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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Patatat on 15 May 2005, 14:25

Title: Funeral
Post by: Patatat on 15 May 2005, 14:25: Oh, god I've been procrastinating getting this since its release...Just picked it up, like twenty minutes ago.

Effin amazing!

I am loving every minute of it.

Rebellion (Lies) has to be my favorite track.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 May 2005, 14:48: EDIT: Searched for 'Funeral' on Pitchfork.com Thank goodness for predictability.

Pity, the thread title looked promising.
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Post by: ASturge on 15 May 2005, 14:50: Arcade Fire's album.

Its good, but not 'effing' good.
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Post by: Johnny C on 15 May 2005, 15:11: Quote from: KharBevNor
EDIT: Searched for 'Funeral' on Pitchfork.com

Do they sell funerals? I just saw farm implements.
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Post by: rynne on 15 May 2005, 15:13: Quote from: Patatat
Rebellion (Lies) has to be my favorite track.

I endorse this post.
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Post by: Reno on 15 May 2005, 16:42: My personal fav on that album is In the Backseat

and yes, the album is 'effen AWESOME

sad thing is I dont know when TAF is coming here to do a concert
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Post by: cacahuate on 15 May 2005, 16:53: I enjoy it. When I'm not listening, I'm not sure why I like it. Then I listen to it and smile.
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Post by: Inlander on 15 May 2005, 17:47: Great album. The songs I like the most are the ones that show more of the punk influence, like "Tunnels" and "Laika".
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Post by: weevil on 15 May 2005, 18:02: You'll get bored of it around 15 listens.
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Post by: Johnny C on 15 May 2005, 18:02: I disagree, I'm on number 17 and I'm still loving it.
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Post by: Inlander on 15 May 2005, 18:07: I can't say I'm in the habit of counting the number of times I've listened to a particular album . . . However please don't make baseless assumptions about me or about my future behaviour. It irks me, severely.
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Post by: weevil on 15 May 2005, 18:09: It doesn't irk you.
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Post by: Inlander on 15 May 2005, 18:30: (http://www.inlisub.com/assets/SJA.JPG)

Unidentified animal says "grrrr . . ."
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Post by: FruitKat on 15 May 2005, 18:51: It actually took me a while to get into this...
I just thought "Oh yeah, they're sad, they're singing... Almost whining.... its kinda slow... ok...."
I think it was all the hype about it that got me...
And I didn't like the chick singing...

But then suddenly I listened to it one day and just thought WHOOOAAA thats Great!... Funny, but thats seriously how it was, and now I smile when i listen aswell... Yay.
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Post by: Freezey on 15 May 2005, 19:32: Quote from: cacahuate
I enjoy it. When I'm not listening, I'm not sure why I like it. Then I listen to it and smile.

I second that. I never feel like listening to it, but when I force myself to sit down, put on the headphones and just listen...and suddenly I remember why I enjoyed it the first time.
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Post by: David on 15 May 2005, 20:50: Third that. The only song I can ever recall when I'm not listening to the album is "Wake Up". But when I do listen to it in one sitting, it's great.
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Post by: Reno on 15 May 2005, 21:00: Fourth here

Tunnels fills me with joy too.
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 15 May 2005, 21:15: Arcade Fire is very "meh"

I had a friend who tried to get me into them. not sure what he likes about them.
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Post by: Johnny C on 15 May 2005, 21:19: Energy? Songcraft? Melody?
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 15 May 2005, 21:34: They didn't strike me to be an exemplar in any of those three qualities.
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Post by: nothingwitty on 16 May 2005, 00:26: well, i guess that just makes you wrong, huh?
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Post by: QHD on 16 May 2005, 00:28: Hey guys, google search Intervention, it's a new Arcade Fire track, you can get a couple of live recordings of it. I think I like it better than just about anything else except Tunnels, Power Out and Rebellion.

