There's parallel abuse happening on the Coachella and Pazz and Jop threads so let's just put all the necessary hate here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
which one is the dad
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Looks we did their hit single on Singles Jukebox way back in Sep 2009 -- Averaged an ambivalent 6.09; I gave it 4 out of 10 myself
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1371
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Etc. etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was in a liquor store the other day and dudes behind the counter were blasting them while a customer in his 50s was saying "I love these guys, reminds me of italian opera, it's IRISH OPERA"
there were lots of bottles but alas I threw not one
― post-rock was most definitely the future of post-rock (Edward III), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
WELL JEEZ
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
shoot me now, but i don't mind them.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
well i like little lion man, thats about it really.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cannot fucking stand these guys, but apparently my wife loves whatever single is all over XRT.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
these guys are terrible
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
― domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
the world did not need a faux-roots british emo band
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh yes it did
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
not sure if i've heard them, though. do they sorta appeal to people who love the Once sdtk or something?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe, because my wife loves that sdtk too.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok listening to them now. they are terrible. good luck uk!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I suspect this explains a lot -- apparently these are his parents:
http://www.vineyardchurches.org.uk/about-vineyard-churches.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
'His' meaning Mr. Mumford himself.
um, they are getting big here too, so good luck u.s. now
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
good luck everyone
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:33 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark
omg is this for real
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Hahahah...yeah, we're sorry too."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
pomplamumf
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yup:
http://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2010/03/dear-christian-sigh-no-more.html
http://crispinschroeder.blogspot.com/2010/06/musings-on-mumford-and-sons-and.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
once sdtrk is a towering masterpiece compared to this shouty garbage
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
thank u ned; between these guys and pompalamoose everyone i hate is apparently a church planter
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
and now i longer like little lion man.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
literary influences = your assigned high school reading
Literary influences
Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, their debut album name deriving from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The track, "Sigh No More" includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend and One foot in sea and one on shore. Their song "Roll Away Your Stone" also is influenced by Macbeth.
Many of the songs on "Sigh No More" and the title of the album itself are inspired by other authors' works. "You can rip off Shakespeare all you like; no lawyer's going to call you up on that one," Mumford said in an interview.[17]
Both "Timshel" and "Dust Bowl Dance" draw heavily from the John Steinbeck novels "East of Eden" and "Grapes of Wrath" respectively. Mumford in an interview even compares touring to a Steinbeck adventure. "[Steinbeck] talked about how a journey is a thing of its own, and you can't plan it or predict it too much because that suffocates the life out it. That's kind of what touring is like. Even though there's a structure — you know what towns you're going to, and that you'll be playing a gig — pretty much anything can happen." Mumford also in his spare time runs an online book club on the band's official web site.[18]
― post-rock was most definitely the future of post-rock (Edward III), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah basically this is all we listen to here sry
― a fierce jet of passion-fruit cream and powdered mint leaves (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
They're like if Jedward were quads who made indie folk emo.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
i actually liked these guys for a short bit last year then got tired of them fast. think i even voted for the album on 09 ilx poll, smh...
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
like, the lyrics are abysmal and the style is an uncomfortable appropriation but at least there are hooks there and they use dynamics better than most popular bands
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
for those that don't follow The Fall thread:
The Fall's Mark E Smith was apparently involved in an altercation with dire banjo wielding troupe Mumford & Sons at an Irish festival earlier this year. In an interview with the Australian magazine Brag Smith complained that The Fall's increasing popularity at festivals means they're forced to meet new bands who are often "ass lickers". Even worse, some of them are Mumford & Sons.
"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them cunts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3
― a fierce jet of passion-fruit cream and powdered mint leaves (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
"a load of retarded Irish folk singers" is one for the hall of fame
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
These are one of those bands that, like Airborne Toxic Event, I recognized on the radio based solely on people's objections.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was just about to link that Mark E Smith story. Love him so much for that. Mumford are the worst.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
god, THESE GUYS ARE TERRIBLE
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Before 'Funeral', there was just a big nuthin'
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i will say that i like them and that i hate myself for it
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahah that kind of does not surprise me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Every kid I know between the ages of like 16 and 25 thinks Mumford & Sons is like the best band on earth right now.
They are already bigger than I think most folks itt realize -- selling out large venues just about everywhere they go, etc. -- and they're gonna get even bigger.
I do enjoy a spin of "Little Lion Man" every once in a while, but generally the album is a snooze.
― alpine static, Thursday, 20 January 2011 05:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Every kid I know between the ages of like 16 and 25 thinks Mumford & Sons is like the best band on earth right now
GTFO of Surrey imo
― Magic Our Maurice! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't think of a more appropriate Biggest Band In Cameron's Britain tbh.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kunt and the Gang, obv.
