Mumford and Sons

My wife hates them, but she's the greatest.

is that Brendan Fraser on the left?

You look at that picture and you wonder how long before Mumford & Sons decide they want to sound like Springsteen with banjos.

what is that weird pose the blue-shirted one is doing

like is he trying to have swagger or be sexy or...something else that he's failing to do

can't believe one of them is married to carey mulligan

Dommy P OTM:

Dom ‏@ichlugebullets
Click on the "Mumford and Sons" TT, see lots of middle aged men go "hey, I hate this mainstream band, I'm still cool right?"

you just c/ped dom p :o

Imagine the energy wasted on 'hating' bands as a grown man, jesus.

i don't think it takes much energy

i can hate mumford & sons while lying down having a rest

i can hate mumford & sons without even thinking about it tbh

some kinds of hate to take a lot of time and energy but i would ask your mate dom about that

*do

The point is not to hate them. The point is to point and laugh at these ridiculous faux-yokel posh cunts.

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.

you just dont get his brand of comedy, lex, its not your fault.

can we still call them Cuntford and Cunts?

always "sons of mumford, load of retarded irish folk singers" forever imo

mumfords cumlords

xpost english

Hunt3r refers to Mark E Smith's complaint near the top of the thread.

my least favorite thing about everything

if british people want bluegrass, why don't they just listen to bluegrass? idgi

Even Via Brother couldn't bring themselves to 'Go Mumford'

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.

Punch Brothers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mumford & Sons

They don't want to listen to bluegrass, they want to listen to lumpy stadium rock with banjos.

Thugfolk.

In which xhuxk lays down the law:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/mumford-and-sons-babel-gentlemen-of-the-roadglassnote

"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.

xposting Punch Brothers is so above and beyond this stuff it's barely comparable, though yeah, they both have banjos.

In which Tom Hiddleston and Ewan McGregor reveal themselves to be profoundly, enthusiastically uncool. Read the whole conversation:

https://twitter.com/twhiddleston/status/251065139535695873

McGregor's an actor, he only pretends to be cool people in movies.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009X766E.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

"Music composed to Heywood Jablonsky"

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.

Americans: you have the Carolina Chocolate Drops. You even have Steve Martin. Why go for this bunch of pleomorphic Strawbs wannabes?

I wonder the very same thing myself.

Why blame America on this one? I have a hunch lots of people like these doofuses.

But WHY?

Why do people like the taste of Diet Coke?

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)

"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.

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.

Too much british in that post, don't understand, please pass the Mumford

get so sad when i see on facebook/spotify that ppl i like are listening to these guys

xp wow, what do you Americans say instead of "shit the piss"?

I'm British and I've never heard anyone say "shit the piss".

I used it only a fortnight ago when a big bottomed bird mugged me off

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/system/images/BAhbB1sHOgZmSSIuMjAxMi8wNy8yNS8xMl81Nl8zOF83NjVfZWRkaWVfbXVycGh5LmpwZWcGOgZFVFsIOgZwOgp0aHVtYkkiDTMyMHgzMjA+BjsGVA/eddie%20murphy.jpeg

"Shit the piss, motherfucker!"