Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

so who's gonna tell us the first week/highest chart positions for the Arctic Monkeys, Feelies, CYHSY, french kicks, etc etc?

the second AM album debuted in the top ten, and the Feelies never charted. Beyond that, gabbs, run it past your pollsters.

I have CYHSY - Some Loud Thunder at 47

obviously their debut didn't chart because CYHSY was still in the process of inventing the internet

comparing vampire weekend, both musically and any other way, to the arctic monkeys is beyond irrelevant

or rather beyond stupid, and makes you irrelevant!

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say French Kicks didn't chart

french kicks were pretty good. sad how quick this shit turns over

French Kicks' bass player was a friend of mine in high school but haven't talked to him in a long time

Don't stick your neck out too far. There are vampires loose.

French Kicks >>> Vampire Weekend > Arctic Monkeys > CYHSY

I played this to my Babyshambles-loving housemate, coz I thought he'd love it, and he does.

aw, I like CYHSY.

Wait, Anthony, you were arguing all this time on this thread and you hadn't even heard the album yet??!?!?!?!

Wait, Anthony, you were arguing with yourself all this time on this thread and you hadn't even heard the album yet??!?!?!?!

-- nabisco, Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:34 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

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I heard their tracks on myspace and checked out a bunch of youtubes, but I hadn't heard the album in full, no.

partially because the album wasn't out yet and I felt no desire to dl the fucking thing after hearing their tracks on myspace and checking out a bunch of youtubes.

so, in summary: haterz ="this is boring music; i dont like to listen to it"
loverz ="omg why r u so hung up on class signifiers?"

i don't know how to listen to vampire weekend right

^^^ oa tee yem

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maybe a change in wardrobe will help:

http://www.mpumalangatourism.info/history/images/ndebele_sept05.jpg

Hey, it's just good pop! The only reason writers are constantly bringing up signifiers is that there's evidently no way to describe what makes a good pop album a good pop album aside from saying "it's just a good pop album!" And when indie rockers say an album is good pop you know its good pop.

Like, you know, Imperial Bedroom and shit.

And when indie rockers say an album is good pop you know its good pop. unmemorable but cheerful

This was the top album in Rhapsody this week. Followed by Tom Petty's Greatest Hits. Wild.

Vampire Weekend = Momus fans, apparently. But not the inverse.

http://imomus.livejournal.com/350070.html

LOL
momus doesn't like anything unless he thinks it's 'weird'

besides, when they said 'fans' they were talking about his writing and not his music

"Often, long after the initial, rebuffed contact from these artists [AND LONG AFTER THEY'D BECOME SUPER-FAMOUS AND SUCCESSFUL], I'd realize that they really had something."

lol @ momus posting a black dice youtube there. remember the thread where he was the last person to find out about black dice?

Momus really comes across like a dick in that post.

(ill go ahead and get it over with)

"in that post"

I was waiting for that. Hell, I almost threw that in myself.

I'm glad Momus has come to grips his lack of any real talent artistic success!

"but it's cool, because i don't want to be famous anyway, so nyah"

Momus makes some pretty good music. I just think he's ridiculously stubborn and contrarian as a person (taking from 2 years of reading his blog).

Momus hasn't had an original idea ever and lives surrounded by sycophants.

I love the Kwassa Kwassa song.

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Huh. A struck-out 4 looks exactly like a regular 4. Who knew?

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I know, right?

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4

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four

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I'm late to everything.

Just listened to this record for the first time, and spent three tracks feeling guilty for liking it as much as I do. (That was never a problem with Arctic Monkeys -- I honestly don't like them.) I had to get over it, though. This record is kinda irresistible. I will put songs on mixes for people and if they have not heard the songs, they will email me and say "I really like that Vampire song!" because it's that kind of record, too, apart from also being really good.

I will read this thread now.

Ok, I have changed my mind. I will never ever ever read this thread, you people are all kind of evil.

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Reading the arguments pro and con Vampire Weekend makes me believe that critics are slowly draining what little life is left in the music industry.