What Happened to MGMT?
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Discover the story behind MGMT's hit singles "Time to Pretend," "Electric Feel," and "Kids" and the band's decision to move away from radio-friendly hits in favor of creative and unconventional pop music. Learn about their rise to fame, their sophomore album "Congratulations," and the impact of their debut album "Oracular Spectacular" on the music industry.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Who is MGMT?
3:03 Oracular Spectacular
4:33 Congratulations
7:36 Self-Titled
10:03 Conclusion
#Middle8 #MGMT #VideoEssay
A Look Back at MGMT's Iconic Debut Album
Why MGMT Chose Not to Make Another Radio Hit
The Evolution of MGMT
MGMT: The Band Behind Time To Pretend, Electric Feel, and Kids
MGMT's Little Dark Age
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Uhm, they still exist. They keep making music.
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You should do a video about panic at the disco
funny how Little Dark Age became a massive hit 2 years after this video
@@PimBalpert really? bruh
Tik Tok? Are ya sure about that?
@@PimBalpert the worst app of all time
@@PimBalpert
I first heard it on history youtube.
Define "massive".
"Little Dark Age" is, in my opinion, a far more polished, artistically matured version of MGMT.
Best song I’ve ever heard !
@@STXRBOY999 he’s talking about the album
is that an American Psicho reference?
kinda funny how the title of this video aged huh?
Great album
'Little Dark Age' is killing it right now on History UA-cam.
Yeah I hear that song alot on wignat social media accounts.
nazi larpers love it
@@incognitox9551 "larpers"
@@incognitox9551 cope
@@Amfortas seethe, even
So what you’re saying is they felt like they were fated to pretend
lol
@BY KI I JUST FUCKING LAUGHED SO HARD
Yeah, yeah, YEEEEAAAH!!!
And they never moved to Paris and fucked with the stars.....
@@dylanlarson435 but did they find some models for wives
My favorite mgmt moment is when kid cudi was trippin on acid and started dancing on stage while they were performing electric feel
Whut ?!
Link
Omg iconic
Yessss!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂
slick vick My favourite fuckoff
MGMT could easily put themselves back on the map if they wanted to.
They kinda did.
Tom
Not as big if compared to their 3 big songs.
zig If they may a good song like Electric feel with a JUSTICE remix then they are basically back
Mariah's Bag
Yoooo Justice is my shitttttt
Not really. The tastes of the masses kinda moved on without them
I saw MGMT in 2013, I crowd surfed during Electric Feel, was probably one of the best moments of my life.
Nice
Was it an electric feel?
That sounds amazing peak moment
@@XOLoneglry can’t speak for OP, my experience was more like a digital probe 👆🏼☝🏼👇🏼👐🏼✌🏼
Wtf how tf did you nvm 😭😭
It's ironic that Little Dark Age has become so popular now then.
Yup. Their most popular album since their debut dropped three days after this video was uploaded lol
“Improvising over the Ghostbusters theme for an hour” 😂
Been there, done that. Not as fun.
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@@maisatanel i fucking knew it
Bustin make me feel good
@@maisatanel is that them ?
My personal favorite is “when you die”
IM NOT THAT NICE
bblizzyy IM MEAN AND IM EVIL
@@yungmoneyincorporated601 DONT CALL ME NICE!
@@wahwaffles i-i've got some work to do..
It's working
In 2018 MGMT released this: "Little Dark Age", their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Little Dark Age". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importantly of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
The song is like a riddle to me. English is not my first language. I like the song but what does it actually mean?
@@yogendhaneshwar1277 Dark Ages is a period of time marked by economic, intellectual and cultural decline, so that but just on a smaller scale?
Their early work was a little too whack for my taste. But when Little Dark Age came out in 2018, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost
Patrick?
Come on, Ilja. There are a lot more important problems than MGMT to worry about. We have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.
Lol “My Little Dark Age” is a big hit on Tik Tok right now
yeah, wild.
tik tok helped me find that amazing song
Yeah, my wife was on tick tock and I was like, "Hey, what song is that?". Then I looked it up and was like, "Oh it's the band that did the Kids song.
finally
it actually helped me find this amazing song
I saw them at a festival and when they were playing their new stuff they said, "sorry you don't like our new music" 💀
Josh Posey that’s actually really sad
Little dark age is pretty good tho, I rate it
They know Their songs is made for a certain kind of audience, not the general audience
I feel veey much the opposite. Their new music is a huge step forward
@@windomearle6644 Yeah, nothing is quite like anything they did after Oracular, but especially MGMT and LDA. I've never heard any albums I'd describe as "perfect" until I heard their self-titled and Little Dark Age, holy fucking mother of godly banana-containing chocolate bombs with sprinkles on top (how did I come up with this?), how did *humans* make those two albums? They are godly.
