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Of Monsters and Men — Six Weeks
Album: My Head Is An Animal
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Released: 2011
Length: 5:27
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Slow, slow me down,
Her blood, on my bones.
Let go, lay to rest.
We fall, we fall, we fall,
We fall to the ground.

Sleep, sleep all night,
While the young, they wait alone.
So get up, shake the rust.
We crawl, we crawl, we crawl,
We crawl on the ground.

Alone, I fight these animals.
Alone, until I get home.

A wolf, wolf and I,
We share the same cold meal.
I float on, float on down.
We ride, we ride, we ride
We ride it all out.

We ride, we ride, we ride
We ride it all
We ride, we ride, we ride
We ride it all
We ride, we ride, we ride
We ride it all out.

[Repeat: x4]
Alone, I fight these animals.
Alone, until I get home.

Coming back, I'm coming back.
Coming back, I'm coming back.
She follows me into the woods,
Takes me home.
She follows me into the woods,
Takes me home.

[Repeat: x2]
Coming back, I'm coming back.
Coming back, I'm coming back.
She follows me into the woods,
Takes me home.
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GOOD TUNE!  It is the first time that I've heard them.  That is why we come here.  Thanx RP!   
Posted 6 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 ramsay wrote:

Not everyone's cup of tea, apparently, but I've had a soft spot for these guys since I saw this video of them freezing their asses off on a windy bluff while playing Mountain Sound for KEXP.  



KEXP is pretty awesome
Posted 6 months ago by smartn1    [ Reply ]
 RazzCat wrote:

Fuck all the negative comments.
Tastes really good to my ears...   :-)




I  Agree!   Those fidiots  w/ the negative comments must be tons of fun at parties!   
Posted 6 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
it's not as bad as people like to think
Posted 6 months ago by smartn1    [ Reply ]
Not everyone's cup of tea, apparently, but I've had a soft spot for these guys since I saw this video of them freezing their asses off on a windy bluff while playing Mountain Sound for KEXP.  
Posted 8 months ago by ramsay    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of 1986 and Balaam and the Angel. 
Posted 8 months ago by petecallaghan    [ Reply ]
Fuck all the negative comments.
Tastes really good to my ears...   :-)
Posted 9 months ago by RazzCat    [ Reply ]
At least it's instantly recognizable (I don't dislike it but it gets a little tired)
Posted 10 months ago by smartn1    [ Reply ]
Very bad song, one is one too much. 
Posted 1 year ago by joko63808    [ Reply ]
This is something for my skip finger. Just horrible.
Posted 1 year ago by joko63808    [ Reply ]
Pretty sad to read these comments from oldest to newest... we go from 20 or 30 comments with a positive vibe to people shitting all over the band.
Posted 1 year ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
 howietime wrote:

Negative comments... I like them, especially Beneath the Skin album



You like the negative comments, the band, or, confusingly, both?
Posted 1 year ago by alexandersmcmillan    [ Reply ]
wow! There sure are some close minded dinosaur rock loving comments in this thread
Posted 1 year ago by slimjim1437    [ Reply ]
Negative comments... I like them, especially Beneath the Skin album
Posted 2 years ago by howietime    [ Reply ]
solid 1
Posted 2 years ago by blotto    [ Reply ]
no sir I didn't like it
Posted 2 years ago by murr69st335    [ Reply ]
Six weeks of monsters and men?
Sounds like a vacation from hell.  ; )
Posted 2 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Well, I like the music well enough, but what I really like is Iceland itself. What a beautiful country and wonderful people. If you ever have a chance to visit....do so!
Posted 3 years ago by hdavid7    [ Reply ]
Not me Cup o' Tea is all you should say... if that's the case.  We are hear because we love music... some we know... others we learn to love...or dislike... and Hobbit or Ewok music... LMAO... that would be more wooden music... Hey Frodo... where can I plug in my amp?
Posted 4 years ago by deadheadmark    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:

I wonder how many songs you have written, recorded, sold or played in front of stadium-sized crowds?  
 
All those non-existent negative comments you don't see? - they're from the musicians listening. 
Posted 5 years ago by xray38    [ Reply ]

According to wiki: Chamber pop, indie folk, folk pop.

I think their categorization is more accurate.


 Skid_Mark wrote:
More anthemic wuss rock.  Oh my gawd this is horrible.

