Got the album, it's fantastic. For me it sounds like the 2nd album Elastica really should have made, albeit with a male vocalist.

 

Is it just me, or does the melody for 'Wetsuit' remind anyone of the melody of 'Campus' by Vampire Weekend?

I like the album and the band far far more than The Strokes... a band whose hype was always more interesting than the product.

 

And I love Post Break-up Sex...and the album's a pretty decent debut.

 

I see someone mentions The Drums here - possibly the least interesting album I bought last year - bloody awful.

far more than The Strokes... a band whose hype was always more interesting than the product.

 

Strange, I thought they deserved the hype at the time. Maybe I'd feel different now. As I said, the NME and co are trying to get a Strokes-esque revolution happening (remember in 2001 when Travis and the other landfill indie of the time were figuratively executed by 'Is This It?') with The Vaccines ten years on but they just aren't good enough in my opinion.

 

Good luck to them, but it'll take a much better band to get me on board.

Hate Post break up sex, but perhaps I should give a few of their other tracks a chance.

Strange, I thought they deserved the hype at the time. Maybe I'd feel different now. As I said, the NME and co are trying to get a Strokes-esque revolution happening (remember in 2001 when Travis and the other landfill indie of the time were figuratively executed by 'Is This It?') with The Vaccines ten years on but they just aren't good enough in my opinion.

 

Good luck to them, but it'll take a much better band to get me on board.

 

I just found The Strokes a bit contrived and too derivative to be of much interest - yes, they looked great, they definitely had that skinny-jeans-moppy-hair look down to a T.... but their music was just pretty average garage alt-rock..... a bit of a pastiche, a band for kids too lazy or non-clued up to look for the originals.

 

And thankfully long-gone are the days when we get 20 year old spotty graduate NME 'journos' breathlessly dictating to us who are "REALLY GREAT AND WHO WILL BE, LIKE, REALLY MASSIVE THIS YEAR - THEY'RE SOOOO COOL - ADD THEM TO YOUR COLLECTION, KIDS. NOW! How boring.

 

The Vaccines are what they are, I think - they'll never change the world, but they have a crafty knack of producing some excellent bursts of great pop/punk.

Russt68 just said everything I was going to

And thankfully long-gone are the days when we get 20 year old spotty graduate NME 'journos' breathlessly dictating to us who are "REALLY GREAT AND WHO WILL BE, LIKE, REALLY MASSIVE THIS YEAR - THEY'RE SOOOO COOL - ADD THEM TO YOUR COLLECTION, KIDS. NOW! How boring.

 

Gone are they? I thought they were only becoming more prevalent.

Gone are they? I thought they were only becoming more prevalent.

 

I'd say the opposite - apart from anything else - only about 25 people buy the awful rag nowadays anyway. And with the internet, we don't need journos receiving backhanders recommending absolute $h!te for us to waste money on - we can see for ourselves whether it's worth our hard-earned.

 

There's oodles of bands the NME have lauded that have sold absolutely nothing regardless - something that would never ever have happened in the 80s and 90s.

There's oodles of bands the NME have lauded that have sold absolutely nothing regardless - something that would never ever have happened in the 80s and 90s.

 

All indie bands bar The Smiths, Happy Mondays and Stone Roses used to sell pretty much nothing regardless back then and the NME lauded them all :D

 

I think the NME looks to have moved back to a slightly higher quality of journalism than the Heat-with-an-Emo-haircut days of Cuntor McNicholas, but there's far less space for them to get excited about up and coming bands playing toilet venues when there are pages constantly being taken up by Muse posters. I think you're being a little kind to the flagging weekly, it's a long way away from how it was during the 80s and 90s and, yes, with Internet blogs allowing everyone to be a bedroom journo, there's little chance for it to return.

Not sure of listening to the album. I liked 'Post Break-Up' and 'If You Wanna'. I might have to wait for their next single to become more curious.

