highly recommend anyone to get a hold of the arcade fire..funeral. its the best album i have heard in a long time...more great ideas than any album should have. if anyone gets it, give me some feedback on it...cant wait to see them tour the uk..they are going to be huge.

You should tell Gooey about this

I love this album. It has so much vibrant energy, pain and emotion. It really resonates with me after the year I've had.

any band that conjurs images of talking heads is ok in my book. besides, i'd trust anything bowie recommends. this disc is in my list for best of the year.

SassyBritches said:

Plus, "In The Backseat" is a total Vespertine knock off.

yes, two Tories way up!! Great album.

GangstaFam said:

hipster

GrayKing said:

Yuck. Such a dirty word.

I have tickets for their upcoming Dutch performance. Just two weeks!

HamsterHuey said:

Awesome. I meant to tell you about that, but I forgot. Glad you got tix.

Arcade Fire are just one of a long list of absolutely amazing Canadian groups. Here is a short list for the rest of you to feast on.

Godspeed You Black Emperor
Below the Sea
Beef Terminal
Readymade
Kids These Days
Black Mountain
Broken Social Scene
Do Make Say Think
Caribou (formerly known as Manitoba)
Stars

That should get you folks south of the 49th started down the road to musical revelation.

garnis said:

Thank you, oh sage one.

garnis said:

add The Dears to that list I really am digging them right now.

you gotta admit, this album is kind of the hipster badge of '05

it's definitely a nice listen, in a bowie-pixies-modest-mouse kind of way, but nothing earth-shattering...it's how i always felt about Imperial Teen...wanted to love them sooooo bad, but..

MendesCity said:

Sure they are a bunch of hipsters, but who cares. The music is killer. Best band in Canada right now has got to be Readymade. Their new record "All the Plans Resting" is released on Where Are My Records. A nice label out of Montreal. These guys are out of Vancouver BC baby!!!!!

MendesCity said:

You know, sometimes a hype is created for the wrong reasons, other times a hype comes to live for just one reason; the music is good.

White Stripes and Franz Ferdinand both were hyped, but that was just.

The Arcade Fire is somewhat different, as this is not a band that you will see playing stadiums, like TWH and FF are capable of. TAF is an intimate band. The fact that every article you see seems copied straight off allmusic.com says enough. These people communicate through their music. I like that.

I am so glad I will be able to see them live in a small venue... same as where I saw Bjork for the first time, couldn't be happier.

HamsterHuey said:

I have to admit: After adjusting my expectations a bit (and falling asleep with it on headphones last night), it's growing on me... I love "Wake Up."

MendesCity said:

The first songs that caught me were Rebellion and In The Back Seat.

The first one just has the drive I love and In The Back Seat has the lyrics that chill me.

HamsterHuey said:

Plus, it's so totally Vespertine!

GangstaFam said:

To me, liking music always has to be a holy trinity; music; voice; lyrics.

Not many artists/bands pull that off. Bjork is one. Prince 1980/1988 is another. The Cure, most stuff. Franz Ferdinand. Kate Bush. Tori Amos, often.

Franz had something going for them; their vibe. I needed that two years ago.

This year I needed The Arcade Fire. It's really has been the soundtrack to my life of last year...

Tunnels is my obsession from this album... i play it over and over.

I also have a soft place in my heart for Une Année Sans Lumiere, as it is such a dreamlike song and the images it creates just take me elsewhere.

It kind of combines all the things I love about this bandl the male/female vocals, the english/french lyrics, the music...

And Haiti... love that as well.

Oh heck, I love the entire album.

AND I GOT TICKETS! I GOT TICKETS! I GOT TICKETS!

HamsterHuey said:

I am probably going to be SO dissapointed, hehehe. I am so curious to find out how they translate their work to an audience...

HamsterHuey said:

Download some live stuff and see whatcha think.

GangstaFam said:

Stop teasing me.

HamsterHuey said:

How do ya like the new Nico album?

GangstaFam said:

I am waiting to be shot. Just shoot me. Kick me while I'm down, will ya?

You meanie!

HamsterHuey said:

You know I'm just playin'. And the first time I wasn't even teasing, so nyah!

GangstaFam said:

Hehehe. Only the first time you were not?

I am such a chynical bastard, LoL

love the album to death, love the way a lot of the tracks change tempo near the end...such strong songwriting thoughout....they will find it very difficult to top this album but its a nice problem to have....tunnels is my favourite track...playing it LOUD!!!