mikal
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personally, i like the music. but i can't stand the guy's voice. if i don't like the singing, it's really hard for me to like the band.
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at first, I felt that too (about his voice). It has grown on me though.
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His voice has an incredible emotional intensity to it.
ImOuttaControl
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To whoever asked what kind of music I'm currently into:
U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Killers, Interpol, Oasis, Travis, Kings of Leon (which really grew on me after seeing them twice opening for U2), The Beatles, Pearl Jam, RHCP among others. Hell, I've even been on my "rat pack" kick lately with a lot of Sinatra and dean martin.
It's not like I hate Funeral at all, it's just that it hasn't really grabbed my attention yet--which is why I said it makes good background music. If I hated it I just wouldn't play it. In fact, last night I was drinking and it sounded pretty good. I just really don't like the singers voice. I can't really describe it, because usually the only singers I dislike are boyband, pop princess type singers.
I'll keep listening to it because musically it is pretty interesting...I just love being able to sing along which it's pretty hard to do when I can't understand what he's sayin.
U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Killers, Interpol, Oasis, Travis, Kings of Leon (which really grew on me after seeing them twice opening for U2), The Beatles, Pearl Jam, RHCP among others. Hell, I've even been on my "rat pack" kick lately with a lot of Sinatra and dean martin.
It's not like I hate Funeral at all, it's just that it hasn't really grabbed my attention yet--which is why I said it makes good background music. If I hated it I just wouldn't play it. In fact, last night I was drinking and it sounded pretty good. I just really don't like the singers voice. I can't really describe it, because usually the only singers I dislike are boyband, pop princess type singers.
I'll keep listening to it because musically it is pretty interesting...I just love being able to sing along which it's pretty hard to do when I can't understand what he's sayin.
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mikal said:
My thoughts exactly.
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I must say, this is by far the best album of 2004. (That is when it came out right?) It's just so damn good!
I guess I am always drawn to bands with a unique voice (Radiohead, Coldplay, Talking Heads, U2 duh, etc...) so I was immediately attracted to the singer of this band.
Every song is just gorgeous and well written, and even if the lyrics weren't good (which they are!) I could still listen to this album all day. It's got just enough intensity to keep the balance as well, with songs like Neighborhood #3 and Rebellion (Lies).
I have to say though, the most emotion point on this album is "In the Backseat". That woman's voice is haunting, beautiful, wrenching, thin yet full.
What more can I say, I love this band. I can't wait for them to come back to the U.S.
I guess I am always drawn to bands with a unique voice (Radiohead, Coldplay, Talking Heads, U2 duh, etc...) so I was immediately attracted to the singer of this band.
Every song is just gorgeous and well written, and even if the lyrics weren't good (which they are!) I could still listen to this album all day. It's got just enough intensity to keep the balance as well, with songs like Neighborhood #3 and Rebellion (Lies).
I have to say though, the most emotion point on this album is "In the Backseat". That woman's voice is haunting, beautiful, wrenching, thin yet full.
What more can I say, I love this band. I can't wait for them to come back to the U.S.
i just saw arcade fire tonight at the hollywood bowl. if you like this band you MUST see them perform live. they sound AWESOME and fun to watch. band members switch instruments and use random objects (like helmets and mike stands) as percussion...they play real tight. i would SO love to see them opening for U2 during the third leg.
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I didn't say that you (ImOuttaControl) must like Funeral, I just was curious because sometimes knowing people tastes you can understand why that person didn't like certain band/album... that's all
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My friend can play Power Out quite well on the ukelele. It's hilariously awesome.
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u2popmofo said:
Holy crap.. that was awesome!!!
just really painful that it faded out just was they went into Rebellion!!! AGH!!
Eliv8
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I went to see them last night at The Hollywood Bowl. Absolutely brilliant. They obviously have a great time on stage to accompany their Smorgasbord of sounds. I'm looking forward to their next album already.
