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Bad Songs on Your Favorite Albums of 2007
Jackie Blue:
I am amazed that some people didn't realize Arcade Fire want to be Bruce Springsteen until "Antichrist Television Blues" (which is my favorite song on Neon Bible next to "Intervention").
The Boss is awesome. Who wouldn't want to sound like him?
minkles:
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--- Quote from: minkles on 13 Dec 2007, 19:44 ---Deerhoof- Look Away- It's long and pointless. I always end the album after "Matchbook Seeks Maniac".
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I get the feeling you have not listened to much of their early material
Since half of it is pretty much "Look Away"
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No, I have. And I've disliked it.
RedLion:
"No Cars Go" on Neon Bible.
Heresy. That's one of the best songs on the entire album, which, by the way, is a masterpiece and surpasses Funeral.
TheFuriousWombat:
I think you'll find yourself overwhelmingly refuted in that prospect. Perhaps you haven't heard the original "No Cars Go," a rather beautiful and simple number that carries a heck of a lot of emotion. Perhaps you'd also like to explain why you think Neon Bible is better than Funeral. I personally found Neon Bible to be to clean, over produced, glossy and impersonal. Funeral was jammed with emotion and powerful song writing. It had a lot more depth to it and a lot more emotion. Neon Bible threw in everything but the kitchen sink and went political and a lot of the originality and power of Funeral was lost in the resulting high gloss clutter. That's how I see it. That being said, I did enjoy the album and I did like the version of No Cars Go. It's just that neither come close to what preceded them.
Jackie Blue:
I don't think much of Funeral personally. Neon Bible has the advantage over it in just having, in my mind, consistently better songwriting. It's one of the few mainstream indie albums that I really loved this year. Based on Funeral I had placed them firmly in the category of "bands which are good but which don't really do a lot for me", a box which also contains The Decemberists and, sadly, about half of everything Bright Eyes has done since Fevers and Mirrors.
Not that those three necessarily sound alike, just saying.
So, I was very pleasantly surprised by Neon Bible, as were most of my friends who similarly were ambivalent at best towards Funeral.
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