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Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More
Album: Sigh No More
Avg rating:
6.7

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Total ratings: 606









Released: 2010
Length: 3:25
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Serve God, love me and mend
This is not the end
Live unbruised we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Sigh no more, no more
One foot in sea, one on shore
My heart was never pure
You know me
You know me

And man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love, it will not betray you
dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment, a cry
Of my heart to see
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love, it will not betray you
dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment, a cry
Of my heart to see
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love, it will not betray you
dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment, a cry
Of my heart to see
The beauty of love as it was made to be
Comments (131)add comment
Giving it a chance, need to be honest about such things.... 

Ok, gave it 90 seconds. It's crap. 
One of the most horrible things I've ever heard.
The first time I heard them I thought they were okay.  I was thankful that they didn't sound like everything else on the radio.  But then I heard them over and over again.  This reminded me of every other band I can only listen to a few songs every few months, and anything beyond that is WAY too much.  I still love the variety on radio paradise more than any other station ever.  Play on!
I look forward to hearing this so I can rant again about how truly awful it is.
lol What could I possibly add?  Sounds like.......
They used to be Eh, now they're Yuck.
Numbford & Sons
Thank you again, Bill..........I see it has become cool to say that Mumford & Sons sucks, now.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate your ignoring all this and playing what you think is good.  I don't like every selection, but you have great taste and I hope you just keep doing what you are doing.....  
Please make it stop!!! Truly awful
on paper I should really dislike them, but I love this album.
{#Beat}
Not nearly as sorry as this sounds.... PSD
I don't care what anyone says about the Mumfords.  I like this CD.  Their follow up was just meh.  BTW I bought this CD before they exploded in popularity.  I think RP had something to do with their popularity too.
 dadeo wrote:
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!
 
That's a good one!
Quaint.  Precious.  And not in a good way.  {#Skull}  I think of moving it from 3 > 2, but 2 and 1 get reserved for stuff that's in the trash department, you know, really bad as in needing to mute the sound, and this isn't quite there ... yet.
Maybe they would sound better, if I were really drunk.
What a horrible song
 dadeo wrote:
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!
 
<Like>
Mumbles & Sons-Please No More!
thank you thank you thank you - I so needed this right now!
still suck.
Mumford & Sons are growing on me.
keep them coming... but please, thistle and weeds!
Where's the -1 rating?
I can mute that tune in 3 notes!
Banjoes = instant 7

This song is growing on me 
Another egregious rip-off of Mumford & Sons, oh...wait...
I must be from the future then, because I have been bad mouthing all of their songs and rating them all 1 since I first heard them.

 ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 


 Pibailey wrote:
Fair point. But there is a certain amount of self absorption and 'smugness' that you can't help but ingest when you listen to this. I kind of resent them for that, and the fact that it's now being rammed down our throats every time we turn on the radio in Australia and the UK kind of adds to the level of communal suffocation, I think.

I don't call that music snobbery.
ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 
 

How the heck can you "ingest self absorption and smugness" from listening to music??  And if you don't like that the radio stations ram music down your throats, do what I do - just don't listen to the radio.  Simple.
 dwlangham wrote:
I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.
 
I've heard some church choirs that kicked Satan's butt. 

Now, if someone would only do that to the Mumfords.....

 Baby_M wrote:

Officially, it's "Oh, man is a giddy thing."

It sounded to me like "Old man is a guinea pig," which should be shouted from a castle wall in an outrageous French accent: "Your old man is a guinea pig and your mother smelt of elderberries!"

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

 
Props for the Python ref.  Nee! 

No props for this song, though.

I'm sorry I had to hear Mumford and Sons.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryy
Why do you play this? Who are these people? What did I do to deserve this onslaught of drone?
This band are starting to grate.

Sucko Barfo!
 dwlangham wrote:
I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.
 
{#Yes}{#Yes}{#Yes} ahahaha funny one
 misterbearbaby wrote:
I have no pseudo-political bullcrap to judge this band by, so I'll just go on sonics, singing and playing, composition, and toe-tappin'-factor and give them an 8.
 
I'll go with that.

I have no pseudo-political bullcrap to judge this band by, so I'll just go on sonics, singing and playing, composition, and toe-tappin'-factor and give them an 8.
This just went from Ho-hum to Marginal. Number 2 with a bullet.
you're sorry....
An album with a lot of great songs! Very powerful and emotional. Comforting in bad times.
This song here is not the best one, just a starter giving a glimpse of what to come.
brilliant
horrible singing :-((
Over exposed, smugness and public school toffs may well be true.
But I still enjoy most of the songs from this album, especially from a musical perspective, this is not one of the better tracks though.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...


