my favorite song of theirs is "Writing and Differance"
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I imagine that the large majority of spoon's fans do not own subarus or have kids to take to soccer practice
I imagine that the large majority of Spoon fans have not fucked the sons of diplomats after a few spliffs.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oy. one fling in college and they never let you forget it. geez.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"what's the last song or band that made you think "wow, this sounds like it's floating in from another world"?"
this happens to me on a regular basis to be honest. or TBH.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"I imagine that the large majority of spoon's fans do not own subarus or have kids to take to soccer practice"
i imagine differently.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure what kind of car the ilm board drives, but it just voted Taylor Swift for song of the year.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
ya geez we're so dumb!
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
it's all about context, my friend.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the context
― ratface killah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
that thread kills me. i assume there's a clean listing of the ILX top 50 (or 100 or whatever), but i can't get to it without opening and thumbing through 2500 additional posts.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
helping u
Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, k3vin
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"what's the context"
can you be totally objective about pop/rock music?what is "safe music?"can you tell what kind of car a person drives by their dick size?
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
thx carles
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
fyi that first #1 is a joke
xp i...guess that explains the "context"??
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
how so?
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
he's trying to say that ilm has an enormous penis
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
VW fans should watch this, so dope
http://pitchfork.com/news/37782-vampire-weekend-do-la-blogotheque/
there awesome at deconstructing and messing around with the parts of their songs for these little sets for internet video series
― ratface killah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yipes. people complaining about taylor swift's pitchiness should steer clear of their honeycombs cover.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 February 2010 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
will it work embedded ? these shows look like they were all tonnes of fun
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― tramp steamer, Thursday, 4 February 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
nope
i would like to apologize for my spoon trolling. i was a little drunk. i kinda want a subaru wagon. my mom has one. maria's dad has one. it seems like half of massachusetts has one. they last forever! and they are good in the winter. and they could hold a lot of records.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
mileage on those things is not so good man
― goole, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Was listening to Contra again today and thinking that it reminds me in odd (not strictly sonic) ways of the first The Sundays album I guess - uplifting simple but widescreen indie-pop I guess. "White Sky" and "Run" and "Giving Up The Gun" feel rushy in the same fashion, I think.
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
27 highway/19 city for new outback. is that really bad? i don't even know. i'm not up on cars to much. and some models fo better. like 29/22.
x-post
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
people still adore that first sundays album. all kinds of people. that thing has serious staying power.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It's my favourite indie-pop album, no question.
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
iono man my dad drives one of those and he always complains about it, but he complains about a lotta shit so
ANYWAY, i think Run is the best track on this tbh but i haven't worked out why
― goole, Thursday, 4 February 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
probably the sweet fake horns
― tramp steamer, Friday, 5 February 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
God, I love the first Sundays record.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i really like all the songs on the album except "giving up the gun" & "diplomat's son" - k3vin
after soaking in the album, i think these two might be my favourites.
― Alex in Montreal, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
just listened to Contra for the first time yesterday and it struck me that they've pretty heavily incorporated the super-manipulated synth sounds of Batmanglij's side project. That was the most interesting thing about the Discovery album, and it both simplifies the overall aesthetic of VW and takes it in a slightly more avant direction
― Dan S, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
(can i just rep here for the sundays' drummer without deliberately drawing any contrast with, you know, anyone in particular... but he's a good example of a good drummer in a band that you don't really think of for the drumming, unless you really listen to what he's doing and what it does for the songs.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 5 February 2010 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(can I just say that's sort of how I feel about VW's bass player? cf "Holiday")
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 5 February 2010 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
(i'd respond but i'm trying to cut back on bashing vampire weekend's rhythm section because it's not a very fulfilling hobby. need to take up stamp collecting or something.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 5 February 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Dang, I was trying to read this thread and I started scrolling down fast. The part about the Jam was cool, and I don't know what I think about VW's last album, but in a few hours I have to go back to work and hear the new one around 3 times at the big box book store I work at.
So in conclusion. B&N is playing the hell out of the new Vampire Weekend album, along with Elvis Presley, Charlotee Gainsberg, some angry acoustic guitar lady, and some lady that knows somebody from the Decemberists.
Ps, I will ask the receiving manager if we can turn up the VW when it comes on so I can figure out if I have an opinion.
Which is to say, I've enjoyed it and haven't begun to hate it yet as background music. It is getting a good push, and I'd rather hear an interesting band pushed than the bizarre sub-Coldplay no-hopers they made us listen to last year.
― Zachary Taylor, Friday, 5 February 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol hard: with a vengeance
― Oi'll show you da loife of da moind (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 February 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't bought this album yet but i am listening to pelican west right now and that will have to do until i can find VW on vinyl. i have to go all the way to newbury comix in amherst for new vinyl.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 February 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm starting to wonder if this album is actually a vague concept album about rebellion against class roots - hence the way the album title takes the key word from "I Think Ur A Contra":
- "Holiday" seems at least in part to be about middle-to-upper-class people fetishising freedom fighter/revolutionary iconography etc.- "California English" seems to be about a college (or post-college) rich girl slumming as an educated liberal fauxhemian.- "Run" seems to be about flight from social strictures (but premised on access to inherited money)- "Giving Up The Gun" seems to be about someone who has lived as a bohemian rebel but now is stuck in a rut and doesn't know what to do.
Unfortunately I have no idea what the other songs are about ("I Think Ur A Contra" aside) so I have no idea if they might fit this. "White Sky" seems just to be a celebration of the glittering emptiness of Manhattan?
I was vaguely hoping that "Diplomat's Son" was literally about an affair with a diplomat's son - in some ways (assuming the diplomat is from overseas) an epitome of the un-strictured, privileged and protected but whose interaction with the upper-classes is fleeting and not weighed down by long-term expectations. Unfortunately a google of the lyrics suggested my interpretation was totally off.
― Tim F, Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
part of the problem is the garbled quality of a few lines, Tim, but you're not wrong. In the Rolling Stone interview Batmanglij rewrote Koenig's lyrics to make them more explicit.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
*in the RS interview Batmanglij admits to rewriting, rather.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
intentional vagueness passed off as insight
― dyao, Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Barack Obama to thread.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― hoos n nem (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
memo 2 john d this is how u amusingly zing b obama
― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Sunday, 7 February 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I drive a Subaru wagon, I love the first Sundays record, and now, at last, I have a reason to give Vampire Weekend some serious attention.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 7 February 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
the end of human civilisation as we know it:
http://www.abeano.com/blog/new-vampire-weekend-ruby-soho-rancid-cover-and-minimix
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i dig it. vocally i'm wondering if the vampire weekend dude was a big fan of sublime.
― scott seward, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I completely reversed that and was imagining the world in which Brad Nowell shoots up his last while listening to Contra.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lol ruby soho lyrics make for eerily convincing vampire weekend lyrics
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link