Brett Eugene Ralph is alive & well, it's Bradley R. Weissenberger who is no longer with us.Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 12:32 pm Duran Duran and The Strokes had a baby. It's Vampire Weekend.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
I "found out" about this band while watching GIRLS with my ex wife. I think one of the dudes had a part in the show and then they did a show in some random apartment. It was cool as fuck. So cool. I wish I was there. So cool. Fresh. So fresh.
I am getting the old forums vibe on this topic, I feel like we have at least 100 posts in this bisch! RIP BER!
Oh shit, my bad! Your American names all sound the same to me.joe_lmr wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 1:25 pmBrett Eugene Ralph is alive & well, it's Bradley R. Weissenberger who is no longer with us.Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 12:32 pm Duran Duran and The Strokes had a baby. It's Vampire Weekend.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
I "found out" about this band while watching GIRLS with my ex wife. I think one of the dudes had a part in the show and then they did a show in some random apartment. It was cool as fuck. So cool. I wish I was there. So cool. Fresh. So fresh.
I am getting the old forums vibe on this topic, I feel like we have at least 100 posts in this bisch! RIP BER!
I guess it might have been Modern Vampires of the City (their third album) with some of their fans saying that their following album (Father of the Bride) was their weakest to that point, though I haven't listened to it. "Hudson" might have been the closest thing that I can call to a decent song, but I still can't help make the analogy that "Hudson" is like an attempt to make a 'reserved' gothy song made for some crappy overrated Netflix show about some rich kid getting an inheritance after their parents died from cholera, just as Mumford & Sons sounds like they are trying to write an 'epic' folk song made for a different crappy overrated Netflix show about a barn in a dustbowl. Even if the entire album sounded like that, it would still feel cold to me, this Pre-Paramount Merger Licensed to Amazon Studios AWS Proto-Post-Post Your Spotify Listening List Netflixcore music.losthighway wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:37 am I've had a similar experience. I remember their third or fourth album (or one of the later ones) getting write ups saying, "this goes beyond their initial novelty, broadens, deepens. This is an unexpected work of genius." I think I dipped my ear into whatever album that was, kind of liked it, but forgot about it.
What's interesting about VW is they borrowed heavily from African highlife music, a genre I love. As a white, American rock music fan I think I'm a little past the point of refereeing cultural appropriation. And yet there's something especially clashing in a Dockers and penny loafers band with private tennis lessons borrowing from a distinctly west African music playbook.
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