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They have made 3 awesome albums. Did it really matter that The River wasn't quite Born to Run? The real fans like both for different reasons. Apples and Oranges.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Post by A$AP Rosko on Jul 26, 2010 17:11:31 GMT -5
Also, I agree with the people saying that you can't compare it with Funeral. Gotta take it for what it is, and it's a damn good record, at least as good as (and probably a notch better than) Neon Bible.
i disagree. i think you could like a new album just as much as funeral. i really loved neon bible a lot. just b/c it is different doesn't mean it can't be equal/better. you wouldn't be very good as a musician or artist if you stayed static.
I still haven't listened to a single note of The Suburbs. I am waiting for August 3, and I don't really have a good reason...I suppose I'm just quirky about these things.
Post by A$AP Rosko on Jul 26, 2010 21:25:39 GMT -5
i disagree. i think you could like a new album just as much as funeral. i really loved neon bible a lot. just b/c it is different doesn't mean it can't be equal/better. you wouldn't be very good as a musician or artist if you stayed static.
I didn't mean it as in you can't compare it because it isn't nearly as good. I simply meant that there is no point in comparing whether or not it's better, because they're different records with different styles. You have to look at this album separately for what it is and base your opinion of it on its own merit, not on Funeral's merit. If that makes any sense.
my response was more to nodepression's post karosko. i do think a new album could compete with funeral, b/c i think arcade fire is a great band that will make many more albums before they are done.
After a few more listens, I really do like this album. Steps above Neon Bible for me and develops enough of it's own sound to be unique in comparison to Funeral.
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Post by A$AP Rosko on Jul 27, 2010 20:53:37 GMT -5
Do you guys sense a little bitterness towards their more hipsterish fans in some of the lyrics of the Suburbs? The stuff about the "modern kids" and them "using great big words that they don't understand," "they build it up just to burn it back down," "the kids standing with their arms folded tight...how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight?" and so on and so forth. There are several lines throughout the album that seem to be Win lashing out against the fickleness of the hipster mentality of "on to the next one." I could DEFINITELY be misinterpreting it, though, and I don't think that's all the album is about. I think there are a lot of themes of both nostalgia, childhood, and change.
^well i know that win (and obviously his brother william too) was raised in a suburb of houston, called the woodlands. to stereotype, it is full of rich white kids. i can't remember off the top of my head which song it is, but i def remember a line about driving back/through texas.
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Post by coanbread751 on Jul 28, 2010 10:27:51 GMT -5
While this album lacks the emotion and excitement of Funeral, it exceeds Neon Bible in every way imaginable. Finally they are making real songs again. I like it.... a lot.
While this album lacks the emotion and excitement of Funeral, it exceeds Neon Bible in every way imaginable. Finally they are making real songs again. I like it.... a lot.
Thanks to Druid, I have a copy (minus song #3)! I am enjoying it, but I've only listened to it through completely once. I think it lags a bit in the middle but it starts and ends strong.
Do you guys sense a little bitterness towards their more hipsterish fans in some of the lyrics of the Suburbs? The stuff about the "modern kids" and them "using great big words that they don't understand," "they build it up just to burn it back down," "the kids standing with their arms folded tight...how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight?" and so on and so forth. There are several lines throughout the album that seem to be Win lashing out against the fickleness of the hipster mentality of "on to the next one." I could DEFINITELY be misinterpreting it, though, and I don't think that's all the album is about. I think there are a lot of themes of both nostalgia, childhood, and change.
if you listen to the song below, it was recorded live last month in montreal. at the very end of it, you hear win say hello to his parents and talk about how long he has lived in canada. THEN he says, "we grew up in houston, tx....which was pretty horrible. this next song is about it". (don't know what they played next, the guy has 'the way we used to live' as the next listed).
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Post by A$AP Rosko on Jul 28, 2010 14:34:01 GMT -5
implying that neon bible didn't have "real songs"=bullshit
"keep the car running," "intervention," and "(antichrist television blues)" are all excellent songs. neon bible isn't as good as funeral, but i personally think it's ridiculous when people say it wasn't a great album; i thought it was excellent.
implying that neon bible didn't have "real songs"=bullshit
"keep the car running," "intervention," and "(antichrist television blues)" are all excellent songs. neon bible isn't as good as funeral, but i personally think it's ridiculous when people say it wasn't a great album; i thought it was excellent.
The main reason people dislike that album is because it followed Funeral and didn't have Neighborhood 5-8 on it.
I'd add "No Cars Go" and "My Body is a Cage" to the list of great songs on that album.
Post by A$AP Rosko on Jul 28, 2010 16:12:35 GMT -5
You're probably right about that. Oh, fickle hipsters. What are you gonna do?
(speaking of which, would not surprise me if tons of hipsters (whatever that word means) jump ship and start disowning Arcade Fire after "The Suburbs," especially since it is poised to do so well commercially).