This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

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

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.