This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

I don't know anything about Imagine Dragons except apparently they're very popular. There are only a few mentions of them anywhere on ILM. I am intrigued by these bands that become popular and exist somewhere outside my realm of reference. I do not want to hear them or even know what they sound like, because probably they are terrible. So this is a thread for speculating ignorantly about them and making conjectures that are never to be tested or disproven.

For starters, I imagine they look something like this.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/myspaceboy93/IMG_1385.jpg

Imagine Dragons, chilling by the fire pit.

Clockwise from lower left: Stu (manager), Ralphie, Davey Z, Rick, Tom-Tom, Billy

Their music may or may not be fairly described as frip-hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENM2wA_FTg

incredibly menacing youtube

Noooo. Don't ruin it! Nobody click on that.

i'm not clicking on it. the freezeframe looks appropriately Harry Potterish

guy in the right of the frame may be imagining a dragon

hey tipsy i'm with you i will never break XXXIMAGINEDRAGONSEDGEXXX

true 2 death

i have never heard of this band btw. imagine if their name was pronounced unexpectedly like "Imajinay Draygoans"

I've been constantly confusing htem with Of Monsters and Men.

that Youtube still raises more questions than it answers. are they Hobbits?

bad music for bad people

I haven't heard of Imajinay Draygoans but I enjoy having the same peculiar relationship with Of Monsters and Men, of whom I know two things - 1. they are called Of Monsters and Men, 2. they have some manner of popularity among some demographic or another.

also I mix them up with Monsters of Folk who I think I know a little bit about but I could be also mixing them up with someone else.

Imagine Dragons = post-grunge bullshit
Of Monsters and Men = twee bullshit

i like the first Imagine Dragons single with mandolins, don't like the second one with dubstep wubs.

Imagine Dragons is a four-piece rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that formed in 2008. The group's name is an anagram of "Gonad Migraines," their original name that they regretfully discarded. [1]

the third imagine dragons single, featuring the girl from that gotye song, was a welcome return to form.

not looking forward to their collaboration w/ dave grohl and skrillex, though.

An actual collaboration, or just an inevitable one?

is there even a difference?

this is a cool name for a band, but i do not think this band is particularly cool

i also have never heard them or even heard of them before this thread tho

maybe they sing in a made-up dragon language full of guttural grunts and hissy sounds

or songs from the dragon's point of view about how girls always end up going out with asshole knights who treat them badly

imgn drgns, we nevr them.....

i think i'm the only vote for "It's Time" in our year end poll as the song is catchy as hell.

"now don't you understand
i'm never changing who i am"

sorry about posting lyrics, they just came to me so i kept writing.

ha no it was on my ballot too

Maybe they're good! I have no idea. Rock bands or ROCK BANDS still existing is interesting to me, even if not interesting enough to really listen to them. I was just looking at the charts and there were Imagine Dragons all over them and it was funny to me. I hope they go on to be bigger than Nickelback.

i quite like how this thread has managed to absorb both certifiable fact from those who have heard the band and never-to-be-tested conjecture from those who haven't, with no particular order or hierarchy. if you removed the top post, it would be a very strange thread. but as it is, it's almost magical. like a dragon.

haha i had a very kneejerk reaction against this band at first but after a while i actually became brainwashed into liking "it's time" - one of my friends always puts it on when she's driving

Little-known facts about Imagine Dragons: They started as a Semisonic tribute band called Closing Tyme. Two of them used to work as birthday-party strippers before recommitting to their Mormon faith. Scott Stapp is such a huge fan that they had to block him from bombing their Twitter account with late-night drunken mash notes.

there's prob more rock (or "rock") on the pop charts the past year than there's been in maybe a decade or more, it's a weird time. but, like, most of the Imagine Dragons album is produced by Alex Da Kid, the guy who produced "Love The Way You Lie." maybe combos like this and fun./Jeff Bhasker are going to be in vogue for a while.

Wonder if the fusion will hold, or if it means there will another big Nirvana-like schism at some point, taking it back to the real rock, man.

