I don't know anything about Imagine Dragons except apparently they're very popular. There are only a few mentions of them anywhere on ILM. I am intrigued by these bands that become popular and exist somewhere outside my realm of reference. I do not want to hear them or even know what they sound like, because probably they are terrible. So this is a thread for speculating ignorantly about them and making conjectures that are never to be tested or disproven.
For starters, I imagine they look something like this.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/myspaceboy93/IMG_1385.jpg
Imagine Dragons, chilling by the fire pit.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:37 (twelve years ago)
Clockwise from lower left: Stu (manager), Ralphie, Davey Z, Rick, Tom-Tom, Billy
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:38 (twelve years ago)
Their music may or may not be fairly described as frip-hop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENM2wA_FTg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:38 (twelve years ago)
incredibly menacing youtube
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)
Noooo. Don't ruin it! Nobody click on that.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)
i'm not clicking on it. the freezeframe looks appropriately Harry Potterish
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:41 (twelve years ago)
guy in the right of the frame may be imagining a dragon
hey tipsy i'm with you i will never break XXXIMAGINEDRAGONSEDGEXXX
true 2 death
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:42 (twelve years ago)
i have never heard of this band btw. imagine if their name was pronounced unexpectedly like "Imajinay Draygoans"
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:44 (twelve years ago)
I've been constantly confusing htem with Of Monsters and Men.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:48 (twelve years ago)
that Youtube still raises more questions than it answers. are they Hobbits?
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:49 (twelve years ago)
bad music for bad people
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:18 (twelve years ago)
I haven't heard of Imajinay Draygoans but I enjoy having the same peculiar relationship with Of Monsters and Men, of whom I know two things - 1. they are called Of Monsters and Men, 2. they have some manner of popularity among some demographic or another.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:10 (twelve years ago)
also I mix them up with Monsters of Folk who I think I know a little bit about but I could be also mixing them up with someone else.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:11 (twelve years ago)
Imagine Dragons = post-grunge bullshitOf Monsters and Men = twee bullshit
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:11 (twelve years ago)
i like the first Imagine Dragons single with mandolins, don't like the second one with dubstep wubs.
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
Imagine Dragons is a four-piece rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that formed in 2008. The group's name is an anagram of "Gonad Migraines," their original name that they regretfully discarded. [1]
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)
the third imagine dragons single, featuring the girl from that gotye song, was a welcome return to form.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:36 (twelve years ago)
not looking forward to their collaboration w/ dave grohl and skrillex, though.
An actual collaboration, or just an inevitable one?
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:38 (twelve years ago)
is there even a difference?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:41 (twelve years ago)
this is a cool name for a band, but i do not think this band is particularly cool
i also have never heard them or even heard of them before this thread tho
― ò_ó, ó_ò, õ_o (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:45 (twelve years ago)
maybe they sing in a made-up dragon language full of guttural grunts and hissy sounds
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)
or songs from the dragon's point of view about how girls always end up going out with asshole knights who treat them badly
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)
imgn drgns, we nevr them.....
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:00 (twelve years ago)
i think i'm the only vote for "It's Time" in our year end poll as the song is catchy as hell.
