Easily my favorite album from 2004... by far. I have a new favorite track almost every time I listen to it. It will probably end up being widely considered a classic, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to like it.
I heard a couple of songs from their upcoming album on MySpace, and I am really looking forward to it.
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Posts: 973 | Location: Ain'T it stiLl obvious? | Registered: 22 August 2006
Why oh why do they have to use that weak disco drum beat so much? The beginning of Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels) is really impressive until they start a funeral-dance-party-dirge...
Listened to this maybe 5 times tops, and I haven't had the desire to go back and listen again for months now.
Originally posted by ezkcdude: I heard a couple of songs from their upcoming album on MySpace, and I am really looking forward to it.
Huh? The only song on the net from their next album is a studio version of "Intervention", which isn't exactly a new song since they've been playing it live for over a year.
Might be that he heard some of the EP stuff or "Cold Wind", which was on the Six Feet Under soundtrack.
I think Funeral is the best album to come out since, say, Aeroplane. So far, it is THE best album of this decade. I can't really express why, but I could listen to that album forever.
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Posts: 2314 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006
Another song from "Neon Bible" has leaked. It's called "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" and it's a two-part song with Regine singing the first half and Win singing the second half. It's... interesting. I like it, though it's not as immediately appealing as "Intervention". It took a few listens to appreciate, but... it's pretty good.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
Posts: 2314 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006
Funeral is absolutely brilliant album. It's right there in my top two for 21st century (with Wilco's YHF).
I remember I had to listen the cd straight through quite a few times in order to understand it's greatness. Like any good album, it builds its tension on the dynamics between songs, so you have to learn the sequencing to fully appreciate it. This one is certainly not for iPod bits 'n' bobs listener.
Funny thing is, I bought Funeral and YHF at the same time, listened to them consecutively, and they're both in my rotation still! But, I think Funeral is a brilliant album. I agree with the classic statement.
I'd be so happy if my future kid discovered this album and it got through his futurehead (sorry guys, I had to say it). But seriously. It's a gem.
Funeral, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and You Forgot it in People are so far my favorite albums from this decade so far. One of my friends who I very rarely see has my YHF, though, so I haven't listened to any of those songs in a long while.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
Posts: 2314 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006
I liked Funeral when it first came out, but aside from "Neighborhood#1 (Tunnels)" and "Rebellion (Lies)" I rarely have the urge to listen to it. Maybe the new album will rekindle my interest.
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Posts: 5486 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 19 June 2005
I haven't heard any of the new songs yet, and I'm kind of nervous about it. How can they possibly follow Funeral? It seems like critical backlash is inevitable as well. My guess is the Fork will give Neon Bible something in the upper (or maybe lower) 6's. I'll go with 6.7 as my guess. I don't really care too much though as long as I like it.
Well, OK. Curiosity got me. "Black Mirror" sounds like a long lost Echo & the Bunnymen tune in the vein of "The Cutter." I never realized it before, but Win's voice sounds quite a bit like Ian McCulloch's. "Intervention" reminds me a little of The Killers "When You Were Young," only The Arcade Fire are just better at this kind of drama. That being said, it sounds like a progression of the same band, not a radical departure. I can't wait to hear the rest on March 6! Oh, and apparently there's a new version of "No Cars Go" on the album. Rolling Stone has the full track list and a promo clip with song samples at the link below.
I liked Funeral when it first came out, but aside from "Neighborhood#1 (Tunnels)" and "Rebellion (Lies)" I rarely have the urge to listen to it. Maybe the new album will rekindle my interest.
I feel the same way about Funeral. When it first came out I thought it was fantastic stuff. After about a month, I just kind of lost interest. The album just seems too front-heavy to me. The first five or six songs are great, but the last half just doesn't interest me nearly as much as the first. I think they should have tried to tie in the "Neighborhood" theme to the whole album.
But man, the first three "Neighborhood" tracks truly are brilliant songs.
Posts: 1376 | Location: Valparaiso, IN | Registered: 01 July 2006
I'm with you fellas. It doesn't have much staying power, once the "bigness" of it wears off. The one song I keep going back to (over and over and over again) is Haiti. I love that song so much. The one thing Funeral has going for it is propulsion. Almost every song is propelled forward through the steadiest of bass drums. Haiti is sick, wicked and nasty!
Posts: 751 | Location: Nova Scotia | Registered: 31 May 2006
Classics make waves. Funeral will do nothing to alter the course of music history; its biggest achievement was making its influences a little more accessible, but failed at making those influences greater together than apart. Potato chips are accessible, too. (I like a little gestalt with my chips. Hi-yo!) Do you remember the best bag of chips you ate in '04? I don't. I think it was this bag of kettle-cooked parmesan and red pepper chips, but I can't remember what they taste like...
Posts: 1652 | Location: Philadelphia, PA | Registered: 15 September 2004
Originally posted by Call to Apathy: I think it's still great and considering how much crap came out last year it was so refreshing to hear. Calling it overrated isn't very fair. If you don't like it that's fine but I think it deserves all the praise it received.
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Originally posted by robot: i dont see what is so special about this band. Nothing on the album impresses me one bit. It sounds to me like anyone could write the songs: write a simple hook and play it over and over throughout the songs and do constant annoying downstrokes on the guitar. I suppose its not that bad, but i dont understand what all the praise is about.
Try actually listening to the album or at least writing your own song before making such obviously ignorant comments.
I have.
For me, songs are expression of the ones who wrote them. It does not mean that if you don't dig Arcade Fire it will become a universal truth. Publish your songs and lets us see how a wannabe's compisitions will fare up with Arcade Fire.
Posts: 8 | Location: Somewhere over Asia and the Pacific....... | Registered: 10 December 2006
Funeral went the other way for me in comparison to many here who ended up not thinking much of it. I heard it a few times over the course of a few months and found it overblown and irritating - I only kept coming back to give it another whirl b/c of all the positive reviews.
Then, one time 6 months after its release I listened to it and it broke over me with a wave of excitement - like suddenly understanding a foreign language. I bought it and my emotional connection to it has only deepened over time. I think the level of emotional directness and intensity was too big for me at first and since then I have increased my capacity - I don't know if it has changed music or anything grandiose like that, but it has changed me (at a ripe old age too)!
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Posts: 145 | Location: Sydney, Australia | Registered: 07 January 2007
