Mumford and Sons

well i like little lion man, thats about it really.

Cannot fucking stand these guys, but apparently my wife loves whatever single is all over XRT.

these guys are terrible

these guys are terrible

the world did not need a faux-roots british emo band

oh yes it did

not sure if i've heard them, though. do they sorta appeal to people who love the Once sdtk or something?

Maybe, because my wife loves that sdtk too.

ok listening to them now. they are terrible. good luck uk!

I suspect this explains a lot -- apparently these are his parents:

http://www.vineyardchurches.org.uk/about-vineyard-churches.html

'His' meaning Mr. Mumford himself.

um, they are getting big here too, so good luck u.s. now

good luck everyone

I suspect this explains a lot -- apparently these are his parents:

http://www.vineyardchurches.org.uk/about-vineyard-churches.html

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:33 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark

omg is this for real

http://www.vineyardchurches.org.uk/uploads/images/John-&-Eleanor-Mumford-March-2010-252x168-for-web.jpg

"Hahahah...yeah, we're sorry too."

pomplamumf

omg is this for real

Yup:

http://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2010/03/dear-christian-sigh-no-more.html

http://crispinschroeder.blogspot.com/2010/06/musings-on-mumford-and-sons-and.html

once sdtrk is a towering masterpiece compared to this shouty garbage

thank u ned; between these guys and pompalamoose everyone i hate is apparently a church planter

and now i longer like little lion man.

literary influences = your assigned high school reading

Literary influences

Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, their debut album name deriving from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The track, "Sigh No More" includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend and One foot in sea and one on shore. Their song "Roll Away Your Stone" also is influenced by Macbeth.

Many of the songs on "Sigh No More" and the title of the album itself are inspired by other authors' works. "You can rip off Shakespeare all you like; no lawyer's going to call you up on that one," Mumford said in an interview.[17]

Both "Timshel" and "Dust Bowl Dance" draw heavily from the John Steinbeck novels "East of Eden" and "Grapes of Wrath" respectively. Mumford in an interview even compares touring to a Steinbeck adventure. "[Steinbeck] talked about how a journey is a thing of its own, and you can't plan it or predict it too much because that suffocates the life out it. That's kind of what touring is like. Even though there's a structure — you know what towns you're going to, and that you'll be playing a gig — pretty much anything can happen." Mumford also in his spare time runs an online book club on the band's official web site.[18]

yeah basically this is all we listen to here sry

They're like if Jedward were quads who made indie folk emo.

i actually liked these guys for a short bit last year then got tired of them fast. think i even voted for the album on 09 ilx poll, smh...

like, the lyrics are abysmal and the style is an uncomfortable appropriation but at least there are hooks there and they use dynamics better than most popular bands

for those that don't follow The Fall thread:

The Fall's Mark E Smith was apparently involved in an altercation with dire banjo wielding troupe Mumford & Sons at an Irish festival earlier this year. In an interview with the Australian magazine Brag Smith complained that The Fall's increasing popularity at festivals means they're forced to meet new bands who are often "ass lickers". Even worse, some of them are Mumford & Sons.

"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them cunts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."

<3

"a load of retarded Irish folk singers" is one for the hall of fame

These are one of those bands that, like Airborne Toxic Event, I recognized on the radio based solely on people's objections.

Was just about to link that Mark E Smith story. Love him so much for that. Mumford are the worst.

god, THESE GUYS ARE TERRIBLE

Before 'Funeral', there was just a big nuthin'

i will say that i like them and that i hate myself for it

hahah that kind of does not surprise me

Every kid I know between the ages of like 16 and 25 thinks Mumford & Sons is like the best band on earth right now.

They are already bigger than I think most folks itt realize -- selling out large venues just about everywhere they go, etc. -- and they're gonna get even bigger.

I do enjoy a spin of "Little Lion Man" every once in a while, but generally the album is a snooze.

Every kid I know between the ages of like 16 and 25 thinks Mumford & Sons is like the best band on earth right now

GTFO of Surrey imo

Can't think of a more appropriate Biggest Band In Cameron's Britain tbh.

Kunt and the Gang, obv.

I noticed the Mumford phenomenon in full force at Bestival - hordes of sixth-formers and university students in Jack Wills gear, all with exactly the same Home Counties accent. They went absolutely apeshit but in a way that makes me think they'll look back in five years and wonder what they were so excited about, cf the Levellers 20 years earlier. At least the Levellers represented some kind of counterculture rather than the harvest fair-attending, Archers-loving, posh welly-wearing, Abel & Cole-eating, Magners-drinking, coalition-voting Middle England of the Mumfords.

When I wrote something about indie and class some people retorted "it's not where you're from it's where you're at" but my problem with the Mumfords is that where they're at is EXACTLY where they're from. Their music is their upbringing writ large.

you could have stopped at Bestival tbh

I noticed the Mumford phenomenon in full force at Bestival - hordes of sixth-formers and university students in Jack Wills gear, all with exactly the same Home Counties accent. They went absolutely apeshit but in a way that makes me think they'll look back in five years and wonder what they were so excited about, cf the Levellers 20 years earlier. At least the Levellers represented some kind of counterculture rather than the harvest fair-attending, Archers-loving, posh welly-wearing, Abel & Cole-eating, Magners-drinking, coalition-voting Middle England of the Mumfords.

