Topic: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Read 64751 times)

*Sights* · « **on:** 19 Dec 2006, 07:30 »

So...has anyone else heard "Intervention" from Arcade's new album? It's pretty good, though i'm beginning to wonder if the new album is going to be exactly like Funeral.

CamusCanDo · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Dec 2006, 10:14 »

If you're too lazy like I am to ring up to listen to it you can find it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ZokV22xgA&mode=related&search=

I'm liking it.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Dec 2006, 10:24 »

New album? Thats pretty much awesome, I hope for the best.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Dec 2006, 10:31 »

I really like Intervention. It is kind of intense and indie-rock operaish... and I love me some rock opera.

byebyepanda · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 Dec 2006, 14:35 »

Leaves more desire for me.

Thrillho · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Dec 2006, 21:25 »

The album's title is 'Neon Bible?' That's right up there with 'Voodoo Polaroids' for shit titles.

*Sights* · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 03:31 »

I think it's not official yet, actually.

Spinless · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 06:51 »

If the new album is anything like the songs they've been playing live, I think it'll be a little bit of a disapointment to funeral. However, my hopes remain high. How their popularity will affect my opinion of them remains to be seen, it didn't affect my loving of Funeral, but we'll see how this new album plays out.

And remember kids. Gryff is 100% correct.

pat101 · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 09:50 »

I just can't see it being nearly as good as Funeral, but who knows maybe they'll pull it off.

Johnny C · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 10:25 »

Quote from: Spinless on 20 Dec 2006, 06:51

How their popularity will affect my opinion of them remains to be seen

!?!?

feel good lost · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 12:33 »

You gotta understand that nobody likes repetitive sounding albums so it's good to see a band change up it's styles in a new album. Whether it's for better or worse we'll see. Take the Blood Brothers as an example - from Rumors Laid Waste to Young Machettes they've switched it up every album and it's working out.
Hopefully The Arcade Fire can do it too.

Thrillho · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 19:11 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 20 Dec 2006, 10:25

Quote from: Spinless on 20 Dec 2006, 06:51
How their popularity will affect my opinion of them remains to be seen

!?!?

+1

Spinless · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 21:35 »

I was joking a little bit. Take everything I post in the music forum with a pinch of salt.

Remember, gryff is correct about this particular subject.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 21:41 »

See, here's the problem. It's been three years since their last album, and if they're just going to release a samey-sounding album, then why the hell did it take three years?? This is why I have low expectations for the new Shins album. Their first two albums were fantastic, true, but they were only like a half hour a piece and more or less the same aesthetic. Why the long wait between albums, then??

Of course, then you've got a band like Radiohead, who's release schedule can be termed 'glacial.' Since the release of the last Radiohead album, I saw them live and a few months after lost all interest in them. Maybe I just don't like them anymore, but I think it's more that I'm bored with listening to their stuff for the umpteenth time.

Yet more reason why I like a band like Deerhoof, who've consistently released SOMETHING once a year for however long they've been together.

*Sights* · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 23:54 »

Quote

I become apathetical about most bands the very instance they become popular.

This happens to me too, to a certain degree. But sometimes i'm left wondering how much popular is too popular...The Arcade Fire was recently namedropped in a sitcom with Seth Green, and even though i still like them, i'd like them more if they had remained unknown. Call it hipsterism, but really, seeing that episode was just like watching that Mike Patton thing repeat itself.

Johnny C · « **Reply #15 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 01:24 »

Well, that's to be expected. He's not God, you know.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #16 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 01:34 »

WTH did Gryff even say, that hes so right about

Misereatur · « **Reply #17 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 01:50 »

I agree with Gryff.

Those damn Jews ruined everything around here.

Johnny C · « **Reply #18 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 01:56 »

I say we invade and take the region's knowledge and resources in the name of Jesus!

Thrillho · « **Reply #19 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 05:04 »

You know, pigeons are like the Jews of the sky. We should kill them all as well.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #20 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 05:36 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 21 Dec 2006, 05:04

You know, pigeons are like the Jews of the sky. We should kill them all as well.

10 anal cunts out of 10.

Thrillho · « **Reply #21 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 05:58 »

That's good, right?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #22 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 06:11 »

Very much so.

feel good lost · « **Reply #23 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 08:14 »

Tommydski, it could just be me. Most people follow the "oh I only listen to the old shit" motto hence why I like switching it up, but the real independent bands change it up for a reason or atleast thats what I think, but then again what do I know?

SensoryOssuary · « **Reply #24 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 02:28 »

What the fuck, Neon Bible, that sounds like something Green Day would come up with.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #25 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 03:26 »

in all likelyhood, they'll be playing most of it here:
http://www.bowerypresents.com/calendar/calendar_200702.html

Joseph · « **Reply #26 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 05:02 »

Unless I'm very mistaken, the title, Neon Bible, is taken from the John Kennedy Toole book. You know, the fellow who wrote "A Confederacy Of Dunces."

