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* ''Greatset hits'' albums vs The Best of..'' albums. Fans of the former think the later includes mostly filler while the "hits" record contains the cream of the crop. Fans of the latter think the former excludes a lot of fan favorites that weren't singles and consider Best Of collection to be more comprehensive. While considering the "Hits" album to be mostly "BlackSheepHit"..''The Album''.

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* ''Greatset hits'' albums vs The ''The Best of..'' albums. Fans of the former think the later includes mostly filler while the "hits" record contains the cream of the crop. Fans of the latter think the former excludes a lot of fan favorites that weren't singles and consider Best Of collection to be more comprehensive. While considering the "Hits" album to be mostly "BlackSheepHit"..''The Album''.
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* ''Greatset hitS'' albums vs The best of..'' albums. Fans of the former think the later includes mostly filler while the "hits" record contains the cream of the crop. Fans of the latter think the former excludes a lot of fan favorites that weren't singles and consider Best Of collection to be more comprehensive. While considering the "Hits" album to be mostly "BlackSheepHit"..''The Album''.

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* ''Greatset hitS'' hits'' albums vs The best Best of..'' albums. Fans of the former think the later includes mostly filler while the "hits" record contains the cream of the crop. Fans of the latter think the former excludes a lot of fan favorites that weren't singles and consider Best Of collection to be more comprehensive. While considering the "Hits" album to be mostly "BlackSheepHit"..''The Album''.
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* KK Downing vs. Glenn Tipton of JudistPriest

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* KK Downing vs. Glenn Tipton of JudistPriestJudasPriest
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*''Greatset hitS'' albums vs The best of..'' albums. Fans of the former think the later includes mostly filler while the "hits" record contains the cream of the crop. Fans of the latter think the former excludes a lot of fan favorites that weren't singles and consider Best Of collection to be more comprehensive. While considering the "Hits" album to be mostly "BlackSheepHit"..''The Album''.
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* The Wildhearts' 1997 album Endless Nameless abandoned the band's traditional blend of loud guitars with big tunes and harmonies in favour of an experimental extreme-noise-rock sound. Band-related web forums enjoyed heated debate, as some fans insisted that the music was stronger than ever underneath the noise, while others expressed feelings ranging from indifference to outright betrayal. Only one or two songs from this album have ever been played live since 2000, and all the band's subsequent albums have been much closer to the earlier sound.

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* The Wildhearts' 1997 album Endless Nameless abandoned the band's traditional blend of loud guitars with big tunes and harmonies in favour of an experimental extreme-noise-rock sound. Band-related web forums enjoyed heated debate, as some fans insisted that the music was stronger than ever underneath the noise, while others expressed feelings ranging from indifference to outright betrayal. Only one or two songs from this album have ever been played had significant live exposure since 2000, despite the frontman having said several times on record that this album is his favourite, and all the band's subsequent albums have been much closer to the earlier sound.
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* The Wildhearts' 1997 album Endless Nameless abandoned the band's traditional blend of loud guitars with big tunes and harmonies in favour of an experimental extreme-noise-rock sound. Band-related web forums enjoyed heated debate, as some fans insisted that the music was stronger than ever underneath the noise, while others expressed feelings ranging from indifference to outright betrayal. Only one or two songs from this album have ever been played live since 2000, and all the band's subsequent albums have been much closer to the earlier sound.
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* {{Dubstep}}, to ridiculous degrees. Fans of the more bass-driven, minimalistic sounds of {{Burial}} or Skream and fans of the more aggressive "Brostep" such as Flux Pavilion or Rusko get into flame wars that you wouldn't believe. There is no middle ground.
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* In general, R&B attracts this. Fans of R&B/Pop stars vs fans of more "pure" and "mature" R&B/Soul vocalists artists have major problems. This goes as far back as the Motown vs. STAX/Volt rivalry of TheSeventies. The modern version of that rivalry basically boils down to fans of artists like Rihanna, Kristina Debarge, Mya, ChrisBrown, Keri Hilson, etc vs. fans of artists like Anthony Hamilton, IndiaArie, Leela James, Amel Larrieux, Kem, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Goapale etc. The fans of the former group of artists thinks the latter artists' style is outdated and boring, and their fans are a bunch of out of touch elitists. The latter usually calls the former group of artists "Industry Whores" whom along with the record companies are impeding the success of the "true musicians".
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* {{Devo}} fans are split between when Devo "began to suck". Many say after "Freedom of Choice", some "New Traditionalists" or "Oh, No!", and even a few say "Duty Now for the Future". Most folks seem to agree, though, that "Shout", and "Total DEVO" both suck, but the new album "Something for Everybody" is good.

