Vampire Weekend - S/T

tpp · Post by **tpp** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:50 am

I got this yesterday and was pleasantly suprised. I will upload it tonight, It reminds me of Weezer with some *cough* World Music *cough* influences. This sounds terrible I know, but I listened to it last night and thought it had been done rather well. They are gettin' hype hype in the BMP (british music press), what do those of you from new york or elsewhere have to say about them.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:54 pm

I want to hate this band because of that awful name...
I will hate this band for most of the year, until the hype dies down.
Then, I'll randomly listen to their album in August and I'll love it.

This is usually how things go with bands like this.
which is why I now love Art Brut.

Indivisual · Post by **Indivisual** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:41 pm

I think Vampire Weekend is a pretty good name. and the band is awesome. seeing them in March.

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:22 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:I want to hate this band because of that awful name...
I will hate this band for most of the year, until the hype dies down.
Then, I'll randomly listen to their album in August and I'll love it.

This is usually how things go with bands like this.
which is why I now love Art Brut.

Yeah, fuck listening to or liking music for the sound, I just base my initial opinions on band names and relative level of obscurity. I too plan on blindly hating this group until I catch one of their songs unknowingly, then I'll jock it in seclusion so no one will check me on my ironclad methods of determining what is worthy of my highly refined sonic pallette.

tpp · Post by **tpp** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:36 pm

^^ rofl

The album:

www.sendspace.com/file/xoty6v

uh zip zoom · Post by **uh zip zoom** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:56 pm

this material has been floating around for a while, i'm glad it's getting a proper release.

biggest influence i've noticed, by far, is paul simon.

generally i like it and when summer comes, it will be the preferred soundtrack for when i'm cavorting around on my yacht.

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:30 pm

uh zip zoom wrote:this material has been floating around for a while, i'm glad it's getting a proper release.

biggest influence i've noticed, by far, is paul simon.

generally i like it and when summer comes, it will be the preferred soundtrack for when i'm cavorting around on my yacht.

i definitely hear the paul simon influence. i think the album is really good. it's funny, i definitely shrugged it off a few times because i thought "vampire weekend" sounded like an emo band or something i wouldn't be into, but after a few listens, i love their sound

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:25 pm

wheels wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:I want to hate this band because of that awful name...
I will hate this band for most of the year, until the hype dies down.
Then, I'll randomly listen to their album in August and I'll love it.

This is usually how things go with bands like this.
which is why I now love Art Brut.
Yeah, fuck listening to or liking music for the sound, I just base my initial opinions on band names and relative level of obscurity. I too plan on blindly hating this group until I catch one of their songs unknowingly, then I'll jock it in seclusion so no one will check me on my ironclad methods of determining what is worthy of my highly refined sonic pallette.

you got me all wrong, but that's still funny

I'm just saying I have a feeling they probably are a dope band, but like someone else said Vampire Weekend sounds like an emo band name or some serious art fag shit.

in other news happy rock music news... I'm really excited for the Los Campesinos album. I've been listening to their EP on repeat lately.
Its nothing ground breaking, but they write very catchy shit.

varick pyr · Post by **varick pyr** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:51 pm

"a-punk" is dope.

The Iron Sheik · Post by **The Iron Sheik** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:58 pm

extremely catchy stuff

reminds me of islands a bit

very stroke-y

it is immediately recognizable, which is a good thing for pop music

i like "one (blake's got a new face)" quite a bit

there's a reference to lil' jon on "oxford comma"

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:28 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
wheels wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:I want to hate this band because of that awful name...
I will hate this band for most of the year, until the hype dies down.
Then, I'll randomly listen to their album in August and I'll love it.

This is usually how things go with bands like this.
which is why I now love Art Brut.
Yeah, fuck listening to or liking music for the sound, I just base my initial opinions on band names and relative level of obscurity. I too plan on blindly hating this group until I catch one of their songs unknowingly, then I'll jock it in seclusion so no one will check me on my ironclad methods of determining what is worthy of my highly refined sonic pallette.
you got me all wrong, but that's still funny
I'm just saying I have a feeling they probably are a dope band, but like someone else said Vampire Weekend sounds like an emo band name or some serious art fag shit.

in other news happy rock music news... I'm really excited for the Los Campesinos album. I've been listening to their EP on repeat lately.
Its nothing ground breaking, but they write very catchy shit.

Yeah I was just fucking with you, but i know people who are really like that.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:41 pm

^^
Don't we all.

I'll check out that song with my name in it and base my opinion of them on that.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:30 pm

They're kinda good, somehow reminiscent of the Talking Heads. Massively overhyped of course but as others have pointed out catchy as fuck.

I'm either gonna love or hate this record by the end of the year.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:51 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:I'm just saying I have a feeling they probably are a dope band, but like someone else said Vampire Weekend sounds like an emo band name or some serious art fag shit.

