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Arcade Fire - Cold Wind/Intervention

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QHD:
Seeing them live does really change it. But it is an awesome album - even if you don't think it's incredible, it's so radically different, more complex, more beautiful than almost everything else around. And it pours emotion into music, when emotion had become almost a bad word (well, emo). I don't listen to Funeral much now but I really do think the Arcade Fire were and are, like Radiohead, worth the hype. I just don't think it's going to do their next album much good - Win seems really unhappy with the fame and the over-analysis and he was frankly just plain rude to the audience at the Astoria. He's still a genius but I think the very personal, very well "neighbourhood" feel of Funeral is going to be impossible to take on to the sophomore album. Maybe they should just split up while they're on top.

Anyhoo, sorry about the Intervention link. Look for it though. Really awesome song.

JLM:

--- Quote from: QHD ---I just don't think it's going to do their next album much good - Win seems really unhappy with the fame and the over-analysis and he was frankly just plain rude to the audience at the Astoria. He's still a genius but I think the very personal, very well "neighbourhood" feel of Funeral is going to be impossible to take on to the sophomore album. Maybe they should just split up while they're on top.
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Well funeral would feel pretty neighborhood-y, since about half the songs on there are titled "neighborhood." :P

 I heard Win was pretty rude in D.C. too, but the D.C. crowd probably deserved it. (Ultra-jaded been-there/done-that hipsters who stare at the band with their arms crossed for most of the show=just about every crowd at almost every show I've ever been to in D.C.)

zekterellium:
funeral is definitely one of my favourite albums ever, but i gotta say the new tracks sound kinda sketchy. but yeah, the level of expection now'll be insane, what with all the people pretending they were into them from the very beginning and the record company realising they have themselves a fucking money maker. the prollem really is that, when you make something really personal, and a lot of people get it then it kind of ruins it for you. i'm worried nothing they do will ever be as wrought again because of how everything is turning out. not that they don't deserve success, but it would still suck to see them fall from grace like that.

Kai:
Whoever made the reference of them to the Talking Heads is not a very good music...journalist...person. Because you know, the Talking Heads don't suck.

Merkava:

--- Quote from: JLM ---
--- Quote from: QHD ---I just don't think it's going to do their next album much good - Win seems really unhappy with the fame and the over-analysis and he was frankly just plain rude to the audience at the Astoria. He's still a genius but I think the very personal, very well "neighbourhood" feel of Funeral is going to be impossible to take on to the sophomore album. Maybe they should just split up while they're on top.
--- End quote ---


Well funeral would feel pretty neighborhood-y, since about half the songs on there are titled "neighborhood." :P

 I heard Win was pretty rude in D.C. too, but the D.C. crowd probably deserved it. (Ultra-jaded been-there/done-that hipsters who stare at the band with their arms crossed for most of the show=just about every crowd at almost every show I've ever been to in D.C.)
--- End quote ---


We deserve to be. We had Fugazi, Jawbox, The Dismemberment Plan, and so on. We actually came up with good emo. XP

Still, I would never watch a show like that. Besides the fact that my limbs may snap off if I stay in one position for too long, their music is impossible to listen to while keeping still.

I barely ever listen to Funeral anymore. It was cool at first, but it doesn't have much lasting value, at least for me.

I wouldn't say they suck. They really have something good and unique. I also wouldn't say the Talking Heads are their main influence. It's one of them, to be sure, but they mesh so many different sounds. You can't pinpoint one artist.

Aside from this, I agree:

Talking Heads = teh awesome

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