no new york" is one of her favorite albums, don't take your eye off of her.
Cause the comp is stuck to her head? ;-)

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HOBASTANK!

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone seen that American hi-fi video? The one for "Flavor of the Week", well it has this FINE ASS chick who's wearing a Saxon t-shirt. A SOXON T-SHIRT! That is soooo unrealalistic. No girls like soxon. Hell, hardly any men like saxon! Think about that.

― lochrian x, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't talk about Porno for Pyros. Just don't.

― Andy, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ween tee shirts = the anti roofie wu tang shirts, outkast shirts. and dokken of course.

― Brock K, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stryper!!!

― nickn, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Housemate goes on date with girl. Conversation turns to music. Housemate gets idea in head that date wants nothing more than to hear the history of Pigface. When he breathlessly finishes she says: "wow, you sure know a lot about that band."

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's HOOBASTANK, Sterling. Sheesh.

I would think most "normal" girls wouldn't be thrilled to learn you're a metalhead - y'know, connotations with stilted adolescense & such things. I would also think that showing off your record collection would be a big D'OH as well. Showing off != displaying, of course; "Gosh, what's under that big smock covering those two walls?"

I would like to think that the gal I'd spend time with would have enough of an open mind to accept my passion for music, though. I'm more than a geek, baby - I'm a geek with DISPOSABLE INCOME!

― David Raposa, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oddly, the greatest disparity in attractiveness (by gender) of any group of fans i have yet seen are of the band sublime. i used to work in a small record shop and day after day there would be heartbreakingly sweet, pretty girls coming in to buy 'forty ounces to freedom' or whatever that piece of crap was called.

the male of the species, sublime fans that is, are the most paleolithic, inarticulate ... aw shit, they're just ugly and stupid. ugly and stupid.

all those poor, beautiful (slightly confused) sublime loving girls must be looking longingly at the comparatively evolved male of the bad religon and nofx species.

but whoever said rush fans were the least attractive was right! they are, but they BREED FAST!

― fields of salmon, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually knew several girls in high school who had a favorable view of Rush. It was mostly guys, though. Also, I have been to quite a few Rush concerts......and I do remember seeing some women there. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but they were there. Outnumbered by the legions of guys air-drumming along with N. Peart, perhaps, but there was *a* female presence.

― patrick, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have to agree with the sublime one. who seriously listens to sublime? thirteen year olds who can't stoumach reggae. thirteen year olds who like pot but not politics. my little brother listened to sublime when he was thirteen.

― tyler, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mannheim Steamroller

― A Nairn, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Celine Dion.

I worked at a ticketmaster record store when she was on tour in 98. If you have ever seen the Kids In The Hall skits with the two sexually fustrated middle-aged female office workers, then you have seen her entire audience. It was messed, more so than any whitetrash- athon could ever be.

Just imagine 15,000 sexually fustrated office workers in one arena have an overwhelming emotional experience to the musical stylings of Celine. There is noting entertaining about that, it is just plain creepy.

― mt, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that sounds fantastically entertaining!

― ethan, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A long time ago a mate went on a date wearing a Macc Lads t-shirt.....

Needless to say the date wasn't a success....

― Baxter Wingnut, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unfortunately, a hell of a lot of cute girls, older than teens too, in Orange County listen to Sublime.

That said, I could always tolerate Sublime if they ever come on the radio -- but as far as South Bay/OC stoners who rock, I'll stick with Fu Manchu and Nebula, thanks. Having had Bradley Nowell insult and reduce some old KUCI friends of mine to tears when caught doing graffiti at the radio station one day didn't really give me the motivation to ever listen to Sublime.

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you saying Brad was a sad, insecure selfish fuckface? Perish the thought! Next you'll say he was an untalented junkie dipshit. Oh wait, I'll say that instead.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if your a chick, and you're looking for a shag with a GUY, then don't go the Bikini Kill Tee. heh.

― sobriquet, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why not?

― hamish, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone remember a fantastic Canadian hardcore/jazz unit called 'NoMeansNo'? I went out with this girl who wore a 'NoMeansNo' t-shirt, and everyone snickered at me. "Gee, you must have a lot of fun with Andrea Dworkin there". She was very attractive and uninhibited, and insisted repeatedly that she was just a big fan of the band, but I still felt a bit embarassed walking around with her, for atavistic reasons, i.e. "This isn't very good for trophy purposes"

― dave q, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Adult. logo on a black T-shirt looks suggestive on a girl, as long as you don't know Adult. is a band.

― Curt, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave q:Anyone remember a fantastic Canadian hardcore/jazz unit called 'NoMeansNo'? I went out with this girl who wore a 'NoMeansNo' t-shirt, and everyone snickered at me. "Gee, you must have a lot of fun with Andrea Dworkin there". She was very attractive and uninhibited

Well, the only NoMeansNo record I possess is called "Sex Mad"... :-)

― OleM, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure I'd want to date a woman who loves Rush. Zappa and Primus must be bad moves as well.

Seriously, though, I'm pretty sure I've never been turned off by anyone's taste (though I have been partially attracted by taste before). I've gone for people with atrocious taste.

np: Rush - 2112

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Radiohead t-shirt would turn me off immediately, even though I quite like the band. Something about hardcore Radiohead fans I just can't cope with at all.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To walk beside a woman who loves NoMeansNo enough to get a t-shirt, I would bear the withering or uncomprehending stares.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

By far some of the hottest girls I have ever seen were at a Fuel concert and basically any girl wearing a Waking Down t-shirt is just the shit. However I would run from a girl sporting a Metallica shirt.

― Mike Milburn, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember it had already been decided that it was Momus.

― Flowersdie, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a girlfriend in high school back in the early nineties who wore a "Cheerleaders Fuck" t-shirt. SHe was a cheerleader and she did fuck, just not me.

― Poops McGee, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

I don't think that shit like that should matter, none of my friends or former boyfriends listened to the same stuff as me, i'm into NOFX, Sick of it all, Nirvana, Hatebreed, System of a Down, Pennywise, and more of that type of music. They all listened to shitty shit; pop music. It made no difference that we had different likes and dislikes. I loved who they were emotionaly more than what they wanted to hear on their radio.

― fuckyou, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I understand the shitty shit is the worst kind.

― Prude, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the shittiest!

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

fuckyou

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 10 October 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

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