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“Mansard Roof” by Vampire Weekend
From the EP Vampire Weekend (2007)
“Mansard Roof” by Vampire Weekend appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2013 and 2024. It was first released in 2007 on the EP Vampire Weekend. Its best result is #150 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,106 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Mansard Roof" was Vampire Weekend's first single, released by XL Recordings on October 23, 2007, after it had already appeared on the band's 2007 EP, and the next year it took its place on their self-titled debut album. Rostam produced it and shared the engineering and mixing with Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback; Ezra Koenig wrote the words, and the music is credited to the band. The title is simply a roof the lyric mentions.
The Guardian's Anna Pickard heard it as about as happy and summery as a song can get, a bunch of nice boys on a sailboat dabbling in African pop rhythms. Alexis Boling's video, shot in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, sets them on a yacht in a string of still frames, and Pitchfork's Mark Richardson figured they were having a ball embracing their clever Ivy League image.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 684 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2022 | 760 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2024 | 150 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 432 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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