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SkeeK said:
I know! Jesus, that was a kickass performance. That segue from Power Out to Rebellion was awesome!
Does anyone have any more videos like this?
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thanks for the awesome video! power out has never been my favorite, but that's a great performance.
i really really really hope they come to atlanta this fall...i heard they might do a quick US tour before they go back into the studio.
i really really really hope they come to atlanta this fall...i heard they might do a quick US tour before they go back into the studio.
meegannie
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They've grown on me since I first posted in this thread. He sounds like Tim DeLaughter
Eliv8
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Pink linen suit and another creative hat
David Byrne's show at the Bowl, with inspired new bands, proves he's also an impresario.
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer
It sure felt good Sunday at David Byrne's Hollywood Bowl concert to hear new music as smart, sensual and passionate as the kind he made in the '70s and '80s with Talking Heads — only it wasn't Byrne who played it.
Arcade Fire, a young rock band from Montreal whose music has the thrilling ambition and purpose of the early Heads, is such a confident and gifted unit that it probably hasn't met a stage — or audience — that it can't conquer.
The group, whose debut album on indie Merge Records was one of the critical favorites of 2004, has moved in just six months from the intimacy of local clubs to the vast reaches of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and on to the Bowl without blinking.
After their own commanding set, the members of Arcade Fire, whose artful style was influenced by the Heads, joined Byrne on stage for one number during the pop Renaissance Man's joyful return to the memorable music he made with the Heads at the start of his long, eclectic journey.
Both as the mastermind behind that celebrated quartet and as a restless solo artist, Byrne has crisscrossed musical genres so aggressively that he poses a challenge to anyone who likes to define artists by a single category.
Rolling Stone magazine's website uses six labels to describe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's approach, including postmodern pop, alternative/punk and world beat — and it still only feels like a good start.
You also have to add a classical component (Byrne's latest album, "Grown Backwards," includes works by Bizet and Verdi) and, maybe most important, impresario.
Of all the creative hats, impresario was the most valuable during the veteran musician's 75-minute set Sunday that opened KCRW's World Festival 2005 season at the Bowl.
Two of his best moves were adding to the bill Arcade Fire and the Extra Action Marching Band, a delightfully irreverent San Francisco outfit that is the marching-band equivalent of the annual Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena. Byrne deserves extra kudos for also putting Si*Sé on the bill. It's a New York group that requires almost as many labels to define as Byrne, starting with electronica/Latin/hip-hop.
It has been almost 15 years since the Heads formally called it quits, and Byrne has been active on a variety of fronts, including writing music for films and theater.
His solo albums have reflected much of the wry sensibilities, jagged rhythms and cultural outreach that made the Heads such a splendid rock force in the '70s and '80s.
But that solo music, which dominated the opening half of Byrne's set, rarely captures the full urgency or liberating breakthrough of the best Heads numbers. Songs such as "The Great Intoxication" and "Like Humans Do" tend to be simply charming and quaint.
Things didn't come alive until the midpoint in the set, when Byrne kicked in with "Road to Nowhere," an alluring tune from the Heads' "Little Creatures" album. From that point on, Byrne kept close to choice Heads material, including such striking favorites as "Psycho Killer" and "Burning Down the House."
To add seasoning to the numbers, Byrne, decked out Sunday in a pink linen suit, augmented his regular musicians with the six-member Tosca Strings, who also joined him on the "Grown Backwards" album.
Byrne's most inspired move, however, was the Extra Action outfit. Complete with flag girls and scantily clad dancers, the band marched through the Bowl audience before adding a touch of anarchy and spice to the final numbers on stage that resembled a Fellini dream sequence.
The segment was a tribute to Byrne's sense of showmanship and the absurd. In his songs, he often describes an innocent's journey through the wonders and mysteries of life, and the marching band was right in step with that vision.
