The Vampire Weekend poll

oh c'mon guy

man u really love indie music

The album has sold 458,823 copies in the US as of August 13, 2009.

The Album has gone 'Gold' in the UK (Sales over 100,000).

WE ALL KNOW HOW TO READ WIKIPEDIA

like, i love this record to death, but fucking a there's already a like a 1,500 post thread on this album and it was released 16 months ago

man u really love indie music

― butt sound insanity (gbx), Wednesday, October 7, 2009

"there is nothing 'indie schmindie' about this song or vampire weekend"

― the rap battle of algiernod (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 6, 2009

w/e i haven't actually heard vampire weekend, i just think it's funny that bee ok makes lots of polls about pitchfork bands!

They're . . . okay. Really don't get the passionate support for this band, but whatevs.

the definition of a slow-burner for me, as i didn't really care for a while and somehow it's become one of my most listened to albums of the last 6 months. don't know how i'm going to vote though.

i make poll usually for bands i like, has nothing to do with pitchfork. right now i'm doing polls from 2000 releases so...

i was also surprised that this album hasn't been done as of yet and wanted to get it done with before the new album leaks.

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oxford comma, i guess. but yeah j0rdan otm, "this has not been done yet" = not a good enough reason to start a poll.

I don't want to discourage Bee OK's polls. I generally dislike polls, but I like many of his single-album polls for the best song.

(Don't start "Worst Song" polls, tho, plz. Thx in advance.)

that would be easy--all of them

haha, i will never do a "Worst Song" poll because i think they are stupid...

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hmmm. this is rly hard.

I think the correc answer is a punk.

leif.

I read the above as:

right now i'm doing polls for 2000 releases so...

Oxford Comma... I remember being woken up by it one morning and knowing it was classic right away. I haven't realy checked out the rest of the album properly yet, although I know most people like A-Punk best.

cckk by a mile

their old stuff is better

I was always fond of their Robert Fripp collaboration.

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forgot to vote in this

dang this vampire weekend article in the new yorker is like the most insubstantial thing ever. why did the magazine think they needed to publish a full-length feature article about an average band with one album who seem to be pretty uninteresting individuals? they could have just done one of their normal two-page, back-of-the-magazine music profiles instead.

really? I found the article really interesting. Most of it anyway.

Did it mention that covers album w/ Trai'd?

what did you find interesting about it? not attacking you, just curious. i like the band fine, but i don't think a multipage discussion of the joke bands they were in in college and why they wear polo shirts is really worthy of a feature article in the NYer.

The discussion about the classes they took, the kipling stuff, the stories he wrote, all the stuff about studying colonialism and how it relates to why they wear polo shirts, the obvious but appropriate point made about how nobody would discuss their "authenticity" if they sounded like the Stones, etc.

If their publicists would just compare them to The Style Council, the band would be less misunderstood, given what they say in the article.

Shh, US bands influenced by the Style Council in secret incubating stasis til mid-2011! Start working on your hair and wardrobe now, and brush up those horn chops, stat!

I enjoyed that article as well and I really don't much like those guys.

The scene where they met the dude from Blink 182 was fairly great.

Just read this. Thought they came off great, as level-headed and thoughtful guys. The Blink 182 thing was a perfect way to end it.

i heart this band :-)

In which Vampire Weekend imitate Jarvis Cocker in Relaxed Muscle mode

http://updates.gawker.com/post/34762845277/vampire-weekend-played-the-new-song-unbelievers