Imagine Dragons formed in 2008 while lead singer Dan Reynolds was attending Brigham Young University.[1] Their music is often described as being positive and uplifting and avoids cursing.[2]

i do a lot of freelance work on different kinds of little video shoots and commercials, so i'm always working w/ different people, and there's this one crew i've worked w/ a lot lately and the guy in charge always seemed really cool and smart. but last time i worked with them, he was on his laptop working for like an hour before we got started and, and he kept playing "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, the song of theirs that i totally hate, over and over and over and singing along with it. really bummed me out.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

hey they are playing in SF at the Warfield tomorrow

Send your worst enemies there.

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

According to my data, if you don't want to hear Imagine Dragons you might also want to not hear Neon Trees, Young the Giant, Walk the Moon, Grouplove, AWOLNATION, Fun., Dan Reynolds, the Naked and Famous, Of Monsters and Men and Matt & Kim. And some emerging songs you might want to avoid discovering right now include "House of Gold" by Twenty One Pilots, "Wilderness" by Ra Ra Riot, "Choice Mountain" by Everything Everything, and "Rootless" by Youngblood Hawke. And along with Everything Everything come Django Django and Mother Mother.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

proper lol to this .. i am soooo using the word 'shitfucks' for the rest of my life ..

I thought Mother Mother were only known in Canada.

ID's "Radioactive" and AWOLNATION's "Sail" are virtually identical.

Imagine Gonad Migraine Dragons

I'm just going to pretend that they are the Soup Dragons and continue not listening to them

ID's "Radioactive" and AWOLNATION's "Sail" are virtually identical.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, March 15, 2013 5:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as someone who hates the former and loves the latter i object

Imagine Dragons = The Lumineers + Maroon 5

Maybe this should be a rolling thread where each week we pick somebody new to not listen to. Because what shows our shared love of music more than self-righteous ignorance of anything that gets popular or unselfconscious, right?

shitfucks

new single?

so imagine dragons are not a soaring, vaguely christian power metal band with sideways haircuts? i am hugely disappointed in this thread.

I dunno, I've never heard them.

me neither. the dream is alive.

I refuse to consider listening to a band with this shit a name. Unless, as Contenderizer says, they were power metal.

"The group's name is an anagram, with the original words known only to the members of the band."

Intrigue!

Also… Mormons!

The wiki used to say what the mystery name was and it's, no kidding, Gonad Migraines

I would be happy to contribute to them feeling that, on a regular basis.

From Maura's alt/modern rock 2013 thread

rolling alt/modern rock 2013

http://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-albums

So should I listen to Imagine Dragons?

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
NO

― maura, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:06 PM (1 week ago)

oh my god their new song incorporates SUBLIME influences

i wish i was kidding. it's on the iron man 3 soundtrack

I haven't listened to Imagine Dragons or the Lumineers or Mumford and Sons or Philip Philips or whatever. I feel very blissful in my ignorance.

or songs from the dragon's point of view about how girls always end up going out with asshole knights who treat them badly

― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:55 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvTJCBbx6phtCDGLLaYLEkoayC-_76Sh11jFosRNtGtmEIGBe2ZQ

well, guess i can't watch iron man 3 then.........

http://toysldrs.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/unleash.jpg

Ive heard Radioactive. With the grohl sounding 'ready to rock you' chorus, they sound like a foo fighters tribute. Listening on the radio without paying too much attention at first, i thought this was the Foo Fighters's latest single. lol. Im betting they are big fans of grohl. Not that he's had much amazing input since his debut. The FF are too commercialized now, and im sure this band will be too. Not that the band will mind. Radioactive is a pretty good track but nothing that original or inspirational. In a cowell led music industry thats spitting out more generic rubbish now than ever, thats nothing to be shocked about XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUFdlWK3edQ

shit. i kinda wanted to see that movie......

I finally heard this song and it's fucking hilarious.

in the ott, histrionic way that Muse are

"it's time"? "radioactive"?

(like the former, hate the latter personally)

latter. oh no would I actually choose to listen to it, but it cracked me the fuck up when I heard it unexpectedly

Ive heard Radioactive. With the grohl sounding 'ready to rock you' chorus, they sound like a foo fighters tribute. Listening on the radio without paying too much attention at first, i thought this was the Foo Fighters's latest single. lol. Im betting they are big fans of grohl. Not that he's had much amazing input since his debut. The FF are too commercialized now, and im sure this band will be too. Not that the band will mind. Radioactive is a pretty good track but nothing that original or inspirational. In a cowell led music industry thats spitting out more generic rubbish now than ever, thats nothing to be shocked about XD

― kcobain, Monday, April 22, 2013 7:17 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this post/display name

When will Radioactive stop rising on the chart? Up to #3 after 47 weeks.

