Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

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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nope

i would like to apologize for my spoon trolling. i was a little drunk. i kinda want a subaru wagon. my mom has one. maria's dad has one. it seems like half of massachusetts has one. they last forever! and they are good in the winter. and they could hold a lot of records.

mileage on those things is not so good man

Was listening to Contra again today and thinking that it reminds me in odd (not strictly sonic) ways of the first The Sundays album I guess - uplifting simple but widescreen indie-pop I guess. "White Sky" and "Run" and "Giving Up The Gun" feel rushy in the same fashion, I think.

27 highway/19 city for new outback. is that really bad? i don't even know. i'm not up on cars to much. and some models fo better. like 29/22.

x-post

people still adore that first sundays album. all kinds of people. that thing has serious staying power.

It's my favourite indie-pop album, no question.

iono man my dad drives one of those and he always complains about it, but he complains about a lotta shit so

ANYWAY, i think Run is the best track on this tbh but i haven't worked out why

probably the sweet fake horns

God, I love the first Sundays record.

i really like all the songs on the album except "giving up the gun" & "diplomat's son"
- k3vin

after soaking in the album, i think these two might be my favourites.

just listened to Contra for the first time yesterday and it struck me that they've pretty heavily incorporated the super-manipulated synth sounds of Batmanglij's side project. That was the most interesting thing about the Discovery album, and it both simplifies the overall aesthetic of VW and takes it in a slightly more avant direction

(can i just rep here for the sundays' drummer without deliberately drawing any contrast with, you know, anyone in particular... but he's a good example of a good drummer in a band that you don't really think of for the drumming, unless you really listen to what he's doing and what it does for the songs.)

(can I just say that's sort of how I feel about VW's bass player? cf "Holiday")

(i'd respond but i'm trying to cut back on bashing vampire weekend's rhythm section because it's not a very fulfilling hobby. need to take up stamp collecting or something.)

Dang, I was trying to read this thread and I started scrolling down fast. The part about the Jam was cool, and I don't know what I think about VW's last album, but in a few hours I have to go back to work and hear the new one around 3 times at the big box book store I work at.

So in conclusion. B&N is playing the hell out of the new Vampire Weekend album, along with Elvis Presley, Charlotee Gainsberg, some angry acoustic guitar lady, and some lady that knows somebody from the Decemberists.

Ps, I will ask the receiving manager if we can turn up the VW when it comes on so I can figure out if I have an opinion.

Which is to say, I've enjoyed it and haven't begun to hate it yet as background music. It is getting a good push, and I'd rather hear an interesting band pushed than the bizarre sub-Coldplay no-hopers they made us listen to last year.

lol hard: with a vengeance