Guesses - size makes it less economically viable maybe? Sons of Bumford can do several pub + clubs Thursday-Sunday, Exeter-Winchester, be back at their desks (guitar teachers? I just don't know) Monday morning.
Are there adaptable local bar bands in the US? Would they add Little Lion Man to their set?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, wait, NZ worships the Fall, yeah? Mumford go down there, they'll be arrested at the airport, charged with being crap and dunked in the ocean.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, February 25, 2011 7:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
probably my favorite post in this thread...
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Most bar bands I'm aware of stick to classic stuff and are really slow to adapt current hits, I think "Little Lion Man" would have to blow up even more first.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
NZ worships the Fall?
― oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, especially in Auckland (I should ask LJ about this...)
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The only time they hit Top 10 was in NZ, with "Lie Dream of Casino Soul." The following tour there yielded one of the finest live albums in the prime Fall era, In a Hole released by Flying Nun.
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
(lot more to this story, involving lawsuits and Marc Riley, but I'll let it go for now.)
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
when I think of folk I mostly think of protest music or bearded CAMRA lefties
Maybe you have to be be English and a certain age or whatever but this seems ridiculously specific. "When I think of rock I mostly think of jet black quiffs or playing piano standing up". "When I think of rap I think of Afrocentrism or 808s".
Think it's barking up the wrong tree with M&S tho. They're basically aiming for Arcade Fire, but more contrived.
― Féile Kuti (ecuador_with_a_c), Friday, 25 February 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
this album methinks will be No Fences for the '10s. nice to lol at the UK for once; get the magnifying glass on all the abominable bands from there in the last Idk how many years...
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OKvFd.jpg
― tombôt de couperin (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this album methinks will be No Fences for the '10s.
I will listen to No Fences 2.7 billion times before willingly listening to an entire album of Mumford.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I am from NZ and I worship The Fall so it must be true.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 25 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
some days I think that 1981-82 New Zealand pop charts was the final true sanctuary for great pop music
this was #1 for like 5 weeks in 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMHY3GEhdsc
in one way it's kind of like the Jamaican version of that Lady Antebellum song; in another sense, the longest Jamaican hit single to top the UK charts up to that point was "Double Barrel" for two weeks...
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
(Musical Youth would hit #1 for 3 weeks before the year was out...anything not to talk about Scumford and Nones huh?)
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
(sorry)
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad to see this thread has provoked some top-draw Carmodism:http://in-the-cage.blogspot.com/2011/02/ilm-mumford-and-sons-and-politics.html
― Stevie T, Saturday, 26 February 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
later on today i will be escorting Mumford and Sons and the Felice Brothers to what they think is a special dinner in their honor
i will load them all into a converted schoolbus
put a brick on the gas pedal
and point them towards a cliff
― danbunny, Saturday, 26 February 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
could somebody summarize this thread for me
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 26 February 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
no one likes this band; british ppl say some incomprehensible stuff.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 26 February 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
class is discussed, i think
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 26 February 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks man, sounds like stirring stuff
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 26 February 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i did not bookmark it, lets just put it that way
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 26 February 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
not surprised this goes over the heads of earnest americans but a lil dismayed that english ppl can't see how mumfords are worse than the rest of landfill combined
lex, what is the nature of yr issues with carmody? (nb i have seen his writing before but am not that familiar)
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 26 February 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
One last thing about NZ: not only did Toots and the Maytals make #1 for five weeks, but Joy Division hit #1 on two separate occasions in '81. The Clean debuted in the top 5 twice, for their Boodle Boodle Boodle & Great Sounds EPs, not so surprising considering they're local boys made good, and of course the Fall hit top 20, but so did the Dead Kennedys, with Too Drunk to Fuck of all things! Craziness!
