Mumford & Sons... somebody else must think they suck?
this band kind of amaze me, I've searched all over the Internet and it's like nobody has a single bad word to say about them. don't get me wrong, they're not full-on offensive to my ears, but seriously they come across so damned earnest. it's sickening.
it's like a horribly forced public school version of grizzly bear or something. that's not a dig at the middle classes either. just compared to some decent Americana this just comes off like listening to 'scarborough fair' on repeat.
I predict that within 12 months every coffee table in the land will have seen the underside of this album, they will have done TV appearances on loose women and Paul o'grady and half of the people who like them now will claim they never did at all
amiright?
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I know what you're saying to a degree
I've had my reservations since the hype started. They do come across as very serious young men and it does seem a bit forced like somehow they're not in touch with the pain that they're trying to communicate in their music. Like they not as weather-beaten and grizzled as dudes like Will Oldham; like somehow they're faking it cos' they're young and probably quite privaledged and good lookin or whatever.
But now I listen to that album and think fair play, there's a fine line between ambition and pretension anyway. And I figured it's not fair for me to critisise a band for seeming like they're too 'serious'.
I'm just starting to feel
like there's some kind of conspiracy going down. like there's something being put in the drinking water...
nobody has ANYTHING bad to say about these guys anywhere
have you looked at the album review on this very site...
it only got 5/10
you're not really looking very hard are you
I did
read the album review. admittedly after my first post...
what shocks me though is that it's followed by about 300 comments all saying "fuck you mr journalist they're the bestest band evar" or words to that effect
^ this
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14722/reviews/4138077
There have been quite a few threads started by those that, like me, find them terminally dull and insincere.
They are indeed
rubbish.
I think it's a decent record
and couldn't give a shit where they are from. perhaps the reason so many people like them because it's a good live show and decent record. What else do you want from a band? Not exactly fair to hold success against them is it?
it's not important where they're from
the point is that they come off empty and soulless, especially when you compare them with bands like grizzly bear who seem to be the nearest comparison most reviews can stretch to
i agree with the DiS review, nickelback seems a much better fit... or maybe james blunt?
i wouldn't hold success against anyone. i'm just a little bewildered by how rabidly supportive their fans seem to be. it all seems a little too good to be true.
ahh ok so music exists in a vacuum
are we on the set of highlander? (There can be only one)
I don't think I'm alone in thinking it's pointless comparing one band with another, so you like Grizzly Bear more than Mumford & Sons, big deal, hardly going to stop people listening to either is it? If The Guardian et all start shitting out really positive things about Grizzly Bear and it sells by the bucket load, would the same rules apply? It's all subjective innit?
i don't think i'm alone
in thinking that without comparing one band to another it would be impossible to be objective about music.
i think the guardian have had a lot of nice things to say about grizzly bear this year
and i didn't mean this to be some sort of a two-band-showdown. i'm not a big fan of grizzly bear either, i just brought them up as a direct point of comparison as they are mentioned in most of the reviews of mumford that i've seen.
i couldn't give a fuck which one you'd rather listen to, although i hope you have listened to both.
but it IS impossible to be objective about music
We wouldn't care about it so much if it was.
Yes, comparisons in review have a kind of validity, like a more comprehensive last.fm tag - but if you're negative or positive critique of a band hinges on that comparison, then you're treading seriously shallow waters.
what me old mam would describe as
"utter fucking bullshit"
i can't even imagine how non-existent your penis would have to be to take any pleasure from Mumford & Sons. Mumford & Fucking Sons? Sweet mother of jesus
I wish I could ^this something like 8 times. I'd feel better having done so.
Fucking SPOT ON. Well played.
marcus himself
went to my school. he was a nice bloke, i think vice-captain of school.
He went to a school that has a vice-captain?
ffs
Im sure you've said this
on every single thread about Mumford & Sons. No-one cares that you went to a private school.
i didnt go to private school
still had captain and vice captain though
A captain and vice captain?
