Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

do they wear Topsiders without socks?

every person in new york fyi

what is the most VW-like DMB album?

i have no idea, you'd have to ask a dave matthews fan. but just randomly picking one of his most recent singles ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8hmVIGKcM

...

i mean, they don't sound exactly alike or anything, but this whole world-groove-lite thing that vw do, dmb and a lot of other bonnaroovian groove types have been doing for years. (and yes those bands all listened to talking heads and graceland too.) it's possible that what's being exposed is not lex's ignorance of indie, but indie fans' ignorance of world-groove hippie shit. maybe we're on the cusp of a great realignment...

was that dmb or vpw

Vampire Weekend Will Debut At One In The USA

by Paul Cashmere - January 17 2010

The new Vampire Weekend album `Contra` will be the number one album in America by the end of the week.

Hits Daily Double is reporting that the ‘Contra’ album is on its way to registering upwards of 120,000 sales over the week, based on first day sales.

This means Ke$ha’s number one with ‘Animal’ will be short-lived after debuting this week and knocking Susan Boyle from the top of the chart.

thread filled with lots of discussion about class signifiers = music lacks serious jams IMO

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, January 18, 2010 5:08 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest

lol i had this thought while out this afternoon--is it a valid criticism of vw that we seem to be having the exact same dumb conversation about the second album that we did about the first one (and the we here is not ilx but music crit at large imo)? i'm inclined not to blame the band just because people do indeed like getting trolled.

otherwise jordan s. pretty much on fire in here.

Yeah, but lex isn't trolling!

First album got a ton of airplay on Modern Rock radio.

I'm not sure why "we talk about race/class issues = the band is musically weak" would have any more purchase here than it would with respect to M.I.A.

those bands all listened to talking heads and graceland too.)

Peter Gabriel too.

maybe we're on the cusp of a great realignment...

i mean, hello, animal collective fans are half former phish fans. and a beardo disco bro is just slight more self-aware and record-obsessed jam band fan.

yeah the animal collective hippie-groove crossover was obvious a long time before it happened. will not be at all surprised for v.w. to follow suit.

THE NEXT GRATEFUL DEAD

my take is that this is the hegelian synthesis of the two biggest groups of rock fans of the last ten years.

all these little brothers whose older sibs were listening to either indie rock or jam bands are growing up and refusing 2 choose

which is fine! but people getting all "it's so indie" about vampire weekend are just leaving out the part of the equation that embarrasses them (or should).

dmb still sucks tho

Yeah, but lex isn't trolling!

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 18, 2010 8:59 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

no--jordan is otm that vw is!

bennetton fwiw

dmb still sucks tho

they do, and in at least some of the same ways (or ways related to the ways) that vampire weekend does. imho.

i don't really understand that!

Just wanna mention, I love listening to this band and this album. Makes me so happy when I listen to it.

which is fine! but people getting all "it's so indie" about vampire weekend are just leaving out the part of the equation that embarrasses them (or should).

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:08 AM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark

?i think its just confusing bc indie seems like a blanket term for so much music that really isn't indie now. also i think jam bands never really left the US bc like i said, dave matthews band only exists as a futurama punchline 2me

but based on this thread im fully open to the idea of thinking they are awesome

I'll tell you this: you fucking people are turning this thread into something as unwieldy as the DMB one.

dmb kinda sounds like sade

RIP burt_stanton

ants marching is a pretty good song tbrr

lol @ me complaining abt micro-analysis of vampire weekend -> this

this sounds pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_Nf7yGxbc

i take back what i said about dmb, theyre pretty great if yr into technically sound musicianship, overlong songs and flawless production

yeah 'the space between' is pretty great too

i feel like i am entering 'sub-max' territory here

what about rusted root?

that's definitely a band that i remember the name of, take it from me.

I'd fondle DM over Ezra Koenig certainly.

i kinda suspect the dave matthews bnd aesthetic would resonate w/ me atm

vampire weekend are no yeah yeah yeahs or xx or santogold tho.

Thank fuck.

How come everybody on this thread seems 2B wrtg in abbrevs & all wid rapspeak and shit? Would it be an undesirable signifier of class privilege to use an apostrophe?

no joke 'send me on my way' is an all-timer for me

jesus soto

using punctuation makes it seem like u care--and then u are up for mockery

i mox u on VW thred.

Trolling remark otm. the band even formed as a sort of parody/investigation of the "preppy" aesthetic iirc.

We might as well throw in Steely Dan as another reference point for VW.

xpost yeah, this is the new DMB thread.

i can say this with some confidence--vampire weekend has not yet written a song that soundtracks a road trip as well as "send me on my way."

gotta finda apostrophe brb

i think i would like this band more if they had a umlaut over the "a" and spelled it like "vampyre"

Had always avoided this band thinking I wouldn't be into them - but when I noticed this thread was turning clusterfucky I decided to stream the album and found it was excellent, would listen again.

u should check out dave matthews band

We might as well throw in Steely Dan as another reference point for VW.

― Cunga, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:21 AM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Okay, first one is a warning."

http://www.mvchamber.org/pictures/news/323.jpg

xposts (or who cares anyway but)

i'm not saying vampire weekend isn't an indie band. i'm saying they're an indie manifestation of a world-beat lineage that, sure, goes back to byrne/gabriel/paul simon and beyond, but also includes a big chunk of the modern jam-groove universe even if indie fans don't know it because they don't listen to that stuff. and when i was trying to get a handle on what exactly i don't like about vampire weekend, i realized that my reaction was similar in a lot of ways to what i don't like about a lot of that stuff. which, when i thought about it, made sense. to me, anyway. there are similar aesthetics at play, a similar facile-ness in the grooves, a sort of irritating self-congratulation in the appropriations... and, yeah, those yelpy vocals.

no joke 'send me on my way' is an all-timer for me

that's exactly the song that vw first made me think of.

Had always avoided this band thinking I wouldn't be into them - but when I noticed this thread was turning clusterfucky I decided to stream the album and found it was excellent, would listen again.

Stick around. In a week you'll be like the rest of us, looking at their tax returns and vacation history.

fav dmb jam' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGA_n5LFUw