Arcade Fire, Neon Bible

[Dubversion]

typically entertaining Morley piece in yesterday's Observer. Not much from the band, but pages of Morley's flights of fancy like you'd expect

 

[tastebud]

typically entertaining Morley piece in yesterday's Observer. Not much from the band, but pages of Morley's flights of fancy like you'd expect

What a great article. I want to go to Montreal more then ever now, too.
Although Dub, does the bono thing not bother you intensely...
They bought a church & rehearsed in it
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2033770,00.html for the people that, like me, don't tend to purchase the Observer.

Win attended the same school as Dan Brown though

On the new album:

and explores the clash between innocence and the big bad world, between spiritual emptiness and blind religious observance. It will be seen by some as even better than Funeral, and seen by the more sentimental Funeral fetishists as a ponderous muddle soaked with too much marbled pomp and Springsteen, and there are those who will settle, if anywhere, in the middle.

The second part of the article (the end) is lovely *sniffs*.

They're amazing live - there's nothing like it.

 

[jugularvein]

not sure about the album but 'the well and the lighthouse' is a song that i can't get out of my head. i play it and it's good but unsatisfying and then it runs through my head again whatever i'm doing and then i play it again and repeat... will last a few days i guess and then i'll butcher it

 

[tangerinedream]

get the new Earlies album.

I've not heard this one, but I thought the first album was incredably boring, sounded like the noise those small tins of paint that you can get for 59p as samplers or to touch up little bits would make. It was all very 'nice' but just did absolutely nothing for me, didn't touch either head nor heart and just made me think of the smell of an empty hamster cage or something. Earlies got slobbered all over by the critics irc and I couldn't really see why.

I do really like Neon Bible though. As noted the Lion and the Lamb bit is just so bloody catchy...

 

[dlx1]

Thurs 28 June - Live music from Arcade Fire recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studio
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This Thursday

 

[girasol]

I bought both at the same time (Funeral and Neon Bible) and I can't stop listening to either - songs keep playing on my head

I have various favourites, including 'No Cars Go', 'Antichrist Television Blues', (Power Out), Crown of Love, Rebellion...

I think both albums are excellent, and to me they sound like Pixies, Pink Floyd, Sisters of Mercy and more all mashed up together...

 

[Firky]

They also sound like Modest Mouse in the early years before they went crap. They also did a belting set at Glastonbury

 

[El Sueno]

I don't get Arcade Fire. Oh, they're so interesting aren't they? Except, instead of assembling a varied array of wacky instruments and thinking "what can we do with all these mad sounds?" they seem to have gone the other way and wrote some shit rock n' roll songs, then thought "what can we do to make this interesting? Get a chick to play the hurdy-gurdy!" Gash.

 

[tastebud]

they're way better than modest mouse! out of their league....

 

[SubZeroCat]

I saw them on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. The male singer smashed one of the cameras (the main one it seemed) with his guitar as soon as the song was finished and walked off

 

[dolly's gal]

I saw them on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. The male singer smashed one of the cameras (the main one it seemed) with his guitar as soon as the song was finished and walked off

maybe the camera was giving him funny looks?

 

[El Sueno]

they're way better than modest mouse! out of their league....

Well that's true. But that's because Modest Mouse are utter gash.

 

[tastebud]

szc, jonathan ross just has that effect on people sometimes.

modest mouse used to be good but utterly boring nowadays. still nowhere near af's league though, as i say.

 

[El Sueno]

szc, jonathan ross just has that effect on people sometimes.

modest mouse used to be good but utterly boring nowadays. still nowhere near af's league though, as i say.

The video with all the sailors has got to be the most nauseating piece of film I've ever seen. Their attempts to be surreal and thought provoking seem to be drowned by the apparant and arrogant presumtion that they're just so cool. And the song is just awful. Awful, awful pop music.

 

[SubZeroCat]

szc, jonathan ross just has that effect on people sometimes.

He was very pleasant to them. Silly behaviour if you ask me.

But yes dolly you may be right, perhaps the camera man was winding him up?