Where did you go to school? The Crystal Maze?
i don't think i've ever met anyone who likes them
so i've ignored their reviews and articles about them assuming this to be the common position
some
of my friends seem to like them, which is what shocked me into making this post in the first place
and no amount of googling seemed to turn up anything remotely negative. which i just find scary. it's like somebody's been tampering with the fabric of the internets.
Ditto. I somehow always got the impression they were universally hated.
This sort of thread is exactly why I don't give a flying fuck
about the music discussion board on this site.
I hadn't even listened to them prior to reading this thread, but whoever suggested Nickelback as a comparison is a fucktard.
Plus, what's wrong with Scarborough Fair ?
Ok I'm actually starting to see the James Blunt comparison...
It's a bit more than that though. Maybe Tom McRae or Damien Rice.
so you don't give
a flying fuck but still reply twice to yourself. you love this, admit it.
"Mumford & Sons seem to be to folk
what Nickelback are to grunge"
it's from the DiS review of the album, and i think it's pretty apt
nah
they're name puts me right off
i changed what i was going to say half way through that, hence the their nonsense
I dont really have an opinion of them
they are okay I suppose, they aren't bad.... nah they are aight
I dont see any reason to really hate them though.
they have the worst name ever
it sounds like the name of a butchers or something
thank you!
whenever a band like this recieve so much acclaim it makes me wonder what's wrong with the world, or if there's something wrong with me! Now i know it's the world.
Mumford & Sons, The Temper Trap & White Lies
I put them all in the same boat.
That's a fair point
Although to be honest, event thought I'm not keen on their recorded stuff, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw them live.
White Lies I thought were a lot worse, having seen them live as well. I've only listened to recordings of the Temper Trap, and I don't rate them much either.
DiS always reserves the most vitriol for mediocrity. Seems to me that if you're a mediocre band, to raise your profile here, the most sensible thing to do is to become out and out crap (presumably, if you were capable of being good, you would have tried that).
Oh, and to be perceived as being posh is suicide. Hell. I'm way posher than those Mumford oiks. (It's sad that their stage banter has to include the information that only one of them entered tertiary education, although thinking about it, that revelation did actually involve using the word "tertiary" which may have inadvertently had precisely the opposite effect of that intended).
Andrew WK: "hell, I'm way posher than those Mumford oiks"
=D
Ok so on reflection I see this was a misread but it made me very happy while it lasted...
And then drill holes in the hull
And I'll drill a hole in the bottom of it
They suck
so much dick.
I couldn't like them, their name alone makes me cringe
haven't heard any of their music though and probably never will.
full of wisdom as usual..
'their name alone makes me cringe' is akin to 'i dont like that books cover so im not gonna read it'. yeah, nice one.
The name puts you off
and the music finishes the job. People who like this should be put in camps.
I was fond of them
And had tickets to see them last April. However, the gig was cancelled and rescheduled to September by which time I had grown weary of their affectations and wanton epicness. They were a little too earnest at the Laura Marling love-in at the RFH. But what finished me off and woke me up to what they really were was the audience of chinless Fulham fucks at the rearranged Scala show.
And if that makes me a snob on several levels, good. Fuck you if you have a problem with me having a problem with sloans.
Boring
I got the album and it just bored me , to me its a souless , emotionless record. I wouldnt recommned it
confused by some of you
They're the biggest bunch of jokers you're likely to see, when they perform live so the 'earnest' issue is pretty redundant.
The comments about who turns up to their gigs is also ridiculous. "This guy next to me clearly has more money than me. FUCK THIS, I fucking hate this band" - DiS Regular No 12946.
If this was a US band you'd all be masturbating with your lil tongues hanging out of the corner of your mouths, but because they're British and apparently from middle class backgrounds (apparently none of you are?), then they 'suck'.
The music is beautiful, the songs are fantastic in my opinion (they build and build akin to a more folky Arcade Fire) and the live shows are just brilliant as well as fairly amusing with the between song banter. Plenty of soul there too.
"People who like this should be put in camps" - So says the Kait0 fan. If ever there was a more pointless band in existence? Mind you, I guess they didn't sell (m)any records and so they must be 'ace', right?
yup
rumbled.
