i think chaki is right
― sleep, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe this is the NY band they should be more like?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/anthraxman.jpg
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
We don't have any finished recordings as a full band but Rostam did a sweet techo remix of our first song "Walcott." He also made a nice website for it:
Aww, dead link! Especially since ... mostly speculating, but I'm pretty sure the reason these guys work is that Koenig turns out good indie-pop song, and Batmanglij is the one who can structure and organize them so they have the depth and the movement.
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Mansard Roof 2:07 2. Ladies of Cambridge 2:45
Single release from this New York indie band with a taste for African sounds and ska. Big noise about them; highly recommended!
description from what.cd lol
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
wow @ anthrax
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
nyc can and has done a lot worse than anthrax over the years
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
that photo is amazing - their style is impeccable - except im not sure why they all need to be wearing hats?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
they are just "hat guys"?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
how do you go from that to having this fucking thing on yr face :(
http://www.kingsize-usa.com/uploaded_images/Rock-The-Bells.7.29.07.Scott.Matt.Sen-776580.jpg
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
srsly the most passive aggressive facial hair ever
they have a straight up ska song on the album. i dont see why that description is very "lol."
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
stfu chak-head
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Chaki OTM. There are at least as many third wave ska moments on the album as there are juju ones.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i listened to 'ladies of cambridge'. are all of their songs such fey studenty bullshit?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
chutup theres no horns or jumping
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf are you in denial or something? telling people to stfu for pointing out the obvious? jesus fucking christ.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
listened to 'oxford comma', ans: yes.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
sry chakhead j/k - but no i dont think its v ska - also i have no idea what 3rd wave ska is
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
listen to the song "boston" by vampire weekend. that is 3rd wave ska.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
but what of the horns and jumping?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
they were jumping when they were recording that song. horns are not needed in 3rd wave ska.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
but, to make up for it, 4th wave ska is played by the entire brass section of a minor philharmonic
― remy bean, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, VW does do some straight up ska, but it's more 2 Tone than anything.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL @ jhøshea's idea of ska being solely fueled by the kids who wore JNCO pants at his high school.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
its more like 1/2 assed.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
its my personal belief that people who know abt the different types of ska should just sit quietly in the corner until called upon
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
your beliefs are also 1/2 assed.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
the people in my high school who were into ska wore little suits and rode around on scooters
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
did you go to school in japan?
― remy bean, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/026/736/26736298.jpg
uuugh
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
yes that is the type of music your precious vampire weekend play. face it, asshole!
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lol chak
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf are you in denial or something?
A lot of indie kids are these days. They don't want to admit that some of their most fave bands over the last four, five years have much in common with jam band culture, ska, Ween, TMBG, and other frat-hippie classics.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i went to high school w/those very guys there
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't hear anything ska-ish except very vaguely on, yeah, "Ladies of Cambridge." Call it standard-lowering if you want, but I just appreciate hearing an airy indie-pop record that has as much rhythmic flexibility as they do, the way they can slide from rhythm to rhythm within a song -- like "Bryn," which starts out with 6-beat bars and then drops over into a straight 6/8. (That might be the wrong way to put it.) Which isn't, you know, rocket surgery, but it's a good habit for them to have.
Part of why I don't entirely dig the addition of "I Stand Corrected" is that it skews way further in a building 8th-note Strokes-pop direction; it's a perfectly likable song, but if they wrote like that all the time, I wouldn't be able to listen to them nearly as often.
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco you dont hear anything "ska-ish" on the song boston? you are not that dense. fwiw i kind of love Sublime.
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
it's called "ladies of cambridge." it's not on the album.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oh
― chaki, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
they renamed it to make it doubly preppy-sounding.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
dreaming of boston is a total downer
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i live in cambridge so fucking thanks, vampdire weakend.
And "A-Punk" is ska in a Police way.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
haha chaki u mad again
― max, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
boston is way more preppy than cambridge massachusetts which is waht theyre talking abt
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't even notice the great line in Bryn until this chick pointed it out - http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2008/01/29/Music/Preppy.Sure.But.Who.Cares-3173537.shtml
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
max dude DO NOT f w/chakis ska trust me
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. QN I don't know many indie kids who would have much problem with Ween and TMBG associations -- I don't know about the really young ones, but those two are standard middle-school / high-school / college listening for plenty of indie non-kids.
Also the "four/five" years bit is weird -- the done thing in the 90s was to call out post-rock for being not THAT different from listening to jam bands or Medeski Martin & Wood or whatever, and the past four/five years have been well past the point where the indie masses turned off on all things Tortoise-like
xpost - yeah Chaki we are talking about the same song, Boston/Cambridge. You could call that kinda ska-ish, sure. I just can't remember hearing that sort of thing anywhere else on this, though -- lemme try and think over it
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
is it funnier to call a faux mighty mighty bosstones song 'boston' or 'ladies of cambridge'?
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
def boston
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe the lyric should have been about 'the middle east'
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link