#cape cod kwassa kwassa

[in-the-devils-resting-place]

Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend (2008)

#vampire weekend #mansard roof #ladies of cambridge #arrows #the kids don't stand a chance #albums #bryn #campus #blake's got a new face #cape cod kwassa kwassa #m79 #a-punk #walcott #oxford comma

[c-show]

C. Show

#poetry #aesthetics #poems and poetry #writers and poets #poems on tumblr #poems and quotes #poets on tumblr #poets corner #original poems #doodles #vampire weekend #cape cod Kwassa Kwassa #diplomat’s son

[rhythmlessseas]

#vampire weekend #cape cod kwassa kwassa #is your sweater on #do you wanna fuck #like you know i do #Spotify

[nsewell]

is your bed made ☺️ is your sweater on 😚☀️ do you want to fuck 😟 like you know i do

#the cape cod kwassa kwassa in the car with your parents experience

[gremlin-bard]

I love listening to Vampire Weekend because the instrumentals go hard but then I listen to the lyrics and it's like:

a thousand eeas in one piceasil,

whatcha tookit a fromme, a really white hat! shown no fishseats seen the thing,

and the young man's ring is slongettering.

*dooo dooo dooooooo dood od ooodoo doodood odooodoood oooooooooooo*

look outside, the redcoats come and say oh?

look outside, the redcoats come and say oh?

ay ay ay ay ay ay

his anadropes savoy seek in exotica

down to the pueblo huts of new mexico

got his teet! top! took! oz harmonicas

oh oh oh

#for the record #the actual lyrics are equally strange #like mr. koeing #what exactly did you mean by “cut his teeth on turqoise harmonicas?” #why is his honor driving south seeking exotica? #dont even get me started on the music video for cape cod kwassa kwassa #vampire weekend

[autumnalfallingleaves]

#this probably makes no sense to 99% of people who follow me lmao #this is specifically in reference to 'cape cod kwassa kwassa' and #'Walcott' by vampire weekend and 'oh come on' by superorganism #anyway. I just think its funny. #shitpost #beans rambles

[chemicalarospec]

hm.

i love The Academy Is...

Especially Almost Here (The Academy Is..., 2005).

okay thank you for your time.

#FINALLY going ot get to the music asks tonight! right after i submit this scholarship application heh #I said this #04-06 has all the best music. no good music not from those years <- LYING AND WRONG #the academy is... #tai... #almost here #oops... i thought 'black mamba' was just racist like 'cape cod kwassa kwassa' but it's a kind of snake lol

[teamvampireweekend]

Vampire Weekend's special album release show for Only God Was Above Us at the Moody Amphitheatre [aka VW total solar eclipse show, 08 April 2024]

Setlist:

Ice Cream Piano Classical Unbelievers Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Holiday White Sky Connect Sunflower Capricorn This Life Gen-X Cops Diane Young Cousins Jonathan Low Flower Moon Show break to watch the eclipse Hope Tonight (with Thomas Mars of Phoenix) Thomas Mars and Dave 1 singing joyeux anniversaire to Ezra Needy Girl (with Dave 1 of Chromeo) Harmony Hall (with Brian Robert Jones) Oxford Comma A-Punk Married in a Gold Rush (Cocaine Cowboys Version)*  Walcott *it included All the Gold in California by Larry Gatlin + Sun City by Flying Burrito Brothers + Cumberland Blues by The Grateful Dead

#vampire weekend #ezra koenig #chris baio #chris tomson #only god was above us #thomas mars #dave 1 #brian robert jones #vw: video #the moody amphitheatre austin 2024 #vampire weekend total solar eclipse show 2024 #Vimeo

[panopticum]

just thinking about the time peter gabriel covered a vampire weekend song (cape cod kwassa kwassa) because the lyrics name-check him BUT THEN he wouldn’t sing the line “do you wanna fuck like you know i do”

#coward #this haunts me #peter gabriel #pg #vampire weekend

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Mansard Roof • Oxford Comma • A-Punk • Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa • M79 • Campus • Bryn • One (Blake's Got a New Face) • I Stand Corrected • Walcott • The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ Youtube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: vampire weekend #language: english #decade: 2000s #Indie Pop #Indie Rock #Chamber Pop #Soukous

[javierpena-inatacvest]

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions -> then tag people!

Thank you for the tag, @honeyedmiller & @endlessthxxghts 🥺💕

Band/Artist: Vampire Weekend

Your gender: Bambina

How do you feel: Unbearably White (💀)

If you could go anywhere: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Favorite mode of transportation: Obvious Bicycle

Your best friend: Bryn

Favorite time of day: White Sky

If your life was a TV show: The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

Your fears: My Mistake

heheheh this was fun!!! thank u Vampire Weekend for having ridiculous song titles

Tagging: @persephone-girl @pertinentpostmortem @tightjeansjavi @undercoverpena @rhoorl @nerdieforpedro @itsokbbygrlanyone else who wants to play!! sorry if you've already if you've already been tagged, I know I'm late to this!!