Siiiigh
One - of course the kind of people that attend a band's shows has an influence on the way you perceive not only said shows but the band in question, too. And please spare me any of the 'I just judge them by the music' bullshit. It just isn't true unless you are some sort of cognitive freak.
Two - and when these people tend to rub you up the wrong way, as those who a) wear shirts with their collars erect and sweaters tied over their shoulders, and b) are happy to discuss loudly in public which of their other homes they plan to spend the winter do me, then that effect is likely to be somewhat detrimental.
Like I say, I appreciate this kind of makes me an inverted snob (although let's be clear, we're talking regatta not middle class here). But when we're talking about people who basically get what they want 98% of the time, I am fucked if I am going to roll out the welcome carpet for them now they're started taking an interest in even remotely half-decent music just cos they were in the scrum with the drummer.
"folky Arcade Fire"
lol
its NOTHING like arcade fire
and beautiful is a joke, honestly?!
they're utter balls
I've no idea how they are or where they come from, but I've had the radio on in the car recently and everytime they've come on, I've thought they where a horribile bunch of bollocks. I've never heard anyone talk about them ever though so I dunno where your seeing all the love for them...
well
they're in magazines/newspapers and on radio stations, and they've toured fairly prolifically for about 2 years too. What needs to happen to put on your radar in order to 'see all the love'?
dunno I'd just never heard of them before last week
Remember seeing them earlier in the year....
It was up there with the blandest music i've ever heard. Think i walked out after two songs.
Their music does nothing for me, but...
the relentless 'OMGZ DEY WENT 2 PURBLICK SKOOL!!!11ONE1' jibes are beyond lame.
I wonder how many of those that level that at them, as if it's anything to be ashamed of enjoy the musical stylings of Radiohead and countless others.
Unless you're living in an East Berlin squat and listening to your one Crass album on repeat whilst you suck on a recently deceased rat for warmth then you should probably get past that.
The public schoool issue
It's not that Mumford & Sons all went to public school for me, let's be clear.
It is the noticeable number among their live fanbase for whom this appears to be a key reason for them even being at the gigs. I don't think there've been a greater proportion of sloans at a rock concert since Duran Duran 'went grunge'.
...or since any band played any Latitude, Secret Garden Party, Big Chill
or Camp Bestival ever.
I remember a particularly vitriolic class-based stand-up routine from a chip on both shoulders Glaswegian at Reading 1995. When he wasn't getting the reaction he hoped for he exclaimed 'C'mon, you're nae middle class, are you?', cue much bewilderment amongst the overwhelmingly middle class home counties audience.
Trout farms for all.
So basically ...
I should avoid festivals for people who don't really care about music. Thanks for the tip off.
So are you telling me you there is in fact a sizeable number of Harries and Hermiones who could name a Slint tune in one? And I thought the gentrification of football sucked...
I don't think that there are very many people of whatever name
who could name a Slint track.
But, the indie rock/middle class link was well entrenched long before Mumford & Sons, special interest music discussion forums on the internet and Peter York coining the term Sloane Ranger.
Middle class?
Indie rock wouldn't even exist were it not for sensitive kids who like books, of that there is no doubt; it is middle-class, music through and through. Tunes, indeed, for wankers who use semicolons. And words like indeed. Your Reading anecdote sums this up perfectly.
However, let's be clear: sloans, toffs, or whatever - they are not middle class. It's the difference between rugby and rugger, 'day boys' and boarders, a profession and a trust fund.
The most obvious distinction is this: upper and middle class people are to differing degrees privileged relative to the majority of the population. Only one group, however, has their very own form of guilt to remind us to feel ashamed of this fact.
In my experience, the primary difference between day boys and boarders
was £1,500 per term* and about 50 miles.
*Late 80's/early 90's
I went to school with Winston, their banjo player
it wasn't a boarding school. It was a Hammersmith day school. Fee-paying sure, but I'm almost certain he had a bursary too.
their banjo player is called winston
lol
latymer
?
i hope you bullied him
was just reading this and pondering it
and spotify suddenly told me how fucking brilliant mumford and sons are
I PREFER SANFORD & SON
or even matthew & son
They have a few good moments but mostly I find them a bit watered down...
i dont enjoy them...