Posted 5 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
 Sasha2001 wrote:

Some poster on another song called it "Bearded Folk" or something to that effect. To me it all sounds like something you would hear in the Hobbit or Ewok villages - take your pick. Also, what I hear in a lot of these bands is a generation of musicians raised on the music of U2 with their attempts at soaring chorus' and grandiosity. At their best U2 was able to pull off this high-wire act, at their worst the music was pretentious and navel gazing which is why all these U2 disciple bands hue more towards the latter quality than the former.  
 
I wonder how many songs you have written, recorded, sold or played in front of stadium-sized crowds?  
Posted 5 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 Skid_Mark wrote:
More anthemic wuss rock.  Oh my gawd this is horrible.
 

The gawd really ups your credibility.
Posted 5 years ago by jukes1    [ Reply ]
 Sasha2001 wrote:

Some poster on another song called it "Bearded Folk" or something to that effect. To me it all sounds like something you would hear in the Hobbit or Ewok villages - take your pick. Also, what I hear in a lot of these bands is a generation of musicians raised on the music of U2 with their attempts at soaring chorus' and grandiosity. At their best U2 was able to pull off this high-wire act, at their worst the music was pretentious and navel gazing which is why all these U2 disciple bands hue more towards the latter quality than the former.  
 
Wow.  Talk about broad generalizations and pretentiousness.  You might just be stuck with your eye locked on your own navel.  Any lint in there?
Posted 5 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
Nope.
Posted 7 years ago by George_Tirebiter    [ Reply ]
More anthemic wuss rock.  Oh my gawd this is horrible.
Posted 7 years ago by Skid_Mark    [ Reply ]
Redefines average.
Posted 8 years ago by trevc    [ Reply ]
There's much better stuff on this album.
Posted 8 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
Meh.
Posted 9 years ago by buddy    [ Reply ]
Alo ....oo...o...this track moves along so well....I like it
Posted 10 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
 msymmes wrote:
Their best tune to date!

 
That's just sad.
Posted 10 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
great band!
Posted 10 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
 Krispian wrote:

Hipster Folk for the Beard Set

 
Are there present-day hipsters who don't have shaggy, faux-lumberjack beards?
 Oh...I guess maybe some of the female ones don't.
hipster guy hipster girl
Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I really don't like these crowdsourcing, flash mob chorus kind of tunes.
Posted 10 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
 Krispian wrote:

Hipster Folk for the Beard Set

  
You mean these guys? 

Pictures of bearded Boston Red Sox players


Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Frater_Kork wrote:
 helgigermany wrote:
Agree! What genre should it be?

Hipster Folk

 
Hipster Folk for the Beard Set
Posted 11 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]
 helgigermany wrote:

Agree! What genre should it be?

 
Some poster on another song called it "Bearded Folk" or something to that effect. To me it all sounds like something you would hear in the Hobbit or Ewok villages - take your pick. Also, what I hear in a lot of these bands is a generation of musicians raised on the music of U2 with their attempts at soaring chorus' and grandiosity. At their best U2 was able to pull off this high-wire act, at their worst the music was pretentious and navel gazing which is why all these U2 disciple bands hue more towards the latter quality than the former.  
Posted 11 years ago by Sasha2001    [ Reply ]
 :+:_DL wrote:
Is this really what we need more of?

 
indeed, just recovered from another com cast glitch to find no air was better, however it ain't squeal young so i'm staying on the best.....{#Dance}
{#Yell} yo BILL you have stuff in your library you havn't played on air in 30 years DO IT !!!
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
Is this really what we need more of?
Posted 11 years ago by :+:_DL    [ Reply ]
 dwlangham wrote:
Mumford and Sons, Boy and Bear, and Of Monsters and Men. Different piles of the same shit.

 
Whilst I don't agree with you your comment did make me laugh!
Posted 11 years ago by tiggers    [ Reply ]
 helgigermany wrote:
Agree! What genre should it be?

Hipster Folk
Posted 11 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
 dwlangham wrote:
Mumford and Sons, Boy and Bear, and Of Monsters and Men. Different piles of the same shit.
 
Agree! What genre should it be?
Posted 11 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
Their best tune to date!
Posted 11 years ago by msymmes    [ Reply ]
Mumford and Sons, Boy and Bear, and Of Monsters and Men. Different piles of the same shit.
Posted 11 years ago by dwlangham    [ Reply ]
This band's time has come and gone...six weeks seems about right. Bye now.   {#Wave}
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
{#Bananapiano}
Posted 11 years ago by GalileoCoffeeCo    [ Reply ]
Don't know how to say it, but the large-scale voice thing is certainly all the vogue these days
Posted 11 years ago by kjf06    [ Reply ]
 lmic wrote:
New Pornographers + Decemberists + Arcade Fire
 
Good get.
Posted 11 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:

Many of the new beard-bands sound very much alike!

