First, I have to say that Radiohead's version is my absolute favorite song of all time. I was not a huge fan of this cover, but nice try. It's not horrible, but it just doesn't hold a candle to the original. I'm not sure why so many people are up in arms about it though. If I could play music, I would record my own version of this song too. @TheSim1derful You're entitled to your opinion, but to me Radiohead's version absolutely bursts with emotion.
I love Radiohead and Vampire Weekend immensely. My favorite band of all time is Radiohead however. This version is a prefect cover though because they weren't trying to "out-do" or "one-up" radiohead, they were just giving their own spice to the flavor. Good job Vampire Weekend.
THIS IS FUCKING HORRIBLE, THESE FUCKING HIPSTER PIECES OF SHIT AND THEIR ENCOURAGING FANS NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT COOL ENOUGH TO RUIN A CLASSIC LIKE THIS
I liked this better than the original, interestingly enough. Obviously Radiohead get full cred since they WROTE the song, but Vampire Weekend made it more enjoyable, IMO. The original just didn't inspire any emotion in me.
I liked that they tried to make it their own, and I think some good ideas went into this,particularly the flutes playing the ghost choir part. I still like the original better, i think the drums in this version kind of ruined it for me.
I love both Radiohead and Vampire Weekend, and i think this is an interesting cover. They obviously covered it because they liked the song, otherwise why would they want to sing it?! And i seriously doubt they're trying to outdo Radiohead! At the end of the day, i do prefer the original, for what it is. But i don't dislike this version.
Just to add my opinion as a Radiohead fan: I didn't like it. Beginning was off time and awkward. Middle drum solo equally off time and awkward. It's not that I'm biased but musically, Radiohead is much better. I don't dislike VW, I just think that it's rhythmically awkward.
@bombast07 They re-created a classic, it's called creativity, you might not have it but it actually exists. Stop being so close-minded, this is a tribute, not a competition, show some respect.
Love both bands, thought this was really good. quit getting so pissed off about it, its just a rendition. either you like it or you diddn't, leave it at that and don't be a douche about it.
This has a cool feel to it. Also it is interesting how people on here think that this is an attempt to one-up Radiohead. Is that what you would have in mind while covering another band's song? I doubt it.
Can everyone just calm the fuck down? Vampire Weekend is paying tribute to Radiohead, saying that Radiohead's cool. It's something nice from one band to another and you guys turned it into an arguement. Just calm down or shut up and let us listen to music in peace. Okay?
But, you're the one who responded, as well as stirring shit up for the sake of shitposting.
I wonder, Do Radiohead fans lack self identity? They always seem to project as your doing, and tend to take criticism of their favorite band personally.
coming from a long time radiohead fan and someone who doesn't own any vampire weekend albums, i think it's a pretty good cover, probably one of the best I've heard. I wish they would have saved the percussion rattle thing they do at 2:23 until the climax at 2:53, but. just sayin'.
I liked both versions of this. When I heard the radiohead version at the end of Romeo and Juliet, I just stared at the screen until then end of the song, not even taking in any of the credits.
God. I Love Radiohead They're my favorite band(behind Modest Mouse) ! And I Love Vampire Weekend(To an extent) I'm not being a douche, but this just sucks. Vampire Weekend our awesome, but this just sucks.
i normally like covers of radiohead songs. i appreciate that vampire weekend likes radiohead enough to cover them but this cover really... i just didn't like it. oh well, to each his own.
now now everyone! to each his own, every opinion is as equally valid as the next, but especially Dirkadirka217's :P. mine? VW didn't just copy the song like some covers do, they recreated it. Radioheads is more solemn while VW's has more of an urgency to it. I think both are very good!
i'm a huge radiohead fan (my username?) I consider this version more listenable than the OK Computer version. I've seen Radiohead perform it three times now, and I just don't really dig the song. I think Vampire Weekend, whom I don't know very well, does it better.
