I was super-curious as to how this Vampire Weekend record was going to fare, on the mvyradio Top 25 of 2013 voting.
I get the impression that our audience is split on Vampire Weekend.
Many of our older listeners, and/or folks who tune into mvyradio to hear Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and The Blues At 8 and such, don't seem too effected by Vampire Weekend. To some, their inclusion on our playlist may even be a little out of character.
For those who have younger-skewing tastes, or listen because they appreciate our devotion to artists like Peter Gabriel or Robert Plant or Angelique Kidjo who are making multi-layered and multi-cultural records, Vampire Weekend makes sense on MVY.
And those people feel strongly.
So this is not a record like Ray Lamontagne's, which spans a broad swath of demographic. But it brings out a devoted following.
So how did it fare?
Once you get the logical wrangling out of the way, the answer is fairly obvious.
Vampire Weekend ended up at Number 9 on our list. It wasn't close to being Number 1 (as it was on many major publication's lists), but it made a strong showing.
Makes sense.
Hear the song on Youtube.
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