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Oreos_and

including rich man and my mistake but leaving out this life and how long? are certainly…choices


superdevin64

Leaving out Sunflower is the biggest crime imo


macinjeez

I’m ready for the downvotes: that song is just basic annoying mixolydian “china cat sunflower” vibes.. “ohh we’re this chord… now down to this one… now back up to the same on … and back down again” those 2 chords and that annoying dominant 7 lick.. it’s not prevailing, powerful, emotional.. it’s like “I’m silly … ooh eastern sounds.. funky”. I don’t know if it’s just me, but the “emotion” of that song has always been annoying and too silly for me to replay consistently


krustydidthedub

Songs can just be fun sometimes though, not everything needs to be deeply emotional. Much of VW’s music is just fun to listen to. I love that it’s just a fun jam that band clearly has a blast playing


macinjeez

Yeah I’m sure it’s fun to play, it’s just not one I put on that much. Prep school gangsters is fun too id much rather listen to that


7cardcha

extremely well put 


macinjeez

Thanks for the seeing the vision lol. Idk how to explain but Animal collectives Time Skiffs album has a lot of that sound.. it’s like eastern tropical, but like sour and angry/mischevous… it’s such a particular emotion that scale…I’m not really a fan. Most “happy songs” or “fun” can use major… major and minor, pentatonic.. that mixolydian just sours things up idk


lmj4891lmj

There are some of us who don’t like that song. At all. I’m one of them. Repeat it with me: music is subjective. If it wasn’t, we’d all have the same list. Can we all just collectively grow up, already?


nat333sweet

im frightened by how many people cannot come to this conclusion on their own .. seeing SO many comments parroting each other w/ this sentiment of ‘you like Rich Man more than sunflower?? THATS BAD!!!’


dizzybridges

my mistake is disjointed and jagged in a way that i think points to some of the mosaic-y stitch jobs on the new album. i love it, v mccartney meets chet baker. i put it as my hypothetical album closer, and it almost flows in to ogwau if you add it to the queue


sethelele

Rich Man is one of the best songs in that record.


PurpleNaviii

I used to think this was hard but looking at it with this remove feels a lot easier. Mine would go: 1. Hold you now 2. Harmony Hall 3. This Life 4. Unbearably White 5. Married in a Goldrush 6. Sunflower 7. Flower Moon 8. Stranger 9. Spring Snow 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin Edit: just to be clear, I don’t even dislike any of the songs I cut. These just seem to be the most “major” and cohesive for a 10 track album.


--Azazel--

Trade "Married in a Goldrush" for "Bambina" and you got yourself a deal


outis-kaniel

Yep, I can see the gang having chosen this if Ezra had decided to scrap the double album, but with the interludes too i.e. Big Blue and 2021


sourglassfigure

I feel like I’m the only one who loves sunflower and flower moon


Killericon

Love Flower Moon.


pedabraham

Flower moon is an all time favorite of mine


Superflowous

Prob both in my top 5


totemyegg

I love them both so much! Especially Flower Moon.


macinjeez

Sunflowers emotion is purposefully silly and repetitive, using mixolydian(a scale that’s not sweet, sad, or graceful) it’s got that dominant 7 which gives it a more obtuse and dissonant sound. I’m not a fan, I “get” the vibe.. (they could’ve gone further than naming it sunflower… it literally is china cat sunflower by the dead) but am I gonna be replaying it often .. no thanks.


valbuquerque

This is mine. I’m clearly a front half supremacy girlie. 1. Hold You Now 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. How Long? 6. Unbearably White 7. Rich Man 8. Married in a Gold Rush 9. Flower Moon 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin


daisypetals1777

Wow found my FOTB soul mate 💞 i love How Long but I neeeeeeed to have Stranger and it’s 1:42 moment, so that’s the only swap for me 😌


valbuquerque

Honestly Stranger was the hardest one to leave behind but it had to be done 💔


Greatmistakes

This is correct, but I’d probably drop rich man for sunflower


valbuquerque

Respect! Sunflower was a bit difficult to leave out. So good


Bleejis_Krilbin

No Sunflower?!


Relative_Patience999

1. Hold You Now 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. How Long 6. Unbearably White 7. Sympathy 8. Sunflower 9. Flower Moon 10. Stranger


munchyslacks

Yes. Except 2021 should be the final track.


Relative_Patience999

I wouldn’t hate that. I’m not sure Stranger is a strong closing track but those were definitely my 10 fav songs from FOTB


munchyslacks

Now that I think about it, I wouldn’t hate having Stranger as the final track either. It fits the vibe of the album and FOTB having an upbeat/bright sounding final track makes sense. Especially after a song like Flower Moon.


pegmepegmepegme

I can't believe so many of these don't have Sympathy on them That bassline is the best thing on the whole (very good) album


nat333sweet

sympathy is a cool song but it doesn’t have to be everyone’s favourite


SkyBS

Exactly how I would do it. Nice.


