Arcade Fire

[coop41]

I have had this for a couple weeks and for some reason have had an aversion to listening to it. Full disclosure, I thought the last CD was excellent, it may have even been in my top 5 that year.
Now that all the mainstream media is force feeding this down our throats like the WNBA and telling you that if you are hip this is what you need to listen to (I'm not talking the regular douche bag critics who are too cool - they were drooling all over the last one, I'm talking the Entertainment Weekly, People magazine variety), I just wasn't that motivated to put this one on. First off, it's long. It's not agonizingly long like say, Avatar, but 16 songs and around an hour, I simply don't have that kind of time. I think they easily could have shaved 6 songs off (any 6 really, they are all pretty close to the same song of varying lengths). I really wanted to hate this, maybe because I was too cool to still like them, they are so 2008 (and I'm apparently two thousand late?) but I kind of liked that one song. There was another one that was pretty good and then that other one was not bad. One song was like My City Was Gone if Chrissie Hynde had her balls cut off. Maybe it's my general mood as of late that people irritate me (pretty much all people) so the entire time I was listening to it I was thinking of all the people I would like to kick in the face (http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28935)(Holy Crap, Rosie O'Donnell is getting another show? Of course Oprah is involved.....).
I'm not sure how much a CD costs, but if I were deciding to spend my hard earned cash on buying (or downloading this on itunes) this, I would strongly consider just popping the last one into the cassette deck and scratching out the titles and renaming them something or other (Part I) and then something or other (Part II).
All in all though, I didn't hate it.

[zill]

Shit, is it possible your own musical taste is pissing you off?

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29388

[:D]

(I haven't been able to listen to the Arcade Fire CD either...can't bring myself to do it).

[plagiarism]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]

(I haven't been able to listen to the Arcade Fire CD either...can't bring myself to do it).
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I enjoyed the first two albums, and I've known the new album is out, but I haven't sought it out at all. Same goes with the New Pornographers. Their distinctive sounds just sound old now, I guess.

[Frau_Blucher]

They should just rename the album Coconut Water.

[schwenko]

FWIW
from Rolling Stone

"Indie rock is back atop the Billboard 200: Arcade Fire's third album, The Suburbs, debuted at Number One with 156,000 copies sold. That puts the Montreal collective on par with Vampire Weekend, whose indie-released Contra grabbed Number One in January of this year. Sales of The Suburbs were greatly aided by an Amazon promotion offering digital downloads for $3.99. Nielsen SoundScan reveals that 62 percent, or 97,000 copies, of Suburbs sales came from digital purchases. The new album improves on Neon Bible's Number Two debut (with 92,000 copies sold) in 2007."

[coop41]

Feel free to adjust the review to cover the Vampire Weekend CD as well, the two are interchangeable.

[edwardnky]

I'm really liking it. The lyrics appeal to me. I'm not saying it's my favorite album, but the hype holds for me. Some songs have taken me more than a few spins.

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My top five off the album:

The Suburbs
Modern Man
We Used To Wait
The Sprawl II
Ready to Start

[Frau_Blucher]

Okay, ESPN just mentioned Butler and Arcade Fire in a Red Sox-Blue Jays highlight. Ridiculous.

[SwampThing]

I'm digging a few songs off this one. Don't understand why they felt it necessary to have 16 tracks. Sometimes less is more.

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