Arcade Fire also employs a strong visual sense of the absurd. While leader Win Butler sings songs of loss and resilience with an intensity reminiscent of the early Elvis Costello, two members of the group got so caught up in the swirling rhythms of the band that they carried on like loons who would be welcome in the marching band. The pair ended up hitting everything around them, including each other, with drumsticks — all in time with the music.
Echoes of Talking Heads can be heard in the sophisticated rhythms of Arcade Fire's music and in the way Butler sings in high-pitched vocal yelps à la Byrne.
But the seven-piece band also exhibits a hint of U2-like splendor, compassion and even spiritual undercurrent. The debut album, "Funeral," was recorded soon after the deaths of some family members, and the songs deal with moving past those losses and other emotional hurdles. The Fire sometimes employs a touch of punk fervor to urge against apathy.
The band's song "Wake Up" is such an invigorating call to action that U2 has been playing the Fire's recording of it over the sound system as U2 walks on stage on its tour — quite an endorsement of the young band.
In music as in life, you can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. From the Extra Action band to Arcade Fire, Byrne's companions Sunday were a tribute to his continuing musical vision. Even if his music is less searing than it once was, his commitment to his art and audience remains unbending.
Robert Hilburn, pop music critic of The Times, may be reached at Robert.Hilburn@latimes.com.
LA Times
David Byrne's show at the Bowl, with inspired new bands, proves he's also an impresario.
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer
It sure felt good Sunday at David Byrne's Hollywood Bowl concert to hear new music as smart, sensual and passionate as the kind he made in the '70s and '80s with Talking Heads — only it wasn't Byrne who played it.
Arcade Fire, a young rock band from Montreal whose music has the thrilling ambition and purpose of the early Heads, is such a confident and gifted unit that it probably hasn't met a stage — or audience — that it can't conquer.
The group, whose debut album on indie Merge Records was one of the critical favorites of 2004, has moved in just six months from the intimacy of local clubs to the vast reaches of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and on to the Bowl without blinking.
After their own commanding set, the members of Arcade Fire, whose artful style was influenced by the Heads, joined Byrne on stage for one number during the pop Renaissance Man's joyful return to the memorable music he made with the Heads at the start of his long, eclectic journey.
Both as the mastermind behind that celebrated quartet and as a restless solo artist, Byrne has crisscrossed musical genres so aggressively that he poses a challenge to anyone who likes to define artists by a single category.
Rolling Stone magazine's website uses six labels to describe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's approach, including postmodern pop, alternative/punk and world beat — and it still only feels like a good start.
You also have to add a classical component (Byrne's latest album, "Grown Backwards," includes works by Bizet and Verdi) and, maybe most important, impresario.
Of all the creative hats, impresario was the most valuable during the veteran musician's 75-minute set Sunday that opened KCRW's World Festival 2005 season at the Bowl.
Two of his best moves were adding to the bill Arcade Fire and the Extra Action Marching Band, a delightfully irreverent San Francisco outfit that is the marching-band equivalent of the annual Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena. Byrne deserves extra kudos for also putting Si*Sé on the bill. It's a New York group that requires almost as many labels to define as Byrne, starting with electronica/Latin/hip-hop.
It has been almost 15 years since the Heads formally called it quits, and Byrne has been active on a variety of fronts, including writing music for films and theater.
His solo albums have reflected much of the wry sensibilities, jagged rhythms and cultural outreach that made the Heads such a splendid rock force in the '70s and '80s.
But that solo music, which dominated the opening half of Byrne's set, rarely captures the full urgency or liberating breakthrough of the best Heads numbers. Songs such as "The Great Intoxication" and "Like Humans Do" tend to be simply charming and quaint.
Things didn't come alive until the midpoint in the set, when Byrne kicked in with "Road to Nowhere," an alluring tune from the Heads' "Little Creatures" album. From that point on, Byrne kept close to choice Heads material, including such striking favorites as "Psycho Killer" and "Burning Down the House."