"now don't you understandi'm never changing who i am"
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:27 (twelve years ago)
sorry about posting lyrics, they just came to me so i kept writing.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 March 2013 04:08 (twelve years ago)
ha no it was on my ballot too
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 04:10 (twelve years ago)
Maybe they're good! I have no idea. Rock bands or ROCK BANDS still existing is interesting to me, even if not interesting enough to really listen to them. I was just looking at the charts and there were Imagine Dragons all over them and it was funny to me. I hope they go on to be bigger than Nickelback.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 March 2013 05:44 (twelve years ago)
i quite like how this thread has managed to absorb both certifiable fact from those who have heard the band and never-to-be-tested conjecture from those who haven't, with no particular order or hierarchy. if you removed the top post, it would be a very strange thread. but as it is, it's almost magical. like a dragon.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 March 2013 06:15 (twelve years ago)
haha i had a very kneejerk reaction against this band at first but after a while i actually became brainwashed into liking "it's time" - one of my friends always puts it on when she's driving
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:42 (twelve years ago)
Little-known facts about Imagine Dragons: They started as a Semisonic tribute band called Closing Tyme. Two of them used to work as birthday-party strippers before recommitting to their Mormon faith. Scott Stapp is such a huge fan that they had to block him from bombing their Twitter account with late-night drunken mash notes.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:36 (twelve years ago)
there's prob more rock (or "rock") on the pop charts the past year than there's been in maybe a decade or more, it's a weird time. but, like, most of the Imagine Dragons album is produced by Alex Da Kid, the guy who produced "Love The Way You Lie." maybe combos like this and fun./Jeff Bhasker are going to be in vogue for a while.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:42 (twelve years ago)
Wonder if the fusion will hold, or if it means there will another big Nirvana-like schism at some point, taking it back to the real rock, man.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)
Imagine Dragons formed in 2008 while lead singer Dan Reynolds was attending Brigham Young University.[1] Their music is often described as being positive and uplifting and avoids cursing.[2]
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:05 (twelve years ago)
i do a lot of freelance work on different kinds of little video shoots and commercials, so i'm always working w/ different people, and there's this one crew i've worked w/ a lot lately and the guy in charge always seemed really cool and smart. but last time i worked with them, he was on his laptop working for like an hour before we got started and, and he kept playing "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, the song of theirs that i totally hate, over and over and over and singing along with it. really bummed me out.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:14 (twelve years ago)
I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:13 (twelve years ago)
hey they are playing in SF at the Warfield tomorrow
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 March 2013 20:19 (twelve years ago)
Send your worst enemies there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:23 (twelve years ago)
XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2013 20:26 (twelve years ago)
According to my data, if you don't want to hear Imagine Dragons you might also want to not hear Neon Trees, Young the Giant, Walk the Moon, Grouplove, AWOLNATION, Fun., Dan Reynolds, the Naked and Famous, Of Monsters and Men and Matt & Kim. And some emerging songs you might want to avoid discovering right now include "House of Gold" by Twenty One Pilots, "Wilderness" by Ra Ra Riot, "Choice Mountain" by Everything Everything, and "Rootless" by Youngblood Hawke. And along with Everything Everything come Django Django and Mother Mother.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:50 (twelve years ago)
proper lol to this .. i am soooo using the word 'shitfucks' for the rest of my life ..
― mark e, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:52 (twelve years ago)
I thought Mother Mother were only known in Canada.
― MarkoP, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)
ID's "Radioactive" and AWOLNATION's "Sail" are virtually identical.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 March 2013 21:41 (twelve years ago)
Imagine Gonad Migraine Dragons
I'm just going to pretend that they are the Soup Dragons and continue not listening to them
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2013 21:47 (twelve years ago)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, March 15, 2013 5:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as someone who hates the former and loves the latter i object
― some dude, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:53 (twelve years ago)
Imagine Dragons = The Lumineers + Maroon 5
Maybe this should be a rolling thread where each week we pick somebody new to not listen to. Because what shows our shared love of music more than self-righteous ignorance of anything that gets popular or unselfconscious, right?
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 16 March 2013 01:59 (twelve years ago)
shitfucks
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 01:24 (twelve years ago)
new single?
― life went on, sadly (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)
Wow, I had no idea these songs were by them. Terrible like all their old stuff but clearly a successful repositioning.
