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Vampire Weekend — A-Punk
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KevinM
(Long Beach, Ca)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 20:02
 
Hey, I can play 3 chords on the guitar too! maybe I can start a band and write simple sucky songs like they do!

Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 07:33
 
 bzahradnik wrote:
Great tune.  Great album.  Fun band.  
 
Great album, their following one just failed in everything.

ce
(The Netherlands)
Posted: Jul 04, 2012 - 03:10
 
 spigolli wrote:
Just remembered where I'd heard this tune -

http://www.youtube.com/v/MkTPrX7PdJM?fs=1&hl=en_US 

I first heard it here, it really got my attention quickly:

BBC 6 Music TV advert (2009)

Instant happiness in a song!

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

PA1749
(Room 106)
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 12:06
 

"She took the ring from his lilly white hand. She showed no fear. She'd seen the thing before at Sloan-Kettering." Lyrics like that deserve a little attention...just sayin



Eros92450
(Loveland, Colorado)
Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 02:47
 
Kind of .....annoying.

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 10:31
 
A bunch of college boys who think all you need to do is pick up instruments and play some noise and you'll be famous.

Too bad they were right.

Thus soul-less noise. 

hubcapsally
(Peeyay)
Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 10:28
 
Vampire Weekend sucks. No pun intended.

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 16:22
 
Oh yes - the XTC wannabe's with no soul......

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 24, 2011 - 09:05
 
 Sasha2001 wrote:
This is probably their best song. The problem with this band is that they can't seem to escape their patrician, Ivy League pedigree. Its hard to care about a band that sings about a bus ride from one rich neighborhood to another in uptown Manhattan. Most bands with this kind of upbringing at least try to mask it somehow. I'm thinking of Radiohead and The Strokes as bands that jettisoned their well-heeled roots when it came to writing about more universal themes.
 
Generally, it's not the best practice (or "honest") for an artist or songwriter to disregard where they came from in order to try and create works about "universal themes" - unless they intend to be purely commercial.


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 14:51
 
Sasha2001 wrote:
This is probably their best song. The problem with this band is that they can't seem to escape their patrician, Ivy League pedigree. Its hard to care about a band that sings about a bus ride from one rich neighborhood to another in uptown Manhattan. Most bands with this kind of upbringing at least try to mask it somehow. I'm thinking of Radiohead and The Strokes as bands that jettisoned their well-heeled roots when it came to writing about more universal themes.
Sasha, I'm no fan of this band - but a life of luxury is just as valid and just as good fodder for art as any other life. Why would you want to mask who you are? Here's to more truth, more storytelling, more art.

neckbone
(Milwaukee, WI)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 14:48
 
 Photo-John wrote:
I want to punch this band in the face.

Does not sound like Slayer.
 
Best comment ever!


Sasha2001
(Running from Zombies)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 16:12
 
This is probably their best song. The problem with this band is that they can't seem to escape their patrician, Ivy League pedigree. Its hard to care about a band that sings about a bus ride from one rich neighborhood to another in uptown Manhattan. Most bands with this kind of upbringing at least try to mask it somehow. I'm thinking of Radiohead and The Strokes as bands that jettisoned their well-heeled roots when it came to writing about more universal themes.



yodasan_magoo
Posted: Nov 18, 2010 - 12:56
 
Vampire Weekend continues with their suckfest.  Not a song on this album that rates above a 1.

Photo-John
(Nor Cal to SLC)
Posted: Nov 18, 2010 - 12:55
 
I want to punch this band in the face.

Does not sound like Slayer.

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Sep 09, 2010 - 06:38
 
Just remembered where I'd heard this tune -





auckland
(Offenbach, Germany)
Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 04:18
 
just love it - wouldn't mind to have their whole first album on RP's playlist

(their follow-up album hasn't got me quite that much)

My favourites: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa and The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
Maybe Bill and Rebecca have some sympathy with me and add the songs one distant day....

coentje
(Rotterdam or anywhere...)
Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 12:16
 
 planet_lizard wrote:
I play this to my class of 10 and 11 yr olds at my peril - they end up bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Save it for Friday afternoon then throw them out the door....
 
{#Roflol}


Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Jun 12, 2010 - 07:43
 
boooooooooooooooooooooring!!!!

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 08:01
 
ska ska ska

Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 08:00
 
This one always makes me smile, especially when watching the music video...

8

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 19:45
 
 planet_lizard wrote:
I play this to my class of 10 and 11 yr olds at my peril - they end up bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Save it for Friday afternoon then throw them out the door....
 
I have a 16-year-old from whom this elicits involuntary drooling. Lizards rule.


planet_lizard
(Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy)
Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 09:23
 
I play this to my class of 10 and 11 yr olds at my peril - they end up bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Save it for Friday afternoon then throw them out the door....

AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 09:22
 
Hey, how about something from VW's new album?

radams005
Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 10:19
 
 flyboy wrote:
I got this album for Christmas.  It's a big hit in the house.  My 5 year old daughter and 1 year old son like to jump around to this song.  It's the first song he's sung along to. "Hey, hey, hey!"  Which is about the extent of his talking ablity right now.  It's extremely cute.
 
They may be missing a market — my five year old also LOVES this song.  Although who can you not with the Ay Ay Ays!


flyboy
(Sarah Palin's Hometown)
Posted: Jan 11, 2010 - 15:05
 
I got this album for Christmas.  It's a big hit in the house.  My 5 year old daughter and 1 year old son like to jump around to this song.  It's the first song he's sung along to. "Hey, hey, hey!"  Which is about the extent of his talking ablity right now.  It's extremely cute.