take a cover as this. A high school band or even a professional wind symphony like the Chicago Wind Symphony playing Beethoven's Ode to joy, people dont criticize them for ruining Beethovens music, it was just them playing it, So this cover is just Vampire Weekend playing Radioheads music out of respect and loving the music i love radiohead and im an uptight fan, but fuck those people to dumb to realize they are just playing another fucking song
I love the arguments guys. I'll admit, this song is one of my favorite of all time, and this cover does nothing for me. But overcritical douches need to chill with your pretentious comments. While I don't like the song very much, I can appreciate that the original impacted them enough that they want to redo it in their own way. It's just music man. (not very good music =p)
I feel bad for bands like vampire weekend. This stupid hipster phase has labeled good indie music into "hipster" bands. Hipster is not a music genre. And I'm sure as hell am not a hipster either, but I love this band, way before these hipsters showed up and ruined their credibility.
Radiohead Fans: The original version isn't the original. Frederic Chopin's Prelude No. 4 in E Minor is. Shut up, music is music, who wrote it doesn't affect how it sounds when it goes into your pretentious ears.
Vampire Weekend Fans: Shut up, the goal isn't to trump the original version, music is opinion, there's no such thing as a song that is factually better than another song.
Compromising Hipsters: Shut up, you don't know shit about what either of these bands think.
@dirkadirka217 I also like both version there is just one thing i don't agree with you.
Radiohead made a complete defferent song (but it's still a cover)
Vampire took radioheadsong and gave it a more poppy style, which is less 'creative'.
The second reason why i prefer radioheads version above this one is cause of the reason it's made of.
Romeo and Julliette, the complicate relation etc. R'head version just makes it so emotional. The song just fits with the music.Got this less with the V version
@dirkadirka217 While the song shares a chromatic descending bassline and the first three notes of the melody with Chopin's prelude, "Exit Music" is not in any way a copy nor a case of "let's add lyrics to a classical melody." Unlike, say, "A Fifth of Beethoven."
as a radiohead fans.... i agree that this is not the exit music that we were expecting. but hell ya, think in this way, they are just trying to cover it, in their style. take it as an alternative guys. if u dont like this, just leave. i quite appreciate their effort and music and nt just turn a deaf ear to other kinds of music.
Far from it. I am sneered at most every day by 'hipster' posers. I simply don't turn a deaf ear to a band's atrocious mistakes when they make them. All bands make them from time to time.
Oh god, something that's not expected from either band. My head might explode because it's different. It's a pretty aight cover, I go out of my way to listen to it time to time.
Coming from an ardent Radiohead fan, I actually quite liked this. I'm not sure why people are saying it's so utterly terrible. Perhaps in comparison to the original it's somewhat marginal, but I don't suspect covers are made to be critiqued against the original so much as being an alternate take on an original piece. That being said, I could never love another version of Exit Music as much I love Radiohead's... It's too bloody brilliant.
Cover or not, this is terrible. VW music are usually so tightly constructed, what the heck happened here? And also, Exit Music is simply too sad, too somber to be remade into a dance track. Just no. No no no.
It is okay, wouldn't listen to it again. Definitely is not comparable to the original, they're not even in the same universe. Nothing can parallel Radiohead. NOTHING
Why? I was impartial to Vampire Weekend before this but they've just tainted themselves in the eyes of this individual by destroying one of the most emotionally charged songs modern rock has to offer.
I don't know much about Vampire Weekend as a band, so they may have redeemed themselves elsewere; but why they decided to have an awful semi techno beat behind this & a Chris Martin impersonator on vocals I will never know...
Despite all of the narrow-minded bigots who have their heads shoved too far up their asses and are hell-bent on comparing everything back to the original artist, I find this cover lovely.
This was my first experience of VW way back when, it's still a good cover. Covers that try to replicate the original completely are boring and show no invention. This is good.
@EminusJoshicus hahahaa chill dude. I love Vampire Weekend, but this cover is just impossible, compared to radiohead's version. no offense. I really think Vampire Weekend is great, but this song is just not for em.
I'm a massive Radiohead fan, and I believe the original is untouchable. However, this isn't bad at all, they've done their own take on it, an enjoyable listen.
