Galaxie 500 vs Vampire Weekend
March 12, 2009 – 4:55 pmCrawdaddy compares Galaxie 500 with a more recent bunch of Ivy League graduates…
When Wareham sings: “I don’t wanna stay at your party; I don’t wanna talk to your friends,” you believe him, because of the sighs of feedback and the secret code-like way he tells you what he does want: “I just wanna be your tugboat captain.” When Koenig sings, “Don’t you wanna get outta Cape Cod tonight,” it’s in the midst of a social registry name-checking of the different strata of seasonal communities, plus a dig at a rival school and a lobster bake interlude.
Tags: Galaxie 500, vampire weekend
