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Four..if anyone here likes them, that's cool, but I could never get into them, (couldn't listen to the lead singer's voice for more than a few seconds).
I liked that one song...I don't remember the name. The big one? Got overplayed on the radio I'm sure. The rest of the album was a bit of a disappointment though.
Now everyone doesn't get it? When I said I didn't get it when they came out someone fucking threw a brick through my window and poisoned my dog.
Fuck!
I didn't get it to the point where I was sure it was a joke, normally with stuff others like but I don't I at least get why they might like it, the Arcade Fire seems to have some sort of objectivity blocking tone they are playing on one of the back channels.
Funny, I was crossing Arctic Monkeys with The Arcade Fire and was like, damn, I still like them. But then I checked and no, Arcade Fire, not Arctic Monkeys. Which is fine, I've got nothing invested in Arcade Fire.
But I sure do like me some "Fake Tales of San Francisco" (even though I think it would be alot more kickass at a slightly faster tempo).
Hmm. Sorry if I steered this thread into "yer fave band sux" territory. It's not like they're bad or anything, I just never understood why seemingly everybody was treating them like the second coming of the Banana Splits. They're OK, and the song linked is probably one of the better one's I've heard from them. They're just not the curds on my poutine.
You're all so cute. It is to laugh. Not to brag, but I was the first one to not like The Arcade Fire. I have documented evidence of this. I decided I didn't like them even before they had even formed a band. I thought to myself, "Know what? If there is ever a band named The Arcade Fire, I hate them and don't get what everyone else sees in them". I wrote it down on a piece of paper and took it took a Notary Public and had it notarized, and then I sealed it in a vault.
So all of you johnny come latelys can suck it, haters.
I've never been one to let off-kilter vocals or less-than-polished musicianship get between me and the beating heart of a song. I love the Arcade Fire for their sheer emotional intensity, dark nostalgia, the sense of looking across a cloudy mirror into another world. I love Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for their energy and their childlike glee. I loved Beat Happening in the 90s for their goofiness and purity.
Music that I actively hate (as opposed to stuff that I say, "that's just not to my taste") is generally music that I perceive as fake, manipulative, greedy, dishonest.
In the spirit of iconomy's revelation, I hereby state that I truly despise forever and for all time the Porkpie Hat Explosion, a band which will be formed on August 5th, 2026 by Jeremy James Dewberry (pictured here) and rise to international prominence three years later with the smash hit single "Will You Be My Wifey?" off their major label debut album Here Comes the Porkpie Hat Exposion. They suck eggs, and anyone who says differently is a tin-eared preening hipster assface.
Obviously, I too still love the Arcade Fire, for basically the same reasons that matildaben outlined (or maybe I'm just sucking up). I will take exception to the charge that the musicianship is in any way less than polished -- if anything, it's deliberately dingy. You need a little life in a great song.
What I love about, e.g., the Fashion Rocks performance of Wake Up -- their signature opener, with David Bowie -- is how many people are obviously clueless at the beginning, but so into the song by the end.
Man, there are so many worse bands with the worst hype behind them -- you know, the type that's basically throwing lots of money at a band so people will buy them. If the worst sin of the fans of the Arcade Fire is that they try to get too many of their friends to listen to them, too many times, too enthusiastically ...
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