Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

Big feature on VW in the new issue of Relix btw (which gets sent to me in the mail, for some reason, even though I've never written for them.) Not as big as the Drive-By Truckers cover story or Pavement feature, though. (The latter has a sidebar from Trey Anastasio, who says "Pavement was the soundtrack to the second half of the '90s for me.") Also, Jon Pareles's review of VW's New York show in this morning's Times says it was their longest show ever, yet still completely unimprovisatory. Phish fans wouldn't approve of that, right?

longest show ever at 80 minutes.

honestly, a lot more bands would do well to keep their sets that short. when i saw Monsters of Folk play in Boston last fall, they played for an interminable three hours

i think most bands should play about 40 minutes, 7 or 8 songs

i think you could leave after 40 minutes

not the same thing, plus i want to ruin it for you

although tbh half the reason the MoF show was interminable was because, for the most part, their songs aren't that good

there aren't a whole lotta bands that can carry off 3 hours IMO

MoF probably could've carried an enjoyable half hour at best

even shit i love would probably start to lose me in a super marathon set...

bruce springsteen fronting hawkwind could probably do it

there aren't a whole lotta bands that can carry off 3 hours IMO

not a lot of rock bands at least

btw seriously can't believe how many people on this thread have never drank horchata

I'm allergic to almonds/not a New England WASP

recent VW gig attendees: did they have strings with them?

Three hours of GBV on the "farewell tour" made me second-guess my fandom for the band.

xp could use an horchata right now

do they have taquerias in waspland?

there aren't a whole lotta bands that can carry off 3 hours IMO

not a lot of rock bands at least

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah jazz is a whole different thing

recent VW gig attendees: did they have strings with them?

― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe)

the Times article xhuxk mentioned said there were strings at that show

new england wasps do not drink horchata

they dont even know what it is until they go to columbia

or hear Vampire Weekend

The only three hour show I really enjoyed was a Smashing Pumpkins show in 1996 on the MCIS tour. Billy got pissed off that a bunch of people left immediately after they played "1979" and decided he wanted to "punish" them, going on to play a 20+ minute "Silverfuck" and an even longer version of "The Aeroplane Flies High". Both were epic and among my favorite versions ever.

Was the show longer than forty minutes?

Sorry, was tagging onto the 3-hour plus show talk. Back to Vampire Weekend, the album is still good.

Clash references--"contra" (as opposed to Sandinista)and "complete control." Hmmmm, are there more?

"diplomat's son" = joe strummer, right?

lol i've been wondering if the first two lines of "holiday" are a "matty groves" shoutout

Clash extensively sampled Taxi Driver in "Red Angel Dragnet"; VW do a boring song called "Taxi Cab".

VW's debut was one of my favorite albums of '08 - maybe my favorite - but I've been a little wary of downloading this new one. None of the tracks I've heard from it have really grabbed me yet, the way "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwass" grabbed me the first time I heard it. To bring in a totally dissimilar band that this situation reminds me of, Joanna Newsom's sophomore effort "Ys" was much more critically acclaimed and polished than the debut, but to me, it seemed to lose the ramshackle charm, spontaneity, and most importantly, hooks, that made the debut a wonderful thing. Rhyming "horchata" with "balaclava" or whatever does nothing for me. What I like about their lyrics is the emotional rawness at times.

They had strings, and the longest show really didn't feel particularly long. Their songs are short and tight enough that I never got bored, and they spaced out the newer less poppy stuff with the older really catchy stuff (that everyone sang along to). Also, it's my impression that bands that do really long shows (speaking from experience, The Dead, Phish, etc) do intermissions. So they are really playing two one and a half hour sets. Not a full three hour set (which would be brutal). Also, chemicals are employed to make three hours shows way enjoyable.

h8 live music so boring n loud

New album entered US chart at #1.

Shut up. Please just shut up.

---Clash references--"contra" (as opposed to Sandinista)and "complete control." Hmmmm, are there more?

I asked you to shut up

If you like them good, if you don't good, this thread honestly makes no fucking sense

-------Rhyming "horchata" with "balaclava" or whatever does nothing for me.

Tearz man

This really is the most boring repetitive ILM thread I've ever seen

thank god it's not getting any more boring and repetitive now ur here

Haha I REALLY THINK PEOPLE MIGHT STOP

Niles Caulder shows up to school us on how to make threads more interesting.

No, less boring

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.

I'm 94, what do I know

hey dude why don't you shut the fuck up?

I like the new album.

Right, lock thread until album number 3.

This thread is a winna!

Btw, band here this Thursday for freeeeeeee:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/upstairs-at-the-square/index.asp

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.

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.

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

some people just dont understand ~beauty~

this band is fucking ~~horrible~~

we are talking about the thread ~~~now~~~