Generalize the Fans of these Bands, Part II: The Pointless Sequel

- Twenty-something hipsters who don't understand things beyond their Matador Records/Sonic Youth-related sphere. They think Guided by Voices are genius and Sebadoh's use of noise on their early records was revolutionary.

2. The Smiths

- Fags and overweight high school girls. (note my loving use of the term 'fag.')

3. Nine Inch Nails

- Same as The Smiths

4. Butthole Surfers

- Acid casualties. I saw BHS once and met a couple of foreign exchange students, one from Sweden and one from Turkey. We (my friend Phil and I) drove around trying to drive them home but they couldn't give us direction so we drove around town until about 2:30am.

5. Busta Rhymes

- Crazy folks.

6. Ryan Adams (or Bryan. Doesn't Matter...)

- Sensitive types; fifteen year old girls who like Weezer and think the radio sucks.

Smiths-39 year old Emo glasses wearing mom who can decorate her loft well

NiN-has no fans left

Butthole Surfers-Rednecks and ex frat boys who still take drugs "(1992 Birmingham AL I gave gibby my vicks cause his nose was bleeding and then we snorted all this....")

Busta Rhymes-40 year old Sports Journalists and cashiers at Target (also Mrs Rhymes)

Ryan adams-White men slightly balding who you work with you at the office. Likes a good import car and wants to date emo looking mom who loves smiths in the cubicle next door

i'm not a big sonic youth fan (i'll see them live, but haven't bought a record in many, many years);

however, i'd argue lou barlow's original take on hardcore (deconstructionist, single person acoustic boombox recordings (cf, minutemen "econo"-ethic) incorporatin samples, tapes, loops) was revolutionary for the genre (yes, early sebadoh = hardcore). this anti-sebadoh revisionism is pretty boring, they were very critical in the underground music scene of the late 80s/early 90s no matter how hard you young whippersnappers try to distance yourselves from his later ballad-intensive material.

college students and those who are perpetually mistaken for college students (and spend most of their time pretending that the majority of post 80s SY material doesn't suck)

2. The Smiths

homosexuals. fag hags.

3. Nine Inch Nails

pre-goths.

4. Butthole Surfers

early stuff: see sonic youth. later stuff: ministry fans.

5. Busta Rhymes

no data.

6. Ryan Adams

same people that would've liked bryan adams back in the day.

And yet Smiths fans are 'fags'.

Charming.

Anyhow...

1. Sonic Youth
   Perpetually smoking, shades-wearing snobs with delusions of Warhol-hood.
2. The Smiths
   Frustrated UK Jocks who secretly couldn't care less about rugby, and if the peer-pressure wasn't so bad, they'd be at home, sitting in their garden, reading those early Anne Rice porn novels.
3. Nine Inch Nails
   Anybody too unpleasant to be a perky-goth and too skrawny to be a death metal partisan.
4. Butthole Surfers
   Accountants with thinning hair and spectacles...the kind with a thin voice and barely hidden facial tic.
5. Busta Rhymes
   Rabbi's
6. Ryan Adams (or Bryan. Doesn't Matter...)
   Soccer Mom's who find that John Mellencamp is too rambunctious for their fragile nerves.

Balding comic-book-guy industrial bozos who used to be the tech director at their college radio station and now have 1/8-page amp-repair ads in the back of guitar magazines