when Converge
Valid reasoning, Iāll allow it. Now if everyone else could form an orderly queue and regale me with similar explanationsā¦
Well this bed aināt getting any wetter
Mew are like Converge covering Coldplay
Wednesday, April 4th, 2073
Also the first time I saw them (and the first gig I went to outside of my hometown)
i fucking love mew but 100% agree with this opinion
seriously though what a fucking incredible band, easy 5/5
Iād wear any of those coats
3/5
Got to challenge this as well, itās just a long song innit? Nothin prog about it
Yellow (12" mix)
tbh, it might be improved if it were more prog rock.
Only heard a few mew songs and I have disliked them, leaning to a 1 but since theyāre Danish Iāll give them one more go first. Do I go with Frengers since it is leading the album poll?
Easy 5. They have been a hugely important band for me.
I was a young dad, and I used to sit up into the wee hours downloading and listening to obscure music keeping a check on the kiddo as he slept. One of the bands I became obsessed with was Mew. I remember getting āKing Christianā, ā156ā and āAm I Wry? Noā on dial up from some dodgy site and have been absolutely in love ever since. They used to play the toilet circuit loads before Frengers came out proper in the UK, and I caught them playing with Pure Reason Revolution, Martin Grech, and Ok Go!.
I met them backstage to get a guitar signed that we were auctioning off for charity (a charity for my then recently deceased little brother), and they were so sweet. I asked if they were playing āShe Came Home For Christmasā that night and they ended up playing it and dedicating it to me. My son has grown up to love them too, and weāve seen them a bunch of times together, most recently at their Glass Handed Kites show. I donāt think there is a band around that writes songs the way they do. It all sounds so effortless but is hugely complex and beautiful. Each of them brings so much to the band, whether itās Boās absolutely bananas guitar figures, Silasā super awkward yet absolutely on point way of drumming, or Jonasā stunning voice and all the weird visuals he brings to the band. I honestly think they are the most underrated band of the last 20 years.
In terms of albums - their pre-Sony releases are essential in showing what they could do. Frengers was a ābest ofā of all that stuff really, and each subsequent release has added loads of layers to their sound. Glass Handed Kites is arguably their masterpiece, but No More Stories is probably their most dense and imaginative work. Plus Minus was slightly disappointing when I first heard it but I have grown to love it more and more with each listen, and Visuals was a wonderful return. They have a wealth of fascinating B-sides and one off songs too that demand checking out. They are absolutely top tier, as anyone thatās seen Comforting Sounds live will attest.
As for Mew? On paper abstaining as I know next to nothing about them. However, they are from the same suburb of Copenhagen as the Tuborg brewery, so a 5 for heroically making their home town famous for something other than that ghastly lager.
Standing On The Verge Of Getting It Con
Might pop over to Oslo to catch them do Kites in January actually. Gutted I missed that London show
The original has tap dancing which is prog rock
Yellow is just a crap Comforting Sounds.