[theghostpinesmusic]

Alright, so I am going to stop posting for the day here in just a minute, but I wanted to get this one off my plate (out of my Drafts folder) while I still have a million fluid ounces of coffee in my veins.

So, Goose played a four-show run at the Capitol Theatre this past week, and it was awesome (over the web; I wasn't there in person). Originally, after switching drummers at the end of last year, they weren't slated to play any shows until June of this year, and while six months off the road might be pretty typical for today's big-name rock and pop acts, it's fairly unusual for a jam band, especially one that's currently shooting up the ladder in terms of popularity.

But then there was the new drummer announcement and the attendant rehearsal jams, which I've written a bit about already. And then there was Ted Tapes 2024, a new album that dropped with essentially no warning in February. Then, a mere three weeks and change before the band planned to hit the stage, they announced a four-show run at the Capitol Theatre in April, as a way of introducing their new drummer and new-ish sound.

As I said above, this run was fantastic. The band sounds great, and is clearly having a ton of fun playing alongside Cotter Ellis, the new drummer. There were moments when I missed Ben's playing, for sure, but the story at the end of the day is New Drummer Good, and also Old Drummer Good. Maybe I'll further process my feelings on that point later, and if so, maybe I'll blog about it. Maybe I'll keep it to myself.

Anyway, the band has only shared two videos from the run so far, one of a huge improvisational sequence at the heart of their night two show, wherein they played their 2016 album Moon Cabin in its entirety to mark the eclipse that had happened earlier in the day (and then proceeded to drop the show recording with this insane cover art). I will write about this later. Maybe tomorrow.

The other video is the one linked at the top of this post, which comes from set two of the final night of the run and features a sit-in by three members of Vampire Weekend (yay!), as Goose covers the new VW song "Gen-X Cops" from their just-released album (woo!) and the classic VW tune "Cape Cod (Kwassa Kwassa)" (whoa!), the latter of which turns into a thirty-plus-minute jam (huh?).

And as it turns out, not everything needs to be a jam. Sometimes, the real thirty-minute jams are the friends we make along the way.

So. As you know, the thing I do on this here blog with regard to jams is to write lots about them in exacting, weird-and-maybe-pointless detail. I am not going to do this for this jam, however. Mostly because -- and I mean this as respectfully as possible -- the Vampire Weekend guys are just not jam band musicians, and while they are having fun up there on stage during the jam (except maybe Ezra, who just looks sort of lost throughout), none of them with the exception of the drummer (whose name I don't know and certainly have no way to look up or learn) really adds anything to this jam or contributes at all to its direction. It's basically most of Vampire Weekend just hanging out on stage as Goose drags them through a long, multipart jam.

There are certainly parts where Rick in particular very obviously intentionally makes room for the VW guys to take over, but they just...don't? And there are parts where the VW bassist tries to engage with Trevor in a dueling-basses sort of thing, and Trevor just...doesn't engage? And for some reason the VW drummer doesn't replace Cotter, the new guy, on his kit, but instead replaces Jeff, which means Jeff is stuck playing a third electric guitar, which can literally never be heard during the entire performance. And all of these things add to something that in a lot of ways is just really, really not interesting as a result. To be clear, there are also parts where the Goose guys just do a big ol' heap of Goose-y jamming, and it's good, but there's, like, these three other guys on stage while it's happening, and it's just sort of weird.

I'm not trying to throw shade at the VW guys here. I love Vampire Weekend (Father Of The Bride is one of my favorite albums by anyone in the last ten years), but as much as they are clearly influenced by jam bands as a genre and likely Goose in particular, they themselves are definitely not a jam band. And that kind of high-energy, long-form improvisation isn't something you can just jump on stage and do one day after never really doing it much previously. So, it's not their fault, per se, but it's also just sort of a mixed bag of music for a half-hour-plus as a result.

In the end, I wanted to share it because it's neat to see these two bands collaborating again, but it's a bit too much of a mess for me to be interested in going through the whole thing with my usual fine-toothed comb.

Next up, though, is the aforementioned Moon Cabin monster jam. For today, though, I'm going to step away from the keyboard and do something else for awhile...

