Ouch.
― Young, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
As the first song ended I was amazed at how connected I felt to God and to the others in the room of this club I had never been to listening to a band I had never heard. The concert continued in this vein until the encore a little over an hour later. This was not a typical concert by any means. There were so many moments of transcendence where the veil of the ordinary gig in a club were shattered and we came singing together into a larger place where our hearts were opened to something greater.
Earlier that evening I had sung worship songs with a room full of Vineyard pastors but in that dive bar in south Phoenix I was again worshipping to songs I had yet to learn. I left the concert that night feeling as if I had encountered God. I don’t say this because the music was so good or the band-members so skilled but because the music and the lyrics pointed beyond the gig to another place not so far a way and to another person who loves us without measure.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen the light. (And dry-heaved.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
thank u for the testimonial ned it has renewed my faith in mumford & sons & god
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Lead singer looks like Tim Tebow. Dealbreaker.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Avett Brothers sound like this now, all sort of clean and kind of whiny. I prefer boringified Avett Brothers over this.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Read that as 'bongified'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:49 (1 hour ago)
Speaking to God down the big white telephone.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/LesterBangs.jpg/200px-LesterBangs.jpg"I Saw God and/or Tangerine Dream Mumford and Sons"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- kinda watery.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I still like "Little Lion Man" a lot... but the rest of the album is indeed kind of a bore.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
^ this
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Little Lion Man reminds me of nothing so much as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-CfQvz21Y
^except (vid notwithstanding) I like this a lot more.
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
wife: "oh i have a new favorite band!"
me: "oh cool! who?"
her: "MUMFORD & SONS!!"
me: "awww"
her: "whaaatttttt? they're good"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
man is it a good thing successful relationships don't depend on music taste
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
can only imagine your battle to prevent her indoctrinating Junior tho
I'm actually surprised none of us from the States at least made a joke about this guy yet:
http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/2/26/TheAmazingMumford-FacebookProfilePicture.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/bob_dylan_to_perform_at_grammy.html
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It lives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFUbEnjDOY
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://twitter.com/McNeely/status/21634978865483776
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i trust u copied that from the other thread and we haven't both been browsing mumford interviews on youtube xp
― DJ Mendoncap (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDH4OXgCig
is the fat one trying to imitate gervais or does it come naturally
― DJ Mendoncap (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
You trusted accurately. And thank you for providing that slice of pain.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
follow up conversation
wife: "yeah so they're folk singers... but like, everything is folky but INTENSE folky"
me: "huh?"
her: "like they have more drums and stuff. like a rocky kind of folk!"
me: ".............."
her: "i get chills every time i listen to them"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
also i just listened to 4-5 sings of theirs,
these guys seriously make fleet foxes sound like fuckin bob dylan woodie guthrie level genius
mark e. smith otmfm upthread
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
No results found for "cumlord & sons".― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:24 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
This is now what I think of when I hear this band's name.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
So in a few days they conquered the world or something?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pinglewood.com/2008/February/images/2420.jpg
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It was forbidden and perhaps I am glad.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
they had the fourth best selling album in flanders last year
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
They won the Brit Award for Best British Album, dressed like this:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51283000/jpg/_51283282_51283281.jpg
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
guy in black coat looks like the guy from grizzly bear
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Um...what's with the drunk guy holding a cloth dildo?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
they remind of me the band kings of nuthin from boston
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
xp that's the new Brit Award trophy, designed by Vivienne Westwood.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Americans always go for stupid shit like this (Exhibit A = The Cranberries). The really weird bit will be when M&S* rapidly grow into the biggest band in Japan, India and Iran.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
*DO YOU SEE????????????
It used to be that England would export our unwanted Manchester indie rockers, now it's our copious surplus of beardy folk bastards.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't help thinking that if Chris Martin and Thom Yorke had just manned the fuck up a little a few years ago, then a dangerous precedent would not have been set and we'd have avoided all this.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
english pop music is shit
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm listening to Tasmin Archer and weeping.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
you always do that when spurs win
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean 'there will always be exceptions' like tinie etc but it does seem worse than usual/ever rite now
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
English pop music is shit at the moment more as a result of production trends than anything else. If and when the world moves on from "whack in a big Phil Collins sample with filter-disco keyboards" we might suddenly see them coming with something amazing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure how that relates to / explains the mumford debacle
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
MC Mumford and the Dubstep Sons
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
tinie still only has one and a half good tracks
i don't really like US pop these days either tho (in the charts i do like 'lights on', 'rolling in the deep' and maybe that latest chase & status thing at a push tho uk-wise)
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Had a really annoying Grammys experience thinking that I could listen to Archer of Loaf (All the Nations Airports) while watching with the sound off. But my (American) girlfriend asked me if I liked Mumford, so we turned the volume up. See, she likes it. I think a huge number of people do (obv., no 1 itunes etc). It hits a lot of right buttons for people: a bit different, a bit "real music," a bit "live and crescendo," lyrics that sound like they mean something, a bit of mystery somehow (even the name, for Americans). I imagine, even, that Americans bedazzled by Grammys see this as somehow "Irish music" - with its real guys in a hub sweating and getting carried away with the musicality of it all. There's no much "art" in it, more "soul" - hence Mumford getting a great boost after these awards, and Arcade Fire very little at all.
― paulhw, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:25 (24 minutes ago)
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:26 (23 minutes ago)
Don't blame this sleeping satellite (of Europe)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link