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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 19, 2015 23:09:09 GMT -5
Let's not forget that 2010 (and 2009) brought us Savior which spent 65 weeks on the chart
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Post by Lordef†ones on Mar 23, 2015 2:02:18 GMT -5
I didn't like any of them except for "This Is War" The rest were either okay or bad.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 26, 2015 6:12:34 GMT -5
#1 on AAA:
5 1 MUMFORD & SONS Believe 634 541 93 1.965
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Post by ILLUSION on Mar 27, 2015 10:56:41 GMT -5
Effortlessly slaying on Alternative. #2 and soon to be #1.
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Post by Troy on Mar 27, 2015 11:40:10 GMT -5
does anyone else hear a bit of KingsOfLeon influence here?
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Post by Cody on Mar 28, 2015 10:58:08 GMT -5
does anyone else hear a bit of KingsOfLeon influence here? Not sure, but IMO this is far superior to anything KoL have ever made.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 29, 2015 0:29:41 GMT -5
I might be in one of the few who don't get the hard-on everyone else gets for this song. It's a decent little tune. It seems to take its sweet time building up to any real musical peak and it's usually over before I know it. I also think its kinda getting a free pass for having the name Mumford and Sons. I don't think it's up to par with Modest Mouse's "Lampshades Of Fire" at least not enough to be the song that ends its reign at #1.
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Post by Jonathon019 on Mar 29, 2015 8:48:08 GMT -5
Mumford & Sons scheduled to perform on SNL on April 11.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Mar 29, 2015 9:05:10 GMT -5
I also think its kinda getting a free pass for having the name Mumford and Sons. Strange. I thought the song was fighting an uphill battle because of the name Mumford & Sons.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 29, 2015 10:21:44 GMT -5
This will reach #1 on Alternative next week or the week after, since they overtook AWOLNATION already.
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Post by timmierz on Apr 2, 2015 7:34:26 GMT -5
#1 on Alternative: 3 1 MUMFORD & SONS Believe 2361 2091 270 10.549
No obvious upcoming contenders for the top spot either... we might be in for a long run unless Dead Inside surprises me.
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Post by crash46 on Apr 2, 2015 8:54:25 GMT -5
This is really just a Florence + The Machine song performed by a male vocalist, and I'm not totally feeling it just yet. But I'm totally behind this; very glad they saw the writing on the wall and realized they weren't going to survive forever on gimmicks alone.
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Post by RickBeatz on Apr 2, 2015 13:33:22 GMT -5
Yay at the 3rd #1 for M&S, "The Cave" also deserved to hit #1!
Idk I think this time M&S will be the ones that block Muse? "Believe" seems stronger than "Dead Inside" imo.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Apr 3, 2015 2:46:14 GMT -5
I think "Dead Inside" will spend a good number of weeks at #2; letting this song have it's day in the sun, before taking over and spending another number of weeks at #1; therefore becomming the more successful of the two.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 15, 2015 6:11:09 GMT -5
1 1 MUMFORD & SONS Believe 2585 2684 -99 11.7
We're watching this pull a "The Catalyst"... and maybe plummet and eventually make Stolen Dance go up a spot...
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Apr 16, 2015 0:46:47 GMT -5
Like I said. 2-4 weeks tops at #1 before Muse take over. Then again "The Wolf" looks to be on the prowl.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Apr 20, 2015 22:13:55 GMT -5
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Post by krissirge on Apr 22, 2015 1:59:01 GMT -5
My occasional forays into alt. chart hits can result in something good (Shut Up And Dance) or godawful (Cigarette Daydreams)...
And this...its not bad, but this is textbook of what alternative is to me these days: vaguely electronic, hipster indie rock with a singer, who has that annoying faux-falsetto or what-ever that singing tone is. I cant tell this from Imagine Dragons or from Muse or from Radiohead or hell even Coldplay or whatever the next hip new band is. Its like the only stadium rock band these guys have ever heard of is U2.