...as much as saturday fry up.
www.getagig.info
They're ok...
the album's a bit hit and miss. At times they're awesome - like Beirut, but with better vocals (Winter Winds), but for the most part it's fairly average.
Not sure how much hatred they'd be getting on here if they hadn't become so popular of recent...
Better lyrics than Beirut?
"Let love grow"?
Pass the sick bag/grammy.
...sorry, when i said 'vocals'...
i meant 'vocals'.
haha
haha
shit shit shit shit shit
them, laura marling and all that other bland fucking english as fuck white as PASTY GHOSTS 'folk' can go suuuuuuuck a diiiiiick. dankeschon.
i really like laura groves cause of the fact she does something odd now and again with the folky elements. just like kate bush back in the day (tho not with folk per se). do something new! don't just rip or maybe not rip but just wallow. fucking wallowers and fucking people who give them a free ride. gahagahaah.
when I heard the single
y'know, the one that broke them, I thought 'wow, this is like a shit beirut'. which is of course still better than most other things.
everything else I have heard is pretty ok, no more. perfectly likeable, but it's not given me a hard-on or nothin'
They're nothing special, but they don't make me cringe or anything.
gumford and bums
gumford and bums
they're alright
don't understand the hate here, especially as people are signing up just to post how much they hate this band which is fucking bizzare.
Yeah of course...
I walked in on them playing at Field Day and thought the local Irish folk band had got fucked and gone to the wrong venue.
Left after about 30 seconds and put them in that nice mental compartment marked 'AVOID: They wore hats indoors and sound much like what I expect Fleet Foxes would do if I could bring myself to listen to them too'.
One of my flatmates was enthusing about them and played some of their songs to me.
My polite response was "hmmm". Inside I was thinking, why is he playing me this pile of garbage?
Geoffery Boycott thinks they suck
During the Ashes someone texted TMS asking if they should stay in and listen to the cricket or go and see their favourite band, Mumford & Sons.
Boycott went mad "Who are they? Noones ever heard of them. If they were any good I'd have heard of them and would be booking them for my daughter's birthday party. Rubbish!"
The man is a genius.
I guess this will be unpopular...
but I love them. If you get a chance to see them live (for free I guess because I doubt anyone here would pay to see them!) give it a go and see if you change your mind. They are so good live and everyone in the crowd seems to be a superfan so the atmosphere is awesome and friendly. In my humble opinion.
you all talk shit
mumford & sons are geniuses. go back to oasis and their stadiums and throwing beer bottles and piss at each other at your soulless gigs.
come back to me when you decide to have an emotion.
Way to get a feel for the boards!
mumford and sons are fucking terrible
They are dull as fuck and I just dont see how they can be described in positive terms...
Professional troll is professional.
(If you are not a troll you should be thoroughly ashamed of your entire life)
what. the. fuck.
Indeed so.
Some of you young people may not remember this
but there was a time not long ago when Mumford & Sons were popular, and not the outright punchbag they've become in the last month or two. Next up, even if I don't quite understand the central point: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13906-sigh-no-more/
This review is another
in a long line of terrible reviews by Stephen M. Deusner of acts from the UK. He seemingly has some form of blindness when it comes to reviewing acts from North America. Forget that he clearly doesn't like the album it's amazing that like the idiotic, mistake filled U.2 review of Do You Like Rock Music he zones in on specific lyrics but Arcade Fire and The Killers get a free pass on it.
Easily the most pretentious, obnoxious and plain bad writer they have there. Whilst I didn't agree with the DiS review, it was at least focused on what it didn't like about it.
Were this a US or Canadian band he'd be wanking himself into a frenzy.
For what it's worth I quite like 'em...
But have only heard 2 tracks so far...
Definitely seems weird how much hate there is for them here though when (to me) the music seems alright, the lyrics seem alright and you could be shitting on 30 Seconds to Mars, Twisted Wheel or anyone who won a Brit, say, instead...
Their 10inch records are really good.....the album has had all the life sucked out of it in re-recording the tracks
look at this fucking hipster ^
Allow me to explain...
