Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

Since when was blood, fire, and grit all that was good about music?

Note my use of an Oxford Comma there.

WHOO GIVES A FUCK

I think these guys should "interpret" some White Lion cartoons. Or perhaps even "cover" them.

Wait...

they were a New York band too

i think chaki is right

maybe this is the NY band they should be more like?

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/anthraxman.jpg

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.

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

wow @ anthrax

nyc can and has done a lot worse than anthrax over the years

that photo is amazing - their style is impeccable - except im not sure why they all need to be wearing hats?

they are just "hat guys"?

how do you go from that to having this fucking thing on yr face :(

http://www.kingsize-usa.com/uploaded_images/Rock-The-Bells.7.29.07.Scott.Matt.Sen-776580.jpg

srsly the most passive aggressive facial hair ever

they have a straight up ska song on the album. i dont see why that description is very "lol."

stfu chak-head

Chaki OTM. There are at least as many third wave ska moments on the album as there are juju ones.

i listened to 'ladies of cambridge'. are all of their songs such fey studenty bullshit?

chutup theres no horns or jumping

wtf are you in denial or something? telling people to stfu for pointing out the obvious? jesus fucking christ.

listened to 'oxford comma', ans: yes.

sry chakhead j/k - but no i dont think its v ska - also i have no idea what 3rd wave ska is

listen to the song "boston" by vampire weekend. that is 3rd wave ska.

but what of the horns and jumping?

they were jumping when they were recording that song. horns are not needed in 3rd wave ska.

but, to make up for it, 4th wave ska is played by the entire brass section of a minor philharmonic

Yes, VW does do some straight up ska, but it's more 2 Tone than anything.

LOL @ jhøshea's idea of ska being solely fueled by the kids who wore JNCO pants at his high school.

its more like 1/2 assed.

its my personal belief that people who know abt the different types of ska should just sit quietly in the corner until called upon

your beliefs are also 1/2 assed.

the people in my high school who were into ska wore little suits and rode around on scooters

did you go to school in japan?

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/026/736/26736298.jpg

uuugh

yes that is the type of music your precious vampire weekend play. face it, asshole!

lol chak

wtf are you in denial or something?

A lot of indie kids are these days. They don't want to admit that some of their most fave bands over the last four, five years have much in common with jam band culture, ska, Ween, TMBG, and other frat-hippie classics.

i went to high school w/those very guys there

I don't hear anything ska-ish except very vaguely on, yeah, "Ladies of Cambridge." Call it standard-lowering if you want, but I just appreciate hearing an airy indie-pop record that has as much rhythmic flexibility as they do, the way they can slide from rhythm to rhythm within a song -- like "Bryn," which starts out with 6-beat bars and then drops over into a straight 6/8. (That might be the wrong way to put it.) Which isn't, you know, rocket surgery, but it's a good habit for them to have.

Part of why I don't entirely dig the addition of "I Stand Corrected" is that it skews way further in a building 8th-note Strokes-pop direction; it's a perfectly likable song, but if they wrote like that all the time, I wouldn't be able to listen to them nearly as often.

nabisco you dont hear anything "ska-ish" on the song boston? you are not that dense. fwiw i kind of love Sublime.

listen to the song "boston" by vampire weekend. that is 3rd wave ska.

it's called "ladies of cambridge." it's not on the album.

oh

they renamed it to make it doubly preppy-sounding.

dreaming of boston is a total downer

i live in cambridge so fucking thanks, vampdire weakend.

And "A-Punk" is ska in a Police way.

haha chaki u mad again

boston is way more preppy than cambridge massachusetts which is waht theyre talking abt