Nice to be sitting here now in the Vineyard house, where this song was one of the hits of the summer ’round these parts for the kids, and hearing this version in the winter.
I’d say it’s pretty darn good.
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Tags: music, peter gabriel, Vampire Weekend, vineyard
Some sort of weird meta thing going on with this video. I’ve long thought we’d hear VW’s music in an upcoming Wes Anderson movie, but it seems that VW sort of flipped things around. They’ve essentially made a Wes Anderson video for their song.
The setting, the attire, the single tracking shot, and – most tellingly – the use of Futura Bold (definitely Anderson’s signature font, in the same way Windsor is Woody Allen’s font) in the chapter titles (not to mention the…uh…chapter titles) all scream Wes Anderson.
Don’t get me wrong, I am 1000% fine with all of this. Makes good sense.
Vampire Weekend “Oxford Comma” (fast forward to see “A Punk” and “Mansard Roof”)
Tags: typography, Vampire Weekend, video, wes anderson, woody allen
Below is a screengrab of the votes so far for npr’s All Songs Considered best of ’08 so far poll:
Mad props to Daytrotter for having sessions for so many of these artists.
If you want to hear why people are voting for these songs, check out the following songs from each of the circled artists’ Daytrotter sessions:
Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes
[disclaimer: I do some work for Daytrotter]
Tags: Daytrotter, death cab for cutie, fleet foxes, npr, Vampire Weekend
My kids are just completely nuts for Vampire Weekend. This delights me, of course, to no end. They have, however, grown tired of the one and only VW record. Happily, they can hear alternate versions of some of the songs from the excellent Daytrotter session via Wolfgang’s Vault.
Wonderfully, Wolfgang’s Vault has made songs embed-able, and because you can get Daytrotter sessions from Wolfgang’s Vault, you can also embed Daytrotter tracks (sweet work around until you can embed directly from Daytrotter).
To wit:
I’m likely to be embedding quite a lot of this stuff coming up. You’ve been forewarned.
[by-this-point-fatiguing disclosure: I do work for Wolfgang's Vault and Daytrotter]