The Lumineers

tra·di·tion
[truh-dish-uhn]
noun

4.a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practice.

Usage: "There is a long tradition of phony-baloney bands co-opting or enlisting lazy signifiers, trends and fashions as a shortcut to success."

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 15, 2013 3:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fair enuff. still weird, like alla sudden there were half a dozen o-towns and 98 deg bands popping up without there being any backstreet or nsync in the vicinity to explain it. keane without coldplay and coldplay without radiohead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO35zU5bXg

I have never knowingly heard this band but I have important opinions about them:

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lol

Hanson have sunk to a new low

haha

hahaha rev

that needs to go viral

i just realized that the reaction to these fools is basically the same reaction some people had to mall punks

which mall punks did you kill, marry, and fuck, respectively?

America (the band) is awesome.

America this, sucker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Adx0RXpvg

None of the above, gross

seeing 'Ho Hey' embedded in the 'hipster music that seemed specifically manufactured for Apple commercials' thread made me realise that I'd been yakking on in this thread without having heard anything by The Lumineers. \o/

now I have, bucket of shite.

ha this morning i listened to lumineers songs other than hit single for the first time, just to feel informed. :(

http://www.yourmusicisawful.com/2013/04/hey-kids-grow-a-pair-how-music-blogs-neutered-indie-rock/

phenomenon of indie tending toward the soft and non-confrontational might be a thing, but her explanation of the cause is pretty ridiculous

This is the blog post he's talking about http://www.theworldforgot.com/2013/02/24/the-best-albums-of-2012/

What a load of bollocks. Who's even heard of this random, rubbish blog? I like its tagline though: "I don't listen to bad music, neither should you."

Sorry - "she's"

Blogs have created a structure in which the handful of kids writing for the elite establishment like Pitchfork or Stereogum choose whatever unoriginal crap they like that week and all the little blogs fall in line. They are all so busy jumping on each other’s bandwagons, nobody has bothered to notice their wagon train has been driving in a circle for roughly a decade now.

I mean, what? How so? And why more than print media used to? And why would this necessarily favor "neutered" indie?

if anything, as seen on this thread, people who are deeper into music, record collectors etc., favor more challenging stuff and get irritated by music that's satisfied to remain predictable.

i think this kind of super twee, bland indie music is more marketable to mainstream audiences than other kinds of indie music, which is why it's so popular. apple is the culprit moreso than pitchfork which, say what you will about it, champions lots of different kinds of things.

fwiw almost none of the records on that list she cites were in the metacritic top 25 for the year, whereas a lot of heavy-ish stuff like Swans, High on Fire, Converge and Tame Impala was.

http://www.theworldforgot.com/twf/pic/cloud_cult_08.jpg

Holy shit who are this shower? I could never countenance listening to a band who look like that.

they look like a campus theater company, like not the actual drama majors but one of those extra-curricular clubs without much budget

I think I remember reading that only one person in a band photo should be wearing a loud or colorful pattern, and this is a good example of that

barenaked ladies style most REDACTED looking member thread stat

i think I'm between crouching flight goggles, bandana pirate guy and trombone jack. Although the collagen lips girl is pretty annoying too.

each of them holding the item they would be beaten with moments later

wait I think the flight goggles might actually be a sleeping mask. or a very tiny brazierre.

re: that your music is awful post -- i dunno, starting to glamorize the early 90s as some kind of golden age for music taste and community just seems ... wrong.

also hilarious that a blog/podcast urging kids to "grow a pair" are posting about ...
The Smiths
Camera Obscura
British Sea Power
Verve
etc...

is this like that time brooklyn was to blame for dc's band scene going zzz

that post is so terrible it makes me want to like the lumineers and mumford. just saw it on my fb timeline and went here to post it but saw i'd been beaten to it. also Matt & Kim are great and i thought jack white like rocked or something, i dunno?

"the elite establishment like Pitchfork or Stereogum"

"Lets go back to doing what we used to do. Hanging out at record stores, going to shows, talking to actual people about what they’re listening to." they have record stores still what?

i don't like the kneejerk dismissal of "twee" music, especially when terms like "neutered" and "grow a pair" are used which implies that rawk music should be tough and not "feminized." fuck that paradigm. it seems overtly sexist to me.

the problem with mumfords/lumineers isn't "tweeness", it has to do with the fact that theirs is an unimaginative, blandly nostalgic sort of costume theater, and it doesn't communicate anything meaningful to me.

criticizing mumfordeers from the standpoint of 'authenticity' is pretty heavy lulz tho.

i mean, i'm glad i was able to help you experience authentic laughter... something REAL.

but i think i stand by most of the stuff i said on this thread anyway, except for the things i already redacted.

booming post

v authentic

stand by yr old man hat

sweet

good response to that blog post: http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/music-blogs-arent-the-enemy-you-are

not sure that blog post warranted entertaining / a response / being taken seriously

i dunno, i saw it in about a dozen places yesterday, with people heartily agreeing with it.

I've never heard any of the bands cantstop cites as present-day nirvanas; "Destruction Unit, Wiccans, Lamps, Unholy Two or Hoax".... any good?

i dunno, i saw it in about a dozen places yesterday, with people heartily agreeing with it.

lol ok a friend was just "1000 TIMES YES" on facebook with it.

the memification of whiney?

1000 times lol

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