― skip, Thursday, 23 November 2017 06:39 (seven years ago)
THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING & THE THUNDER & THE LIGHTNINGA NEW MOTHER CRIES
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, November 20, 2017 9:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gallileo
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:33 (seven years ago)
can’t wait for Barenaked Ladies vs Imagine Dragons suit over this melody
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:21 (seven years ago)
What melody? Are you all listening to Imagine Dragons? This thread used to mean something.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:33 (seven years ago)
Ugh I hate people... in one of my bars keep asking for those Imagine Dragons singles from this year and they are awful. I refuse you Imagine Dragons!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:33 (seven years ago)
i got blindsided in a rental car lol. i was like, what is this bullshit that lifted a melody from Barenaked Ladies (and it was irritating the first time)? and it was imagine dragons. so.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:56 (seven years ago)
my neighbors went to this concert a few weeks ago and came home with matching Imagine Dragon shirts.also, find it disconcerting that Google Voice to Text knows to capitalize Imagine Dragons.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 November 2017 21:15 (seven years ago)
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:18 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so cynical but probably right
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 November 2017 21:48 (seven years ago)
I just accidentally heard some Imagine Dragons while checking on the football game and it made me think of this post and the more innocent times before I had actually heard Imagine Dragons.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:08 (six years ago)
same
i was not trying to listen to this i just wanted to hear saban's non answers about the first half
― Дарья (daria-g), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:11 (six years ago)
this ain't rappin/this is frip hop
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:23 (six years ago)
it seems likely that I’ve heard imagine dragons by now but I still have never listened to imagine dragons.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:43 (six years ago)
if the neo-nazis got their way every single recording artist would be like imagine dragons
― dyl, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:40 (six years ago)
I just said "imagine dragons remix featuring lil wayne" out loud and I'm questioning lots of things
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:48 (six years ago)
listened to a few of their non-single songs mid-last year when i was trying to figure out what song was in a trailer for the 2018 chapter of the mission: impossible saga
some of their album deep cuts do... very different things. not good things, but definitely different ones
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:59 (six years ago)
You need to take this to a thread where you do listen to Imagine Dragons
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:10 (six years ago)
Imagine Dragons sounds like a minor-league baseball team in a town owned by the Walt Disney Company
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:14 (six years ago)
I heard the entirety of their latest album while playing board games with my parents over the holidays.
One of the songs was very drum and bass.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:45 (six years ago)
you can never be sure if you've listened to imagine dragons because every song is a slightly different style
which of these styles will be best for licensing in a commercial? gotta try em all
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:29 (six years ago)
any time i hear a song on the radio i don’t recognize i assume it’s imagine dragons and it usually is— Judy Candlebox (@erasermate) September 11, 2018
― orifex, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:38 (six years ago)
https://www.spin.com/2019/01/imagine-dragons-worst-band-halftime-show/?fbclid=IwAR2IBREaTYGZqA09P6cGYgNCrnX6M8h7-ev2luhKVkSzJTS9QEt3ng6NIsI
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 00:57 (six years ago)
I was wondering today why everybody hated these guys and then played their three biggest hits and realized I fucking hate all three and just didn't know it was them
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 January 2019 06:30 (six years ago)
i might have heard imagine dragons in a fast casual burger joint tonight but i guess i'll never know
― j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 06:36 (six years ago)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 January 2019 06:46 (six years ago)
so you're not a …."Believer"?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 January 2019 06:52 (six years ago)
mods need to threadban anyone who has listened to imagine dragons tbqh
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 10 January 2019 07:17 (six years ago)
difference between listening and hearing imo
― mh, Thursday, 10 January 2019 20:16 (six years ago)
Listening vs Hearing
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 January 2019 20:22 (six years ago)
Just discovered this wonderful thread, but I can't contain my curiosity (I suspect I've heard a lot of Imagine Dragons without realizing it and I need to go find out), so this is farewell.
― enochroot, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:23 (six years ago)
(shit, turns out that I legit had never heard any imagine dragons songs before, but it's too late now)
― enochroot, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:26 (six years ago)
from the Spin article:
The word “thunder” appears nearly 75 times in their song of the same name.
