Arcade Fire on ACL

epiphinehas

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12 Nov 07

epiphinehas

Illinois

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12 Nov 07

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Arcade fire is undoubtedly the best band to come along in ages. After listening to their albums for quite some time now, I finally caught their performance on Austin City Limits the other night. Suffice it to say, they are the real deal. Wilco, Modest Mouse, or The White Stripes cannot hold a candle to them, in my opinion.

Did anyone else catch the ACL performance? Here's hoping they make it to Champaign soon...

rbmorris

Vampyroteuthis

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12 Nov 07

Originally posted by epiphinehas
Arcade fire is undoubtedly the best band to come along in ages.

You can't be serious.

reinfeld

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13 Nov 07

...but he can be rescued...anyone have a net ?...

ChronicLeaky

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13 Nov 07

Originally posted by epiphinehas
Arcade fire is undoubtedly the best band to come along in ages. After listening to their albums for quite some time now, I finally caught their performance on Austin City Limits the other night. Suffice it to say, they are the real deal. Wilco, Modest Mouse, or The White Stripes cannot hold a candle to them, in my opinion.

Did anyone else catch the ACL performance? Here's hoping they make it to Champaign soon...

"Funeral" was beautiful; "Neon Bible" was mediocre for a band capable of "Funeral", but still very good. While they put on the second'-most mindblowing show I've ever been to, I agree with Mr. Morris.

epiphinehas

Illinois

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13 Nov 07

Originally posted by rbmorris
You can't be serious.

Quite! Who do you feel is a better band?

Starrman

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13 Nov 07

Originally posted by epiphinehas
Quite! Who do you feel is a better band?

For me The Decemberists have produced more consistently great music, also Midlake, the Weakerthans and Animal Collective are all in the running.

zeeblebot

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13 Nov 07

who do they sound like?

(pls pick a band from 10-30 years back.)

ChronicLeaky

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13 Nov 07

Originally posted by Starrman
For me The Decemberists have produced more consistently great music, also Midlake, the Weakerthans and Animal Collective are all in the running.

http://archive.cbcradio3.com/issues/2003_01_03/main.cfm

epiphinehas

Illinois

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14 Nov 07

Originally posted by zeeblebot
who do they sound like?

(pls pick a band from 10-30 years back.)

I'd say a cross between the Clash, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, and the Pixies. For some reason Bruce Springstein comes to mind when I hear the cadence of the lyrics...