It really grates me when people say things are too good to be covered. Pop music has a rich history of bands covering each other. The Beatles, The Stones etc covered lots of classics. What if we'd have said the same thing about Dylan songs? We'd be missing out on some brilliant tracks from messrs Hendrix, McGuinn, Ferry n co.
This song has a haunting beautiful quality that Vampire Weekend failed to capture. Do not like. I think I can actually say this is one of the worst Radiohead covers I've heard. Hurts my soul.
Sorry Vampire Weekend. Stick to your thing. Your thing is good. But it's not good for Radiohead.
Wow, really? I guess I have to make the opposite comment to everyone here. I'm not a huge Vampire Weekend fan, am a big Radiohead fan, and I think this song is better than the original. Guess I'm the minority.
There should be a law against bands covering radiohead. Not hating on Vampire weekend, I just mean any band in the world, should not be allowed to cover a radiohead song.
the beauty of the radiohead version is the how perfectly it builds up to that one perfect explosion of beauty. what the fuck was with the drums at this build up part? sounded like he fell on the drums a buncha times
First, I have to say that Radiohead's version is my absolute favorite song of all time. I was not a huge fan of this cover, but nice try. It's not horrible, but it just doesn't hold a candle to the original. I'm not sure why so many people are up in arms about it though. If I could play music, I would record my own version of this song too. @TheSim1derful You're entitled to your opinion, but to me Radiohead's version absolutely bursts with emotion.
transer1337 5 days ago
I love Radiohead and Vampire Weekend immensely. My favorite band of all time is Radiohead however. This version is a prefect cover though because they weren't trying to "out-do" or "one-up" radiohead, they were just giving their own spice to the flavor. Good job Vampire Weekend.
TheDeepThinkingDoll 1 week ago in playlist VAMPIRE WEEKEND!!!!!!!
not a fan of this version
castrophist 1 week ago
FRICKIN' HIGH OFF OF THIS SONG!
jeezmeg 1 week ago
THIS IS FUCKING HORRIBLE, THESE FUCKING HIPSTER PIECES OF SHIT AND THEIR ENCOURAGING FANS NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT COOL ENOUGH TO RUIN A CLASSIC LIKE THIS
StenoticGlobal 3 weeks ago
I liked this better than the original, interestingly enough. Obviously Radiohead get full cred since they WROTE the song, but Vampire Weekend made it more enjoyable, IMO. The original just didn't inspire any emotion in me.
TheSim1derful 3 weeks ago
for all of you made uncomfortable by the awkward drum beats, listen to Cousins by Vamp. it's what they do.
digitellove 4 weeks ago
I liked that they tried to make it their own, and I think some good ideas went into this,particularly the flutes playing the ghost choir part. I still like the original better, i think the drums in this version kind of ruined it for me.
pwebsers 1 month ago
I love both Radiohead and Vampire Weekend, and i think this is an interesting cover. They obviously covered it because they liked the song, otherwise why would they want to sing it?! And i seriously doubt they're trying to outdo Radiohead! At the end of the day, i do prefer the original, for what it is. But i don't dislike this version.
spiderpunk100 1 month ago
Just to add my opinion as a Radiohead fan: I didn't like it. Beginning was off time and awkward. Middle drum solo equally off time and awkward. It's not that I'm biased but musically, Radiohead is much better. I don't dislike VW, I just think that it's rhythmically awkward.
SX55555blueredgreen 1 month ago
@SX55555blueredgreen I didn't like it beiether, but it's not off time xD
IC114283 1 month ago
@SX55555blueredgreen go take a drum lesson
chatterboxch 1 month ago
@chatterboxch but not only one
keleraba123 1 month ago
They completely destroyed a classic. They sucked all of the dreary soul of the original and made it sound like something on the Lion King soundtrack.
bombast07 1 month ago
@bombast07 They re-created a classic, it's called creativity, you might not have it but it actually exists. Stop being so close-minded, this is a tribute, not a competition, show some respect.
