[Closed] Mumford and Sons

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Look how they mock you.

Beats the hell out of me, jack.

I like em.

Who would've thunk?

I really like their first album. The second is a bit meh though.

What does make me want to go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH is the unfairnessness that means these two are man and wife 🙁

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Calm down dear.

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They are at least different to all the R&B and CowellPop on the radio. Don't get me started on Emili Sande, though. Britain's fifth best Alicia Keys tribute act.

What does make me want to go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH is the unfairnessness that means these two are man and wife

No wonder he looks smug, he's punching well above his not inconsiderable weight there.

I like 'em in small doses. And they seem really, really happy which helps too- I saw a live version of You've Gone Too Far on something like the secret policeman's ball, where they did one song from cold and still looked like they'd done a whole gig at the end, no compromise at all for the weird show they were playing. Kinda cool, that.

yeah i dont mind them, i prefer proper folk music though, not this crossover malarkey (not a spiers and bowden/bellowhead fan though, they are too far the other way)

good first album, second sounds like they used up what was left over from the first, all filler no killer.

I think the picture muppetWrangler posted might be the smuggest thing I've ever seen.

Bedwetter music.

Admittedly better than anything R&B has ever produced but still not really necessary.

And what about Noah and the Whale. They can f*** off.

[i]second sounds like they used up what was left over from the first, all filler no killer[/i]

This

[i]but still not really necessary[/i]

ooh, get her.

I recon it takes a hell of a lot of styling to get your hair looking as bad a that, especially the dude with the hoodie.

Don't mind them as it happens.

I liked the one song, so I bought the album. Not sure it was a good idea. The banjo player seems to have learned a few arpeggios and that's it. It's as if someone's got a banjo mode on a keyboard and is just pressing the chords as they go.

If I were an actual folk band from Virginia with real skills I'd be a bit pissed off that they get all the money.

What does make me want to go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH is the unfairnessness that means these two are man and wife

Speaking of which:

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grum - Member

I think the picture muppetWrangler posted might be the smuggest thing I've ever seen.

Indeed it is. Here's a dilemma for you. Which one would you punch first? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..... I just can't decide

I think the picture muppetWrangler posted might be the smuggest thing I've ever seen.

That photo would look more at home in a Next catalogue.

Mr Woppit - don't even get me STARTED on that one.

He stole my Gwynnie 🙁

Indeed it is. Here's a dilemma for you. Which one would you punch first? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..... I just can't decide

Christ. That is difficult.

The public school boy casual loose tie is just about cutting it for me. He wins first punch.

IHN - You'd convinced yourself for years she'd never go for a guy from this side of the pond then that gonky **** nipped in there. You COULD have had her yourself if you'd put the effort in (and she'd liked you but as an STW regular, what's not for her to like eh?)

I think the tussle-haired, hoody/suede jacket combo is getting my vote. He seems to have the smugness dial turned up to 11

The public school boy casual loose tie is just about cutting it for me. He wins first punch.

He also has the look on his face you'd expect from someone who owns a bank watching someone's house being repossessed. A combination of "Look how stupid you are" and "I can't believe we get away with this shit". Which, given it's Mumford and Sons, is probably what they're thinking right before a concert.

Ephemeral dross. Glib faux-folk for middle England middle management who feel they are being reminded of their gap year (that was the same as everybody else's) while listening to their whimsical dirge.
Music to replace the awkward silences at middle class dinner parties once the topics of schools and Miele washing machines have been exhausted, it was Coldplay now it's dickhead and brethren.
Sanitised watered down folk pop for latte drinking cretins who secretly want to be the short one from top gear.
Sixth form poetry for bedwetters.

I could go on but I'll stop now.

No! Don't stop MrSmith! You're expressing rather beautifully exactly my feelings towards the self-satisfied tossers. Music for people who don't actually like music. There's obviously been some terrible mistake as they were all meant to be working in banking by now, but one of Daddies friends heard us play at the golf club one night, and he owns a record company........

[i]IHN - You'd convinced yourself for years she'd never go for a guy from this side of the pond then that gonky **** nipped in there. You COULD have had her yourself if you'd put the effort in (and she'd liked you but as an STW regular, what's not for her to like eh?) [/i]

It's like your pouring my heart out man. I might write a song about it.

