This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

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.

Clockwise from lower left: Stu (manager), Ralphie, Davey Z, Rick, Tom-Tom, Billy

Their music may or may not be fairly described as frip-hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENM2wA_FTg

incredibly menacing youtube

Noooo. Don't ruin it! Nobody click on that.

i'm not clicking on it. the freezeframe looks appropriately Harry Potterish

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

i have never heard of this band btw. imagine if their name was pronounced unexpectedly like "Imajinay Draygoans"

I've been constantly confusing htem with Of Monsters and Men.

that Youtube still raises more questions than it answers. are they Hobbits?

bad music for bad people

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.

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.

Imagine Dragons = post-grunge bullshit
Of Monsters and Men = twee bullshit

i like the first Imagine Dragons single with mandolins, don't like the second one with dubstep wubs.

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]

the third imagine dragons single, featuring the girl from that gotye song, was a welcome return to form.

not looking forward to their collaboration w/ dave grohl and skrillex, though.

An actual collaboration, or just an inevitable one?

is there even a difference?

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

maybe they sing in a made-up dragon language full of guttural grunts and hissy sounds

or songs from the dragon's point of view about how girls always end up going out with asshole knights who treat them badly

imgn drgns, we nevr them.....

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 understand
i'm never changing who i am"

sorry about posting lyrics, they just came to me so i kept writing.

ha no it was on my ballot too

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

hey they are playing in SF at the Warfield tomorrow

Send your worst enemies there.

XXXstillhaven'theardthemXXX

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.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

proper lol to this .. i am soooo using the word 'shitfucks' for the rest of my life ..

I thought Mother Mother were only known in Canada.

ID's "Radioactive" and AWOLNATION's "Sail" are virtually identical.

Imagine Gonad Migraine Dragons

I'm just going to pretend that they are the Soup Dragons and continue not listening to them

ID's "Radioactive" and AWOLNATION's "Sail" are virtually identical.

― 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

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?

shitfucks

new single?

Wow, I had no idea these songs were by them. Terrible like all their old stuff but clearly a successful repositioning.

THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING & THE THUNDER & THE LIGHTNING
A NEW MOTHER CRIES

― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, November 20, 2017 9:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gallileo

can’t wait for Barenaked Ladies vs Imagine Dragons suit over this melody

What melody? Are you all listening to Imagine Dragons? This thread used to mean something.

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!

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.

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.

bad music for bad people

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:18 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so cynical but probably right

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.

same

i was not trying to listen to this i just wanted to hear saban's non answers about the first half

this ain't rappin/this is frip hop

it seems likely that I’ve heard imagine dragons by now but I still have never listened to imagine dragons.

if the neo-nazis got their way every single recording artist would be like imagine dragons

I just said "imagine dragons remix featuring lil wayne" out loud and I'm questioning lots of things

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

You need to take this to a thread where you do listen to Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons sounds like a minor-league baseball team in a town owned by the Walt Disney Company

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.

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

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

https://www.spin.com/2019/01/imagine-dragons-worst-band-halftime-show/?fbclid=IwAR2IBREaTYGZqA09P6cGYgNCrnX6M8h7-ev2luhKVkSzJTS9QEt3ng6NIsI

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

i might have heard imagine dragons in a fast casual burger joint tonight but i guess i'll never know

it seems likely that I’ve heard imagine dragons by now but I still have never listened to imagine dragons.

same

so you're not a …."Believer"?

mods need to threadban anyone who has listened to imagine dragons tbqh

difference between listening and hearing imo

Listening vs Hearing

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.

(shit, turns out that I legit had never heard any imagine dragons songs before, but it's too late now)

from the Spin article:

The word “thunder” appears nearly 75 times in their song of the same name.

Thunder! Feel the thunder! STOMP STOMP STOMP! literally music for ages 6-12

Except surely ages 6-12 have made it about farting, so small point for the youth of America

if a kid could perfectly fart those three stomps, i would be impressed

I have not heard this band and will steadfastly hold that post

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

jesus, they've been around for 6+ years?

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

very disappointed that my idea for a thread already exists, but with a worse name

For the record I think they might be a cross between Styx and Brokencyde, with classic 80s fighting fantasy cover artwork.

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.

I guess this is growing up

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

and they're from Vegas!

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.

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?

Imagine Tokens

haha

jesus, they've been around for 6+ years?

― flappy bird, Friday, January 11, 2019 10:11 AM (six years ago)

still never knowingly heard this band fwiw

still get them mixed up with twenty one pilots

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) bookmarkflaglink

Except 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) bookmarkflaglink

if 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

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!