Right now it's on track to go past number one, which would be the first time in history a song has done that.

My least favorite lyric from this song is

I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2013/07/radioactive-imagine-dragons-worst-song-ever-written.html

Okay that tragic cover video.

why the fuck do i have to imagine the dragons

just show me a fucking dragon

Hey! Look - here they are!

http://www.indiesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMAGINE-DRAGONs.jpg

chipotle

looks like somebody decided we need a new nickelback

my girlfriend sometimes trolls me by sending me links to youtubes of really popular songs that I (a) have never heard and (b) she knows i will hate. she hasn't gotten around to this band but has trolled me with old crow medicine show, mumford & sons, and that anna kendrick thing among others. of all of the youtubes she's sent me the only one I could listen to all the way through was the OCMS one which I felt was mostly terrible but not offensively so. however if i had heard it every day for a few years I'd probably feel differently. anyway.

ok wow this song is bad

Yup.

Heard Radioactive on Fri, it's boring nasty bad, not funny bad. Blergh.

Dragon #3 looks like if someone made a troll doll of middle aged vince neil.

i think i might've listened to these by accident once but i can't remember so i'm still good

fuuuuuck theeeeese guuuyyyys

my wife tried to convince me that the giant drum they play in live performances of "Radioactive" is on the studio version and i was just like 'no, that's the wub wub dubstep drum loop that's on a million other songs'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9IvyhYpKMg

creepy-looking Imagine Dragons frontman reminds me a little of creepy-looking Arcade Fire frontman. also lol mullet.

i still really like their first single "It's Time," though, that's one good-ass generic movie trailer-sounding song.

I still have never listened to Imagine Dragons, but I wonder if anyone has made a fan vid with scenes of Daenerys Targaryen.

that anna kendrick thing

What is this thing?

she sang a song in the movie Pitch Perfect that gradually climbed into the top 10 of the pop charts nearly a year after the movie came out.

Oooooh I'm gonna listen to that later, when everything seems to be going my way

The Kendrick song also has like a 2-minute steadicam shot in the video (for people who care about stuff like that).

check out the 77-second version from the soundtrack that originally went viral, the dressed-up re-recording they play on pop radio now is not nearly as good (xp)

it's an old country song that went semi-viral when some anonymous youtubers combined it with the cup dance (2009), culminating in the Pitch Perfect scene (2012), Anna Kendrick's hit (2013), and thousands of youtube covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKcChGsDqnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCOYJg9ps4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqDCGg0GYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yWlRTdF7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yWlRTdF7I

oops, didn't mean to post some many embeds, and didn't mean to post them in that order. also meant to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXSOPDe5-Y

Oh that's the story. Huh. I heard that on the local pop station the other day and was a little baffled.

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

To be fair, no twee-er than a lot of early 60s folk-pop, New Christy Minstrels et al.

i still really like their first single "It's Time," though, that's one good-ass generic movie trailer-sounding song.

definitely

i can't stand that cups shit

just walked into the living room while mk2 was watching the reading stuff on tv.
it was this lot.
f*ck they are crap.

Wouldn't Gonad Migraines be Blue Balls?

the Anna Kendrick song is p much the only unobjectionable manifestation of the current folk obsession I've heard

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's kendricks "soulful" would-be blue notes that make her version hard to take

I've been really not listening to these guys a lot for the past few months. Pretty good so far.

I saw a magazine today that had a picture of them. The singer plays a big bass drum, or so I assume.

Keep it that way man, rly, I have their song in my head all the time atm

was listening to the radio today and a truly horrible rock song came on.
My wife asked "Who is this?" and I said, "I don't know probably Imagine Dragons or something."
the DJ later confirmed that I was right.

somewhat reminiscent of that famous Nick Cave quote -- "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

checking out on the prison bus

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's kendricks "soulful" would-be blue notes that make her version hard to take

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, August 24, 2013 6:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the fact that it sounds engineered to be used in a cell-phone commercial

my only real quibble with the song is that i would never miss talking to somebody who says things like "you're gonna miss me by my talk"

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

― how's life, Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

also the fact that it sounds engineered to be used in a cell-phone commercial

:( I wonder how those girls are doing. The girls who made the first video. Paid? I hope so. I like their version. I don't know what it is that makes Anna Kendrick's version sound like Edward Sharpe, I think there is some "cell phone ad" production trick in place that I bet one could figure out if one were to play these songs on studio monitors but I would rather leave that mystery undiscovered

It's a revolution, I suppose

it's the tinkly something or other, all cell phone ads must have music with tinkly somethings or other

Heard the new song from these people on the radio, and I just knew it was their new song. It was like this perfect conflation of Maroon 5, fun., One Republic and other ... stuff.