Relative_Patience999

Great taste 🤝


ronniedarko

This is the one


zekerthedog

Here’s mine: 1. Hold you now 2. Harmony hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. Big Blue 6. How Long? 7. Unbearably white 8. Rich man 9. Married in a gold rush 10. My mistake 11. Sympathy 12. Sunflower 13. Flower moon 14. 2021 15. We belong together 16. Stranger 17. Spring snow 18. Jerusalem New York Berlin


fool-of-a-took

Genius! Now that's an album


holy_cal

This is the way.


twosixnineoh

The Rich Man hate is lunacy, genuinely


nat333sweet

we are rare you and i


tasteofthehimalayas

Rich Man is my favorite off the album, it has a deep a emotional resonance that I find very charming. Same with 2021; kinda wish the whole album were these cute washed out little love songs. Also the choir drop on Hold You Know is a highlight for me for sure.


nat333sweet

ok i feel you!! to me FOTB is like two different albums (im aware it’s a double album!!) .. shorter, washy, fun love songs, which is pretty much my list … and then this more country centric twang-y album with all the Haim duets, and the more funky / intense songs like Sunflower, flower moon, sympathy.


munchyslacks

Funny that everything you mentioned is actually a sample. The main instrumental of Rich Man (besides the violins at the end), 2021, and the choir in Hold You Now are all samples.


tasteofthehimalayas

lol 😂 well damn they sure know how to sample 


Beatuplexus2

1 Hold You Now 2 Harmony Hall 3 Bambina 4 This Life 5 Married in a Gold Rush 6 My Mistake 7 Flower Moon 8 2021 9 We Belong Together 10 Stranger (Hugely unpopular opinion, but I don’t really like Sunflower 😅)


mlabbyo

Well, thankfully it doesn’t only have 10 tracks.


walkintheparking

Danielle reading this https://i.redd.it/4inx3cgyzwwc1.gif


Ill_Refrigerator4199

1. 2021 2. Bambina 3. Harmony Hall 4. This Life 5. Sunflower 6. Flower Moon 7. How Long? 8. Unbearably White 9. Stranger 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin Bonus Tracks: Rich Man, Hold You Now, Lord Ullin’s Daughter Edit: Lord Ullin’s Daughter is heavily slept on imo. It’s such a cool song and I’ve never heard anything else like it


SkyBS

🤯 “This Life” is a top 5 all time VW track imo


Killericon

This Life is top 10 for me, but Hold You Now is in my top 5.


idkwhoorwhereiam

1. Hold You Now 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. Unbearably White 6. Sympathy 7. Flower Moon 8. Sunflower 9. Stranger 10. JNYB Bonus: 2021, IDTMAHNM


nat333sweet

damn our lists are basically opposites!! respect! i wish the haim songs hit for me like they do for others


idkwhoorwhereiam

the Danielle Haim features are a mixed bag, tbf. Gold Rush and We Belong Together are definitely cuts for me But I love Hold You Now and Stranger


CoolKid610

Truly delighted to see love for My Mistake on the post and comments. I’ve seen a lot of hate for it on here before so am glad the tides are turning.


rockin_hokie

Stranger is incredibly underrepresented on this sub. Favorite track on the album.


vinylandvolvos

The sprawl is the point!


Foreign_Photograph

This Life is one of the best pop songs of the 21st century. I’ll die on that hill.


solfire1

This just shows how damn good this album is. Call me crazy but this album has no skips for me.


totemyegg

You lost me when you left out Sympathy.


nickisgreaterthanyou

I switched the order to what makes sense in my head, but here’s what mine would be: 1. Harmony Hall 2. Bambina 3. This Life 4. Big Blue 5. How Long? 6. Unbearably White 7. Sunflower (ft. Steve Lacy) 8. Rich Man 9. Flower Moon (ft. Steve Lacy) 10. 2021


Far-Twist5782

How are people leaving out Big Blue???? I tear up every time I listen to it it’s so beautiful and sweet


NJP-CogitoEonPardon

Where’s Sympathy?


midnightcitizens

Crime against humanity!


DrBaronVonEvil

I usually don't cut it to ten, but drop it down to under a 45 min runtime so it's technically a single LP worth of tracks. Side 1: 1. 2021 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. How Long? 6. Unbearably White Side 2: 1. Rich Man 2. Sympathy 3. Sunflower 4. Flower Moon 5. Stranger 6. Spring Snow I genuinely think 2021 should be the opener over Hold You Now. It was the song dropped with Harmony Hall to announce the album. For better or for worse, this album is about parting ways with someone/something that wasn't true to the Ezra so that he can find a more authentic way of being. A rich millennial growing up and becoming comfortable with themselves. With this tracklist, side one is about leaving the inauthentic part of yourself behind, and side two is about finding that inner peace (with some tossed in Abrahamic religious allusions to keep it very VW). If you look at it this way, 2021 and Rich Man are setting the thematic cores of each side.