[i]I could go on but I'll stop now. [/i]

Good job, you were about to out-smug the lot of them

I think the tussle-haired, hoody/suede jacket combo is getting my vote. He seems to have the smugness dial turned up to 11

I think the smugness is probably because he was horifically bullied in school though, so I can have a small amount of pity. It seems like that kind of smugness that he wants his tormentors to see, but if he saw them walking towards him in the street he would still s*** himself and run the other way.

He also has the look on his face you'd expect from someone who owns a bank watching someone's house being repossessed. A combination of "Look how stupid you are" and "I can't believe we get away with this shit". Which, given it's Mumford and Sons, is probably what they're thinking right before a concert.

You sir, have perfectly articulated what this guy is all about. I'm still chuckling about this.

Def the fat ring leader, I'd have to smack him, as he is Mumford. I mean would you call your band ....&sons? The nervous crap banjo player I could let off because he's called Winston. If that's his birth name it's punishment enough.

[i]Music for people who don't [s]actually like[/s][b]feel they have anything to prove by their choice of[/b] music[/i]

I thought they wrote one song about 5 years ago. And kept calling it something else.

Hey, it's worked for Jamirikwaiy and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers for years 🙂

The quiet smugness of the one on the left swings it for me.

The others are more brazen and braying in their smugness, whereas he thinks he's playing it cool, which makes it even worse.

...he is Mumford. I mean would you call your band ....& sons?

Well you would if they were your kids by your own mother. Which given the fact that they are Mumford & Sons could well be the case.

(Other incestuous relationships are possible. Terms and Conditions Apply).

I've managed to avoid them somehow, so couldn't tell whether I liked them or not, not interested in finding out either, more than happy with my dubby deep house music from switzerland.

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Come on, be honest - this is all because

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likes them, isn't it...

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They serve to help folk on forums to feel superior while they tell you you're listening to the wrong music and that their ears hear better music to yours.

Dave is the ultimate PR man. He doesn't actually like anyone Wopster. He just drops bands names to either ingratiate himself with his particular audience - I'm presuming he said this in a Radio 2 interview, or to wind up Jonny Marr and Paul Weller 😆

I don't really mind the music TBF, it's fairly bland but there's a lot worse out there. That picture though....

See, I actually liked their first album. Bought it off the strength of hearing Little Lion Man on 6 Music admittedly, but the rest of the album grew on me.

I bought a Frank Turner album around the same time after hearing Try This at Home, but that's another story

I also accidentally saw them live at the Hop Farm a couple of years back too and thought they were OK.

Having belatedly realised I'm one of them there latte drinking cretins who secretly want to be the short one from top gear I actually feel deeply ashamed of myself, and, it has to be said somewhat dirty at being hoodwinked into having such poor taste.

Is there somewhere one can go to have one's hitherto impeccable musical taste realigned to that of the STW hive mind.

Step this way SprocketJockey

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He seems to have the smugness dial turned up to 11

If I'd written down my adolescent angst to samey music and made millions from it, I think 11 is precisely how smug I'd be.

I'm presuming he said this in a Radio 2 interview, or to wind up Jonny Marr and Paul Weller

He's not all bad, then.

but one of Daddies friends heard us play at the golf club one night, and he owns a record company........

Well.

There is the theory that their success in the American market is largely due to the fact that their old man is the director of Vineyard Churches. Which won them the endorsement of Christian summer camps across the US.

I like them, quite a bit actually.

Dirge.

I couldn't be jaffed with them at all until literally last week when I sat through most of their catalogue on Spotify. Now I've really taken to them. Particularly liked their Indian flavoured mash up with Laura Marling and the Dharohar Project. So there!

It's not been hard for me to avoid them so I'm not riled enough to GAS.

I'm sure their average fan might not appreciate my record collection.

And as some have said already, their vibe is at least uplifting unlike most of the tosh one has to put up with these days.

Liked the first album second was a bit boring.

The borderline ginger garfield lookalike would be punched first.

Wife likes them. I feel like Mr Smith's earlier contender for post of the week reached in, took the disgust out of my my head and turned it into English. 😆

Particularly liked their Indian flavoured mash up with Laura Marling and the Dharohar Project.

that one is the absolute worstest. 👿

Me likee too.

