Bands whose fans were their own subculture

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Grateful dead

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

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 (five years ago) link

OTM.

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

Afrika Bambaata

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

Insane Clown Posse

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

Bambaata/Zulu Nation is a really good example

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

afrika bambaata ?

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

afrika bambaata ?

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

http://new.zulunation.com

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

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

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

Slipknot maggots

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

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 (five years ago) link

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

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

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 (five years ago) link

Beat Happening

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

mentioned above by MatthewK. good example

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

mentioned in the OP.

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

What about juggalos? Hellooooo

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

Don’t forget las juggalas

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

Grateful Dead

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

Just thought of jugallos btw

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

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 (five years ago) link

what about those Insane Clown Posse fans?

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

Belle & Sebastian

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

Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Cure

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

Now glad I never mentioned it to them!

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

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 (five years ago) link

Not a band but the breakdancing/bboy culture

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

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 (five years ago) link

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

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

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

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

the crust punks I've met rep hardest for Amebix

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

Morrissey fans lol

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

not a band but football

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

not a bad but the far right

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

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 (five years ago) link

flaming lips fans

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

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

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

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

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

they did

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

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 (five years ago) link

surprised nobody has mentioned Juggalos itt

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

grateful dead too

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

ICP fans

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

The Maroon Fivesome

Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 15:56 (two months ago) link

The Fishmansons

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:03 (two months ago) link

David Grayniacs

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:05 (two months ago) link

Canadian Mike Watt fans, the fIREHOSErs

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:10 (two months ago) link

428 posts and no mention of Insane Clown Posse?

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link

it is always a surprise to still see ppl rep so hard for Turbonegro

kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link

maybe they have erection

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:45 (two months ago) link

it is always a surprise to still see ppl rep so hard for Turbonegro


in like 2005?

brimstead, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:57 (two months ago) link

The Turbonegronis

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:40 (two months ago) link

Iirc Henley/Frey fans call themselves Eaglets

Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:53 (two months ago) link

imagine... you're a young eagle.. and your parents are don henley and glenn frey

ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link


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