on every artist-specific message board ever

And some might still be complaining about "boy bands".

But I actually think Geir is probably right - for those who aren't paying very close attention to the music or the details, it's pretty common to sub in "Lady Gaga" (with snorting, derisive tone) in the former Britney slot. I mean, I know not everybody here loves her either but I have some faith that the participants in the debate know enough to respectfully disagree. (note, this may be a total fantasy candyland version of ILX)

69. Posts that begin with the subject line "OT:" and consist of a forum regular telling everyone how much they love the new album by some artist completely unrelated to the subject of the forum.

70. people get offended when you talk about other music, as if posting on the message board means you've affirmed that this band is the pinnacle of your musical experience.

71. Long post by regular who is either taking a break from the forum or quitting the forum. Pages of 'don't go' laments follow.

these are the absolute worst threads imo. just stop posting you fucking attention starved asshole. pm/email your good buddies to let them know why but keep your dramatic bullshit to yourself.

Yeah, do it like a chaki.

^^^ unheralded sequel to "do it like a G6"

I have much to say about this thread but most of it is "omg, otm"

72. Occasional troll posts by people who join the forum just to tell how much they hate said act. Gets deleted after few posts.

72. Icy disdain for those who think that the band's best album is their biggest-selling album.

73, oops. ^^^

59. Old fan of the band selling their collection due to mortgage, kids, wife etc. Offering 'real fans' the opportunity to buy them first before they go up on ebay.

I love this tbh

66. Met-on-the-forum couples.

this is actually EXTREMELY RARE ime! and there are some artist-specific mailing lists that I have been on for 16 years

You people spend too much time on message boards.

74. Breakaway "unofficial" fan forums (most recent thread last updated by a spambot, May 15th 2009.)

75. 'Bootlegs'

76. Cool dudes making subtle comments during Friday night trying to imply others take the message board too seriously and should probably find better things to do since they are obviously losers.

77. Post your collection thread w/ pics!

Why did Mike pick my 30th birthday date?!

Re: 66, there must be a dozen message board couples on one board I used, AT LEAST, with at least four of them resulting in marriage and (quick mental tally) 5 babies so far with another due soon.

78. 18-year-old boy (probably called Mark or Graeme) who moves across the country to go to university near where the band is from. (I've known people move from St Albans and Liverpool to Leeds to be near a band, and from the South East to Exeter - for Muse!)

Was there a big hug waiting for them when they got to Leeds?

Ha, that's what the were after.

79. Someone posts link to either crappy YouTube footage of their band or crappy cloud stream of their band. The music is indisputably crappy, but if the musician is a regular poster, responses are uniformly positive. "Man, that cymbal crash just before the chorus really reminds me of Titus Andronicus! Neat job!" If the musician is not a regular poster, no one replies.

80. Posters all agree that band recommended by singer in an interview is, like, totally fucking awesome. After a few weeks, they quietly forget about said band. (Lesson learned the hard way by REM fans over the years.)

81. Small but vociferous rump of posters for whom preferring the early/obscure stuff is not hardcore enough. They loudly protest that, in fact, great though this band is, the singer's previous and completely unknown band were even better.

82. Forum member meets singer for no more than 30 seconds at an aftershow event, and afterwards repeatedly posts about how he's hung with the singer, and he's a really genuine guy with a lot of time for his fans who's really interested in what we've got to say.

(Have seen this irl: the 30 sec meeting, then the subsequent posts.)

^^^ that's the scenario whose later play-out results in friends of mine going "welp, I don't wanna move into a gated community, but guess what honey, we're moving into a gated community"

83. Thread counting down the years until (band) is eligible for induction the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum with absolute certainty that (band) is made of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum stuff and/or thread complaining about how (band) isn't in the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

...yet.

84. Thread trying to figure out if listening to dubstep is compatible with liking (band).

85. long thread about why the bassist definitely isn't a paedophile

Oh, you read phish.net too?

lol was gonna lie and say New Order

lawl

86. People talk about how said band is underappreciated, in both the media, and commercially, irregardless of how many awards they've won or how great their sales are.

A review is poste giving the album four of five stars and everybody reacts incredulous that the "moronic" critic didn't give it a 5

Man, why would you even hang around a forum that got this far under your skin? The few I've belonged to were so mellow I had to remember I was subscribed!

The MBV forums are good for a continual update. It's proved price of admission when a fairly recent thread & poster claims the band has finished everything but Bilinda's vocals ... which leads me to

87. Guy who types in lowercase and claims to know band cannot be doubted

And the variation on that:

88. Guy who claims to know band and claims to know something amazing is going to happen soon but that he isn't allowed to give any further details about it.

Re: 66, there must be a dozen message board couples on one board I used, AT LEAST, with at least four of them resulting in marriage and (quick mental tally) 5 babies so far with another due soon.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:32 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

iirc theres a married couple who post to ilx and met on an artist specific message bord

89. If the band in question has gone through considerable style changes throughout the years, then you will have constant wars going on between those who prefer the band the way they were in the past and those who have become a fan based upon more recent stuff.

(I saw this very much on a Genesis mailing list I was part of in the 90s, where anyone posting about Phil Collins' solo material would be met with some very hostile posts by members largely into 70s Genesis)

Whereas you like the Decca/Jonathan King album best, right?

Are there any decent Genesis forums left these days?

Whereas you like the Decca/Jonathan King album best, right?

The person who would prefer their debut album(or the last one with the Ray Wilson for that matter) would be considered the loonie of that board. :)

This was such a great thread.

90. on release days, fans will document their record-buying experiences in obsessive detail. "I went to Best Buy at 9:00 am. there wasn't a single copy of Poodle Hat on the shelf. the store wasn't even open yet. I was so mad I really ripped the clerk a new one. then I went to FYE (50-mile round trip)..." they'll tally up the number of stores that carry the record and the ones that don't, and brag about buying multiple copies to give away to friends (I already had 2 copies, including the one I got on preorder, but the one copy I saw at FYE look so lonely, I just had to buy it").

if they buy the album on preorder, someone will post comical pics where they're hugging and kissing the package as it arrives, then photograph the contents (promo t-shirt, bonus concert DVD, individual scans of each page of the booklet) upon opening it. the thread will devolve into a lengthy debate about why the liner notes don't include any lyrics, and it will be several days before they start discussing the actual music.

91 lengthy treatise about how artist x has informed and in some instances been informed by poster's longtime eating disorder

92 ultimately abortive attempts to forcibly crosspollinate the names of band members with popular internet memes

93 one person from mexico and one from brazil who gets really upset about ppl not spelling it brasil

94. a week before the album's release, there's a thread where fans speculate about the 30-second Amazon clips and rank them from favorite to least favorite. someone rips the audio and shares it with people so they can put it on their iPods. a few voices of reason says it's impossible to properly judge a song by a 30-second clip, but they are just spoiling the fun.

95 forum lore surrounding nubile ex-poster known to have had close encounter with lascivious band member about whether they did actually fuck and if so in what way, americans attempting to convey this via baseball metaphors to ppl who don't know what baseball is