This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

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

It's a revolution, I suppose

it's the tinkly something or other, all cell phone ads must have music with tinkly somethings or other

Heard the new song from these people on the radio, and I just knew it was their new song. It was like this perfect conflation of Maroon 5, fun., One Republic and other ... stuff.

"Demons"? i dunno what's very fun. (or "fun") or Maroon 5 about that one.

That it's lame?

I was thinking the vocals specifically, the same sort of not soulful singing from the soul, with massed sort of pinched high anono vocals

I wonder if this one will also be in the top 20 for an entire year like the last horrible song.

I'm glad I haven't heard "Radioactive" in a long while. That song was starting to make me suicidal.

i read that kendrick is performing w/ them at the grammys

"Demons" has been on the chart for 34 weeks and is still rising, from #7 to #6 this week. We're probably in for another yearlong Imagine Dragons track.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 15, 2013 4:13 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost a year after this post ... but i cosign 1,000,000%

lol

how did Radioactive become a big hit. how can anyone who ever existed possibly enjoy that

i have it on excellent authority that women under 18 are nuts for these guys

i don't especially dig 'em myself but shit i'll take 'em in a heartbeat over like the killers or whatever

typed the letter 'i' into Youtube search, top 3 results are these cunts

how did Radioactive become a big hit

I think melodically it sounds not unlike a Coldplay tune.

I heard a tiny bit of one song this morning, it was pretty dull, I thought they were suppose to be a "rock band"?

People embrace the post-apocalypse these days. Also, prison dramas. And mediocrity.

"Radioactive" was just in the right place at the right time, the world was ready for grungestep

Radioactive isn't bad for 10 seconds until the horrorshit goes fecalith

I've never heard this band. I know they are Mormon just from their name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpb798UXWJc

it's where my mormons hide

This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

^ this song (Anna Kendrick's Cups, not imagine dragons, obvs) is being taught in our nation's schools. My 4th-grader brought it home with him and this is the rhythm that's been driving our weekend.

i had no idea that that horrible kingdom come song i've been hearing absolutely everywhere and hating 24/7 is by them, what a disgusting piece of shit jfc

I have just knowingly listened to Imagine Dragons for the first time. They are rotten.

Seeing them on Saturday Night Live. Ugh, except for guest Kendrick Lamar.

2nd song was even worse-- the worst aspects of '90s and 2000s era commercial rock

not my style of rock

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5901265/imagine-dragons-radioactive-ties-for-longest-hot-100-run

"Imagine Dragons tie a vaunted Billboard Hot 100 record this week, as "Radioactive" logs its 76th week on the survey. The sum ties the mark established by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" in 2008-09."

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

Imagine Dragons tie a vaunted Billboard Hot 100 record this week, as "Radioactive" logs its 76th week on the survey. The sum ties the mark established by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" in 2008-09

this is some achievement.

despite my best efforts, i've heard this band before. it's pretty grim, this nu-grunge.

well, this live review might have made it all worth it:

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2014/03/imagine_dragons_xcel_energy_center_review.php

haha mainstream pop fans amirite

this band is horrible

not a fan of them but shit like "Although the audience was young, the amount of children present proves that the average Imagine Dragons fan is an enlightened and advanced being -- as this is a serious band of serious musicians, most certainly only capable of being understood by adult intellectuals" come on

i thought there were lots of funny lines but i guess i don't really give a shit about the message or w/e

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 15, 2013 8:26 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That review certainly seems a good fit for the thread title

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 15, 2013 8:26 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― PONOPONOPONO (seandalai), Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kendrick thing at the grammys made me break edge :(

then i ended up seeing them on SNL ;_;

it was all over for me then

I'm still pure I think. People were talking about them at work today though.