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 10:19
 
 dolfan wrote:
Wait...I uploaded this and got a sorry...now it's here?  Huh?  What gives?  Don't get me wrong, glad to hear it, but...huh?

 
The story of my life. {#Mrgreen}

It really hurts my upload percentages.



j7
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 15:52
 
 Brooky wrote:
crazy 80s sounds to it./..bouncey
 
It goes from a Specials/English Beat thing to an XTC chorus.
Cool


Brooky
(Upstate NY, where at all nothing makes sense)
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 10:38
 
crazy 80s sounds to it./..bouncey

bzahradnik
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 10:37
 
Great tune.  Great album.  Fun band.  

cmrump
(Flatland)
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 10:06
 
Need to upload Oxford Comma

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 08:45
 
 pinklife wrote:


For some reason I want to think it's about trying to practice safe sex and the condom breaking...something about "look outside, the raincoat's gone, I say 'Oh!'".
 
LOL! {#Cheesygrin}

Any mention of raincoats puts me in mind of Richard Kadrey's anarcho-situationist novel Metrophage, where one of the characters declares: "I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave until I get my raincoat back." 

newwavegurly
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 08:44
 
 horstman wrote:
Definitely worth buying if you like this song. These guys are very imaginative and playful. I bought it and have not been disappointed.
 
I did wind up buying it, and I like it very much. Thanks to you and winter for the recommendation.
 
I played this song for my nephew on a recent visit, as I knew he would appreciate the interesting guitar sound (he's a Guitar Hero junkie, and has quickly become an avid fan of all sorts of music) and the "Aye Aye Aye Aye" in it (as he is also a fan of "Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones). Oh, and did I mention he's all of 10 1/2 years old?

Photo-John
(Nor Cal to SLC)
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 08:44
 
Annoying. Not as grating as Cloud Cult, who I'd like to kill. But I could certainly do without this.

pinklife
(St. Augustine, FL)
Posted: May 14, 2009 - 14:07
 
 sweettone wrote:
This song makes me smile and want to dance, even if I don't understand the meaning of the lyrics, although they have an interesting fairytale quality to them.
 

For some reason I want to think it's about trying to practice safe sex and the condom breaking...something about "look outside, the raincoat's gone, I say 'Oh!'".

bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: May 14, 2009 - 14:07
 
 wrangler wrote:
can't quite put my finger on it, but these guys annoy the crap out of me
 
I can put my finger on it: these guys are truly annoying (at least on this piece). The sound is totally derivative and contrived. It simply lacks what I think of as authenticity. Maybe they are completely serious about their music, but this is one of the few that immediately induces the mute response. 

rah
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 10:58
 
I suppose it's only to be expected; every decade for the last 40 years some band or other comes along and pretends like no one has ever heard of skanking before...

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 09:08
 
can't quite put my finger on it, but these guys annoy the crap out of me

Radio_Dweeb
(Maryland)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 06:01
 
 gandalfbmg wrote:
Sorry, but I don't get these guys (they sound like bad REM/Police cover band to me)...  and I'm getting tired of hearing this everywhere...
 

That's the boat I'm in, they're pushed so much and I just don't get it.  Guess everyone has that band everyone loves except them.

kulbreez
Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 14:21
 
After reading the English Beat comment below, I find myself singing 'Stand down Margaret, Stand down please, Stand down Margaret...' My own internal mash-up?

copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 09:21
 
 philipburrows wrote:
Had this album since it came out, so perhaps a little tired of it. Its alright, but we've heard it all before. These boys must have only got 2 albums from Santa, Graceland and The Beats Greatest Hits (known as the English Beat to my US cousins I believe). All the "cool kids" have the right ball ache for them over here...if you know what I mean.
 

This is funny—and mostly true. But, I'm thinking not too many bands could successfully put those two influences together and make something as familiar and fresh at the same time. Vampire Weekend does this throughout the record—and even though they're all yanks with fake-brit accents—it still works quite well!

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 09:19
 
I am addicted to this song. HEY HEY HEY!!!

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 09:19
 
Sounds like that Weezer song about going surfing while the wife goes to work.


contractor07
(Ann Arbor Michigan)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 09:18
 
great album

horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 07:18
 
 winter wrote:

Absolutely. It's one of my favorites this year - not a bad song in the bunch.
 
I don't know. One (Blakes Got a New Face) is pretty annoying.

But the rest of the album is a gem.


TravelRat
(Siberia)
Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 07:14
 
I can't say I'm loving this tune, but I like the band name.

Oscar_the_Grouch
(In my trash can)
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 15:44
 
Power pop FTW

lathyris
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 08:09
 
 Mack wrote:


Isn't it Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay - Ay, Ay, Ay , Ay?
 

Oh, I wasn't singing along. I was just showing my happiness that this song was on :)

Mack
(West London, North of the river.)
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 08:06
 
 lathyris wrote:
yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!
 

Isn't it Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay - Ay, Ay, Ay , Ay?

lathyris
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 08:04
 
yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!

Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida)
Posted: Jan 19, 2009 - 14:00
 
This song has the kind of energy I tend to associate with The Ramones' tune "I Wanna Be Sedated"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Sedated

Update (1/30/09):
moving from 8 to 9!  {#Bananapiano}