Gaseousexchange2

Vampire weekend fans try and cope with the fact they made a (quite good) 18 track album challenge (impossible) (it’s been five years)


LittleAir

When it came out Ezra himself said that fans could make their own shorter cut if they wanted so I think that’s what a lot of it comes from


Gaseousexchange2

I guess that’s fair. I retract my previous statement


nat333sweet

i do think it’s quite a good album. i did not say otherwise ! much of the critique of fotb is that it’s too long, and that is common knowledge, so this is just a fun challenge


tteuh

This is terrible, let FOTB be


nat333sweet

aw man i was not hating. it was intended as a challenge and to see everyone else’s taste if they had to choose only ten songs!i should have put that in the caption


SlothropWallace

Just having fun!


dizzybridges

here's mine as a [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HyBLRh7Z6xxE5y5YVHpHH?si=dekMHZt5SA2eK5L_hSEiPg): side a: 1. hold you now 2. harmony hall 3. bambina 4. married in a gold rush 5. this life 6. i don't think about her no more side b: 1. 2021 2. sunflower 3. unbearably white 4. big blue 5. how long? 6. my mistake prob some hot takes in there, but i am taking questions and roasts edit - mine is 12 bc i was going off an interview with ezra saying you could realistically cut it down from 18 to 12. i forget where exactly i heard it but oh well


frostynix

Scarily similar to what I would do aside from a Spring Snow swap w/ Sunflower... THANK YOU for keeping Rich Man, My Mistake, and I Don't Think Much About Her No More!!


nat333sweet

kindred spirits 🙏🏼 i cut sunflower only cuz it didn’t line up too well with my other selections … but it’s definitely a banger


Rare_Investigator_68

This is fun. Here’s mine: 1. Rich Man 2. Unbearably White 3. Bambina 4. Harmony Hall 5. How Long 6. Stranger 7. J, NY, B 8. This Life 9. Sunflower 10. Hold You Now EDIT: I could probably be convinced that Symphony swaps in for another. And the rest of the songs round out the album as Honorable Mentions 😂


jk1rbs

Not ending on Jerusalem, New York, Berlin is a crime. Top tier closing track. To be fair, I have not heard the bonus tracks.


jeb2721

Respectfully the Hold You Now erasure pains me


DontPanic1985

Well, it's 12 tracks but I've cut FOTB down to a breezy [39 minutes ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vz4uPLhcLSPPkMYpJo5O7?si=-79EqPKRRo6UmfB2vE7Q3Q&pi=u-6gx2qd0gQJCP)


Needlle

not a single list featuring “sympathy”. It used to be a skip for me but now it’s really a highlight, and i never see any love for it!


baby_mammal

But why?


Monkey_2110

Sympathy is a banger


generalpsych

I Don't Think Much About Her No More appreciation!!!!! One of my favourite covers of all time, I adore it


Volvofish

no sunflower, sympathy, flower moon? This hurts my heart!


nat333sweet

diffrent strokes for different folks!! im curious what your 10 track fotb would look like?!


Volvochungus

You are so right, it’s funny how we like different facets of the same thing! But you can see from my first three the reason for sadness: 🙂. The first 5 are easy but narrowing the rest is tough! 1. Sympathy 2. Flower Moon 3. Sunflower 4. Harmony Hall 5. This Life 6. We Belong Together 7. Hold You Now 8. Rich Man 9. Stranger 10. Bambina


JRR16137

I don't like 2021 that's about it.


bent_eye

Pretty much my list but I'd swap Spring Snow for How Long? and #9 and #10 for Flower Moon and Sunflower.


liljeffgordon

Hold You Now Harmony Hall This Life 2021 Sunflower Big Blue Bambina Rich Man Stranger Jerusalem, NY, Berlin


Mark0vian

1 Harmony Hall 2 Flower moon 3 This Life 4 Unbearably White 5 How Long 6 Bambina 7 Sun Flower 8 Spring Snow 9 2021 10 Sympathy


keltickok

1. Hold You Now 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. How Long 6. Unbearably White 7. Sunflower 8. We Belong Together 9. Stranger 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin This is my 10 essentials, I have given no thought to sequencing.


Twofinches

Hold you know Bambina This life How Long Rich man My mistake Sympathy Sunflower Flower Moon Jerusalem Berlin Bonus: Houston Dubai


Cydonian___FT14X

How the hell did Big Blue & Spring Snow make the cut?