PS. Lion King Soundtrack is great
Lutoniro 2 weeks ago
I quite liked until the build-up to the climax. The drum beat from 2:22- 2:50 just seemed awkward and felt as though it did not belong.
waldocalvinhobbes 1 month ago
I've never been much of a VW fan, and I started watching this video assuming it would be really bad. But it's realllly not, it's reallly good
themissingschlinck 2 months ago
This dominates the original.
StJimmyRocks92 2 months ago
What song?
azgh11 2 months ago
the original sounded like they were getting out of bed, the start of the escape.
this one sounds like they're on the road.
elaborateplot 2 months ago
Stop hopping on the 'lets hate hipsters' bandwagon and just enjoy the music.
leahgames 3 months ago
I miss the fuzzy bass. That just makes this song for me. Nice cover, though. Good job, VW!
chrissalyn81 4 months ago 2
@chrissalyn81 I agree, the bass that starts at like 2:30 in the original is amazing. Good cover though
Conza679 3 months ago
why does the drummer always look like he has just killed someone?
jamiequinlan 4 months ago in playlist Vampire Weekend 6
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terrible cover for the most part. completely missed the point of the song. and I'm saying that as not even that big of a Radiohead fan.
superclaydude 4 months ago
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superclaydude 4 months ago
Love both bands, thought this was really good. quit getting so pissed off about it, its just a rendition. either you like it or you diddn't, leave it at that and don't be a douche about it.
a7xmonster101 5 months ago
Covers are homages. Duh. No one is trying to outdo Radiohead. That would just be silly.
mhchurch4 5 months ago 2
Thom yorke would be proud at vampire weekend
Yasaa4 5 months ago
@Yasaa4 he wouldnt be proud of your grammar lol. or should i say "off you're grammer"
charliehenryrufus 3 months ago 3
what would thom yorke think about this??
ellioteaston93 6 months ago
@ellioteaston93 Thom Yorke thought that "I think ur a contra" was one of the best songs of 2010 actually. i'm sure he liked this a lot actually.
a7xmonster101 5 months ago
This has a cool feel to it. Also it is interesting how people on here think that this is an attempt to one-up Radiohead. Is that what you would have in mind while covering another band's song? I doubt it.
blondeathart6575 6 months ago 20
The woodwinds are fucking epic. Also the vocal harmonies are pretty amazing. I like the original, but it's pretty different.
blakelandrews 6 months ago 3
Also one of the only songs i like by Vampire Weekend!!
toolworks 6 months ago
MY prefered version, don't playa hate ^_^
toolworks 6 months ago
Can everyone just calm the fuck down? Vampire Weekend is paying tribute to Radiohead, saying that Radiohead's cool. It's something nice from one band to another and you guys turned it into an arguement. Just calm down or shut up and let us listen to music in peace. Okay?
LostRed33 6 months ago 2
One great band covers another great band. Result? Brilliance
LostRed33 6 months ago
This version is better then radiohead's idc what any of ya say
PollyLickums 7 months ago
@PollyLickums you speak the truth
StJimmyRocks92 2 months ago
@dirkadirka217 *slow building clap*
drjamyma 7 months ago
Hey radiohead fanboys... Contra was so much better than the ambiant filler called "king of limbs".
NinjaJedi 7 months ago
@NinjaJedi Hey, VW fangirls: we respect your opinions and don't want to stir up arguments for the sake of shitposting because, really, who does that?
LionheartMachinima 6 months ago
@LionheartMachinima
Insecure Radiohead fanboys with inferiority complexes that's who.
Besides, I'm stating a critically agreed upon fact, you're the one stirring up arguments.
NinjaJedi 6 months ago
@NinjaJedi Me? Christ, stir up shit won't you. 3/10. You got me to reply.
LionheartMachinima 6 months ago
@LionheartMachinima
But, you're the one who responded, as well as stirring shit up for the sake of shitposting.
I wonder, Do Radiohead fans lack self identity? They always seem to project as your doing, and tend to take criticism of their favorite band personally.
NinjaJedi 6 months ago
I bet this made Thom smile! in a oh God what are these hipster clowns playing at kind of way.
redcommando1 7 months ago
the first time i listened to it, i ofcourse thought it was crap but then i came back to it 6 months later and its not that bad.
