bonati wrote:My band (Aa)
Big-A-little-a. Your band is good!
Band: Vampire Weekend
62Arson Smith wrote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it:
Fuck me, that's accurate
Band: Vampire Weekend
63DazeyDiver wrote:Arson Smith wrote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it:
Fuck me, that's accurate
Holy shit, that is a spot on observation. I hear a lot that such and such a band is just a ripoff of another earlier band, but damn, Vampire Weekend just took Haircut 100's entire shtick, including the sweaters.
Haircut 100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8Sser_DJU
Vampire Weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ
Close your eyes and tell me which is which.
Oh yeah... CRAP
I didn't like it when it was called Haircut 100 and I don't like it now.
Band: Vampire Weekend
64o_d_m wrote:DazeyDiver wrote:Arson Smith wrote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it:
Fuck me, that's accurate
Holy shit, that is a spot on observation. I hear a lot that such and such a band is just a ripoff of another earlier band, but damn, Vampire Weekend just took Haircut 100's entire shtick, including the sweaters.
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yeah and also got rid of the black dude.
Band: Vampire Weekend
65Didn't catch 'Vampire Weekend', but I remember playing that Haircut 100 song on the jukebox at the pizza place in 6th grade. It rules. So suck it.
"ray manna ray manna ray manna ray oh love love plus one"
"ray manna ray manna ray manna ray oh love love plus one"
spaghetti
Band: Vampire Weekend
67o_d_m wrote:DazeyDiver wrote:Arson Smith wrote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it:
Fuck me, that's accurate
Holy shit, that is a spot on observation. I hear a lot that such and such a band is just a ripoff of another earlier band, but damn, Vampire Weekend just took Haircut 100's entire shtick, including the sweaters.
Haircut 100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8Sser_DJU
Vampire Weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ
Close your eyes and tell me which is which.
Oh yeah... CRAP
I didn't like it when it was called Haircut 100 and I don't like it now.
That's unbelievable. Uncanny.
Not kidding: just two days ago, I was wondering when the early 80's retro sound was eventually going to get into the awful R&B pop of Culture Club and Haircut 100. I should have checked this thread first.
Band: Vampire Weekend
69caution: extreme trollish stupidity on my part wrote:Eh, I don’t find Vampire Weekend nearly as silly as the tartuffery of trying to draw distinctions with music which requires no knowledge of music to compose and perform. Pop is cannibalizing itself (i.e. Vampire Weekend being Haircut 100) because there’s only so much that be can done with stuff teenagers teach themselves to play on cheap instruments. I mean, I guess you could be totally incoherent and have the drummer be the only person in your band that could rightly be called a “musician” but what fun is that?
Anyway, a similar analogy can be made with Screaming Jay Hawkins and the Birthday Party.
Vampire Weekend:Haircut 100::Birthday Party:Screaming Jay Hawkins
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mR81PGlBeqE&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KvlS4BwTUQw&feature=related
Close your eyes and see if you hear the difference. Some folks just have better taste in what they plagiarize.
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Band: Vampire Weekend
70tocharian wrote:Pop is cannibalizing itself (i.e. Vampire Weekend being Haircut 100) because there’s only so much that be can done with stuff teenagers teach themselves to play on cheap instruments.
Where's the limit to you in music? All music, either consciously or subconsciously borrows and takes from older works. If pop music can evolve in fifty years from Doo Wop into the Arcade Fire or what have you, then any particular style can, even if it's just teens messing around on cheap instruments. Look at the gap between something like Whitehouse and Luke Vibert.
tocharian wrote:I mean, I guess you could be totally incoherent and have the drummer be the only person in your band that could rightly be called a “musician” but what fun is that?
Why does proficiency even enter the conversation when it's obvious a band's chosen style doesn't require it? I wouldn't expect the technique of Arthur Rubinstein, or Glenn Gould in a synthpop band, but it's lack certainly doesn't take away from the music.