Don't get me wrong, i have nothing against this being big in alternative (each to his own.. and active and alt dont have to be copies of eachother)...But it always annoys me, this kind of music is what is played as "rock" in pop music stations. This is nr. 31 in the Hot 100, meanwhile a lot of better active hits ( Breaking Benjaminm, Offspring, Pretty Reckless, Halestorm, ToaD) cant even sniff at the chart, boggles my mind.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Apr 22, 2015 2:43:15 GMT -5
krissirge
I guess the real reason it went to #1 is because it carried the name Mumford & Sons; who had a few huge hits on Alt a couple years ago, but I feel you. Right from the get go; I knew this would burn out pretty quick. They do have a much better single out now called "The Wolf" with a more uptempo alt rock feel to it. I think it will eventually surpass the success of "Believe"; which I kinda view as a fluke #1, more than anything else.
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Post by dm2081 on Apr 22, 2015 10:23:45 GMT -5
I cant tell this from Imagine Dragons or from Muse or from Radiohead or hell even Coldplay or whatever the next hip new band is. Its like the only stadium rock band these guys have ever heard of is U2. I got to be honest with you, none of those bands sound alike at all. Heck you probably chose 4 of the more different sounding Alt acts.
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Post by Cody on Apr 22, 2015 10:26:11 GMT -5
My occasional forays into alt. chart hits can result in something good (Shut Up And Dance) or godawful (Cigarette Daydreams)... And this...its not bad, but this is textbook of what alternative is to me these days: vaguely electronic, hipster indie rock with a singer, who has that annoying faux-falsetto or what-ever that singing tone is. I cant tell this from Imagine Dragons or from Muse or from Radiohead or hell even Coldplay or whatever the next hip new band is. Its like the only stadium rock band these guys have ever heard of is U2. That's ridiculous. That would be like someone saying they can't tell Three Days Grace from Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and Shinedown. In fact, what you said is even more ridiculous.
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Post by krissirge on Apr 22, 2015 14:16:27 GMT -5
I cant tell this from Imagine Dragons or from Muse or from Radiohead or hell even Coldplay or whatever the next hip new band is. Its like the only stadium rock band these guys have ever heard of is U2. I got to be honest with you, none of those bands sound alike at all. Heck you probably chose 4 of the more different sounding Alt acts. What can I say,it just does. Like I stated previously in another thread, I have always preferred the mainstream rock charts to the alternative ones anyway, but now in the last few years, with all of the pop-punkish/emoish and heavier rockish sounding songs being dropped, i think the only place i actually bother to hear from this music is this forum. I think i have heard like two Mumford And Suns songs (and known it) before and its just what i descibed before.Its why the only Radiohead song I hear from my preffered rock stations is Creep (which its the only song i find above average from them).Its not even that i have some kind of bias against softer rock music. I LOVE Bryan Adams, I have al l the Daughtry albums, heck I have a Chicago Greatest Hits album. For some self-mocking humor. Guess because of listeners like me, active rock has a lot more metal songs in their playlists. *end rambling
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Post by dm2081 on Apr 22, 2015 15:15:53 GMT -5
krissirge, no one will fault you for only liking the Active rock charts. But It's pretty hard to believe that you can't tell the difference between the 4 Alternative acts you mentioned. It means you probably didn't even bother to check their music out or you're just ripping them for the hell of it.
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Post by Pipa on Apr 22, 2015 22:00:16 GMT -5
krissirge, no one will fault you for only liking the Active rock charts. But It's pretty hard to believe that you can't tell the difference between the 4 Alternative acts you mentioned. It means you probably didn't even bother to check their music out or you're just ripping them for the hell of it. But don't you remember Imagine Dragons' six-minute space rock anthem "Knights of Cydonia"? Or Radiohead's crossover pop hits "It's Time" and "Demons"?
