Let’s talk about Vampire Weekend’s Original Trilogy
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Written, voiced & edited by Frank Furtado
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From their punchy debut (A-Punk), to the more sonically dense Contra (White Sky), through to the reflective symphonies on Modern Vampires of the City (Step).
Vampire Weekend have made one of the best pop trilogies of the modern day. While going from massively disputed to quite possibly the most respected band in the indie scene. And what makes their execution even more memorable is that they’ve done this while evolving with each ensuing album. Their progression feels so natural and yet they’ve remained recognizably Vampire Weekend. If you listen to their albums in order, it makes perfect sense -- like it was exactly what the group hoped it to be from the very start. Visually they even look connected. But their musical arc is just as much about Rostam Batmanglij’s evolution as a producer and Ezra Koenig’s maturation as a writer.
A story of a band growing up.
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Vampire Weekend FAQ
Are Vampire Weekend still together? Is Vampire Weekend back together? Did Vampire Weekend break up?
No, Vampire Weekend did not break up. Yes, the group are still together. Although Rostam has stepped away from the group, Ezra and the other members just broke their six year hiatus with their fourth album, Father of the Bride.
Does Vampire Weekend have a new album?
Yes, Vampire Weekend’s fourth album Father of the Bride was released Friday, May 3, 2019.
How many albums does Vampire Weekend have?
As of 2019, Vampire Weekend have four albums.
Where did Vampire Weekend go to college?
The group met at Columbia University.
Are Vampire Weekend good live?
That’s for you to decide. If you really love the band, you’ll love seeing them live.
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Disclaimer:
I do not own any of the videos, photos or music used in this video. They are used for education and discussion purposes under fair use law.
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Modern Vampire of the City is a masterpiece. You could cut that atmosphere with a knife.
Francisco Farias there best album for sure
I prefer Contra but all 3 are amazing.
@@HotStrange Idk why people like contra so much. 2nd worst of there albums. (that's not saying much cause all their albums are amazing). The worst is FOTB by far doe...
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@@BeanAben I personally like the electronic elements and the more subtle sound of Contra. I'd still say MVotC is their best with Contra just behind it.
Dude, your videos are so well crafted man, so underrated
thanks!
@@Middle8 what program you use? awesome edition!
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I forgot how much I liked Vampire Weekend until I watched this, they remind me of middle school and Freshmen year of high school.
I dont get people who dislike a band because of their background. Good music is good music, whether it's made by an unknown band in Africa or Ivy League college kids.
jealousy
Well said.
The majority look like them lol
At least 2 of them got into college off of scholarships anyway
Depends on context. I think for what they were going for, VW background is fine. But if say, they tried to make gangsta rap, which is explicitly about growing up in poverty and struggle, then that would be pretty yikes
Peter Gabriel too
This comment feels so unnatural
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
why did this make me cry. i love vampire weekend so much
Fay me too
Me too
6:46 That transition was so damn good
go away bots
Editing inspo
Vampire Weekend are simply beautiful! Thank you for making this video and for being of the best TH-cam channels out there!
This video is brilliant. Truly brilliant.
Everything I love, admire, and appreciate in Vampire Weekend is summed up in this video. I have never been able to put this Trilogy concept into words but I’ve always thought about it. This video is amazing.
...Um you know how bloody expensive leather jackets are? Lol.
Another great video btw - Keep it up!
Lol.
@Elijah Ford Hey I've seen you on Council of Geeks vids! We have identical taste
You should do an episode on Jack White when his new Raconteurs album comes out about how Jack White collaborates with other musicians
YUUUUSSS.
Wonderful idea. Hope it happens.
Jack White vs Dave Grohl on collaborations with other artists
@@siddarthvashisht that sounds pretty good too.
All because of shopping at Hollister as a 13 year old, I found “White Sky” and never looked back. Contra is still my favorite album
Modern Vampires of the City is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. I’ve grown so much with it
Would love to hear a collaboration between VW & Paul Simon. It would be off the charts.
I can hear diamonds on the soles of her shoes in my ears.
You guys have to do The Wombats. Criminally underrated
Said no one, ever.
