Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

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what happened was someone fucking w/nabisco or something?

-- jhøshea, Monday, January 28, 2008 5:25 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I wasn't the proto-Jagger: that thread get revived, and someone (Heave Ho?) kept pasting in my name, and at some point I think mods decided it was easier to just put on the Jagger-filter than keep coming back and snipping it out. At this point it would probably be safe to remove the filter and just go back and clean up the thread.

-- nabisco, Monday, January 28, 2008 7:15 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lets cyberfuck

I wanted to go to the show tomorrow night (at Bowery) but apparently those 15$ tickets sold out really quickly. :(

do people actually like the singer's voice? do they wish more generic indie yelpers would put a little "tally me banana" in the mix?

i mean i get why people like the IDEA of this band, "breath of fresh air" and all, its the execution i'm like why god why over.

I don't like his voice. But I don't mind it. I just find the music very catchy.

I say it's one of the most refreshing and replayable records of the year.

why didn't voxtrot have this much hype.....they seem very similar to me....thats just me though....voxtrot got recognition but VW is kind of in another league with the fast exposure

Take it back to late 2006/early 2007--every piece of media in NYC had started hyping Vampire Weekend. It seriously reminds me of the Strokes.

This is really a great band. And saying there the Artic Monkeys of 2008 is so true. Both really great bands.
I think the Vamp Weeks and the Wombats album will be the true highlights of 2008.

yeah, I mean wtf. I like the Arctic Monkeys a lot! If VW can record two albums as good as AM's, they're in good shape.

And, um, what the fuck doesm"angular" mean?)

yeah.

I like how we keep going through this same shit over and over again.

They will be hyped until their next album, then slowly forgotten. Or not so slowly (are Arctic Monkeys still alive?).

Why can't we hype artists that are continually making solid releases and/or artists who actually take CHANCES and you can listen to it without having to be in some context?

i haven't really heard these guys one of the videos i watched reminded me of the video for "just got lucky" by the joboxers

The lightness of touch is what confirms it to me as pop.

shit like this (which is so so common in indie webzines) reminds me of Xgau's crack about the macca: "I've finally figured out what people mean when they call Paulie pop--they mean he's not rock."

how many afropop combos are a three piece? Anybody else think they could do with a second percussionist or something?

or wait the singer plays guitar too, right? four piece.

if you had a better singer, bigger hooks and a better groove, these guys would really be something. namely "nothing but flowers."

i can kinda get into these guys, y'know.

And, um, what the fuck doesm"angular" mean?)

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:44 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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I think they could do with a better drummer.

I mean, how great is that?

-- gabbneb, Monday, January 28, 2008 1:22 PM

Not very.

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, January 28, 2008 1:26 PM

ZING

anyone else want white boys doing afro pop, but with some authenticity in the form of omg actual african's?
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i feel kind of weirdly proud of not having an opinion about this band. maybe i'm gonna make it after all.

I feel this burning need to do a poll on who does and does not like "Love Plus One" by Haircut 100

Hahahaha I've been meaning to reference that song on here eventually.

along the lines of "wake me when they record something as good as Love Plus One."

I don't know why but "Hourglass" by Squeeze keeps coming to mind.

THEY'RE SOPHISTI-POP

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man, where ARE the young new wave dorks making pop songs as good as Love Plus One? I mean, shit, the late 90s had LOTS more goofy awesome new wave hits than today, and yet NOW is when we're allegedly resurrecting the 80s and going "ahh yes I see some folks in NYC have discovered Johnny Hates Jazz."

really alternapop, that time between the first Tibetan Freedom Concert and Woodstock III, by way of being really gaudy and ACTUALLY SUCCESSFUL and incorporating newfangled concepts like record scratching and whatnot, was more truly in the spirit of new wave than just regurgitating the ZE catalog for bloggers.

What are you talking about? Len? Smashmouth? Lit?

all that shit between the woodstocks! it was a nutty time.

honestly, Anthony, I'd love a group now who could record a song as good as "Shattered Dreams."

well who wouldn't? too bad we just got indie dicks mumbling/mewling over some sonic signifiers of the era.

Alfred otm.

Depends how important Graceland signifiers are to you. I forgot who said upthread that VW cops the sensibility of "I Know What I Know." Which is at least an honest secondhand appropriation. Besides, are you telling me that Paul Simon-as-vocalist can't be as fey as Ezra Keonig?

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steal my sunshine is the bomb

Besides, are you telling me that Paul Simon-as-vocalist can't be as fey as Ezra Keonig?

I dunno if fey is the right word, but Simon sure has more presence on my hits comp. Srsly, it's kinda frightening that Simon and Byrne have, like, GREAT PIPES compared to the new school. Though this kid is pretty young, maybe he'll grow into it. But with so much smoke already up his ass, unless he's not happy just rocking a cult, why would he bother?

I dunno - Simon was pretty annoying as part of a folk-rock duo.

Admittedly, I can't stand S&G. I'm talking about the era these kids are jackin

why can't Ezra Koenig sing more like this man?

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Byrne sounded thin on 77, and the thinness was part of the concept. I mean, RISD punk-ass worrying about the government while sneering at compassion as a "virtue" is almost as troubling to a thirtysomething.

that's the thing about the whole new indie thing of "why would we try to be big stars when we can just put out our own albums and make music we love blah blah blah" cuz there's some shit people get better at when they're aggressively trying to court attention. without some exec or an expensive producer to beat enunciation out of them a lot of these novices are just gonna rot on the vine without ever making their one hit.

I love that side of The Talking Heads, flirting with near-right imagery, lol.

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did Tony Bongiovi beat, I don't know, human feeling into David Byrne?

Byrne had a more unique identity than any modern folks from the word go, but I'm under the impression the knob twiddlers on those 70s albums earned their cut.

Well, Isaac Brock and Britt Daniel are two older modern folks who've got plenty of identity. Koenig isn't at their level, but listening to him I imagine what it must've been like to hear 77 for the first time, especially after seeing them live. With all due respects paid to the irony of a hack engineer producing an "art" band, it still sounds plenty thin. What made Byrne at the beginning were songs, not identity; the identity came on the next album.

I'm going to relisten to 77 tonight, but even after 20 years of familiarity with the Heads' work, it still sounds like a band testing a stand-up act, then realizing, on the next album, that they could deepen the act.