That one line reminds me of Pooty Tang.



 DaMoGan wrote:

Wow, you must really like your urologist!

{#Mrgreen}


 
Sasha2001 wrote:
If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.

 
 
He's a genius with the urethral forceps! urethral forceps


Wow, you must really like your urologist!

{#Mrgreen}


 
Sasha2001 wrote:
If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.

 


If each band takes us on a different musical journey, than this one's is like the journey I take to the Urologist each year.

Sigh no more? Auto-sigh when this bunch of toffs comes on. In the car yesterday I was relistening to proper folk rock in the shape of New Model Army, going back to the 80s when class war was a daily in-yer-face reality. Radical and angry folk rock, as it should be, not de-fanged and de-classed as M&S do. (This is no ordinary recuperation/commodification, this is a M&S recuperation...). NMA would show up this bunch of public school posers for what they are and, as those across the Pond might say, would kick their donkey bigtime.

Fair point. But there is a certain amount of self absorption and 'smugness' that you can't help but ingest when you listen to this. I kind of resent them for that, and the fact that it's now being rammed down our throats every time we turn on the radio in Australia and the UK kind of adds to the level of communal suffocation, I think.

I don't call that music snobbery.
ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 


 ch83575 wrote:
I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 
I know what you mean about how success breeds contempt, and I enjoy most of what I've heard from these guys, but this particular tune has a bit too much of a church-social/funereal sound to me - especially that prolonged intro.

I cant help but notice that the average reaction to this band by RP listeners seems to have changed dramatically since the album's release.  I attribute this mostly to music snobbery.  When the album was brand new and Bill was one of the first people playing it everybody here seemed to think it was great... just look back at the early song comments, especially those for The Cave.  Now that they have gained widespread popularity all the indie snobs think they suck.  Notice that the comments are not about being sick of this song or being overplayed (which it no longer is, at least on RP), they all say that the band sucks!  I for one still like M&S.  Perhaps some of the excitement has worn off due to overplaying, but the band is still great in my book and I am waiting to hear new music.
 DaveInVA wrote:
Is he singing "My mind is a Guinea Pig"?. The banjo playing is excellent but doesn't fit with this song...
 
Officially, it's "Oh, man is a giddy thing."

It sounded to me like "Old man is a guinea pig," which should be shouted from a castle wall in an outrageous French accent: "Your old man is a guinea pig and your mother smelt of elderberries!"

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

I'll be glad when the bloom is off the rose for this band. My church choir is more interesting. I don't go to church, but if I did the choir would beat this band.
I'm filing these guys as a guilty pleasure.  I don't know if the youthful earnestness is what does it for me, or maybe the lively banjo picking, or even the folk on coke sound...  something about it is just fun for me.

That being said, I do not own this album and do not intend to buy it.  I'll just enjoy what I hear when I hear it and be happy for it.  I think if I could listen to a whole album of this, I'd get burned out pretty quickly.

They are pretty good overall, but I don't like this one except for the banjo.


I can't apologize for enjoying this. 
Band has balls...just saying.
A year and a half into this, still think this is the best new band in a decade. Crazy talent.

Even better live. 
So most say they dislike Mumford and Sons.  I'm going to disagree...they are real.  AND...the music really grows on me.  I'm going to have to say that they are underrated. 
 nelamvr6 wrote:
Mumford & Sons suck.  Hard.
 
I seriously fail to understand the appeal of this band. Everyone, including the critics, endlessly fawn over them. I detest this band and their music.


craptastic
Mumford & Sons - "Sigh Sing No More"  ftfy...

I'm about ready to add them to the Tom Waits Hall of Fame.  One of a handful of RP regulars that makes me want to cut my connection to the internet.

Play no more, no more..
Mumford & Sons suck.  Hard.
underrated 
Overrated.
I like the very beginning and when the tempo picks up, but otherwise I agree with many others that this song goes nowhere fast. I am torn about the singing, both love and hate it. 
 RickyBobby wrote:
These guys are getting played to death everywhere!!!! I'm really getting tired of hearing them.
 
I was tired of them the first time I heard them.
 
Someone described them, I think, as "posh West London Fleet Foxes tribute band". Made me laugh.
 Sasha2001 wrote:
Oh... my.. god... these guys are like the William Shatner of music.
 
Except William Shatner is funny and does his 'covers' with tongue firmly in cheek. This bunch of nobs take themselves super-seriously. If there's going to be nu-nu-folk played, I'd rather it were The Decembrists.


