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Vampire Weekend – M79
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“M79” features orchestral strings, name-drops whose ability to be understood directly correlate with the number of polo shirts you own (read: preppy), and a hint of surf-rock
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Vampire Weekend – M79 Samples
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Vampire Weekend – Obvious Bicycle
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“Obvious Bicycle” depicts the life of a man who has lost hope in life while growing, believing he is so small in a vast world, and that he has no importance.
One could see this
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Adam WarRock – RNAWAY Samples
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Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers (Live in Indianapolis)
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[Verse 1] / Got a little soul / The world is a cold, cold place to be / Want a little warmth / But who's going to save a little warmth for me? / [Pre-Chorus] / We know the fire
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Vampire Weekend – Mansard Roof
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“Mansard Roof” was the first single ever released by Vampire Weekend, and as the opening track, sets the tone for the entire album.
A mansard roof is a type of roof typically
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Vampire Weekend – Request Zone + Pizza Party (Live in Indianapolis)
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[Spoken - Ezra Koenig] / Alright, well hold on a second. So—we got a little bit of time, you know we're outside, there's a curfew, so we only got so much time left. But—'cause we
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Vampire Weekend – Arrows
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Based on scenes from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, “Arrows” was apparently too hot for the American release and was only included on the Japanese version of the debut album
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Vampire Weekend – This Life (Live in Indianapolis)
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[Verse 1] / Baby, I know pain is as natural as the rain / I just thought it didn't rain in California / Baby, I know love isn't what I thought it was / 'Cause I've never known a
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Vampire Weekend – Holiday
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“Holiday” similarly begins life as a ska thrash in the mould of The Specials’ Too Much Too Young with nothing more on its mind than hitting the beach before a submerged bed of
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Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
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“Oxford Comma” is full of anything and everything from slick guitar riffs to Lil Jon references, and appears as the second track on Vampire Weekend’s eponymous debut album.
When
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Vampire Weekend – I Think Ur a Contra
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“I Think Ur A Contra” is a look into the inner workings of a man’s mind questioning a failed relationship–including all the doubts, signs (once ignored) indicating an unhappy end
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Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
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“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” is a weird class-parable type song, and the fourth track on Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut.
Remember when people used to call Vampire Weekend’s style
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Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
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“A-Punk” clocks in at just over two minutes, but its awkward, reference-filled narrative, guitar, prep, and diversity with instruments like the chamberlain allow it to be
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Vampire Weekend – Campus
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Rostam Batmanglij, the primary writer of the song, based “Campus” on “Cruel Professor,” a short story in Ezra Koenig’s collection Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa from his senior honors
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Vampire Weekend – Ladies of Cambridge
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“Ladies Of Cambridge” is based off of E.E. Cummings 1922 sonnet, the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls, which negates the idea of privileged women living an insular life
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Vampire Weekend – Walcott
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“Walcott” is the named after the main character in Ezra Koenig’s college attempt at an East Coast version of The Lost Boys entitled Vampire Weekend. Sound familiar?
The name
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Vampire Weekend – Bryn
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“Bryn” is one of the earliest VW songs. It begun at the end of Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij’s freshman year at Columbia (they formed the band senior year)
The song is about
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Vampire Weekend – Horchata
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Although “Horchata” isn’t a rap song by any means, its lyrics are reference-y enough and potentially even influenced enough to warrant a comparison. Weirdly, New York Magazine
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Vampire Weekend – One (Blake's Got a New Face)
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Whether the subject of “One (Blake’s Got A New Face)” is a friend of the band’s who went to Stanford, William Blake the poet, or something else entirely, there’s no denying that
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Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
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“The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance” reflects on the machinery of capitalism, the remnants of colonialism that underlay privileged life, and the death of innocence thus engendered. It
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Vampire Weekend – Run
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“Run” is essentially Vampire Weekend’s take on the themes of Drake’s “Over” (“I know way too many people here that I didn’t know last year–who the fuck are y'all?!”), which may be
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Vampire Weekend – Cousins
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“Cousins” features long, complicated guitar riffs and disjointed vocalizations in the background, but it’s still good enough to serve as Contra’s second single and gain critical
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Vampire Weekend – Diplomat's Son
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Either a Whit Stillman-esque coming out / gay love story or a parable about Clash frontman Joe Strummer; really, it’s both of these things. Music critic Simon Reynolds called it “
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Vampire Weekend – Taxi Cab
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“Taxi Cab” deals with the darker side of a relationship that Ezra was slowly exposed to (even as their affection deepened) before the inevitable consequences caught up with the
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Vampire Weekend – White Sky
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Synth foam, perky digital rhythms, joyful whoops and African-flavored guitars…“White Sky” is the sound of a young band discovering how much is possible. Or just a song.
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Vampire Weekend – California English
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Offering keen commentary on snobbish east coast attitudes, “California English” stands out for being one of the most bright, jittery, and hyper songs on an album full of them.
It
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Vampire Weekend – I Stand Corrected
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Although “I Stand Corrected” doesn’t feature any of the Afropop beats that frequent the rest of Vampire Weekend, nobody said going soft was a bad decision for the album.
In fact
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Vampire Weekend – Giving Up the Gun
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“Giving Up The Gun” is technically an update of Ezra Koenig’s 2004 “Giving Up Da Gun” by L'Homme Run, a comedic rap duo that Koenig created during while attending Columbia
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Vampire Weekend – Diplomat's Son Samples
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Adam WarRock – RNAWAY
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The third track off of Adam WarRock and Vince Vandal’s October 2012 EP release, OXFRD CMMA. The entire EP uses samples from Vampire Weekend.
“RNAWAY” samples “M79” and is about
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Sapere aude!
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Literature student, and mediocre musician/writer. Don’t hesitate to hit me up.
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