Top Songs of 2010: #8 Giving Up the Gun -- Vampire Weekend 

Giving Up the Gun -- Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend's second album didn't make nearly the impact that their first album did. That's not because it wasn't good—it was very good. It's just that it wasn't as accessible as their first album, so the teeny bopper set didn't latch on. With no "A-Punk" or "Oxford Comma" to glom on to, the general public kind of let this album stay just outside of the mainstream (Honda commercial notwithstanding).

And that's all too bad, since this was a good album, with three or four really great songs. This is one of them.