All indie bands bar The Smiths, Happy Mondays and Stone Roses used to sell pretty much nothing regardless back then and the NME lauded them all :D

 

I think the NME looks to have moved back to a slightly higher quality of journalism than the Heat-with-an-Emo-haircut days of Cuntor McNicholas, but there's far less space for them to get excited about up and coming bands playing toilet venues when there are pages constantly being taken up by Muse posters. I think you're being a little kind to the flagging weekly, it's a long way away from how it was during the 80s and 90s and, yes, with Internet blogs allowing everyone to be a bedroom journo, there's little chance for it to return.

Menswear and Gay Dad are the classic examples of NME's former power. Both bands were cited as the future of music and creamed over, resulting in top ten hits for both acts. Then 6 months later and the fuss died down and everybody realised they were crap all along and they'd been had.

 

If the NME hadn't gotten behind bands like Nirvana, Suede, Pulp, Blur Manic Street Preachers, The Strokes and others it's debateable whether they'd have had as much success as they did and Madchester, Britpop and Grunge might not have had the big impacts on the music scene that they did. Whereas recently championed bands like The Horrors, Hadouken! and others have had nowhere near the success this push would have given them 20 years ago

I don't like their music (except one or two songs).

 

It's funny how NME tried to "defend" the band against the readers: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&...p;tb=1&pb=1

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I really wasnt expecting to like this album as much as I do, when they first came to my attention I was rather dismissive of them as generic of their sound and genre but I've rather come round these past few weeks. 'If You Wanna' is definatly a favourite.

I don't like their music (except one or two songs).

 

It's funny how NME tried to "defend" the band against the readers: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&...p;tb=1&pb=1

 

That article is the biggest load of b***ocks I've read. For a start, Jesus didn't even start his ministry until he was about 30, so he definately wasn't passing around loaves and fishes by then. And how it relates to Joe Strummer and the Vaccines is beyond me.

Eek, what an awful and stupid article. Joe Strummer was posh, yes, but it took a hell of a long time before he was revered. He served his time in the 101ers and worked his way up to The Clash who were formed from the best parts of Strummer plus the London SS. The Vaccines have come along from nothing and have not, to my mind, served as any kind of guitar band wake up call. This just proves what I was saying earlier.

 

As for Nirvana, Suede, Pulp, Blur, Manics, Strokes (don't forget Oasis) - yes, the NME did get behind them and yes it did help...but the songs mattered more and The Vaccines cannot yet be mentioned in the same breath. They are a fairly average band doing pretty good stuff now, but they don't deserve to be the NME's pin up band in lieu of anyone else...they will end up as the new Menswe@r or Gay Dad...or Terris or Horrors...because the poor buggers won't be able to live up to the hype.

Eek, what an awful and stupid article. Joe Strummer was posh, yes, but it took a hell of a long time before he was revered. He served his time in the 101ers and worked his way up to The Clash who were formed from the best parts of Strummer plus the London SS. The Vaccines have come along from nothing and have not, to my mind, served as any kind of guitar band wake up call. This just proves what I was saying earlier.

 

As for Nirvana, Suede, Pulp, Blur, Manics, Strokes (don't forget Oasis) - yes, the NME did get behind them and yes it did help...but the songs mattered more and The Vaccines cannot yet be mentioned in the same breath. They are a fairly average band doing pretty good stuff now, but they don't deserve to be the NME's pin up band in lieu of anyone else...they will end up as the new Menswe@r or Gay Dad...or Terris or Horrors...because the poor buggers won't be able to live up to the hype.

I wasn't suggesting The Vaccines were up to that standard. The album is solid but unspectacular. I was merely commenting that the NME used to be much more influential than it is now

The music video for Norgaard, the best song on the album:

 

Nice project.

"Blow It Up" is their best song. Made under the influence of La's "There She Goes" whose inspiration came from 60s' music.

 

"Post Break-Up Sex" on the 2nd place, but it's much worse.

'Post break-up sex' is becoming my anthem of the year, quite suprising considering I didn't rate it very much the first time I heard it. Such a grower, now I think the song is PERFECT.

The whole album is very good too, I'm glad they're not doing too bad.

It's fantastic to see 'Norgaard' get a release, it is my highlight on a surprisingly good album.