OCIRELCNU 7 months ago
I am sorry, but that cover was not good at all. It just wasn't.
iluvlost09 7 months ago
I love it when bands cover a song and make it completely their own, this is a perfect example <3
NBADR 7 months ago
This sucks. Ruined the song.
TheThomosexual 7 months ago 2
good cover
TheJz0802 7 months ago
coming from a long time radiohead fan and someone who doesn't own any vampire weekend albums, i think it's a pretty good cover, probably one of the best I've heard. I wish they would have saved the percussion rattle thing they do at 2:23 until the climax at 2:53, but. just sayin'.
seri0killa 7 months ago 3
excellent job.
wemnienoc 7 months ago
These youtube comments are making my penis soft
nicholasgiles 8 months ago 2
LOL this sucks SO HARD.
farizzal 8 months ago
@farizzal FARAAZ!!!!!
Arastusamad 8 months ago
@Arastusamad encounter #3! :D
farizzal 8 months ago
I'm a Vampire Weekend and Radiohead fan and I really enjoy this, I'm having trouble deciding which is better
TheEmpyrion 8 months ago
My face when people are getting upset over a band paying tribute to another band they respect.
BitzRitz1988 8 months ago
love this version... radioheads best song was karma police or paranoid android
TheJz0802 8 months ago
way to ruin a good song
YesIamtrolling 8 months ago
This sucks. Hard. Real hard.
ffsf739 8 months ago
fuck vampire weekennd
robair9911 8 months ago
I was gonna slag this off, until I got to about 2:00 in and started to like it. The Radiohead version is my favourite song of all time though.
rossbigradiohead 8 months ago
vampire weekend
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Fraseandfable 8 months ago
Love the original, love this song. Better that Vamp took this and made it theirs than to try to re-do Radiohead. You simply don't re-do Radiohead.
Tmartin9495 8 months ago 55
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garyleeguthery 9 months ago
@garyleeguthery LOL wtf did you just say?
sexsexsexyNathan 8 months ago
I liked both versions of this. When I heard the radiohead version at the end of Romeo and Juliet, I just stared at the screen until then end of the song, not even taking in any of the credits.
TellHerOnTheOffBEAT 9 months ago
God. I Love Radiohead They're my favorite band(behind Modest Mouse) ! And I Love Vampire Weekend(To an extent) I'm not being a douche, but this just sucks. Vampire Weekend our awesome, but this just sucks.
bassxhippiexlife 9 months ago
i normally like covers of radiohead songs. i appreciate that vampire weekend likes radiohead enough to cover them but this cover really... i just didn't like it. oh well, to each his own.
angelddaz 9 months ago
now now everyone! to each his own, every opinion is as equally valid as the next, but especially Dirkadirka217's :P. mine? VW didn't just copy the song like some covers do, they recreated it. Radioheads is more solemn while VW's has more of an urgency to it. I think both are very good!
TeachMeThePiano 9 months ago
I'm not one of "those" Radiohead fans, but I'm not sure if this is the best way to cover this song.
AreaCode978 9 months ago
i'm a huge radiohead fan (my username?) I consider this version more listenable than the OK Computer version. I've seen Radiohead perform it three times now, and I just don't really dig the song. I think Vampire Weekend, whom I don't know very well, does it better.
treefingers1206 9 months ago
vampire weekened kicked radioheads ass...just saying
chikaalex1 10 months ago
This is one RH cover i fully approve of. I am a diehard RH fan and this is Amazing!
Wendellerins 10 months ago
i love vampire weekend, i love radiohead, and this version is pretty weak. to each is own.
aavindraa 10 months ago
take a cover as this. A high school band or even a professional wind symphony like the Chicago Wind Symphony playing Beethoven's Ode to joy, people dont criticize them for ruining Beethovens music, it was just them playing it, So this cover is just Vampire Weekend playing Radioheads music out of respect and loving the music i love radiohead and im an uptight fan, but fuck those people to dumb to realize they are just playing another fucking song
MrManagerTJ 10 months ago
I love the arguments guys. I'll admit, this song is one of my favorite of all time, and this cover does nothing for me. But overcritical douches need to chill with your pretentious comments. While I don't like the song very much, I can appreciate that the original impacted them enough that they want to redo it in their own way. It's just music man. (not very good music =p)
doctorduck88 10 months ago
I feel bad for bands like vampire weekend. This stupid hipster phase has labeled good indie music into "hipster" bands. Hipster is not a music genre. And I'm sure as hell am not a hipster either, but I love this band, way before these hipsters showed up and ruined their credibility.
