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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 19, 2014 22:22:54 GMT
Have to say I have this album and I can appreciate the observations that a lot of it is contrite faux emotion/folk with lots of cliched sound bites and riffs, but I actually quite like it  Why does everyone on here love to hate them, yes they've made a lot of money out of milking a faux clichéd sound, but at the end of the day they are capable of playing and entertaining huge crowds at least as good as most of us are capable of. It may not be the epitomey of technical guitar wizardy or compositional invention, but when I'm driving to work half dead in the morning and want to listen to something tuneful and with a melody I can easily follow, along with the rest of the uk, it does it for me more than most of the awfully sophisticated big name acoustic instrumentalists that often get worshiped on this forum. And it's a f--k site better than the cowel stuff that usually populates the radio! It reminds me of a hifi/music forum I'm on that loves to slag off people like Phil Collins, sting, U2 , Coldplay etc because they're not genuine or musically hip and indie/cool enough, yes all of these have been guilty of milking the system and chaining out crap,at some time, but let's face it in their time they've done some good stuff and are highly competent musicians/writers. Old guit rant over !!!  Why do I hate them? Because there are far superior artistes on the folk scene, truly great songwriters and musicians, who have never been granted the airplay they deserve, while these bland twerps are hyped to the skies. |
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Post by pnut on Jun 19, 2014 23:48:15 GMT
Probably true of any genre not just folk, the world is full of highly competent musicians who can play at least as well as the stuff you hear on the radio (and I'm not and probably never will be one of them!) but life's like that you don't just have to be competent or exceptional you have to be in the right place at the right time and basically know your trade and be prepared to ply it and work hard which is what they've probably done, they hit lucky worked hard and learned a trade had a few lucky breaks and contacted the right people.. I don't begrudge them that. In any field including my own it full of people who are more competent than many of the people in charge who run the show, but the people in charge more often than not have done something to get there, occasionally they are complete idiots who are there thro contacts only, but it's not very often thats 100% true they usually have some vital skill the rest of us don't have or appreciate or they're just more popular with the majority.
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Post by leoroberts on Jun 20, 2014 7:28:39 GMT
Why do I hate them? Because there are far superior artistes on the folk scene, truly great songwriters and musicians, who have never been granted the airplay they deserve, while these bland twerps are hyped to the skies. but that's not exactly THEIR fault, is it? May as well hate the sea for being wet...  |
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Post by Martin on Jun 20, 2014 8:35:13 GMT
May as well hate the sea for being wet... And I do!  |
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 20, 2014 12:04:24 GMT
Why do I hate them? Because there are far superior artistes on the folk scene, truly great songwriters and musicians, who have never been granted the airplay they deserve, while these bland twerps are hyped to the skies. but that's not exactly THEIR fault, is it? May as well hate the sea for being wet... I'm not sure. I don't know whether all bad artists know they produce crap, only that I know that I do. |
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Post by creamburmese on Jul 14, 2014 21:03:33 GMT
I had trouble reading the review cos I lost track trying to chain the words together between deletions... so I didn't. I don't normally listen to them, but when I was trying to come up with good easy tunes I didn't have to practice beforehand for our local jam - their "I will wait" was just the ticket ... kept well within my chord limit!!! (3, maybe 4...)
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Post by chad on Jul 23, 2014 21:58:34 GMT
How sad, don't like them so it must be crap, they got money, they must be crap, it's not trad folk, must be crap, like some said. " these folk songs are the modern age" if you don't like it move on, easy.
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Post by rodders on Jul 24, 2014 9:55:54 GMT
I've got no problem with Mumford and Sons apart from the fact they have a limited repertoire. Their second album was almost identical to their first album, which is probably why they've called it a day for now. One thing I would say in their favour is that they are a 'gateway' band. If they managed to get a few kids to pick up an instrument, or even a banjo ( ), or to explore music that is further away from the commercial path, then all power to them. |
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Post by scorpiodog on Aug 5, 2014 11:26:26 GMT
I have no opinion on Mumford & Sons, but in the comments on the article they are described as: "The Wurzels without the seething sexual undercurrent."  Better than any line in the article, IMHO. |
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