{"id":5078,"date":"2011-06-17T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:56:29","slug":"the-nationals-england-covered-by-mumford-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-06\/the-nationals-england-covered-by-mumford-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"The National&#8217;s &#8220;England&#8221; Covered by Mumford &#038; Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just seem so natural and apropos.\u00a0 Like <strong>Mumford &amp; Sons<\/strong> covering<strong> The National&#8217;s <\/strong>great song <strong><em>England. <\/em><\/strong> The video was released as a precursor to the band&#8217;s upcoming <em>Unplugged<\/em> show on VH1, which will be broadcast next week.\u00a0 According to Marcus Mumford, the English band is  \u201cstill trying to figure out whether or not [the song is] offensive towards  English people,\u201d though he acknowledged that the Mumfords love the song and <strong>&#8220;High Violet.&#8221; <\/strong>Check out the video of this fine Mumford-ized take on <em><strong>England<\/strong><\/em> below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:uma:video:vh1.com:663128\/cp~id%3D1665488%26vid%3D663128%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Avh1.com%3A663128\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:uma:video:vh1.com:663128\/cp~id%3D1665488%26vid%3D663128%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Avh1.com%3A663128\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Tags: <a style=\"color: #439cd8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mumfordandsonsunplugged.vh1.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mumford and Sons Unplugged<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #439cd8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/artists\/az\/mumford_and_sons\/artist.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mumford and Sons<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #439cd8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/video\/music.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Music Videos<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #439cd8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/music\/you_oughta_know\/performances.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Live Performances<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just seem so natural and apropos.\u00a0 Like Mumford &amp; Sons covering The National&#8217;s great song England. The video was released as a precursor to the band&#8217;s upcoming Unplugged show on VH1, which will be broadcast next week.\u00a0 According to Marcus Mumford, the English band is \u201cstill trying to figure out whether or not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}