(I agree with most of the rest of that, by the way: they act and play about like the semi-nerdy Columbia kids they are, and don't much seem to be pretending to be anything else. I find this refreshing and kinda novel.)
xpost Yeah that number just shrunk by two legacies, innit
― nabisco, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
innit
― max, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone in ldn going to this? http://www.nme.com/news/vampire-weekend/36514
― gabbneb, Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
New Yorkers Vampire Weekend, tipped to be one of the biggest new stars of 2008. Pic: Jo McCaughey
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
got the record and am really liking some of the guitar lines. some of this is really nice and catchy and tight
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
a bit slow on the uptake with this one. i only just heard it. like what i hear so far, but assumed they were a british band, and was pleased that the uk could still at least feebly muster up a semi-interesting guitar band. now i'm disappointed, as there's plenty other stuff coming out of NYC that is better than this.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/03/popandrock
"The Hold Steady's Craig Finn is not shy about stating his literary intentions. 'I consider myself a writer as well as a songwriter,' he says. 'The further we get on from the birth of rock'n'roll, the more people who have ambitions to be a writer feel that rock'n'roll is a worthy art form to express themselves in.'"
― the pinefox, Sunday, 3 August 2008 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^a certain ilx poster better turn up and apologise for that article asap
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 3 August 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
American music is enjoying a golden moment. Literary bands, with songs that revel in intricate language, complex narratives and cinematic plot twists, are on the rise.
!!!! (Actually, I think this is true.)
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 August 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
'Becoming a rock star is something more graduates with literature degrees do than before,' says Benjamin Kunkel, novelist and co-editor of the New York journal n+1, which blends literary theory with pop culture. 'Rock'n'roll, which used to be for people under 30, is something you listen to from cradle to grave these days, and that puts new pressure on lyrics to be meaningful and intelligent.'
ugh x infinity
― velko, Sunday, 3 August 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone who considers serial commas "an obscure point of grammar" is not someone I trust to think about what's "literary" and what's not.
But I already feel like I've spent too much of my life trying to assure both music people and lit music that the judgments they map onto the other just Do Not Work and are not as interesting as they seem, so maybe we can refer here to one of those Believer music-issue threads and have done with it.
― nabisco, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably having a strongly held opinion about the use of the Oxford Comma, though, is. I assume most English speakers don't know about the difference between using a comma before the 'and' or after the 'and.' And especially don't know why you'd be pro-one or the other. (Personally, I love the Oxford comma. That's the way I was taught to do it in Grade School, and it helps remove ambiguities. 'I like to eat pizza, fish and chips,' V 'I like to eat pizza, fish, and chips.')
― Mordy, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe board policy states that I only have to apologize if people are forced to look at my picture, so I'm golden here
― J0hn D., Sunday, 3 August 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF
The Brooklyn band are noticeably short on the sort of lyrical refrains that make you want to shout along and throw beer over your friends.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 3 August 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^ Unlike, say, The Shins or Death Cab For Cutie. Hooligans.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 August 2008 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
New song Ottoman is pretty good. A lot calmer than the new stuff I've heard live. It's out there now...
― Beast, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Their cover of Everywhere is great, it just gives you the song straight up and finds a few nice dynamics in the arrangements. I never realised that song was as good without the vocoder, which is why I thought it was good.
― I know, right?, Monday, 29 September 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
They played a couple of new songs in Sheffield last night, but I don't think "Ottoman" was one of them. The second of them was particularly heavy on that ringing 1980s hi-life/Bhundus guitar style, and very tidy it sounded too.
The band did seem a little swamped by the hugeness of the venue (Sheffield Carling Academy) I'm guessing c.3000 in attendance, most of whom knew most of the words, so it was a case of people's collective memories compensating for the poor sound (drums way too high, vocals too low, bass swallowed up by the general muddy echoey rumble). Not many people there over 25. Lots and lots of dressed-up girly girls, which makes a nice change (I'm told they're a major feature at Kings Of Leon shows).
