Where are all the People who Really Enjoyed Arcade Fire?

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LIVE IN THE NOW, MAN

Before they win/lose it I'd like to congratulate the Juno Alternative Award picking people who in the past gave Art Bergmann and Julie Doiron + The Wooden Stars awards. It makes up for the year The Rose Chronicals beat Sloan and Eric's Trip.

-- James.Cobo

what does that even mean? i guess he should change how he looks and play a different instrument. oh, and you violinists over there, you're cut, sorry. we don't want to be doing any 'indie posturing' here.

I just finally realized today how good the lyrics are in "Wake Up"--it's a really sad, great song.

also his voice bugs the heck out of me.

so this thread turns up when I search for "Yoshi Wada"?

motherfuck

wada bummer.

yeah for real

Does anyone like, or dislike, Neon Bible?

I remember liking it when I bought it, but I always pick Funeral if I want to hear the Arcade Fire.

i don't think the arcade fire are bad or anything. but they are actually pretty pedestrian and nothing spectacular, and the types who claim it to be the greatest thing they've ever heard, generally haven't got around to listening to too much else.

and totally got shivers as the band crescendoed into heaven, and then giggled with giddy joy when the broke down into a motown beat at the end

i only wish i was touched and moved as easily as this

i never heard funeral fully till after neon bible but funeral is the definite stayer @ my house. no cars go is the best thing on n bible to my way of thinking (and to be fair i really played it a lot along with acouple of other more upbeat numbers) but its off their prevoius ep. i come away from neon bible with the feeling that its a little hard to buy (i.e. I'd like to know who that they know has 'been working for the church while their family dies'?) but maybe i am misinformed.

having said that, they put on a banging performance when i saw them earlier this year, not tired out at all, and I reckon there will be more solid work from them

"and totally got shivers as the band crescendoed into heaven, and then giggled with giddy joy when the broke down into a motown beat at the end"

clicked on this thread hoping to lol at shit like this.... gj team

think both albums are good, live show had its moments but they were blown off stage by lcd

"motown beat" my white ass

had to listen to this on a road trip with my now ex-girl and it was garbage

this band is so corny

i only wish i was touched and moved as easily as this

the whole cult of authentic emotion that ppl build about this band is fuckin corny but the second album especially is good springsteen-y suburb rock

they dress like pilgrams

your mom dresses like a pilgram

your mom dresses you like a pilgram

pillgram

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I agree that he sounds like the Boss on this record, at one point at least.

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A SELF PORTRAIT BY JHØSHEA

hmmm i dunno that looks suspiciously like some other person

TOMBOT IS IN THE ARCADES FIRES

who is worst decemberists or acrade fires

TOMBOT IS AN PILGRAM JUST LIKE MAX

who is worst decemberists or acrade fires

I don't really like either of them but the Decembrists are THE WORST (arggh I hate that "I am a [fill in the blank]" school of incredibly lazy storytelling lyricism). Arcade Fire has a couple good moments at least.

i have managed to through life as a young white person in a midwest democratic stronghold w/o hearing either decembrists or arcade fires

not to be all "bakc in the day" an shit, but I really liked those four songs they put up on their web site for download before the first album came out (possibly from an ep?). I think one or two made it on to the record, but the original mix was much better to my ears (i.e. weirder, more ethereal and 'lo-fi' - the same reason that first Shins record was good, and not so much the rest). That's all really all I could take.

but the Decemberists? Shakey mo otm. unforgiveable.

decemberists is more of a pacific northwest kind of annoying than midwest.

I've never been that big on their records but they were very good live! Saw them at an outdoor show in a park with the Ohio river on one side and I64 on the other on a warm summer night...now that I think about it though I would probably have enjoyed the fucking Eagles* under such circumstances.

*I fucking hate the Eagles

i only wish i was touched and moved as easily as this

I think people who go to a lot of indie shows tend to be that sort. It's like a chicken or the egg thing -- do I listen to indie rock because I'm easily amused, or am I easily amused because I listen to indie rock?

I like Funeral though.

Does that Damon & Naomi LP from 2005 really sound like Arcade Fire?

lol @ the first post on this thread.

Do people have a term for bands they really like a few songs by but can't be bothered by the rest? Cause I really love about half of Funeral, and two songs off NB but otherwise, meh. I feel this way about Wilco too.

nice analogy there, steve.

basically, i think 'funeral' is good in the same way i think jeff buckley's 'grace' is good. it's nice to listen to, definitely solid and well-crafted, but it's ludicrous that there should be people sitting down listening to it, closing their eyes and equating it with a kind of otherwordly experience. plus, that win guy is overly earnest. and they also look like dorks.

and they also look like dorks.

Yeah! *throws away his Pavement, Tortoise, Sonic Youth, Shellac,... albums*

as if those dudes could look any dorkier than "charlie howard" or "stan m"

haha touche jordan

ok, the dork comment is pretty much a moot point. though, i think the arcade fire pander to an indie aesthetic in a lot more of a self-conscious way than the indifferent stylings of stephen malkmus, thurston moore and co. but, disregard the dork comment if you wish. a tad silly and throway of me.

yeah i don't think win looks that comfy in his usual - 'dorky' to use the established word - get up, but not necesarily because he's dorky on the inside himself

is it wrong to like a bands music even though you feel like they lack authenticity in general. (e.g. cold war kids is another example of this for me)??

no, i don't think that's wrong

but incidentally the one thing i don't doubt about arcade fire is their sincerity or authenticity. maybe not on that visual, image-based level. but i'm sure there is a lot of personal investment and correlation with feeling in the lyrics and delivery. my issue is that the results of all this earnestness and sense of authentically having something to say are pretty unspectacular.

I like Neon Bible a lot better than Funeral. For some reason it reminds me of Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain era -- both are well-written albums, songs catchy enough to be memorable, nice orchestration, lyrics more dark/interesting than at first glance, and of course the voices are similar. It's not a 10.0 album, but it's very solid.