"Demons"? i dunno what's very fun. (or "fun") or Maroon 5 about that one.

That it's lame?

I was thinking the vocals specifically, the same sort of not soulful singing from the soul, with massed sort of pinched high anono vocals

I wonder if this one will also be in the top 20 for an entire year like the last horrible song.

I'm glad I haven't heard "Radioactive" in a long while. That song was starting to make me suicidal.

i read that kendrick is performing w/ them at the grammys

"Demons" has been on the chart for 34 weeks and is still rising, from #7 to #6 this week. We're probably in for another yearlong Imagine Dragons track.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 15, 2013 4:13 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost a year after this post ... but i cosign 1,000,000%

lol

how did Radioactive become a big hit. how can anyone who ever existed possibly enjoy that

i have it on excellent authority that women under 18 are nuts for these guys

i don't especially dig 'em myself but shit i'll take 'em in a heartbeat over like the killers or whatever

typed the letter 'i' into Youtube search, top 3 results are these cunts

how did Radioactive become a big hit

I think melodically it sounds not unlike a Coldplay tune.

I heard a tiny bit of one song this morning, it was pretty dull, I thought they were suppose to be a "rock band"?

People embrace the post-apocalypse these days. Also, prison dramas. And mediocrity.

"Radioactive" was just in the right place at the right time, the world was ready for grungestep

Radioactive isn't bad for 10 seconds until the horrorshit goes fecalith

I've never heard this band. I know they are Mormon just from their name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpb798UXWJc

it's where my mormons hide

This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

^ this song (Anna Kendrick's Cups, not imagine dragons, obvs) is being taught in our nation's schools. My 4th-grader brought it home with him and this is the rhythm that's been driving our weekend.

i had no idea that that horrible kingdom come song i've been hearing absolutely everywhere and hating 24/7 is by them, what a disgusting piece of shit jfc

I have just knowingly listened to Imagine Dragons for the first time. They are rotten.

Seeing them on Saturday Night Live. Ugh, except for guest Kendrick Lamar.

2nd song was even worse-- the worst aspects of '90s and 2000s era commercial rock

not my style of rock

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5901265/imagine-dragons-radioactive-ties-for-longest-hot-100-run

"Imagine Dragons tie a vaunted Billboard Hot 100 record this week, as "Radioactive" logs its 76th week on the survey. The sum ties the mark established by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" in 2008-09."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyLtMPuWRA

Imagine Dragons tie a vaunted Billboard Hot 100 record this week, as "Radioactive" logs its 76th week on the survey. The sum ties the mark established by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" in 2008-09

this is some achievement.

despite my best efforts, i've heard this band before. it's pretty grim, this nu-grunge.

well, this live review might have made it all worth it:

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2014/03/imagine_dragons_xcel_energy_center_review.php

haha mainstream pop fans amirite

this band is horrible

not a fan of them but shit like "Although the audience was young, the amount of children present proves that the average Imagine Dragons fan is an enlightened and advanced being -- as this is a serious band of serious musicians, most certainly only capable of being understood by adult intellectuals" come on

i thought there were lots of funny lines but i guess i don't really give a shit about the message or w/e

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 15, 2013 8:26 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That review certainly seems a good fit for the thread title

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 15, 2013 8:26 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― PONOPONOPONO (seandalai), Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kendrick thing at the grammys made me break edge :(

then i ended up seeing them on SNL ;_;

it was all over for me then

I'm still pure I think. People were talking about them at work today though.

fly away tyler, never look back....it's too late for me

everyone who thinks they haven't heard them has heard "demons" a million times

bet you five bucks I haven't heard a note of it

since i'm damaged goods & will die broke and alone i'm listening to this demons song now

i don't think i heard it before

but i did see them on SNL so they probably did this if it's a big hit

this is so gross

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 15, 2013 2:13 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey they are playing in SF at the Warfield tomorrow

― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, March 15, 2013 2:19 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was trying to figure out where this venue "ShitFuck's" was, and it took me a couple of tries before I realized Shakey Mo meant San Francisco.

bet you five bucks I haven't heard a note of it

― (or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

give it a spin and see!

gd it my laptop was on mute and it still got in my head

this band is the worst

i would love to live in the head of that reviewer for just a few minutes.