(Update: I now feel similarly about Animal Collective. They are now my favorite)
MGMT and Gorillaz are probably some of the best bands out there because of their experimental sounds and willingness to move away from their roots in recent years
wanna sprite strawberry I love them both, a good band however to listen (quite different) is Arcade Fire. They also did a vid on my fave album from them “Funeral”
@lizzy rosario True. Ask anyone who remembers me from elementary through high school. I used to be the biggest Gorillaz fanatic, and was turning everyone onto them. “Plastic Beach” and maybe “The Fall” were their last good albums, and even then, there was a noticeable drop in quality.
Then enter “Humanz” with their autotune crap, and I was like Spongebob, “Aight, I’m headin‘ out”. Their unreleased songs that didn’t even end up on “G-Sides” and “D-Sides” are still leagues better than the stuff on their last 2 albums.
Music is subjective, though, and to be honest, I can’t stand MGMT’s “Little Dark Age” either. Their second and third albums are their peak masterpieces. “Little Dark Age” is too much 80’s rehashing and trying to please the fans. Nothing innovative or new about it. Done before by many neopsych artists.
Porter and baltazar are the MGMT of Mexico 😁
wanna sprite strawberry Cage The Elephant too
@lizzy rosario the gorillaz are far from a joke 😕 what are you talking about
"they improvised over the Ghostbusters theme for hours" has me dying
I actually really enjoyed "Me and Michael" when it came out a lil while back. It could've blown up if they played on mainstream radio
Great song, my favourite from them
mine toooooo
i love me and michael
I like to think that song is a love letter from Dwight to Michael
I like it too
Little Dark Age was the perfect album for MGMT. Finding that their sound is like a gothic/dark tame impala.
Agreeeed
Devin Dyquisto
Their sound can change anytime, Congratulations was as great as Little Dark Age. And Oracular Spectacular was amazing too.
@@Laurent_08 Self-titled #1
I think Tame sounds totally different from MGMT honestly. MGMT is more freakish and unforgivingly psychedelic, which is why they are my favorite band ever. Self-titled album #1!
Mikeureko Try Animal Collective (Song Tongs to MPP are all good albums to try) if you’re looking for a band that goes even further into psychedelia.
their new album.
I s F U C K I N G G R E A T
is it out?
leaked a few days ago
Just downloaded it. Can't wait. Going to listen now
Katzen König you do know that me and michael isn't actually a cover and that was just the video, right?
Katzen König "When you die" is about a guy with an insecurity issue that he wants to hide under the attitude of being evil and mean, but the conclusion is that in the end nothing matters when you die. It also has nice trippy sound to it, I had to listen to it multiple times to get warm with it and now I love it, in my opinion it's not a "dumb" Song. LDA is amazing, Hand it over is calm political statement with a nice 70's Touch and "Me and Michael" is a joke song that, along with the video, is satire of MGMT's career and their former aversion of creating catchy pop songs. Btw it has always been their song, they let the asian band perform it to jokefully pretend that they stole it. There are flaws, nothing's perfect, but they are not as superficial as the ones you pointed out.
Tiktok: hold my beer, about to bring the boys back......
I hate that LDA is a tiktok song. I've been listening to this album since it's release and when I'm on aux my homie's like "You got this from tiktok right?" As if 2020 couldn't get any worse.
@@chuckmoney2638 no its a good thing tho
@@chuckmoney2638 there is nothing wrong with people finding songs through tiktok, it is actually one of the good things it brings. internet and apps are creating a new reality, and in every decade there was something that created a new reality and so on. it is the world going round and round, we cannot just keep things as we knew them, just because we knew them... i am a metalhead, i do not particularly listen to MGMT on repeat... but i went on instagram, on reels, and this song would keep coming up (i do not use tiktok). it sounded like some 80s goth song, something like The Cure, but not quite, looked it up and i keep listening to it, i love it (i am about to discover the rest of the album).
