Bands whose fans were their own subculture

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Turbonegro - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbojugend
Black Label Society? Seems to be a lifestyle thing for a lot of people for some obscure reason.

Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:33 (seven years ago)

Grateful dead

F# A# (∞), Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:34 (seven years ago)

the (early-era) who certainly fit here, no?


I would argue not. Mod was a thriving subculture for at least a year before the Who (or/aka the High Numbers) started gigging. They simply latched onto (some would not-unreasonably argue exploited) mod.

Though it’s true that later mods — in Australia in ‘67-‘68, the “mod revival” in England in the late ‘70s, various pockets of anglophiles in the US in the early ‘80s — took the early Who as a jumping-off point.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:47 (seven years ago)

OTM.

Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 August 2018 20:03 (seven years ago)

Afrika Bambaata

Siegbran, Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:10 (seven years ago)

Insane Clown Posse

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)

Bambaata/Zulu Nation is a really good example

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:42 (seven years ago)

afrika bambaata ?

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:11 (seven years ago)

afrika bambaata ?

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:11 (seven years ago)

http://new.zulunation.com

EZ Snappin, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:13 (seven years ago)

ADAM AND THE ANTS - even Darby Crash fell into it.

whitehallunity, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:29 (seven years ago)

Slipknot maggots

Duane Barry, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:39 (seven years ago)

Anyone on Grindr past a certain time of night and looking for pnp is most definitley a Britney Spears fan.

Odd Future. Wu-Tang.

Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:05 (seven years ago)

K Fed fans all got jobs at Ambercrombie after joining his club

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:17 (seven years ago)

The Levellers
New Model Army though there was probably a deal of overlap after the levellers broke through as the support act for an NMA tour in around '91.

The Mission who overlaped with Goth but had a tribe of people hitching between shows.

Stevolende, Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:55 (seven years ago)

Beat Happening

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:59 (seven years ago)

It can be argued that Wagner was inspirational for the Nazis and they even had their own propaganda composer in Strauss.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 5 August 2018 01:42 (seven years ago)

Weird that nobody's mentioned the Insane Clown Posse. First example I thought of reading the OP.

mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 5 August 2018 01:51 (seven years ago)

mentioned above by MatthewK. good example

Dan S, Sunday, 5 August 2018 01:53 (seven years ago)

mentioned in the OP.

visiting, Sunday, 5 August 2018 01:56 (seven years ago)

What about juggalos? Hellooooo

Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 August 2018 01:57 (seven years ago)

Don’t forget las juggalas

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 5 August 2018 02:32 (seven years ago)

Grateful Dead

albvivertine, Sunday, 5 August 2018 03:39 (seven years ago)

Just thought of jugallos btw

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Sunday, 5 August 2018 03:57 (seven years ago)

soref - good bit on the numanoids btw. had no idea

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Sunday, 5 August 2018 04:14 (seven years ago)

what about those Insane Clown Posse fans?

niels, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 07:54 (seven years ago)

Belle & Sebastian

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 10:18 (seven years ago)

Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Cure

Neil S, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 10:22 (seven years ago)

Discharge/Exploited crust punk is/was always relatively easy to spot.

Neds/Wonderstuff, similarly. BURN WITH FIRE.

The Cure (Robert Smith, really).

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 10:41 (seven years ago)

Discharge/Exploited and crust punk are 2 different things although the first influenced the latter (more Discharge than Exploited, crust punks mostly hated the Exploited tbh). Exploited = mohicans/spikes, crust punk = gross dreadlocks

Neither of them smell very good though.

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 11:05 (seven years ago)

Now glad I never mentioned it to them!

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 11:06 (seven years ago)

definitely Belle and Sebastian. ILM might not exist if it weren't for them

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 11:45 (seven years ago)

Not a band but the breakdancing/bboy culture

F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:01 (seven years ago)

Did that crusty punk thing start with Crass fandom? & expand I know there were quite a few bands operating in that area in the early 80s.

Then there was the Spirit of '77 thing that I never quite understood, i thought pun was more vital over the previous year or couple of years. & becoming codified by '77.
& a lot of people woken up by punk had moved onto things a bit less codified by the early 80s anyway.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:14 (seven years ago)

hey guys i think we need to mention icp and the dead a few more times

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:45 (seven years ago)

the modern day dead are icp btw. stealie = hatchetman. think about it

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)

the crust punks I've met rep hardest for Amebix

mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:04 (seven years ago)

Morrissey fans lol

mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:06 (seven years ago)

not a band but football

still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:17 (seven years ago)

not a bad but the far right

still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:17 (seven years ago)

not a band but some insects underneath a really big rock

still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:18 (seven years ago)

flaming lips fans

Dreadnought of chicanery (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:36 (seven years ago)

Can't believe nobody said Juggalos yet in THIS ENTIRE THREAD

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:24 (seven years ago)

Hey...Juggalos? Nobody brought them up right?

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:24 (seven years ago)

they did

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:29 (seven years ago)

the crust punks I've met rep hardest for Amebix

― mh

this is otm, also the band D.I.R.T.

sleeve, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:29 (seven years ago)

surprised nobody has mentioned Juggalos itt

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:32 (seven years ago)

grateful dead too

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:24 (seven years ago)

ICP fans

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:41 (seven years ago)

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130815/irving-park/grateful-dead-cover-band-apologizes-fans-shocked-find-juggalos-at-bar/

empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:46 (seven years ago)

I admit my annoyance is subjective

sleeve, Thursday, 3 April 2025 22:27 (one year ago)

the Grateful Dead was basically one giant drug trafficking operation and they probably have some bodies buried somewhere

brimstead, Thursday, 3 April 2025 22:51 (one year ago)

https://bsky.app/profile/theonion.com/post/3llwxbtowtl23

silverfish, Friday, 4 April 2025 00:15 (one year ago)

https://theonion.com/artist-profile-morgan-wallen/

Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Friday, 4 April 2025 00:29 (one year ago)

Ingenue Country-Pop

This is genius btw

DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Friday, 4 April 2025 12:36 (one year ago)

thinking about this: what about the Dropkick Murphys? They started out as a Boston street punk band, but have morphed into an Irish pride pop-punk band beloved by middle-aged chuds from the suburbs who absolutely worship them— like it’s definitely a thing, at least in the mid-Atlantic and New England.

i saw them a few times back in the day, but then a few years ago went with a childhood friend (who is no longer a friend, sadly) to see them open for Rancid and I was shocked at the number of people who were there just to see them, and also the correlation of Dropkick fans to Trump stickers on brand new SUVs in the parking lot

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 April 2025 23:29 (one year ago)

That’s a good one. But have you considered Insane Clown Posse?

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Monday, 14 April 2025 00:47 (one year ago)

and also the correlation of Dropkick fans to Trump stickers on brand new SUVs in the parking lot

Which given the band has been ripping into Trump lately is hopefully causing said fans a lot of cognitive dissonance:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/20/dropkick-murphys-ken-casey-trump

Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 April 2025 03:44 (one year ago)

a lot of cognitive dissonance

which is how magnets work, iirc

massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 14 April 2025 03:58 (one year ago)

Dropkick fans

or, as they're commonly known in boston, the "irish/celtic processional."

fact checking cuz, Monday, 14 April 2025 04:01 (one year ago)

Sinatra / Bobby-soxers

unrequested refill (morrisp), Thursday, 24 April 2025 13:47 (one year ago)

There was a persistent psychobilly subculture in the UK throughout the 80s which I guess was birthed by The Cramps.

fetter, Thursday, 24 April 2025 14:47 (one year ago)


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