I THINK UR A CONTRA
O I GET IT LIKE CONTRAPUNTAL LOLZ
In [life], counterpoint is the relationship between two or more [people] that are independent in contour and rhythm and are [sexually] interdependent.
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha. The collar on her yellow polo shirt is turned up. JUST LIKE PREPPIES IN THE 80S!
I have no real interest in this band, but that album cover is going to make me a fan.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Thursday, September 17, 2009 3:06 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark
No dice! It's Contra as in an oh-so-cheeky inversion of Sandinista! You've heard of the Clash, right? And the girl looks like the hottie in Caddyshack...
― iago g., Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
is this from the new album?http://hypem.com/track/905801/Vampire+Weekend+-+Ottomancause it's a pretty bad song
― Zeno, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
― deus ex lawnmower (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 September 2009 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like that track! Can't wait for this album
― Dan S, Saturday, 26 September 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Ottoman is from the Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist soundtrack, but I agree... it's a great song.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 26 September 2009 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
new song on vampireweekend.com
curious to hear thoughts.
― akaky akakievich, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Love it. I've already listened to it 10 times or so. Also, I've never had horchata, and now I'm going looking for some.
Vampire Weekend: stimulating the local economy.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Music's . . . okay, tho unmemorable. But I hate this group's cod-rock vibe.
"In December, drinkin' hawtchowddddaaaaa . . . " Blech.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, sorry. It's "drinkin' Horchata," not "drinkin' hot chowda."
The facts may change, but my opinion never will.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggh
― Mr. Que, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
"In December drinking horchata/ I look psychotic in a balaclava,
― Mr. Que, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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i'm indebted enough with these guys to like this song a lot but i can't help but think that they are explicitly trolling with these lyrics
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
In December, drinking horchata/I’d look psychotic in a balaclava. Winter’s cold is too much to handle/Pincher crabs that pinch in your sandals.In December, drinking horchata/Look down your glasses at that aranciata/With lips and teeth to ask how my day went/Boots and fists to pound on the pavement.Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten/Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on.You’d remember drinking horchata/You’d still enjoy it with your foot on Masada.
In December, drinking horchata/Look down your glasses at that aranciata/With lips and teeth to ask how my day went/Boots and fists to pound on the pavement.
Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten/Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on.
You’d remember drinking horchata/You’d still enjoy it with your foot on Masada.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend Secures Place As The Jimmy Buffet Of The Oughts.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is, the rhyming and phrasing is really pleasant, which is something that is def carried over from the first album but there's no way that the imagery isn't two big middle fingers to their haters
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
also i think it's important to note that ezra is kind of a goofy guy (cf his fake horror film that is the original 'vampire weekend', his jokey rapping in college) and i think rhyming shit like horchata and balaclava is his way of writing 'fun' carefree music. certainly i think that he uses his lyrics to play around with language moreso than try and rouse the listener's emotions (in this sense it's not that far from a lot of rap music)
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Indie schmindie.
And I like indie.
"(in this sense it's not that far from a lot of rap music)." Somewhere, the Wu-Tang Clan is groaning with disbelief.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i mean, if you look at a lot of lil wayne's mixtape stuff or late 90s/early 2000s jay-z or 08/09 gucci mane, you see guys who are mostly writing lyrics where rhyming and phrasing and creating images that are evocative but not necessarily meaningful or connected are more important than conveying like concrete feelings which is obv what a lot of indie rock is about
(it's easy too to draw a connection between like some of ghostface's solo work and craig finn)
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It is a natural comparison:
Lil Wayne: F--k The WorldLook, look, lookA young nigga screaming fuck the world and let 'em dieBehind tints, tryna' duck the world and smoking rieGot my bandanna 'round my head and pants to my feetAnd got my eyes fire red and glock on my seatI'm tryna' stay under intoxication'Cause I lost my father, and got a daughter, plus I'm on probationI'm drinking liquor like it's water, getting pissy drunkAnd staying away from them lil' broads that trying to give me someI keep a chopper in the trunk and my heat on my wastelineDucking the law, 'cause I ain't tryna' do no FED timeSometimes I just wish I could be awayBut I gotta take care of Reginae and keep macita straightSo I just maintain the struggle and I keep tryingBut how can I when my closest people keep dyin'I ain't lying that the law tryna' bust my cliqueBut I scream fuck the world man, I'm too young for this
Look, look, lookA young nigga screaming fuck the world and let 'em dieBehind tints, tryna' duck the world and smoking rieGot my bandanna 'round my head and pants to my feetAnd got my eyes fire red and glock on my seatI'm tryna' stay under intoxication'Cause I lost my father, and got a daughter, plus I'm on probationI'm drinking liquor like it's water, getting pissy drunkAnd staying away from them lil' broads that trying to give me someI keep a chopper in the trunk and my heat on my wastelineDucking the law, 'cause I ain't tryna' do no FED timeSometimes I just wish I could be awayBut I gotta take care of Reginae and keep macita straightSo I just maintain the struggle and I keep tryingBut how can I when my closest people keep dyin'I ain't lying that the law tryna' bust my cliqueBut I scream fuck the world man, I'm too young for this
Vampire Weekend: HorchataIn December, drinking horchata/I’d look psychotic in a balaclava. Winter’s cold is too much to handle/Pincher crabs that pinch in your sandals.In December, drinking horchata/Look down your glasses at that aranciata/With lips and teeth to ask how my day went/Boots and fists to pound on the pavement.Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten/Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on.You’d remember drinking horchata/You’d still enjoy it with your foot on Masada.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
(Okay, okay, I assume you meant the people on Lil Wayne's mixtapes, not Lil Wayne himself.)
