Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

The ghost of my snuggie still lingers.

who indeed

― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

If you want to get into Spoon, check out Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which is quite excellent, and only about 36 minutes long.

The closer, "Black Like Me," is probably my favorite Spoon track.

eh i think the thing abt these guitar pop records is that you cant guarantee someone will like them, i mean its prolly like with Its never been like that, you either click with it in a way that elevates it or not, you cant talk someone into liking it bc its USP is pretty negligible yeah?

In general, I don't think it's possible to talk someone into liking something. The most you can hope to do is talk them into listening to it enough that if it's something they're meant to like, they'll give it enough of a chance for it to click. But you can't guarantee that it will click.

yeah i think that its pretty hard to point out something abt this that might make someone listen to it with a different intention, like when my friend libby was like "oh hey, did you notice that taylor swift is an awesome lyricist" and at first i was like really but then i was like yes u r right and the lyrics became the key to how i liked it. Like i think most things have some novelty factor that often works as a point of entry for getting it, like with phoenix its that it sounds like a formica version of the strokes, and that bateman blankness becomes the punctum i guess, but most of these bands peddle a variation on a theme, and just bc i obsessed over something quite similar doesnt mean im gonna really be that bothered with listening to spoon (or not i dont really know, but its not grabbin me str8 off)

Give them time. Some days (not just snuggie days) nothing else will do.

If you want "novelty", the two most sonically novel Spoon albums are Kill The Moonlight and the new one.

Boy, am I glad we're not talking about Vampire Weekend anymore.

Spoon; Vampire Weekend of 2010?

i think you can totally be talked into liking/disliking things & it happens on ilx all the time

agreed. i often listen to things for the first when i'm in a bad mood and doing something else at the same time, and then decide i don't like it for the longest time and invent some moronic reason about it--it's nice when someone comes along and talks some sense into me.

still like this but man "diplomat's son" is a miss and a half

how so?

maybe i need another couple listens to process it but it seems totally formless and boring--i don't think this band's sound palette is interesting enough that they should do long instrumental passages, and then the vocals come back in really briefly at the end which sounds like it's supposed to be a gotcha moment but instead just seems weird and incomplete.

I like how the sweetness of Koenig's falsetto fails to mitigate the hardness of the lyrics; he can't separate how awesome his experience with this guy was from how cruelly they treated each other.

i'll read the lyrics closely but still think these guys should not do 6-minute songs

yup

i love the melody on that -- i think of the last three songs on this CD as pretty much one song

still like this but man "diplomat's son" is a miss and a half

this is the only song on the album I like! and I like it a lot!

i really like all the songs on the album except "giving up the gun" & "diplomat's son"

spoon are safe and unremarkable

don't get this at all. spoon's minimal vibe was sort of bracing when i first heard it (i guess, without realizing it, a lot of the rock bands i like tend to fill up every nook and cranny with sound). low had a similar effect on me.

Spoon > Arctic Monkeys > Vampire Weekend

also, who's out there seeking danger in their listening experience?

i am, that's why i listen to these guys:

http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/images/stories/interviews/Watain/Watain_Band.jpg

not danger. just, you know, a surprise or two. spoon serve a purpose. i have nothing against them. they are solid dadrock or lifestyle rock. you can play them in the subaru while taking the kids to soccer practice and the kids probably won't complain. paste and no depression and xgau approved. like an ikea shelf, only music.

i don't know what you mean by "danger," but plenty of the people on this board like music that's less, uh, mannered than Vampire Weekend

never thought of spoon as dadrock. i guess it could fit.

i dunno. i like surprises, too, but i think spoon's sound was surprising, and they've perfected it. besides, what's especially surprising these days? what's the last song or band that made you think "wow, this sounds like it's floating in from another world"?

I imagine that the large majority of spoon's fans do not own subarus or have kids to take to soccer practice

for the record i will disagree with characterizations of spoon that don't recognize their deconstructionist streak--they're hardly "safe" if you're paying attention. but i'm a stan and can't really talk about this rationally.

my favorite song of theirs is "Writing and Differance"

I imagine that the large majority of spoon's fans do not own subarus or have kids to take to soccer practice

I imagine that the large majority of Spoon fans have not fucked the sons of diplomats after a few spliffs.

oy. one fling in college and they never let you forget it. geez.

"what's the last song or band that made you think "wow, this sounds like it's floating in from another world"?"

this happens to me on a regular basis to be honest. or TBH.

"I imagine that the large majority of spoon's fans do not own subarus or have kids to take to soccer practice"

i imagine differently.

not sure what kind of car the ilm board drives, but it just voted Taylor Swift for song of the year.

ya geez we're so dumb!

it's all about context, my friend.

what's the context

that thread kills me. i assume there's a clean listing of the ILX top 50 (or 100 or whatever), but i can't get to it without opening and thumbing through 2500 additional posts.

helping u

Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

thanks, k3vin

"what's the context"

can you be totally objective about pop/rock music?
what is "safe music?"
can you tell what kind of car a person drives by their dick size?

thx carles

fyi that first #1 is a joke

xp i...guess that explains the "context"??

how so?

he's trying to say that ilm has an enormous penis

VW fans should watch this, so dope

http://pitchfork.com/news/37782-vampire-weekend-do-la-blogotheque/

there awesome at deconstructing and messing around with the parts of their songs for these little sets for internet video series

yipes. people complaining about taylor swift's pitchiness should steer clear of their honeycombs cover.

will it work embedded ? these shows look like they were all tonnes of fun

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