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You need to listen to these guys, Dok

Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, April 17, 2010, 09:29:10 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

April 17, 2010, 09:29:10 PM
Everybody needs to listen to them. Mumford & Sons.

My friend came in while I was sleeping last night, and put a CD and a pack of cigarettes in my purse with a note that says "#5 is you".

This was #5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Od0PJp6GI

I have never heard of these guys before. They are amazing. Amazing. How do musicians distill so cleanly the trouble in the spirit of human relationships? And how did my friend know so perfectly exactly what I needed?

Whenever someone says there's no good music anymore, I want to ask them, are you going out? Are you trading mix discs with friends? Are you on the internet, following links? Where are you finding this bad music, because every time I turn around there is someone new making music that blows me away. Completely.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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April 17, 2010, 09:30:12 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on April 17, 2010, 09:29:10 PM
Everybody needs to listen to them. Mumford & Sons.

My friend came in while I was sleeping last night, and put a CD and a pack of cigarettes in my purse with a note that says "#5 is you".

This was #5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Od0PJp6GI

I have never heard of these guys before. They are amazing. Amazing. How do musicians distill so cleanly the trouble in the spirit of human relationships? And how did my friend know so perfectly exactly what I needed?

Whenever someone says there's no good music anymore, I want to ask them, are you going out? Are you trading mix discs with friends? Are you on the internet, following links? Where are you finding this bad music, because every time I turn around there is someone new making music that blows me away. Completely.


Woot  hang on, will listen
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Doktor Howl

#2
April 17, 2010, 09:32:29 PM
The music is amazing, so is his voice, after the first 1:42.  Intro is too long.

But yeah, other than that, this is some cool ass shit.
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#3
April 17, 2010, 09:34:50 PM
Okay, done.  Interesting...an all-acoustic band in 2010.  He has a strange voice, which is usually bad but isn't in this case.

They do look and sound suspiciously Irish, though.
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April 17, 2010, 09:35:38 PM
Nice! They're tapping the same emotional vein in me that Counting Crows did and that's a rarely tapped vein indeed.

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April 17, 2010, 09:41:10 PM
I'm pretty sure they're AMerican (haven't researched 'em yet... I literally just put that CD in the car this morning. There's something about them that reminds me a LOT of Johnny Flynn, although they don't sound similar really. If you're not familiar with Flynn, check him out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou2M5VSNvjo&a=hQNjy0oZ5UQ&playnext_from=ML

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"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
April 17, 2010, 09:42:49 PM
Hahaha I looked them up and they are TOTALLY irish

You nailed it!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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April 17, 2010, 09:43:32 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on April 17, 2010, 09:42:49 PM
Hahaha I looked them up and they are TOTALLY irish

You nailed it!

I can smell 'em.  Right through the plasma screen.
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#8
April 17, 2010, 10:02:08 PM
I really like the intro part, lyrically speaking; it sets up the rest of the song really, really well IMO. It also has a lot of personal pull, having been that girl.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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#9
April 18, 2010, 12:20:52 AM
You guys haven't heard of Mumford & Sons before? In the UK, they released a frankly amazing debut, and were promptly cast into popfolk-mainstream-dom by Radio One, and then proclaimed "too mainstream" by the indie scene, and "too indie" by the mainstream. That said, a lotta people, including me, still love them.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#10
April 18, 2010, 02:07:25 AM
I had never heard of them before this morning. I love them.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Kai

#11
April 18, 2010, 02:35:19 AM
That was damn fine. I like me some wrenching music done all acoustic. The end was the best. The sort of wordless sounds a person makes when they don't know what else to say.

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#12
April 18, 2010, 03:04:10 AM
The lyrics for this song are fucking crazy perfect.

Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I'm clean, I'm clean

But tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart

A white blank page
and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think
when you sent me
to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention
but denied my affections, my affections

So tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart

Lead me to the truth and I
will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I
will follow you with my whole life

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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#13
April 18, 2010, 06:41:48 AM
I'm really enjoying them.  Thanks Nigel.
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#14
April 18, 2010, 08:20:48 AM
Yes, very nice!

Nigel, do you happen to have any mixes uploaded?
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