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Post by timmierz on Apr 23, 2015 9:15:54 GMT -5
My occasional forays into alt. chart hits can result in something good (Shut Up And Dance) or godawful (Cigarette Daydreams)... And this...its not bad, but this is textbook of what alternative is to me these days: vaguely electronic, hipster indie rock with a singer, who has that annoying faux-falsetto or what-ever that singing tone is. I cant tell this from Imagine Dragons or from Muse or from Radiohead or hell even Coldplay or whatever the next hip new band is. Its like the only stadium rock band these guys have ever heard of is U2. That's ridiculous. That would be like someone saying they can't tell Three Days Grace from Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and Shinedown. You do realize that most of the population doesn't know the difference between those four bands, if they've even heard of them in the first place? Heck, I've made at least half a dozen quizzes with Chevelle songs on them and I still can't identify anything of theirs. Sure, to someone actively following rock charts of the last few years, those four bands are fairly distinct. But hey, I don't know the difference between singles from Tupac, Notorious BIG, Puff Daddy and Wu-Tang Clan, because I've never had any interest in 90s rap; I'm sure they all have very distinct sounds if I followed any of them to any extent at all. I would have a real tough time discerning Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Miley Cyrus non-singles, and I've been bombarded by their stuff on pop radio. I have no problem believing that Imagine Dragons, Muse, Radiohead and Coldplay (and Mumford's "Believe") sound like one indistinct mass to a good amount of the population.
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Post by Cody on Apr 23, 2015 14:06:02 GMT -5
That's ridiculous. That would be like someone saying they can't tell Three Days Grace from Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, and Shinedown. You do realize that most of the population doesn't know the difference between those four bands, if they've even heard of them in the first place? Heck, I've made at least half a dozen quizzes with Chevelle songs on them and I still can't identify anything of theirs. Sure, to someone actively following rock charts of the last few years, those four bands are fairly distinct. But hey, I don't know the difference between singles from Tupac, Notorious BIG, Puff Daddy and Wu-Tang Clan, because I've never had any interest in 90s rap; I'm sure they all have very distinct sounds if I followed any of them to any extent at all. I would have a real tough time discerning Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Miley Cyrus non-singles, and I've been bombarded by their stuff on pop radio. I have no problem believing that Imagine Dragons, Muse, Radiohead and Coldplay (and Mumford's "Believe") sound like one indistinct mass to a good amount of the population. You've completely missed my point. Anyone who cares enough to post in this forum is enough of a music enthusiast to easily differentiate between all these bands. If I was talking about the general population, I wouldn't have posted what I did.
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Post by krissirge on Apr 23, 2015 15:45:33 GMT -5
I'll admit, the amount of different songs from each band I have heard is somewhere about 5ish (a greatest hits worth full), with Mumford & Suns this was probably the first, but the phrases "wait, Demons ISN'T a Coldplay song" and "Did you hear the new Arctic Monkey's song Uprising" are phrases I could totally hear myself saying (without an int of irony). I made myself listen to that Florence & The Machine song and that sounds like Lana Del Ray to me(which i only know for that Summertime Sadness song that got played so much on an AC leaning station my country has)
I will agree that listening to them more throughly will make me distinguish each and every one of them...but the thing is, I dont want to...I find all of these previously mentioned bands so boring,why would I force myself to listen to this?If they cant hook me in with their bigger songs and it all sounds like a big indistinct mass to me....
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Post by ben777 on Apr 23, 2015 17:02:18 GMT -5
I think that if you aren't too interested in a genre of music (or maybe you're only listening to the vocals and not the instrumentation), it's probably going sound the same to you
"Uprising" is completely synth-based, which is something the Arctic Monkeys never do - "Demons" is really percussive and has distortion on the vocals, which is something (I don't think) Coldplay ever does - plus, the lyrics are much darker than anything Chris Martin would write I think
"What Kind Of Man" and Lana Del Ray, maybe, but only cause it's extremely poppy for Florence & The Machine
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Post by Pipa on Apr 23, 2015 18:19:19 GMT -5
If I blindly listened to Vance Joy, George Ezra, Hozier and James Bay the first time, I'd have no idea who was who.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Apr 24, 2015 1:00:53 GMT -5
The huge difference there is that Demi Lovato can actually sing. She actually has a real band and writes her own music. Sorry, but she doesn't belong in that group of female singers.
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