*african stuff*
― you forgot what a hardcore blogger is (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 21 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Cunga, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha why does she hate it
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't know Arcade Fire put out anything in 1979.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont really think of these dudes as 'twee' tbh
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
she made a clean break with her indie past--i never really did
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Just let go!
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lettttt's stop this debate here
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 January 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Arcade Fire: Major label band from the 70s.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like this album as much as the first.
― tza nicholas ii (The Reverend), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
not really sure what else to call rhyming "horchata" with "balaklava," frankly
I would just go with "slant rhyme"
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 25 January 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha nabisco do you have an alarm that goes off when someone misuses "twee"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/juno1_wideweb__470x321,2.jpg
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 25 January 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
On first listen I like "Contra" far less than the first album.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 January 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I have picked my battles, though possibly not wisely
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
more discussion of bay area rap, imo
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised to hear Gucci rhyme "Horchata" with "balaclava".
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
haha true
yeah i got amigos but they dont drink horchata / just bring me kilos while rocking balaclavas
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean the new one "Contra."
― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
whatever else they ape. Spoon is totally where they are getting the indie rock side of their influences from imo
― tza nicholas ii (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
. ,
vampire weekend >> spoon imo
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ehhhhhhhhh. I like both, but I dunno about that.
― tza nicholas ii (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend could cover "Trouble Comes Running" expertly.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
let's wait and see how vampire weekend is doing in 16 years
― you forgot what a hardcore blogger is (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
thats 832 weekends
― max, Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
how many of them will actually be "vampire" weekends
all
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
of
them
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/73000107/Images/19/Twilight-New-Moon-Jacob-Poster-545.jpg
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that dude's a werewolf yo
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 January 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Wearwolf Weekend sounds like a band that would have been big in 2006/2007.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 January 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Werewolf Weekend I mean.
Wearwolf Weekend = electroclash act.
we're wolves on weekends
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Thursday, 28 January 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been told the band is now magically all over KROQ and the adult-alternative stations in L.A.
― Cunga, Thursday, 28 January 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
jessica hopper wrote a lengthy diss in the reader this week, not online yet.
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 28 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that listening to vampire weekend now constitutes a 'guilty pleasure' for me
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
yippee, better put that in google alerts.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link