marshmelloooww 10 months ago 4
@marshmelloooww PROUD TO BE A HIPSTER BITCH!!!!!!!!!!:p
chikaalex1 10 months ago
@chikaalex1 Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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Radiohead Fans: The original version isn't the original. Frederic Chopin's Prelude No. 4 in E Minor is. Shut up, music is music, who wrote it doesn't affect how it sounds when it goes into your pretentious ears.
Vampire Weekend Fans: Shut up, the goal isn't to trump the original version, music is opinion, there's no such thing as a song that is factually better than another song.
Compromising Hipsters: Shut up, you don't know shit about what either of these bands think.
dirkadirka217 10 months ago 75
@dirkadirka217 Kings of leon beats both
Pagra101 9 months ago
@Pagra101 lol
dirkadirka217 9 months ago
@dirkadirka217 I also like both version there is just one thing i don't agree with you.
Radiohead made a complete defferent song (but it's still a cover)
Vampire took radioheadsong and gave it a more poppy style, which is less 'creative'.
The second reason why i prefer radioheads version above this one is cause of the reason it's made of.
Romeo and Julliette, the complicate relation etc. R'head version just makes it so emotional. The song just fits with the music.Got this less with the V version
QOTSARadio 9 months ago
@dirkadirka217
Um, chopin didn't write this song... It sounds slightly similar at the start but you can't say he wrote it
bleah678 9 months ago 2
@dirkadirka217 You're a fucking idiot.
StarvingSound 8 months ago
@dirkadirka217 You're a fucking idiot. Oh, and it is still the original. It was just inspired by Chopin.
StarvingSound 8 months ago
@dirkadirka217 While the song shares a chromatic descending bassline and the first three notes of the melody with Chopin's prelude, "Exit Music" is not in any way a copy nor a case of "let's add lyrics to a classical melody." Unlike, say, "A Fifth of Beethoven."
kenflagg 8 months ago
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justinorville 7 months ago
been objective to me is not a good cover
paranoidandroid1997 10 months ago
it's like Radiohead for Abercrombie and Fitch stores... :) not bad however...
jedijenkeez45 11 months ago
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dirkadirka217 10 months ago
I don't hate it, but... the original gives me chills (in a good way) while this version does nothing for me whatsoever.
zaksillyman 11 months ago 3
as a radiohead fans.... i agree that this is not the exit music that we were expecting. but hell ya, think in this way, they are just trying to cover it, in their style. take it as an alternative guys. if u dont like this, just leave. i quite appreciate their effort and music and nt just turn a deaf ear to other kinds of music.
jeffreywcf 11 months ago
How could any band in their right mind try to change and reinterpret this beautiful masterpiece which is Radiohead's original version of this song???
TheGabcat 11 months ago
Now...Precisely what the fuck is this?
Thecuregalore94 11 months ago
This doesn't work at all...
leisurelydinner 11 months ago
Totally unnecessary ...
All record of this needs to be erased from every disc, hard drive and so forth. What gall. What garbage.
FungusMossGnosis 11 months ago
@FungusMossGnosis
fucking hipster
abaofifsz 11 months ago
@abaofifsz
Far from it. I am sneered at most every day by 'hipster' posers. I simply don't turn a deaf ear to a band's atrocious mistakes when they make them. All bands make them from time to time.
FungusMossGnosis 11 months ago
shameful
IRCarter81 11 months ago
This is an absolute disgrace.
Orygyn 11 months ago
Oh god, something that's not expected from either band. My head might explode because it's different. It's a pretty aight cover, I go out of my way to listen to it time to time.
