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That's hilarious. Beige. :D

in my opinion We Used To Wait wasn't a good single choice, there are better songs in the album... Sprawl II should be a single :blush:

That review of the single is how I feel about 80% of the album. The other 20% is split evenly between liking songs and fucking hating the shit out of them.

yikes, its one of my fav songs off the cd, and it was amazing live, the reviewer should go see a show if he can

yikes, its one of my fav songs off the cd, and it was amazing live, the reviewer should go see a show if he can [/color]

 

Yeah it sounds great live. I yiked too.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLjrQ3cwzJ4]YouTube- ‪Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait (Unstaged)‬‎[/ame]

this is not a "drab waste of 5 minutes" what a schmuck, but everyone is entitled to their opinion

I like the actual "We used to wait for it" lyric part of the song it builds up to, but the build up is so poor that I'm already asleep by then.

 

The part at 1:10 manages to be the most cheesiest yet pretentious yet totally mindnumbingly bland sections of music ever created, which is indeed groundbreaking in itself.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0DpBOYzXcQ]YouTube- ‪Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (Unstaged)‬‎[/ame]

 

this just popped up about 2 hours ago

I havent listened to the whole album yet. But critics seem to adore "The Suburbs".

just started listening to neon bible for the first time

im on the opening track right now which i really like

this one Finnish music magazine actually said something like "This is Arcade Fire's "Ok Computer" " haha

 

i read that somewhere too!

can't remember where.

 

ohh then it might have been Q magazine too? I might be getting them mixed :P yeah I think it was actually Q

 

yes, possibly!

what do you make of the new album?

 

the BBC compared it to ok computer

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/nm4z

 

You could call it their OK Computer. But it’s arguably better than that.

 

it falls well short of that mark imo.

well so far i dont like neon bible

the opening track was great but i havent liked the rest

ok i havent finished the album but i will soon

i dont really care for neon bible at all so far though

^^

 

do you usually judge albums on first listen? it usually takes me 5 or 6 full listens plus several listens of the better known songs.

i could barely get through some of the songs

If you're looking for albums that are going to click on first listen you're wasting your time listening to arcade fire.

Honestly there are very few albums which I have ever loved or even liked upon first listen. Maybe five, no more. You've got to give it one more chance, at least.

ill listen again im sure

wasnt a great first impression though

That's hilarious. Beige. :D

 

No, that's just fucking stupid.

That review of the single is how I feel about 80% of the album. The other 20% is split evenly between liking songs and fucking hating the shit out of them.

 

you can't appreciate this kind of music because you usually listen to justin bieber and all that kind of stupid shit

it is the over instrumentation that worked well in previous albums as it was backed up by good songwriting and provided a nice lush backdrop. now they don't seem to have the good songwriting and are instead pushing forward the tiny details that gave the old songs a fullness and just use that as the main drive. when you listen to it they aren't actually doing anything. it's just a sound of the same notes being repeated over and over with a few effects added. like what u2 do except this is less poppy.

 

as somebody else mentioned a few pages back, anybody could have written this album. it's what happens to a lot of people when they don't have too many ideas and are expected to release an album. the last track gives me hope that they can evolve in the future rather than continuing to devolve.

 

i've listened to it about 4 times now and still can't remember any of the songs except the last one. it all just blurs into about 6 musical notes.

 

i think that you have listened to another record,not The Suburbs

um no he explained it pretty well.

um no he explained it pretty well.

 

sure,the description of another record

It's a pretty solid album. It doesn't warrant comparisons to other bands or artists at all.