This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

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.

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.