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| | Vampire Weekend | | | Music Artist : | | Vampire Weekend | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Xl Recordings | | Release Date : | | 2008-01-29 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Mansard Roof
2. Oxford Comma
3. A-Punk
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. M79
6. Campus
7. Bryn
8. One (Blake's Got A New Face)
9. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Good Not Great
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 |
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I wanted to buy Vampire Weekend because I had noticed they had many songs in new movies and commercials and they interested me. But upon listening to the full album they kind of lost there shine for me.
A lot of their songs have really good beats and I like having them on in the back ground but their lyrics are really hard to connect with or find an emotional feeling or understand the story they were trying to convey. Many of the lyrics have such large words and complicated aspects they just totally loose me, which is unfortunate because I want to like them so much.
It would be my suggestion to just download their popular songs or get them off of the movies sound tracks. |
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 Really really really good.
Submitted on: 2009-09-25 |
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| I would have to consider this one of, if not the best album of 2008. I really love how it goes back to like the roots of indie music, as well as mixes it's own style with it. I got in to them when I saw their performance on SNL, and I was like "huh, this music is really good, why haven't I heard of it before. |
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 Disposable college fad CD. Guaranteed not to last in your collection
Submitted on: 2009-07-02 |
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| This is the perfect fad CD that had its 15 minutes of fame and quickly withered and died. It never made it to the top 40 charts as there is very little or nothing of substance that may want anyone play it a second time. This is one of those CDs that stupid college kids buy (ha ha! - DOWNLOAD FROM A TORRENT SITE I mean!), when they think they've stumbled onto something "cool". Regardless the origin, the music contained within is disposable and the main reason why there are so many copies for sale on Amazon for less than a buck each. Hey! Those college textbooks ain't gonna buy themselves! |
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Brilliant Album
Submitted on: 2009-06-11 |
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I normally don't write reviews, but after listening to this album almost non-stop for a couple weeks, I felt I had to share my feelings with somebody. This album is simply brilliant from beginning to end. I originally heard the song "A-Punk" on the radio and got the band name from the Shazam App on my T-Mobile G1. I loved the song so much I ended up buying the whole thing from the Amazon app (on the same phone). And I really haven't stopped listening to it since. The album has an overall Indy rock kind of feel to it... but the sound is more refined. It's like Indy rock with some of the edges cleaned off.. and some string instruments thrown in for good measure. None of these songs are simple in their structure although they might sound like it at first. I think is simply because they are well-crafted songs. Upon repeated listening you hear more layers and detail which has been put into each song. Pretty much every song on the album is sing-along catchy, but never comes across as overly sweet (or over-medicated). If I had to deconstruct the band down to some basic ingredients I would say... Sonic Youth framework... with Cake listenability... a bit of the Strokes for intensity... a tiny dash of the Clash [mostly because "Kid's don't Stand a Chance" reminds me of "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"]... and some Peter Gabriel just for fun (listen to the album and you'll get what I mean).
I love this album and this band. I can't wait to hear more from them. |
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Hooray for Summer
Submitted on: 2009-05-20 |
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| I must admit that I was very skeptical about this album at first, based on the few songs I heard between The World Cafe and various television spots they'd done. I decided to assume they were all flash and not delve deeper into their music. That worked well at first, and the long, cold winter spent with more organic, folkier music allowed me to extend my ignorance. When the weather again began to turn warmer, and I decided to embrace, rather than shun, the sun, my mind was easily changed by hearing "Oxford Comma." Later, when I put it in my car with all the windows down and the warm air streaming over me, I got hooked. This rivals early Beach Boys as great music to do this to. Very sunny instrumentation, and good use of violin throughout. Makes me wish I would have worked harder and gotten into an Ivy League school. |
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