{"id":243,"date":"2010-01-15T22:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-01-15T22:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:56:59","slug":"is-your-bed-made-is-your-sweater-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/is-your-bed-made-is-your-sweater-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your bed made? Is your sweater on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for another in my irregular series of cover version posts. This time featuring a song that&#8217;s very close to my heart: &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; by Vampire Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I bought Vampire Weekend&#8217;s album for maybe the most uncool reason possible: it was recommended on <em>Countdown<\/em>. Yes, the daytime game show, which I was watching at my grandparents&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Actually that&#8217;s not strictly true. I had heard it before when a friend played it to me, and I absolutely loved it. But then much alcohol was consumed and I entirely forgot about this wonderful album. So a few months later when Jeff Stelling out of the blue mentioned it on <em>Countdown<\/em>, it came back to me. I grabbed it as soon as possible. It was only then I realised that one of their tracks (&#8220;A-Punk&#8221;) was the theme to the excellent <em>Inbetweeners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I genuinely think every track on the album is great, and it&#8217;s not very often I feel that way. But &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; is a particular favourite, partly because the lyrics remind me of a certain girl who I was very close to. That all ended quite bitterly, but of the songs reminding me of her, this one somehow always makes me feel positive. And of course it&#8217;s great musically too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first cover is a slightly unusual choice, since it ditches the lyrics I love so much entirely. Vampire Weekend have obviously been greatly inspired by African and African-influenced music, and this takes that one step further by replacing the lyrics with African chanting. I&#8217;m not sure if this can strictly be called a cover version, but it is absolutely great and extremely cheerful.<br \/>\nThe Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya &#038; Radioclit) &#8211; Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa:<br \/>\n<object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OcC3Z3ynwMg&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OcC3Z3ynwMg&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>And the second is unusual too, since it is by someone specifically mentioned in the song. Yes, the venerable Peter Gabriel, along with Hot Chip: <a href='http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Peter-Gabriel-Hot-Chip-Cape-Cod-Kwassa-Kwassa-Vampire-Weekend.mp3'>Peter Gabriel &#038; Hot Chip &#8211; Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for another in my irregular series of cover version posts. This time featuring a song that&#8217;s very close to my heart: &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; by Vampire Weekend. I bought Vampire Weekend&#8217;s album for maybe the most uncool reason possible: it was recommended on Countdown. Yes, the daytime game show, which I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/is-your-bed-made-is-your-sweater-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is your bed made? Is your sweater on?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79,77,57],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covers","tag-covers","tag-music","tag-vampire-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}