The Mumford was inspired.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Dolly-Parton-Jolene
*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-White-Stripes-Jolene
*related=http://videosift.com/video/White-Stripes-Jolene-Dolly-Parton-cover-live-on-Conan
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Alison-Krauss-covers-Jolene
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Marling-and-Mumford-and-Sons-Jolene-Live
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Ray-LaMontagne-amazing-version-of-Jolene

Dolly Parton - Jolene has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

The White Stripes - Jolene has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

White Stripes - 'Jolene' (Dolly Parton cover, live on Conan) has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

Alison Krauss covers 'Jolene' has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons - Jolene (Live) has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

Ray LaMontagne--amazing version of "Jolene" (plus "Trouble") has been added as a related post - related requested by antonye.

None of the things in that list are even the slightest bit unrelated, and I think that you would be hard-pressed to give an actual, rational reason for claiming that they are.

No, what's happening here is that I jokingly said I find a band you apparently happen to like to be offensively homogenous, and you took real offense to it.

Now, look - if I had been fifteen years old, I might have liked Mumford & Sons. After all, I was completely into the craze at that point, reading Walden, listening almost exclusively to bands who took their names from animals and collectively dressed like day labourers from the early 1900s, but... then it got old, and it got old fast. Why? Because they never created anything knew. It was always accoustic, it always had the exact same sound and feel, and it could almost always be split into one of two categories - maudlin lovesongs (as in, "here I sit brokenhearted") or bright-eyed nature-romanticism (as in, "let's go into the forest and pick wild flowers and be happy FOREVER").

And now, Mumford & Sons are simply carrying on that trend. It's not a new trend by any means, and it's certainly not going to end with our current generation of band wagoneers.

And as it happens, I dislike it quite a bit.

And you're just going to have to deal with that.

You sound like an angry old man.

Mumford and Sons have some great songs and this is a lighthearted, funny video.

You seem to take your dislike of them and expand it into a condemnation of an unrelated list of things you also dislike.

Also people who are "offended" by pop culture and music trends should shampoo my crotch

This should give you some insight...

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/dont-let-mumford-sons-trick-you-into-liking-them

Your video, Mumford & Sons - Hopeless Wanderer, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Mumford and Sons? Always!

*promote

Mumford and Sons?

mumford and sons could always be coming out of at least one more screen in my life.

http://videosift.com/video/Mumford-and-Sons-I-Will-Wait-Live-In-The-Q-Studio I am so with you, i can't frickin wait for Monday either!!!!

>> ^spoco2:

Yeah, I'm not saying it isn't actually audio recorded live, but something in the way they've mixed it has robbed it of the live feeling almost entirely.


Pretty sure it's a soundboard recording, AKA the only good-sounding live stuff posted anywhere (unless you prefer a tin-can cell phone recording). The video (visual) is obviously mixed, because it was set up for a music video. And yes, Red Rocks has beautiful acoustics by itself.

*promote

>> ^spoco2:

I'll pretty much always upvote Mumford and Sons.
But man, that audio doesn't sound like a live feed at all. It sounds like a studio recording overlaid on top of live footage with a tiny bit of audience sound put in the background.
It may be, but the mix makes it sounds anything but live.


I believe you may be underestimating the acoustics at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Although I'm sure the sound technicians probably had something to do with it too.

Anyway, if you ever have the opportunity, don't pass up a concert at Red Rocks.

>> ^spoco2:

I'll pretty much always upvote Mumford and Sons.
But man, that audio doesn't sound like a live feed at all. It sounds like a studio recording overlaid on top of live footage with a tiny bit of audience sound put in the background.
It may be, but the mix makes it sounds anything but live.


It's not the studio version, that much I know for sure.

I'll pretty much always upvote Mumford and Sons.

But man, that audio doesn't sound like a live feed at all. It sounds like a studio recording overlaid on top of live footage with a tiny bit of audience sound put in the background.

It may be, but the mix makes it sounds anything but live.