#jams #jam band #goose #vampire weekend #music #videos #live music #tour journal #writing #Youtube

[ittibittititti]

In anticipation of the release of Only God was Above Us by Vampire Weekend , here's me ranking my favorite songs of all 4 albums :

Vampire Weekend

I'll probably end up listing all songs from this album

Mansard Roof (8.5/10 - the drums, the strings - it's all pure perfection)

A - punk ( 9/10 esp 0:42 to 01:02 and 1:58 to 02:08 ♡)

Oxford Comma ( 9.5/10 - mainly because the mv makes me so happy)

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (8/10 - the beginning tune is engraved in my heart)

M79 (10/10 - favourite song from album - the strings are beautiful)

Campus (9/10 - Infectious and so so nostalgic for me ♡♡ )

Walcott (10/10 - the way Ezra sings Out of Cape Cod tonight ughhh + the outro)

Ladies of Cambridge (8.5/10 amazing chorus )

#vampire weekend #dear diary #the pure happiness i feel when i listen to the first 3 albums are unmatched by any any band ever #my music critique is less based on the musicality and more on pure vibes #part 1/4 because work sucks and life's busy #maybe i should make a collage hmmm

[demonicbaby666]

hello miss, i am a big fan of your blog

please could you assign an album to each of these characters: jj, emily, regina, emma

ones you’d think they’d like and that fit their vibe, thanks. godspeed x

THIS! I FUCKING LOVE THIS ASK! Little scared people are gonna get at me for my opinions, we move thou 💅

Emma: 

Stick Season | Noah Kahan

Every Kingdom | Ben Howard 

I started listening to his album a while ago and for some reason I just see Emma driving in her bug to it, hair blowing in the wind. I feel like it’s mainly because I see Emma though peach tinted lenses. I see her as a crackhead yes, but also as someone who would know how to calm you down no matter what. When she cares about someone she really cares and all she wants to do is provide them with a level of comfort she’d never been given in early life. Both these albums just radiate calm vibes to me ig.

I don’t know how to word it, but her fun vibes serve Vampire Weekend 💀 I imagine running around Storybrooke pulling pranks on people with her whilst Cape Cod Kwassa plays in the background.

Mayor Mills:

Cigarettes After Sex | Cigarettes After Sex

Hello! Sexy, sensual, emotional, soft. Screams Regina. I think Regina listens to quite a bit of classical and jazz music, although I have a vivid image in my head of her hoovering/cleaning and bussing down to screamo or some shit🧍‍♀️

Side note- Artemis by Aurora, the moment you listen to the lyrics you’ll instantly understand what I mean. 

Jenny Jareau:

Rage Against the Machine | Rage Against the Machine

Evermore | Taylor Swift

Yes, it's basic because she literally said she listens to RAM, but I will never not think about her when I’m listening to this album. I don’t listen to a lot of Tay Tay but when I was browsing through my saved albums I was like YUP, JJ. 

Emily: 

Oh, Introverted World | The Shins (mainly New Slang and Girl Inform Me tbh)

High As Hope | Florence + the machine

This by far took the longest, had to ask my sister for assistance because my brain is now mush and I’m not 100% confident on them. BUT I do see Emily belting to Florence in the kitchen, wooden spoon in hand, living her best life. So hey ho! 

#just-a-torn-up-masterpiece

[pinkrabbitsbythenational]

what’s your top five albums and favorite songs from each (only if you wanna add those)??

omg this is such a hard question 😭😭😭 it changes on the daily i feel but here are albums that have rlly stuck with me over the years:

yeezus by kanye west - favourite song: black skinhead (i just wanna say here that i completely disavow kanye and make a conscious effort not to listen to his music anymore but this was my favourite album for like ten years so it feels disingenuous not to include it)

melodrama by lorde - favourite song is SO hard but i think it could be supercut or the louvre ? anyway lorde did so much for the mentally ill girlies with this album and i owe her big time for it

blonde by frank ocean - my favourite song is and probably will forever be nikes which is maybe a controversial choice but i loveee the autotune intro and the switch to frank’s real voice when it gets more personal. also the outro 🥺🥺🥺

crushing by julia jacklin - AHHHHHHHH. every lyric in this album is perfectly crafted. favourite song is body.

vampire weekend by vampire weekend - just slaps innit. favourite song is cape cod kwassa kwassa

honorary mentions: trouble will find me (the national), red (taylor swift), EMOTION (carly rae jepsen) , the overload (yard act), renaissance (beyonce)

[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #1,174 - March 19th, 2023

Album: Vampire Weekend (XL, 2008)

Artist: Vampire Weekend

Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock

Track Listing:

"Mansard Roof"

"Oxford Comma"

"A-Punk"

"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"

"M79"

"Campus"

"Bryn"

"One (Blake's Got A New Face)"

"I Stand Corrected"

"Walcott"

"The Kids Don't Stand A Chance"

Favorite Song: "Mansard Roof"

#Vampire Weekend #XL #Indie Pop #Indie Rock #2008 #Late 2000s #2000s