― Magic Our Maurice! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I noticed the Mumford phenomenon in full force at Bestival - hordes of sixth-formers and university students in Jack Wills gear, all with exactly the same Home Counties accent. They went absolutely apeshit but in a way that makes me think they'll look back in five years and wonder what they were so excited about, cf the Levellers 20 years earlier. At least the Levellers represented some kind of counterculture rather than the harvest fair-attending, Archers-loving, posh welly-wearing, Abel & Cole-eating, Magners-drinking, coalition-voting Middle England of the Mumfords.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
When I wrote something about indie and class some people retorted "it's not where you're from it's where you're at" but my problem with the Mumfords is that where they're at is EXACTLY where they're from. Their music is their upbringing writ large.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
you could have stopped at Bestival tbh
― vampire weekend fan (acoleuthic), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:37 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
i don't understand this post, but i did enjoy it
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Forgot the Innocent Smoothies but Dorian otm
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
"It's a snuff film, see."
"Hey, great idea."
"Yes. Yes it is."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 01:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
Mr. Agreeable ponders things.
http://thequietus.com/articles/10744-mumford-sons-babel-review-mr-agreeable
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 16:29 (5 months ago) Permalink
Even Mumford & Cunts' schtick is fresher and less hackneyed than Mr Agreeable.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 16:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
Cometh the hour, cometh the critic.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 16:36 (5 months ago) Permalink
Was Mr. Agreeable funny prior to 1997? Otherwise I wouldn't know.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 16:54 (5 months ago) Permalink
i don't understand why swearing is supposed to be funny
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
Mumford & Cunts
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
Pooford & Harlots
Cuntford & Mums
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
i'm not laughing
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:19 (5 months ago) Permalink
no that's 'the point'
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
what is the point?
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
Bumford and Cums
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:33 (5 months ago) Permalink
Snotford and Poos
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:34 (5 months ago) Permalink
it's fun!
Snow & Patrols
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
85 posts of this would still not be as bad as that quietus article
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
Scumford and Crumbs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:46 (5 months ago) Permalink
not swearing but just as fun
I laughed at the nostalgia-for-rickets thing, but this was Mr. Agreeable by the numbers.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:50 (5 months ago) Permalink
Probably about as funny as the Savage Pencil strip in the Wire.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:52 (5 months ago) Permalink
Nothing like the funnies section in the music press eh what
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
and this is nothing like the funnies section in the music press...
― Dermot O'Leary, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been (snoball), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/mumford-and-sons-cant-believe-they-all-got-each-ot,30709/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:07 (5 months ago) Permalink
Is it possible to rectally insert a mandolin? Because I think in the name of science these tosswits should try.
― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
Mumford added that the coincidence was at least an improvement over last year’s exchange, when each of the four musicians went home with three copies of the band’s debut EP, Love Your Ground.
Oh, those wacky funsters...Next Christmas, each of them goes home with three fossilised turds. Or in other words, their bandmates.
― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
Have we got a thread about post-Mumford shitbags the Lumineers?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
Oh, those wacky funsters...
I know, it's literally unbelievable
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
The Lumineers walk that line with an unerring gift for timeless melodies and soul-stirring lyrics
I made it 30 seconds into 'Ho Hey' (unfortunately not a Ramones styled Christmas song) before shouting "wankers!" and closing the window.
― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:41 (5 months ago) Permalink
xp they're K-RRRRRRRRRaaaaaaaaaaaZZZZZZZZZZZZZZYYY guys!!!
BAN THIS SICK FILTH
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
This news is actively ruining my day.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:28 (3 months ago) Permalink
gross
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
Couldn't they have asked, I dunno, anybody from his band, or somebody who actually knew the damn guy? It's not like he died 40 years ago and this is the only band that has a mandolin player.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
Mumford and Garth Hudsons
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
they are trying really hard to push this type of music on boomers aren't they? idgi.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
id imagine from the sales figures that olds are buying plenty of this crap already
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:39 (3 months ago) Permalink
it makes sense, doesn't it? appeals to the whole "that's not real music this is real music" crowd.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
I did once think the few seconds of "I Will Wait" I heard as muzak was Bad Company, but only for a moment.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:45 (3 months ago) Permalink
Sasquatch 2013 lineup - Mumford and Sons, Macklemore AND the Lumineers
ffffuuuuuuuuu
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:55 (2 months ago) Permalink
it would be nice to pin mumfords/lumineers et al on the olds but evidence points to the kids
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
That's it. I am prepared to offer a bounty.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/02/rapped-lyrics-among-plans-for-next-mumford-sons-al.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
. Banjo player Winston Marshall made sure to note that Mumford & Sons’ third album will take longer to produce, “a few more years than it took to make Babel.”
Take your time lads, no need to rush these things
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:31 (2 months ago) Permalink
I've never knowingly heard Mumford & Sons.
― dog latin, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:38 (2 months ago) Permalink
Banjo player Winston Marshall
At some point in future years this will be the new 'drummer for Gay Dad' closing tag.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:39 (2 months ago) Permalink
the band practices rapping in a backstage practice room during their tour
A tape of Mumford and Sons' 'backstage rapping' surfaces online. Do you listen to it Y/N? Please show your working.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
Isn't this that band that helped break HAIM?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:46 (2 months ago) Permalink
Sandie Shaw: 'Up yours, you posh bastards'
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 10:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
Ah, that eighties dole culture without which Madchester and Britpop wouldn't have happened. Says a lot about now that I start feeling nostalgic about the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
every time I'm at a bar and a song comes on that I don't know but really wind up hating halfway through I'm kind of stunned to find out that it's always Mumford & Sons. what the
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:57 (1 month ago) Permalink