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 January 2019 16:34 (six years ago)
Thunder! Feel the thunder! STOMP STOMP STOMP! literally music for ages 6-12
― rip van wanko, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:43 (six years ago)
Except surely ages 6-12 have made it about farting, so small point for the youth of America
― macropuente (map), Friday, 11 January 2019 16:51 (six years ago)
if a kid could perfectly fart those three stomps, i would be impressed
― rip van wanko, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:56 (six years ago)
I have not heard this band and will steadfastly hold that post
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:14 (six years ago)
Has humanity ever listened to so much music against its volition? Imagine Dragons in the gym. Imagine Dragons at the mall. Imagine Dragons in three out of five movie trailers before the feature presentation, which also features a song by Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons at every public sporting event held inside every arena or arena-shaped thing. Imagine Dragons in television commercials for computers and video games and Jeep Cherokees. When the devil met Imagine Dragons at the crossroads back in 2012, he found a way to take all of our souls. He promised to play “Radioactive” in every Uber.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/imagine-dragons-and-the-scourge-of-the-rock-and-roll-grave-blockers/2019/01/08/35d7531a-1355-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
― jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2019 18:05 (six years ago)
jesus, they've been around for 6+ years?
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 18:11 (six years ago)
Imagine Imagine Dragons - where people who have never heard Imagine Dragons (like me) describe what they think they might sound like― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, April 20, 2018 9:51 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink*tents fingers* i like it. i like it a lot. start the thread. be a legend― flappy bird, Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:07 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, April 20, 2018 9:51 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*tents fingers* i like it. i like it a lot. start the thread. be a legend
― flappy bird, Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:07 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
very disappointed that my idea for a thread already exists, but with a worse name
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 January 2019 23:09 (six years ago)
For the record I think they might be a cross between Styx and Brokencyde, with classic 80s fighting fantasy cover artwork.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 January 2019 23:12 (six years ago)
this band is very popular and actually well-liked by those who listen to them. i understand that it is unbelievable to these writer folx that anyone could actually like this band (really, i get it, they truly are terrible) but idk why this narrative, that such an act is in reality broadly hated and can only have reached broad exposure thru sheer force on the part of record companies, still gets traction. it wasn't true for creed. it wasn't true for nickelback. it won't be true for the next one.
― dyl, Saturday, 12 January 2019 02:39 (six years ago)
I guess this is growing up
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:20 (six years ago)
its sort of impressive the way they manage to incorporate every single terrible pop rock trend from this decade - mumford-esque twee folk pop, really clunky dubstep integration, terrible sing-rapping, etc
― ufo, Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:55 (six years ago)
and they're from Vegas!
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:05 (six years ago)
The one good thing I will say about Imagine Dragons is that the lead singer has been an activist for LGBTQ youth within the Mormon church.
― jaymc, Saturday, 12 January 2019 18:21 (six years ago)
This is also the thread where we never listen to Sleep Token. Who tf are Sleep Token, why do the kids love them, and can we send them back?
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 May 2025 13:11 (two days ago)
Imagine Tokens
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 26 May 2025 18:39 (two days ago)
haha
― flappy bird, Friday, January 11, 2019 10:11 AM (six years ago)
― sleeve, Monday, 26 May 2025 19:17 (two days ago)
still never knowingly heard this band fwiw
still get them mixed up with twenty one pilots
― brimstead, Monday, 26 May 2025 19:22 (two days ago)
Thunder! Feel the thunder! STOMP STOMP STOMP! literally music for ages 6-12― rip van wanko, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:43 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglinkExcept surely ages 6-12 have made it about farting, so small point for the youth of America― macropuente (map), Friday, January 11, 2019 4:51 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglinkif a kid could perfectly fart those three stomps, i would be impressed― rip van wanko, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:56 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rip van wanko, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:43 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― macropuente (map), Friday, January 11, 2019 4:51 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rip van wanko, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:56 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
i was googling around for 'thunder' fart memes, as one does on memorial day, but i only found a version of the 'believer' video with fart noises added in the background. anyway i'd never seen the video and the boxing is very homoerotic!
― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Monday, 26 May 2025 19:30 (two days ago)