Please ride the hype train with me AKA Vampire Weekend

[GirlsAloudFan]

I would say A-Punk is their biggest hit, but I guess it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things.

 

[lazarus]

Really? Seemed to me that Cape Cod was what I heard the most on the radio, people's playlists, at bars, etc.

 

[LemonMelon]

Their biggest single was actually Oxford Comma, at least on the British charts. It reached #38.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yeah, I was just looking at that. Oxford Comma got to #38, A-Punk got to #55, and Cape Cop landed at #178. A-Punk was the only single to do anything on US charts. Another quick but not perfectly scientific way to determine a band's most popular song(s) is to look at stuff like last.fm listening charts. A-Punk is the band's most listened to song on there by a good amount.

Laz was hinting at exposure other than just commercial charts, though. But I still think A-Punk is the one VW song that a casual music listener would recognize over the others. Like I said earlier, though, none of that matters. At all.

 

[LMP]

"A-Punk" was also featured at the beginning of Step Brothers, if that helps anyone's argument.

 

[u2popmofo]

Boats 'n Hoes, LeMac.

 

[LMP]

The fucking Catalina Wine Mixer.

 

[cobl04]

Contra debuted at #2 here in Australia, pretty amazing considering it's on the back of essentially nothing, no commercial radio play, no real promotion or anything like that.

 

[intedomine]

It's had a far bit of indie hype I reckon, tons of articles/interviews in newspapers and the like...

 

[cobl04]

oh definitely, but that's never usually enough, not for a band that's not Australian (Temper Trap) anyway.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Dear Vampire Weekend,

Please learn how to use drum machines as a tool, not a deterrent. Also, when you do FUCKING FINALLY use, you know, real drums as the main percussion, make it something more than a poor excuse for a thrash song. I'm looking at you, "Cousins."

 

[u2popmofo]

1bl00d, you're fucking cold (like a DQ Blizzard).

 

[onebloodonelife]

And, you act like a slut.

For realz though, I should like this band. Based on their parts, I should like them. But, when it comes to the sum of those parts, I fucking hate them, and I haven't quite figured out why that is.

 

[u2popmofo]

And, you act like a slut.

I'm really a freezer.

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

The video for "Cousins" is currently a free download on iTunes, if no one's mentioned that yet.

 

[LMP]

Okay, "Horchata," stop being stuck in my head.

 

[lazarus]

Good song, but I don't like it as an album opener. I don't think everything needs to begin with bombast, but it just doesn't work for me.

 

[LMP]

It feels like a 3rd or 4th track.

"Taxi Cab" continues to blow me away.

 

[lazarus]

For a second I thought you were talking about Lance's Mom, but that's probably because my eyes spotted "blow" and "taxi cab" in the same sentence.

 

[Saracene]

Contra debuted at #2 here in Australia, pretty amazing considering it's on the back of essentially nothing, no commercial radio play, no real promotion or anything like that.

I guess overall low sales mean that any band with a decent-sized following has a chance of charting. But yes, quite impressive.

I'm glad I got this album despite the bad impression of Cousins. It's perhaps less likeable than their debut, but still enjoyable.

 

[u2popmofo]

I was flipping channels earlier today, and noticed Palladia is airing an episode of them playing on "Unplugged" (apparently they remove the "MTV" from it when it's on Pallasia). It was the last song, so I didn't hear much, but it looks like they're re-airing it a few times this coming week.

I agree Horchata is a surprising album opener, and Cousins wasn't a stellar first choice for a single.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I agree Horchata is a surprising album opener, and Cousins wasn't a stellar first choice for a single.

Cousins has grown on me somewhat. I really disliked it at first, but its got some good things going on. Its that final line of the chorus that really kills it for me. "I can feel it cooooming". Those lyrics and the lame melody seem like lazy songwriting to me

 

[LemonMelon]

"Horchata" still sounds like a sex line hosted by Lance's mom to me.

That's my contribution to this thread.

 

[LMP]

"Horchata" sounds more like Lance's Mom's classic Mediterranean dish, served best with lots of hummus.

 

[LemonMelon]

Perhaps Mediterranean chef porn is one of the fetishes Whore-Chatta caters to.

Just bringing it full circle.

 

[LMP]

Round and round it goes.

"Cwall and tawk, no big whoop."

 

[cobl04]

well given this one a few spins now. can't get into it i have to say. i'll leave you all to it. Giving up the Gun was pretty good.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Listening to the album right now for a second time. If "Giving Up The Gun" isn't a hit single, I don't know what is...

 

[u2popmofo]

Soirée de Poche - Vampire Weekend - LA BLOGOTHEQUE

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Soirée de Poche - Vampire Weekend - LA BLOGOTHEQUE

Man, my computer is usually pretty baller but that video is taking foreeeeever to load. It's still stuck buffering. Curses.