"Everywhere" was the first encore. Everyone knew the words to that one, as well. That surprised me.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/11/fucked_up_vampi.html#more
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Early this year, when some college friends and I filmed a skit spoofing indie rock (and specifically hyped bands like VW), we would dress somewhat ridiculously, like this:
http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=parodyuo1.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=parody2oy6.jpg
Little did we know that Vampire Weekend's actual publicity shots would defy our parody by mirroring it. I saw this photo after we filmed our video, so we didn't copy that one guy's outfit.
http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vampireweekendkc7.jpg
It's reminiscent of when McDonalds actually used Minor Threat in an ad campaign, two years after an ILXor joked about that very marriage of brands.
― Cunga, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Try these images again:
http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/12/19/f_parodym_b269e30.jpg
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/3/12/19/f_VampireWeekm_569ce38.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think that's an outfit, I think that's a pile of scarves strewn on a conventionally dressed person
― nabisco, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the VW photo came first
― The Federal Reserve Ban of New York (gabbneb), Friday, 19 December 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It probably did for all we know. We just discovered how hard it is to parody certain trends without it evolving into looking like a sincere homage or appearing prophetic.
― Cunga, Saturday, 20 December 2008 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i like these guys til the vocals kick in. nice african influences although a bit twee and usually not that well integrated but then you hear the singing and it ruins everything. best track on the album is the one that sounds like the strokes. or actually the ones without the african influences like the one with the violins.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 20 December 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
so . . . these guys are still partying on cape cod? p4ork4ever
― kamerad, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
― nabisco, Friday, December 19, 2008 3:47 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark
That ain't an outfit, it's a scarves race.
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP burt_stanton. This thread makes me miss the guy.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes took it next level on fallon
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 March 2009 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
LOVED that song.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 March 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah "white sky" is remarkable (now with strings!!) but i mean the whole spectacle... ezra's fleece windbreaker and 7th grade yearbook photo hair, the string players in tweed (?) hoodies, the rasta dude off to the back fumbling w/ some jug thing, the goofy drummer wearing sunglasses etc
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 March 2009 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
here is that "White Sky" song from their next album:
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 March 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
are those hemp hoodies?
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 March 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. worse than i could have imagined. like a band made up of all the millenials i work with...
― iago g., Friday, 20 March 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i was about to post that he'd become a better live singer since their snl performance until 1:49 ...
thought that the paul simon comparisons were a little overblown first time around but this sounds like a graceland outtake with strings and embarrassing falsetto.
― uptown churl, Friday, 20 March 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 March 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, 05:34 יום חמישי 19 מרץ 2009 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah "white sky" is remarkable..
OBJECTION!
― Zeno, Friday, 20 March 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it might be good with more guitars,less strings and not trying to play it too safe.
― Zeno, Friday, 20 March 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
or the faster version (which is better):
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 March 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
So, I am not sure if there's another thread talking about this, but has anyone heard the cover of "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" that Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip have done?
It now completely sounds like Gabriel meets Paul Simon. Oh and is roffle because he sings "But this feels so unnatural/Peter Gabriel too/ It feels so unnatural/to sing your own name" LOL.
Sorry if this was in another thread.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
what are ppls thoughts on discovery
― just sayin, Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Hartley vs McBain: Vampire Weekend as Sophomores
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
btw I like the discovery album but then I would
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It's tuneless and empty to my ears; the only song I've kept is the Koenig collaboration.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
this summer fall in love with autotune, all over again
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
is it okay to call this r&twee? i think i'm going to
― shamwow holdingtongue (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
To call it that there would have to be "rhythm."
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i really like this - i like that it sounds like what it is, which is two white indie kids doing r&b, and i think it serious enough but doesn't seem like they're playing dress up and it's playful enough but not like lonely island
also i think the hooks are good
― shamwow holdingtongue (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
and i think it's serious enough but doesn't seem like they're playing dress up and it's playful enough but not like lonely island
i really wasn't sure if they were going to be able to balance this out but they did!! doesn't surprise me tho because i think rostam is really talented and pretty underrated in the sphere of vampire weekend's press always being about africa and ezra and columbia and money - the dude writes really good keyboard & strings parts for vw
― shamwow holdingtongue (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link