“Little Lion Man With A Healthy Outlook”
“I Appreciate Our Time Together And Don’t Feel the Need To Pretend It Was Impossibly Difficult By Writing A Bitter Song About Sex And Christianity”
“This Song Has Some Banjo Playing, But It’s Very Tasteful”
“This Song Is Sincerely About Our Love For Whole Foods And Isn’t An Allegory”
“Two University-Aged Characters Who Easily Express their Feelings And Resolve their Conflicts Cordially”
“Jesus Doesn’t Show Up Anywhere In This Song about Growing Up”
“No One Goes To An Anachronistic Place Or Has One Used As A Stand-In for Emotional Isolation”
“We’re Grown-Ups And Realize Relationships Are More Complex and Nuanced Than The Way We’ve Previously Portrayed Them”
“We Recently Came To Understand That It Was 2015”
“We’re All Happy In Our Lives And Are Tired Of Writing Sullen Songs”
“I Will Wait Until Later In The Song To Pretend Like The Banjo Can Be Used As A Rock Instrument”
“Winter Winds Do Not Appear In This Song”
“The Song About A Very Curious Butterfly And A Little Kitten That Has No Deeper Meaning Than The Fact That It’s A Cute Song For Kids, Which Some Of Us Are Close To Having [featuring Taylor Swift]”
“The Song Where We Don’t Take Ourselves Too Seriously And Just Go with It”
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Okay, I have to talk about this banjo player. I had a mild tolerance for M&Co previously, but somehow I managed to see a recorded live performance of theirs (perhaps they were on the Colbert Report? I forget, but it’s not particularly important so ONWARD). Anyway, the banjo player spent the ENTIRE performance basically humping his banjo. Gyrating his hips (and the poor banjo) with reckless abandon. Totally lost in himself and his dubiously-rockin banjo playing. It couldn’t be unseen, you guys. I can’t ever hear any of their songs ever again, because the memory of that god-forsaken bearded dude and his inappropriate fondness for his banjo is forever seared in my brain.
I need a gif. Does anyone have a gif of this banjo performance? I started giggling to myself while reading this comment.
It’s a link, but here. I’m so sorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7m0y9d3zQ
Oh my god.
That’s not even the same performance I saw
Sounds like he’s an inveterate banjo-humper, which coincidentally is going to be the name of my new band.
Oh my god, that was some very sultry banjo humping right there. It didn’t even seem on beat with the rest of the song!
In cutoff jeans, no less.
makes it a million times sexier, for sure.
(in a world where sexy = repellent)
OH my god, oh my god.
I know you warned us and all, but DEAR GOD NO.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
I cannot open this at work, but am both excited and terrified to watch it when I get home later.
His name being Winston makes the whole thing even worse/better for me because I have a dog named Winston who is also a notorious inappropriate-humper-of-things (in his case, it’s primarily my other, much larger dog and not a defenseless musical instrument, but still.)
right? let me say, i love the banjo! i was already suspicious of mumford & sons’ banjo player because his playing seems…kind of thrash-y and off (i do not know anything professional about banjo playing, this was just my gut feeling) but once i saw a video of them, i knew why i felt suspicious. that man is doing untoward things to that poor banjo.
Truly, it is not of nature.
I’ve been to a few Mumford & Sons shows (it was free, so), and somehow got stuck in the first row right in front of that guy. It’s way, way more disturbing in person. And from below.
D: D: D: D: D:
In our house we call him the banjo fu$%er.
That looks really hard to pronounce. I suggest ‘banjo faka’.
“This Song Has Some Banjo Playing, But It’s Very Tasteful”
This is making me laugh and laugh some more here at my desk.
This guy means it. Hilarious.
I feel like I should be ashamed to admit this, but FORGET IT LIFE IS SHORT. I liked Mumford better when they used the jangly banjos and mandolins. I’m not fond of their current album.
A Song In Which We Reference Homer’s Epics, But In A Fun Way.
“We Don’t Even Need to Assert that Love Will Not Betray You, Because Why Would It?”
This Crown Is Broken But My Friend Is A Jeweler And Offered To Fix It For A Discount!
I’m holding out for “This Crown Is Broken But My Friend Is A Dentist And Offered To Fix It For A Discount.”
This Song Is a Transcription of a Happy First Date, Not the Script of a Breakup
"Little Lion Man". Fun fact: that is the only song that clearly features the fuck-word that my mom doesn't despise.
High point of “Fashion Police” was the late Joan Rivers taking a look at a strange, fuzzy white ensemble someone wore at an opening, and dubbing it “The stupidest white thing since Mumford and Sons.”
Glastonbury?
Worse- Wilderness
High point of “Fashion Police” was the late Joan Rivers taking a look at a strange, fuzzy white ensemble someone wore at an opening, and dubbing it “The stupidest white thing since Mumford and Sons.”