Vampire Weekend - Contra poll

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a t-shirt so lovely it turned all the history books grey

took me ten years to hear "richard serra skatepark," good joke

this is a perfect album

ive come around to the opinion that this is the best vw album, hearing songs like white sky, california english, and diplomat's son turn into powerhouses with their current live lineup was pretty fantastic.

One of the few albums I own that coincides with my point of view about lots of things (most of the time I'm listening to fiction).

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

1. Diplomat's Son
2. White Sky
3. Horchata

Horchata starts out awfully twee, but I really like "Here comes the feeling you thought you'd forgotten/ chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on." It reminds me of the moment at the end of Kipling's Kim where the world snaps back into focus: "Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to."

I've no doubt Koenig has annotated Kim.

The New Yorker called Vampire Weekend "Rudyard Kipling as a rock band," iirc. I don't think this is quite accurate - I think Kipling's more of a George Harrison/Cat Stevens/Bruce Springsteen combo - but there's definitely some influence there.

cousins is my choice, btw. these guys can really thrash when they want to.

you wanted good schools and friends with pools
you’re not a contra
you wanted rock and roll, complete control
well, i don’t know

never pick sides
never choose between two
well i just wanted you
i just wanted you

goddamn Ezra was cute during this era

ive come around to the opinion that this is the best vw album, hearing songs like white sky, california english, and diplomat's son turn into powerhouses with their current live lineup was pretty fantastic.

― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Thursday, November 21, 2019 3:31 PM

otm

can I just

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Glastonbury+Music+Festival+40th+Anniversary+PcOuwWRyBFSx.jpg

id bang him

eh

This is definitely my favorite vw album.

absolutely their best

Yup

that night i smoked a joint with my best friend
we found ourselves in bed, when i woke up, he was gone

I initially misread this as 'Controp poll'.

tw // sexual assault, rape

an incredible piece from tavi. i was particularly struck by this passage. i was on vw tumblr when ezra and tavi were dating and so many of us brushed it over/ignored it because it made ezra *look* bad, never considering what tavi was going through pic.twitter.com/Qh7Ou3hgU7

— iana murray (@ianamurray) February 24, 2021

nobody? the lack of traction this is getting is mystifying to me

It's discussed here: Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

ahhhh thanks

is p4k going to address this ever

talked about on tavi g thread last week

Not defending Ezra in the least here, but what exactly can p4k report on? Afaik she hasn’t mentioned him by name or specifically accused him of anything, so it seems pretty risky for any publication to run with it until there is more info, no? Obviously we can put two and two together, but it wasn’t until ERW specifically named Marilyn Manson that that whole thing spread like wildfire in the press, even though everyone knew who she was referring to years ago.

Get'em guys!

in Manson's case there was a lot that he could have been called on years ago without naming anyone else. instead his own PR/gloating was repeated and passed off as criticism/controversy. in a more p4k relevant example the same goes for ariel pink. in this case there was enough to question if there had been a habit of questioning such things even at the expense of access. of course that's probably bad capitalism. as for what they can do now, there's nothing they can do (including nothing) which wouldn't make them look complicit, which they are