Funeral

Artist: Arcade Fire
Label: V2
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 4520227001216
ASIN: B0009S8H0I

Release Date: 2005-07-28

Funeral

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Tracks:

Neighbourhood (Part 1/Tunnels)
Neighbourhood (Part 2/Laika)
Une Annee Sans Lumiere
Neighbourhood (Part 3/Power Out)
Neighbourhood (Part 4/7 Kettles)
Crown Of Love
Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)
In The Backseat
My Buddy (Alvino Rey Orchestra)
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)(August Session)
Brazil
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (Live From The Great American Music Hall)

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Album Description

2005 Japanese pressing of their album originally released in North America in 2004 includes a bonus four-track CD which features, 'My Buddy' (Alvino Rey Orcrhestra,) 'Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)' (August Session,) 'Brazil' (non-album) and 'Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)' (Live from the Great American Music Hall'. Montreal's Arcade Fire brings a theatricality, an intensity, an insanity and a penchant for amazing hooks to their debut full-length. V2 Records. 2005.

Album Details

Special Japanese Edition of the Canadian Art Rock Band's Debut with Four Tracks that Don't Appear on the Us Edition.

Customer Reviews:

Help them sing on pitch.......2007-02-25

Wow... talk about where the state of music is going. Just saw them on Saturday Night Live and checked out some of their tracks. How did they ever land that gig? Oh yeah, SNL has been tanking for some 20 years now and the only thing more amazing is how Lorne Michaels has kept his job. But I digress. At the end of a bizarre, boring, overly self-justifying song the lead singer smashes his guitar into small pieces on stage. Ho-hum. Already been done and if your 6 chord endlessly repeated melody can be modified ever so slightly by adding yet another absurd texture from your big band, then it's beyond me to say how. The opening church organ sounded interesting but the only funeral going on here is for this band. Backing vocals all off pitch, music going nowhere. Check it out before you buy.

Wild, mad and beautiful.......2005-09-26

Every now and then, a truly original, groundbreaking band surfaces amid all the bland pop and rock. Montreal's Arcade Fire is one such band. In their glorious full-length debut "Funeral," Arcade Fire spins elaborate art-rock full of passion and atmosphere.

Rather than trying to hook you the way most songs do, Arcade Fire builds up their songs to a musical (and emotional) crescendo. The album opens on a four-song cycle called "Neighborhood," which deal with daydreams, neglect, fighting in a family, and just sitting around waiting for life to happen to you. All four things are pretty clearly considered disastrous -- don't waste time, make life happen!

Certainly that get-off-your-bum-and-make-things-happen attitude carries over to the wild "Wake Up," a howling anthem with an ever-evolving beat, and the well-named "Rebellion," where Win sings, ""Sleeping is giving in/no matter what the time is/Sleeping is giving in/so lift those heavy eyelids." You'll be emotionally exhausted when it reaches the wrenching finale, "In the Back Seat." And it does all this while making you dance too. There are bonus tracks, including a vivid B-side and a live performance, which are the ones that stand up to the original work. The other two just don't quite gel.

Most pop or rock songs are focused on "He/she left me/cheated on me and I'm miserable" or "I'm so in love." Don't expect anything so obvious from the Arcade Fire. These are about living life in general, not just one part of it. Why's it called "Funeral"? Partly the fear of dying without having accomplished something.

Musically, it will make your head spin. There's a blend of post-punk, rock, art-rock, pop, folk, classical, and much more -- like a punkier version of Neutral Milk Hotel or Modest Mouse. Woven together are xylophone, shimmering strings, swirling keyboard, piano, violins, and accordians. And they're all set to epic, crashing art-rock and disco rhythms.

And Win Butler is about as laid-back as his music. He can belt out tormented vocals like few can, shout, wail, whimper, and just sing. And his wife Regine offers equally angsty backing vocals. Which is a good thing, because it takes good vocals to do justice to brilliant songwriting like "The neighbors can dance in the disco police lights."

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