So... apparently, there's no
Arcade Fire thread....
.... until now!
There has to be a bunch of fans here on SmileySmile? If so - remember the good old days of
Funeral and
Neon Bible?
Those were the kind of quasi-religious musical experiences us 'folk' sometimes yap about. At least to me.
(I can't be the only one?) Spinning
those records (especially
Funeral, in the beginning) over and over and over again, and nothing much else.
Mid-summer 2010,
The Suburbs arrived. Don't get me wrong, in many ways it's a near-perfectly produced album. But as much as it gripped me
in those weeks of August/September of 2010, at some point it let go and floated away for good, leaving me with mere memories of pleasant
summer moments. In hindsight, that's what
Suburbs continues to represent to me: the all too pleasant side of Arcade Fire. While it went away,
Funeral and
Neon Bible have stayed with me.
As I'm typing this, I'm playing
Funeral in its entirety for the first time in months. It still blows me away. As of yet I haven't tried
Reflektor,
although I own it since it came out.
Footnote: I liked the Her soundtrack, but have only played it once or twice.