No thread for this yet?

What a great album, possibly my favorite of them all. Saw them last week in Atlanta, what a band.

Hard to pick favorite songs on it but I guess Sprawl II, We Used to Wait, Ready to Start... I don't know I like them all :-)

8/19/2010 2:02:44 PM

[new]

8/19/2010 2:05:04 PM

Quote :

"No thread for this yet?"

nope, none.

8/19/2010 2:43:31 PM

oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh we used to wait.

8/19/2010 6:33:05 PM

This band does bigger and bigger things every day. Selling out Madison Square Garden, then hitting #1 on the Billboard charts, and now getting their very own thread on TWW. No clearer sign that you've really arrived as a band.

8/19/2010 6:37:01 PM

^ i lol'ed

8/19/2010 7:50:53 PM

Damn y'all are some sassy bitches.

It's okay, I'm in to it.

The album still rocks and its not that [new].

8/19/2010 8:20:06 PM

^ sarahjane, i got no beef. i praised the album to high heavens in the 2010 music threat. it is a really great album, and i haven't gotten tired of it at all

8/19/2010 9:20:17 PM

saw these guys on the daily show. was god awful and made miss the moment of zen, it was so bad. I had to change channels.

8/19/2010 10:14:38 PM

I HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS ALBUM.

8/19/2010 11:18:54 PM

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 11:25 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2010 11:19:10 PM

attn users with < 1000 posts

8/19/2010 11:35:21 PM

If this is your favorite album of all time, you need to listen to more albums.

That's not me being a snobby asshole (though I am one), it's just a fact.

The record has grown on me some, but it's still "Sprawl II" and a bunch of also-rans.

With that said, this feeling for sarahjane might be the same feeling that I had when Sousapickle would play Funeral twice a day every day in our dorm room and neither of us would ever get tired of it, so good for her.

8/20/2010 2:57:30 AM

I need to listen to it a bit more but from what I have heard it is quite weak compared to some of their past stuff like Funeral. Just seems to lack the passion and intensity of something like "Wake Up" and more hokey guitar strumming.

8/20/2010 7:28:36 AM

sigh.

8/20/2010 8:22:29 AM

I like it, but it's no Funeral..yet better than Neon Bible IMO

I said it on Kadwackle's fb...Sprawl II reminds me of The Safety Dance

8/20/2010 8:45:54 AM

Quote :

"saw these guys on the daily show. was god awful and made miss the moment of zen, it was so bad. I had to change channels."

Can someone tell me what this means?

8/20/2010 9:46:40 AM

he changed channels because he doesn't like good music and thus missed the ocassionally funny closing segment "moment of zen"

8/20/2010 9:52:44 AM

Good album but nowhere compared to Funeral or Neon Bible

8/20/2010 11:03:06 AM

^^oh, i was confused about the moment of zen part...gotcha, thanks

8/20/2010 11:10:06 AM

sprawl II.

the end.


actually i think i may like "The Suburbs" more

[Edited on August 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM. Reason : .]

8/20/2010 11:21:54 AM

vinylbandit: not favorite album of all time, but favorite album of Arcade Fire. As of this moment.

[Edited on August 23, 2010 at 6:32 PM. Reason : .]

8/23/2010 6:26:52 PM

The idea that The Suburbs is even in the same neighborhood (*rimshot*) as Funeral is a foreign concept to me.

8/23/2010 6:41:47 PM

You are a foreign concept.

8/23/2010 8:02:30 PM

sick burn. "Sprawl" and "Sprawl II" are still great, but "Rococo" has really grown on me.

8/23/2010 8:15:12 PM

Its close to a toss-up, but I might like The Suburbs and Neon Bible more than Funeral.

This would be a big deal if such narrow dissections of taste spoke volumes towards my personage.

8/23/2010 8:18:08 PM

ITT sarahjane owns vinylbandit with a simple, but effective, comeback

and then screentest hits 'im where it hurts.

