Bands whose fans were their own subculture

you want to talk to a scientist

Yeah, but the metaphysics of it all.

great revive

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i keep meaning to come back here and revive the thread for icp

What’s icp

Indochinese Communist Party, 1930–1945, a predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam

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"what's ICP"

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I believe the fans are called buffalo's, because the band is from upstate NY

Not to be confused with Ruffalos, who pay tribute to their idol by wearing rumpled T-shirts and jeans and rubbing the back of their necks while smiling nervously.

simply cannot comprehend that nobody's mentioned the Jimstein Clowman Posse

is the kiss army boomer juggalos?

this meme on fb says so

lol accurate

who are the juggalos?

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are there any ethnographies of a particular instance of this phenomenon, juggalos (followers of icp)

There must be one on Deadheads by now, surely.

the politics of juggalos and deadheads (every potential definition of the word politics here) would be particularly rich and confounding vein I should think

Nathan Rabin wrote a book called You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes .

There must be one on Deadheads by now, surely.

I read an anthropological study of teenage jazz fans in the 30s or 40s once, in a book of essays about music (there was also one about how music in 1988 was terrible and doomed) - have been looking for it since but can't remember anything else about it.

Okay but this is a thread about musical subcultures, and we should probably be discussing the topic of Juggalos.

apologies if i should just google this, but who are the juggalos?

Insane Clown Posse tribute band aiui

wow i know im getting old bc i do not know any of these new gen z artists lmao

Idk who you're thinking of but the prime example of this, the Insane Clown Posse, got big in the 90s

magnets were a lot more difficult to understand back then

It's weird that ICP haven't been discussed before now, tbh.

The Amsterdam-based jazz and new music collective the Instant Composer’s Pool have a convention every year in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois which gets very wild I hear!

Sounds rad! Are they familiar with the music produced by the Posse of Insane Clowns?

I think their fan base is affectionately referred to as Jugglers, but I am not sure.

Surely someone will enlighten me in due course.

thought of a good one for thIs thread the other day, but it esCaPes me now.

this is a little hyperspecific, but is there a term for fans of J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto (as performed on the Piano)?

yes, parrotheads

juggalos iirc?

A little known fact: The term 'Juggalos' is derived from the 16th century jurist Henry Gallough, nicknamed Judge Gallows, who was known for frequently handing down sentences of death for the crimes of frolicking, clowning and drinking of an ale called Saygo.

this is a little hyperspecific, but is there a term for fans of J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto (as performed on the Piano)?

Yes, and fans of Steve Albini are called Albinos.

Fans of Los Lobos are called Loslobogos.

Fans of the Go-Gos... well, you know.

Personally the only subculture I'm a part of is fans of the 60s psychedelic rock band Blue Cheer.

Me and thousands of other Cheerios (as we're called) have an annual Gathering of the Cheerios.

I am curious about whether there are other bands whose fans have formed their own subculture.

Yeah, strange it hasn't been mentioned but the Grateful Dead have a pretty obsessive and insular fanbase known as Deadallos...

Funny - I call 'em Great Nuts (same cereal aisle, more crunchy)

my favorite is the radiohead fandom, who refer to themselves as headheads.

So, are they kind of like the more famous Clownheads?

Can’t forgot that rhythm guitar-centric Dead sub-subculture, the Weirdos

can't believe nobody has mentioned fans of Dying Fetus, who call themselves Feties

really surprised nobody has mentioned ICP itt

Les Jongleurs

neds whose fans were their own subculture

I don’t think Swifties have been explicitly named ITT, but they’re actually the mainstream culture now.