Well, 77 people who liked do...
yes one of the few bands who have never made a bad song
I mean overall they just feel really basic. It's like the exact middle ground of COIN and the 1975
They're so shit
Is it weird to say that this video gave me goosebumps? Love your insights on music and the world! Also, I know she's relatively new, but it'd be awesome if you did a video on Maggie Rogers! Keep up the good work dude!
I found this band because my teacher assigned a literary analysis on “Taxi Cab”
that's amazing
@@edengallagher1044 It is
You had an amazing teacher
Nice teacher
Where can I get a teacher like this
okay, so that was a seriously great video. Your retrospective made me reflect not only on the vampire weekend trilogy, but also on the decade of my life that unfolded while I was listening to it.
Great. Vampire Weekend is by far my favorite band and you explanied the whole appeal to the band so well in this video. Thank you so much!
I was so looking forward to this video, it's excellent. I always learn something new when I watch a video on this channel, honestly it's one of my favourite channels on youtube, all the way from Ireland.
Contra is probably my favourite just because of Diplomat's Son, but Modern Vampires of the City has Hannah Hunt. I think they're both modern masterpieces.
Contra probably takes the cake for me too (Horchata and D's S). Liking their new album a lot. Galway here by the way!
Yeah, Diplomat’s Son is my favourite from VP.
My favorite album of all time is their self titled, it’s just the soundtrack to my life.
I'd love to see you do a piece on Grizzly Bear and their discography
Yes!
Jack Antonoff deserves his own video around the time Bleacher's third album comes out later this year
lmao yikes
Another album is coming out?!?!??
Contra's gotta be my top, both the music and the lyrics are complex and consistently brilliant. Each song has an amazing sense of character. (Which could be said for any one of their albums) Father of the Bride is definitely a new chapter for them, I like the open-ended nature of the video and the inclusion of the Haruomi Hosono song used in '2021' as the background music. Very well done video!
Contra’s definitely my favorite too. Especially Run.
I'm an old fart. I first heard about VW when Joe Scarborough interviewed Malcolm Gladwell about FOBT. I said "Hmmm...," and so began a mild obsession. My favorite album is Modern Vampires of the City. I love the questions it poses and the music is IMO without equal.
I can mimic your story. John Heilemann mentioned FOTB off the cuff the day it was released on Morning Joe, probably a few days or a week or so before Malcom appeared (never heard of the band before that). After hearing John, who I like, appear so excited by it, I thought Hmmm.....and so began my obsession. There was a treasure to discover and 2024 I'm still not over them.
I discovered Vampire Weekend before I went to college in 2016 & fell in love with their music as I was transitioning from HS to College. Father of the Bride is a phenomenal album, & now I’m gonna see them perform in Austin this August & I cannot be more excited!
Vampire Weekend is one of my favorite artists of the past decade, and great video as always!
This may be a stupid question, but how did you isolate the separate tracks at 2:42?
Thanks a lot. And I got lucky and found the audio stems for a few of their songs online.
@@Middle8 Thanks for the answer! I've had difficulty in the past finding stems, so I thought that maybe you had a method for separating the individual tracks.
contra album was my high school days👍👍
Bright Eyes or the influence of Saddle Creek records in the early 2000’s!
Such a beautiful production! I love your channel and you put their trilogy in a fully concise and (IMO) accurate depiction!
It’s hard choosing a favorite because, like you said, each one is a different chapter of where the world was, and how they saw it! BUT..if I must, I think I had Modern vampires on repeat the most!
BUT THIS NEW RECORD THO??? I’d love to hear you do a review because it’s SUCH a lovely album in my opinion
With a new The National album coming out, I’d love to see you break down their discography!
I'm mostly into hard rock and metal. That said, Vampire Weekend are one of the best bands to have emerged within the last fifteen years or so!
For me FOTB isn't really Vampire Weekend album but it's seriously very good and interesting album. I just can't compare it to the trilogy and there's really not even point.
Your videos are so, so good. Everything I've seen so far is above most professionally released full music documentaries, and they make me both feel and think so much.
Also, I've always loved the first VW album but never moved on to the second and third. I will do that now.
I'm so in love with them still
Still love vampire weekend!! Wow such a great, insightful, eloquent, well made video!
I almost cried at the end of this video! Thank you so much for creating and sharing!
Love your stuff @Middle8 thanks for your hard work.
Please cover Metric's discography??? They are legends.
Yes please!
