Red Mosquito

That elongated version of "Wasted Hours" is pretty good.

so I really like Wake Up, Antichrist Blues, Keep the Car Running, Month of May, and City with No Children.

What other songs should I look up?

stip wrote:so I really like Wake Up, Antichrist Blues, Keep the Car Running, Month of May, and City with No Children.

What other songs should I look up?

Modern Man and Suburban War were two of my faves off the last album.

stip wrote:so I really like Wake Up, Antichrist Blues, Keep the Car Running, Month of May, and City with No Children.

What other songs should I look up?

All of them.

But yeah, check out Rebellion (Lies).

Stip, I feel like the songs you like are a pretty good representation of what the band does. I'd probably just grab the first record and see if it grabs you.

digster wrote:I'd probably just grab the first record and see if it grabs you.

Would this be an example of "you only get out of art what you put into it"?

digster wrote:Stip, I feel like the songs you like are a pretty good representation of what the band does. I'd probably just grab the first record and see if it grabs you.

i've heard them all before(maybe two times each). These were the songs I liked. the albums as a whole didn't grab me but I wonder if they would if I went back to them or if there were specific songs that were pretty similar to those.

stip wrote:so I really like Wake Up, Antichrist Blues, Keep the Car Running, Month of May, and City with No Children.

What other songs should I look up?

All the others. But yeah, my favourite song from The Suburbs was Suburban War.

And No Cars Go from Neon Bible.

After 4 or 5 listens I don't know how you can't be grabbed by Funeral.

Gods' Die wrote:After 4 or 5 listens I don't know how you can't be grabbed by Funeral.

I just think the songs are inconsistent, but that's not because any of them are bad, it's more that some of them are freaking classics that have impacted my life in a huge way, so others are 'filler', good to very good imo. It's probably unfair to judge an album as less good on that basis, but Arcade Fire is a band on that level for me. Neon Bible changed my life like Ten did, and considering I was in my twenties at the time, that's a rarity. I'm also not as keen on the shouty vocal on some of the Funeral songs, as opposed to the sung vocals on future output. The distorted shout gets jarring and threatens to push certain good songs into annoying territory (Leika, I'm looking at you).

This is how i break down funeral. I find a lot more good then bad on the album
Songs I Love and think are classics
Laika
Powerout
Wake UP
Rebellion

Songs I like a lot
Tunnels
Haiti
In the Backseat

Songs That Are ok
Crown of Love

Songs I could care less if I never heard again
Une Annee Sans Lumiere
Kettles

Yeah...there are admittedly a couple tracks that are pretty easy to skip.

Gods' Die wrote:Yeah...there are admittedly a couple tracks that are pretty easy to skip.

disagree

I listened to a few songs driving down to my parents.

I forgot that I like ready to start (but less than those other songs I had previously listed). I like Hati, too.

Rebellion was pretty good. I'd like intercession (that organ song on neon bible) if not for the chorus.

Not a fan of no cars go. Suburban war didn't do much for me either.

stip wrote:I listened to a few songs driving down to my parents.

I forgot that I like ready to start (but less than those other songs I had previously listed). I like Hati, too.

Rebellion was pretty good. I'd like intercession (that organ song on neon bible) if not for the chorus.

Not a fan of no cars go. Suburban war didn't do much for me either.

If you keep listening, it will grow.

PJ and Arcade Fire both in October

I just might not get S.A.D this winter.

Just heard oct 29th for their new one. Looking forward to it.

Self wrote:http://www.spin.com/articles/arcade-fire-new-album-announcement-twitter-art/?utm_source=spinfacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spinfacebook

Is that the Epcot Center?

stip wrote:there are a few songs on each of their albums I like quite a bit, but haven't fallen in love with an album as a whole. I probably need to go back to them

me too. I like individual songs but don't find myself wanting to listen to their entire albums.