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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Arcade Fire

Wow, what an incredible experience. It's been something that I've been waiting for a long time, having just missed the boat on the Neon Bible tour. Granted we had the worst seats in the house; our view of the stage was obscured by a giant speaker box, but I could see the screen well enough, which gave me plenty of closeups of the band. There is just something indescribable about them. Everything that was going on in my head instantly disappeared the second they cut into Ready to Start. I was enthralled, the entire show was just one long euphoric eargasm. The energy that they show makes me have faith in humanity again, if only for an hour. Even though so many of their songs are sad, they have this undercurrent of hope or rebirth. It's as if nothing can keep them down. They played all the songs I wanted them too, and a few I wasn't expecting. Overall, 10/10, fantastic show. Hearing the crowd sing along was incredible, that place was a cathedral.

18 comments:

  1. Thats an awesome song.

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  2. What an incredible violin in modern music.

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  3. They play with two violinists and a cellist. =D

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  4. "Holy shit this is awesome," said my pet penguin as he sat down to smoke a bowl of his favorite strawberry marijuana and watch this video.

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  5. I don't like indie much besides a few songs from arcade fire ( wake up , rebellion , My body is a cage) and Neutral milk hotel (The airplane , king of carrot flowers and Holland 1945)

    This songs ok , not something I'd listen to but neither something that would bother me

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  6. quite like this actually, im usually a house head

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  7. just got the new record on vinyl!

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  8. Not a huge fan of Arcade Fire, but this is a quality tune I must admit.

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  9. I'm gonna have to echo what Ach said. Maybe I misjudged them.

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  10. Only hipsters use captchas for comments, bro.

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  11. Not really my type of music but a cool tune non the less. Arcade fire...Must look them up sometime.

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  12. New album is pretty cool. Still, Funeral is my favourite :)

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  13. Appreciate that you have good taste in music. Unfortunately I'll admit I don't really like Arcade Fire that much (I know I know..)

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  14. Glad to see some people discovering/rediscovering/being indifferent to the Arcade Fire.

    Also captcha commenting removed, it's enabled by default.

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