Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

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

gotta say i dont hear rusted root or DMB in vämpyre weekend at all, even tho im willing to go to bat for the jam 90s/2000s jam band axis

They should work "pupuseria" into one of their lyrics.

i mox u on VW thred.

― Did you say you were going to mangle the light? (staggerlee), Monday, January 18, 2010 9:20 PM (5 minutes ago)

lol @ old conflating casual typing w/ lolcat speak. why don't you email this page to your aunt or something

think i'll just keep posting in "rapspeak", goof

i think it's straight-up wacky to say vw shares musical qualities with the jamosphere

AH CONFL8D U!

ive only heard that song by these guys that is in step-brothers at the start and it's so weird hearing them compared to Paul Simon and shit when that just sounds like a mid-90s ska-punk record.

Also horchata de chufas is a very nice drink, does that make me a wasp?!?!?!

bzzzzzzzzzzzz

yes jim if youve only heard a-punk not really sure if this discussion will be meaningful to you...

serious question tho: what is a "contra" in the last song? is it slang that i dont know, or is it just a word that means something to ezra?

up up down down b a b a select start

Srsly?

The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship. Although the Contra movement included a number of separate groups, with different aims and little ideological unity, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) emerged as by far the largest. In 1987, virtually all Contra organizations were united, at least nominally, into the Nicaraguan Resistance.

From an early stage, the rebels received both overt and covert financial and military support from the United States government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time. At other times the US Congress wished to distance itself from the Contras and withdrew all overt support.