DonCardenio 11 months ago
I really wanted to like this, really I did. But as soon as that beat kicked in I realised that wasnt going to happen.
realjess29 11 months ago
Coming from an ardent Radiohead fan, I actually quite liked this. I'm not sure why people are saying it's so utterly terrible. Perhaps in comparison to the original it's somewhat marginal, but I don't suspect covers are made to be critiqued against the original so much as being an alternate take on an original piece. That being said, I could never love another version of Exit Music as much I love Radiohead's... It's too bloody brilliant.
JasonLS051 11 months ago 3
Cover or not, this is terrible. VW music are usually so tightly constructed, what the heck happened here? And also, Exit Music is simply too sad, too somber to be remade into a dance track. Just no. No no no.
whiteshadow1110 11 months ago
It is okay, wouldn't listen to it again. Definitely is not comparable to the original, they're not even in the same universe. Nothing can parallel Radiohead. NOTHING
maitlynd 11 months ago
This is vomit.
gubbyitss 1 year ago
I think you guys should try not to think of this as a cover of Radiohead, but rather a stand alone song.
Once I started thinking of it like that, it instantly liked it a lot more.
0lynam0 1 year ago 26
@0lynam0 100% agree !
Pr00z3 11 months ago
this cover should be perceived as a crime
marikuska 1 year ago
Why? I was impartial to Vampire Weekend before this but they've just tainted themselves in the eyes of this individual by destroying one of the most emotionally charged songs modern rock has to offer.
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Ezra's voice is gorgeous , I absolutely love Vampire Weekend and everything about them.
Radiohead is just decent
EminusJoshicus 1 year ago
I don't know much about Vampire Weekend as a band, so they may have redeemed themselves elsewere; but why they decided to have an awful semi techno beat behind this & a Chris Martin impersonator on vocals I will never know...
Warrison 1 year ago
whats with the beat its awful? I like vampire weekend but this song just isnt for them
themattfinn 1 year ago
P M S L !!!!!!!
c00t999 1 year ago
the cover isn't terrible, it's just the vocals that don't really suit it...at all
anyaholla 1 year ago
Despite all of the narrow-minded bigots who have their heads shoved too far up their asses and are hell-bent on comparing everything back to the original artist, I find this cover lovely.
rawwwrrr1 1 year ago
@rawwwrrr1
Radiohead = not the best band out there, really.
Vampire Weekend apologists = not the brightest bulbs in the store.
FungusMossGnosis 11 months ago
MY EARS! THEY BLEED!
razzamattazz 1 year ago
361 people likes tetris
Zanguche 1 year ago 3
ummmm
antisadism 1 year ago
This was my first experience of VW way back when, it's still a good cover. Covers that try to replicate the original completely are boring and show no invention. This is good.
MegaGenericName 1 year ago
Ezra's voice just isn't right for the song and the instrumentation is just off.
rheinze92 1 year ago 4
I'm not an uptight radiohead fan, but this cover is just horrible. The instrumentals don't fit the vocals at all, really messed up.
Halbarad976 1 year ago
reminds me of tetris haha
not too bad.
ThomYorkesLazyEye 1 year ago
i like it....fuck you....you are all pregnant with radio head's cancer babies
Alluniox 1 year ago
What a terrible cover...
koutaa55 1 year ago
You gotta have balls to try to seriously cover this song so fair play! Even though it isn't a patch on radioheads version x
JamesyBoyJim 1 year ago
I like this version better :)_
AurelioTijerina 1 year ago
It's a good attempt. If only they didn't ruin the climax of the song it would've been amazing.
WickedLiquid 1 year ago
Fair play to them they tried to do something a bit different with it, but it sounds terrible....
acox2009 1 year ago
come one guys its not that horrible. Its not as good as the original, but its not horrid.
luthifer01 1 year ago 4
this kind of offends me. nice try, but ...nahhhh.
maddynelson 1 year ago
EPIC FAIL.
infamous20s 1 year ago
@infamous20s You saying "Epic Fail" is an Epic Fail.