@@RuxLauraNae the rest of the album is so amazing I hope you like/liked it!
@@RuxLauraNae no it's cringe to have someone tell you that ur music taste is based off tiktok
My little dark age literally changed my life. Playing the music in quiet literally was my darkest age in my life to date
Are you doing alright?
okay
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 I'm doing a lot better and actually accomplishing a lot of my own goals I have thank you for asking
My little dark age is my depression anthem
Actually I discovered them by Little Dark Age and it’s just perfect.
Same like of course I knew the other songs but I really started to enjoy the band after I found little dark age
Me too! 🙋
Aeong Bread exactly
Were you living under a rock? Or just too cool?
@@ZwienerZ How rude, comments like this are cancer. Please stop being mean to people, thank you. Goodbye. Have a nice life. Thank you. You're welcome. Peace.
MGMT is what happens when you meme too hard
And the memers happen to also be skilled musicians and awesome (in the literal, original sense of the word) artists.
@@mikeexits Magnificent Musicians And Awesome Artists
Whilst listening to Flaming Lips
Check out
Quiet Soul by The Impures
Is a good song :))))
So they are Dogecoin
Honestly, in my opinion, the song “Of Moon, Birds, and Monsters” is one of their best songs. The music in that song is absolutely incredible and very underrated.
Been loving that song a lot recently
Something about “pieces of what”really moves me, grabs at the heartstrings
N alien days
It’s often cited as the magnum opus of oracular by the fans
MGMT really just re-entered mainstream success again and I love it, “Kids” is really one of those songs that almost makes me cry as it has very sentimental values.
Love MGMT.
When I saw mgmt they straight up said “we can’t wait to leave”
Ashlen Smith was the crowd terrible?
No mgmt is horrible
Damn I felt that
I would have cheered them on. Their fan base is horrible lol
It reminds me of the success of Nirvana in a weird way. Bear with me. I don't think Kurt Cobain or anybody really who ever gets just a tidal wave of nothing but success, money and critical acclaim and it happens like literally overnight ever truly expects that to happen. Eventually you become a slave to your own success. And it's also very likely that by the time they realized what they had truly signed up for with a major record deal, suddenly it doesn't matter if you feel like performing or traveling anymore. Suddenly it doesn't matter if you don't feel like playing a certain song, or acting like you enjoy it. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, they never intended to get as famous as they did and I feel like that's the same thing with MGMT. Sometimes it just happens that way and then next thing you know you aren't in control of your lives or career anymore and I can only imagine the pressure they must feel. And this entire idea they wrote some of the best pop songs of the last decade "as a joke" is something that would be lost on 90% of their fans who can't imagine they did THAT on accident.
Mgmt is the type of band to listen to at 2 am driving home from Disney when you’re 8 years old and the street lights occasionally light up the back seat and you pretend to be asleep so that when you get home your dad will carry you to your bed bc even at the age of 8 that is comforting and you don’t wanna leave that part of your childhood. Thanks for coming to my ted talk
Love this
Scarily accurate thank you
Wow that was weirdly specific lol. But yeah mgmt is mad cool
I was at a festival in San marcos and it was so true what he's saying. Everyone there were only there for the big 3. As soon as 2 of those songs were played and they started with other songs from the newer albums everyone started walking to the other stage for cage the elephant. It was extremely disrespectful in my opinion. The people didn't even give there new music a chance. It was sad for them to be like ok we'll play the song kids and most started to come back. It was also sad to see that most of them were literally there for those few songs and not the band. I stayed for the whole show and still worked my way into front row of the next stage where Cage the Elephant was playing. Even though Cage the Elephant are really popular and one of my favorite bands so was MGMT. It shocked me to see all those people leave so early just because they weren't playing they're final big hit Kids. You could tell it upset the band and rightfully so imo I was irritated as well.
Yeah but imagine a chef making food that few people actually want, when they could be making food that people do want. I wouldn't feel bad for the chef when people don't want to eat his food.
@@dfdfdgggjhjjh5081 I think it’s just abt creativity and being true to themselves is what makes them sad that no one is enjoying their true music. A person who loves to bake isn’t going to just cook bc most people like it(unless all they want is money), what they really love is to bake so they will and maybe they’ll compromise just like the band with LDA
@@clerene1769 What if every artist did this? Every film director. Every musician. Every chef. Every author. If they just made stuff that people don't like when they have the talent to make things people do like. If Michaelangelo instead of painting the sistine chapel decided to just tape bananas all over the ceiling.
