[Closed] Mumford and Sons

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.

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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 😉

You surely didn't expect to get full agreement on a music thread on STW binners? I mean look, just look! at some of the shit people are "re-discovering" on that other music thread. Jeez.
I'm keeping off music threads where opinions are expressed. It's too depressing.
(Yes, from what little I've heard of Mumford and whatever they are hideous. And hideously unoriginal which is the biggest crime in my book)

Same as that Mr Hawley,not bad ,just can't get all the hype.

<Puts hands over ears and tries to pretend I never heard such sacrilege>

Sorry brooess,I have a bit of previous.
A mate once gave me a Jeff Buckley album ,telling me it would be a life changing listen.
I handed it back two days later and said that it just didn't do anything for me.
He was almost in tears 😉

Knowing how much the STW fashionista massif are wrought in angst and loathing, I like them all the more now.

In fact, I think I'll listen to them on my drive this evening for a weekend of NZ back country riding.

I'll admit to not being at all offended by M&S, I find the energetic foot-tapping nature of their songs enjoyable, and in a small-ish venue, after a few drinks, a fair bit of jigging around would ensue. However, a whole album does get a bit same-ey, they don't have much light-and-shade in their music.
All this guff about them being faux-folk, or whatever, is quite frankly, a load of pseudy bollocks; Christ, some of you sound like a bunch of poncy Guardianistas! Get over yerselves! 🙄
And I have actually seen them live, although it was in Hyde Park, in the middle of the afternoon. Give the lads their due, they worked bloody hard, but the appropriate atmosphere was decidedly lacking.
Arcade Fire, on the other hand, were outstanding!

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.

I'm not sure that's entirely fair here. I don't recall them singing about being paupers.

They do sing about coming out of a cave walking on your hands but I've always considered that quite a classless act.

I'm keeping off music threads where opinions are expressed. It's too depressing.

Extraordinary.

Thanks 🙂

Not in a good way DezzieBee. 😐

diddly music. its banished to post 7pm on radio 2.