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I think what he means is just "liking fun/interesting rhymes for their own sake"
― nabisco, Monday, 5 October 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, but you're killing my buzz with "reasoned argument."
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(j/k . . . I get J0rdan's point)
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 October 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
and like, i would be willing to believe that ezra 'freestyles' a lot of his lyrics. the opening line of "horchata" flows so smoothly & easily is & is so tied to that tinkling melody that it sounds like to me he came up with it in almost one take
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway i think this song is fantastic
I dunno how I feel about the song yet, but I like that a song about horchata now exists.
― katherine helmand province (jaymc), Monday, 5 October 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked the guitar a lot on the first album, probably the thing i liked best about most of their songs. this definitely has an AC/panda bear thing going on with that break down with the steel drum-ish synths and "OOOHHHHHHHs". obviously there's a bunch more shit going on at the end...still kinda disappointing
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 5 October 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't see the similarities with AC. Musically if not lyrically I think this song is great, and the complexity and subtlety of their musical arrangements is always underrated, because the focus is always on what they represent.
― Dan S, Monday, 5 October 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
to me this sounds like potentially their best song
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked the guitar a lot on the first album
Me too, but I also like its non-presence on this track in favor of some cheapo synthy sounds. I'll never be a VW apologist and won't defend them if it takes more than a minute of my time, but I really like what they do.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 October 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
omg this is worse than when he spilled kefir on his keffiyah
song is pretty good though
― een, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the bass line a lot; it's the string stuff that's more annoying this time -- it's cloying when set against Koenig's voice.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
there is nothing "indie schmindie" about this song or vampire weekend
― the rap battle of algiernod (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
this is pretty good, i like ottoman a bit more. most annoying thing is that he sounds the "h" in horchata. death vessel did it right on their first record fyi.
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
VW is one indie band that i think can grow sonically for as long as they want and still make music that is interesting & good. rostam and ezra are just really great musicians, i think that def got lost in the fervor over their choice of college and brand of button up
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
true--it doesn't get mentioned much but tons of the first album was pretty much home-recorded. dudes have some untapped potential still.
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
How sublime! I hope this weekend never ends.
― mo radalj, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
This song is really good, so here are my reasons for not liking this band:
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i assume that is a picture of them wearing nice clothes that is blocked at my work?
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Jody Rosen and Jonah Weiner discuss "Horchata":
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2009/10/07/track-of-the-week-vampire-weekend-s-horchata.aspx
― o. nate, Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This song is really good, so here are my reasons for not liking this band:― sleepingbag, Tuesday, October 6, 2009
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Yes yes, go on.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
glad we'll be covering the exact same critical ground again when this album drops
― don't blame pitchfork, blame america (call all destroyer), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome, let's poll this.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Faust Arp
― Unisom beeitchs. (Matt P), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
some good stuff in that slate bit
J.R.: I like Koenig, too. Good songwriter. I can't quite fathom the criticism leveled at Vampire Weekend for being, you know, too Ivy League, too effete. That's the point! They're owning it. And I think there's more intentional self-parody in Vampire Weekend's songs than they're given credit for. There's an ironic distance between the well-heeled, hyper-verbal post-collegiates who populate VW songs and Koenig himself. Although, of course, he fits that description. Come to think of it, there's a bit of Whit Stillman in the posture—the lovingly detailed, amused depiction of, as the Metropolitan director would have it, the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie. In any case, what I really like about this band are the hooks and the nifty arrangements.
this is super otm imo
― there's a blap for that (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i dunno how you could hear a line like "spilled kefir on your keffiyah" and not get a strong stillman/allen vibe off the whole thing.
― goole, Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link