thank god it's not getting any more boring and repetitive now ur here
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha I REALLY THINK PEOPLE MIGHT STOP
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Niles Caulder shows up to school us on how to make threads more interesting.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
No, less boring
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean yr bored, you read a thread, you get into kinda following it, and then you realise it's just shit. It's annoying. Usually ILX threads of this length're interesting in some way. This one kinda isn't.
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm 94, what do I know
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hey dude why don't you shut the fuck up?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the new album.
Right, lock thread until album number 3.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread is a winna!
Btw, band here this Thursday for freeeeeeee:http://www.barnesandnoble.com/upstairs-at-the-square/index.asp
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's what I don't understand about complaining about this thread. We have how many threads a year where people get into a long discussion about a particular album/artist? Not THAT many. And clearly the issues coming up in this thread are important and interesting to someone (even if it's just the people participating). So why try to shut down that conversation? It's not like a vibrant, constantly updated Vampire Weekend thread is taking away from potential Ciara clusterfuck thread. And unless you're really willing to listen to a ton of albums, the rolling threads are pretty obscure (I only follow like 2 or 3 of them -- even if I may be interested in more genres than that I don't have the stamina to closely follow that many discourses). So if a bunch of anxieties over music (what is indie? do vampire weekend deserve their acclaim? what is entitlement in music? should privileged white kids be cribbing african sources) get aired out in this thread, I really don't see the problem. I'd much rather hear Lex + LJ bitch about Vampire Weekend than hear Niles Caulder complain that the thread doesn't titillate him enough.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean i think there's a time and a place to be cynical about some clusterfucky thread but that ignores the fact that there's actually some really good conversation in this one.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think most of the 'debate' around vampire weekend is very interesting at all tbh -- i think a lot of it is HOT BUTTON SIGNIFYING without any actual things being said about these issues, much like their music itself -- which is fine for music, but boring for discourse tbh
that said niles caulder is a trolllll
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
some people just dont understand ~beauty~
― supra-max (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this band is fucking ~~horrible~~
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
we are talking about the thread ~~~now~~~
― supra-max (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
have some horchata you'll feel bettah
― cogito, ergo some dude (dyao), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
wear a sweatah and complain about this new england weathah
whooooaaaa whooooaaaa
*african stuff*
― you forgot what a hardcore blogger is (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 21 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Contra going numbah one gave us all some sort of cathartic release and now there's really nothing left to say about this band, huh?
― Cunga, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
They are only popular because "Vampire Weekend" sounds like a trendy new team movie. Slap vampire on anything right now and it'll be #1
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
teen*** I don't know how I managed to type team
this album is f-in great by the way, way better than the first, my gf hates it tho so im not allowed to play it except on my headphones
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha why does she hate it
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
too 'twee' i think? at this point her musical taste is--if its made after 1980 and doesnt have a 4x4 beat she usually doesnt like it. this is the girl who i started dating because we both liked arcarde fire back in 2004. go figure.
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't know Arcade Fire put out anything in 1979.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont really think of these dudes as 'twee' tbh
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
max clearly didn't anticipate the dissemination of music literacy and the demise of indie consensus when he started seeing this girl. that's a dealbreaker!
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
she made a clean break with her indie past--i never really did
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Just let go!
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"precious," then? not really sure what else to call rhyming "horchata" with "balaklava," frankly
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lettttt's stop this debate here
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 January 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if i get 'twee' but i just sorta assumed it was singing w/ that unapologetic heart-on-sleeve type shit a la dude from death cab. these guys are too arch to be twee
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
twee is wrong, then. "precious."
think about it this way--she thinks vampire weekend are max fischer. i think they are rushmore. we agree on the basics but not on the attitude.
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i have been told that i am misrepresenting her views--their preciousness isnt a reason for the hatred--she just isnt 'connecting' with them--also she said she does like indie rock, like beach house
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Arcade Fire: Major label band from the 70s.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like this album as much as the first.
― tza nicholas ii (The Reverend), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
not really sure what else to call rhyming "horchata" with "balaklava," frankly
I would just go with "slant rhyme"
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 25 January 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha nabisco do you have an alarm that goes off when someone misuses "twee"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/juno1_wideweb__470x321,2.jpg
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 25 January 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
On first listen I like "Contra" far less than the first album.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 January 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I have picked my battles, though possibly not wisely
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
-Deej
So what's better for discourse?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
more discussion of bay area rap, imo
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised to hear Gucci rhyme "Horchata" with "balaclava".
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
haha true
yeah i got amigos but they dont drink horchata / just bring me kilos while rocking balaclavas
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to the album for the first time last night. I actually liked the music. As for the lyrics, I need to give a another spin. (First spin is always about the music for me; Second is more about the lyrics). I think they are an ok little band. I honestly don't know what is the hype/debate about them (or any indie band tbh). Like Spoon I just think they are pleasant.
― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean the new one "Contra."
― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
whatever else they ape. Spoon is totally where they are getting the indie rock side of their influences from imo
― tza nicholas ii (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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