Vampire Weekend “Gen-X Cops“ live May 10, 2024 @ Kilby Block Party (Salt Lake City, UT) 

Vampire Weekend sounded great @ Kilby Block Party!
I'm just loving VW's latest album "Only God was Above Us" and this is one of its highlight tracks! And while Vampire Weekend hasn't misfired on an album yet, with this fifth album, it almost feels like they are at their peak powers. They headlined day one of the three day festival, and everyone was super into them; just a great energy between the band and the audience that night. Ezra interacted with the audience a bunch and Baio was dancing all over the place. If you haven't been to a VW live show before, you ought to go for it because they are so good live, playing tons of different instruments, and altering the live versions of the songs.
"Gen-X" cops seems to be Ezra saying something like, these times, whatever some of the messes are, they aren't for me, weren't made by me ("It wasn't built for me. It's your academy"). These are Gen-X's sins. Of course Ezra, at age 40, is an old Millennial within reaching distance of Gen-Xers. But like many of his songs, there may be a hint of seeking reconciliation with God. My favorite lyric is probably "But in my time, you taught me how to see each generation makes its own apology." It's a great sentiment, and it just really sounds great in the song.
The song title is borrowed from a 1999 Hong Kong crime comedy movie. And the album title (featured on the cover with a photograph inside a subway graveyard showing someone holding a NY Daily News front page with the title) is a quote from a horrified Aloha Airlines passenger describing the terror of having the top of the plane ripped off mid flight. VW recorded the album all over the world (NY, Tokyo, LA) with Ezra explaining it was "inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City." Thematically it's a really tight album centered on Ezra description. And I love some of those 90's odes with the distorted guitars.
Five albums in and this is the first song Ezra Koenig and Chris Thomson have co-written as a duo. Keep'em coming!
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Vampire Weekend sounded great @ Kilby Block Party!
I'm just loving VW's latest album "Only God was Above Us" and this is one of its highlight tracks! And while Vampire Weekend hasn't misfired on an album yet, with this fifth album, it almost feels like they are at their peak powers. They headlined day one of the three day festival, and everyone was super into them; just a great energy between the band and the audience that night. Ezra interacted with the audience a bunch and Baio was dancing all over the place. If you haven't been to a VW live show before, you ought to go for it because they are so good live, playing tons of different instruments, and altering the live versions of the songs.
"Gen-X" cops seems to be Ezra saying something like, these times, whatever some of the messes are, they aren't for me, weren't made by me ("It wasn't built for me. It's your academy"). These are Gen-X's sins. Of course Ezra, at age 40, is an old Millennial within reaching distance of Gen-Xers. But like many of his songs, there may be a hint of seeking reconciliation with God. My favorite lyric is probably "But in my time, you taught me how to see each generation makes its own apology." It's a great sentiment, and it just really sounds great in the song.
The song title is borrowed from a 1999 Hong Kong crime comedy movie. And the album title (featured on the cover with a photograph inside a subway graveyard showing someone holding a NY Daily News front page with the title) is a quote from a horrified Aloha Airlines passenger describing the terror of having the top of the plane ripped off mid flight. VW recorded the album all over the world (NY, Tokyo, LA) with Ezra explaining it was "inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City." Thematically it's a really tight album centered on Ezra description. And I love some of those 90's odes with the distorted guitars.
Five albums in and this is the first song Ezra Koenig and Chris Thomson have co-written as a duo. Keep'em coming!
I'll be uploading more highlights from Vampire Weekend and the rest of Kilby Block Party here: ua-cam.com/play/PLmls2kb62BWKbaXRYnE3oM2XJWCtIdSi4.html
Enjoy.