Who has the most fanatical fans?

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Grateful Dead?
Marillion?
Rush?
Kiss?
Oasis?
2 Pac?

Who would it be?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

have you ever been to a cardiacs gig? now them's fanatical fans, sir.

― guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

sleater/kinney

articulate fanatics, but OTT just the same

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Insane Clown Posse. And a lot of Taking Back Sunday/drive-thru records type bands. OH and definitely Phish.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

sonic youth, probably.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis
Beatles
Queen
Neck
Gary Glitter.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Whacko

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

On ILX definitely The Secret Machines!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

(you-know-who to thread...)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Old-style Richey-inclusive Manic Street Preachers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Either the Manics or ICP.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who else will listen to hundreds of hours of poor bootlegs of their favorite band, sometimes to the exclusion of all else? Grateful Dead.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

tool might get "most defensive"

― xave (xave), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Destroyer - anyone who read that thread would no doubt concur.

― danzig (danzig), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

woo woo juggalo

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I misread the title as "Who has the most financial fans?" and it made me laugh.

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Green Bay Packers, obvs.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Slipknot - their fans are known as Maggots

boiler suits, face paint, home-made masks. Crap music though.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

surely there can be only one answer:

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Allah.

― Tronid K (tronidk), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

lock thread

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Preface: I'm not a fan of the Grateful Dead)

The "Dead Heads" will purchase endless amounts of bootlegs, download millions of the same songs played in different order at different shows. They trade/buy these bootlegs to the point of ridiculousness. Check out how many Dick's Picks CDs there are. The Dead Heads come out of the wood work for Grateful Dead cover bands, as well as Phish who are for all intents and purposes another generation of people trying to be Dead Heads.

― Mike M. (FirstBass), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

If by "most fanatical" you mean "nerdiest, in the bad way," it's got to be the Beatles - something that hit home to me when I saw Yoko Ono play in Central Park.

Second place: Parrotheads.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

On the indie level: Belle & Sebastian trumps Sleater-Kinney by a small margin. I come close at times to being one of those fanatical B&S fans, but try to keep it in check.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any of these fanatical B & S fans. I think it's a myth.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

tool might get "most defensive"

Oh no they d... ah. er...

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Jackson

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I hereby retract my previous entries and second Michael Jackson.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Charles Manson

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hongroe

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Jones

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tori Amos

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say Tori too.

Also The Cure, NIN, Bjork, and Madonna.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

guided by voices is up there.

the dresden dolls have crazy fans. bowie fans are pretty bad too. neil diamond, also.

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Beatles

You mean about half of the entire Western world's 45-60-year-olds are fanatics?

Btw. Michael Jackson very good call.

Plus I forgot about Killing Joke. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

tool might get "most defensive"

Rush or Jacko, certainly.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Fans who'll travel to dozens of shows in several countries in the full knowledge that their hero can't be arsed to change the set list, ever, and might not even bother to show up sometimes? Morrissey.

― Rick Spence (spencerman), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

THE SMITHS

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but a lot of smiths fans admit they had their weak moments

this ain't gonna happen for most of the audience for a whole bunch of bands that were mentioned here

― xave (xave), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall
Neil Young

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wrong.

It's either Mike Patton or the ICP, poople.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

PS I will shiv the first motherfucker that says VdGG.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

mike a, please elaborate on the Yoko concert.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

As mentioned already, The Grateful Dead is the correct answer. Hundreds of Thousands of fans throughout the decades that lived their livesfollowing the band around. These people made their livings, spent their livings, and raised their children all on the road, and all because their was another show to get to. This is a world where it was COMMON to have seen the band over 100 times.

Textbook fanaticism on a very large scale.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

has any musician/group been abducted by their own fans? I mean yeah, sure killed, but abducted?

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. Apparently livesfollowing is not a word.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis, The Beatles, Dylan,Michael Jackson.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Upon further reflection, I rescind my vote for the Deadheads. They're definitely the most obsessive group of music fans, but a certain zeal is lacking, essential to fanaticism. They were never capable of Beatlemania-level freak-outs because of all those damn sedatives.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mansun.

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

"fanatic[ism]" is usually described to Other something, so as a Dead fan, I'm hard-pressed to deem Dead fans, even tourheads, fanatics. so my opinion might be biased, but those deeming Dead fans the most fanatical seem likely to be looking in from the outside and therefore arguably equally biased.

and what level of fanaticism are we talking about? devotion beyond reason? maybe, maybe not. hysteria? I think most Deadheads would strenuously object, and most outsiders would agree that you find that sort of thing far more often with the Michael Jacksons and John Lennons of the world than the Jerry Garcias.

(xpost - there you go)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

There are some pretty crazy-arse Mike Patton fans out there.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost: Knew it was coming! :-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

I second the Destroyer comment, being one. Others include Dinosaur Jr. NMH, Modest Mouse, Sage Frenchkiss, Ben Folds, Songs: Ohia... and that's just barely scratching the past couple of decades...

I'd also like to say that, while not necessarily fanatical, per se, Wolf Parade fans are total douchebags.

Oh, and does Nat Baldwin count? He played near my apartment last month and there were clamoring people from a wide social spread wanting to hear him.

― ryborg3k (Badarts), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Doherty

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

As i say, Gary Glitter.

Because the only fans he has left are the "most fanatical, in total denial and/or "what was so wrong anyway?"" all that.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

And kiddy fiddlers.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno guys, either of these ladiez has a pretty strong claim:

Taking sides: Madonna or Janet Jackson?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

searching for that thread brought up this one, which is incredible. It's sort of like Alex in NYC runs into a room screaming, making kung-fu gestures, and is then set upon from all sides as he parries and takes punches for hours.

TS: Michael Jackson vs Janet Jackson

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

(and a great, thoughtful post from Vic Iodine that makes the case for Janet over Michael)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dylan

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Because the only fans he has left are the "most fanatical, in total denial and/or "what was so wrong anyway?"" all that.

Music is the most important thing in music.

Trouble is, however, Gary Glitter was never much about music anyway....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 2 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Cliff Fucking Richard.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Saturday, 2 September 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

shit bands

― boom! i fucked your hard-drive (don), Saturday, 2 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

XTC.

Andy Partridge could probably release a recording of toilets flushing set to a backbeat and we'd snap it up.

― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Depeche Mode
The Cure

Those bands bought some nice houses with the cash made off of selling those those import singles/ep's in the U.S.

I would guess that there are more than a few female fans that are still obsessed with Duran Duran even twenty years later.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 3 September 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

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