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* {{Devo}} fans are split between when Devo "began to suck". Many say after "Freedom of Choice", some "New Traditionalists" or "Oh, No!", and even a few say "Duty Now for the Future". Most folks seem to agree, though, that "Shout", and "Total DEVO" both DEVO", and "Smooth Noodle Maps" all suck, but the new album "Something for Everybody" is good.have generally been well-received.
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* Section rivalry within concert and marching bands varies, from friendly ribbing to all-out hatred.
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* ''{{DavidBowie}}''. Pretty much ANY time he's shifted styles a split in fandom occurs on whether it's worth sticking around for. Most fans contend that the jump off occurred after Scary Monsters. Others say around the time of Tin Machine. Then there is "Let's Dance", his poppiest album that was recorded SPECIFICALLY to appeal to casual fans, which is either great or really lame.

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* ''{{DavidBowie}}''. ''{{David Bowie}}''. Pretty much ANY time he's [[Main/NewSoundAlbum shifted styles styles]], a split in fandom occurs on regarding whether it's worth sticking around for. for. Most fans contend that the jump off jump-off occurred after Scary Monsters. Others say around the time of Tin Machine. Then there is "Let's Dance", his poppiest album 1980's ''Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)'' because he followed that was with the pop rock of 1983's ''Let's Dance'', recorded SPECIFICALLY to appeal to casual fans, which is either great or really lame.lame. (It became his biggest-selling album and triggered a NewbieBoom, but even he regrets sticking with that approach on his next two albums, resulting in the DorkAge of 1987's ''Never Let Me Down''.) Other fans argue the drop-off came during the Tin Machine period of 1989-92.
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** Before the late romantic era, symphonies were primarily written for aristocracy or wealthy patrons of some kind. On the other hand, operas, while often viewed by the wealthy, were also popular among the middle-class. It was not rare for people to gamble at the opera, or even bring prostitutes into the balconies. Traditional orchestral music (like symphonies) had more of an air of austerity, which helps to explain some of the divisiveness.
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*** To be sure, it ''is'' a difficult choice: ''Come into my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop . . . daintily!'' versus ''Kill the wabbit!''
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* Kelly Ali was fired from the Sneaker Pimps after the group's first album and replaced with a male vocalist. Fans are split on whether the group is better with or without her.

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* Kelly Kelli Ali was fired from the Sneaker Pimps after the group's first album and replaced with a male vocalist. Fans are split on founding member Chris Corner. The argument continues even today as to whether the group is was better with or without her.

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* Mariah Carey fans (and critics) went through this post ''Music Box'' album. Either Daydream or Butterfly were her last good album/first bad album. Butterfly gets shit as it was the first album to move towards a more "urban" (or the pejorative "ghetto") sound as well as featured Mariah becoming way more stripper-iffic. However, many fans of Butterfly will argue that at least it still SOUNDED like a Mariah Carey album and that it was the sequel Rainbow that had Mariah going off the rails with constant rap cameos and even more overt stripper-iffic revamp of her image. Either way, she's never been able to bring the bases back together.

