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I don't get all the overwhelming accolades for Arcade Fire. I've only listened to their new album, but nothing about it strikes me. They sound like a mediocre indie band to me. I just don't get it.
don't bother listening to more laggy, your first impression is right.
Arcade Fire has put out three great albums. People don't want to admit that they are one of the next big things around. All of these international headlining spots, plus Coachella, should show us they are for real. The music speaks for inself. No band has lyrically captured the dilemmas of our postmodern lives like they have. I understand they aren't everyone's favorite, but they are blazing a new trail, and they are the most original and refreshing sound in a decade.
Arcade Fire has put out three great albums. People don't want to admit that they are one of the next big things around. All of these international headlining spots, plus Coachella, should show us they are for real. The music speaks for inself. No band has lyrically captured the dilemmas of our postmodern lives like they have. I understand they aren't everyone's favorite, but they are blazing a new trail, and they are the most original and refreshing sound in a decade.
people saying things like this is the reason i hate them.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
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-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
I don't necessarily like or dislike Arcade Fire and I would like to see them live, but the Suburbs was the most boring album i had a chance to listen to in 2010.
I don't necessarily like or dislike Arcade Fire and I would like to see them live, but the Suburbs was the most boring album i had a chance to listen to in 2010.
And it was one of my favorites. Different opinions.
I don't get all the overwhelming accolades for Arcade Fire. I've only listened to their new album, but nothing about it strikes me. They sound like a mediocre indie band to me. I just don't get it.
don't bother listening to more laggy, your first impression is right.
I don't get all the overwhelming accolades for Arcade Fire. I've only listened to their new album, but nothing about it strikes me. They sound like a mediocre indie band to me. I just don't get it.
Why would you start with The Suburbs??? It IS a very very good album but the pure fire that made Funeral the amazing musical achievement that it is, isn't quite there this time. There were hints of it on Neon Bible but that album was not nearly as consistent.
You remind me of one of the many (fake) morons on here that heard Only By The Night and immediately denounced KOL of ever having made a good album.
I'm sniffing out a closet Nickleback fan here. Good tunes brah
Post by RadioSpirit on Jan 22, 2011 23:59:27 GMT -5
There you go.
He didn't even say anything bad about the band. He just stated that nothing on one of their albums particularly struck him and he didn't understand why they were so critically-acclaimed. And you get so butt-hurt you have to create an account just so you can internet-attack him. Are you Winn Butler or something?
You think that nobody could dislike Arcade Fire without having terrible musical taste and being into Nickelback? And honestly, I think almost everyone on here is into music enough to have listened to both KoL's early and newer stuff and is fully capable of differentiating between it. Some people may like the early stuff and not the new crap, while some people may hate all of it.
Post by smellycrapface on Jan 23, 2011 0:12:27 GMT -5
I'm not attacking him for not liking the music. I'm attacking him for being a moron and writing an opinion based solely on a bands newest record... Why bother writing drivel on here when you admit to not listening to the majority of their work? Its just a waste of time. Listen to funeral and then say they r average.
Post by RadioSpirit on Jan 23, 2011 0:19:39 GMT -5
"I've only listened to their new album, but nothing about it strikes me."
He's not allowed to have an opinion without listening to whatever amount of the catalog you feel is appropriate? He clearly states that his opinion is based solely on the one album he has listened to. He didn't just start attacking them and then have it revealed that he'd never really listened to them. Just that on the little that he'd heard, he didn't fully understand why everyone was so gaga over them.
I enjoy plenty of AF's stuff, but I feel like so many of their fans are like this. If you really misinterpreted him, I apologize, but it seems like you're attacking him because he said that about Arcade Fire. Not because he didn't do the proper research. Would you be attacking him because he had only listened to one Nickelback album and said they sound liked shit? Probably not.
Post by smellycrapface on Jan 23, 2011 0:27:25 GMT -5
First thing that came to mind... And if that other dude actually listened to a full Nickleback album I would just suggest to authorities to make him listen to it on repeat for 3 days straight. Then surgically remove his ears to make sure that was the last thing on earth that he would hear as punishment...
Sooooo, we are allowed to hate Nicklehack after listening to one CD, but not AF. Can't have it both ways. Believe it or not, someone out there loves Nickelback.
Post by metallicalec on Jan 23, 2011 1:01:15 GMT -5
Radiospirit is kind of right with all this, but at the same time for me at least I get really defensive about Arcade Fire. Usually I just live and let live, but when someone insults arcade fire I get annoyed. But I'm not gonna get into it on the internet haha