8/23/2010 8:27:21 PM

the first point is well taken

but i'm not sure what the second is supposed to mean

in other news, kate bush is better than arcade fire

and other vague pronouncements

8/24/2010 5:49:27 AM

I think he was trying to say "it means more to you than to me,"

but with a twinge of self-righteousness.

vb, I'm sure someone has asked you this

but why the hell are your posts spaced out like this?

you don't talk this slow.

is this your idea of poetry?

8/24/2010 7:03:08 AM

no

but if i'm not going to bother capitalizing or punctuating properly

i might as well impose rhythm in a different way

8/24/2010 12:04:02 PM

i was just fuckin' with ya, vb

8/24/2010 1:08:17 PM

Wow this dilly/vb banter is worse than Kate Bush's singing.

8/24/2010 2:21:40 PM

And yeah AF>KB but she is still alright.

[Edited on August 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : double post = sick computer :-(]

[Edited on August 24, 2010 at 2:29 PM. Reason : ]

8/24/2010 2:23:25 PM

Hounds of Love is a killer song.

Especially the Futureheads cover.

8/24/2010 2:39:11 PM

that is one correct fucking statement

8/24/2010 9:06:37 PM

i don't care how you feel about kate bush

the combination of the drums and first vocal line at the beginning of "hounds of love" is one of the most arresting openings in the history of pop music

8/25/2010 4:09:04 AM

It's grown on me a lot, but it still isn't in the same league as the first two (to me). I have been listening to it a lot, but it never hit me like the first two (and the EP) did.

8/25/2010 11:21:23 AM

still talking about Hounds of Love,

the opening is a pleasurable punch to the face, but what really makes my spine tingle is the final line where she out Cyndi-Laupers Cyndi Lauper with "do you know what I really need, do you know what I really need, la, la, LA, la, la, yeah"

8/25/2010 11:23:36 AM

Quote :

"Good album but nowhere compared to Funeral or Neon Bible"

8/26/2010 12:13:14 AM

I definitely liked it more than Neon Bible, but Funeral is pretty hard to beat.




I started this album only liking select songs (Sprawl II seems a universal love, a Laika of sorts), but once I really started engaging it on a textual level, I absolutely love it. Yea, it's not full of singles and it's not their most memorable album, but it is so deeply rooted in concept/story albums (which isn't getting discussed enough), a passion of mine, that it blows me out of the water. The continued themes and patterns in the lyrics and instruments make me smile every time, and it's a subject I find engaging. It's not meant to be for everyone, and I very much understand why it's not all that great even to people with otherwise great taste in music, but I do very much adore what they did with this album, even if it could have been better.

8/26/2010 12:47:41 AM

Fuck it. Hit Arcade Fire, all songs, shuffle and enjoy.

8/27/2010 4:49:45 PM

Even "Surf City Eastern Bloc?" Come on.

8/27/2010 5:02:22 PM

^is that even on one of their albums?

8/27/2010 5:09:13 PM

It's a b-side to "No Cars Go." And I actually think it's a good song.

8/27/2010 5:13:41 PM

No, but "Strawberry Fields Forever" was never on an album and that doesn't seem to bother anyone.

Really I'm just being that guy because that's what you people expect these days.

8/27/2010 5:13:45 PM

^Finally, the truth

8/27/2010 5:14:24 PM

Quote :

"No, but "Strawberry Fields Forever" was never on an album and that doesn't seem to bother anyone."

magical mystery tour doesn't count?

8/27/2010 5:41:17 PM

The real Magical Mystery Tour was an EP with the new songs from the film. In the US they eventually added the singles and released it as an LP, but only because the EP wasn't selling.

8/27/2010 5:48:37 PM

i see. i always thought it was a regular album. interesting. back to arcade fire i guess...

8/27/2010 6:09:36 PM

That's because when they started putting them out on CD, they used the LP version, and with the singles added it's definitely a full-length.

Similarly, "Satisfaction" was never on a real Stones album, but it was added to the American version of Out of Our Heads.

Not to go on too much of a tangent, but the discrepancies between the US and UK versions of the Stones' catalog have always blown my mind.

8/27/2010 6:23:56 PM