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* Mariah Carey fans (and critics) went through this post ''Music Box'' album. Either Daydream or Butterfly were her last good album/first album, or her first bad album. Butterfly gets shit as it was the first album to move towards a more "urban" (or the pejorative "ghetto") sound as well as featured Mariah becoming way more stripper-iffic. However, many fans of Butterfly will argue that at least it still SOUNDED like a Mariah Carey album and that it was the sequel Rainbow that had Mariah going off the rails with constant rap cameos and even more overt stripper-iffic revamp of her image. Either way, she's never been able to bring the bases back together.together.
** It should be noted that ''Butterfly'' was the first album where she ''fully'' conformed to her urban sound thus picking up a [[NewbieBoom new young urban fanbase]] whom might not have been interested in her music beforehand. When she stopped making Adult Contemporary power pop ballads that's when the Base started to break. Plus there was the fact that she now garnered a new urban fanbase. Because of the latter, the criticism of her post-''Music Box'' albums tend to veer into UnfortunateImplication territory.
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* {{Sugarland}} tried to go more eclectic with their acoustic-pop album ''The Incredible Machine''. Some think it's great; others think that besides the singles "Stuck Like Glue" and "Little Miss", it's terrible and far too strident an attempt at a new sound.
* Following the pop crossover success of "This Kiss" and "Breathe" a couple years earlier, FaithHill set her sights on AC with the 2002 album ''Cry'', a more bombastic pop album than her slick country-pop of the past. Many fans thought that she was abandoning the country genre altogether, and the album tanked at that format (although the title track was a major pop hit and even won her a Grammy). She was all but gone from the country airwaves until 2005, when ''Fireflies'' finally brought her back to form for about a year.
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** The new singer got more and more popular when people started to go their shows and realised that she was far more entertaining and nicer than Tarja was.
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* The fanbases of TheWho and TheSmallFaces can get like this occasionally with fans of their R&B days clashing with fans of their more later releases like ''Tommy'', ''Who's Next'' and ''Quadrophenia'' for the former and ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and ''Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'' for the latter.

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* The fanbases of TheWho and TheSmallFaces can get like this occasionally with fans of their R&B days clashing with fans of their more later releases like ''Tommy'', ''Who's Next'' and ''Quadrophenia'' for the former and ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and ''Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'' for the latter.
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*** Now there's the fans who supported Mike Portnoy's ejection from the band and think that the band was right to not let him rejoin (Despite the band lacking a drummer), and those who believe that Portnoy should be allowed back in.
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* The fanbases of TheWho and TheSmallFaces can get like this occasionally with fans of their R&B days clashing with fans of their more later releases like ''Tommy'', ''Whos' Next'' and ''Quadrophenia'' for the former and ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and ''Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'' for the latter.

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* The fanbases of TheWho and TheSmallFaces can get like this occasionally with fans of their R&B days clashing with fans of their more later releases like ''Tommy'', ''Whos' ''Who's Next'' and ''Quadrophenia'' for the former and ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and ''Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'' for the latter.
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* The rap group ''BoneThugsNHarmony'' has such a varied and diverse style that they ended up creating a varied and diverse fanbase. This diverse fan base always ends up in heated flame wars over what direction the group should take musically. The debates (or arguments) range from style, subject matter and whether or not to have guest features. The group even has a problem maintaining the small but loyal Broken Base that they do have, due to the fact there are more fans of certain individual members than the actual group as a whole. There's also a very contentious debate regarding what caused the group to lose popularity. Some say it's because [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks their music changed]]. While others say it's because of [[LighterAndSofter changing trends in the Hip-Hop industry, and the music industry over all]]. Quite a few say all of the above.

