Album: Vampire Weekend (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was named after a Manhattan bus.
  • This features harpsichord and a string quartet. Frontman Ezra Koenig explained to the Daily Mail May 23, 2008: "We have two music graduates in the band. So we take ideas from classical and baroque music."

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  • Max from Detroit, MiI LOVE M79! One of the best songs ever, and Vampire Weekend is amazing. Easily their best song!
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