Mumford and Sons

always "sons of mumford, load of retarded irish folk singers" forever imo

mumfords cumlords

xpost english

Hunt3r refers to Mark E Smith's complaint near the top of the thread.

my least favorite thing about everything

if british people want bluegrass, why don't they just listen to bluegrass? idgi

Even Via Brother couldn't bring themselves to 'Go Mumford'

Intro of a live review I did:

It may seem risky to launch a big tour before your hotly anticipated second album hits the shelves, but rest assured: Mumford & Sons’ sophomore release “Babel” (due September 24) doesn’t hit any beats that its smash debut “Sigh No More” failed to hit. “Beat,” of course, being the operative word here, as Mumford & Sons’ M.O. has thus far been to over-inflate boilerplate folk and roots cliches to anthem size and beat you over the head with them.

Punch Brothers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mumford & Sons

They don't want to listen to bluegrass, they want to listen to lumpy stadium rock with banjos.

Thugfolk.

In which xhuxk lays down the law:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/mumford-and-sons-babel-gentlemen-of-the-roadglassnote

"This ain't no sham / I am what I am/Though I may speak some tongue of old / Or even spit out some holy word."

I want a spoken word project with this guy, Bono and Chris Martin, ASAP.

xposting Punch Brothers is so above and beyond this stuff it's barely comparable, though yeah, they both have banjos.

In which Tom Hiddleston and Ewan McGregor reveal themselves to be profoundly, enthusiastically uncool. Read the whole conversation:

https://twitter.com/twhiddleston/status/251065139535695873

McGregor's an actor, he only pretends to be cool people in movies.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009X766E.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

"Music composed to Heywood Jablonsky"

600k opening week

Babel posted the biggest first-week tally for a rock album since AC/DC's Black Ice debuted with sales of 784K in October 2008.

Americans: you have the Carolina Chocolate Drops. You even have Steve Martin. Why go for this bunch of pleomorphic Strawbs wannabes?

I wonder the very same thing myself.

Why blame America on this one? I have a hunch lots of people like these doofuses.

But WHY?

Why do people like the taste of Diet Coke?

Because it's REAL music made by REAL people and REAL instruments, none of this computer-press-a-button hyper-produced stuff that's in the charts. And they mean it, man. For heaven's sake, they're almost Christians, aren't they? What's not to like? Middle America loves 'em just like Daily Mail reading Middle England does.

(I don't like 'em, just in case you wondered. Have managed to avoid them as much as humanly possible, what I heard I hated)

"Because it's REAL music made by REAL people and REAL instruments, none of this computer-press-a-button hyper-produced stuff that's in the charts. And they mean it, man"

Honestly? I think a lot of people just really, really like the tunes. I don't think many people actually take time to second guess their own motives for liking bands. Not a fan myself, but I get very fed up with the High Fidelityesque assumption of cultural backwardness in fans of "non-approved" music.

Oh shit the piss, they're a heap of Tory dung who in Britain are mostly liked by Giraffe World Cafe Tarquin thickos who think heritage sites are cute but that the unemployed should be gassed.

The Pogues micturate all over them and I never thought I'd hear myself saying that.

High Fidelity actually ends up on the side of Simply Red rather than Solomon Burke.

Too much british in that post, don't understand, please pass the Mumford

get so sad when i see on facebook/spotify that ppl i like are listening to these guys

xp wow, what do you Americans say instead of "shit the piss"?

I'm British and I've never heard anyone say "shit the piss".

I used it only a fortnight ago when a big bottomed bird mugged me off

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/system/images/BAhbB1sHOgZmSSIuMjAxMi8wNy8yNS8xMl81Nl8zOF83NjVfZWRkaWVfbXVycGh5LmpwZWcGOgZFVFsIOgZwOgp0aHVtYkkiDTMyMHgzMjA+BjsGVA/eddie%20murphy.jpeg

"Shit the piss, motherfucker!"

"Get the shit piss fuck outta here!"

xp I don't think it's just about the tunes when the image, lyrics and instrumentation all signal AUTHENTIC. "I don't think many people actually take time to second guess their own motives for liking bands." Maybe not but it doesn't mean those motives are uncomplicated.

I remember when a lot of people were talking about them backing Dylan at the Grammys or whatever and there was a fair amount of 'real music' talk. People are suckers. (I've been there, obv.)

No mystery why American audiences like a band who tour like crazy and can really play their instruments and doff their caps to Dylan and Steinbeck and don't do anything fancy.

I'm not convinced they can "really" play them, just play them enough.

"they're a heap of Tory dung who in Britain are mostly liked by Giraffe World Cafe Tarquin thickos who think heritage sites are cute but that the unemployed should be gassed."

But that's almost certainly not the totality - or probably even that large a part - of their audience, is it? Because if it were they wouldn't be selling fucking bazillions of albums.

there's bazillions of Tories tbf

Some of them don't even realise they are

Also, it's getting tied up in the bogus "authentic" debate. With M&S I think that's an odd thing to bring up, because people know they are not farm labourers - one of them's married to a film star. It's a hugely and obviously contrived image, as false in its way as Nicki Minaj's bodystretching photos. You'd have to be an imbecile to think their image equated to authenticity. There are lots of people who just like the sound of guitars more than they like the sound of electronics. I'm one of them. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

But I still don't think they're any good. I'm just getting more and more fed up of party lines about bands and their fans.

one of them's married to a film star

Who dat?

Carey Mulligan

shit is complicated, more complicated than "gas the Tory AORsters" but also more complicated than "people just like what they like on a whim"

it don't matter, true, except inasmuch as Stephen Ward & Sons come across as authentic farmers of cock IRL

i don't get the appeal at all tho, and i got no problem with other mersh running dogs like Coldplay for example

i'd imagine that apart from all the "popular with the wrong sorts of people" hate - which is fair enough in moderation, sometimes the lumpenbourgeoisie gotta expect a little gentle ribbing for our pleasure - what irks people about these guys is their deployment/debasement of sounds and ideas that are too close to comfortable with things their detractors like, almost as if they were violently shoeing the helpless head of folk music or something even tho for real they just sound like the Wurzels with disguised accents and vague godbothering intent

When you get right down to it their music is dogshit, sorry too urban there, horseshit too

can't just say horseshit without poking around in it