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Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: 20 Jan 2005, 19:05

[ALoveSupreme]

Anyways.

Isn't this band due for a new CD?  It's been at least 17 years.

[Slick]

I was under the impression that they were on a break. I'm pretty sure they're all doing separate things and getting away from the run-away famous behemoth they were.
I had a more informative post written but it devolved into a cynical commentary on society so I deleted it.

[ALoveSupreme]

That's too bad (not being able to read your commentary, that is).

I hadn't heard that, though.  Thanks for the clue-in.

[Kyros]

I've actually read a few things on Pitchfork about how their in the recording process.  Definatley going to be hard to follow up an album like Funeral.

[Slick]

Have you heard the stuff before funeral? Really lo-fi, and not nearly as awesome, by and by.

[kablaaamo]

I mildly prefer the stuff before Funeral. Granted, the vocals got a lot better over time but on the whole I am slightly more partial to the old.

....and....I had heard rumours that their new album is supposed to be ready by May-ish next year. I cannot remember where I read that but I'll do some internetz digging and report back.

[Felix_]

The way I see it, if I'm going to  make a thread about one single band and/or a recent record, I might as well check and see if the band already has a thread not only so I can read it and maybe learn something from what others had to say, but so the convo will have some semblance of a foundation already existing, and so as to not clutter the forum with yet another thread about X band.

That said, The Arcade Fire are great. I listened to "Funeral" and their EP again last night. Brilliant stuff. I think my fave track is "Wake Up".

[muffy]

It was kind of nice to see this one re-bumped, as I thought by now everyone had got sick of them and were looking for a replacement, because talking about them's not, y'know, cool anymore.

But then I remembered that not everyone feels like that what they're saying is being edited by an innate scenester of doom in their head.

I think that what I'm trying to say is that I like the way people here talk about what they like, not what they think they should.

 I think I'm struggling a tad on the making sense front today.

[Felix_]

It was kind of nice to see this one re-bumped, as I thought by now everyone had got sick of them and were looking for a replacement, because talking about them's not, y'know, cool anymore.

But then I remembered that not everyone feels like that what they're saying is being edited by an innate scenester of doom in their head.

I think that what I'm trying to say is that I like the way people here talk about what they like, not what they think they should.

 I think I'm struggling a tad on the making sense front today.

That makes perfect sense to me.

I'm somewhat outside of every musical genre, I'm not really part of any 'scene' or really caring what is hip, cool, or what people are talking about basically.

[muffy]

^ Hold onto that!

Exposure to scenester ways of thinking is something that happens gradually, without your awareness and then BAM! You find yourself hunting out only the most obscure bands and accusing every band of selling out if they sell more than 100 copies of a limited edition coloured vinyl.

Cherish your innocence, for it is a rare and valuable thing...

[Thrillho]

I mildly prefer the stuff before Funeral. Granted, the vocals got a lot better over time but on the whole I am slightly more partial to the old.

You mean they were worse before?

And Funeral was only released on a major label last year, I think, so they don't really need to bring another one out until next year.

[Mikendher]

I've heard from sources that they are currently working on a new album, and it will be ready sometime in 2007.

I'm very excited.

[Felix_]

^ Hold onto that!

Exposure to scenester ways of thinking is something that happens gradually, without your awareness and then BAM! You find yourself hunting out only the most obscure bands and accusing every band of selling out if they sell more than 100 copies of a limited edition coloured vinyl.

Cherish your innocence, for it is a rare and valuable thing...

Haha...I see what you're saying. I've always held onto that 'innocence' though I suppose, even though I've always been surrounded by scenester's and elitists, and have even been accused of being one myself from time to time. For example, I'm not the type of metal fan that would go on eBay and buy a limited Mutiilation record or something for 100 dollars, or something equally silly. I listen to plenty of obscure bands and artists ranging virtually over the entirety of the musical spectrum, but I've always been happy when the bands I listen to garner some semblance of success usually and I've never accused them of 'selling out'. Well, not all of them at least.