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Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More
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Posted: May 05, 2013 - 02:01
 
This isn't so bad.  It's all right.  You just have to be in the mood for it.

sandpebble
(near Paradise)
Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 11:04
 
{#Beat}

old_shep
(Iowa)
Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 11:01
 
Not nearly as sorry as this sounds.... PSD

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 11:01
 
I don't care what anyone says about the Mumfords.  I like this CD.  Their follow up was just meh.  BTW I bought this CD before they exploded in popularity.  I think RP had something to do with their popularity too.

S-curvy
(Lovely Alameda, the Isle of Style)
Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 19:12
 
 dadeo wrote:
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!
 
That's a good one!

S-curvy
(Lovely Alameda, the Isle of Style)
Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 19:11
 
Quaint.  Precious.  And not in a good way.  {#Skull}  I think of moving it from 3 > 2, but 2 and 1 get reserved for stuff that's in the trash department, you know, really bad as in needing to mute the sound, and this isn't quite there ... yet.

blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 10:11
 
Maybe they would sound better, if I were really drunk.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 10:11
 
What a horrible song

WhiteWater
(right where you are sitting now)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 10:10
 
 dadeo wrote:
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!
 
<Like>

dadeo
Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 14:33
 
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!

Catecaneverall
(Germany, Leipzig)
Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 02:01
 
thank you thank you thank you - I so needed this right now!

blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: May 28, 2012 - 14:09
 
still suck.

bill-1956
(The Greater Moncure Metro Area, NC)
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:50
 
Mumford & Sons are growing on me.

zitherica
(Rijeka, Croatia)
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 01:25
 
keep them coming... but please, thistle and weeds!

dwlangham
(Nowhere to be found)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 08:31
 
Where's the -1 rating?

iam_overlord
(Brighton, MA)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 08:31
 
I can mute that tune in 3 notes!

salzburg4321
(Salzburg, Austria)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 03:12
 
Banjoes = instant 7

This song is growing on me 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 16:40
 
Another egregious rip-off of Mumford & Sons, oh...wait...

blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 12:10
 
I must be from the future then, because I have been bad mouthing all of their songs and rating them all 1 since I first heard them.

 ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 



Patti
(the 'burbs of so cal)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 10:49
 
 Pibailey wrote:
Fair point. But there is a certain amount of self absorption and 'smugness' that you can't help but ingest when you listen to this. I kind of resent them for that, and the fact that it's now being rammed down our throats every time we turn on the radio in Australia and the UK kind of adds to the level of communal suffocation, I think.

I don't call that music snobbery.
ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 
 

How the heck can you "ingest self absorption and smugness" from listening to music???  And if you don't like that the radio stations ram music down your throats, do what I do - just don't listen to the radio.  Simple.

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 10:48
 
 dwlangham wrote:
I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.
 
I've heard some church choirs that kicked Satan's butt. 

Now, if someone would only do that to the Mumfords.....


NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 10:47
 
 Baby_M wrote:

Officially, it's "Oh, man is a giddy thing."

It sounded to me like "Old man is a guinea pig," which should be shouted from a castle wall in an outrageous French accent: "Your old man is a guinea pig and your mother smelt of elderberries!"

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

 
Props for the Python ref.  Nee! 

No props for this song, though.


blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 10:44
 
I'm sorry I had to hear Mumford and Sons.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryy

dwlangham
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 10:44
 
Why do you play this? Who are these people? What did I do to deserve this onslaught of drone?

sonofsun
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 05:35
 
This band are starting to grate.

Sucko Barfo!

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 21:54
 
 dwlangham wrote:
I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.
 
{#Yes}{#Yes}{#Yes} ahahaha funny one

madaxeman
(Scottish west coast)
Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 04:56
 
 misterbearbaby wrote:
I have no pseudo-political bullcrap to judge this band by, so I'll just go on sonics, singing and playing, composition, and toe-tappin'-factor and give them an 8.
 
I'll go with that.


misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 11:30
 
I have no pseudo-political bullcrap to judge this band by, so I'll just go on sonics, singing and playing, composition, and toe-tappin'-factor and give them an 8.

dwlangham
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 11:28
 
This just went from Ho-hum to Marginal. Number 2 with a bullet.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 12:31
 
you're sorry....

Baum74
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 01:39
 
An album with a lot of great songs! Very powerful and emotional. Comforting in bad times.
This song here is not the best one, just a starter giving a glimpse of what to come.

Segue
(Almost Paradise)
Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 18:56
 
brilliant

tutakea
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 01:30
 
horrible singing :-((

Stropatus
(London, UK)
Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 08:38
 
Over exposed, smugness and public school toffs may well be true.
But I still enjoy most of the songs from this album, especially from a musical perspective, this is not one of the better tracks though.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 08:33
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...



Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree)
Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 08:31
 

That one line reminds me of Pooty Tang.




Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 15:17
 
 DaMoGan wrote:

Wow, you must really like your urologist!

{#Mrgreen}


 Sasha2001 wrote:
If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.

 
 
He's a genius with the urethral forceps! urethral forceps


DaMoGan
(Body on the east coast, Mind on the west coast.)
Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 14:59
 

Wow, you must really like your urologist!

{#Mrgreen}


 Sasha2001 wrote:
If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.

 



Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 04:37
 
If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 04:20
 
Sigh no more? Auto-sigh when this bunch of toffs comes on. In the car yesterday I was relistening to proper folk rock in the shape of New Model Army, going back to the 80s when class war was a daily in-yer-face reality. Radical and angry folk rock, as it should be, not de-fanged and de-classed as M&S do. (This is no ordinary recuperation/commodification, this is a M&S recuperation...). NMA would show up this bunch of public school posers for what they are and, as those across the Pond might say, would kick their donkey bigtime.


Pibailey
(Melbourne)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 20:09
 
Fair point. But there is a certain amount of self absorption and 'smugness' that you can't help but ingest when you listen to this. I kind of resent them for that, and the fact that it's now being rammed down our throats every time we turn on the radio in Australia and the UK kind of adds to the level of communal suffocation, I think.

I don't call that music snobbery.
ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 



Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 12:10
 
 ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 
I know what you mean about how success breeds contempt, and I enjoy most of what I've heard from these guys, but this particular tune has a bit too much of a church-social/funereal sound to me - especially that prolonged intro.


ch83575
Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 08:30
 
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 08:23
 
 DaveInVA wrote:
Is he singing "My mind is a Guinea Pig"?. The banjo playing is excellent but doesn't fit with this song...
 
Officially, it's "Oh, man is a giddy thing."

It sounded to me like "Old man is a guinea pig," which should be shouted from a castle wall in an outrageous French accent: "Your old man is a guinea pig and your mother smelt of elderberries!"

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.


dwlangham
Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 08:22
 
I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 10:25
 
I'm filing these guys as a guilty pleasure.  I don't know if the youthful earnestness is what does it for me, or maybe the lively banjo picking, or even the folk on coke sound...  something about it is just fun for me.

That being said, I do not own this album and do not intend to buy it.  I'll just enjoy what I hear when I hear it and be happy for it.  I think if I could listen to a whole album of this, I'd get burned out pretty quickly.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 10:24
 

They are pretty good overall, but I don't like this one except for the banjo.



GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 03:06
 
I can't apologize for enjoying this. 

darkhorse53
(Illinois)
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 07:21
 
Band has balls...just saying.

jhorton
Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 19:38
 
A year and a half into this, still think this is the best new band in a decade. Crazy talent.

Even better live.