This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

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

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

Oh that's the story. Huh. I heard that on the local pop station the other day and was a little baffled.

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

To be fair, no twee-er than a lot of early 60s folk-pop, New Christy Minstrels et al.

i still really like their first single "It's Time," though, that's one good-ass generic movie trailer-sounding song.

definitely

i can't stand that cups shit

just walked into the living room while mk2 was watching the reading stuff on tv.
it was this lot.
f*ck they are crap.

Wouldn't Gonad Migraines be Blue Balls?

the Anna Kendrick song is p much the only unobjectionable manifestation of the current folk obsession I've heard

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, 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

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.

Keep it that way man, rly, I have their song in my head all the time atm

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.

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."

checking out on the prison bus

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

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, 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, 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

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"

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

― how's life, Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

also the fact that it sounds engineered to be used in a cell-phone commercial

:( 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