Arcade Fire are horrible

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    the title should be "Arcade Fire Is Horrible."

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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Songburst wrote:
    Arcade Fire are ok but their sound will not stand the test of time.

    The statement that the Arcade Fire are a better live band than Pearl Jam is simply laughable.

    I have seen Pearl Jam 14 times. I have flown from San Francisco to Vancouver to see them. Also to Toledo and Philadelphia. Their three nights at the Bill Graham here in SF are among the best nights of my life.

    All this is true. And, Arcade Fire are Pearl Jam's equal if not their better when it comes to live performances. I have never felt more inspired or experienced a beauty greater than Arcade Fire live.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    I think Modest Mouse is a great live band.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdzOd-2kh8&feature=related

    Arcade Fire remind me of Dexy's Midnight runners


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThWaMnlSZM

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  • Igottago
    Igottago Posts: 483
    Strangest Tribe wrote:

    Arcade Fire remind me of Dexy's Midnight runners


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThWaMnlSZM

    just a little gay



    ...a smidge...

    LOL! You can't argue with that...arcade fire has some good songs but they totally have that cheesey ass Dexy's Midnight thing going on. It gets a little annoying.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Can You Say Octopus? wrote:
    Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you watch this and are not moved then you are probably dead inside anyway. The arcade fire have put passion back into music and they are phenominal in concert.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6M4PWKvq4
    Wow.
    Just wow.
    I need to see this band again.
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    what do you mean their sound wont stand the test of time?

    Indie rock is the "cool" thing right now, and anyone who is into that scene, myself included, will name off tons of good bands, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, the Shins, Wolf Parade, Broken Social Scene etc...

    AF's sound is the cutting edge. It has been since 2004. Thats nearly 4 years. Grunge was around from 1991-1994.

    Me thinks people are pissed PJ doesnt get named best live band.

    PJ has an amazing live show, but please. Their show doesnt even come close to an AF show. And this is coming from a person who is a Ten Club member, a person who has every studio album, a person who has been a fan since 1991. Arcade Fire are the most important band in music. Simple as that.

    Just as people like me as a youngster tried to convince my parents to let me move to Seattle when the grunge scene broke, I and others recognize Montreal as the next scene, or the only other scene since Kurt's death. Montreal is home to the best bands in the world. The streets of Montreal are indeed paved with indie rock. Broken Social Scene, Feist, AF, Wolf Parade, besnard lakes, bell orchestra, Islands, Sunset rubdown etc... and lets face it people everyone of those bands would mention AF as a major influence and guiding light.

    As far as I am concerned AF is the face of indie rock. Just as Nirvana and PJ were the face of grunge.

    AF have released two of the most critically adored albums of 2000 era. Their live shows are world reknowed for their intensity. Bowie and Byrne are fans. Chris martin calls them the greatest band in history.

    How long do they have to stand the test of time? They have stayed relevant and important for 3 years now, going on 4. Although Neon Bible wasnt called the second coming and didnt seem to get the same reviews as Funeral, those two albums still are pretty much classics.

    I think its laughable almost. If people raved about PJ like they do Arcade Fire, no one would make threads like the idiot OP.

    I love PJ. Always have, always will. Been loving them since 1991 as I said. But their fans are some of the wierdest and most idiotic. Anyone who criticises and band, no matter how valid, is shot down, maligned, called a non fan and ostracized.

    You say tickets are too high. Which is a valid point. And people yell at you. You say you love their politics and people who are conservative flip their wigs.

    you call out those wimps and hypocritics who threw crap at the band in uniondale, and you get threatened.

    you say they should lower ticket prices and people tell you to find a new band.

    you say they have some good and some bad albums and you are shot down.

    Face it people, I listen to PJ, but I also listen to other bands.

    My life was forever altered when grunge became the voice of my youth. The soundtrack to my life.

    Now 15 years later, finally a new scene speaks to me. After 15 years. And people still cant take criticism.

    For a band whose reputation is so moral, accepting and promoting of free speech, their fans are uptight and mean!
  • melodyman22
    melodyman22 Posts: 326
    Most important band in music, what a joke. The singing is absolute garbage.
  • Soupy
    Soupy Posts: 171
    I like the Arcade Fire alot. Funeral is a brilliant debut album and Neon Bible while not quite upto the standard of Funeral is still a solid piece of work.

    However in my opinion 'The Decemberists' are better in the studio and on the stage. 'The Crane Wife' and 'Picaresque' are richer and more rewarding works than The Arcade Fires output so far.
  • aspoonfulweighsaton
    aspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,067
    melodyman22 wrote:
    Most important band in music, what a joke. The singing is absolute garbage.


    If you think Win's singing is garbage, then I can only imagine where that puts Bob Dylan and Neil Young in your book.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Oh, come on.... that is like the RICHEST thing I've ever heard... I'm only a boy, not a man, because I don't think ARC isn't the best song on Riot Act? :rolleyes: It doesn't make you a man, it makes you pretentious. :D

    My favourite Riot Act song is almost as surprising, judging by comments on the board: Thumbing My Way.

