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2/3/2008 1:44:40 PM

re: Vampire Weekend

The first four tracks are great, the rest is fairly boring

2/3/2008 2:10:49 PM

Meshuggah - ObZen has apparently leaked. ill have to pick that up this week.

im excited

2/4/2008 1:09:26 AM

i've heard very few people dislike vampire weekend. am i the only one that really dislikes that album? maybe i just hate happy sounding music too much to get into that sound. but even listening to it objectively i don't see how that album can get more than a 6/10.

2/4/2008 12:45:59 PM

i like a couple of tracks (oxford comma and a-punk) but i really don't get the hype

2/4/2008 1:13:56 PM

I like most of the Vampire Weekend album. I love tracks 1 thru 5 and tracks 9 thru 11.

My favorite songs on the record are "Oxford Comma" (#2), "M79" (#5), "I Stand Corrected" (#9), and "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" (#11).

2/4/2008 1:19:36 PM

i get the hype. there isn't a bad track on the album and a hand full of awesome ones. its an album full of catchy songs that are fun/easy to sing along to. and the slight african influences give the impression that the music is fresh/different/whatever.

2/4/2008 1:23:05 PM

ive heard about 4 songs. its ok. its not anything id listen to on any sort of regular basis. its pretty shallow musically.

2/4/2008 1:31:48 PM

Quote :

"its pretty shallow musically."

I know you and I are always going to disagree on this, but I just hate hate HATE this attitude.

2/4/2008 1:53:20 PM

While I initially didn't really like it tremendously, I was drawn to play it twice today. It's really catchy.

2/4/2008 2:14:12 PM

well i think there is a difference between simple and shallow.

i dont mind something being simple a la weezer, iron and wine, dismemberment plan,the shins, nirvana, minor threat, the strokes...all bands i like and all musically simple bands.

but there is something annoying about some of the bands that, at least to me, seem like they are just trying their hardest to write something overly simple instead of trying to write a decent song, that might be simple.

if your songs are simple, they have to be rock solid start to finish and full of some good melody (think weezer blue album) and you can get away with it all day long. If your songs are half arse and simple it holds no musical enjoyability for me. there is a fine line.

2/4/2008 2:14:37 PM

Quote :

"like most of the Vampire Weekend album. I love tracks 1 thru 5 and tracks 9 thru 11. My favorite songs on the record are "Oxford Comma" (#2), "M79" (#5), "I Stand Corrected" (#9), and "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" (#11)."

I swear, you sometimes scare me with how much we think the same about these things.

2/4/2008 2:19:28 PM

they're certainly no BTBAM, that's one thing we can all agree on

2/4/2008 2:23:10 PM

2/4/2008 2:42:02 PM

Quote :

"I swear, you sometimes scare me with how much we think the same about these things."

LOL

Great minds and all that.

2/4/2008 3:19:52 PM

May have already been mentioned, I haven't read the whole thread...But I'm looking forward to the new Black Crowes album

2/4/2008 3:29:12 PM

They still exist, or are even alive?

2/4/2008 3:31:36 PM

apparently, they have an album out in a month...go to blackcrowes.com to listen to their single

[Edited on February 4, 2008 at 3:37 PM. Reason : argg]

2/4/2008 3:36:43 PM

anyone have a leak for Chessie "manifest" ?

2/4/2008 4:01:03 PM

Boris - Smile

pwnt://www.divshare.com/download/3706522-e71

[Edited on February 5, 2008 at 8:00 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2008 7:52:17 PM

quick someone leak something by R.E.M. the new single is due out next week but I can't wait.

2/5/2008 8:30:12 PM

The Constantines - Kensington Heights
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/bh5biz

[Edited on February 6, 2008 at 12:03 AM. Reason : .]

2/6/2008 12:02:40 AM

^^ new rem single is streaming on pitchfork...and it's pretty damn good.

2/6/2008 2:07:52 PM

sweet going to check it out now.

i guess whatever is used to stream it is blocked at work or something, i can see the page and article but see no stream. oh well

[Edited on February 6, 2008 at 2:15 PM. Reason : ]

2/6/2008 2:10:17 PM

I finally got around the listening to that Vampire Weekend CD and it was by far one of the most unimpressive hyped debuts I've heard in a while.

2/7/2008 1:16:15 AM

If anyone sees the Gutter Twins leak pop up, how about sending it my way.

Thanks!

2/7/2008 11:55:19 AM

Finally listened to Destroyer too and that was actually quite a chore. On first listen alone it's my least favorite of his.

2/7/2008 12:03:05 PM

I really liked the vampire weekend album when I first heard it a few months ago, and I still think it's quite good, but I don't think I'm ready for dick sucking that is still to come. Hell it's already in full effect and the album just fucking came out.

