Can't be any worse than Reflektor, can guarantee that it won't be as good as Neon Bible.
Can't be any worse than Reflektor, can guarantee that it won't be as good as Neon Bible.
Neon Bible > Your favourite Arcade Fire albumOf all the Arcade Fire records to cape for
Arcade Fire = The Suburbs > Neon Bible > ReflektorNeon Bible > Your favourite Arcade Fire album
'Arcade Fire' - Do you mean Funeral? Do you need me to tell you any more album names, World's Biggest Arcade Fire Fan?Arcade Fire = The Suburbs > Neon Bible > Reflektor
I bet that gives you Antichrist Television Blues(or something)
Yeah, I blanked out, sorry. I'm gonna work in a building downtown now.'Arcade Fire' - Do you mean Funeral? Do you need me to tell you any more album names, World's Biggest Arcade Fire Fan?
I love Reflektor, but it is heavily weighted down by a lot of bloat. Both in songs that really didn't need to be on the album, and lengthy tracks that don't earn their runtime. Has a few of my all-time favorites, though (Reflektor, We Exist, Normal Person). Suburbs has the same problems, but doesn't hit the same highs IMO.
Neon Bible is probably their tightest overall album.
Wake UpYeah, I blanked out, sorry.
PS: not their biggest fan. They lost me with Reflektor.'Arcade Fire' - Do you mean Funeral? Do you need me to tell you any more album names, World's Biggest Arcade Fire Fan?
In fairness, I loved Funeral and liked The Suburbs but Neon Bible is transcendent.
Good idea!To while away the days before the album releases, what are everyone's ten favorite Arcade Fire tracks?
Funeral is their best album though.like this well enough. fantastic bass line, strings are nice and the flute sample is too.
still not really about Arcade Fire being a like, message band. they're not very good at it at all. but if it sounds nice and isn't an overlong mess like Reflektor then that's fine
PS: not their biggest fan. They lost me with Reflektor.
To while away the days before the album releases, what are everyone's ten favorite Arcade Fire tracks? I'll start:
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To while away the days before the album releases, what are everyone's ten favorite Arcade Fire tracks?
No love for "Headlights Look Like Diamonds". Sad. I dl'd a version a number of years ago where Regine is basically shouting/screaming out the end with emotion that really moves me when I'm driving.
No love for "Headlights Look Like Diamonds". Sad. I dl'd a version a number of years ago where Regine is basically shouting/screaming out the end with emotion that really moves me when I'm driving.
Neon Bible > Your favourite Arcade Fire album
I think Tunnels is my most played song ever.Neon Bible doesn't even get credit for No Cars Go smh.
Best Arcade Fire songs:
Tunnels
Half Light I
Rebellion (Lies)
No Cars Go
Suburban War
Sprawl II
Wake Up
Afterlife
Intervention
Don't at me
Funeral is their best album though.
Disappointed that their live tour is skipping Portland YET AGAIN - but I'll probably make the trip out to Seattle for this. I also optimistically predicted that they would co-headline a tour with LCD Soundsystem (since the albums should be releasing around the same time), and it looks like those dreams are dead.
But still - holy shit. New Arcade Fire, new LCD Soundsystem, new Bleachers, new Muse ... - it's one hell of a good summer.
What are the versions of No Cars Go? I'm pretty sure there's another version than the one on Spotify which I vastly prefer
Thanks! I'll try to listen to the EP version.There's the Us Kids Know EP version which is the original, and then the re-record on Neon Bible.
They are both great in different ways.
I think co-headlining would've been the right solution. As Murphy has said since the reunion, he isn't quite sure how the band fits into the typical touring structure. They're too big for most theaters/ballrooms, but can't sell arenas nationwide. A joint tour with AF would've gotten them into the arenas, and would functionally be no different than being an opening act with a feature-length set. The stage setup they had at Sasquatch was pretty basic (LCD Soundsystem isn't nearly big enough to co-headline with AF. AF is full-on arena (some 360 arena shows).
I don't think LCD will be playing arenas when they finally get off the festival circuits. Not even close.
Their final concert / death / resurrection / long layoff somehow got them up to festival headliner status, but they don't carry the arena weight AF does.
And they're just a little too big to open for them - though I did see that, back on the Neon Bible Tour. LCD opened for AF on a bunch of dates, was 5th row at the Hollywood Bowl for that show.
There's the Us Kids Know EP version which is the original, and then the re-record on Neon Bible.
They are both great in different ways.
But I get why it wouldn't quite work. I wonder if the better strategy for LCD is to do longer residencies at mid-size venues.