    But then we're all pretentious hipsters if we're into Arcade Fire, hey :rolleyes:
    Haha, I'm only kidding Mark :) well, I do think ARC is the best song on it but I'm kidding that it makes me better than you. There are numerous other reasons why I am :D

    I also love TMW and have a healthy level of distrust for anyone that doesn't.
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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    radiohead33 wrote:
    what do you mean their sound wont stand the test of time?

    I mean that bands like Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc will always have a contingent of kids and middle-agers who think that their music is among the best ever created. Arcade Fire is music for the moment. It is good music but it will never span generations like great music does. A big reason why they are so popular is because of the credibility that is associated with liking the "indie" sound. Arcade Fire will eventually fade away into obscurity and one day you will wake up and be 30 and start reaching for the timeless albums that span generations and leave the music of the moment on the shelf.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Haha, I'm only kidding Mark :) well, I do think ARC is the best song on it but I'm kidding that it makes me better than you. There are numerous other reasons why I am :D

    I also love TMW and have a healthy level of distrust for anyone that doesn't.

    LOL I got it, I was kidding too... :D Sorry did that sound aggressive? I was in a bad mood the other night. Actually no, let's just say a deadpan mood... I almost picked a fight with a girl (sorry to you, if you're reading).. :D
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    pjl44 wrote:
    As a ginormous Floyd fan, I couldn't disagree with this statement more. "Just because it's popular don't mean it ain't good."
    I never said it was bad and I never said I didn't like it because it's popular. I am saying, regardless of public opinion on it, I can't see why it is so praised these days. Why is it that because an album is important and revolutionary for its time, it must be held up as a masterpiece still? art changes with the times. Does anyone really think Pet Sounds is one of the 10th best albums in existence? maybe in 1966 yes. It's great but it's not that great. DSOTM isn't even great really. It's ok, has some great moments. I just can't for the life of me see why it would excite anyone. It's not like it's not to my taste. I used to love it when I was 12, I just realised that there is better music out there. A lot of it.

    But hey, it's just my opinion :)
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    LOL I got it, I was kidding too... :D Sorry did that sound aggressive? I was in a bad mood the other night. Actually no, let's just say a deadpan mood... I almost picked a fight with a girl (sorry to you, if you're reading).. :D
    Nah it didn't sound aggressive :p it sounded like you genuinely took exception to my remark but weren't overly perturbed by it... which is good. It's just music :D

    Fighting with girls? :eek: I hope she was bigger than you.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Nah it didn't sound aggressive :p it sounded like you genuinely took exception to my remark but weren't overly perturbed by it... which is good. It's just music :D

    Fighting with girls? :eek: I hope she was bigger than you.

    What made me feel guilty was that she had one of those cute girl names.... hang on, I'll see if I can find it...

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=268304

    It's only music... I must remember that.... and breathe...
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Songburst wrote:
    I mean that bands like Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc will always have a contingent of kids and middle-agers who think that their music is among the best ever created. Arcade Fire is music for the moment. It is good music but it will never span generations like great music does. A big reason why they are so popular is because of the credibility that is associated with liking the "indie" sound. Arcade Fire will eventually fade away into obscurity and one day you will wake up and be 30 and start reaching for the timeless albums that span generations and leave the music of the moment on the shelf.

    I disagree. Sort of...

    Arcade Fire have the type of popularity that bands like pixies, pavement, and neutral milk hotel enjoyed. I think they will be remembered as the 00's version of those bands. Not the mainstream success of the big bands you mentioned but they will be remembered as makinga prominent stamp on music and influencing many other bands just as the others listed did.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Songburst wrote:
    I mean that bands like Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc will always have a contingent of kids and middle-agers who think that their music is among the best ever created. Arcade Fire is music for the moment. It is good music but it will never span generations like great music does. A big reason why they are so popular is because of the credibility that is associated with liking the "indie" sound. Arcade Fire will eventually fade away into obscurity and one day you will wake up and be 30 and start reaching for the timeless albums that span generations and leave the music of the moment on the shelf.

    There's nothing I hate more than the "indie" scene right now, and nothing I care about less than its apparent "credibility". But I still love Arcade Fire - only because I've not heard music so objectively brilliant in almost 20 years.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    What made me feel guilty was that she had one of those cute girl names.... hang on, I'll see if I can find it...

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=268304

    It's only music... I must remember that.... and breathe...
    You weren't out of line so I wouldn't worry about it :D
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    intodeep wrote:
    I disagree. Sort of...

    Arcade Fire have the type of popularity that bands like pixies, pavement, and neutral milk hotel enjoyed. I think they will be remembered as the 00's version of those bands. Not the mainstream success of the big bands you mentioned but they will be remembered as makinga prominent stamp on music and influencing many other bands just as the others listed did.
    Neutral Milk Hotel enjoyed the same popularity as Arcade Fire?! The Arcade Fire are one of the biggest bands around today. No one cared about NMH when they were around. They built a small cult following that grew in the years after they stopped making music. This is why some people make such generalisations like "people only like Arcade Fire because it gives them indie credibility". They don't actually know enough about what they are talking about. Indie is NOT a music genre.

    Arcade Fire are great, as are the bands you mentioned but why do they have to be lumped together all the time?
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    You weren't out of line so I wouldn't worry about it :D

    Not out of line... just opinionated...

    The other music forum is obviously the next AMT :D
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