TS: Polyrock vs. Arcade Fire

This is solely to point out that if there's any "angular" early 80s NYC-area rock pop band that Arcade Fire remind me most of, it's Polyrock. I hear the Talking Heads comparisons all the time, but -- in a similar fashion to the Interpol/Joy Division comparisons -- I think the Arcade Fire/Talking Heads comparisons are more indirect and lazy.

Polyrock were essentially a Philip Glass posse employed to "compete" with Talking Heads at the time (figuratively speaking), but they ended up being prototypes of a lot of other great things, despite never "winning" against Talking Heads back in the day, obviously. They helped prototype early Stereolab a bit (then again, so do everyone from Yoko Ono to Neu!), but the Feelies-esque indie jangle compared with the urgency in those first two Polyrock albums really sound like they were prototyping Arcade Fire most succinctly.. except Polyrock never had that Isaac Brock Meets A Strangled Turkey timbre in the vocals that Arcade Fire do.

Anyway, while anything beyond the first two albums by Polyrock do nothing for me, anything beyond that one song near the end of Arcade Fire's Funeral does even less for me.