some kinds of hate to take a lot of time and energy but i would ask your mate dom about that
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
*do
The point is not to hate them. The point is to point and laugh at these ridiculous faux-yokel posh cunts.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
i felt a little disgust when they did that weird racist irish youtube.
but yeah i was talking about these with a friend at the weekend and it was nice to realise i couldn't remember any of their music.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
you just dont get his brand of comedy, lex, its not your fault.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
can we still call them Cuntford and Cunts?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
always "sons of mumford, load of retarded irish folk singers" forever imo
― you got mayo in my paleo (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
mumfords cumlords
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
xpost english
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hunt3r refers to Mark E Smith's complaint near the top of the thread.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
my least favorite thing about everything
― marginal victory, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
if british people want bluegrass, why don't they just listen to bluegrass? idgi
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Even Via Brother couldn't bring themselves to 'Go Mumford'
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Punch Brothers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mumford & Sons
― Cliftonb, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
They don't want to listen to bluegrass, they want to listen to lumpy stadium rock with banjos.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
Thugfolk.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
In which xhuxk lays down the law:
http://www.spin.com/reviews/mumford-and-sons-babel-gentlemen-of-the-roadglassnote
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
xposting Punch Brothers is so above and beyond this stuff it's barely comparable, though yeah, they both have banjos.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
In which Tom Hiddleston and Ewan McGregor reveal themselves to be profoundly, enthusiastically uncool. Read the whole conversation:
https://twitter.com/twhiddleston/status/251065139535695873
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
McGregor's an actor, he only pretends to be cool people in movies.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009X766E.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
"Music composed to Heywood Jablonsky"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
Americans: you have the Carolina Chocolate Drops. You even have Steve Martin. Why go for this bunch of pleomorphic Strawbs wannabes?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder the very same thing myself.
― deusner ex machina, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Why blame America on this one? I have a hunch lots of people like these doofuses.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
But WHY?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Why do people like the taste of Diet Coke?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― Rob M Revisited, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Too much british in that post, don't understand, please pass the Mumford
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
get so sad when i see on facebook/spotify that ppl i like are listening to these guys
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
xp wow, what do you Americans say instead of "shit the piss"?
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm British and I've never heard anyone say "shit the piss".
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
I used it only a fortnight ago when a big bottomed bird mugged me off
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/system/images/BAhbB1sHOgZmSSIuMjAxMi8wNy8yNS8xMl81Nl8zOF83NjVfZWRkaWVfbXVycGh5LmpwZWcGOgZFVFsIOgZwOgp0aHVtYkkiDTMyMHgzMjA+BjsGVA/eddie%20murphy.jpeg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Shit the piss, motherfucker!"
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Get the shit piss fuck outta here!"
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not convinced they can "really" play them, just play them enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
there's bazillions of Tories tbf
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Some of them don't even realise they are
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link