@@dfdfdgggjhjjh5081 I think the point tho this that they’re making music they genuinely wanted to make and suddenly so many people bailed on them because it wasn’t the three songs. Personally I like all of their albums and I think that they showed their talent in their creativity with it, it would be pathetic to make art purely based on what everyone wants instead of what the actual artist wanted don’t you think? Michelangelo wanted to make those paintings too so-
@@lilahrodriguez2847 I think it is much more selfless and rewarding to the world for artists to make things that people like. MGMT showed with their first album that they have that ability at a very high level. They could have created a dozen more hits that people loved instead of just the big three, if they wanted to.
I actually found MGMT through Little Dark Age. I know of the other songs but I never connected them to MGMT. I suppose the band might be looking for an actual following of loyal fans instead of being a fad in the music industry
Little Dark Age was a masterpiece 🔥⚡
Yeah
The album AND the song! :)
Fermin true.
Facts
Is?
I gotta say its kinda insulting how overlooked Congratulations is. Really a great album, its just that the style wasn't as popular. Very focused concise, trippy and fun album, I particularly love Siberian Breaks.
It’s phenomenal!
flash delirium is my personal fave :)
Congratulations is a masterpiece. The entire album gives me chills every song. That particular song I could listen to 20 times a day and not get sick of it. It's too good.
MGMT is a band that is ahead of their time and people are going rejoice in their creativity when the next hipster movement comes along and spread it through the masses.
I really like hot love drama and boogie down
This is why I’m happy little dark age is doing so well
As someone who was always an mgmt fan long after oracular spectacular's release, I'm glad that they are getting more recognition after the song Little Dark Age was popularized recently. I hope the songs Me and Micheal & When you Die reach the same level of fame since they're my personal favorites from the album.
Hand it Over and Little Dark Age are my favorites. The flanger and filtering added at the end of the song really sets it apart.
They don't owe the world pop songs.
yeah but pop music is great
Fucking amen. Pop music is just artless crap to fill the silence left by uncreative people living boring same same lives while they shop around in sterile air conditioned environments for soulless plastic crap everybody else already owns. It does not teach, inspire, move nor does it stand the test of time.
Yes they do
but they need money
Fuck yeah they do not. The fans owe it to themselves to push the envelope and break out of molds already formed.
MGMT, Gorillaz and Tame Impala literally saved my life. I'm gonna stick with them till the end of times
Same
Same
Same
tame impala is the sole reason why i am still on this planet.
@@elakeyy listen to the band Pond. They share their drummer with Tame Impala and I like their sound a lot more.
I grew up with my dad listening to classics like “kids,”, “time to pretend”, “electric feel”. Now he’s passed away I listen to them and it reminds me of the past
Bro, how old are you and how old was your dad? That’s whacky. I’m only 24, but hearing someone say “I grew up with Kids” was really trippy,
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 Why so? Parents certainly may be the ones who give you basic coordinates from where you will start growing your own taste in music - most likely even unintentionally. That's how it turned up for me and it's all from very tender age :)
@@nevoobrazimiy because it makes me feel old af. I was in like middle school or early highschool when MGMT came out.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 maybe their dad was an older fellow who happened appreciated indie pop of the late 2000s
What the fuck? How old are you?
Congratulations one of my favorite albums of all time. A high school kid just diving into psychadelic music, the album was a huge curve ball. Does pay to listen to it all front-to-back
Siberian Breaks is one of the greatest Psychedelic Rock songs of all time.
PlasmaTurtle the truth
YESSS
Excellent song
Yessss
That song has me feeling some type of way! Literally one of my favs of all time too
Weekend wars is a good one. A lot of people don't seem to know it in my experience
Agreed. underrated song from that album
Highly underrated. Even if i didn’t exactly like the ending, it definitely sounds very unique, definitely out of the ordinary. Tbh, one of my favorites from Oracular, along with Pieces of What.
Agreed
Oracular Spectacular was solid gold, Weekend Wars was great. Of Moons Birds and Monsters and The Handshake were pretty sick too.
Ethan Dean agreed. Weekend Wars and The Handshake are probably my favorite songs of the album. The endings of both could have been better, but they were still great songs nonetheless
i got into their music literally a few days ago from my friend recommending little dark age, i loved the song and now love all of their songs that i've listened to so far, i hope they keep making music because i'll definetely keep supporting them!
