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Music CD - Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
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Music CD: Neon Bible
Artist: Arcade Fire
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Merge Records
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Tracks:
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1. Black Mirror
2. Keep The Car Running
3. Neon Bible
4. Intervention
5. Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
6. Ocean Of Noise
7. Well & The Lighthouse, The
8. Antichrist Television Blues
9. Windowsill
10. No Cars Go
11. My Body Is A Cage
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0673855028521
Label: Merge Records
Manufacturer: Merge Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Merge Records
Release Date: 2007-03-06
Studio: Merge Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Vocals, Check; Arrangements, Check; Instrumentation, Check; Lyrics, Hmmmm.
Comment: Funeral sounds like a dance party compared to Neon Bible. All the elements that made Arcade Fire such a blast of fresh air are still firmly in place. What other group does the interplay between vocals and everything-into-the-mix instrumentation nearly as well? It's hard for me to think of one. But I've been hearing white guys sing about how awful things are and the coming apocalypse for pretty much four decades now and it is getting very old. Lyrics like "Mirror, mirror on the wall/Show me where the bombs will fall" (Black Mirror); "A vial of hope, a vial of pain" (Neon Bible), "Every spark of friendship and love/will die without a home" (Intervention) and others like them (and almost every song on Neon Bible offers a new example) have been stale for decades. Trying to be clever by dressing them in allusions to John Kennedy O'Toole does nothing to freshen them. It just shows off, as the one guy who made and makes such sentiments fresh once said, "useless and pointless knowledge."
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Summary: More complete Album than Funeral
Comment: After hating on this CD when it came out because it wasnt like Funeral, I finally took a listen and realized how amazing it is. It is a complete album that you should play from start to end to get the full feelin of each song. Funeral was more raw and didnt seem to have that tie between each song. Best tracks are 6, 10, and 11.
Their live show is dope as well.
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Summary: Different than Funeral, but still good.
Comment: Not as good as Funeral, in my opinion but that would be a hard act for anyone to follow. It is a different sound than Funeral also; you won't hear as many of the layered horns and strings. For some who looked forward to more of that, you might be disappointed. There are some great tracks on this album though; "Keep the Car Running" and "No Cars Go" are already hits.
Matt Zarnstorff
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Summary: amazing
Comment: I bought this album expecting a lot, but it somehow exceeded my expectations. I recommend to everyone.
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Summary: Complex and moving sound and lyrics
Comment: I bought this after watching Arcade Fire on Austin City Limits. I cannot imagine a more high-energy stirring show on a small studio stage. The music just blew me away coming from so many unusual instruments played in frenetic activity. It's hard to place their music but I felt strains of Talking Heads, Sugarcubes/Bjork, Cranberries, rockabilly and folk music. The music and lyrics moved me. Their songs seem to talk about big and deep things. The music is often just as hard and powerful. AF has a unique sound--once heard you will not confuse them with any other band. My favorites are the anthemic Antichrist TV Blues, Black wave, Ocean of noise, Windowsill but there is not a single song I would skip on this album. I also bought Funeral after this and it is just as good with Wake up, Haiti, Rebellion.
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Editorial Reviews:
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For their second full-length, the Montreal-based seven-or-eight-piece Arcade Fire show themselves capable of Big Rock, as original, and as potentially marquee-topping as TV on the Radio and Sigur Ros. Regardless, the intentional murkiness of these pleasantly anthemic New Wave dirges makes it sound as if the music has already reverberated through a crowded cement stadium. Named after cult author John Kennedy Toole's first novel, Neon Bible is smart and subtle enough to present itself as a personal discovery for every listener, every word to be pored over by fans (as with those of Tori Amos, Pavement, and Radiohead). Surely, lines like "The sound is not asleep/ It's moving under my feet" have already been scribbled onto the margins of countless textbooks. Such words are delivered with less intensity this time, but no less import. For vocal influences, lead singer Win Butler seems to have traded his '80s Bowie in for an '80s Springsteen, at least on the songs "Antichrist Television Blues" and "Windowsill" (though "Intervention" sounds an awful lot like '80s era Go-Betweens). The kitchen sink arrangements include the use of an Eastern European orchestra, pipe organ, hurdy gurdy, and a military choir. --Mike McGonigal
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