Hey! Look - here they are!
http://www.indiesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMAGINE-DRAGONs.jpg
― how's life, Saturday, 24 August 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
ok wow this song is bad
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yup.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 24 August 2013 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
Heard Radioactive on Fri, it's boring nasty bad, not funny bad. Blergh.
― albvivertine, Saturday, 24 August 2013 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
Dragon #3 looks like if someone made a troll doll of middle aged vince neil.
― how's life, Saturday, 24 August 2013 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
i think i might've listened to these by accident once but i can't remember so i'm still good
― Dacca to Environ (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
fuuuuuck theeeeese guuuyyyys
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 24 August 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Saturday, 24 August 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
i still really like their first single "It's Time," though, that's one good-ass generic movie trailer-sounding song.
― some dude, Saturday, 24 August 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
I still have never listened to Imagine Dragons, but I wonder if anyone has made a fan vid with scenes of Daenerys Targaryen.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
that anna kendrick thing
What is this thing?
― Imagined Rayguns (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Oooooh I'm gonna listen to that later, when everything seems to be going my way
― Imagined Rayguns (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
The Kendrick song also has like a 2-minute steadicam shot in the video (for people who care about stuff like that).
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― some dude, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
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=T0yWlRTdF7I
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
Oh that's the story. Huh. I heard that on the local pop station the other day and was a little baffled.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
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, 24 August 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, no twee-er than a lot of early 60s folk-pop, New Christy Minstrels et al.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
definitely
i can't stand that cups shit
― dyl, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
just walked into the living room while mk2 was watching the reading stuff on tv.it was this lot.f*ck they are crap.
― mark e, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Wouldn't Gonad Migraines be Blue Balls?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
the Anna Kendrick song is p much the only unobjectionable manifestation of the current folk obsession I've heard
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
― 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, 24 August 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 August 2013 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Keep it that way man, rly, I have their song in my head all the time atm
― albvivertine, Sunday, 25 August 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― some dude, Sunday, 25 August 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
checking out on the prison bus
― how's life, Sunday, 25 August 2013 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
god, these guys are berklee dudes.
― how's life, Sunday, 25 August 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 25 August 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― some dude, Sunday, 25 August 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
― how's life, Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
― crüt, Sunday, 25 August 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
:( 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
― Imagined Rayguns (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 25 August 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
It's a revolution, I suppose
― how's life, Sunday, 25 August 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's the tinkly something or other, all cell phone ads must have music with tinkly somethings or other
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 26 August 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
"Demons"? i dunno what's very fun. (or "fun") or Maroon 5 about that one.
― deez the season (some dude), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
That it's lame?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking the vocals specifically, the same sort of not soulful singing from the soul, with massed sort of pinched high anono vocals
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if this one will also be in the top 20 for an entire year like the last horrible song.
― skip, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad I haven't heard "Radioactive" in a long while. That song was starting to make me suicidal.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 19 December 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
i read that kendrick is performing w/ them at the grammys
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Thursday, 19 December 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― skip, Monday, 23 December 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
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%
― spread to fuck the fruit (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:50 (ten years ago) link
how did Radioactive become a big hit. how can anyone who ever existed possibly enjoy that