ITT: Artists who are fans of bands you wouldn't suspect

Kevin Shields and Morrissey are both big fans of the Oi! band Cockney Rejects. Morrissey went so far as to write the foreword to their frontman's autobiography and had them support him on tour.
Michael Gira is a big fan of Neil Diamond
Phil Anselmo is a big fan of the Smiths

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Autechre are big fans of Ween

john lennon was very fond of BEAThoven

who doesn't like ween?

me

U2 are fans of Einsturzende Neubauten and had them as an opening act in the late 90s.

bono loves silverchair

seriously?

FATBOIIII

apparently tyler the creator is a can fan

Paul McCartney is a big Kanye fan - you heard it here first

He's also a Liars fan, if the Leather Prowler sample on that one song is anything to gob y

That's funny. Did you know he beat his wife?

Big Boi from Outkast is a huge Kate Bush fan. for real.

muse love lightning bolt and have covered one of there songs

Trent Reznor is a big Pantera fan

So is John Lydon

It's not too surprising John Lydon liked Can. What is surprising is that Sid Vicious did, and he was the one that got John into it.

not uncommon story, but Numan's autistic earnestness is sweet, and the implications that a master inspired a student, who reinspired the master is heartwarming.

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Devin Townsend likes Nickelback. He said Dark Horse was a big inspiration when writing Addicted!

aphex twin was a big fan of radiohead

George Fisher the singer of Cannibal Corpse listens to Enya
this is not a joke, i read it in an interview with him years ago when i was in high school (i am 30 now)

Was Bowie a death grips fan?

yeah, how else did he get cancer and die.

>not being a huge Neil Giamond fan

Dr Dre is a big fan of Nirvana

I really liked his collaboration with Terry Pratchett

All rappers like Cobain, because he name-dropped Hip-Hop as being "important"
All narcissists like people that praise them.

Diorama is a God-tier pop album.

>all rappers like nirvana
all rappers say they like nirvana, tis a little different

Dr Dre apparently is a huge fan

I appreciate Numan, but his wig game is dire. He needs to sort that out.

John Lydon loves Kate Bush
Bob Mould likes the Avalanches
Grimes is into cLOUDDEAD and other Doseone projects

Mike Patton loves Sade

>Depeche Mode hands control of their facebook over to a different fan every day or so.
>They choose Tony Hawk
>Tonk Hawk reaches out to Trent Reznor to see if he wants to contribute
>Reznor writes this letter.

>Since that time, Diorama has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide and yielded three top 20 singles in this country. Rolling Stone magazine dubbed the album "one of the boldest musical statements ever made by an Australian rock band" and Kerrang! said it was "their first truly great album". After hearing some of the songs, Bono from U2 told Rolling Stone that people should "swim to Australia to hear them if you have to".

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that's awesome but it's not the least bit surprising that he's a DM fan

Had no idea Morrisey waws fan of rejects!
I listened to Oi punk before I was introduced to Smiths, what a great discovery (for me)

Morrissey is also the biggest fan of Morrissey.

daft punk are known fans of my bloody valentine and mc5

Well yeah. That too

Me

Can is the "underground" popular avant-garde music because thanks to Jaki its all danceable too

I don't like goofy novelty rock.

That's not what ween is

This. He's a certified waifu warrior
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I thought it was the other way round. He played with Jonny though, so could be true.

>all rappers say they like nirvana, tis a little different

True, all rappers say they like nirvana when in actual fact they just think Kurt has cool hair

Timbaland considers Trent Reznor as one of his favorite producers.

Reznor doesn't feel the same.

I'd imagine if he got Timabaland to do a remix of one of his songs that he must respect him at least, but desu who on Earth would think a Timbaland/NIN collab would turn out anything other than terrible anyway?

Jimmy Iovine probably.

Chance the Rapper is a fan of Joanna Newsom
He said 'Ys' was one of his favourite albums of all time

he did an interview recently where he talks about having dinner with her
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Starts at 9:25

haha he's fanboying hard,it's fucking cute

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And Morrissey hates her

Stephen Colbert is a Neutral Milk Hotel fan. He played ITAOTS during the Colbert Report finale and the Late Show band played The Fool as an outro at one point.

Death Grips listed Michael Jackson as one of their inspirations in a very early interview.
Whether they did it to fuck with people or if they were serious I have no idea.

>"Jimi Hendrix, of course"

Brian Wilson is a big fan of Blues Traveler

I can imagine him sitting backstage with an ipod listening to The Wind Cries Mary and looking all contemplative.

Bruce Springsteen covered Suicide

Tim Kinsella is into Adele, Omar-S, Suicidal Tendencies, Captain Beefheart, and Can

Mike Kinsella is into Depeche Mode

same thing with This Heat

I guess supposedly Grimes is a huge Lynyrd Skynyrd fan

Damn....Now that I think of it, Addicted! is just a 'bigger' Nickelback album. Welp. Still love it.

Mike kinsella likes shitty punk and old pop

he also said sd laika is the only recent electronic project he likes

I thought he just named Frankie in Highway Patrolman in honor of them. What song?

varg vikernes is a fan of coil

Dream Baby Dream

He was also massively into the white label techno culture of the 80s and early 90s and cited Kraftwerk and The Cure as large influences on Burzum.

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Imagine being this lame

Morrissey fuckin loves Ludus

Throbbing Gristle were big fans of ABBA.

he covers Dream Baby Dream pretty often