Mumford And Sons Vs Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

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Who is the best? Least worst? Who would you rather listen to if forced?
http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/images/Mumford-and-Sons-otw.jpg
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Dumpy85.jpg/395px-Dumpy85.jpg

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts are a British rock band founded in 1981 by the lead singer Graham "Dumpy" Dunnell. Though unsuccessful as recording artists the band have been a successful and popular Live act for decades. The band attracted a cult following for their outstanding live performances in small rock venues. Playing classic blues rock, their initial audiences were drawn from the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal[1] and 'Bikers' and they become particularly well-known at the London Marquee Club, where they were a regular and popular attraction. In the early - mid eighties the band toured extensively around the UK playing at small rock / 'Biker' pub and club venues including the Isle of Man TT, and music festivals; cementing their name and following.
The band were not successful recording artists preferring to concentrate on Live work. They released a debut single "Just For Kicks" in June 1982 but in order to get airplay the band had to change their name to Dumpy's Rusty Bolts. Sales of the single were poor, and the original band name was restored. A second single 'Box Hill Or Bust' was released. Subsequent sporadic releases have only found favour with their small core audience.
Despite the group's longevity, they became for a time a favourite target for mockery from the British music press, especially Melody Maker, where their name was often invoked as the epitome of failure in the music business in the humorous section "Talk Talk Talk" written by David Stubbs.
As of 2010, the band is still performing in small venues, music festivals and bike rallies across Europe. The band has toured with and supported many bands including Hawkwind, Motorhead and Status Quo. Dumpy has guested on occasion with other bands including Hawkwind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRd7UVKvvCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKO3m_M4dQ

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts	28
Mumford And Sons	1

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Voted!

― clearly I have defeated this earthworm (Matt #2), Monday, 7 March 2011 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

Inspired by Dumpy's Rusty Nuts : Search & Destroy , Classic Or Dud? etc obviously. Where there are some DRN anecdotes

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts are legit entertaining, this isn't even a contest.

― Pauls to the Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 March 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

Rumpy's Dusty Grocery Groin

― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2011 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

other than having an awful name it doesn't seem like there's really anything wrong with dnr?

― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.chelmsfordrocks.com/images/drn_cover%5B1%5D.bmp

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

i guess you have to be british to understand why they are intrinsically funny?

― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

CAD, I guess you're not familiar with Melody Maker, who used to make fun of them all the time. Some people here kinda grew up with that.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.freewebs.com/hanoirocksmysterycity/14.7.85.jpg
http://nwobhm.info/nwobhm/images/stories/dumpy1.jpg
http://www1.sk-static.com/images/media/img/col6/20110116-174953-332093.jpg

Mumford deserve to be smaller than dumpy's rusty nuts

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

Mumford And Sons in 30 years time

http://www.stuarthamilton.f9.co.uk/images/Hillbillies2.jpg
http://godshatmyipod.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/time-for-a-saturday-yee-haw/

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:34 (fourteen years ago)

And the actual DRN article complete with an early single to listen to
http://godshatmyipod.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/lord-of-the-rings-pt-iv/

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I remember being shocked to discover that DRN were a real band, after years of thinking they were just an I Dream of Wires type in-joke.

Obviously better than Mumford & Sons, though.

― emil.y, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

never heard of dumpy's rust nuts but they got my vote

― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 March 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

I was at one of the IQ gigs on the Marquee flyer there, and possibly the One The Juggler gig too. Never seen Mumford & Sons tho. Plan to keep it that way, in fact I only got 30 seconds into one of their songs on youtube before retreating to bed feeling depressed.

― clearly I have defeated this earthworm (Matt #2), Monday, 7 March 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
David Stubbs is a British journalist. He was born on 13 September 1962 in London, but grew up in Leeds. As a student at Oxford University he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds; together they worked on an influential fanzine called Monitor before joining Melody Maker in 1986. Stubbs would remain at Melody Maker for 12 years, where he combined his serious writing career with writing the humorous "Talk Talk Talk" section, which featured the character of "Mr Agreeable" who would insult virtually everything with barrages of swear words (asterisked out to fit within IPC Media regulations)
Certain artists and bands were repeatedly parodied in "Talk Talk Talk", especially Morrissey (portrayed as an ultra-conservative stereotypical old-fashioned Northerner, obsessed with boarding houses in wet, down-at-heel seaside resorts and deeply suspicious of the rest of the world and of post-1945 immigrants into Britain), David Gedge of The Wedding Present (portrayed as a deeply boring "trainspotter" stereotype), Henry Rollins (portrayed as the opposite of his tough image), Axl Rose (portrayed as a stereotypically stupid American rocker) and Dumpy's Rusty Nuts (portrayed as the most pathetic band imaginable, jumping unconvincingly on every bandwagon going). The section also featured recurring comic characters created by Stubbs himself, such as Derek Kent (an elderly music journalist and pervert, name based on Nick Kent) and Pepe Le Punk (a stereotypically clueless Belgian rock writer).

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

Wish I could find scans online of this

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

David Stubbs is...a stereotypically clueless...rock writer

Fixed.

― Pauls to the Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 March 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

found some mr agreeable stuff

http://archivedmusicpress.wordpress.com/category/mr-agreeable/

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

just as i remembered - not funny at all http://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/talk-talk-talk-featuring-mr-agreeable-11th-decemebr-1993.jpg

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

found a dumpy's rusty nuts one http://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/mr-agreeable-16th-february-1991.jpg

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:17 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gki7TnvEA8Q

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12690000

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)

"Box Hill or Bust!"

― Gorge, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

When will someone pair the Macc Lads and the fabulous Eddie Shit up with someone else like this?

― Gorge, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

i had a feeling gorge would know who dumpy's rusty nuts were

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:08 (fourteen years ago)

can drn win this poll?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

I have strong faith in ILM that they will win.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

DRN win by default for not having a song called 'little lion man'

― history mayne, Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

DRN win by default

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 11 March 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

ok who are you

― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 March 2011 00:02 (fourteen years ago)

Dumpy to thread

― My Teenage Neo-Prog Shame (Matt #2), Friday, 11 March 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

lol only way this thread could get better is if dumpy himself posted

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 11 March 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

who else could DRN beat?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 11 March 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

i doubt more like like a fifth of respondents had heard / clicked on the dumpy youtube

― maxwell's silva hamartia (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 March 2011 02:05 (fourteen years ago)

than like

― maxwell's silva hamartia (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 March 2011 02:06 (fourteen years ago)

but those who did have formed a lynch mob to go after mumford and sons, right?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 11 March 2011 02:18 (fourteen years ago)

It's not a lynch mob at this point, it's an army of assassins.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 March 2011 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Mumford and sons suck

― Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Gimmick Poster (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 02:27 (two months ago)

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