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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
TheFuriousWombat:
It has a grander, more orchestrated sound to it then Funeral. Songs like 'Intervention' and the new version of 'No Cars Go' are really bombastic and intense. Lyrically it's also a lot broader. While Funeral was very personal, Neon Bible is more of a political album, attacking war and the church, among other things. I'm fairly sure it's a better album than Funeral but I'm not entierly sure at this point. Either way it's really really excellent.
McTaggart:
--- Quote from: Catacombs on 07 Mar 2007, 11:12 ---What did you think of the debut? Interestingly, i didn't care much for Funeral but it did eventually grow on me and is now one of my top indie albums
--- End quote ---
I loved Funeral right off the bat.
Also, it looks like I destroyed that tape somehow. It played fine when I was making sure it was the right one, but rewinding it seems to have put this really loud high pitched noise over the tape.
But some digging turns up this: http://idents.tv/blog/?p=356, which also free of the tape stretch my copy had.
Jackie Blue:
I would say that Neon Bible sounds quite markedly different from Funeral. It's a different kind of album in almost every way - and this is a great thing. Neon Bible is more of a conventional "rock" record - as everyone has noticed, it has a massive Springsteen influence. The first time I heard it, before anyone else even said "Springsteen", that's what I thought when I heard songs like "Keep the Car Runnin" and "Antichrist Television Blues" and "Windowsill". And I honestly think "Intervention" is one of the top 3 songs I've heard so far this year, and that's saying a lot because there have been about a dozen fucking insanely good albums that have come out in the past 3 months, or are coming out in the next month.
2007 is looking to be an epic year for music. For real. It may even rival 1998.
ScrambledGregs:
'Neon Bible' isn't a bad title, but it just seems off somehow. I know the album has religious lyrics, and the cover of a neon book is cool, but it's just sort of...off. Funeral is a good title because it's so simple and so apropos to the album. Anything to do with religion is a loaded subject and there's a kind of awkwardness to the phrase 'Neon Bible.' It doesn't strike me as interesting or provocative so much as like something someone a hundred years ago, after seeing a neon sign for the first time, thought up.
It's also taken from a book that the author thought was too amateurish to publish. So then he wrote A Confederacy Of Dunces, killed himself, and years later his Mom published A Confederacy Of Dunces, which became so popular that some book company published Neon Bible against her wishes.
Johnny C:
It's darker and better with every listen. I am finding this.
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