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Did signing to Columbia mean they had to sell out? Because man, they had a pretty stellar track record when they were on Merge, but all of a sudden...
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Dunno, I like it. Sounds like Reflector meets the Suburbs to me.
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Jun 2, 2017 08:34
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Losing my poo poo at the goddamn wooden flute in the chorus
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Jun 2, 2017 13:43
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The chanty chorus is a bit much but overall i like this arcade fire track a lot — more than all of the murky stuff off of Reflektor.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:56
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Yeah I am not a big Reflektor fan at all so I am digging this.
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I dig the track as well. Not their best but I don't want to turn it off. If anything I always feel like Arcade Fire are at the very least moving forward and trying new things... even if it doesn't always work. I can't stand bands like Weezer who, despite having ok music, don't change over two decades and I can't loving tell the difference between any album.
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Jun 2, 2017 15:14
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Hot take, I like that Arcade Fire song. I haven't really followed them, but this song has a great hook and didn't bore me even though it's essentially one idea stretched over 5 minutes, so it seems they did something right.
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Jun 2, 2017 15:58
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BonoMan posted:I can't stand bands like Weezer who, despite having ok music, don't change over two decades and I can't loving tell the difference between any album. Ok this is just patently false. They have a good 5 albums where they sound like poo poo and nothing like their old albums.
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GoldfishStew posted:Ok this is just patently false. They have a good 5 albums where they sound like poo poo and nothing like their old albums. Ha well I wasn't really talking about quality and more like musician progression... They aren't trying anything new and thus sounds like crap. I think we're actually agreeing? But maybe I misunderstood.
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Jun 2, 2017 18:21
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I felt as though my (almost everybody's?) detachment from post-Pinkerton era Weezer was well explained in this Song Exploder episode. I imagine that it's harder to write songs that people really connect with when you're pulling ideas out of spreadsheets and playlists of other peoples' work. I mean unless you're Swedish, I guess.
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Jun 2, 2017 18:33
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Did signing to Columbia mean they had to sell out? Because man, they had a pretty stellar track record when they were on Merge, but all of a sudden... nah, they'll have full creative control and maybe some favorable terms on the backend. Daft punk, for example, is on columbia and they had free reign (owned their own masters, huge chunk of the album sales, etc) on virgin.
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Jun 2, 2017 19:54
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Reflktor had some great songs but was the first time in their catalog that I felt the need to skip songs on the regular while listening to it. I wouldn't say some of them were bad, just forgettable and made me feel like I was wasting listening time if I kept them on instead of moving on to something that moved me more.
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Jun 2, 2017 22:26
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T Bowl posted:Reflktor had some great songs but was the first time in their catalog that I felt the need to skip songs on the regular while listening to it. I wouldn't say some of them were bad, just forgettable and made me feel like I was wasting listening time if I kept them on instead of moving on to something that moved me more. I only ever listen to the second half of Reflektor.
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Jun 3, 2017 00:10
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Reflektor, We Exist, and Here Comes The Night are all good IMO from the first disc. The rest is pretty forgettable. My favorite song on the album is Porno by a lot though.
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Jun 3, 2017 01:03
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I still listen to both discs of Reflektor start to finish without skipping a single song on a regular basis  Most recent time was like 2 nights ago.
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That''s me and Fleet Foxes, I'm a bit obsessed. That new album is stunning, but I don't know if it's just my fanatic nature with them that makes me think that...
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No it took me until listen 2 or 3 but Crack-Up is a really gorgeous, moving set of tracks. My first mistake was having listen #1 through a speaker, because it all plays up big time in headphones.
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Jun 3, 2017 01:38
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I guess I'll try headphones because i found it to be a slog. I miss the sound from their first Ep and album when they were a more concise chamber pop band. They are now like a folky jam band and I'm sorry but I just dont have the patience for most songs over 4:30 minutes.
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T Bowl posted:Reflektor, We Exist, and Here Comes The Night are all good IMO from the first disc. The rest is pretty forgettable. My favorite song on the album is Porno by a lot though. Yes! Such a good song.
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T Bowl posted:Reflktor had some great songs but was the first time in their catalog that I felt the need to skip songs on the regular while listening to it. I wouldn't say some of them were bad, just forgettable and made me feel like I was wasting listening time if I kept them on instead of moving on to something that moved me more. I refuse to believe that there are people out there who do not skip Rococo.