Who are you fooling? 9 out of 10 times, that's the type of shit you promote.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:40 pm

coldwatermusic wrote:They're kinda good, somehow reminiscent of the Talking Heads. Massively overhyped of course but as others have pointed out catchy as fuck.

I'm either gonna love or hate this record by the end of the year.

David Byrne has said they remind him of early TH.

Is this the full album?

I was listening (can't really say bumping about this music) to the cdr release that was floating around a couple months back on my girls recommendation. Shit is really dope. Not a band to take that seriously, but catchy as fuck. Oxford Comma is prolly my favorite song (assuming this is the same material).

TeenageMoustache · Post by **TeenageMoustache** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:40 pm

How does this differ from the album called "Blue-CDR"? Someone gave that to me a while ago. I liked it, but the band is just very, well...white, which is weird, because they kind of have this Juju thing going on.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:05 pm

^^^ two additional songs. that's it.

That thing going on is white though also. they're not at all interested in "african sounds," they're interested in paul simon being interested in african sounds. This album is basically the whitest thing ever, intentionally, and I think critics are largely talking out there ass when they say the whole thing is too based on an ironic wink. They cite things like the little john line as intended to be ironic, but I'm not too sure, that line and the whole album are unapologetically, entirely based on whiteness, and playing with old whiteness and new whiteness (and a form of whiteness that is kind of secretly aspirational for white people while also being derided by white people). I think the album is more celebratory than anything else. And it's good album, just not one to take too seriously. Twelve paeans to whiteness on a CD are fine, as long as it's good music, but getting caught up in what that MEANS or if it's obnoxious or not misses the point: sometimes music is just catchy and well constructed, as for everything else, sure, but calm the fuck down.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:08 am

So, is the music any good, or is it just there for people to dissect?

I've never heard of these dudes.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:44 am

^^^ yeah, I really like it.

Deadguy · Post by **Deadguy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:10 pm

this is awful, I feel stupid for downloading this

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:19 pm

PopeyeJones wrote: They cite things like the little john line as intended to be ironic, but I'm not too sure, that line and the whole album are unapologetically, entirely based on whiteness, and playing with old whiteness and new whiteness (and a form of whiteness that is kind of secretly aspirational for white people while also being derided by white people).

are you talking about?

Indivisual · Post by **Indivisual** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:58 pm

Icesickle wrote:
PopeyeJones wrote: They cite things like the little john line as intended to be ironic, but I'm not too sure, that line and the whole album are unapologetically, entirely based on whiteness, and playing with old whiteness and new whiteness (and a form of whiteness that is kind of secretly aspirational for white people while also being derided by white people).
are you talking about?

yeah that made very little sense to me.

maybe you are talking about the "old whiteness" being the f. scott fitzgerald living in the hamptons wearing boat shoes kind of white? and the new white being indie-style black-people-jocking white kids?

what did you mean in the parentheses?

tpp · Post by **tpp** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:57 pm

I kinda see what you mean about the whiteness. Some of the songs on this are really terrible, I think the only songs I really like are the 1st one and "cape cod ...."

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:36 pm

Indivisual wrote:
Icesickle wrote:
PopeyeJones wrote: They cite things like the little john line as intended to be ironic, but I'm not too sure, that line and the whole album are unapologetically, entirely based on whiteness, and playing with old whiteness and new whiteness (and a form of whiteness that is kind of secretly aspirational for white people while also being derided by white people).
are you talking about?
yeah that made very little sense to me.

maybe you are talking about the "old whiteness" being the f. scott fitzgerald living in the hamptons wearing boat shoes kind of white? and the new white being indie-style black-people-jocking white kids?

what did you mean in the parentheses?

My bad. I didn't read what I had actually typed before posting it, that shit was hella confusing.

Indivisual, yeah, absolutely, exactly what I was *trying* to say with "old" and "new" whiteness working together in this band, even down to the examples in my head while I was writing it.

as for the parentheses, it's more about class (but race is always tied into that), but IMO a lot of white folks deride the extremes of boat shoe, Hamptons, unapologetic, old money whiteness, while still feeling an aspirational pull toward it that plays out in really strange ways (eg - kanye west fucking with those aesthetics as something both perceived as safe and something somehow perceived as dangerous for a lot of white listeners -- the exact opposite case being Eminem, who portrays a VERY different version of blackness, but there's still the safety of his whiteness in it).

In any case, my bad. I'll shut the fuck up. Let's get back to the band.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:53 pm

Read an article on these guys. Super white ivy league rich kids. No thanks.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:20 pm

cascarrabias wrote:Super white ivy league rich kids. No thanks.

I'm not a fan of spoiled brats either, but to automatically assume the music is bad based on someone's upbringing is

BlingRhames · Post by **BlingRhames** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:43 am

I made the decision a few months back that I will not listen to this if I can avoid it. all the descriptions have sounded horrible.