2/7/2008 2:32:23 PM

Los Campesinos! was just as fun and wacky as I'm From Barcelona. I think we all expected it would be with their earlier releases and I'll take it over Vampire Weekend.

2/7/2008 3:50:27 PM

^^^ Okay, fuck that. I am taking time out of my important vacation schedule to call you out on dissing the awesomest Destroyer album since, like, well, at least the last one.

2/7/2008 3:54:45 PM

i didn't like it all that much either. and i'm one of the bigger destroyer fans who exists

2/7/2008 3:58:26 PM

Rubies was great but something about this latest one was just bland.

2/7/2008 4:23:24 PM

Quote :

"Los Campesinos! was just as fun and wacky as I'm From Barcelona. I think we all expected it would be with their earlier releases and I'll take it over Vampire Weekend."

I haven't been able to get into Los Campesino's yet. I love I'm From Barcelona, but don't really see the comparison.

The male lead vocalist on Los Campesino's annoys the shit out of me. Honestly though, I only listened to it once and just moved on to something else. I'll give it another spin, though.

2/7/2008 5:47:51 PM

hxxp://link-protector.com/401637


for you pumpkins fans

The Smashing Pumpkins - Live @ Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria - 31.1. 2008
01. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
02. Behold! The Nightmare
03. Bring The Light
04. Tonight, Tonight
05. Mayonaise
06. Try, Try, Try
07. Superchrist
08. (Come On) Let's Go
09. Stellar
10. Perfect
11. Lily (My One And Only)
12. The Rose March
13. Today
14. Tarantula
15. Stand Inside Your Love
16. Ava Adore
17. Drown
18. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
19. 1979
20. That's The Way (My Love Is)
21. My Blue Heaven [Fats Domino cover]
22. The Everlasting Gaze
23. Cash Car Star
24. Easy Living [Uriah Heep cover]
25. For What It's Worth [Buffalo Springfield cover]
26. Daydream
27. Wound
28. United States
29. I Don't Mind
30. Cherub Rock

2/7/2008 6:55:04 PM

live at wiener stadium?
















[Edited on February 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM. Reason : ]

2/7/2008 6:56:12 PM

hey ben

in the future, i move we use "hffp" instead of the standard "hxxp" for music links

the ff's look more like the tt's, but with a foppish twist

it appeals to a broader audience

2/7/2008 7:00:25 PM

if it's foppish,

i'm all for it

2/7/2008 7:04:14 PM

they played fucking mayonnaise?!?!?!?

2/7/2008 9:17:09 PM

yup

wish they had busted that out in the states last year

2/7/2008 9:25:01 PM

that link is only the first half of the set, do you by chance have the second half?

and the quality isnt that great, but its great to hear mayonnaise live

2/7/2008 9:29:02 PM

Your choice of format:

http://www.archive.org/details/sp2008-01-31.sl.flac16

I think this may be a different recording of that show, although the quality isn't great on either one.

Sebastian Boschert recorded the Zurich show, which had the same setlist, and it will probably be up on archive.org soon. His recordings are almost always really awesome.

2/7/2008 9:49:59 PM

my bad

hxxp://link-protector.com/401637
hxxp://link-protector.com/401638
or
hxxp://uloz.to/170347/Smashing Pumpkins - Vienna 2008.zip

2/7/2008 10:17:19 PM

the pitchfork review of the new hot chip was spot on

i got around to listening to their latest hyped band, Times New Viking.. pretty damn good. way better than vampire weekend. someone post a link

2/7/2008 10:52:39 PM

Times New Viking is all right. I'm not big on the lo-fi sound, though

[Edited on February 7, 2008 at 10:56 PM. Reason : ]

2/7/2008 10:55:48 PM

i dig the production. horrible band name and album cover though. i figured they would sound like i'm from barcelona or some other bullshit like that

2/7/2008 11:02:24 PM

for those that asked for a link....

Times New Viking-- Rip It Off
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/79746858/times_new_viking_-_rip_it_off.zip

2/7/2008 11:10:22 PM

The Times New Viking album is good.

2/7/2008 11:17:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLKuzdxp0UM&feature=related

2/8/2008 11:00:40 PM

^^ yes

my introduction to that band was seeing them open for yo la tengo. a lot of people hated it - i thought they were great

lo-fi noise ftw

2/9/2008 2:14:16 AM

finally got around to downloading that times new viking. eesh. sounds like shit. somehow they took lo-fi to -11. what basement did they record this in? it needs to be condemned.

next band, please.

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 10:01 AM. Reason : please Ø]

2/9/2008 9:58:55 AM