Music for whistle-pigs!

 
Careful Stingray, WhistlePig is some of the tastiest whiskey I've ever had!
https://whistlepigwhiskey.com/home.php
{#Yes} 
Posted 11 years ago by JIan    [ Reply ]
 nicknt wrote:
Arcade Fire cloned ...
 
Absolutely Arcade Fire cloned, speaking of which - here comes Arcade Fire with Deep Blue!


Posted 12 years ago by wonderlove99    [ Reply ]

Many of the new beard-bands sound very much alike!

Music for whistle-pigs!


Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 shellbella wrote:
Mute.  That is my comment.  {#Nyah}
 


Best to just not comment then
Posted 12 years ago by jkhandy    [ Reply ]
Mute.  That is my comment.  {#Nyah}
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
 nicknt wrote:
Arcade Fire cloned ...
 
why anyone would want to clone them I have no idea...
Posted 12 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 nicknt wrote:
Arcade Fire cloned ...
 
Or the band Fun.
Posted 12 years ago by Imkirok    [ Reply ]
 nicknt wrote:
Arcade Fire cloned ...
 
Does not work for me....
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Arcade Fire cloned ...
Posted 12 years ago by nicknt    [ Reply ]
OK, I've heard this a few times now and it is resolutely failing to grow on me.

Just a 4 at the moment. The next time I hear I expect it'll still be flatlining there for me.

Ho hum.
Posted 12 years ago by enkay    [ Reply ]
Moar pls
Posted 12 years ago by ProjectGemini07    [ Reply ]
Of Monsters and Son?
Posted 12 years ago by hbs47    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
(i've successfully infiltrated the 1% without being detected!)
 
When I read that, I had an image of someone sneaking into a posh hotel and using the pool....  {#Cool}
Posted 12 years ago by The_Enemy    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
Hey!

Oh. Wrong song. Sorry. 
 
i love this comment.

and i like this song in spite of myself.
Posted 12 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Hey!

Oh. Wrong song. Sorry. 
Posted 12 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
Very sweet !

 
Posted 12 years ago by msymmes    [ Reply ]
I like it.  I like it better every hearing.  Anything that cheers me up and gets me rockin' is worth a 6 to start, and then add toppings.  {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 12 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
Too much like Mumford and Sons....Not good
Posted 12 years ago by sandpebble    [ Reply ]
Everytime I hear this song I have to raise my rating.  Its growing on me like a cancer—but in a good way.
Posted 12 years ago by 84MacGuy    [ Reply ]
New Pornographers + Decemberists + Arcade Fire
Posted 12 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
3 −> 6 it's getting better
Posted 12 years ago by Euskadita    [ Reply ]
 zink wrote:
This song has grown in me, I put up with it but just now I got excited when I heard it I had to give it a good score. It reminds me of band of horses.
 

EXACTLY
I think that BROADSIDE of the harmonica screech in the first bar of the intro is actually the hook... {#Lol}
Posted 12 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
 Foot wrote:
Arcade Fire-lite, and not terribly appealing.  PSD...

And 11 plays in the past month?  It's not that good.
 
Hmmm, I don't think so personally.  Like the previous commenter to you said, this song has "grown in me."  (A misinterpretation of the idiom I know, but perhaps it's actually more apropos).  I'm not sure why, it's just a simple but well put-together song.
 
Posted 12 years ago by DaMoGan    [ Reply ]
Too much shouting; too much fuzz guitar; too much echo.

Too much.
Posted 12 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
Arcade Fire-lite, and not terribly appealing.  PSD...

And 11 plays in the past month?  It's not that good.
Posted 12 years ago by Foot    [ Reply ]
This song has grown in me, I put up with it but just now I got excited when I heard it I had to give it a good score. It reminds me of band of horses.
Posted 12 years ago by zink    [ Reply ]
 timkern wrote:
With a seven minute drum solo ;^) 

{#High-five}
Posted 12 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
 toomanyollys wrote:

Yes, because music in the 70s was all about being tight & succinct.
 
{#Lol}
Posted 12 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
M U T E  {#Yell}
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
sounds a lot like Arcade Fire - this track is getting a lot of play
Posted 12 years ago by ycb661    [ Reply ]
 toomanyollys wrote:

Yes, because music in the 70s was all about being tight & succinct.
 
With a seven minute drum solo ;^)


Posted 12 years ago by timkern    [ Reply ]
 Sasha2001 wrote:
In the old days would a band have recorded something like this song? A song with a few wrinkles of creativity wrapped in a 5 1/2 minutes slog? I feel like 40 years ago this would have been a much tighter, more succinct piece of music. What should be counted as bloated excess is considered creative license.
 