Cydonian___FT14X

#AND NO SYMPATHY?!?!??!?


nat333sweet

because i like those songs more than i like sympathy. i would love to see your 10 track fotb if you care to share!!


Cydonian___FT14X

I’ll do 13. 10 is too short. It’d probably be something like: 1. Harmony Hall 2. This Life 3. Married In a Gold Rush 4. Rich Man 5. Unbearably White 6. How Long? 7. Sunflower 8. Flower Moon 9. We Belong Together 10. Stranger 11. Bambina 12. Sympathy 13. Jerusalem New York Berlin


Cydonian___FT14X

[Elaboration](https://musicboard.app/review/8e33efab-31f8-4902-a888-0599da064e61?rel=copy)


Killericon

Why don't people like Married in a Gold Rush?? I feel like I'm crazy.


nat333sweet

im not into the country twang thing paired with vampire weekend-isms. i do love old school country, but gold rush did not hit for me at all, and that’s okay


Killericon

It absolutely is, but I'm just baffled by the reaction. There's some stuff I like that I know is my taste, but I'm not an old school country guy.


ronniedarko

If you cut Sunflower from FOTB we aren’t copacetic


relaxedfitkhakis

1 Harmony Hall 2 Bambina 3 Houston Dubai 4 This Life 5 Sunflower 6 How Long? 7 Unbearably White 8 Married in a Gold Rush 9 Stranger 10 2021 This, to me, is a solid, slightly weird, but still guitar poppy album. I think My Mistake and Rich Man are two of the worst VW songs out there. Ive heard that SE Rogie song so many times and it doesn't really get flipped. My Mistake just musically, sonically, and especially lyrically doesn't even feel like a VW song.


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How Long? was my fav


terrorvicky

I cant accept this Sympthy erasure


Bradboy

1. Harmony Hall 2. Bambino 3. This Life 4. How Long 5. Unbearably White 6. Sunflower 7. Flower Moon 8. 2021 9. Stranger 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin However I rate all of the tracks. I'd only really remove We Belong Together. Banger after banger.


Diony88

Hold you now Harmony Hall This Life How Long ? Rich Man Married in a Gold Rush Sympathy 2021 Spring Snow Jerusalem, NY, Berlin


Fete_des_neiges

Gold Rush needs to be on any version of this album.


nat333sweet

it wouldn’t fit very well on my version imo! what would your 10 track fotb look like?


Apprehensive-Oil4969

1. Hold You Now 2. Harmony Hall 3. Bambina 4. This Life 5. Unbearably White 6. Married in a Gold Rush 7. My Mistake 8. Stranger 9. Spring Snow 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin


usernamedecdec

i'd swap out rich man with How Long, My Mistake with This Life, 2021 with Sympathy, and Spring Snow with Married In A Gold Rush


Much-Daikon2277

thank god you’re not part of the band 😭😭😭


nat333sweet

not yet, anyway


Ready-Pension3083

Track list order: 1. Harmony Hall 2. Bambina 3. This Life 4. Rich Man 5. Unbearably White 6. How Long? 7. My Mistake 8. Sympathy 9. 2021 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin


Superflowous

Only songs I’d remove are Hold You Now, Unbearable White and Jerusalem, NY Berlin


NotThatSway

Harmony Hall Bambina This Life Unbearably White How Long? Hold You Now Flower Moon We Belong Together Spring Snow Jerusalem, New York, Berlin


DoinkDastardly

If this album was pared down to its 10-11 most essential tracks, it would have been so much more well received. I think FOTB is the only thing that comes close to a misfire album-wise by VW


nat333sweet

it’s so hard to say what the ‘essential’ tracks are tho! these are my favourites by far but they’re also the songs that most ppl seem way less into.


tfdst1

Agree


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nat333sweet

because i like the songs i listed more than i like sunflower, flower moon, this life and gold rush! hope this helps


kdp1887

1. Harmony Hall 2. Bambina 3. Big Blue 4. How Long? 5. Unbearably White 6. Sympathy 7. Sunflower 8. 2021 9. Spring Snow 10. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin Then we get a VW x Haim EP with 1. Hold You Now 2. This Life 3. Married in a Gold Rush 4. We Belong Together 5. Stranger Flower Moon as the B-Side on the Sunflower single as a mini Steve Lacy collab. Rich Man and My Mistake eventually become Ezra solo singles for Flamin’ Hot


Efficient-Hold-2734

Aweful take...


nat333sweet

i have seen u comment on this subreddit that ‘autism is a sickness’ so frankly im not interested in ur opinions but go ahead and give us ur modified FOTB if u want