Please! Metric needs more respect in the music world I. General!
I've only heard fantasies (thanks scott pilgrim), but I wasn't that impressed by it, it was fun but it didn't feel to be anything legendary. Is there another album I should try perhaps?
Luis Medina Rios try “old world underground where are you now?”, “live it out” ,”synthetica “ or “ the art of doubt”
@@luismedinarios9658 either you’re a fan or you’re not. Perhaps they’re not resonating with you and that’s ok. Listen to what you like
Please do a video on Father Of the Bride! Such a wonderfully built concept album with plenty of international sounds colors and ideas. Would love to hear what you have to say about it.
I’ve grown up listening to them :) my parents used to play their older albums when I was little~ I love vampire weekend 🥰
Same
What? How old are you,
@@adamcetinkent don't know about the other person, but I'm 16...
@@adamcetinkent (I grew up listening to them too).
Wow this made me feel old lol
I love every song they have ever made. I started listening to them in 2011. Their songs are so nostalgic it hurts and hits hard.
I remember when they were some East Coast Preppy Indie pop band and after Father of the Bride, you can listen to how they matured their sound.
Could you do a video on the Australian plunderphonics band The Avalanches?
I was hoping this would include an analysis of Father of the Bride because of the hashtag. It's a very different album, which I'm sure has alienated some fans, but I think it's just as brilliant as their other work. It really expands their musical framework to include genres we haven't heard before.
Omfg such a well done video. Excellent audio. I'm so excited to finally see them live in a few months!
Fuck man, I deemed them as a one hit wonder after listening to their viral song campus but I was so wrong. I just listened to Contra, it sounded so fresh, not a single bad song on it. And then I started listening to their debut album and it was so amazing as well, not a single bad song on there as well. They are going to sit right next to The Strokes in my indie list. I absolutely dug their Afro rhythms and melodies.
I have not found a bad song in all 4 releases. I was late to the party (when FOTB came out). I struck gold with so much to enjoy.
@@ronster369 same man.
@@ronster369Plus, they have a new album coming out on the 5th of April this year!
@@_PuppetMaster86 No one on the planet more excited than me and Shiv. I knew it was April, so thanks for the exact date. It's now in my calendar alert.
Exactly the band I wanted thank you middle 8!
edit: Modern Vampires of the City, just soo gooood
This is such a flashback to my high school days! Wow I forgot how much I really enjoy their music. Once again such an amazing video 👌🏽
Awesome video! The debut is my favorite but there's no doubt the music works as a progression through the three records.
This band is amazing.
That's exactly as you said... the albums are all very different but they remain as a group, an evolution.
I love how sophisticated but simple is their music.
I just love them and your videos are really cool
Vampire weekend was my first red rocks show in 2010, beach house opened it was such an amazing show I was buzzed off it for weeks
Wonderful band, 4 quality albums and can't wait for the 5.
It makes me sad that your channel only has as many videos as it does, because they're so good. I could watch them all day. I'm sure they take a lot of time and work, so I'm not complaining. I'll just eagerly await the next one. (Also, thanks for reminding me how much I love Vampire Weekend and why.)
I grew up on Vampire Weekend, still am.
M83 please!
Yes
YESSSSSS
This comment aged well
I love Vampire Weekend SO much, I liked the video before watching it. Plus your videos are always great!
Saw them do a 7 hour long set this past week, one of the best shows I've ever been to
you're one of the most well-spoken people I've ever heard man. What's more is you really know how to captivate an audience and make us all feel so close to the story and its subject
Waiting on that FOTB video!
Modern Vampires of the City is so complex and beautiful at the same time, it is just amazing.
Great job again on this and all other video's! My favorite Vampire Weekend is and probably will always be Vampire Weekend the first one. Just so many good tracks and I can literally put on track one and play till it ends on track 11! One of my favorite bands of the 2000's.
I had the luck of seeing Vampire Weekend live, here in Portugal, in 2013, the year they released their third album. It still remains as one of my favorite live shows, ever!
BTW, I love your videos, how good they are technically, and i think we have a similar taste in music and other areas, which is great.
