Day of the Dead arrived yesterday, so only now beginning to dip into it, CD1 containing the challenge of the bloody Mumfords, suddenly darlings of a latter-day americana, apropos their work along side Costello in the New Basement Tapes. That I wouldn’t listen to on principle, such is my prejudice against the ersatz removal men, my finger pausing over buy for this purchase too. So, any good? Damn their eu=yes, it is. Not brilliant. Not as good a cover as Lyle Lovett’s or Vassar Clements’, but better than Counting Crows or Rice, Rice, Pederson & Hillman. Nor as good as the original, but hey, only lyle’s hits that button.
Soo, guardians of the cool, have the Mumfords broken through the shit curtain?
Anyone heard it yet?
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Hello, what?
I sometimes wander into here, look around, shake my head and like a bewildered old man shuffle off
Jus smile and nod, then get off the bus at the next stop, even if that means you have to stand there waiting for the next one.
O do keep up, but surely all you hipsters know that Mumford and Sons cover Friend of the Devil on the charity tribute out just now. Jeez, civilians, eh………..
Brilliant box set and certainly good enough to avoid the Mumfords considering there are 5 discs. Orchestra Baobab have 2 excellent tracks that are my initial highlight.
Mumford and Sons is the shittest band name ever. They look like a bunch of pricks. Their music is the sonic equivalent of a dog being sick in your face. They are still shit.
Have I had me dinner yet?
So no-ones listened to the track in question yet?