I am almost 60 and I am glad that the flower power tradition is not dying among the young as it still apparently has something living and important to say to the world.
In other words;
They didn't sell their soul to the devil.
Supremo the handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue... Tastes like death but it looks like fun
Ionno. The new album seems to infer that direction.
Well they did sign with columbia. they did agree to re-release those prior songs. They sold their soul. Now their just rich enough to not have to give a fuck.
"I hope I die before I get sold"
Supremo you never sell your soul do the devil, that’s the ignorant Christian view of things.
Electric Feel is one of the greatest songs ever
BadBoyBrilo46 no
It isn't
please stop
Goldn Haze "please stop"? It's just an opinion leave him be.
Yesssss!!!
Flash Delirium SLAPS! Also they're just overall one of my favorite bands. I've listened to When You Die a lot more than I want to admit. I can't wait to see what they do next.
Writer: How many songs there are in your new album?
MGMT: Ten.
Writer: And how many of them are good?
MGMT: About three or four.
=
I always liked the sincerity in that answer.
i tend to agree. usually about 3 to 4 classics and a couple
interesting nothing wrong aith that
Having creative freedom is everything for an artist.
So basically they just stopped being ironic?
I feel like mgmt will never stop being ironic
oh my god where have you been all my life middle 8, you’re literally so cool, subbed to you literally after watching 2 of your videos that are 8 minutes! love you
As a guy born in 1997 this type of music reminds me of my hipster days back in 2008- 2014 I would just vibe and dance with my friends. Good times wish I could go back.
“Siberian Breaks” is on my list of top tier songs.
Enrique Berrios you're a good man, Enrique
Un classique.
Yuuus Siberian Breaks is amazing
Hell yes
Yes yes yes
I loved "Little Dark Age". Even more than "Kids" or "Electric Feel".
Same. I listened to it on repeat for idk how long when I first heard it
You’re insane but it was pretty good
Hate to say this, but I agree 100% 🙀
L H this is an unpopular opinion, but I totally agree. Though for me maybe it's just because I've listened to Kids and Electric Feels hundreds of times, lol.
L H Nothing to me can beat Electric Feel, but it beats Kids by a lot. I don't think Kids is an interesting or great song
Dude, this is one of the best videos you ever made, I come back every once in a while to watch it again. Pure genius here. You should do a follow up. Love your channel :)
Congratulations was one of those rare events where the follow up album was amazing and far exceeding the first release when the first release was a huge hit.
you can tell that mgmt "returned to their roots" with the sound of the new album not necessarily being more radio friendly but sounding a lot like the 80s (im talking talking heads vibes)
I think LDA is more of a mashup of all 3. It has the catchiness of Oracular mixed with the wonky/haunted vibes of Congrats mixed with the unforgivably intense psychedelia and jaw-droppingly astounding sound design and experimentation of their self-titled. Personally I prefer self-titled juuust a little bit, but LDA is also a masterpiece. No other album tops those 2 to me.
Their music is so different than pop. Im a metal fan, But their music was really beyond words. I love it
Same I listen to deathcore but still love mgmt!!
Exactly. That's why I don't get how it was supposed to be like a parody of Pop. I was a fan because they sounded so different than anything Pop at the time!
@@heroesofruin27 fellow metal head
Irkz exactly
Hey middle 8, this video made me (don't know how to better say it) understand music more, i loved the 3 hits but didn't know the story. And that is what i love even more than music. Again thanks
Dude your vid mixed with the song gave me goosebumps great job
I used be so obsessed with all of their music. It's Still great.
Mike Ray they have 2 good songs
Katzen König their new album is great what are you even talking about. Their first album is still their most overrated album ever, congratulations was way better than oracular spectacular
King Aesthetic Thank you sir. You know what’s up with this band.
Antonio Holley yeah they have 2 good songs and a bunch of poser Urban outfitter trust fund baby trash fans who try to justify the rest of their music...
Random Dude your opinion is trash
supporting in any direction they take us.
sneak90 Yes!!!
Right? I absolutely loved their first three albums! It sounded like a couple of friends making music they wanted to make, and I love every second of it. I can't wait to hear LDA.
Nice picture ;)
It's not on it
I think it shows how successful their latest album was because I literally only know them by that album and whilst I've heard time to pretend I have never actually listened to kids properly and I've literally never even heard of that other one.