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 27 February 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the thing though, i really don't think they are - don't get me wrong the mumfords are fucking terrible and abhorrent etc, but...so were the futureheads, kaiser chiefs. and so were all the bands in the 90s britpop poll. (kaiser chiefs also much more reactionary lyrically - like that shit's actually overt in their music.)
lex, what is the nature of yr issues with carmody?
ehhhh broadly, projecting political shit into music where it doesn't exist/kneejerk anti-americanism/my #1 pet hate in all of music journalism - seemingly taking everything that surrounds a record into account except how it actually sounds
― lex pretend, Sunday, 27 February 2011 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Really enjoyed reading Carmody - its been a long time, glad he's still around.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 27 February 2011 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Doubt Lex will like his latest post.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 28 February 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
wouldn't know where to read it
― lex pretend, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://in-the-cage.blogspot.com/
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 28 February 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Mumford & Sons aren't worse than most of the landfill indie bands per se, but they're more annoying if only for the ridiculousness of their schtick.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
They're going to be much bigger than the Kaiser Chiefs and (certainly) the Futureheads, which doesn't help.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Is all these students going round in fobnail boots a mumford thing? Is that how you spot a mumford fan?
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 28 February 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't asking
xps KCs and futureheads seemed bloody big enough, you really think the mumfords will be bigger? i honestly couldn't name a mumfords song off the top of my head, or even tell you how any go, which sadly wasn't the case for those other cunts
― lex pretend, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
and at least mumfords haven't taken it upon themselves to take a gigantic shit on a kate bush classic yet
― lex pretend, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
They're warming up on "Jig of Life" right now, I can sense it.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Futureheads weren't actually that big at all, the Kaisers were obviously. Mumford & Sons already are internationally popular in a way those bands weren't, and they're distinctive enough from other internationally popular bands to be able to cash in on it for a while yet. Their second album will be enormous.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazed to discover that the Futureheads have had six Top 40 singles but they were never anywhere near Mumford-sized, Lex.
Second Mumford album is being recorded in Nashville - of course it fucking is.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Monday, 28 February 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Do they need to be there while this is happening?
― Mark G, Monday, 28 February 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
The danger of merging your digital music collection with your spouse's on one hard drive? Coming home to find this fucking band on there.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
mumford are worse than the kaiser chiefs or the futureheads and the reason is that they are BIG RELIGIOUS WE MEAN THIS music
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
love this band
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ not even trying any more
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i was holding back until the maximum number of fans of some punk-revival indie bollocks had piled on and then was gonna gently swing round to defending them. this is also known as "the Coldplay Gambit".
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
are they really pervasive? i listen to the radio, i know a girl i worked with before liked them. she told me about that little lion man song and it wasnt like awful when i listened to it on youtube but yeah its not like i ever wanted to hear it again so i can see why you might resent being forced to constantly. in that same job there was a guy who used to play florence and the machine all the time. i mean.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i would probably pretend that i was bffs w/ half of them or smthng only i would have to do like research
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
they're on the radio in usa like every 5 mins
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont listen to the radio because of the advertisements
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i dislike Oasis and have no strong opinion on Beady Eye (except: lol beady eye), but here's a choice exchange re: Mumford & Sonz from Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell's Quietus interview the other day:
Do you find it a worrying development that something like Mumford & Sons walk away with Best Album at the Brits?LG: I think it’s alright but they were fucking ashamed about winning and that’s the fucking sad bit. 'Oh, we shouldn’t be here!' Then what did you join a fucking band for then? They bow their heads down going, 'Oh, we don’t deserve it' like a fucking dick. What’s that about? You must have seen it before so don’t pretend like you’ve just come out of a cider apple factory.AB: I’ve got nothing against them but I get the feeling they went back to their dressing room and went, 'YEAH!' [mimes air-punching].LG: Still, it’s better than Take That, isn’t it?
LG: I think it’s alright but they were fucking ashamed about winning and that’s the fucking sad bit. 'Oh, we shouldn’t be here!' Then what did you join a fucking band for then? They bow their heads down going, 'Oh, we don’t deserve it' like a fucking dick. What’s that about? You must have seen it before so don’t pretend like you’ve just come out of a cider apple factory.
AB: I’ve got nothing against them but I get the feeling they went back to their dressing room and went, 'YEAH!' [mimes air-punching].
LG: Still, it’s better than Take That, isn’t it?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link