Mumford and Sons

oops... and niels, I got him the Fleet Foxes for Christmas, what was it? wow ten years ago.

I'm weighing Greensky Bluegrass, Trampled by Turtles, Band of Horses, Of Monsters and Men, The Head and the Heart... the Lumineers keep coming up but they seem irritating.

Calexico, perhaps?

you should get ur dad the mumford and sons in addition to this other thing

I agree

yeah, I'm getting him their new album, plus another one in case, as I suspect, he doesn't care for it.

my biggest success was getting him a copy of Ocean Rain and him loving it so much he bought copies for relatives, who also loved it! But they hated every other album by the Bunnymen, so... tricky.

Random! I wonder if he'd like British Sea Power then?

He might like the Electric Ursa album by Joan Shelley

^^well, if we're allowed to just pick good folk records...

he does like Leonard Cohen, so I can always just snag him that $24 box set of all his albums save the last 2-3

buy him the mekons - fear & whiskey

I'm going to use my work week to audition all of these suggestions on Spotify, then make my decision this weekend. I'll let everyone know what he thinks of my choices in January.

first I have to give the Mumford and Sons album a few spins... please keep me in your thoughts

rip ;_;

I am MOR Persephone

you're impugning MOR there

l'm listening to Sigh No More and it's like a blander version of the Crane Wife? Maybe he'd like that

I think the record Hope Glory Mountain by The Acorn might work.

The Crane Wife, I forgot how Jethro Tull it is, so that's a blind alley

Calexico, perhaps?

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, November 25, 2018 3:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Calexico, thanks VegemiteGrrl and Evan... they have a big catalog, what's a good album?

Well, Ned actually might be the best authority around here in regards to the latest couple of albums which for some reason I keep forgetting to check out in full.

Otherwise, their most desert themed and musically experimental material is everything they did up until Garden Ruin, which was a sort of jarring shift at the time towards a more overall straightforward Wilco style pop approach. So I'd recommend that unless one of the new ones is better place to start.

Actually, you know what I'm going go all in on the daring recommendation that you start him off with a live album. They are fun live and can win most people over that way despite familiarity.

Therefore, highly recommend: Ancienne Belgique ~ Live In Brussels 2008

It might just be crazy enough to work.

hazel, what about Andrew Bird? He's got the rootsy thing down, plus violin pizzicato, and WHISTLING.

Break it Yourself is a great record.

added to the playlist!

so I ended up getting him Iron and Wine "Around the Well" and Of Monsters and Men "My Head is an Animal" (and the Mumford and Sons new one, which he asked for)... we'll see what he thinks

thanks all again for the suggestions! Calexico and Midlike I also think he might dig... maybe for his birthday in a couple months?

How did he get on with the purchases, f.hazel?

we listened to the new Mumford and Sons on Christmas Day, and he noted the difference in sound from the debut but seemed pleased... no word on the other two I chose as ancillary gifts, except he liked the idea of new music to try out! He's coming up to hang out next weekend, I'll post an update then!

Shockingly they turn out to be reactionaries (which you would never of course guess from their music, at all).

https://www.nme.com/news/music/mumford-sons-winston-marshall-praises-brave-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngo-2895342

My Mumford and Sons goes MAGA take:
Everyone always trashes dude at the party who sees an acoustic guitar and starts playing Santeria, when they really shoulda been worried about the dude who starts playing Wagon Wheel.

— Matt Lieb? (@mattlieb) March 7, 2021

false dichotomy. both of those guys suck.

I don't know either of these songs, and I have suffered many an acoustic guitar guy at a party.

wagon wheel is the "mama rock me" song, are you sure you haven't heard it?

this might be a USA / UK thing I guess

Wow, you're lucky. Wagon Wheel is all over Alaska.

I looked it up at some point and found out Bob Dylan wrote the chorus and someone else finished it.

Yeah, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show heard it on a Pat Garrett... sessions bootleg and wrote a song around it which was later covered by Darius Rucker who had a big Country hit with it.

What do acoustic guitar guys play in the UK, other than "Wonderwall"?

beatle songs, shit from 00s rock bands which everyone my age knows except me

Ed Sheeran. walkthrough chinatown and 24 hours per day even during lockdown there will be a dude with a great haircut covering Ed Sheeran with a crowd of tourists who've never seen live music performed before.

i heard a white guy doing buffalo soldier at waterloo station once

I've got a cousin like that who used to play pub gigs doing acoustic Oasis, Beatles, landfill + probably Mumford and sons as well, since the rona era he's been doing online ukulele lessons. He's an abject disgrace to the family and would probably get on with the tory banjo-man.

Sing us song Tory banjo man
About being rich and white
We're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alt-right

oh dear

Faith and What Makes You Beautiful on an acoustic guitar, always the sound of a taxi being phoned at a party for me

George Michael and One Direction?

yes

Apparently he's been booted out of the band now, or was a day ago but nobody noticed until now.

pic.twitter.com/x9yddYc0g9

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) March 10, 2021

they're gonna have to find another banjo player with a goofy haircut... could take hours...

i note his twitter following has doubled since this all blew up. so many of these fuckers out there.

judging by the replies to his tweet, his new followers are furious at him

the commercial calculation must be that this shit still alienates more potential fans than it brings in new fans, which is good news I guess?