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Jun 3, 2017 05:38
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I like that song.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:07
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angrygodofjebus posted:Official audio of the new Arcade Fire track: I finally listened to this and my spicy hot take is that I am not a huge fan, cheers
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MUY CALIENTE
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Everything Now is pretty good. Lyrics are very early Arcade Fire - kind of a different direction from Reflektor. I have a inkling that this album is a concept album and very much a follow up to Neon Bible. Neon Bible if you listen to it sounds very timely, especially Windowsill. The lyrics are definetly a call back to Neon Bible, very similiar phrasing, subject and pentameter between "Every inch of sky's got a star Every inch of skin's got a scar I guess that you've got everything now" and "A vial of hope and a vial of pain In the light, they both looked the same Poured them out on into the world On every boy and every girl" Notice that the opening track of Neon Bible is "Black Mirror"... At the same time, the opening track of this album which is Everything_Now (as the tracklist has been leaked), seems to go as indicated by the music video... "I'm in the black again Can't make it back again" Considering "Black Mirror" is a track about the unescapable influence of media...well.... Here's a pretty decent quality recording of "Creature Comfort" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIX235C6mxU ISeeCuckedPeople fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Jun 3, 2017 19:24
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Flashbulb Eyes is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
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I think Reflektor is fantastic from beginning to end except for Flashbulb Eyes. Never understood why it was 2 discs though, it would all fit timewise on one CD (unless you needed to include that weird backwards bonus track that nobody listens to) Favourite songs from it would be Afterlife and We Exist. I've loved Afterlife ever since that Black Orpheus lyric video. Still haven't heard this new one yet.
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I'm a gigantic stan for Arcade Fire, I've seen them four times and once I was in the front row and Win took my phone during Flashbulb Eyes (because Flashbulb Eyes sucks and I was taking photos then so I could enjoy the rest of the show). I met him, he was cool and nice. Everything Now is really solid, it doesn't fully click but it does the Arcade Fire thing where they're wholly pretentious and unsubtle but they're also really sincere about what they're saying so I'm into it. It is very ABBA-esque, it's kinda U2-esque in the size of its sound, the pan flute makes me sing "Send Me On My Way" (on mah way) during the bridges and it also really reminds me of a Guster song from like seven years ago. Based off Everything Now and Creature Comfort, the second song they've been playing live the last few nights (which has some dark lyrics!), my feelings about this record are that I bought club seats instead of GA seats to the tour at one date because it's always worth being in the building for Wake Up and Here Comes The Night Time but it's not worth a hundred bucks to stand for five hours and be up close. Also they're playing NYC on Tuesday, Boston on Friday and D.C. on Saturday, so I can't hit multiple shows on this tour unlike the Reflektor tour when I saw them on a Tuesday then that Saturday.
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New music - Chastity belt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC3zwIoTfm0 Fans: of La luz, early best coast Following these guys since Time to Go Home. Fantastic live if you can catch em. I guess I'm a fan of this slow reality dread that permeates their music. Failures about life and relationships. Recommended.
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CRINDY posted:I'm a gigantic stan for Arcade Fire, I've seen them four times and once I was in the front row and Win took my phone during Flashbulb Eyes (because Flashbulb Eyes sucks and I was taking photos then so I could enjoy the rest of the show). I met him, he was cool and nice. Lol at having to pay $100 to see Arcade Fire. It's only $75 in the midwest even after fees and the first time I saw hem (With The National!!!) it only cost me $40 for third row seats in a all seated venue.
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Yeah I'll probably never see them at those rates. I've liked them since Funeral came out too but never got around to seeing them... I'd pay 40-50 at most to see them.
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I just heard the new National single and I am stoooooked I really hope that "Checking out of a Collapsing Space" is on the new album, even the prototype live version was incredible.
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Jun 4, 2017 05:11
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This song rules. Jens Lekman rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVDtyfFfxHw
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Finally listening to the new Arcade Fire song now and it's great. Whoever said it was like a song from Reflektor and The Suburbs combined was spot-on. I'm hyped for the album 
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:Lol at having to pay $100 to see Arcade Fire. $120 after fees and shipping!
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Jun 4, 2017 14:58
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Ive paid 100 for a show once and never will again, I've never felt any show was worth that much. I typically have way more fun at a $10 show when it's a small crowd and I can actually talk with a band.
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I paid $180 to see The Cure but that was for two tickets... it was worth it.
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Just paid $200 for a couple of floor tickets to see AF. $100/ticket is the most I'll ever pay and this completes the trifecta of Radiohead/U2/Arcade Fire. Each one about $95/ticket. Radiohead wasn't worth it, U2 was... We'll see about AF but I've been wanting to see them for a long time. But yeah that's probably the last time I spend that much on a ticket for a very long time.
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Jun 4, 2017 15:43
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I paid 100 for Gorillaz 7 years ago when they last toured the US. I should say I think it was worth it the one time, they brought alot of guests, but I had no interest in paying that again when they announced it this year.
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Slandible posted:Ive paid 100 for a show once and never will again, I've never felt any show was worth that much. I typically have way more fun at a $10 show when it's a small crowd and I can actually talk with a band. Funny cause I'm seeing Kendrick Lamar for $150 in August.
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:Funny cause I'm seeing Kendrick Lamar for $150 in August.
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