What is it with Funeral by Arcade Fire?

[pearljammer13]

I could be off base, but I think a part of this could also be that people come to this site, see an album ranked so high, and decide to go get it or re-listen to it. They think that because it's ranked high, it must be great, so they force themselves into thinking it's great, even if they don't necessarily feel that strongly about it. This makes it keep moving up or at least hold onto it's spot on the site.

Now the reason I say this is because that's what happened with me (to an extent). I'd heard of Arcade Fire obviously before discovering this site, but once I saw the ranking of Funeral here, I knew I had to get it. Well I listened over the course of a month and it ended up on my list around 14 I think. Well over these next few months I keep going back to it, and while I absolutely do love and respect it, I feel I ranked it a little too high because this site indicates that's how great it is. It will probably settle in my chart somewhere in the low 20's or 30's . I still think it's great, but BEA fooled me into thinking it's just a little greater that what I actually feel .

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that perception created by the site might at least play a small part in keeping it so high (this may be the case with other albums too). But again, I do love the album, and can at least understand people like Hayden and others thinking it's the greatest album ever.

[247joelnetwork]

Good point, pearljammer. I didn't own a copy of Funeral until I joined the site. It was one of the first albums I purchased based off of BEA reputation. Before joining BEA, I'd only heard about 25 of the Top 100 all the way through. I didn't want to look like an idiot when I rated albums or charts, so I held off on rating albums until I'd heard most of the top 100. I don't think that most people approach the site like that. I think that some people join the site, come up with a basic chart, rate a few albums from our top 100 & split. Over 200 of the members who've rated OK Computer have rated less than 50 albums. If you look at most of their charts, they look very top 100. It's likely that people come in, pick some sure-fire winners to add to their chart & then never use the site again! The only reason OK Computer maintains it's #1 is b/c of this.

[purple]

[5thbeatle]

Or is it just that difficult to accept that maybe one of the greatest bands of the 21st century is indeed Arcade Fire.

[alelsupreme]

A bit too fast to judge there, we've got another 88 years of this century after all.

[Norman Bates]

[5thbeatle]

That's why I said " one of the greatest" could be the first great one of this new century.

[Guest]

Does it deserve to be #11? NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT, that's ingratitude: It deserves to be on top 5 of all time.

The thing you are all writing about is completely off the point: you see if BEA and it's overall chart influences people that much then the chart should not change at all. Everyone sees OK Computer on top and thinks it's the best and then there's DSOTM and so on; if this was the procedure Funeral would've never had the chance to climb up in the chart because of all the albums that are on higher ranks and new members would have appreciated them more because they're higher than Funeral, like London Calling. But London Calling despite it's higher rank is going down.

[HigherThanTheSun]

[Hayden]

I like the #1 spot.

Very personal album to me....


I think overall 11th, is quite reasonable.
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