Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

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~~~

have some horchata you'll feel bettah

wear a sweatah and complain about this new england weathah

whooooaaaa whooooaaaa

*african stuff*

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?

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

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

haha why does she hate it

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.

I didn't know Arcade Fire put out anything in 1979.

i dont really think of these dudes as 'twee' tbh

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!

she made a clean break with her indie past--i never really did

Just let go!

i dont really think of these dudes as 'twee' tbh

― 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

lettttt's stop this debate here

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

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.

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

Arcade Fire: Major label band from the 70s.

I don't like this album as much as the first.

not really sure what else to call rhyming "horchata" with "balaklava," frankly

I would just go with "slant rhyme"

hahaha nabisco do you have an alarm that goes off when someone misuses "twee"

http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/juno1_wideweb__470x321,2.jpg

On first listen I like "Contra" far less than the first album.

I have picked my battles, though possibly not wisely

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

-Deej

So what's better for discourse?

more discussion of bay area rap, imo

I wouldn't be surprised to hear Gucci rhyme "Horchata" with "balaclava".

haha true

yeah i got amigos but they dont drink horchata / just bring me kilos while rocking balaclavas

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.

I mean the new one "Contra."

whatever else they ape. Spoon is totally where they are getting the indie rock side of their influences from imo

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vampire weekend >> spoon imo

ehhhhhhhhh. I like both, but I dunno about that.

Vampire Weekend could cover "Trouble Comes Running" expertly.

let's wait and see how vampire weekend is doing in 16 years

thats 832 weekends

how many of them will actually be "vampire" weekends

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