
Song · Vampire Weekend
“A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend
From the EP Vampire Weekend (2007)
“A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend appears on 44 radio countdowns from 26 stations between 2008 and 2026. It was first released in 2007 on the EP Vampire Weekend. Its best result is #6 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #21 alternative song of 2008, #4,337 alternative song of all time and #387 of the '00s.
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"A-Punk" came out early in 2008 as the second single from Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut, and it's a burst of preppy mayhem: skanking guitars with a surf-rock twang, a pogo beat and synths playing at being a flute. Ezra Koenig wrote the words, the band shares the music credit, and Rostam produced it and helped engineer and mix it with Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback.
It was the song they picked for their network television debut, on the Late Show with David Letterman. Critics went for the bouncy drive and the bright little sonic touches, even the ones who thought the album had stronger songs, and Koenig's inventive lyrics gave it a buzzing charm all its own.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: A-punk; A Punk.
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