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Modern Vampires of the city is certainly just as good as any Beatles album that’s for sure. I wouldn’t say they are better overall but different strokes for different folks

I love Tulsa Jesus Freak and White Dress but couldn't really get into the rest of the album, particularly the latter half. disappointing follow up to NFR, which I thought was the best album of 2019, which is saying a lot bc it was the first year Vampire Weekend released an album that theirs wasn't the best album of the year. hoping Blue Bannisters course corrects

bro I'm in all the places they're talking about and even when I picture rich NYU kids sitting on a towel at Washington square park as the sun goes down I still dont see it. Maybe because I think that stereotype is stupid? Maybe its because I already lived those kind of experiences with other music as my soundtrack to those experiences? Idk I'll never knock the quality or songwriting like I said but...yeah.

also listened to For Emma today for the first time in a minute and I think we're ready to have a conversation about the album being nothing more than an overrated cultural footnote. Creature Fear and Stacks are still amazing but this album would never be what it is without the aesthetic surrounding it

diplomats son
don't lie
campus
everlasting arms
flower moon
ottoman

they are insanely goated

so many good memories from when FOTB dropped

getting your heartbroken and listening to hannah hunt >

Op has jumped the shark with this gimmick

great band but cmon man

This why they were asking for a hand pic

remember when Justin Timberlake tried to do his own For Emma? I thought For Emma, Forever Ago, was amazing but I haven't really revisited it since. I still think it's a dope album and moment even if a lot of it was the aesthetic. Skinny Love is fire. For Emma, Re:stacks, Wisconsin, Flume, Blindsided

you're right tho i think it's about what was your soundtrack for certain experiences. it's the same way a lot of folks don't "get" Drake and it's just bc he wasn't the soundtrack for the years that mattered to them

but they are
they really are

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niggas love VW. RZA was in one of their early videos. they have a song with Makonen and Ezra wrote for Beyonce

there is no gimmick. the phrase "jumped the shark" has itself jumped the shark

I used to always hear people compare them to Paul Simon, so I listened to him and he became perhaps my favorite artist. I think it's a little reductive to call VW's first 2 albums "indie pop Graceland." there are only a handful of VW songs that could be Paul Simon songs. White Sky reminds me a bit of Crazy Love Vol II. I could maybe imagine Mansard Roof as a Paul Simon song. but A-Punk, Cousins, The Kids Don't Stand a Chance, Holiday, California English... not at all Simon. you'd have to add a lot of pop to Paul Simon and even then, it's really only similar to maybe Mansard Roof or Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Their 3rd album I think is the best album of the last decade. I'm not familiar with Buddy Holly's work so you'd have to let me know what they're ripping off

Agree he couldn't really sell the vibe of the 4th album but I appreciate that he took a risk and made some different music. It's their weakest album, but especially if you remove the duets with Danielle Haim, it's still very strong

They all went to Columbia, so they are buttoned up, but it would be unfair to call them posers. They are just 4 guys (2 really with Ezra and Rostam) who have a really deep love for music and devour it in all forms / types

yeah absolutely. I would have a lot of humility for understanding someone else's context even if it was in relation to something that is also of proximal reference like the New York Dolls - similar place completely different time. This I'm just too close to and simultaneously uninterested to care like that.

Anyways, nobody talks about this classic people who made videos like this are the reason why For Emma is the icon that it is

Only VW I acknowledge is Volkswagen, especially if we’re talking about Beatles

drake had an interview in like NWTS era where he said something like: "u don't miss the old Drake, u just miss the moments, you miss the girl you were dating when a certain song dropped you miss the friends you had, etc."

think that's true for a lot of music. u form memories to stuff. u go through a breakup to an album, etc.

thought vampire weekend was referring to ed sheeran for a sec

me neither bro

if op says VW better than Aphex Twin Peaks im leaving kayteeteetoo for good

go ask 100 people in the real world who they like better and the majority of them will ask who the f*** vampire weekend is lmao