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I forgot that a new Arcade Fire album comes out in 1 week.
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On vinyl, 75:14 is a double album.
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I remember liking "Intervention" and "Keep the Car Running." I caught their special after snl a few weeks ago and what they played didn't do anything for me at all. It was just dull.
It's streaming and it's almost 90 minutes long. Byron or Inc should review it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjqUEMlHTY#t=138
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjqUEMlHTY#t=138
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This band peaked when they were still ripping off early Modest Mouse.
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I'll never forgive this band for stealing all the hype away from Blueberry Boat back in '04
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Also oh man this "Reflektor" song is really silly.
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Remember when Belle and Sebastian made a song that sounded like disco and it was a revelation. This is like that, but bad.
There is a 15 minute section of just backwards music in the middle. I'm nearly done and I liked the song after the god awful "Here Comes the Night Time" and that's about it. It's unbelievably boring and repetitve besides one song. A real endurance test.
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What song are you talking about?
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"Your Cover's Blown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gasGZ2WYp80
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Man that song's so good
I had memorable moments with this band. Traipsing through the snow to "Une année sans lumiere," getting the leak of "Intervention" and reveling in playing it fucking loud, even "Sprawl II" was a fun song, but had I known that it was a harbinger of anesthetized James Murphy crap to come, I would unlisten to it. What made the first two Arcade Fire albums great was how over-the-top earnest they were in a time of detachment and irony. And of course I would like that; I, in the sense that as you know me as "The Czech Republic," built an entire board persona on a particularly neurotic form of Caring Too Much, from taking up arms against people who committed my cardinal sin of being bad at posting on the internet to micromanaging every single thing under the Invision Board hood. Throwing it all out there is attractive to me. Remember when Win Butler smashed a guitar on Saturday Night Live? What a fucking dork! But six and a half years ago, it was still oddly charming to care so much that you'd freak out over a bad guitar on your biggest night of exposure. It didn't even seem like a mindful Pete Townshend impression (and what a shame about our own resident Pete Townshend impression). I think that moon-faced doofus was actually really pissed. And I applaud him for it.
But now that David Foster Wallace is dead and everyone chain-mails "This Is Water" to their nieces graduating from high school and Barack Obama keeps telling us to hope, we're not supposed to be detached and "ironic" anymore! This is The New Sincerity! Say what you mean! Mean what you say! Smell the flowers! Tell your loved ones you love them every day in case you die! In a world where everyone has to care about things, how can you be expected to go on screaming about THE KIDS and working in a church till your family dies and still zig in a world of zags? You can't! Now you have to sell your guitars for synthesizers. You have to press a button on a drum machine and keep muttering that you found the connector before reconsidering that it is just, in fact, a reflector, and do this about, oh, eighty fucking times over seven minutes. This is artistic maturation, I guess. But making an LCD Soundsystem record isn't an exciting left turn in a world of caring too much because I was already sick of LCD Soundsystem by the time James Murphy went on his virtually interminable self-imposed Viking funeral. Look, I don't go to Mexican restaurants to order the chicken fingers. I wouldn't even go to one that offered them! I'll miss the flourishes that made them unique: the hurdy-gurdy, the tack pianos, the Napoleon Dynamite-lookin' fucker whose only job with the band seemed to be to thump a marching bass drum, the silly outfits. Now all those things that made the Arcade Fire stick out in a sea of Brooklyn trust-fund dicksmacks have been appropriated by all these terrible Olde Tyme Yelpy Hoedown Sepiatone Whiskey Band idiots that won't go away (who themselves, I suspect, are also Brooklyn trust-fund dicksmacks) and still haven't managed to do anything as passionate or exuberant as "Rebellion" or "Neighborhood #1" or "Intervention." What am I going to do?
I'm probably just going to listen to the Waterboys more, who along with mid-period Mercury Rev, strike me as more of an Arcade Fire antecedent than Modest Mouse does. I mean, just check out "The Whole of the Moon" and tick off how many great moments of EFFORT~! are in here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evq22d7IgUY
Church bell patterns!
Antiphonal trumpet choirs!
"YOU SAW BRIGADOOOOON!!!"
"TRUMPETS, TOWERS, AND TENEMENTS!"
YOU CAME LIKE A COMET, MOTHERFUCKING KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM
Yeah, that's the good stuff. So is "Your Cover's Blown," by the way, which deviates but never truly departs from the fundamentals of the whole B&S aesthetic.
But now that David Foster Wallace is dead and everyone chain-mails "This Is Water" to their nieces graduating from high school and Barack Obama keeps telling us to hope, we're not supposed to be detached and "ironic" anymore! This is The New Sincerity! Say what you mean! Mean what you say! Smell the flowers! Tell your loved ones you love them every day in case you die! In a world where everyone has to care about things, how can you be expected to go on screaming about THE KIDS and working in a church till your family dies and still zig in a world of zags? You can't! Now you have to sell your guitars for synthesizers. You have to press a button on a drum machine and keep muttering that you found the connector before reconsidering that it is just, in fact, a reflector, and do this about, oh, eighty fucking times over seven minutes. This is artistic maturation, I guess. But making an LCD Soundsystem record isn't an exciting left turn in a world of caring too much because I was already sick of LCD Soundsystem by the time James Murphy went on his virtually interminable self-imposed Viking funeral. Look, I don't go to Mexican restaurants to order the chicken fingers. I wouldn't even go to one that offered them! I'll miss the flourishes that made them unique: the hurdy-gurdy, the tack pianos, the Napoleon Dynamite-lookin' fucker whose only job with the band seemed to be to thump a marching bass drum, the silly outfits. Now all those things that made the Arcade Fire stick out in a sea of Brooklyn trust-fund dicksmacks have been appropriated by all these terrible Olde Tyme Yelpy Hoedown Sepiatone Whiskey Band idiots that won't go away (who themselves, I suspect, are also Brooklyn trust-fund dicksmacks) and still haven't managed to do anything as passionate or exuberant as "Rebellion" or "Neighborhood #1" or "Intervention." What am I going to do?
I'm probably just going to listen to the Waterboys more, who along with mid-period Mercury Rev, strike me as more of an Arcade Fire antecedent than Modest Mouse does. I mean, just check out "The Whole of the Moon" and tick off how many great moments of EFFORT~! are in here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evq22d7IgUY
Church bell patterns!
Antiphonal trumpet choirs!
"YOU SAW BRIGADOOOOON!!!"
"TRUMPETS, TOWERS, AND TENEMENTS!"
YOU CAME LIKE A COMET, MOTHERFUCKING KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM
Yeah, that's the good stuff. So is "Your Cover's Blown," by the way, which deviates but never truly departs from the fundamentals of the whole B&S aesthetic.
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I remember thinking about Mercury Rev around the time Funeral came out, but it's been so long since I've heard that album and I didn't care to find out if I still felt it was Mercury Rev-y.
Funeral was good because of the simple formula of good melodies combined with propulsive tempos. That's all it takes for me, guys; more of that, please! Shit, the build up and freak out at the end of the self-titled EP's "Vampire/Forest Fire" is one of my favorite moments from them. Where did those guys go? Indictments of incurious living in Bush-era America are no longer needed, Butler. Draw inspiration from something else, please!