I reckon at least three quarters of the people who like this band are the sort who like refer to Radio 1 DJs in conversation as 'Mills' or 'Moyles'.
Turgid shite in the extreme.
Well, I must be in the 'fourth quarter' then...
because I don't ever refer to Radio 1 DJs in any conversation ever... I can't stand Radio 1 and most of their DJs should go and work at Heart FM, but I still think Mumford & Sons are alright... Weird, huh?
mumford and sons suck
Im a big fan of Fleet Foxes, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Arcade Fire, but this band suck something rotten, they are not even 1/4 the genius of Fleet Foxes yet the hype around Mumford and Sons is stupid. They sound and like they are from the deep south when they are from London and the main thing, which is there music, is terrible, some of it not even being in the right key.
I liked 'The Cave' but I very quickly grew weary of them...
They're almost bland to the point of being offensive, really. I certainly can't see why there's so much hype around them, but then I thought exactly the same with Arctic Monkeys.
Emperor's new clothes...
In the acoustic led genre, the only artist who can really save you right now is Robin Adams.
Remove the corporate **** from your mouth and take his album free. It has absolutely no input from a company owned by a pension fund.
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They just sound like a 3rd rate rumble strips to me
I don't particularly dislike them though, just don't really like them.
They don't evoke any strong feelings from me.
At all. They're just a bit 'meh' really. The lead singer seems rather disinterested in singing. 5/10 is spot on.
utterly boring
Never really got why so many people like them either and his voice really annoys me.
Slightly annoying
Read a live review when they had Laura Marling supporting and it said the audience were pretty much uninterested in her but they went CRAZY for Mumford. And that's my main issue - they're a pale version of other, much better artists who could still be pretty popular if anyone gave them enough of a chance.
i like them.
they are sort of the folkie coldplay.
very good live, ive never seen a crowd react like they did to them at glasto.
well i was wondering when the bashing will start though.. because they sell more than 5.000 copies..
come on. theyre just a good new band especially live. credibility about reviews has been a problem on DIS for a while since they did not "get" the new the coral album. :) and yes, laura marling is boring.
bunch of bed wetters
"I'll go out back and I'll get my gun," Mumford sings, like a man who had never handled a firearm in his life.
They're playing dress-up in threadbare clothes.
this is an hilarious post..
Read some Steinbeck you utter goof.
utterly shit band
musically, and on a personal level as someone pointed out up there somewhere the ywear hats indoors and fucking wastecoats, both are signs of being mega twats
that would be a waistcoat unless you were being funny and clever
which I highly doubt
do yo0u wear one aswell?
i wouldnt be suprised
Bet they're shitting themselves
now
I was thinking about this thread the other day,
before it got bumped. And y'know what, I don't think they suck. But I guess that there's a decent sized thread here about how much they do shows that they've well and truly made it to the big leagues
I quite like em.
you would
:P
I still
quite like 'em too.
They're ace
Soz.
So is Marling.
with the very high risk of sounding like
a NME-hating, pretentious git who thinks they're more "indie" than they are:
they are just another very average band who is overhyped by the NME/radio 1, and other mainstream publications who think they're less mainstream than they are, and the target audience of the band seems to be screaming 16 year old girls. Also, given their pop-folk music, many listeners think they're unique and different to other artists of similar hype.
i feel such an old git now.
a-fucking-men
I left a post rounf gerew somewear.,
Has anydun seen it?
Were you Jagging something you recorded?
hahahaha
They're fairly inoffensive really
But my issue with them is that they make people with terrible taste think that they now like folk. Which they do not.
Well, that, and all their songs sound the same. When I hear one that isn't the 'big one', I always think it is the 'big one' until the chorus never arrives.
Yes, they truly suck
Listening to them is like chewing on aluminum foil whilst someone drags fingernails across a chalkboard. Overly earnest, boring, precious. Almost worse than Sting. I can't bear it.
Yes, they really are quite ghastly, aren't they.
i thought there'd be more people
who disliked them on the basis of Mumford knobbing Laura Marling
Just me then
awful
truly one of the shittest bands around
good band.