(it's a parody)

lol xp = city pages review has to be an elaborate put-on, right?

it's extended sarcasm #normcore-level wanking

makin' fun of the squares, eh? I'll show him and listen to imagine dragons.

Hello, I am currently listening to Etron Fou Le Loublan.

i had no idea it was even possible to miss the 'point' of that review, it was ladled on pretty thick

i can't remember what song these guys do and what songs monsters and men do but they are all slightly post-apocalyptic sounding chanty anthemic things. when I turn on the radio these days it's like being at a nazi rally there's so much chanting and shit going on. there I said it.

it's like, write an alternative rock radio hit in two minutes: chant chant chant whistle whistle whistle chant chant chant whistle wee wee

should I write songs like this? maybe I would sell more than five records if I did.

If Imagine Dragons = Mackerelmore, does Drake = Dave Mathews Band?

it's like, write an alternative rock radio hit in two minutes: chant chant chant whistle whistle whistle chant chant chant whistle wee wee

― akm, Friday, March 14, 2014 6:18 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Manual, by the Foster The People guy

bet you five bucks I haven't heard a note of it

― (or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 13, 2014

if you watch nba basketball it's been near-impossible to escape this band (not sure about this demons song, but still ...)

i am a-ok with that concert review, too.

Holding the audience captive with their intense stage presence, the Naked and Famous swayed with the sort of intensity only witnessed at the city's finest topless bars in North Minneapolis

lol

If Imagine Dragons = Mackerelmore, does Drake = Dave Mathews Band?

― tsrobodo, Friday, March 14, 2014 8:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://twitter.com/sundownmotel/status/430555377059377152/photo/1

My roommate was playing this at the minimum level on her laptop (like one bar above the complete mute of the mac sound level) and I thought she was playing like, a broadway soundtrack

Oh no, they're being cited as an influence. This is from a NEEDTO BREATHE email press release:

MTV praises the bands "thunderous folk-rock" and adds "the South Carolina natives have managed to infuse the contemporary, chest-thumping rock styling's of Imagine Dragons with the old-school, down-home goodness of a group like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ... wrapped up in an ethereal, woodsy, Bon Iver

also one of the biggest alt hits of the last few months sounds like a carbon copy of ID's first hit "It's Time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY

Ugh, that American Authors song has got to be one of the most god-awful hit singles in recent memory (perhaps even more unbearable than "Radioactive", which is quite an achievement)

On a side note, will somebody please fucking kick "Radioactive" off the Hot 100 already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Am49EujdNg&feature=youtu.be

maybe they sing in a made-up dragon language full of guttural grunts and hissy sounds

― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:51 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or songs from the dragon's point of view about how girls always end up going out with asshole knights who treat them badly

― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolllllllll

sometimes it seems like we are the ones who are being imagined by dragons, and not the other way around

also "Believer" is the biggest bullshit of 2017

THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING & THE THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING
A NEW MOTHER CRIES

It seems like some of you may have listened to Imagine Dragons

Wow, I had no idea these songs were by them. Terrible like all their old stuff but clearly a successful repositioning.

THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING & THE THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING
A NEW MOTHER CRIES

― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, November 20, 2017 9:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gallileo

can’t wait for Barenaked Ladies vs Imagine Dragons suit over this melody

What melody? Are you all listening to Imagine Dragons? This thread used to mean something.