Just saw Mumford and Sons at Bonnaroo.  Yes, I agree they are sometimes frustratingly earnest.  I still like them and they are very good live. 
When RP first started playing this band I liked what I heard but its gotten old pretty fast....
Not my taste!
I literally LEAP to the volume control to shut out those ghastly voices.

They're the chapel choir for what ??    The Cult of Gargling with Gravel  ??


Oh... my.. god... these guys are like the William Shatner of music. Every word and note is so f___ing precious and important.  I say this all the time when my adorable son goes out of his way to be adorable: "Hey Theo, you've got the job, you can stop auditioning already." Except in the case of Mumford and Sons I have to ask, "Who are YOU trying to impress?"
 lemmoth wrote:
I'm sorry, but I really don't enjoy, nor am I moved by, this song.

Waaaayyyyyy too much air time for this band.  For those of us who seldom listen to normal commercial radio:  Just like The National, M & S are all over broadcast radio, regular phenoms.  Despite all that popular support, both bands seem similarly uninteresting to me.  Sorry 'bout that.{#Sleep}


I like their style of music, but it seems to me they're kind of a one trick pony.  Am I right on this, or have I just not heard enough of their songs?

Is he singing "My mind is a Guinea Pig"?. The banjo playing is excellent but doesn't fit with this song...


It just jells.
I'm sorry, but I really don't enjoy, nor am I moved by, this song.
I really like this band, but not sure why they are so much more popular then The Avett Brothers, who play similar music.  The Avett brothers are a great band, especially in concert.
I really hope the huge success of this album does not set them back in some way.  It seems to me that most of my long time favorite bands take a while to rise to success.  Only time will tell.
Intensity abounds with this band, still tasting... not sure yet.
I have this album, but I am still trying to figure out how much I like them.
Mumford & Sons concert from May 2010 on Baeble. I watched it last night on the Roku box' Baeble channel.
  Frater_Kork wrote:
Getting awfully tired of Mumford et al...
I'm waiting for a new/rebranded and interesting musical style less laden will keening folk singers for the hipsters to cling on to.
  

gvan wrote:
Cling-on Hipsters! Set phasers to "kill"!
Yeah, I don't see what what people hear in this band, if that makes any sense.
 
 Hannio wrote:
Cling-on hipsters circling Uranus?  They're the worst kind.
  
I do believe the cling-ons that attach to Uranus are the worst... JMHO.



 gvan wrote:

Cling-on Hipsters! Set phasers to "kill"!
Yeah, I don't see what what people hear in this band, if that makes any sense.
 

Cling-on hipsters circling Uranus?  They're the worst kind.
<Yawn>

 Frater_Kork wrote:
Getting awfully tired of Mumford et al...
I'm waiting for a new/rebranded and interesting musical style less laden will keening folk singers for the hipsters to cling on to.
 
Cling-on Hipsters! Set phasers to "kill"!
Yeah, I don't see what what people hear in this band, if that makes any sense.


Getting awfully tired of Mumford et al...
I'm waiting for a new/rebranded and interesting musical style less laden will keening folk singers for the hipsters to cling on to.
I have pretty wide-ranging musical tastes, but I actually turn the sound down when these guys are played.
For a moment there, I thought he was singing, "Old man is a guinea pig."  If his old man's a guinea pig, then logically, that would mean that his mother smells of elderberries.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

UGH.  Enough Mumford already...
These guys are getting played to death everywhere!!!! I'm really getting tired of hearing them.
 voicers wrote:
I like them, but they sound an awful lot like Fleet Foxes here. Or is it vice versa?
 
They're all part of the 'nu nu-folk' movement - another in that genre would be the Decemberists. A genre that's getting old already, and will be past its sell-by a year or two from now, IMO. I certainly can't be doing with this lot - a bunch of toffs rehashing folk songs written by peasants and workers. Bleucch!

I like them, but they sound an awful lot like Fleet Foxes here. Or is it vice versa?
 fredriley wrote:

Answering your own posts is a sign of madness, you know ;). This bunch are riding the 'new folk' wave that's currently flavour of the year, so it'll be interesting to see if they're still as popular, or even still around, in a few years time when the wave has crashed on the shore and another musical style becomes fashionable. Ditto The Decembrists.
Edit: I read recently that M&Sons are a bunch of public-school toffs. Not that I expect them to be horny-handed sons of toil, but Eton's a long way from the tilling fields of folk music.
 

Just a word of explanation in Fred's post, "public school" in Britain refers to what we call private school over here.  Exactly the opposite meaning.

Yearhhh {#Dancingbanana} !

8

Sighhhhh...4
 So hurtful to the ears.
 mrdak wrote:


U R So Right.......... 