* ruffles hair, undoes another button on check shirt *

that one is the absolute worstest

And there was I thinking I'd come round and play it to you 😯

Put me out of my misery. Who are the couple at the top of the page?

Mumford and Sons

Every single M&S song.
Still, they're making a good living out of being played in Starbucks for American hipsters, so fair play to them I guess, just as long as they don't do it anywhere near me.

i don't mind posh people. But posh people trying to seem 'ordinary' or singing like a Irish traveller... that's extremely irritating.

The music industry is full of too many poshos all pretending to be something they aint, singing about a life they've never lived or experienced.

nicko74 - Member

Quiet singing, getting louder, loud bit, banjo. "ding digading digadingdingding"

That's my favourite bit!

Bland bandwagon-jumping style muck. Tried to listen to them, just can't be arsed. Life's too short.

So, are we allowed to like Bellowhead now, or not?

My former boss was getting quite into that Cornish fishermen folk singer group, until I pointed out that they were singing the wrong words to 'Johnny comes down to Hilo' and pointed him to the proper version:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-navy-singers/ 😈

yeah i dont mind them, i prefer proper folk music though, not this crossover malarkey (not a spiers and bowden/bellowhead fan though, they are too far the other way)

Just not niche enough for some of the taste nazi ****wits on here it seems. Why don't you all tell us what we should be listening to. It's a wonder anybody writes music that a lot of people might like for fear of being lambasted by STWers. 🙄

I'm sure a cursory glance at their bank accounts will ease the lambasting scars somewhat

Probably been linked to before but still funny:

http://thequietus.com/articles/10744-mumford-sons-babel-review-mr-agreeable

I don't hate them. That's as much enthusiasm as I can muster.

What I do hate is when people rave about them, under the impression that Mumford and Sons invented folk.

I'm really worried now. Is it OK to like Ben Howard? Will I slightly singe in the lukewarm depths of MoR hell to admit a liking for the works of Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams? Johnny Cash and the Pogues are still in favour with the STW taste police surely?

As I've noted before, I think one of em's a ginger as well.

Can't be having this. Where's the pitchforks and the outrage bus?

I like 'em. A lot. 🙂

thread of the year, right there. can mr smith have column in the magazine? whenever i go into a record shop i refile all of the bumface and sons cd's and turn the index card backwards in the obscure deathcore section. if everyone did this the world would be a better place. now how to tackle their internet sales? i hate their drivel.

If I had a column in the magazine it wouldnt last very long due to the core readership feeling alienated.

Don't you know it's fashionable to dislike Mumford and Sons? The haters are probably the type of people who think they are the first to 'find' new bands

I like Folk. However they are like pre-packaged, processed-stuff for the US. **** off Cornish-****s

Btw ^ I find joy in mainly standard Irish folk bands in tiny pubs.

You lot really do talk a lot pap sometimes! 🙂

Edit - most of the time! 🙂

IHN have you read any of the stuff on [url= http://www.goop.com ]Goop[/url]. You had a lucky escape.

Funny thread 😆

[quote=eat_more_cheese ]Don't you know it's fashionable to dislike Mumford and Sons? The haters are probably the type of people who think they are the first to 'find' new bands
Yes - it's the usual STW bedwetters out to try impress everyone at how "different" and "off the wall" they are. Next it'll be exchanging pictures of their latest body art, as if that somehow makes them look intelligent and arty.

Don't you know it's fashionable to dislike Mumford and Sons? The haters are probably the type of people who think they are the first to 'find' new bands

I think they're kidding themselves personally. We are after all a bunch of middle aged blokes who ride push-bikes for fun wearing funny clothes and seek to prove their inherent manliness by picking meaningless fights with similar people they've never met on the interweb. There is nowhere in the known galaxy where that's fashionable. Except possibly France.

Nail on head there sprocketjockey. Anyone on here who would describe themselves as cool is clearly delusional. However.... There's simply no excuse for Mumford and sons. They're absolutely bloody awful!

I like 'em. A lot

Damn you to hell! 👿

Don't dislike them,but when Mrs H bought the first album I listened to it a couple of times to find out what all the fuss was about.Nothing made me want to put it on for a third time.
Same as that Mr Hawley,not bad ,just can't get all the hype.

This is all good though,imagine if we all liked the same sounds 😉