Loved all the songs on 1st album!... going to get all albums now, just to go on their journey!
I can remember eating a m&m cookie while listening to one of these songs
Mood
I literally had the same experience what-
Imight Realperson was it supposed to be cool? tf
F*ckin love Little Dark Age
all of their music is so creative & different. i love it. love them sooo much
If I were your professor I’d give you 100% on this analysis! Lol great work, I really enjoyed it.
As a lifelong fan, this was super informative and interesting. No clickbait terminology in the title, filler content, any of that crap that keeps me off youtube. So, thanks dude!
i wish i could just accidentally and ironically make three of the most iconic songs of the 2000s
I remember not liking flash delirium on first listen, but after a few listens it turned into my favourite song. Great video.
I am a recovering addict, in 2018 I went back to heroin. One day I listened to time to pretend and was loving it. Then I started listening the whole album. This album SAVED me and my soul, future reflections is the song that I heard and kept playing it over and over that day I quit my job to go to rehab. MGMT
Also, one of many myself a recovering addict ..and drummer...battling dope, 6 months right now. The urban black and Spanish drug dealers are killing t he millennial and Gen z with targeted fentynal spiked opiates and pressed xanax.It is a white genocide targeting and affecting whites. Along with anti white media and normalization of silencing the true working class. MGMT is one of my favorite bands, but they are part of a manufactured class of poser bolshevists that are directly pushing cia backed psyops like BLM. BLM, ANTIFA, TRUMP, ETC.. ARE ALL DISTRACTIONS. The foreign occupied U.S. government must be dissolved. WORKD ECONOMIC FORUS OPERATIVES HUNG WITH PIANO WIRE. Otherwise, our grand daughters will be heroin addicted prostitutes.
"When you die" is by far my favorite of their songs
I'm one of those people guilty of only listening to their hits and never really delving deeper into their discography, but this video really leans on the idea that bands have to make hits (and do it consistently) if they want to have and keep fans. The last few minutes of the video I was really just thinking "But are they enjoying it?" If they aren't enjoying the music they're making, they're making it for everybody else, it takes it away from them. I don't think it's fair to expect someone to craft hits specifically for fans that only want that kind of music if it means rejecting the things they are creatively drawn to and enjoy making. They're not alienating anyone by making the music they want to make, they're hoping to cater to the fans that understand their true style.
Did you actually watch the video? Everything you said was mentioned in the video.
Salutations 0_o Their songs will attract fans that become loyal to them. Niche artists aren’t uncommon nowadays, being praised for their exclusivity and local feel. This results in bands being a lot more organic, less willing to cater and pander to the masses but rather want to please themselves and their fans as a whole by doing what they love. A lot of these (I hate the word “indie”) alternative, less popular artists are starting to rise up and gain a more mainstream following.
I just saw this informative video. Thanks buddy. I have been listening to them since I don't remember when. The song that would give me goosebumps is Time to pretend. It's like a flashback of memories and emotions sometimes you try to remember but you can't because life and destiny happens. I just subscribed buddy and thanks again for making this mini documentary. ❤😊
i truly love them and their music. one of my favourite groups ever forever.
"Are you excited for MGMT's new album?"
Well, I am now! Fantastic video dude.
Thank you!
Game Score Fanfare if you weren't previously excited before this video..I'm Doubting your a fan at all.
downloaded the album after this video and its fucking great
Katzen König their first album was ok although they had no freedom..more freedom came on the second album congratulations and the third self titled album..those are my favorites this new album little dark age is put into that bracket of awesomeness.
Katzen König yea I went back and listened to all of their albums after this one and I honestly like the sound on LDA the best. When we die is a fucking jam
MGMT has no idea how they have influenced my life and it’s in very silly ways. Love them so much
Loved this can't wait to see more x
Weekend Wars was the first MGMT song I heard and to date is still my favorite.
That's probably my favorite song
Same tho I haven't listened to a lot of their songs yet
I’d have to disagree with a part of this. You can still have catchy songs and completely delve into new sounds and go into new song structures and be completely experimental. Example: Tame Impala
I definitely agree, I just don’t think MGMT gets that
Tame Impala never really was experimental, though. And "Currents" isn't experimental at all. I found it a torture to listen to the album twice the whole way through, because of how generic the song structures were. I agree with your comment, though, but the second and third MGMT albums are still technically pop. "Plenty of Girls in the Sea", anyone?
lmaoing at tame impala being experimental
You spelled 'Zeppelin' wrong
JustSomebody
It's unfair to call them hispters just because they seem to refuse to FOLLOW the direction of today's mainstream music (that post - Lady Gaga sound) which almost every pop artist now does including Coldplay.
