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Hokeyboy 08-16-10 12:17 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Liver&Onions (Post 10320642)
New North American concerts announced!
http://www.arcadefire.net/shows
Wed 9/22/2010 – St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Arena
Thu 9/23/2010 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
Sat 9/25/2010 – Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Centre
Sun 9/26/2010 – Calgary, AB – Stampede Corral
Tue 9/28/2010 – Vancouver, BC – Pacific Coliseum
Wed 9/29/2010 – Seattle, WA – Key Arena
Thu 9/30/2010 – Portland, OR – Memorial Coliseum :banana: :dance: :bdance:
Sat 10/2/2010 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
Tue 10/5/2010 – Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library
Thu 10/7/2010 – Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Auditorium
Fri 10/8/2010 – Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Auditorium
Sun 10/10/2010 – Mexico City (MX) – Palacio de los Deportes
Tue 10/12/2010 – Monterrey (MX) – Banamex Theater
Nothing even remotely close to Florida. :( Maybe a trip to Mexico is in order...

CRM114 08-16-10 01:35 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I really want to get this band but I really really don't. :(

lopper 08-16-10 02:25 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by CRM114 (Post 10324856)
I really want to get this band but I really really don't. :(
Ok. Thanks for contributing. :)

starman9000 08-16-10 02:29 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Is Rococo supposed to sound like Bob and Doug?

Liver&Onions 08-16-10 02:36 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Hollowgen (Post 10320982)
count me in!
:up:

See ya there!

Hixx 08-16-10 06:31 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Liver&Onions (Post 10320642)
New North American concerts announced!
http://www.arcadefire.net/shows
a
Thu 9/30/2010 – Portland, OR – Memorial Coliseum :banana: :dance: :bdance:
Crap, the day after Flaming Lips in Eugene.

Guess I'm out. :doh:

cungar 08-16-10 08:46 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by starman9000 (Post 10324973)
Is Rococo supposed to sound like Bob and Doug?
Pitchfork's review compared it to In Bloom by Nirvana. I guess they're referring to the lyrics because it sounds nothing like it.

Osiris3657 08-17-10 12:07 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I'm surprised there's no Texas shows on that schedule. Hell, Win Butler and his brother are from Houston, we need a hometown show!

Drexl 08-30-10 07:42 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
If anybody uses Chrome as his browser, there's a site that will take an address you enter (it's supposed to be on the street you grew up on) and generate a video for "We Used to Wait" - http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

I haven't seen it because I couldn't get it to work in Firefox or IE, and I don't want to download Chrome just for this. It said it didn't have enough data for my street anyway.

david12 08-30-10 10:10 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I just finished watching the video. Very interactive, jumbled, and creative. It was actually pretty moving. There's a great moment in the middle when you can draw and type while everything around you is still going on. And when the 'guy' starts running down your street towards the end, its just cool.

Favorite song on the album too, so that can't hurt.

musick 08-31-10 12:44 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Drexl (Post 10347181)
If anybody uses Chrome as his browser, there's a site that will take an address you enter (it's supposed to be on the street you grew up on) and generate a video for "We Used to Wait" - http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

I haven't seen it because I couldn't get it to work in Firefox or IE, and I don't want to download Chrome just for this. It said it didn't have enough data for my street anyway.
definitely worth watching and is still viewable even with the message you got
oh and Chrome (which I downloaded a couple days ago) is definitely worth downloading as well

and finally, this record is fantastic (didn't care for either of the first 2)

atlantamoi 08-31-10 05:13 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
That was quite interesting. Impressed.

Liver&Onions 08-31-10 12:39 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I hope to see my postcard displayed at the shows, that would be pretty amazing. :)

Hiro11 09-01-10 10:17 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Pretty good album, but the lyrics are, again, painfully pretentious and the music a little melodramatic. They really need to stop taking themselves so seriously. It's the same complaint I have with Interpol: lighten up guys, you're not John Steinbeck here.

I'd rank this well below Funeral (which still sounds fantastic to me) but above (most of) Neon Bible. It's more consistant than Neon Bible but doesn't hit the (sporatic) highs of that album.

auto 09-01-10 10:26 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 10349861)
Pretty good album, but the lyrics are, again, painfully pretentious and the music a little melodramatic. They really need to stop taking themselves so seriously. It's the same complaint I have with Interpol: lighten up guys, you're not John Steinbeck here.

I'd rank this well below Funeral (which still sounds fantastic to me) but above (most of) Neon Bible. It's more consistant than Neon Bible but doesn't hit the (sporatic) highs of that album.
Odd, I have very few issues with the lyrics on this one. I thought they were far superior to Neon Bible.

cungar 09-01-10 07:21 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 10349861)
Pretty good album, but the lyrics are, again, painfully pretentious and the music a little melodramatic. They really need to stop taking themselves so seriously. It's the same complaint I have with Interpol: lighten up guys, you're not John Steinbeck here.

I'd rank this well below Funeral (which still sounds fantastic to me) but above (most of) Neon Bible. It's more consistant than Neon Bible but doesn't hit the (sporatic) highs of that album.
Rock and roll with intelligent lyrics is so pretentious. I guess the Who, Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Bob Dylan should have dumbed down their lyrics too.

So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before this damage is done

So pretentious -rolleyes-

Hokeyboy 09-01-10 07:43 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by cungar (Post 10350971)
Rock and roll with intelligent lyrics is so pretentious. I guess the Who, Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Bob Dylan should have dumbed down their lyrics too.

So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before this damage is done

So pretentious -rolleyes-
Yeah I'm bet yer one of those peoples who, likes, thinks stuff and stuff :mad:

sherm42 09-01-10 08:26 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 10349861)
Pretty good album, but the lyrics are, again, painfully pretentious and the music a little melodramatic. They really need to stop taking themselves so seriously. It's the same complaint I have with Interpol: lighten up guys, you're not John Steinbeck here.
I don't get this. If they "lightened up," they wouldn't be Arcade Fire or Interpol. If you don't like a band this serious and dark, why do you even listen to them? It's not as if they suddenly became this way. Their music has been this way since their first release.

Osiris3657 09-02-10 09:38 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I've listened to all the songs a couple dozen times now and stand by my assessment that this is their best album and likely the best album of the year.

kstublen 09-03-10 03:04 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Originally Posted by Hollowgen (Post 10306626)
The more I listen to this album, the more fantastic it is in my ears. The tracklisting is perfect, and the cuts that stand out hold everything together.

Best tracks: The Suburbs, Rococo, Half Light II, We Used To Wait, Sprawl II. Some of the best music I've heard this year, right there.
Those are my favourites as well.

I've been listening to this album nonstop for a while now and really can't get enough of it. Definitely better than Neon Bible and is coming close to as good if not better than Funeral for me, but I'll probably have to revisit Funeral before I make that ultimate determination. Still, an incredible album with a lot to offer. Very impressed.

Liver&Onions 09-03-10 11:44 AM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
I'm a huge fan of Suburban War, and I'd rank it up there with the list Hollowgen has.

The Bus 09-20-10 10:14 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
This album just gets better and better. Unlike their other albums, where I would peel away more and more songs and just stick to the few tried and true gems, in this one I want to listen to more of the album as a whole. Absolutely bizarre how they've managed to do this.

cungar 11-18-10 09:36 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Kind of a trippy video directed by Spike Jonez


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Jeraden 11-19-10 12:53 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
Cool video, but I think I missed something - why was the one kid beating up the other at the end?

Liver&Onions 11-19-10 06:24 PM
Re: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs - Aug 3, 2010
 
that video is apparently made up from a short film of Spike's.


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