Best Ever Albums

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Johnny Flynn — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:35:52 GMT

Author: Johnny Flynn

Posted: 10/01/2013 16:35

CellarDoor wrote:

"OMG OMG OMG !!! BOB DYLAN HAS BETRAYED FOLK AND TURNED ELECTRIC !!! WTF !! CAN'T HE KEEP TO REAL ACOUSTIC FOLK ??!!"

Yeah. Pretty much this.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

CellarDoor — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:48:56 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 10/01/2013 15:48

"OMG OMG OMG !!! BOB DYLAN HAS BETRAYED FOLK AND TURNED ELECTRIC !!! WTF !! CAN'T HE KEEP TO REAL ACOUSTIC FOLK ??!!"

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:22:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 12:22

nutso42 wrote:

These would be good songs, if they were pretty much anyone but Arcade Fire.

hwat

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Cymro2011 — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:15:02 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 10/01/2013 12:15

Urgh, the Arcade Fire that made Funeral are dead.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:31:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 10:31

EDIT: Whoops. Doublepost.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:31:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 10:31

nutso42 wrote:

Yes, but not quite as prominently.

As for "unusual" instruments, I was mostly referring to what Regine Chassagne plays, such as the Hurdy-Gurdy and glockenspiel. Seeing as I can play glockenspiel and am attempting to learn Hurdy-Gurdy, I was very much in love with those songs.

Synthesizers have far more possibilities in terms of sound than those instruments, and are just as (if not more) difficult to play. I don't understand the synthesizer hate.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:33:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 02:33

lethalnezzle wrote:

Apart from maybe (maaaaaaybe) a harp, synthesizers (which, by the way, they also used in their early music) are far more unusual than any of the instruments they used on, say, Funeral for example.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:56:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 00:56

nutso42 wrote:

Sadly, I started listening to Arcade Fire because I loved their use of unusual instruments. Now they use a synthesizer.

Apart from maybe (maaaaaaybe) a harp, synthesizers (which, by the way, they also used in their early music) are far more unusual than any of the instruments they used on, say, Funeral for example.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:52:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/01/2013 00:52

Sadly, I started listening to Arcade Fire because I loved their use of unusual instruments. Now they use a synthesizer. 🙁

These would be good songs, if they were pretty much anyone but Arcade Fire.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

andy_hunter — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:38:46 GMT

Author: andy_hunter

Posted: 09/30/2013 21:38

AlexZangari wrote:

Didn't really care for it. Most disappointing song of the night. The real magic happened in their post-SNL special. All three of the songs they debuted (Here Comes the Night Time, We Exist, and Normal Person) were killer and the cameos were excellent. Not to mention the whole thing was just visually magnificent.

Btw, so glad to see Sarah again. Not sure where she stands as far as being a member of the band anymore, but having her missing from the Reflektor video and artwork was sad for me.

Link

I was baffled the first time I saw this; I believe my thought process was as follows;

"WTF? Bono?.....Oh this is a good song....... Is that Michael Cera speaking Spanish?......How did?....I dunno.....hahahaha"

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:05:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 18:05

lethalnezzle wrote:

There was a thread for the last song too. Why not just have one Arcade Fire thread? That way we can keep discussions about each new mediocre release in one easy-to-find place, and stuff that other people might want to talk about isn't pushed even further back through the forum's pages.

There was another one? Did it just come yesterday? I was out in town all day yesterday.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:03:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 18:03

JMan wrote:

We can do it for A new single, especially a single by one of BEA's top ten bands.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:58:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2013 17:58

lethalnezzle wrote:

Are we going to do this for every new Arcade Fire song? Why not just resurrect one of the thousand threads already dedicated to them?

We can do it for A new single, especially a single by one of BEA's top ten bands.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

SingingPeasant96 — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:27:45 GMT

Author: SingingPeasant96

Posted: 09/30/2013 06:27

Think that they walk through the way of Radiohead though it sounds much different. hope they don't, Their first album is still my favourite.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

AlexZangari — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:06:46 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 09/30/2013 00:06

Didn't really care for it. Most disappointing song of the night. The real magic happened in their post-SNL special. All three of the songs they debuted (Here Comes the Night Time, We Exist, and Normal Person) were killer and the cameos were excellent. Not to mention the whole thing was just visually magnificent.

Btw, so glad to see Sarah again. Not sure where she stands as far as being a member of the band anymore, but having her missing from the Reflektor video and artwork was sad for me.

Link

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

MrFrogger — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:40:50 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 09/29/2013 23:40

lethalnezzle wrote:

Are we going to do this for every new Arcade Fire song?

yeah rly

But as long as we are, I liked it a lot more than Reflektor.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:39:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/29/2013 23:39

He's channeling David Byrne at the beginning of that one.

But yeah, a new thread for each Arcade Fire song is a bit excessive.

Re: Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:34:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/29/2013 23:34

Are we going to do this for every new Arcade Fire song? Why not just resurrect one of the thousand threads already dedicated to them?

Arcade Fire - Afterlife (new song)

meruizh — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:32:05 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 09/29/2013 23:32

What do you guys think about the new Arcade Fire song debuted in SNL yesterday. For me it seems pretty amazing even though it´s just the live version.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15bpzo_arcade-fire-afterlife-snl_music