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* The rap group ''BoneThugsNHarmony'' has such a varied and diverse style that they ended up creating a varied and diverse fanbase. This diverse fan base always ends up in heated flame wars over what direction the group should take musically. The debates (or arguments) range from style, subject matter and whether or not to have guest features. The group even has a problem maintaining the small but loyal Broken Base that they do have, due to the fact there are more fans of certain individual members than the actual group as a whole. There's also a very contentious debate regarding what caused the group to lose popularity. Some say it's because [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks their music changed]]. While others say it's because of [[LighterAndSofter changing trends in the Hip-Hop industry, industry]], [[MusicIsPolitics and the music industry over all]]. Quite a few say all of the above.
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* {{Music/Chicago}}: Terry Kath/every-other-guitarist-the-band-has-ever-had; to a lesser extent, Peter Cetera/Jason Scheff and Danny Seraphine/Tris Imboden.

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* {{Music/Chicago}}: Terry Kath/every-other-guitarist-the-band-has-ever-had; to a lesser extent, Peter Cetera/Jason Scheff and Danny Seraphine/Tris Imboden.Imboden.
* The fanbases of TheWho and TheSmallFaces can get like this occasionally with fans of their R&B days clashing with fans of their more later releases like ''Tommy'', ''Whos' Next'' and ''Quadrophenia'' for the former and ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and ''Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'' for the latter.
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* [[Devo]] fans are split between when Devo "began to suck". Many say after "Freedom of Choice", some "New Traditionalists" or "Oh, No!", and even a few say "Duty Now for the Future". Most folks seem to agree, though, that "Shout", and "Total DEVO" both suck, but the new album "Something for Everybody" is good.

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* [[Devo]] {{Devo}} fans are split between when Devo "began to suck". Many say after "Freedom of Choice", some "New Traditionalists" or "Oh, No!", and even a few say "Duty Now for the Future". Most folks seem to agree, though, that "Shout", and "Total DEVO" both suck, but the new album "Something for Everybody" is good.
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* [[Devo]] fans are split between when Devo "began to suck". Many say after "Freedom of Choice", some "New Traditionalists" or "Oh, No!", and even a few say "Duty Now for the Future". Most folks seem to agree, though, that "Shout", and "Total DEVO" both suck, but the new album "Something for Everybody" is good.
** Oh, then there's those curmudgeons who think everything after "Q: Are We Not Men?" is a load of junk with too much synthesizer.
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Many popular bands suffer a [[BrokenBase fan division]] after the release of a [[NewSoundfAlbum new album]]. Some get the same treatment with ''every'' album.

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Many popular bands suffer a [[BrokenBase fan division]] after the release of a [[NewSoundfAlbum [[NewSoundAlbum new album]]. Some get the same treatment with ''every'' album.
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Many popular bands suffer a [[BrokenBase fan division]] after the release of a new album. Some get the same treatment with ''every'' album.

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Many popular bands suffer a [[BrokenBase fan division]] after the release of a [[NewSoundfAlbum new album.album]]. Some get the same treatment with ''every'' album.
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* [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] fans are divided over which of AC/DC's two lead singers, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, is better. The one thing that they are unified on is that ''Back in Black'' is an AWESOME ALBUM.[[hottip:*: For the record, even though Brian Johnson sang on that album, some of the songwriting was also already by Bon Scott.]]

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* [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] fans are divided over which of AC/DC's two lead singers, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, is better. The one thing that they are unified on is that ''Back in Black'' is an AWESOME ALBUM.[[hottip:*: For the record, even though Brian Johnson sang on that album, some of the songwriting was also already done by Bon Scott.]]
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* [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] fans are divided over which of AC/DC's two lead singers, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, is better. The one thing that they are unified on is that ''Back in Black'' is an AWESOME ALBUM.

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* [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] fans are divided over which of AC/DC's two lead singers, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, is better. The one thing that they are unified on is that ''Back in Black'' is an AWESOME ALBUM.[[hottip:*: For the record, even though Brian Johnson sang on that album, some of the songwriting was also already by Bon Scott.]]
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* {{Music/Chicago}}: Terry Kath/every-other-guitarist-the-band-has-ever-had; to a lesser extent, Peter Cetera/Jason Scheff and Danny Seraphine/Tris Imboden.

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