 

[Skorch]

I've tried over and over again, but I just can't get into this new 'indie' scene. I want my rock to have some fucking ballz. I've tried Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, etc. Every time a song has potential, something new really bugs me about it. Maybe its all trying to be too arty.

"Less artsy, more fartsy" as a friend used to say.

"Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyse" is by far the best rock album of the last few years.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Rated R and Songs for the Deaf were better than lullabies...

 

[El Sueno]

He was very pleasant to them. Silly behaviour if you ask me.

But yes dolly you may be right, perhaps the camera man was winding him up?

Or maybe he was just trying to be 'cool'.

I heard they rarely do press - which is funny cos evey time I turn on the telly lately they're being interviewed.

Before I get irrational and start cussing their faces, can somebody explain their appeal? I mean, I find the whole "Let's dress up like Quakers and play 'real instruments'" gimmick quite amusing. But this is supposed to be the next big thing, like we're supposed to be inspired and delighted by this? I mean, if they had any decent songs I could be swayed but from what I've heard they've got nothing going on to interest anyone with a modicum of musicality or diverse tastes.

 

[Reno]

I don't get Arcade Fire. Oh, they're so interesting aren't they? Except, instead of assembling a varied array of wacky instruments and thinking "what can we do with all these mad sounds?" they seem to have gone the other way and wrote some shit rock n' roll songs, then thought "what can we do to make this interesting? Get a chick to play the hurdy-gurdy!" Gash.

That would be true if they wouldn't write good tunes, but they do.

 

[El Sueno]

That would be true if they wouldn't write good tunes, but they do.

There's obviously some hidden gems I'm not aware of then, 'cos everything I've heard has been no-brainer over-produced rambling stadium rock, for want of a better description.

 

[tastebud]

please don't compare af to the new pornographers...

 

[dolly's gal]

But yes dolly you may be right, perhaps the camera man was winding him up?

like mouthing "you're fucking shite"* at him, mid-performance for example. or flicking him the V?

*not that i think they're shite like cos i love em!

 

[girasol]

I saw them on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. The male singer smashed one of the cameras (the main one it seemed) with his guitar as soon as the song was finished and walked off

I saw that too, it looked silly...

Am I the only one who thinks that Win Butler looks like a young Rik Mayall?

 

[El Sueno]

If the song they played on Wossy is indicative of their music then I stand by everything I typed out my fingers.

 

[girasol]

If you don't like something you don't like it, I don't think asking people to explain their appeal will convince you otherwise, El Sueno, and I don't think anyone here is going to try to either.

I think they're good because I like their songs, simple really.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

I've tried over and over again, but I just can't get into this new 'indie' scene. I want my rock to have some fucking ballz. I've tried Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, etc. Every time a song has potential, something new really bugs me about it. Maybe its all trying to be too arty.

"Less artsy, more fartsy" as a friend used to say.

"Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyse" is by far the best rock album of the last few years.

Some of us happen to apprecite "artsy" don't you know!

QITSa are rather good too though - if you wanna rock try ...Trail of The Dead

 

[SubZeroCat]

Am I the only one who thinks that Win Butler looks like a young Rik Mayall?

Haha

 

[The_Reverend_M]

There's obviously some hidden gems I'm not aware of then, 'cos everything I've heard has been no-brainer over-produced rambling stadium rock, for want of a better description.

Listen to the 'EP' and listen to 'Funeral' - both amazing. The latest album, 'The Neon Bible', just isn't in the same league.

 

[tastebud]

they're not a simple band though, i like them because they're pretty deep & interesting whilst the music can be extremely emotional, to the point that i usually cry whenever i hear certain tracks. they're beautiful & intelligent, check out their albums in their entirety, rather than some tv show performance.

as for why he got mad, there are probably reasons for this - the media can be a pain in the arse... these people are only human and humans sometimes lose it.

 

[Dubversion]

really don't like the new album, after living with it for a while. It's trying too hard to be epic but the songs aren't there. the gulf between the quality of albums 1 and 2 at Glastonbury was too fucking obvious