Last month Fleet Foxes topped several Best Of 2008 lists including our own. No surprise then that the Seattle quintet’s performance of “Mykonos” and “Blue Ridge Mountains” was the highlight of a night of lackluster topical comedy. Robin Pecknold checked in here before the Saturday Night Live broadcast so the least you can do is hear his band’s sweet televised harmonies at Videogum. Jorma definitely enjoyed it.
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“No surprise then that the Seattle quintet’s performance of “Mykonos” and “Blue Ridge Mountains” was the highlight of a night of lackluster topical comedy”
Absolutely. The sketches this week were…..weak. But Fleet Foxes did not disappoint.
ddoes anyone else feel like snl fucks with the sound, cause foxes sound a lil flat here? they just sound different from when i saw them
They are a pretty fucking awkward and funny band to watch their facial expressions. Sounded alright.
wow i guess I hadnt given the fleet foxes album much of a chance due to thinking it sounded to much like MMJ to me, but these performances were great! one of the best SNL spots ive seen in a long time, ill have to give them another chance
they don’t sound at all like MMJ.
deaf bastard.
fucking idiot
this band sounds nothing like MMJ and I don’t understand why anyone says that, the vocals are different, the song writing is completely different, the structure of the band is different, and pretty much everything else is too
Well the vocal resemblance between Robin Pecknold and Jim James is striking at first – if you don’t listen to much of Fleet Foxes (plus all the reverb). The trained ear, on the other hand, can easily tell the differences – and they do sound nothing alike after listening to both for a while.
I don’t think it’s unfair for some people to draw the comparison, I did, and loads of people I know – upon for listen – do too.
Agreed – I think that the vocals are similar at first pass, although the similarity is on the surface only. Am I the only one who thinks that they both also have a kermit the frog ish quality to them as well?
i will fight the MMJ/FF fight to the internet death.
MMJ sounds like The Band
when I hear the fleet foxes performing watered down funk riffs I will admit they sound similar.
if you heard FF play funk riffs, then we might have something to talk about.
maybe.
but you won’t.
hey, Im with you homie
breaking news: fleet foxes to release a folk-funk album late 2009, Jim James to produce
Fleet Foxes > MMJ
I will back this statement til the day I die.
uh ff have one album compared to mmj’s 6 – i don’t think so
So, because a band has only made a few records in their career they are automatically inferior to artists with more albums out?
So, I guess artists like My Bloody Valentine, The Sex Pistols, Television, The New York Dolls, Nirvana, Vashti Bunyan, and Joy Division are all specks of dust compared to Ryan Adams and Lil Wayne.
Way to go.
A sign of their widespread popularity: My mom gets a text message from my 52 year old aunt telling her to, “Check out my new music find, they are playing on SNL tonight.” My mom couldn’t understand why I found this funny.
On a side note, I think their performance on SNL was fantastic.
That’s hilarious. Maybe your aunt lurks here.
If she does, my mom will be asking me sometime soon what a “sexual robotics” is. I don’t think she will be satisfied with my answer: “The combination of two words in an attempt at humor”
They were so much better on SNL then I expected…however, I still can’t support this band. I feel like the entire world has lost all credibility by doing so. Sub Pop has become a complete parody of itself.
I hope that one day Sub Pop is sued over this band.
Much like Nickleback, they douchemasters will repackage the same song to you over and over again, except for the fact that Nickleback at least packages their own songs…not direct interpretations of It Still Moves.
Whatever. I am in my 30′s and forgive me for still liking Built To Spill and Pavement.
Forgive you for listening to Pavement and Built to Spill? You’re asking us to forgive you for one SINGLE thing in your post. And it’s that.
In the words of that new Fleet Foxes song: I’m Amazed.
snoooooze fest.
Hey “bro” go pound a Dew and crank up some Linkin Park if Fleet Foxes aren’t doing it for ya! I thought they killed it on Saturday.
Someone just compared Fleet Foxes to Nickelback?!? Ah the outrage.
Robin was pretty boastful after the two performances as usual…
boastful, like hell. Most of them guys act like little kids when it comes to congratulatory applause (a quick wave, a little smirk). That dude on the left knew how to take it. Just like how you better learn to take it from me, donkey.
I was being sarcastic.
I use to listen to this band when they were called THE OAK RIDGE BOYS.
I don’t really understand why you would compare the two either; there is no way you could ever mistake a fleet foxes song for a MMJ song, i just think Pecknold has such a better voice anyways, I saw them about 3 months ago and it was so mind blowing. i don’t give a fuck if anyone says anything bad about Fleet Foxes.
My boss asked me who was on my desktop (pic of Robin) she didn’t approve so I changed it to Jim.
taylor swift was def better the week before.
it needed to be said.
Taylor Swift’s guitar was cover with glitter…’nuff said.
*covered
There have been some really bad eps of SNL over the past 5 or so years, but that was the absolute worst EVER. Not a redeeming sketch of the bunch. Fleet Foxes brilliance wasted in a sea of crap.
There was one good sketch: the “Gitmo Going Out of Business” commercial was actually pretty funny, I thought.
Everything else was worthless.
sigh.