I'm not saying Vampire Weekend is greater than The Beatles...

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  • Jun 22, 2021
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    knockknockwhoitis

    But they are certainly in the same tier. Is this even controversial?

    absolutely not lmao

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    fiveprestos
    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5j9OQ7Sh0

    I mean cmon give me one vampire weekend song better than this

    Revolver as a whole is a classsic

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    fiveprestos
    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5j9OQ7Sh0

    I mean cmon give me one vampire weekend song better than this

    Lmao before I clicked I started humming and i'm so happy it was the song I thought it was

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    fiveprestos
    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5j9OQ7Sh0

    I mean cmon give me one vampire weekend song better than this

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Sgt Leaf

    Lmao before I clicked I started humming and i'm so happy it was the song I thought it was

  • kainie 🌌
    Jun 22, 2021
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    cool

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Twist Your Cap
    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaebtU-CA

    are we doing revolver comparisons or is this a celebration of revolver? im down for either

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    both overrated

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Only only heard like 3 beetles songs so idk

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    fiveprestos

    are we doing revolver comparisons or is this a celebration of revolver? im down for either

    CELEBRATION

  • rvi 🐸
    Jun 22, 2021
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    a band with 4 albums over like 12 years cant really be in the same tier as the beatles

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    I like vampire weekend a lot but this is disrespectful

  • G Roy 🩻
    Jun 22, 2021
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    Cole World

    Vampire Weekend is ass and so are your threads

  • Not Like Josuke

    Only only heard like 3 beetles songs so idk

    yo are you f***ing around? lmao

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    eel eye

    I like vampire weekend a lot but this is disrespectful

    straight NASTY

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    eel eye

    I like vampire weekend a lot but this is disrespectful

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    suzuki

    eh. they were one of my favorite bands as a teen. but i realized its like.

    their first 2 albums they were like millenials parents played a lot of graceland, graceland is a great and enjoyable album that people across generations love, so they did indie pop graceland and it was good. then they decided to wholesale rip off buddy holly for their third album, which was one of my favorite albums at the time. these days i'm deeply familiar with holly's work and a few of those songs come off as pale imitations, but its still a good record.

    their 4th album i didn't like at all. they couldn't sell that laid back california rock, the combination of laurel canyon, the dead, sublime etc. that they went for, it just didn't feel believable to me at all. Ezra didn't sell it and they are far too east coast and preppy for that sound to work for them IMO. that 4th album was pretty disappointing and kinda recontextualized their whole discography for me, made me feel like they were buttoned up posers. idk i think they are pretty overated nowadays.

    Ezra has since made Neo Yokio and has a baby with Rashida Jones. If that's being a poser then sign me up

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Twist Your Cap

    CELEBRATION

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y

    I'll hand off the honor of posting tomorrow never knows to you

  • fiveprestos
    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcSFVXd3MU

    I'll hand off the honor of posting tomorrow never knows to you

    out of my chair with a 40 for these

  • rvi

    a band with 4 albums over like 12 years cant really be in the same tier as the beatles

    no one can

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Sgt Leaf

    To this day I don't get VW's hype. Like don't get me wrong they got some songs that are great but most of their music sounds like some s*** you'd hear on a cruise

    it might be bc (apart from growing up without money and not being white) I have some similarities to them as far as education, so I can relate to the preppy east coast s***. "you wanted good schools, friends with pools" ... "the kids don't stand a chance" basically being about how people go to top schools and want to change the world then all come out and work for McKinsey and end up being Pete Buttigieg (altho he might actually change the world)

    also their lyrics and melodies are really good. there just isn't really anything else like them. but it might be the same way I liked the TV show GIRLS cuz I knew annoying rich white girls just like Lena Dunham / Hannah Horvath. If I didn't have that cultural context then maybe I wouldn't have appreciated it

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    Never listened to em

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    yup

  • Jun 22, 2021
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    fiveprestos

    please put me on to any song that you think is the most impressionable if not Beatles-tier bc ive tried too many times to get into VW but don't get the hype

    Hannah Hunt might be the greatest song of the past decade. Or maybe Step is. Obvious Bicycle is also good. Diplomat's Son and I Think Ur a Contra are also really good. Harmony Hall and This Life

    But I'd just listen chronologically or listen to Contra.

    I didn't even really listen to guitar music before them. I mostly listened to rap / r&b. there is also a chance that they are just one of those things like Bon Iver where you either get it or you don't. or you have to live it, like to go a fancy school and have a painful breakup or live on the east coast to really get it

    same way u have to have "a certain level" of intelligence to like J. Cole

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