Don't forget REAL MUSICIANS are ARTISTS, not "products".
Citing Gotye in the video is actually an interesting choice. I believe he wrote Somebody That I Used To Know as his out-right attempt at a radio-friendly song, similar to MGMT and their early hits. And they were both obviously very good at it.
I had no idea. I listened to that Gotye album back when it came out and enjoyed most of it. He did a great job then of creating a radio-hit. It was playing on stations of every format from rock to top 40
Middle 8 Making Mirrors is great. His previous album Like Drawing Blood is even better. It's basically plunderphonics, constructed mostly from hundreds of samples from old vinyl records. Don't quote me on this (because I can't find the source right now) but I think at one point his computer crashed and he lost everything, including all the samples he'd found, and had to start the whole thing over again. Gotye is totally overshadowed by his one hit and is actually very interesting and talented. Why it was such a cool comparison to draw.
It's crazy that musicians like this just decide one day to make a popular song and it works.
Wrong, these songs which you consider simply "radio hits" are honestly their best works in these cases. Tried listening to that Gotye album and couldnt believe how generic and poor it was.
1m2a3t4t5 which one, Making Mirrors or Like Drawing Blood?
This was awesome!!
Really well crafted video man. Love that's its about the band and not yourself as so many struggle not to do. Got to respect them for having a genuine stance. I really like love always remains. Not sure what album it's off.
it's from the We (Don't) Care EP
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Me and michael is their BEST song. you can’t change my mind
noura that’s fucking right,why no one mentioned this song
W H E N Y O U D I E
Almost thought that song was about a gay relationship lol
It's not gay if its about Michael Burnham?
I Love You Too, Death is their best song, you can't change my mind. Yes, we self-titled lovers exist. Self-titled #1!
Congratulations is their best album.
Ed Bate I've listened to that album hundreds of times and it still hasn't grown stale.
Congratulations is definitely my favourite, after listening to Oracular too much haha
I was looking for this exact comment so I didn’t have to say it myself
Truth
It's a tie for me between Congratulations and the self-titled.
Congratulations is one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s gorgeous. especially the last lines “and lay down the quilt upon lawn, spread my arms and soak up congratulations”
It's so cool that they started with of Montreal! That's my mom's favorite band and it gives me lots of nostalgia
ME AND MICHAEL
Solid as they come
Thank you for putting out amazing content !! Excited for more videos. Some of my suggestions would be, The Garden, Ty Segall, Current Joys, Gorillaz, SWMRS, Metronomy, The Drums !
This song is "Plenty of girls in the sea" generic. Hideous
This song reminds me of the 80s :) cracks at the club x)
@@poppypopper7123 this song is awesome but you really need to hear it with the videoclip
They reminded me of empire of the sun
Hahahah. This is a joke, right?
no
@@E2EK1EL Ok. I was asking because it is the other way around. Empire of the Sun were pretty much copying MGMT style, the look their sound etc. At least draw very much influence from them. So Empire of the Sun Remind of MGMT. .. Therefore i thought you were genuinely joking. I was not taking a piss.
ok then ,idc who's copying who now.i love them both
empire came out after mgmt and were clearly riding the wave of their popularity or at least the popularity of the synthpop resurrection
Still Lovd these guys...ELECTRIC FEEL was an Anthem for my Friends & I back in the day. I've always welcomed their experimentation. Makes it Fun!
Little dark age is so viral on TikTok right now it's revitalized the band in a huge way
wow, it's strange to hear that people dislike congratulations and the self-titled album because i love all of them.
Those 2 are their best for me. Psychedelic masterpieces.
Same?? Like they were so good and so true, it's hard to believe they tanked
Video synopsis: MGMT are diehard hipsters
gur0chan
It's unfair to call them hispters just because they seem to refuse to FOLLOW the direction of today's mainstream music (that post - Lady Gaga sound) which almost every pop artist now does including Coldplay.
Don't forget REAL MUSICIANS are ARTISTS, not "products".