These guys sing from the heart... {#Cool}
 
just curious, how did you come to this nickname ?
This song will always be associated in my mind with a particularly sad scene in the BBC TV series "Being Human."    

 Cynaera wrote:

I'm revisiting my original post, because I'm still at odds with this group. They seem to have the Michael-Bolton syndrome - no sense of nuance, but a huge amount of bludgeoning a listener with passion and verbal histrionics.  Maybe the lyrics are profound, but the vocals overshadow the words.
 
Answering your own posts is a sign of madness, you know ;). This bunch are riding the 'new folk' wave that's currently flavour of the year, so it'll be interesting to see if they're still as popular, or even still around, in a few years time when the wave has crashed on the shore and another musical style becomes fashionable. Ditto The Decembrists.
Edit: I read recently that M&Sons are a bunch of public-school toffs. Not that I expect them to be horny-handed sons of toil, but Eton's a long way from the tilling fields of folk music.


 Cynaera wrote:
I'm not sure I like Mumford & sons.  That gritty, bombastic voice and the instrumentals, while passionate, are almost an assault. It'd be great if they were U-2 and preaching a political statement - their style would work perfectly for an arena full of yearning people willing to dive onto their swords on behalf of king and country, or whatever.

I'll give them a second chance, but for now, I'm not going to even rate them. In fact, I think I'll switch from RP to my own playlist (which, in fact, DOES include a lot of Craig Chaquico's solo work, and a bunch of Charlie Sexton's stuff.)  Love you, RP, but sometimes you just flummox me.
 
I'm revisiting my original post, because I'm still at odds with this group. They seem to have the Michael-Bolton syndrome - no sense of nuance, but a huge amount of bludgeoning a listener with passion and verbal histrionics.  Maybe the lyrics are profound, but the vocals overshadow the words.

At least I can identify a Mumford and Sons song when I hear it from across the house.{#Lol}
Really liking these guys the more i hear them... the guy's voice has an immediate appeal everytime i hear it (the same way the lead singer of Gomez always grabs me).
 rtrudeau wrote:
I love this band. This entire album is fantastic.
 

Indeed.
Aw, yeeeah.  _\\m/  
Neighbors hate me again.


Can't help thinking of this when I hear this song..... I'm sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocv5WdBmSok


There is an intensity and power in this song that is undeniable. I needed to stop and just listen.
 reindeer wrote:
Bill, you know that I love your music and your dedication to it.  You rock in so many ways.
That said, I hope you don't start playing church hymnals like this one on a regular basis.
Thanks.  I hope you understand.  I can't really stand churchy music, even if it's done well. 

From a best friend's signature:
"Devout atheist, and The Good Lord willing, I will be that best at it." 
 

I'm a non-believer, too, but don't see any reason to dislike Mumford & Sons whom I've been a fan of for 3 years. I hate to put this rather bluntly, but rather than trying to get Bill to stop playing what he wants, you always have the option of not listening. That way the rest of us can still enjoy it.

All their songs have the same recipe. guy sings, no instruments, intro banjo, bring the noise with the banjo, intro all other instruments, everyone sing and play instruments, stop, silence, repeat.

 reindeer wrote:
Bill, you know that I love your music and your dedication to it.  You rock in so many ways.
That said, I hope you don't start playing church hymnals like this one on a regular basis.
Thanks.  I hope you understand.  I can't really stand churchy music, even if it's done well. 

From a best friend's signature:
"Devout atheist, and The Good Lord willing, I will be that best at it." 
 

Funny, I was listening to this CD today and I did notice something a bit hymnal as you say.  Still, I don't think you are being fair to their music.  As a fellow atheist who listens to Bach, Handel, and Gregorian chant, I am not sure what the issue is in any event.
{#Yes}
Every few days isn't that often...
Urghh, I don't know about "Sigh No More", how about "Play no More".

Way over played, about every few days!


 scraig wrote:
you can't play this song right after bjork. you gotta give me a minute to turn RP back on.
 

U R So Right.......... 

These guys sing from the heart... {#Cool}
you can't play this song right after bjork. you gotta give me a minute to turn RP back on.

Mumford & Daughters.


I'm not sure I like Mumford & sons.  That gritty, bombastic voice and the instrumentals, while passionate, are almost an assault. It'd be great if they were U-2 and preaching a political statement - their style would work perfectly for an arena full of yearning people willing to dive onto their swords on behalf of king and country, or whatever.

I'll give them a second chance, but for now, I'm not going to even rate them. In fact, I think I'll switch from RP to my own playlist (which, in fact, DOES include a lot of Craig Chaquico's solo work, and a bunch of Charlie Sexton's stuff.)  Love you, RP, but sometimes you just flummox me.