learn to read :D
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
they are way more rusted root than dave matthews
― chaki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yr a couple months behind me there
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
*sigh*
there's no debating a vampire weekend fan.
― s. erkel, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
gabbneb was into rusted root before it was cool
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
they are a little rusted root, a little but .moe
― chaki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
*bit
sad but true
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
fred durst has "emotional depth." so does staind. also, nickelback.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll have to refrain from reading this thread or else i will hate this band
oh wait...too late
― rizzx, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
TS: this vs. the 2008 primaries thread on ILE
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.celebrityvalues.com/images/eddie_vedder_295.jpg
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
It seems perfectly valid to find thing lacking in blood or fire -- I'd disagree with Gabbneb and say that extends to the lyrics, too. They're not a bloody or a fiery group, it's true. (Blood and fire leave stains on blazers.) I suppose I get my blood and fire elsewhere, and come to this for rather different reasons, ranging from sedate joy to less-sedate elan, or something. Given the winter release, it's almost escapist; when spring comes it'll be less so.
But another thing I find interesting about it is that it accidentally winds up confronting what constitutes "blood" and "fire" -- e.g., does eschewing distortion and less-controlled sounds really mean a lack of blood and fire? Not doing these things is a lot of what makes them sound a little different from some of their immediate peers. I don't think they're bloody or fiery in the least, it's true; is part of my interest the fact that they run with that, unselfconsciously, without using the standard musical signifiers that might suggest it to people? This is kind of where the "refreshing" part comes from.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone remember Macha? -- their indie/world music thing seemed a little more interesting to me
-- M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:17 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Oh yeah. I saw them live once. "The Nipple Gong" ruled.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend is music for chicks that work at Urban Outfitters.
― chaki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the idea of a band using a really clean, minimal sound that brings in some cool rhythmic influences into good songs. I just don't like this band's execution very much at all.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd disagree with Gabbneb and say that extends to the lyrics, too.
I didn't say they had blood and fire - they're not Metallica or the Indigo Girls - I rejected the premise that "the entire album has no sense of pain or ... lust or intrigue."
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, California
who ever thought that being inoffensive and well-to-do was ever worth a ticket to stardom?
http://elbo.ws/ http://hypem.com/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't listen to much indie rock, but a band who does the above really well = Field Music. They're not jacking afropop obv., but their percussion arrangements are sick.
xp to myself
― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
oh sorry:
Vampire Weekend is music for chicks that work at Urban Outfitters and gabbneb.
― chaki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
how do you not i am not a chick who works at urban outfitters?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry again.
― chaki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish gabbneb was a chick that worked at urban outfitters, a lot of them are hot
― max, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not available, max, and yr a little kid
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
youre also not hot
― max, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a longstanding tradition for ny art bands to set musical and stylistic parameters within which they can excel, and then have people wonder how much of their act is real and how much a put-on. Ramones being the obv example. The Ramones were street kids from the outer boroughs, so they made themselves the platonic ideal of that. It's an extension of the idea "write what you know."
this is right on -- keep in mind i haven't even heard this album yet, but it's clear VW are a band that are easy to argue about, which means there is some crystal clear conceptual work going on (lol "branding"). PREPPIES PLAY THE AFRO-INDIE. << that could be a thread title without this band even existing and the same argument could have happened. an interlocking handful of a few clear ideas: shit, countless thousands of bands never even get that far. i guess i should hear this band.
― gff, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://stopthemadrassa.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/orangemedium2.jpg
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
The Kids Don't Stand a Chance = The Last Waltz Theme?
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
-- gabbneb, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:52 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Oh, my.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Opeth too
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
pathos, really
k
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, why does anybody care? It's just inoffensive indie-pop. Have you guys not heard Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin? IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. O_O
― Tape Store, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice, I will def check them. lol, that a funny name too!
― Choose Leif, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
rap dudes and conspiracy theorists,
plz feel the internet vibes:
http://internetvibes.blogspot.com/2005/08/vay-kay-blog.html
― tramp steamer, Thursday, 31 January 2008 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Since when was blood, fire, and grit all that was good about music?
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 31 January 2008 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Note my use of an Oxford Comma there.
WHOO GIVES A FUCK
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think these guys should "interpret" some White Lion cartoons. Or perhaps even "cover" them.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait...
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
they were a New York band too
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i think chaki is right
― sleep, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe this is the NY band they should be more like?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/anthraxman.jpg
― gabbneb, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
We don't have any finished recordings as a full band but Rostam did a sweet techo remix of our first song "Walcott." He also made a nice website for it:
Aww, dead link! Especially since ... mostly speculating, but I'm pretty sure the reason these guys work is that Koenig turns out good indie-pop song, and Batmanglij is the one who can structure and organize them so they have the depth and the movement.
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Mansard Roof 2:07 2. Ladies of Cambridge 2:45
Single release from this New York indie band with a taste for African sounds and ska. Big noise about them; highly recommended!
description from what.cd lol
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
wow @ anthrax
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
nyc can and has done a lot worse than anthrax over the years
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
that photo is amazing - their style is impeccable - except im not sure why they all need to be wearing hats?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
they are just "hat guys"?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link