The Swing was the greatest band ever. Duh everyone knows that. In fact, I think it’s on Wikipedia.

I once got into a huge argument about music with someone and learned an important lesson. Music is so much opinion based that you can never win the argument no matter how hard you try (even though I know I was right). If Blake wants to call this the album of the decade, go for it. If Tim wants to call the Swing band of the century, go for it. I for one think all music to be equal (except for country, sunday music, disney, speed metal, opera, American Idol junk, and anything else that I think is crap).

From Wikipedia: Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the world… The beat is essentially a boogie woogie blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. It later spawned the various sub-genres of what is now called simply ‘rock music.’

Take that, music police! (Note: I think “pop” can be considered rock, I could be alone in this, however).

I am going to have to disagree with you on this one.

First of all, don’t you dare classify this as Rock N’ Roll. This album is pop in its purest form and has little to do with the sacredness that is RnR.

Second, album of the decade? Come on you have got to be kidding me. I can think of plenty of other albums this decade 10 times as strong as this one. Stadium Arcadium and Origin of Symmetry to name a few.

In my humble opinion Vampire Weekend is decent, worth a listen or three but will not even crack my top 100 bands list.