Ugh I hate people... in one of my bars keep asking for those Imagine Dragons singles from this year and they are awful. I refuse you Imagine Dragons!

i got blindsided in a rental car lol. i was like, what is this bullshit that lifted a melody from Barenaked Ladies (and it was irritating the first time)? and it was imagine dragons. so.

my neighbors went to this concert a few weeks ago and came home with matching Imagine Dragon shirts.

also, find it disconcerting that Google Voice to Text knows to capitalize Imagine Dragons.

bad music for bad people

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:18 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so cynical but probably right

I just accidentally heard some Imagine Dragons while checking on the football game and it made me think of this post and the more innocent times before I had actually heard Imagine Dragons.

same

i was not trying to listen to this i just wanted to hear saban's non answers about the first half

this ain't rappin/this is frip hop

it seems likely that I’ve heard imagine dragons by now but I still have never listened to imagine dragons.

if the neo-nazis got their way every single recording artist would be like imagine dragons

I just said "imagine dragons remix featuring lil wayne" out loud and I'm questioning lots of things

listened to a few of their non-single songs mid-last year when i was trying to figure out what song was in a trailer for the 2018 chapter of the mission: impossible saga

some of their album deep cuts do... very different things. not good things, but definitely different ones

You need to take this to a thread where you do listen to Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons sounds like a minor-league baseball team in a town owned by the Walt Disney Company

I heard the entirety of their latest album while playing board games with my parents over the holidays.

One of the songs was very drum and bass.

you can never be sure if you've listened to imagine dragons because every song is a slightly different style

which of these styles will be best for licensing in a commercial? gotta try em all

any time i hear a song on the radio i don’t recognize i assume it’s imagine dragons and it usually is

— Judy Candlebox (@erasermate) September 11, 2018

https://www.spin.com/2019/01/imagine-dragons-worst-band-halftime-show/?fbclid=IwAR2IBREaTYGZqA09P6cGYgNCrnX6M8h7-ev2luhKVkSzJTS9QEt3ng6NIsI

I was wondering today why everybody hated these guys and then played their three biggest hits and realized I fucking hate all three and just didn't know it was them

i might have heard imagine dragons in a fast casual burger joint tonight but i guess i'll never know

it seems likely that I’ve heard imagine dragons by now but I still have never listened to imagine dragons.

same

so you're not a …."Believer"?

mods need to threadban anyone who has listened to imagine dragons tbqh

difference between listening and hearing imo

Listening vs Hearing

Just discovered this wonderful thread, but I can't contain my curiosity (I suspect I've heard a lot of Imagine Dragons without realizing it and I need to go find out), so this is farewell.

(shit, turns out that I legit had never heard any imagine dragons songs before, but it's too late now)

from the Spin article:

The word “thunder” appears nearly 75 times in their song of the same name.

Thunder! Feel the thunder! STOMP STOMP STOMP! literally music for ages 6-12

Except surely ages 6-12 have made it about farting, so small point for the youth of America

if a kid could perfectly fart those three stomps, i would be impressed

I have not heard this band and will steadfastly hold that post

Has humanity ever listened to so much music against its volition? Imagine Dragons in the gym. Imagine Dragons at the mall. Imagine Dragons in three out of five movie trailers before the feature presentation, which also features a song by Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons at every public sporting event held inside every arena or arena-shaped thing. Imagine Dragons in television commercials for computers and video games and Jeep Cherokees. When the devil met Imagine Dragons at the crossroads back in 2012, he found a way to take all of our souls. He promised to play “Radioactive” in every Uber.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/imagine-dragons-and-the-scourge-of-the-rock-and-roll-grave-blockers/2019/01/08/35d7531a-1355-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html

jesus, they've been around for 6+ years?

Imagine Imagine Dragons - where people who have never heard Imagine Dragons (like me) describe what they think they might sound like

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, April 20, 2018 9:51 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*tents fingers* i like it. i like it a lot. start the thread. be a legend

― flappy bird, Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:07 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very disappointed that my idea for a thread already exists, but with a worse name

For the record I think they might be a cross between Styx and Brokencyde, with classic 80s fighting fantasy cover artwork.

this band is very popular and actually well-liked by those who listen to them. i understand that it is unbelievable to these writer folx that anyone could actually like this band (really, i get it, they truly are terrible) but idk why this narrative, that such an act is in reality broadly hated and can only have reached broad exposure thru sheer force on the part of record companies, still gets traction. it wasn't true for creed. it wasn't true for nickelback. it won't be true for the next one.

I guess this is growing up

its sort of impressive the way they manage to incorporate every single terrible pop rock trend from this decade - mumford-esque twee folk pop, really clunky dubstep integration, terrible sing-rapping, etc

and they're from Vegas!

The one good thing I will say about Imagine Dragons is that the lead singer has been an activist for LGBTQ youth within the Mormon church.