Joseph · « **Reply #27 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 05:46 »

'A Confederacy Of Dunces' is my favourite book which has ever been written. Everyone needs to read that. I am currently in the middle of reading it for about the 5th time.

Johnny C · « **Reply #28 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 06:26 »

Neon Bible remains an atrocious album title. I will expect it to sound like Girl Talk and be disappointed.

Joseph · « **Reply #29 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 07:13 »

Johnny, you posting on this thred proves that you are not currently, this very moment reading 'A Confederacy Of Dunces'. Go do that.

Johnny C · « **Reply #30 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 10:49 »

Quote from: CamusCanDo on 19 Dec 2006, 10:14

If you're too lazy like I am to ring up to listen to it you can find it here:

You really ought to do the phone call, man.

The number is 1-866-636-6242-53 and it is kind of fun and yet kind of creepy.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 06:20 »

Yeah, but a lot of albums I like have genuinely bad titles. Like Spiderland. That sounds like some awful goth/metal album.

jimmyjojoh · « **Reply #32 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 04:42 »

Saw Arcade Fire play last night on the first leg of their world tour- In Dublin
Have to say they kicked ass- first part of show was all from Neon Bible, then the rest was funeral. Almost nobody know the Neon Bible tracks cause it just got released, but the theatre went nuts for funeral. The main male lead singer climbed onto the amps and ran through the balconys- until the security caught him and threw him back on stage. Follwoed by a triple encore.
I never noticed how sexy the female singer was until I saw her dance- GODDAM,GODDAM,GODDAM she danced fine!
One weird thing was the main lead singer kept mentioning George Bush- though it was hard to hear what exactly his opinion was through the crowd shouting- apparrantly hes from Texas or something.......... anywayssss

McTaggart · « **Reply #33 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 05:29 »

They played the whole thing on the radio and, umm, I hope it grows on me? None of the tracks really stand out, I taped it but haven't bothered going back and listening to it again. I'm kinda more excited that I got Ben Folds' prepared piano cover of Such Great Heights on the start of the tape than that I got Neon Bible on the rest of it.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 09:23 »

Not to take away from the main subject of this thread, but what about a Ben Folds prepared piano cover? First off, anything on any type of prepared piano is awesome, and I'd love to hear his cover.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 09:54 »

Neon Bible is really god damn good. I was scared it would be either too much like Funeral or too different from it, but it's perfectly familiar and new at the same time. I think I might like Neon Bible better, come to think of it, because it's less emotionally exhausting than Funeral. Every song doesn't reach a huge, grand, majestic peak, which has always been my one beef with their debut.

Somethingfake · « **Reply #36 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 11:00 »

No Cars Go I think is one of the best tracks on the new album

Catacombs · « **Reply #37 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 11:12 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 07 Mar 2007, 05:29

They played the whole thing on the radio and, umm, I hope it grows on me? None of the tracks really stand out, I taped it but haven't bothered going back and listening to it again.

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

Coming Home · « **Reply #38 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 11:14 »

To be completely honest, I disliked Funeral.
I like Neon Bible though.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #39 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 11:50 »

Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 24 Dec 2006, 06:20

Yeah, but a lot of albums I like have genuinely bad titles. Like Spiderland. That sounds like some awful goth/metal album.

Spiderland is a goth/metal album.

starkofdoom · « **Reply #40 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 11:58 »

Neon Bible and Funeral are two of the first Indie Albums I have started listening to and I can definately see how you would say they have the same kind of sound, when I put it on random in Itunes I really couldn't tell the difference between the 2 albums except for a couple songs, either way both are really good music.

guywithoutsocks · « **Reply #41 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 12:48 »

Neon Bible is a fine album. I like some of the songs better than others, but there isn't anything that I feel the need to skip. 'Intervention' and 'Ocean of Noise' are probably my favorite tracks, though. It took a few listens for the songs to really sink in for me. The thing that I like the least about this album is the title; I haven't met anyone who thinks that 'Neon Bible' is a good album title yet.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #42 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 14:16 »

I find it very confusing that anyone thinks Neon Bible is a bad title. It's not one of the greats but I don't see anything remotely bad about it.

It must be people who are too young to remember the entire decade of silly-named things that was called the '90s. Pavement? Olivia Tremor Control? Christ, based on their name I imagined Neutral Milk Hotel would be absolutely dreadful. Elf Power? Elf Power is infinitely more silly than Neon Bible.

Hell, naming your band Final Fantasy is kind of insanely goofy, let alone calling the album He Poos Clouds.

JediBendu · « **Reply #43 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 14:21 »

I like the hologram on the front.

And the flip-books. I like the flip-books too.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #44 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 14:58 »

I really need this album. How does it sound in comparison to Funeral?

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #45 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 16:43 »

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 · « **Reply #46 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 18:28 »

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

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 · « **Reply #47 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 20:17 »

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 · « **Reply #48 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 20:29 »

'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 · « **Reply #49 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 23:49 »

It's darker and better with every listen. I am finding this.

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