Bands whose fans were their own subculture

I think it often happens that there are subcultures with distinct looks and everything for whom a single band is THE band, and their look and general way-of-being is strongly based on the band in some way, but they're not as explicitly associated with the band as Juggalos (surprised nobody mentioned them itt yet!) and KISS army. In fact, sometimes it might be considered gauche to point out how much the subculture owes to the band (or even that the subculture exists). My wife's college friend group is basically defined by their devotion to Jimmy Eat World, but she gets really annoyed when I point it out!

What about the Russian activist band Posse Riot?

Industrial Cight and Pagic?

Little known fact: The ICP have a pretty dedicated following. I believe they even go by a name. *googles* Juggalos, that's it.

I'm going to need to see some evidence of that.

What the hell I mentioned Insane Clown Posse in my first post!

no i'm pretty sure you mentioned PM Dawn. (goes back and checks.) yep, PM Dawn.

I don't understand what's going on here. Maybe I forgot to mention Juggalos. Oh no wait... I did. Wow, I can't believe ICP aka Insane Clown Posse and their fans the Juggalos got mentioned so many times in this thread lol

Thank you for correcting that egregious oversight, dog latin.

I just want to make sure people know ICP were mentioned a lot of times in the thread in case there was any confusion

How about Bande D'arlequins Fous and their devoted fans "Les Jongleurs"?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5LGtfjFuroI/T2q7-AeuARI/AAAAAAAAAmo/YZfIlvkVrIk/s1600/Paul_Weller_TSC.jpg

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https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/f/f3/Blues_travelerlogo1.png

Blues Traveler fans called themselves "Poppers" and you could frequently see them dressed as harmonicas, pre-internet days so there are no pics at hand

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/f/f3/Blues_travelerlogo1.png

that cat kinda looks like an insane clown imo

Of course in China there's 疯狂的小丑团伙 and their infamous fans 杂耍流氓

hmm I put 疯狂的小丑团伙 into Google translate and it came out: Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

That's a lyric from a band of some sort IIRC?

Yea yea they were that group the inane clown pussies iirc

Say did they have a fan club, to anybody's recollection?

The Buggalos iirc

Juggalos Killed the Radio Star

"down with the clown" is an example of the sort of catchphrase that band subcultures often generate (in this case, if you are "down with the clown," you are a Juggalo, and Juggalos are followers of the posse of "Insane Clowns" who make up the band Insane Clown Posse, often abbreviated as ICP).

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That late 70s mod revival began with the Jam though, iirc, so they wouldn't have been mods if they hadn't been Jam fans.

lol just came here to post icp and the juggalos

Little known fact: The ICP have a pretty dedicated following. I believe they even go by a name. *googles* Juggalos, that's it.

What about the Kix Army?

Apropos of nothing, I wish the thread Make A Band Name More Reasonable

Had had some variations on "Sane Clown Posse."

sane entertainer assembly

Guild of Discerning Thespians

If a man were truly insane, he would not have to serve in a clown posse. Yet applying not to serve in a clown posse proves that he is not insane (as it demonstrates his sanity); and so he must serve.

mimes sippin tea

If a man were truly insane, he would not have to serve in a clown posse. Yet applying not to serve in a clown posse proves that he is not insane

I believe that in the U.S. military this is referred to as "Catch Juggalo."

I dated a guy in college whose cousin was in the band Kix. A year or so after we broke up, he emailed me about going to a show where the audience sprayed midwestern soda with plastic toys and it was like, a thing, and everyone there were kinda the same, like, a subculture, and the band was called Insane Clown Posse. Pretty sure that was what they were called.

Relevant to this thread’s interests:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-kiss-tour-20190216-story.html

”What is that thing that connects to the fans and the band? It's not just songs,” says Simmons, who turns 70 this summer. “It's sort of a gathering of the tribes, because it is culture. There's no reason to put KISS tattoos on your body and to name your children after our songs. There's this other much bigger idea that hovers above the band and the fans. There’s some connection to your life."

Imagine naming your kid Love Gun, lol

Would K-Pop bands like BTS count?

yeah there's BTS army, and Gaga's little monsters

and beliebers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fandom_nicknames

Surprised no one has mentioned Insane Clown Posse on there yet, wtf

I know, I'm tempted to edit it because the Juggalos deserve to be on there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fandom_nicknames

Adam Lambert — Glamberts

What about Claymates? I heard that my high school health teacher was one. She used to raise Persian cats and then she became a rabid Clay Aiken fan.

Michael Jackson?

Also, 99.9999% of Dylan fans are not called, and do not call themselves, “Dylanologists” — I don’t care what some book reviewed by Janet Maslin in 2014 says.

NAMBLA members do have a subculture, but the real answer is Juggalos, fans of that Insane Clown Posse band

Fuckin kidfiddlers

that there ICP

subcultures, how do they work