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The Arcade Fire

By Hyphnip, in Music In General: David Bowie Appreciation Station

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Monochrome Rainbow

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I bought Intervention off of iTunes awhile ago. It's pretty damn awesome.

I will never buy anything from iTunes. 128kb/s bitrate encoding should be illegal. I'd rather illegally download a decent quality copy of an album rather than paying for a shitty quality aac file.

 

 

I finally bought Funeral today. I've been putting it off because every time I see it anywhere it's like $25.00. Got it with Dark Side Of The Moon for $30 at HMV. 2 for $30 is awesome!

WalrusMeat

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What Interpol has to do with The Arcade Fire?

 

Interpol are awesome too. But they're very different than each other.

I always compare the two of them. I don't really know why.

 

Oh, and my friend Christina put it best.

 

"The Arcade Fire sound like they should be catchy, but they're not. And it's infuriating."

Shiri

Shiri

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Weird. There aren't any similarities. Interpol always get compared to Joy Divison. The Arcade Fire, I don't really know who I'd compare them to.

no yu begin wher i end

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Interpol and Arcade Fire both had killer debuts?

 

The next AF album, we'll see. 'Antics' by Interpol left me a little disappointed. But yeah. Compare to talking heads or David Bowie? Those are the two I've heard a lot. 'Intervention' has a bit of a Bruce Springsteen vibe.

Hyphnip

Hyphnip

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Well, technically, "Funeral" by AF wasn't their debut. they had an EP which fans came to call "Us Kids Know" and it's not as good as Funeral

Matt

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Shiri, check out www.arts-crafts.ca/bss, BSS is where the Arcade Fire got their sound from. BSS, also has 12-14 members, however, their formula comes from whoever they can get to come help them. Which is why they have added a lot of bigger names in Canadian indie over the years.

 

I have heard some Arcade Fire, it's okay, nothing special though.

 

As for cool indie bands, here's a band that took Interpol as one of their influences... http://www.myspace.com/bandairtrafficcontrol.

Hyphnip

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Debut album. EP's are different.

I guess in a way. I still consider a bands first release to be a debut, EP or not.

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Matt

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Hell yeah. I wish there was as much hype about Broken Social Scene as there is about Arcade Fire.

That would definitely be cool. I guess though, part of the problem is the band is a side-project for the majority of its members, so, while all of them are on one song or another, they do not necessarily all play together live.

Shiri

Shiri

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I know Broken Social Scene, they're nice. I'm not sure who I like better though. I'm not big AF fan, I think they're interesting and I enjoy them for the most part.

Matt

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I'm listening to the new album now. It's okay so far... I haven't really made an opinion one way or another though.

 

Edit: I notice they re-did "No Cars Go" from the EP... It sounds pretty much the same to me though.

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