[Closed] Fleet foxes

Some interesting observations above re. music snobbery.

As (mostly) middle aged men we're in no position to decide what's cool though, even though we probably do know best.

Yeah, but it wasn't Coldplay who described themselves as that. And it was Radio 1 who for years refused to play Kylie because she wasn't cool, then she wore some gold hotpants, and suddenly she was cool again and Radio 1 fawned all over her.

The Beatles of course did describe themselves as bigger than Jesus. For the record, I don't like the Beatles. I know that they invented music or something, but they just don't do it for me.

I think I actually thought I was going to like Fleet Foxes for a nano-second when I first heard them.

We then went to a dinner party, where the album was played through the meal - I wanted to hurl my plate at the stereo.

I also confess to thinking I might like Mumford & Sons to the point where I bought the (never listened to after 2 plays) album. With the exception of Little Lion Man, which I don't mind.

Glas Vegas is another one d/l'ed on the basis of hearing a song or two, although I could still listen to that if I put my mind to it.

[i]As (mostly) middle aged men we're in no position to decide what's cool though[/i]

That's right, we should leave that to the middle-aged record company, radio, magazine and TV executives 🙂

I never got the Beatles either

[i]I think I actually thought I was going to like Fleet Foxes for a nano-second when I first heard them.

We then went to a dinner party, where the album was played through the meal - I wanted to hurl my plate at the stereo.

I also confess to thinking I might like Mumford & Sons to the point where I bought the (never listened to after 2 plays) album. With the exception of Little Lion Man, which I don't mind.

Glas Vegas is another one d/l'ed on the basis of hearing a song or two, although I could still listen to that if I put my mind to it. [/i]

That's uncanny, are you my girlfriend? 😯

if it's on the radio.. TV.. or in a magazine then it's definitely [i]not[/i] cool..

then she wore some gold hotpants, and suddenly she was cool

Kylie started using good producers and songwriters around the same time as she bought the hotpants though.

I'm not a massive fan, but I think she's got terrific taste in music.

That's uncanny, are you my girlfriend?

I can be if you want me to.....

Hooray, I've pulled!

Who says music can't bring people together 🙂

Glas Vegas is another one d/l'ed on the basis of hearing a song or two, although I could still listen to that if I put my mind to it.

Good call that. I bought Daddy's Gone when it first came out (before they signed to a label) and it blew me away. Listened to the rest of the album yesterday on Spotify, and frankly was not very impressed. Boo.

Editors are great. First album was probably one of my favourite albums actually if the playcount on Itunes is to be believed.

But feel free to judge me from your middle of the road suburban dinner party playlist.
🙂

Whatever DJ - inventive tag by the way

Herman Dune - Giant is another one that comes to mind.

I like 'em, in a cheery singalong kind of way... though I generally prefer melancholic americana, like that of the mighty Smog (whose album cover for [i]Knock Knock[/i] is surely an early LOLCAT contender...).

For bucolic guitar meanderings, I like The Kingsbury Manx.

I hear the foxy fellas have a 2nd album out ...saw them twice in 2009, 1 intimate & 1 festival, both really good performances.

However, they'd have to have progressed or diverged their style a little to get me to buy the latest offering.

And yes, Smog / Bill Callahan=MIGHTY.

Gonna try and get tickets fer t' Arctic Monkeys in their (and my) home town tomorrow.

Editors are great. First album was probably one of my favourite albums actually if the playcount on Itunes is to be believed.

Meh, Interpol wannabes. And for god's sake, CHEER UP and stop MOANING, the lot of 'em! 🙄

For some reason I've got it in my head that they got really @rsey about being called 'The' Editors, and prompted the BBC to make a real effort to call bands 'Editors', 'Silversun Pickups' etc, rather than 'the editors', 'the silversun pickups', 'the fleet foxes' and so on.
Pointless paragraph that, I'll go now...