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I Want To Murder Vampire Weekend
I think I may have to hunt down and kill every last member of Vampire Weekend, who are responsible for the amazingly shitty ???Holiday??? song in the Honda commercial that has been running every 6 minutes during every football game over the past month or so. I knew the band was one of the planet???s most horrible already but this song was new to me and it gets worse with every listen. These motherfuckers are worse than Oingo Boingo and the B-52s combined.
So does anyone know where they live? I want to get to work right away before the pricks get near another studio.
Also, the NFL is Tom Brady???s league this year and everyone should just acknowledge that right now. Just a spectacular year from the best player in the game.
So does anyone know where they live? I want to get to work right away before the pricks get near another studio.
Also, the NFL is Tom Brady???s league this year and everyone should just acknowledge that right now. Just a spectacular year from the best player in the game.
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Nope, sorry, I can't leave them out.
I knew punk was dead as soon as I heard the B-52s being played on "punk" radio shows.
These sorts of bands are just former "Glee" kids gone pro, no matter the generation.
I am sure you can find all of the band members living in lofts in Williamsburg, BK. One of the worst bands ever. Terrible.
When I first heard them with that song "A-Punk," I realized they were trying to copy Simon in his "Graceland" era, but it just comes off wrong. OH SO WRONG.
I think "some of their videos don't suck" is one of the worst defenses that can be made for a band. Really, who cares? If the music sucks it doesn't matter.
But will you admit that you found the video to be "visually" entertaining?!
Reindeers don't have paws! They have hooves for fucks sake!
Last night I wondered aloud what a slowed down jazzy twee Holiday version by those Hyundai indie YouTube people would sound like.
Lamest shit evar.
And all I have to say is thank the lord for NFL Red Zone. If I happen to be watching a full game (ie Steelers) I switch over to the commercial free red Zone and avoid what I call "Save by Zero Syndrome".
I was waiting for someone to bring up these fucking annoying ads. The fact that they're still running AFTER Xmas is insult to injury:
Now this ad creeps me the fuck out.
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as heard on my radio non-stop
You sound deaf!
I agree. Whenever the "creepy girl who stares at you" came on it was like a car wreck on the highway for anyone watching the game, followed of course by "at least they'll be gone after the holidays". Doesn't exactly make me want to run out and buy a Hyundai.
They were mentioned on here as soon as the ads started running, someone had a good line about how he was watching football with some friends and was met with blank stares when he said something like "I can't believe that couple that does indie rock covers on youtube is on a hyundai commercial"...crickets. I still hadn't seen the ads at that point and had no idea what he was talking about, until later that day. Now I feel like I should charge the two of them some rent.
seriously. THIS makes me violent. a lot commercials make me violent these days. especially when they try to be funny. they try so hard to be outrageous or ironic. like all the commercials that take place in an office now. they all try to outdry eachother.
Like this makes no fukkin sense at all and is not funny at all.
But hating on Vampire Weekend seems a little ridiculous and mad parental. On some Get Off My Lawn Don shit.
First album had some great material on it, and sounding like Paul Simon, IMO, ain't really a bad thing. There's a lot worse people to imitate.
The new album wasn't as good as the first, but they've made some ridiculously good songs -- super summery. This whole "I can't stand it! What these kids are listening to nowadays -- sheesh!". Mad parental. But what's surprising is that this is the group being ragged on -- some kids who can actually play and have some relatively different sounding stuff compared to what's out there. Out of all the music in the mainstream zeitgeist, just surprised to see so much ire being directed at them.
This track still gets burn on my ipod.
Could do a lot worse, if you ask me.
Now THAT sounds like MY parents...they love them some Paul Simon and they're in their 70's.
I don't know enough about the band to make an overall comment but that "Holiday" Honda commercial is one of the most annoying sounds I've heard in a long while.
Name them.
edit - oh the irony.
i remarked to the girlie the other day that it was pretty amazing that the vampire weekend honda holiday commercials were tolerable in comparison to the god damned hyundai commercials.
what does this mean? I'm interpreting this as there's not much worse than Paul Simon?
And as to what I mean by "mad parental" -- having 1000s of records doesn't mean some people aren't echoing what they may have heard growing up. I can totally see what you're saying my comments seeming "butthurt", as I do like some of their music, but mainly I was just sort of reviewing the comments that had been made up to that point and it all came across as mad grandpa-ish. "Turn down that racket!" Maybe was just the way I was reading into it, however it definitely felt as though there was some old guy stee being rocked. All good, I resign.