To add seasoning to the numbers, Byrne, decked out Sunday in a pink linen suit, augmented his regular musicians with the six-member Tosca Strings, who also joined him on the "Grown Backwards" album.
Byrne's most inspired move, however, was the Extra Action outfit. Complete with flag girls and scantily clad dancers, the band marched through the Bowl audience before adding a touch of anarchy and spice to the final numbers on stage that resembled a Fellini dream sequence.
The segment was a tribute to Byrne's sense of showmanship and the absurd. In his songs, he often describes an innocent's journey through the wonders and mysteries of life, and the marching band was right in step with that vision.
Arcade Fire also employs a strong visual sense of the absurd. While leader Win Butler sings songs of loss and resilience with an intensity reminiscent of the early Elvis Costello, two members of the group got so caught up in the swirling rhythms of the band that they carried on like loons who would be welcome in the marching band. The pair ended up hitting everything around them, including each other, with drumsticks — all in time with the music.
Echoes of Talking Heads can be heard in the sophisticated rhythms of Arcade Fire's music and in the way Butler sings in high-pitched vocal yelps à la Byrne.
But the seven-piece band also exhibits a hint of U2-like splendor, compassion and even spiritual undercurrent. The debut album, "Funeral," was recorded soon after the deaths of some family members, and the songs deal with moving past those losses and other emotional hurdles. The Fire sometimes employs a touch of punk fervor to urge against apathy.
The band's song "Wake Up" is such an invigorating call to action that U2 has been playing the Fire's recording of it over the sound system as U2 walks on stage on its tour — quite an endorsement of the young band.
In music as in life, you can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. From the Extra Action band to Arcade Fire, Byrne's companions Sunday were a tribute to his continuing musical vision. Even if his music is less searing than it once was, his commitment to his art and audience remains unbending.
Robert Hilburn, pop music critic of The Times, may be reached at Robert.Hilburn@latimes.com.
LA Times
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meegannie said:
They still haven't grown on me that much. I loved an appearance I saw on kcrw.org and a couple of other appearances I've seen and yet the record just sits there and I can't get excited about it. I don't know why. I think I only listened to it twice. I want to love them but everytime I reach for the record I remember my initial unenthusiastic response and play something else instead.
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joyfulgirl said:
They still haven't grown on me that much. I loved an appearance I saw on kcrw.org and a couple of other appearances I've seen and yet the record just sits there and I can't get excited about it. I don't know why. I think I only listened to it twice. I want to love them but everytime I reach for the record I remember my initial unenthusiastic response and play something else instead.
Did you see the latest episode of Six Feet Under? They played Rebellion (Lies). I thought it worked very well in the context of the episode.
zonelistener
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That CD (Six Feet Under) was released today!
Calluna
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Yeah, and there is an exclusive Arcade Fire track on that CD.
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Lancemc said:
Do I Ever!!!
I just found this...
Interview and live performances of (in their entirety):
Laika
Wake Up
Headlights Look Like Diamonds
Haiti
No Cars Go
Power Out
Rebellion
Une Anee Sans Lumiere
Yeah, cool.
Sorry I waited posting this until I'd finished watching it because I was jealously guarding my use of the site's bandwidth.
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SkeeK said:
I FOLLOW CUJO BLINDLY.
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SkeeK said:
Yay!
hah.
oops. yeah it's not funny. to apologize, here is their new song from the six feet under soundtrack. you know the drill
http://s37.y ousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OCHA93J2YQZK1RUXPBKH93GDL
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Calluna said:
Yes I did see it and heard the song. I liked it. I like when I hear them like that but I don't know why I have resistance to listening to the whole record.
Eliv8
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...002-6891589-4336825?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
(EP re-released, today I think)
(EP re-released, today I think)
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Eliv8 said:
Ah I heard this was happening..
I wish it was also re-recorded, though.
VertigoGal
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holy shit, thanks for the link!
why must my computer be so slow?!?!
why must my computer be so slow?!?!
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