Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

"little Gap T-shirts"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hSPmV2a4Jkw/Su93XjgKWpI/AAAAAAAAFJs/s-YkAhAIenc/s320/Stella-baby+gap.jpg

^^^^ vampire weekend

Lady Gaga def has more balls than VampWeek

Last I looked, which admittedly was a long time ago, Columbia has a class size of about 700. Yer not necessarily gonna get a Hal Blaine out of that talent pool. Lucky enough you get a Simon & Garfunkel or a Tom Meltzer or a Keonig / Batmanglij. VW are charming, and their drummer, through observation, makes great expressions & is plenty fun to jump up & down to.

I mean, I too lament the days when bands had good drummers. The Alice Cooper Band, as an example, was a road-hardened garage rock unit before even hooking up with Alice. And then they had three album's worth of getting their act together before the record company even pushed them. Those were different times.

why does white people never want to rock?

http://twitter.com/arzE

Was that evidence for the defense or the prosecution?

Me? P4k linked to his Twitter feed so I checked it out and he's arguing with some dude who's criticizing his band. i'm on his side, but dude shouldn't engage with people trolling him.

he should argue with some dude instead of some dude

yeah that's sad, esp considering how good a troll he is himself

xp

i think this is the first time i agree with you on something, Mr. Que!

whose twitter is that? (can't look at twitters at work)

btw fuck alice cooper and the entire "i remember when men were man and bands rocked" attitude

ezra koenig's

critics ignore it when the Best Rapper Alive says faggot, but hulk-out when the Worst Rapper Alive says balaclava

about 4 hours ago from web

NAGL

oh, thx, i should have been able to figure that out from the name huh

btw fuck alice cooper and the entire "i remember when men were man and bands rocked" attitude

― call all destroyer, Friday, January 29, 2010 5:55 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this kinda makes me sad because early alice is so genius and really NOT a meat and potatoes rock thing at all more like "i remember when men were drunk mascera trannies that made tuff MC5-cum-gilbert and sullivan drug sick proto-punk operettas interspersed with caveman glam prog killer tunes'

yeah i think it's a totally valid reason to not like a band

I remember when men could speak in long polysyllabic sentences.

but the glam trannies seemed like they really wanted to have sex with you, whoever you were, is maybe his real point.

ozzy did not sound like he wanted to have sex with you

ugh artists defending their work, especially to anonymous people on the internet, is always completely embarassing

if ezra koenig doesn't stick up for vampire weekend, who will

@ErinGaetz it's a daily struggle for the righteous man in babylon

lol it's like when lily allen tweeted "i'm like gazza, the judges hate me but the people dem love me" but not as good

ozzy did not sound like he wanted to have sex with you

well he sounded like he wanted to have sex with something. a gargoyle maybe.

I don't know why she had to bring israel into the discussion

"i'm like gazza, the judges hate me but the people dem love me" rofl is this a direct quote?

@arzE your band makes great music, regardless of your background, thats all that matters... the new album is great

@arzE Please explain to this guy that you don't write songs hoping all of the blogs understand the lyrics.

@arzE Totally understand, just know that you have a TON of fans who really do appreciate your work. You guys are a truly talented band and

@arzE I always look forward to your live shows/records/development- dont let the criticism get you down, keep doing your thing!

BearSchwartz

One of my favorite musicians just tweeted me...start to a very good friday!

that's cute

allen quote in http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6725247.ece

xps

ozzy sounds like he wants to smoke you

I understand why artists that get tons of good reviews tend to pay attention to and respond to critics more, but it still amazes me when someone who gets an 80% avg on Metacritic gets all crybaby about the small minority that doesn't give them rave reviews.

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/6011062923

I understand why artists that get tons of good reviews tend to pay attention to and respond to critics more, but it still amazes me when someone who gets an 80% avg on Metacritic gets all crybaby about the small minority that doesn't give them rave reviews.

can't imagine what he was like when he got an A- at columbia

don't think Ezra's being a "crybaby." the other guy was being a dick, and Ezra reacted. he should've just ignored the dude tho

i dunno, a writer friend of mine says it takes about 20 positive comments to balance one negative one in his mind. i think it's just sort of a natural response. you put something out there, you want people to like it. i'm sure some people are better than others at shrugging off the haters, but i understand people taking it all personally. otoh it is sort of part of the deal. to be fair to ezra, his defensiveness is reasonable-sounding and not especially embarrassing.

I'm speaking more generally of his defensive tone in stuff like the Guardian interview (xpost)

if every article about me referred to me as a wasp when i was jewish i'd get pretty fucking sick of that

otm

yeah, seriously. a different topic for a different thread, but most Jews I know have a very ambiguous relationship to their own whiteness, let alone to this structure of WASPness.

huh - these guys play up the WASP-signifiers nonstop. just cause they aren't *technically* WASPs doesn't mean that that word has no place in a discussion of them.

thats uhhhh not the point

what's uhhhh the point then

i doubt dude is mad because WASP-ness is "in a discussion."

i get the sense that he is a little bit annoyed that they are described, frequently, as some kind of WASP bad.

see the distinction?

they've done everything in their power to come off as a WASP band, so if they're annoyed that people call them a WASP band, well, maybe they should stop wearing polo shirts and singing about cape cod.

He keeps patting himself on the back for using upper-class signifiers that people use to leap to conclusions about them or their music, so that's the price of the game he's playing tbh. (xpost)

they've done everything in their power to come off as a WASP band,

Jews don't wear Izod?

anyway I came up with this fascinating google search result when researching this:

http://www.strmfrnt.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7726207

MOD NOTE: linking to this site is an incredibly stupid idea that is likely to get you tempbanned. Stop it.