EminusJoshicus 1 year ago
@EminusJoshicus hahahaa chill dude. I love Vampire Weekend, but this cover is just impossible, compared to radiohead's version. no offense. I really think Vampire Weekend is great, but this song is just not for em.
infamous20s 1 year ago
props to VW for having a good taste in music but..... yea its terrible
seandever 1 year ago
check the scala & kolacny brothers cover of this.
metalsabatico 1 year ago
As much as I like Vampire Weekend, I must say the original shits all over this.
cdiSPAGHETTI 1 year ago
There is a reason it's called a cover people.
JohnTheFaun 1 year ago
Oh my..
FadiCharif 1 year ago
I'm a massive Radiohead fan, and I believe the original is untouchable. However, this isn't bad at all, they've done their own take on it, an enjoyable listen.
It really grates me when people say things are too good to be covered. Pop music has a rich history of bands covering each other. The Beatles, The Stones etc covered lots of classics. What if we'd have said the same thing about Dylan songs? We'd be missing out on some brilliant tracks from messrs Hendrix, McGuinn, Ferry n co.
JoeShez 1 year ago 5
@JoeShez
Only thing is, those covers were actually good.
TrenTehGreat 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
SO FUCKING GAY!!!!
cricketsinwigs 1 year ago
Get over it
If you don't like don't watch it and complain on here
That's like spam, just dislike it. Geezus :P!
Harirawr5 1 year ago
This song has a haunting beautiful quality that Vampire Weekend failed to capture. Do not like. I think I can actually say this is one of the worst Radiohead covers I've heard. Hurts my soul.
Sorry Vampire Weekend. Stick to your thing. Your thing is good. But it's not good for Radiohead.
TorridHero 1 year ago
@TorridHero Did you hear Peter Gabriel's cover of Street Spirit? My spine crawls just thinking about it. Yeesh.
dominickkk5 1 year ago
Dislike :(
C0ttonFl0wer 1 year ago
decent cover, but it has nothing on the original.
kcc628 1 year ago
seriously, this version is as good. Especially after "pack... and get dressed" part
toolworks 1 year ago
i can dig it
17channingrw 1 year ago
Wow, really? I guess I have to make the opposite comment to everyone here. I'm not a huge Vampire Weekend fan, am a big Radiohead fan, and I think this song is better than the original. Guess I'm the minority.
archaist 1 year ago
this cover makes me vomit
jaceklupl 1 year ago
There should be a law against bands covering radiohead. Not hating on Vampire weekend, I just mean any band in the world, should not be allowed to cover a radiohead song.
philipmcjim 1 year ago
haha the climax was butcherreddd...not angry just sayin, the rest is decent tho, sorta
TheNadster2 1 year ago
I reckon Bieber should have a go, show em how its done(vampire weekend)!
TheNadster2 1 year ago
im a big vampire weekend fan...but what is this?!?!?! it had its moments...but they should stick to being original...sounds better
DIONICIO0808 1 year ago
Vampire Weekend is an amazing band.
Radiohead is better.
This is a really good... try.
The original is better.
Cool?
MrCalemFilms 1 year ago
They love the original just as much as everyone on here. Its nice to hear their take on it. You cant fault them for paying homage to Radiohead.
LadyNecia 1 year ago
Good way to destroy a song!!! just awful!!
Camillegutman 1 year ago
Ew.
allthatisandeverwas 1 year ago
eh. this is bad, it sounds like a weird techno remix of the song most of the time, and the drummer had a seizure during the best part of the song.
solstice555 1 year ago 2
I only have liked a few tunes by Vampire Weekend. And I love this Radiohead song. This is a really tremendous cover. Very good.
sideshowkitten 1 year ago
the beauty of the radiohead version is the how perfectly it builds up to that one perfect explosion of beauty. what the fuck was with the drums at this build up part? sounded like he fell on the drums a buncha times
romel2522 1 year ago
If someone attempts to cover perfect song, it always ends up as FAIL
gogolplex74 1 year ago
Radiohead = the greatest band on the planet
uptight Radiohead fans = the biggest douchebags on the planet
nigelblanq 1 year ago 104
Love it.<3
elilaful 1 year ago