Mumford and Sons

Read that as 'bongified'

lol

I've seen the light. (And dry-heaved.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:49 (1 hour ago)

Speaking to God down the big white telephone.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/LesterBangs.jpg/200px-LesterBangs.jpg
"I Saw God and/or Tangerine Dream Mumford and Sons"

xpost -- kinda watery.

I still like "Little Lion Man" a lot... but the rest of the album is indeed kind of a bore.

^ this

Little Lion Man reminds me of nothing so much as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-CfQvz21Y

^except (vid notwithstanding) I like this a lot more.

wife: "oh i have a new favorite band!"

me: "oh cool! who?"

her: "MUMFORD & SONS!!"

me: "awww"

her: "whaaatttttt? they're good"

man is it a good thing successful relationships don't depend on music taste

can only imagine your battle to prevent her indoctrinating Junior tho

I'm actually surprised none of us from the States at least made a joke about this guy yet:

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/2/26/TheAmazingMumford-FacebookProfilePicture.jpg

oh shit http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/bob_dylan_to_perform_at_grammy.html

It lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFUbEnjDOY

https://twitter.com/McNeely/status/21634978865483776

i trust u copied that from the other thread and we haven't both been browsing mumford interviews on youtube xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDH4OXgCig

is the fat one trying to imitate gervais or does it come naturally

You trusted accurately. And thank you for providing that slice of pain.

follow up conversation

wife: "yeah so they're folk singers... but like, everything is folky but INTENSE folky"

me: "huh?"

her: "like they have more drums and stuff. like a rocky kind of folk!"

me: ".............."

her: "i get chills every time i listen to them"

also i just listened to 4-5 sings of theirs,

these guys seriously make fleet foxes sound like fuckin bob dylan woodie guthrie level genius

mark e. smith otmfm upthread

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― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:24 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

This is now what I think of when I hear this band's name.

So in a few days they conquered the world or something?

http://www.pinglewood.com/2008/February/images/2420.jpg

It was forbidden and perhaps I am glad.

they had the fourth best selling album in flanders last year

They won the Brit Award for Best British Album, dressed like this:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51283000/jpg/_51283282_51283281.jpg

guy in black coat looks like the guy from grizzly bear

Um...what's with the drunk guy holding a cloth dildo?

they remind of me the band kings of nuthin from boston

xp that's the new Brit Award trophy, designed by Vivienne Westwood.

Americans always go for stupid shit like this (Exhibit A = The Cranberries). The really weird bit will be when M&S* rapidly grow into the biggest band in Japan, India and Iran.

*DO YOU SEE????????????

It used to be that England would export our unwanted Manchester indie rockers, now it's our copious surplus of beardy folk bastards.

Can't help thinking that if Chris Martin and Thom Yorke had just manned the fuck up a little a few years ago, then a dangerous precedent would not have been set and we'd have avoided all this.

english pop music is shit

Yeah, I'm listening to Tasmin Archer and weeping.

you always do that when spurs win

i mean 'there will always be exceptions' like tinie etc but it does seem worse than usual/ever rite now

English pop music is shit at the moment more as a result of production trends than anything else. If and when the world moves on from "whack in a big Phil Collins sample with filter-disco keyboards" we might suddenly see them coming with something amazing.

not sure how that relates to / explains the mumford debacle

MC Mumford and the Dubstep Sons

tinie still only has one and a half good tracks

i don't really like US pop these days either tho (in the charts i do like 'lights on', 'rolling in the deep' and maybe that latest chase & status thing at a push tho uk-wise)

Had a really annoying Grammys experience thinking that I could listen to Archer of Loaf (All the Nations Airports) while watching with the sound off. But my (American) girlfriend asked me if I liked Mumford, so we turned the volume up. See, she likes it. I think a huge number of people do (obv., no 1 itunes etc). It hits a lot of right buttons for people: a bit different, a bit "real music," a bit "live and crescendo," lyrics that sound like they mean something, a bit of mystery somehow (even the name, for Americans). I imagine, even, that Americans bedazzled by Grammys see this as somehow "Irish music" - with its real guys in a hub sweating and getting carried away with the musicality of it all. There's no much "art" in it, more "soul" - hence Mumford getting a great boost after these awards, and Arcade Fire very little at all.

english pop music is shit

― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:25 (24 minutes ago)

Yeah, I'm listening to Tasmin Archer and weeping.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:26 (23 minutes ago)

Don't blame this sleeping satellite (of Europe)

I hate myself for reading the evangelical Xian background thing as explanatory of why they suck so much massive balls but reading that tonight made total sense. The worst sub-Waterboys bullshit I've ever heard.

Can't help thinking that if Chris Martin and Thom Yorke had just manned the fuck up a little a few years ago, then a dangerous precedent would not have been set and we'd have avoided all this.

disagree-- they've been a poor influences on other genres, sure, but this irish folk-rock bullshit doesn't really cop from coldplay, of all things. btw, mumford & sons makes coldplay sound like fuckin peter gabriel-era genesis, dead serious

From Twitter

@WadeyWade Ian Wade
EXCLUSIVE MUMFORD FOOTAGE OF SECOND ALBUM SESSIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCusJRcbhEo&feature=related

^^^ JUST SOUNDS LIKE THAT IRISH MUSIC MATE

srsly guys Diddly-Aye-Di-Doh not the soul province of Ireland, Scumford sound like a shit version of the Wurzels if anything.

that's connaught iirc

Much to my chagrin, nearly every single one of my wife's friends has cornered me during social events to say something along the lines of, "I know you are into music, you would love Mumford & Sons! They are amazing!". Gah.