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Vampire Weekend | 
| Manufacturer: XL
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $5.00
Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 25
Genre: pop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B0011BGY66
Release Date: January 29, 2008
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| Customer Reviews: Read 138 more reviews...
 Yeah, I used to like it too.... November 29, 2008
Daniel Rice (Boulder, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I/m not going to say I loved this band and grew out of it.
I/m not going to say I/m embarassed about liking them.
That/s because what it is, isn/t that this is a bad band,
or a bad album, or they don/t lack talent, it/s just that
you won/t listen to them after a while.
Just like people get sick of most things after a while.
Except, you/ll get sick of them a lot sooner.
Of course, if you haven/t heard this album,
please listen to it. It/s great.
The songs are catchy, and they/ll be all you/ll listen to for awhile.
I liked every song on this album, especially "M79".
That/s why I/m giving it five stars.
The other songs were all fine. I had them stuck in my head for a long time,
but now after all that, I don/t really want to hear them anymore.
Their songs were too good, too catchy.
I remembered every part of the songs.
Now they just don/t interest me anymore.
So:
Get the album
Listen
Enjoy
Enjoy
Enjoy
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Forget about them.
For instance, they/re on my iPod that has limited space, space that could be used for something else. I won/t take them off because I know I like all the songs, but I won/t listen to them often either.
Dig?
A breath of fresh air November 26, 2008
Kim Higginson (Salt Lake City, UT)
This is the most talented and original sounding band I've heard all year, if not the last several. Unlike most other albums that have me hooked on the first play, this one gets better each time I hear it. Each time, a different song stands out in my mind, but Oxford Comma is probably my favorite. Mansard Roof is a great beginning to this album, and I dare anyone to listen to A-Punk and sit entirely still. This is great stuff and I expect more great stuff from them in the future. I've finally given in and put this album in with all my other classics and favorites where it belongs.
TWANGY FUN November 23, 2008
EMAN NEP
I don't usually listen to music like this (Metal is my poison of choice), but after hearing a song or two from this band on my girlfriend's iPod I was convinced that I had to investigate this band further.
What appeals most to me about this band is that the music is FUN. You can tell these guys are just jamming out and if a song hits #1, great, and if not, oh well.
Alot of the guitar and piano (?) parts sound really simple, yet they're amazingly catchy.
I love the twangy guitars in "A-Punk", "Mansard Roof", "Campus" and "Bryn". But above all I love the piano in "Walcott", which is by far my favorite song.
(Note to self: "I Stand Corrected" would make a great forgiveness song)
Kudos to the band too for rhyming lyrics. Call me a traditionalist, but I love rhyming lyrics, whether they make sense or not.
The vocals are also worth mentioning. Like I say, I listen to alot of Metal and it's nice for once to hear someone sing in such a way that I can hear every single word without having to refer to the lyrics booklet included with the CD.
Speaking of the lyrics booklet, all the lyrics are there and in a nice large print. Your squinting grandmother would approve.
Are all the songs worth listening to? No. There were a few that I didn't bother inducting into my picky music library, but on the whole, this is a very good CD, hence the 4 star rating.
Vampire Weekend November 22, 2008
Thomas M. Tiehen
I stumbled across a track of theirs on Starbuck's radio, and liked the sound. The CD didn't disappoint. A driving beat and funky instrumentals. Different.
Le week-end UBUNTU November 3, 2008
Isaac Vera
This young promise it's a good mix between african music, rock, punk and other vibes. A cool CD if you are tired of the conventional bands. Banga Manga Baby.
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