Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

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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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.

avoid the present perfect tense as much as possible, please.

LOL.

I just hate that the narrative of these indie bands rise and fall has become so formulaic: every now and then there is a new element such as myspace that temporarily feels like its put a new spin on the basic plotline. Then, almost as soon it becomes so integrated into the cliche as to feel invisible. I feel like being an indie music fan nowadays is very similar to being a soap opera fan, both fans seem to relish the predictability that has become so hardwired into the indie rock band template.

It's funny how just seven years after The Strokes and the claims of returning rock to it's seventies glory days of CBGBs we have this: Coming hot on the heels of the New York Noise book, "Turn The Beat Around" and a whole gamut of articles written recently, there seems to be a sudden mass acceptance that New York is no longer the "glorious shithole" that fostered punk, disco, no-wave and the whole art/pop cross-pollination of the downtown scene*. Vampire Weekend have been made into a trope for the fallout of the Giuliani era. The whole issue of their wealth is even more debated than it was with the Strokes, after 9/11, New Yorkers didn't want to dance*; now, apparently, they don't want to rock either.

*received "wisdom"

That's a roundabout way of saying I like them, they remind me a bit of a Pitchfork-ed Clang of the Yankee Reaper, to say nothing of the obvious Graceland touchstone. Popmatters managed to miss the point, mentioninging them "bigging up the dreaded reggaeton", missing the point of how alive they sound on pop radio surrounded by Kelly Rowland, Rihanna, Britney, Hot Chip (the only other indie band right now who really manage that pop effervescence), The Dream, Timbaland etc. Especially compared to a whole raft of shitty english indie-pop right now (Kate Nash, Scouting for Girls, Mark Ronson: blood lust is unexpected, and troubling).

"the dreaded reggaeton"

o_O

exactly

HEY THIS GUY IS A PARTICULARLY INTERESTING WRITER AND HE WROTE THINGS ABOUT THIS VERY BAND:

http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/01/28/beautiful-shirts/

http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/02/04/against-music-reviews/

the dreaded n+1