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:37 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't understand this post, but i did enjoy it

Forgot the Innocent Smoothies but Dorian otm

Divided Britain innit, the two biggest-selling genres at the moment are pop-grime and indie-folk by the looks of things.

They are already bigger than I think most folks itt realize

when I catch 3 dudes hosanning a nu english folk group in a suburban liquor store in rhode island USA, they're pretty big

But Why?

Same reason inauthentic folksy shit is popular anywhere - see also Irish pubs, Tom Cruise in Far & Away.

like it or not they've transcended the niche tho

damn i remember the track of theirs someone posted in cultural pessimism thread

new lows for england

I'm just chalking it up to another sign of god's neglect

Well, Ned actually might be the best authority around here in regards to the latest couple of albums which for some reason I keep forgetting to check out in full.

Otherwise, their most desert themed and musically experimental material is everything they did up until Garden Ruin, which was a sort of jarring shift at the time towards a more overall straightforward Wilco style pop approach. So I'd recommend that unless one of the new ones is better place to start.

Actually, you know what I'm going go all in on the daring recommendation that you start him off with a live album. They are fun live and can win most people over that way despite familiarity.

Therefore, highly recommend: Ancienne Belgique ~ Live In Brussels 2008

It might just be crazy enough to work.

hazel, what about Andrew Bird? He's got the rootsy thing down, plus violin pizzicato, and WHISTLING.

Break it Yourself is a great record.

added to the playlist!

so I ended up getting him Iron and Wine "Around the Well" and Of Monsters and Men "My Head is an Animal" (and the Mumford and Sons new one, which he asked for)... we'll see what he thinks

thanks all again for the suggestions! Calexico and Midlike I also think he might dig... maybe for his birthday in a couple months?

How did he get on with the purchases, f.hazel?

we listened to the new Mumford and Sons on Christmas Day, and he noted the difference in sound from the debut but seemed pleased... no word on the other two I chose as ancillary gifts, except he liked the idea of new music to try out! He's coming up to hang out next weekend, I'll post an update then!

Shockingly they turn out to be reactionaries (which you would never of course guess from their music, at all).

https://www.nme.com/news/music/mumford-sons-winston-marshall-praises-brave-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngo-2895342

My Mumford and Sons goes MAGA take:
Everyone always trashes dude at the party who sees an acoustic guitar and starts playing Santeria, when they really shoulda been worried about the dude who starts playing Wagon Wheel.

— Matt Lieb? (@mattlieb) March 7, 2021

false dichotomy. both of those guys suck.

I don't know either of these songs, and I have suffered many an acoustic guitar guy at a party.

wagon wheel is the "mama rock me" song, are you sure you haven't heard it?

this might be a USA / UK thing I guess

Wow, you're lucky. Wagon Wheel is all over Alaska.

I looked it up at some point and found out Bob Dylan wrote the chorus and someone else finished it.

Yeah, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show heard it on a Pat Garrett... sessions bootleg and wrote a song around it which was later covered by Darius Rucker who had a big Country hit with it.

What do acoustic guitar guys play in the UK, other than "Wonderwall"?

beatle songs, shit from 00s rock bands which everyone my age knows except me

Ed Sheeran. walkthrough chinatown and 24 hours per day even during lockdown there will be a dude with a great haircut covering Ed Sheeran with a crowd of tourists who've never seen live music performed before.

i heard a white guy doing buffalo soldier at waterloo station once

I've got a cousin like that who used to play pub gigs doing acoustic Oasis, Beatles, landfill + probably Mumford and sons as well, since the rona era he's been doing online ukulele lessons. He's an abject disgrace to the family and would probably get on with the tory banjo-man.

Sing us song Tory banjo man
About being rich and white
We're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alt-right

oh dear

Faith and What Makes You Beautiful on an acoustic guitar, always the sound of a taxi being phoned at a party for me

George Michael and One Direction?

yes

Apparently he's been booted out of the band now, or was a day ago but nobody noticed until now.

pic.twitter.com/x9yddYc0g9

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) March 10, 2021

they're gonna have to find another banjo player with a goofy haircut... could take hours...

i note his twitter following has doubled since this all blew up. so many of these fuckers out there.

judging by the replies to his tweet, his new followers are furious at him

the commercial calculation must be that this shit still alienates more potential fans than it brings in new fans, which is good news I guess?

His new followers are unlikely to actually buy records/gig tickets or do anything other than tweet/retweet

Remember all those new diehard Ariel Pink fans?

from 2010? kinda

lol at this guy getting fucked out

i remember him making some video where he was being pretty anti-Irish, not surprised that a member of this band held these views and was stupid enough to share them.

not much to say about this except "lol fuck off then"

https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255

Or “*farts*”.

what the fuck is he even talking about?

poor little Gelfling

"I could self-censor ... but ..."

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi0y_xnFVCN/

^^^ CW: photo including Jordan Peterson

Wow how sad. Wait no it isn't.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mumford-sons-member-winston-marshall-condemned-by-artists-181504226.html

Saw a friend say on Twitter that his dad is a financer of GBNews.

Also he's clearly a fash-loving twat, as is Bari Weiss and all the other free speech/cancel culture bullshitters who stan for him.