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 Post subject: The Arcade Fire - Funeral
PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:48 pm 
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Someone recommended this album and I checked it out based on the recommmendation. Thanks! This made my week. Anyone else loving this album?
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As it stands right now, should make the top 5 for my year end best of.

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Ees very good. If you like it, you need the EP. "Headlights look like diamonds" is their best song. Welcome to our obner, e-stan!
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so far best of 2004 for me
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Definitely Top 5 for me.

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hey....great to see you here elizastan!

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Count me in. Very fine group of songs - adventurous but tuneful, and it hangs together extremely well as an album. Love that rousing Disco Inferno "Burn Baby Burn" chorus rip on "Rebellion (Lies)". Great song that can get stuck on infinite repeat in my head for days. And the "Neighborhood" suite that opens the CD is beautifully performed, passionate, emotional music with highly evocative lyrics (though admittedly, also occasionally a little silly and underdeveloped). "Neighborhood 3 (Power Out)" is probably my favorite on the album after "Rebellion (Lies)". Definitely in contention for one of the top indie albums of the year at this point, but some of the initial charm also wore off after a while for me. Just have to wait and see what I think of it in the next month or so to find out if it has any legs. Be fun to see what they do next. Fun to see where Broken Social Scene goes next too.
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I finally heard it for the first time on the way to work this morning, and it was actually better than I was expecting. I hear a pretty wide-ranging sphere of influences throughout. Good stuff. I'm not sure it's quite the be-all, end-all some are making it out to be, but it's definitely worth a listen.

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It's one of those things where I know I should like it, but it hasn't made a big impression on me yet like I was hoping it would. This is def. not top 10 fodder for me, but I'll bet it's top-10-bands-to-get-snapped-up-by-a-major-label-for-a-rerelease fodder...

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Definitely Top 10 material. I don't think it'll be in Top 5.
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Liz!
Nice to see you.

Re: the topic at hand, I think that I need to hear this. I like the song I have heard.

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Definitely Top 5 for me.
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The Arcade Fire is this year's Wrens. And I don't mean that in a they rule or they suck way; I mean that flashing your appreciation for Funeral has become the 2004 indie clubhouse equivalent of the Costco membership card. I haven't really listened to the album yet, but my warning sensors are flickering: bulk shoppers tend to buy bland.

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Go ahead and deny yourself the pleasure. Why be so jaded?

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Will be in my top ten, not sure about top five.

Gonna go see 'em on Dec. 7th. FYI for you Angelinos- they're playing at Spaceland on 12/7. WHOO HOO!

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i like it fine. wasn't blown away at first, but it definitely improved on repeated listens. definitely not top 10 fodder for me, but will end up in the top 25.

kinda like the wrens last year.
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Go ahead and deny yourself the pleasure. Why be so jaded?

I'm not denying myself anything. I haven't listened to it YET.
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The Arcade Fire is this year's Wrens. And I don't mean that in a they rule or they suck way; I mean that flashing your appreciation for Funeral has become the 2004 indie clubhouse equivalent of the Costco membership card. I haven't really listened to the album yet, but my warning sensors are flickering: bulk shoppers tend to buy bland.


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my warning sensors are flickering

what are your bullshit sensors doing?
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 Post subject: My Neighbourhood
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If you like it, you need the EP. "Headlights look like diamonds" is their best song.


Agreed on the EP, but don't you think "Headlights" is prettily shittily recorded? I do. And as such, I think there are better tracks on the album: "Submarine", eg.

Funeral is good enough to be in my year's top 10. I've said enough about this band in the past.

np: TTC "Batards Sensibles"
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HaqDiesel Wrote:
If you like it, you need the EP. "Headlights look like diamonds" is their best song.


Agreed on the EP, but don't you think "Headlights" is prettily shittily recorded? I do. And as such, I think there are better tracks on the album: "Submarine", eg.

Funeral is good enough to be in my year's top 10. I've said enough about this band in the past.

np: TTC "Batards Sensibles"


Yeah, I love "Sleeping in a Submarine".

The production value of the EP isn't so great, but it does have some really nice songs.
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The Arcade Fire is this year's Wrens. And I don't mean that in a they rule or they suck way; I mean that flashing your appreciation for Funeral has become the 2004 indie clubhouse equivalent of the Costco membership card. I haven't really listened to the album yet, but my warning sensors are flickering: bulk shoppers tend to buy bland.

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