my fav song of theirs might still be "boston"
― love will terius apart (k3vin k.), Friday, 9 October 2009 04:09 (sixteen years ago)
haha, didn't expect that coming from u - it is one of their best songs, i was ;_; that it didn't make the album
― it takes a nation of 51 to hold us back (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 October 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)
haha yeah the leak i downloaded 20 months ago or whenever had that song on it - wasnt til months later that i learned the song didnt really exist
― love will terius apart (k3vin k.), Friday, 9 October 2009 04:21 (sixteen years ago)
cuz when you left myyy roomto go to the kiiiitchen, i imagined that you were deada morbid streak ruuuns throughthe whole of my faaaam'ly
― love will terius apart (k3vin k.), Friday, 9 October 2009 04:23 (sixteen years ago)
seriously, I've always felt like "Love Plus One" is surely the biggest historical precedent for them in general
This is funny. I was thinking of Lloyd Cole as some sort of hidden influence, myself.
― Cunga, Friday, 9 October 2009 04:37 (sixteen years ago)
pfork revu
― i got nothin (deej), Friday, 9 October 2009 09:45 (sixteen years ago)
Okay, I kind of like this band now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnR-97_BGsU&feature=player_embedded
I can even play the guitar part. Sort of.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 6 November 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)
I never really listened to them until a couple requested that song for their wedding that I DJ'd so I downloaded the album and now I find I listen to it all the time.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 November 2009 04:37 (sixteen years ago)
that's pretty much how it goes.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 6 November 2009 04:51 (sixteen years ago)
"cousins" is fun
http://www.mtvu.com/video/?vid=454602
― Fellini.Kuti, Friday, 20 November 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)
"cousins" is great
video/song is straight uphttp://www.mtv.com/videos/they-might-be-giants/299742/dont-lets-start.jhtml
― some cooze (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:12 (sixteen years ago)
"cousins" is dope imo
― please banhammer don't b*hurt em (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)
easily their best song
― some cooze (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:57 (sixteen years ago)
naw
― only mod can judge me (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:58 (sixteen years ago)
uh huh
― some cooze (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)
"cousins" is fine
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)
it's definitely their most 'rawk', not that that means best or anything
― uptown churl, Thursday, 3 December 2009 03:13 (sixteen years ago)
i miss burt_stanton
― max, Thursday, 3 December 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)
this song is okay, maybe a bit too jokey or cartooney? especially the "i can feel it co-omin." not that they weren't cartooney on the first album, but this feels kind of silly.
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)
they were always pretty silly
― only mod can judge me (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:04 (sixteen years ago)
ya i take that all back. i've come around to totally liking this song in the last two hours. and the video is great, too.
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:07 (sixteen years ago)
i wonder if anything is gonna grab me like cape cod kwassa kwass did last time
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:14 (sixteen years ago)
Cape Cod and A-Punk left me cold but when I got around to hearing more of the album I learned I liked them.
― Cunga, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:12 (sixteen years ago)
cousins - i like the fast guitar and drums playing but i hate (the) ska
― Zeno, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)
Contra is now streaming on their My Space page:
http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
― Bee OK, Monday, 4 January 2010 05:05 (sixteen years ago)
"White Sky" sounds so much like Graceland era Paul Simon with a South African mbaqanga band.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2010 05:57 (sixteen years ago)
cousins is seriously good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:26 (sixteen years ago)
Stereogum Premature Evaluation
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:39 (sixteen years ago)
it's not as good :(
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:11 (sixteen years ago)
took me the better part of a year to come around to the first one. maybe this will be the same?
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)
I do like Cousins, and generally I like the more muscular sound of some of these tracks. I'm still not crazy about the vocals but they're slightly less wispy here.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:20 (sixteen years ago)
cd rip on what fyi
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:21 (sixteen years ago)
gon' buy the hell out of this in 8 days
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:23 (sixteen years ago)
the 320 rip has leaked, going to listen to that right now.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:38 (sixteen years ago)
I'm going to the United Artists' show! Any of you guys gonna be there?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:53 (sixteen years ago)
amazing album once again
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 January 2010 02:58 (sixteen years ago)
I hate the sound of his voice on the last coupla tracks, especially "Contra."
"White Sky" is a thing of beauty though.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)
the last few tracks are a bit too SECOND ALBUMS but i kind of like his crooning.
like "horchata" the whole affair is a bit ridiculous but people always took them way too seriously anyway. the lil jon lyric should've been hint enough right off the bat
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:02 (sixteen years ago)
can't wait for "omg everyone CHECK IT OUT!!!! i got CONTRA ON VINYL!!!!!" thread
― velko, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:08 (sixteen years ago)
cover is super dope imo - quite likely better than anything within
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:09 (sixteen years ago)
whatup morbs
― the bait vs. radrake david (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:14 (sixteen years ago)
also interesting
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/the-artful-dodgers-santigold-vampire-weekend.html
― tramp steamer, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
I'm more looking forward to hearing the new Santogold than the new Vampire Weekend, tbh.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 21:35 (sixteen years ago)
digging 'Run'
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:27 (sixteen years ago)
I'm really liking some of this on first listen.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 05:02 (sixteen years ago)
White Sky, Run and Cousins ftw so far.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 05:10 (sixteen years ago)
listening to 'White Sky' on repeat and watching the snow fall
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Friday, 8 January 2010 18:50 (sixteen years ago)
I wonder if it bugs Simon Reynolds that they sample M.I.A. He hasn't mentioned it yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2010 18:52 (sixteen years ago)
this album is fuckin dawgshit
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:03 (sixteen years ago)
cousins is still my jam