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Oasis' fans 'dumber' than U2, Snow Patrol, Radiohead devotees

Oasis fared badly in a poll collating the intelligence of music fans. Oasis fans are thicker than those who like The Fray, The Killers, Snow Patrol, RHCP, Coldplay, Billy Joel, Muse and Radiohead ...
Read the full article on nme.com
Lucasecho - 13 March 2009 3:00pm

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zeus said:
don't think so, lies, damned lies & statistics
13 March 2009 6:54pm

_Clauraj. said:
I'm with zeus ;-]
14 March 2009 12:18am

ELObsessive said:
But that surely assumes that if you're a fan of Oasis, you can't be a fan of other artists? (I enjoy both Oasis and Billy Joel, for instance.) Talking about page-filling crap!
14 March 2009 10:45am

najma93 said:
this is utter rubbish i like killers, coldplay,the fray and i get a fair amount of D grades
15 March 2009 1:01pm

73ray99 said:
Perhaps the empahsis is on the words "fans" and "divotees". Is it ever clever to make an intelligent comment publicly. Thank you, now I'll shut up.
15 March 2009 4:12pm

edge said:
well how`d they work that one out...??? i personally like a number of those.... agree with all the above shouts....
15 March 2009 7:09pm

perk said:
I don't believe a bloody word of that.
15 March 2009 8:26pm

joodywoody said:
I suppose by writing this trash, the NME can then find out how many people read the paper by the response.
I suppose they have earn their living somehow.
17 March 2009 12:54pm

Diavolina said:
Agree with Joodywoody, NME can't have been getting too many letters recently:)
17 March 2009 6:41pm

geordieexile said:
That is because oasis fans tend to be working class, but radiohead etc tend to be uni snobs ha ha OH and most writers at NME are upper class twits that talk out there arses and don,t know what they are talking about!
17 March 2009 6:58pm

demonbuttercup said:
Hey I like radiohead and I'm not a uni snob!!!
17 March 2009 7:39pm

adyeli said:
Hope that don't be true
17 March 2009 7:39pm

geordieexile said:
No D you are Oasis all the way ha ha
17 March 2009 7:58pm

StephenDuds said:
I agree, but u are still calling muse fans dumb
25 March 2009 10:01pm

warby said:
Well interesting enough Muse will be supporting U2 on the USA dates, so not sure who's the dumbest then!

They also might be at some European dates.

Warby
25 March 2009 10:33pm

internationalresolution said:
That article is a bunch of sensationalistic bullocks. U2 and muse sound like a good combination.
26 March 2009 8:25am

internationalresolution said:
I do believe Lil Wayne fans are less intelligent though.
26 March 2009 8:28am

Peanutsavage said:
Hhahah what a load of balls! :P
15 October 2009 4:51pm

PoisonIvy said:
Classic NME tactic of getting readers to write in lol!
18 October 2009 11:25am

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