Novi
Booh... That's your definition of a hipster? I don't even get why people are over-using the word hipster to associate it to everything THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. lol
Yeah, I've kinda lost respect for them for having this shitty attitude tbh
@@ProximaCentauri88 even though the original meaning of hipster comes from someone being hip and being interested in the lastest trends, it's now used to categorize someone anti-mainstream.
it's often associated with flannel-wearing soy-drinking bearded men who claim stuff is too mainstream and stuff like that.
and "REAL MUSICIANS are ARTISTS, not "products"." does sound really hipster.
@@ProximaCentauri88 "refuse to follow the direction of today's mainstream music" the problem with this is that they just end up being a product/stereotype of a different group and claim they are unique. It's the same issue with the emo kids I went to high school with in the mid to late 2000's. They were non-conformist and hated what was popular but they all wore the same dark clothes, had the same haircut (you know which one I'm talking about, I don't even need to describe lol), they watched every early Tim Burton movie, and Welcome to the Black Parade is the best song of all time. Not only is it pretentious and transparent, but it ends up going so far the other direction it becomes more absurd than what they are mocking.
If anyone has seen MGMT live, you'd know why they want to alienate themselves from their audience. The people who go to their shows fucking SUCK. People like me, who are genuine fans who just want to go and enjoy their music, get shoved and pushed around by frat bros acting like they own the place, who scream "PLAY KIDS" over and over again, even over the music as they beautifully play their better songs. I remember having a bucket list item checked off as I was finally witnessing the glory of Siberian Breaks live, only to have that moment ruined by a douchebag next to me threatening to punch me in the face because I happened to physically exist in the space next to him (btw I was there first, we got there an hour beforehand and this dude just tried to muscle his way to the front 5 minutes before the show).
I genuinely think MGMT will continue to get more and more obscure until they've finally shaken themselves free from the army of douchebags that insist they play Kids at every show.
^this
dude i hope so, i want to see them so bad but im so worried that the ratio of people who are actually interested to those who want to hear like one or two songs is still so unbalanced, especially since TikTok make Electric Feel and LDA popular popular again yk. BUT they're making new music so if / when they go on tour again its to a crowd of fans, not of pushy assholes (and im sorry you got threatened i would literally be so fucking upset, i hope the rest of the show went well at least)
Yeah well they totally suck live,,, good players they aren't
Frat boys the world over need to die of very painful cancer. Mosquitos and frat boys are missed by no one when they breathe their last breath.
Are you Wojak brought to life?
I loved and still do that entire album. It was my go to when i didn't have any way of getting music other then to buy a cd. There's nothing wrong with pop, it just appeals to more people. Not everyone can listen to an entire album three times in order to appreciate it.
when you can see sounds as colors and flavors then mgmt is the best.
Lessley Lechuga i feel you
All the colors of the rainbow make brown 💩
YUP same with Gorillaz, Tame Impala, Radiohead, they all have really colorful music for some reason
You got that "synethesia"?
@@AdamBorseti my cat just walked up to me and spit right in my eye
Poes law in effect. Don't do something ironically unless you're prepared for people to start surrounding you who enjoy it in earnest.
@Booger Balls nah that's Goodwin's law. Too many laws...
amazing video, really nicely done! I'm subscribing. Thanks! :)))
little dark age is such a good song
Congratulations is incredible
Yeah it's my favorite album
1000 percent agree
Siberian breaks
Definitely underrated, but I can also more than understand why it was overlooked/dismissed, if people were initially turned on to them from their trifecta of hits from Oracular Spectacular.
Siberian Breaks is their most beautiful song
Joely Mae Greally Also their most underrated other than lady dadas nightmare which is literally the coolest opening ever.
They would come on to stage during the screams only to reveal it was them making them.
Frederick Röders kids is great- but so is everything else they make and I wish people would listen & explore
Definitely the Magnum Opus of MGMT. It's crazy to me, that Oracular Spectacular gets ignored besides the 3 songs everyone knows. And 'Congratulations' isn't just their best album, it's a damn good prog psych rock record, period.
Joey Windsor Agreed. Congratulations, such a good album. Weekend Wars deserves more mentions and listens.
All of their music is good. I'm jamming to classics of theirs, and llenty of tracks from "little dark age" that album means more to me bevause it was how I was introduced, and I just love everything about it. No matter what they make they bring something amazing to the table and never fail to amaze me. Hope they plan on releasing something soon