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Post by roxannabananaah on Feb 6, 2010 20:44:42 GMT -5
I bet I'm going to get eaten alive here, but I really dig Vampire Weekend's new disc. I know there's much negativity towards them, but I like their songs. They make people happy. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Also, I CANNOT wait for the new Joanna Newsom album. There really isn't anything else I'm more excited for. I really hope none of it is filler, but I think she of all people would know how to filter her stuff. (:
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Post by Scarychips on Feb 6, 2010 20:56:24 GMT -5
Oh don't worry. I love Vampire Weekend. I don't care about the negativity, they make fun music.
You have someone on your side!
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Post by JackAltman on Feb 6, 2010 22:50:11 GMT -5
I think people like to say they hate Vampire Weekend the same way they like to say they hate all wealthy, clever, well-dressed private school boys. These boys are born successes, we say, and they could float by on their old money and family connections in any endeavor they could have chosen, it's just a pissy fact of life for greasy blue collar garage bands that they chose indie rock. But, I like that they chose it, because Vampire Weekend is the soundtrack to a life that Fate could have just as easily dealt me but didn't. I like them for the same reason I (embarrassingly...) like watching "Gilmore Girls" and the limited film catalog of Whit Stilman. They sound like what skipping classes at my Eastern seaboard Ivy League college would sound like, and dating a string of high-breasted rich bitches who wear tight sweaters and invite me to visit their family on Martha's Vineyard, and wearing my fraternity sweatshirt to the Homecoming game. As fashionable as it is for an Outsider to call that lifestyle repugnant, I don't know a single soul who wouldn't take it in a heartbeat. I guess I like to imagine that, 1930s movie style, that "Prince and the Pauper" switch could happen, and Vampire Weekend is a way to learn the vocabulary.
I haven't heard much of the new album yet, but I suppose it's much of the same. And that sound's pretty good to me.
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Post by lise on Feb 7, 2010 6:20:26 GMT -5
I do like Vampire Weekend, but their last album was quickly outshone by Heartland. (as for the few other albums I have listened so far). Anyway, If you like Vampire Week end, you should enjoy that: www.blogotheque.net/Vampire-Weekend,5275 I haven't seen it yet but "Soirées de poche" are usually good. |
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Post by ragamuffin on Feb 7, 2010 16:48:40 GMT -5
I don't quite see the comparision.
This made it clearer. But still, not quite. For there is a good reason to hate sleazy snobs, while music is just music. Also, I'd never ever take a life like that.
I like Vampire Weekend. I loved their s/t, though I certainly liked it better back then. As far as I'm concerned, Contra only has 3 good songs, but those songs are also great. (White Sky, Taxi Cab, Run). I hated Discovery, and I think it seems like they've taken some elements from that. Still, it's a fun album. Very accessible. If I could choose, I'd much rather have this onto the charts than whatever crappy pop music's on there these days.
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Post by Scarychips on Feb 7, 2010 17:42:57 GMT -5
I didn't listen to anything from Discovery. Seemed a bit pointless to me.
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Alyssa!
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I'm out on the street with an open case and a mandolin and with every coin I am born again
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Post by Alyssa! on Feb 7, 2010 21:47:08 GMT -5
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Post by Thomas on Feb 7, 2010 22:41:54 GMT -5
I have heard most of it and nothing could be further from the truth. If she doesn't get a MacArthur Grant for it, I'll consider the world Unfair. Truth |
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Post by Thomas on Feb 7, 2010 22:45:25 GMT -5
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Post by mattgcn on Feb 8, 2010 3:49:21 GMT -5
Broken Bells, Transference and Contra are all choice discs. Teen Dream is high up too
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Post by roxannabananaah on Feb 8, 2010 8:06:52 GMT -5
Haha, I'm not going to lie, I bought Teen Dream the first day it came out, and I think I've cried twice listening to it. XD
I think I could listen to Victoria Legrand sing all day. No one beats her, unless someone wants to debate that! (:
But really, I think I still like Devotion more.
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Post by dannyboy on Feb 8, 2010 18:37:32 GMT -5
Contra really just doesn't do it for me. They took the quirkiness that they had from their first album and destroyed it and made it just as mundane as all the other plain albums that have come out thus far. You don't need autotune to be awesome. Some songs (White Sky, Taxi Cab) keep their style the way it was and made it even better. Forget cousins and I think you're a contra and all that jazz and give me what we had. BTW, I loved discovery...
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Post by heathenpoet on Feb 8, 2010 19:46:01 GMT -5
Oh, I'm so excited for Ms. Newsom too. I've seen a couple of live clips, and the new stuff looks great! Much better than the piano stuff she debuted when I saw her a few years ago at Somerset House!
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Post by Thomas on Feb 9, 2010 1:32:18 GMT -5
Teen Dream by Beach House is chiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllllllll. I really like it, and I hated the previous beach house albums.
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Post by Richie on Feb 9, 2010 2:13:43 GMT -5
I have heard most of it and nothing could be further from the truth. If she doesn't get a MacArthur Grant for it, I'll consider the world Unfair. Truth oh no, it didn't leak did it? ahh, I know she's going through all these precautions to prevent a leak. I hope it stays safe as long as it can... |
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