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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
feel good lost:
You gotta understand that nobody likes repetitive sounding albums so it's good to see a band change up it's styles in a new album. Whether it's for better or worse we'll see. Take the Blood Brothers as an example - from Rumors Laid Waste to Young Machettes they've switched it up every album and it's working out.
Hopefully The Arcade Fire can do it too.
Thrillho:
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--- Quote from: Spinless on 20 Dec 2006, 06:51 ---How their popularity will affect my opinion of them remains to be seen
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+1
Spinless:
I was joking a little bit. Take everything I post in the music forum with a pinch of salt.
Remember, gryff is correct about this particular subject.
ScrambledGregs:
See, here's the problem. It's been three years since their last album, and if they're just going to release a samey-sounding album, then why the hell did it take three years?? This is why I have low expectations for the new Shins album. Their first two albums were fantastic, true, but they were only like a half hour a piece and more or less the same aesthetic. Why the long wait between albums, then??
Of course, then you've got a band like Radiohead, who's release schedule can be termed 'glacial.' Since the release of the last Radiohead album, I saw them live and a few months after lost all interest in them. Maybe I just don't like them anymore, but I think it's more that I'm bored with listening to their stuff for the umpteenth time.
Yet more reason why I like a band like Deerhoof, who've consistently released SOMETHING once a year for however long they've been together.
*Sights*:
--- Quote ---I become apathetical about most bands the very instance they become popular.
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This happens to me too, to a certain degree. But sometimes i'm left wondering how much popular is too popular...The Arcade Fire was recently namedropped in a sitcom with Seth Green, and even though i still like them, i'd like them more if they had remained unknown. Call it hipsterism, but really, seeing that episode was just like watching that Mike Patton thing repeat itself.
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