They're emotional for the sake of it
I don't believe in any of the songs they're signing - it all seems a little typecast, fairly difficult to notice the difference between most of their songs. The whole emotional chanting + tight band image works much better with Beirut.
precisely this,
it just feels very false and insincere.
Beirut convey so much more emotion, but there's plenty of British bands in a similar ballpark to Mumford and, of course, infinitely superior.
Notably Fanfarlo and Jonquil.
It's hard to imagine
that Mumford & Sons were still quite popular when this thread was started (I mean on here, I appreciate that they're popular out there in the fields), given they've already replaced Coldplay and Keane as shorthand for hipster repellant.
I ATE M&S
egg & watercress sandwich
i bet they are more famous with teenagers than:
simon & garfunkel;
bob dylan;
the kinks;
csny
etc.
although i can admit, i do not listen to these artists a great deal, i suggest that mumford fans would a little more, a then reconsider.
I just watched them murder two kinks songs on TV...
with Ray Davies joining in.
CANNOT UNSEE.
:(
Ray Davies does a cracking job of murdering Kinks songs on his own.
To the point that M&Sons joining in is a minor improvement.
this is true...
I have a problem.
Any acoustic music that relies heavily on emotional impact has to be relatively unheard of for me to enjoy it, because if it's too popular I feel disconnected to it as millions of people have the same experience.
Oh
and City & Colour >>>> Mumford & Sons when I'm looking for acoustic whining.
I tend to go by general media exposure
I don't see The Shins or Elliott Smith on the back cover of NME or on the walls of bus stops, or plastered over Radio 1 in the same way Mumford & Sons are.
Although saying that, I haven't actually heard much Elliott Smith.
Whats scary is...
...they've completely crossed over to the football season ticket holding crowd. I've had three people tell me they "love" them this week. I suppose this is part of the Big Society. Boring Tory wankers.
Mumford & Sons
= ShamRock.
ShamWow ruined my life.
good thread
I thought I was the only one who thought they are shit
...says reply number 152
i don't hate them
but there are two things that piss me off about them.
1. "it's empty in the valley of your heart" - possibly THE worst lyric of all time.
2. I saw them live at Hop Farm (not the best festival). They played The Cave (which is the only song I like by them, despite the above lyric) at double speed and it completely ruined it.
Sound of the Con-Dem Pact.
YARGH!
I've said it once and I'll say it again.
My initial reaction to Mumford & Sons was that they reminded me of a less-good Elvis Perkins in Dearland.
That aside, I'm relatively indifferent towards them.
Forced. Laboured. Contrived.
Mumford & Sons.
They are dog shit
I have a very specific and personal problem with Mumford and Sons
I work with some very nice people who have very very limited knowledge of or passion for music. I've played them quite a few tracks of various bands (the more melodic songwritery stuff so's not to scare them with Dillinger Escape or anything) when they've shown an interest.
Now I get "oh terminus, here's a band that'll be right up your street!" and so on because to their minds I'll like M&S because I like music-with-guitars-and-feelings-and-that-kind-of-thing.
I've taken to clubbing people to death with my Nick Drake records and shouting 'NO! NO! NO!'. Seems to work.
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.
Can we put this one to bed please?
Seeing this thread keep popping up reminds me of goddamn Mumford and Sons and I'm doing my best to forget that they exist.
The Dom Gourlay review of their next LP will be good, let's wait for that to start kicking the carcass again!
"That's like not watching the news b/c one story effects too many people?"
Well that might just be the stupidest argument I've ever heard.
Music is not the news.
The news relates to people on a factual level.
Music relates to people on an emotional level.
I don't watch the news to feel emotionally connected to what's going on.
M&S do nice food. Particularly like their Walnut whips
Haven't heard them, but...
I can't wait to, because so many people say they're great, they have to suck. Have they been called "indie-folk" or some such shit? Because I swear to God, I'm gonna go out there & take down every one of them indie-folk assholes for xmas... What a stupid genre. Who should I blame, that moron Bright Eyes?