You’re videos are so well made, I can feel the passion coming from you. Keep it up man
Vampire Weekend are one of my all-time favourite bands, and this sums them up excellently
Every single one of your videos is amazing; so well done, detailed, and informative. I would love for you to make one about Interpol as they've just released their new album
WHAT a transition into the sponsored ad 😂 Priceless and beautiful
Interesting to hear you pronounce Rostam's name... I always just call him Batman.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This was beautifully said. Vampire Weekend has been my favorite band since they started playing and it truly has been magical watching them grow. This video explains Vampire Weekend great and is well said.
Really love watching your videos.. I would love to watch a video essay on The 1975
^^
Yes!!!
Ezra looks like Justin Trudeau. Change my mind
**Justin Trudeau looks like Ezra 😂
Kinda looks like Ramsay Bolton to me
He does
Ezra is 10X more bangable.
@Ricardo Hernández awwww someone hurt your masculinity so you start attacking other's
i was in my peak teen years when they released modern vampires of the weekend and became a fan, they will forever remind me of my first love and first drunken frenzy and the first time i smoked weed and hannah hunt was tactile ugh i was so moved by them being pretentious (or being perceived as pretentious) because i was a gifted kid who was always called pretentious
Truly great video. I’ve been listening to them since middle school so that link between “father of the bride” and their future of letting go of something they’ve cared for for so long touched my soul 💕
Love this band so much. The first 2 albums came out as my high school career was ending and as such I’ve attached so much nostalgia to them both. Will always love them. MVotC is great but it can’t quite compare to Contra. FOTB might surpass Contra as my favorite, though.
Okay this just made me realise how much I love vampire weekend and I’m dying
Man ur edits and how u use their music to represent a particular era, is executed so well. Love it
Finally! Someone that pronunciates Rostam’s last name as it is :)
Great vid about a great band 👍🏼
I love all three of them, and I really see them as a trilogy with FOTB (really growing on me atm) a wonderful fresh post-Rostam new start.
But Modern Vampires is not only my favourite VW album, it's in my top couple of albums of all time.
Wow I kinda forgot about Vampire Weekend and how much I loved Contra. This video forced me to go back, have another listen and I am not mad at all. Should’ve mentioned the great project Discovery which was made up of Rostam and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot). Another job well done Middle 8.
Can you make a video on arcade fire? love your content!
I grew up on Vampire Weekend & Contra, spent 5th-7th grade on Modern Vampires of the City, and worked on 9th grade homework with Father of the Bride playing. Always loved this band
I wish this was 3x longer
*your videos are so fucking well written, produced and edited I cant fucking take it.*
Insanely good video!
9:04 wait, why am i actually crying :'( this conclusion is so beautiful, such a good end to a seamlessly crafted video ! very well done
Yay finally I love them so much I was wondering if you would ever do it 🤗wonderful video as always best wishesss
Great video! It's cool seeing you cover music I already like, helping develop my appreciation for it. My favourite of those three Vampire Weekend albums is a hard question, since I think each one contains greatest hits as well as slightly more under rated songs. It's cool to see Father of the Bride has the most songs so far.
This is an amazing video. I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into it. Even as a VW fan I learned a lot. How did you isolate the vocals?
Fantastic video as always.
I’m very glad you talked about Vampire Weekend evolution. They have one of the best discography of this last fifteen years, and Father of the Bride is a great record too! Btw, could you do a video on both Lorde and Ben Howard work/artistic career path? Love your videos man, keep it up!
I've got tickets to see them in November and I'm the most excited for a concert that I've been since ACDCs last tour. I can't wait to see what they can do next
And now we have Only God Was Above Us and it is a freaking masterpiece ✨
So insightful, so good. Love this rundown of a seminal group. Can't wait for Only God Was Above Us!
my loves 💛 thank you for this! well-explained!!!
VW are smarter than I thought! Very clever guys.
This was so well made! So much information was fit into 10 mins, even though someone could 100% write a textbook on the meaning behind their songs.
very well produced, as always
Vampire Weekend are my favourite band at the moment, this video brought a tear to my eye! Great work brother
Amazing video, gave me chills. FOTB is great but I agree on the separation. Contra is my fav of the trilogy.
Wish you would have gone into the new album more, nevertheless brilliant as always!
I wrote the script before the new album came out and wanted to keep the story within their first trilogy.
Do Video on The National, they have new album coming up this May
finally someone that understand Vampire weekend....next, the xx discography please :)