And yes teh Arcade Fire rock. And I've seen them live. Twice. And it was awesome.
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Post by: Reno on 16 May 2005, 01:09: you.....bastard!!!!

they havent been to the west coast yet, but rest assured, when they do, I will be second in line to get tickets
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 16 May 2005, 02:01: why not first?
oh and I am so unhip that I haven't even listened to the damn album yet, only Wake Up, which is a nice song, diverse you know...;)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 16 May 2005, 04:55: what if they're girls?
...gah sorry I just couldn't resist ;)
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Post by: zekterellium on 16 May 2005, 04:59: come on, arcade fire being great is really old news. we should start talking about bands that haven't even been signed yet. great frontment that haven't been born yet. that'd be fun.
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Post by: Inlander on 16 May 2005, 05:15: I've got a whole bunch of the little tykes running around in my top-secret rock 'n' roll cloning lab. Just wait 'til those test-tube Bon Jovis get old enough to start using hair-care products!
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Post by: zekterellium on 16 May 2005, 05:58: inlander, you are hereby invited to my birthday party. you excellent, excellent bastard.

and james, i was joking at the time, but now i think it was a perfectly valid thing to say. come on, funeral won't mean as much to you in a year as it does now, let along five years down the line. the future of music, exciting new bands and new sounds, is what we have to look forward to, not listening to the same old albums over and over and over.
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Post by: Inlander on 16 May 2005, 06:11: Zekterellium I'd be delighted to come to your birthday party, but finding somebody willing to babysit half a dozen pre-pubescent David Lee Roths can be a real bitch.
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 16 May 2005, 06:28: Quote from: nothingwitty
well, i guess that just makes you wrong, huh?

not really.
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Post by: zekterellium on 16 May 2005, 06:43: hmm... we could just buy a big black bag of tight spandex trousers and raincoats and let the little tykes while away the afternoon searching through it and trying them all on? that, or get them all a calender of naked chicks in sunglasses. that outta work.
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Post by: Reno on 16 May 2005, 07:12: Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum
why not first?

because I am nice and will let a friend of mine get that honour.
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Post by: ForteBass on 16 May 2005, 08:13: Quote from: James
you hideous scenester.

James, I do so love you.
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Post by: BehringerBoy on 16 May 2005, 10:29: teh arcade fire rulez.

well, they do. I especially like Tunnels, Kettles and In the backseat. But damn, the singer sounds annoying at times...
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Post by: muffy on 16 May 2005, 12:05: I love the Arcade Fire, but after this thread, I think I love James more.
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Post by: zekterellium on 16 May 2005, 13:35: james is pretty awesome, i'll give you that.
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Post by: Revenge_Therapist on 16 May 2005, 13:46: Next ish

THOR VS. THE HIDEOUS SCENESTER

Stay tuned true believers!
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Post by: Johnny C on 16 May 2005, 17:52: Quote from: nothingwitty
well, i guess that just makes you wrong, huh?

Internet hi-five! C'mon!
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Post by: kilconey on 16 May 2005, 18:10: (peeks out) erm...i like haiti the best? (the rest of the thread kind of confuses me).
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Post by: Kai on 16 May 2005, 18:16: James already has my "Best Poster Ever" award.
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Post by: hippiejonny on 16 May 2005, 19:46: i do enjoy the album, especially kettles. replay value isn't unlimited, though.
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Post by: Borondir on 17 May 2005, 09:32: Quote from: KharBevNor

Pity, the thread title looked promising.

Anybody love uber-depressing Norwegian doom? ;) *raises hand*
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Post by: nihilist on 17 May 2005, 10:38: It's good 'wandering about the city on the TTC' music, but doesn't otherwise do it for me.
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Post by: caulfield on 17 May 2005, 10:55: I bought Funeral after I saw Arcade Fire @ Coachella. Live, they blew me away, and the album effectively brings me back to that. I loves it. S'yummy.

-caul
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Post by: Patatat on 17 May 2005, 15:04: Whoever, said it gets boring.

I've had that in my six-disc cd player (Just so you its not out of laziness I listen to it.), and no other CD has played on that thing since it has entered the stereo. Thats how much I love/listen to it, daily.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 May 2005, 16:47: Quote from: Borondir

Anybody love uber-depressing Norwegian doom? ;) *raises hand*

Hails to one of the most oft-forgotten genre namers.
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Post by: Korlin on 17 May 2005, 17:16: I saw them live a couple of weeks back in Manchester, that was phenomenal, although I wish it had been a smaller venue (as always).

Didn't the album come out last year? In the US anyway...

And the EP is goooooood. But not as good as the album.

Roll on Reading festival (despite it being the worst place to see bands really)!