I don't hate them but they are a tad earnest
and there seems to be a distinct lack of melody in their music from what I can hear. Don't really get their popularity but nor do I get why so many people seem to properly hate them... Wait, I think maybe I do after writing that sentence.
I would appear Bob Dylan doesn't....
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/bob-dylan-to-perform-at-the-grammy-ceremony-alongside-mumford-sons-and-the-avett-bros.html
Jesus CHRIST.
yeah, 'cause Bob definitely picks the lineup for the Grammies each year
They blow and Mark Smith thinks so too
Scroll down to the Worst of section. Best quote from Mark I've heard. Hits the nail on the head.
http://stuffandsuch.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/best-and-worst-of-2010/
That story is cool
But your blog is terrible.
i think this thread is the reason i signed up to DiS
I love the fact it's still going
even though with the way the hip zeitgeist has changed since Boxing Day 2009 (seriously, aren't there families to be within the bosom of?) the title might as well be 'Black Lace... somebody else must think they suck?'
slagging off bumford and cunts
is like kicking a blind midget in the teeth. its far too easy, and i feel a little guilty afterwards for doing it, but then again, i know damn well i'm going to do it again. and again. ad infinitum.
These guys are great y'all.
They're so soulful and earnest it makes me weep like a little girl every time I listened to them. The singer can play a bass drum with his foot while strumming an acoustic guitar, tell me that's not the most amazing thing you've ever heard of. It is the rawest music I have ever heard, fuck that Robert Johnson motherfucker. My friend is into old school folk music and he says these guys are really good, and he has never listened to a record released after 1973. If u dont liek Mford kSons u have got no soul and your n evil hipstor that dusnt understand emowshins in yyur musick. This album wil tutch every1's heart and soul 4eva and we will al hold hans and sing.
:D
i love how the language changes completely in the second half.
Complete shitstain faux-bo wank
i like two songs
I liked 'em early on
Saw them a couple of times before the album came out. Was on the End of the Road forum where most people were buzzing about them. Opinion seems to have shifted dramatically as they became more popular. I still like them but I understand the objections - they do sound a bit slick and overproduced to me, now. On the other hand, their live shows are good and their audience is very good (people all the way back in the crowd singing every word - better than idiots who stand at the back of Fleet Foxes and talk all the way through...)
They're a proper 'gateway drug' type band for the young 'uns
a bit like Muse are/were.
Whenever any of my Yr11s start going on about M&S it basically says 'last month I used to just listen to whatever was on radio 1, in a month or 2 I'll be listening to interesting stuff'.
A gateway to what though?
The Wurzels?
'Suck' is too kind
Worst new band since Devo. Ugh.
Adolescent pop funeral dirge. A losing formula if there ever was one.
Except
devo are fucking good
Devo
."Worst new band since Devo".
Show your working
You think there's not been a worse band in the last 33 years?
And when you get back there, the worst band is Devo? And you're still contributing to a thread that's fifteen months old?
By which I mean
the mainspring of the original post is "I've searched all over the Internet and it's like nobody has a single bad word to say about them". It's even more difficult now to search all over the Internet and find someone with a single good word to say about them, chiefly newspaper critics.
do you mean il divo?
I've seen a lot of interesting fans.
My brother (whose music taste is typically pretty good) has been defending Mumford & Sons lately. Not because he's in love with them, but because his girlfriend listens to primarily Top 40 shit and M&S are sort of a gateway drug to more interesting music [than Ke$ha].
He's like, "They're not that bad. There's a handful of good songs on their LP."
I can appreciate somebody that gives an artist their attention, gives them a chance. I'm just too busy with music better than Mumford & Sons to take that time investment. Sorry.
shite
I have not listened to this band
However, anybody making the 'public school' argument should be honest and consistent and throw away their Radiohead records.Not a single Coldplay record either. And I'm sure the same applies to countless other credible indie bands too...
I dont get it
I admit I dont get what the real interest is in these guys.. They do nothing for me but I have never been one to follow the hype. I leave that to pubescent teenagers..
But we have to remember that the beauty of music is that we all can have different tastes... as there is so much variety.