Is it ok to not like Radiohead?

[MadForIt]

Sci-Fi is hein, I agree.

I wouldn't say RADIOHEAD fans think that much about stuff. They are quite silent in my experience. Usually they are hardcore lefties who are so set in their ways they tend to be angry at everything in the world, against everyone, introverted people, who aren't fun to make eye contact or socialise with. They just sit there in their little corner of the train in their HTTT t-shirt which doesn't fit nice and slimly, daydreaming of misery, and not in a cool way like a Joy Division way, but in a rather sad way.....

I am generalising here....

As i said this is based on the fans i have met
They are all lefties as well, moaning about global warming and they nagg me about how i could not care less. Moaning about how the world is a terrible place etc.

I even met one who said he stays up at night worrying about actions his government has taken in Iraq! - I actually told him to F Off as i couldnt take any more of than kind of talk

I get on with loads of them, most i met at uni, but we obviously dont see eye to eye on some things

I think its the smug factor as well, "oh look at us, we like radiohead, we must have an IQ of 189"

 

[intedomine]

Having met a number of Radiohead fans from Interference, as well as tons outside of here, not to mention all the people waiting in line at the shows and seated around me, I can say this is one of the most ridiculous things I've read in here.

But I was generalising and stereotyping. Probably only 3% of Radiohead fans come anywhere close to adhering to this stereotype.....that's what generalising is all about. What does one expect a fan to be like, when you might know from loads of experience that such fans are often far removed from the generalisation, yet still it holds realtively strong in the mind.....and the generalisation differs amongst different people.

 

[cobl04]

Are you all fucking kidding??

MadForIt is my new favourite member

 

[MikeyJB]

As a big fan of both Oasis and Radiohead I can't help but laugh at the sweeping generalisations people have about both band's fanbase.

 

[MMP]

As a big fan of both Oasis and Radiohead I can't help but laugh at the sweeping generalisations people have about both band's fanbase.

This.
But I'll always have a little problem with Radiohead....Pitchfork likes them

 

[GibsonGirl]

Yeah, you're generalizing. Like when I say that Oasis fans are cro-magnon hooligans who wouldn't know good literature or good music if it came up and fisted them in the ass, and are content to listen to watered-down, derivative pap while they headbutt each other in pubs.

This is actually true 99% of the time, though.

 

[Zoots]

Are you all fucking kidding??

MadForIt is my new favourite member

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[phillyfan26]

But then so many other bands have appealed to the same fan base that you have generalised. The whole punk movement for one.

You'd call the Clash watered down, derivative pap?

 

[lazarus]

MadForIt is my new favourite member

My sentiments oppositely.

 

[MadForIt]

My sentiments oppositely.

No point hiding in the closet

I know you love me really

 

[MikeyJB]

You'd call the Clash watered down, derivative pap?

No mate, but I wouldn't call Oasis that either. At the end of the day, they have defined a generation in the UK and are probably still the biggest band in Britain, and that can't be criticised so easily.