Yes, because music in the 70s was all about being tight & succinct.
Posted 12 years ago by toomanyollys    [ Reply ]
 horstman wrote:

@Seven7, watch your mouth!

 
Seriously?  I'd like to think that we are all adults here.
Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]

@Seven7, watch your mouth!


Posted 12 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Me too!
Posted 12 years ago by msymmes    [ Reply ]
well, I fucking like it.
Posted 12 years ago by seven7    [ Reply ]
In the old days would a band have recorded something like this song? A song with a few wrinkles of creativity wrapped in a 5 1/2 minutes slog? I feel like 40 years ago this would have been a much tighter, more succinct piece of music. What should be counted as bloated excess is considered creative license.
Posted 12 years ago by Sasha2001    [ Reply ]
 sparticus wrote:
Maurice Sendak meets Steinbeck.
 
{#Clap}
Posted 12 years ago by ansugon    [ Reply ]
nothing especially unique.  easily forgotten.
Posted 12 years ago by superfido    [ Reply ]
Song—7ish. Album art—10. And with the album title—Maurice Sendak meets Steinbeck.

Posted 12 years ago by sparticus    [ Reply ]
 Dalebarely wrote:
The absence of banjo makes it automatically better than Mumford. (The charming female singer is also a plus)
It's good stuff, but this thread will be a flood of negativity a few months from now, when these guys have become as overplayed on U.S. alt. radio as Mumford has.
 



And used in a commercial or two.
Posted 12 years ago by GChevy410    [ Reply ]
{#Frustrated}   

Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Sounds like David Grey & The New Pornographers.
Posted 12 years ago by jhorton    [ Reply ]
The absence of banjo makes it automatically better than Mumford. (The charming female singer is also a plus)
It's good stuff, but this thread will be a flood of negativity a few months from now, when these guys have become as overplayed on U.S. alt. radio as Mumford has.
Posted 12 years ago by Dalebarely    [ Reply ]
Not nearly as good as Lionheart
Posted 12 years ago by sandymcp    [ Reply ]
Cool timing on this....I heard this band from Iceland earlier and didn't rate it.  KIDDING.....I gave it a 8........duh


Posted 12 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
 sandpebble wrote:
Sounds a lot like Mumford and Sons......Not a compliment {#Frustrated}
 
At the beginning of the song I thought you were being needlessly abusive by comparing this to M&S.  But eventually I had to agree.
Posted 12 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
{#Frustrated}
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Iceland, eh? That opening sequence did put me in mind of a Viking longship full of hairy-arsed warriors bashing away at drums made from the skins of their vanquished enemies :o)
Posted 12 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
is the cover art Grendel from Beowulf??
{#Lol}
Posted 12 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
AMG search button for "Of Monsters and Men" returns "Chuck Berry."
 
????  {#Roflol}  I just bumped this from 7 to 8 - it's growing on me. {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 12 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
AMG search button for "Of Monsters and Men" returns "Chuck Berry."
Posted 12 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
So getting this album when it's released stateside next year.
Posted 12 years ago by ZiegZeon    [ Reply ]
7 —-> 8.  Got to listen to the whole album and liking it.  Thanks for playing this Bill!!

Posted 12 years ago by marc1980    [ Reply ]
{#Puke}{#Puke}{#Puke}
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
What is to not like?
Posted 12 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
This band is shooting up my list of favorites.
I see a lot of Edward Sharpe comparisons, but I think they're a lot more focused. Less hippie and more pop as well.

Posted 12 years ago by RPJunkie    [ Reply ]
Sounds a lot like Mumford and Sons......Not a compliment {#Frustrated}

Posted 12 years ago by sandpebble    [ Reply ]
Really like it!  Yet another band from Iceland.  Thanks again, RP, for introducing us to something new.
Posted 12 years ago by wildlewis    [ Reply ]
...edward sharpe meets blitzen trapper?..

Posted 12 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
Love it! Not an easy album to find in the states :s
Posted 12 years ago by tempestivo    [ Reply ]
Their songs are not leaving my head....
Posted 12 years ago by salzburg4321    [ Reply ]
What a strange album title!  Still, I like the vitality of this song - it has a passion that makes me want to do something valid and meaningful.  Like cleaning up a park or teaching a kid to knit. 
Posted 12 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Nice, this band has talent, and much more! A SOLID EIGHT.
Posted 12 years ago by simme2    [ Reply ]