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Arcade Fire - Mega Superthread. All gig/new album discussion.

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    #302
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    ElaElaElano wrote: »
    Agree with everyone, it's a real grower. Still definitely feel the midsection is too repetitive but it does get better with every listen.

    Yes, all songs are too long and there's too many of them, but it's a grower.


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    #303
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    anyone else hearing Blondie's heart of glass in "sprawl part II" :D


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    #304
    sleepyescapade
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭sleepyescapade


    love love love this album!!!!!


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    #305
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Everybody can agree it's a couple of songs too long, but I've yet to see any two people agree which couple of songs. I wouldn't give up Month of May or Wasted Hours for anything, although I'd happily bury Suburban War and City With No bloody Children.

    Grew on me like a weird fungus, this did, I have to say. First rip did it no justice.


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    #306
    ElaElaElano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Everybody can agree it's a couple of songs too long, but I've yet to see any two people agree which couple of songs. I wouldn't give up Month of May or Wasted Hours for anything, although I'd happily bury Suburban War and City With No bloody Children.

    Grew on me like a weird fungus, this did, I have to say. First rip did it no justice.

    You know I've spent all weekend trying to come up with a good 'grew on me like a...' analogy. Well played!

    Also, Rococo is my new favourite song. (Subject to change- a lot).


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    #307
    iMuse
    Registered Users Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭iMuse


    I really hope the first Rip didnt put people off the album, It sounds really flat compared to the real thing. Sprawl 2 is my fave song on the album


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    #308
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    I think the most recent promo for the Madison Square Garden webcast is probably a hint of what Terry Gilliam has planned.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tROh21N1m7M


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    #309
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    eclectichoney wrote: »
    Anyone else getting the feeling that this record is made for an Arcade Fire drinking game?? Take a shot every time they sing the word "Kids" :D:D

    Surely Pitchfork deserve citation here.


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    #310
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Surely Pitchfork deserve citation here.

    ???? Sorry? :confused:


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    #311
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    I'm underwhelmed and disappointed overall.

    It's an average album, no more than a 6 out of 10, and not a patch on previous offerings. It starts off well, lulls massively in the middle, then picks up at the end. When it's good it's great but when it's bad it's awful, and quite boring.

    Listenable but by no means a classic. I won't be revisiting it nearly as much as the last two albums unfortunately.


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    #312
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    eclectichoney wrote: »
    ???? Sorry? :confused:
    pitchfork happened to mention the exact same thing in their review


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    #313
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    pitchfork happened to mention the exact same thing in their review

    Oh - I honestly haven't even read it (I gave up on PF a long time ago), I was just thinking of the Roxanne drinking game thing. Fools seldom differ, eh? :o


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    #314
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    I believe you electichoney, but many wouldn't!!!

    Still haven't fully digested The Suburbs myself.


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    #315
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    I believe you electichoney, but many wouldn't!!!

    Still haven't fully digested The Suburbs myself.

    Actually - just out of interest I checked the review on Pitchfork just now and it was only published on the 2nd August so they stole *my* line dammit! :mad::mad::D:D


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    #316
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    eclectichoney wrote: »
    Actually - just out of interest I checked the review on Pitchfork just now and it was only published on the 2nd August so they stole *my* line dammit! :mad::mad::D:D

    I stand corrected. I put Pitchfork before a boardsie. Shame on me.


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    #317
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    punchdrunk wrote: »
    anyone else hearing Blondie's heart of glass in "sprawl part II" :D

    I'll be showing this post to a mate that laughed at me for suggesting that!


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    #318
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I'll be showing this post to a mate that laughed at me for suggesting that!

    it so does! I knew i was wasn't crazy :o


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    #319
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I'll be showing this post to a mate that laughed at me for suggesting that!

    Pitchfork also agrees.


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    #320
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,094 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Just had a first listen there. This is a very rough first impression, but so far it seems to start off extremely well (first 5-6 songs), become a wee bit duller in the middle, and then ends extremely well.

    Will have a few proper listens over the next day or two!


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    #321
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    The digital version bought direct from arcadefire.com has a built-in iTunes slideshow music video...thing in each song, to accompany each of the tracks. It was put together by the band and Vincent Morrisset, the guy who did the interactive music videos with them before.

    It also has embedded links in each song related to various themes of the lyrics etc., so Deep Blue has a wiki link to Alan Turing, and Month of May has links to various pages about the stormy May weather of Montréal. Cool idea.


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    #322
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Pitchfork also agrees.

    Ah For god sake - did Pitchfork just copy this thread verbatim in their review or what like? :rolleyes: I knew there was a reason i don't bother reading it anymore.

    It is a real pity that the album is so long - as there are definitely 4 or 5 decent tracks here, but as it is, the bad ones outweigh the good imo. If there were only ten or so tracks it would feel like a much better record.


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    #323
    KJF
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭KJF


    It's growing on me more and more with each additional listen.

    Critics are loving it by all accounts
    http://onesentencereview.com/music/arcade-fire-the-suburbs


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    #324
    Liathroidi Dana
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Liathroidi Dana


    I'm really loving this album so far. I agree it could do without a few songs in the middle, but everything else is exceptionally solid. My second favourite album after Neon Bible.

    Just one question, is there much difference in terms of quality between the CD and the iTunes version (which I have)?


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    #325
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,094 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I've just listened to it properly, and I'm very very impressed. The middle is still the weakest part, but it's a sprawling (heh), haunting album. Sprawl II is simply amazing, love the simple but effective lyrics: ""They heard me singing and they told me to stop. Quit these pretentious things and just puch the clock". The opening to Suburban War is win. I'd heard it before the album comes out, but the title track gets better with each listen. I even didn't mind Month of May with a lyric sheet in front of me! Perhaps overlong, but it's a powerful album IMO.


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    #326
    MikeHoncho
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭MikeHoncho


    This is a top class album. Vastly superior to Neon Bible and almost as good as Funeral. I do agree its a little flabby in the mid section but in a day and age when a lot of albums will be called great for only having 2 or 3 decent songs this is totally forgivable. This album has 10 or more songs any band in the world would be proud to have written and recorded.

    Its going straight in to my top 5 albums of the year so far anyway.


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    #327
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    The rumour seems to be early December.


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    #328
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    'Sprawl II' is just sublime.. a definite contender for song of the year!

    Regine's vocals are stronger than ever on it!


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    #329
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    I'm still hating it :(

    Just doing nothing for me, guess my tastes are in the idfferent place than they were :confused:


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    #330
    foals
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭foals


    anybody no wat time the live streaming on you tube of the madison square garden gig is . how do u watch it on you tube , arcade fire channel ?


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    #331
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    You'll be able to watch it here:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/ArcadeFireVEVO

    They go on around 10pm New York time, which I'm told is 3am here? It should be available to rewatch afterwards for a bit anyway though.


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