Take Away Show - Special Edition

Vincent Moon has put up Arcade Fire's almost legendary Take Away Show from back in 2007. Slightly different edited and now also in HD. Watch it here in HD or below in very high quality.

KEXP's listeners love Funeral

I decided quite quickly I wasn't going to mention every single best of the decade accolade Funeral gets because there's been like a million of them or so. But this one feels worthy of recognizing since it's based on a large vote by the very popular American radio station KEXP's listeners. The top-10:

01. Arcade Fire - Funeral | Merge (2004)
02. Radiohead - Kid A | Capitol (2000)
03. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | Nonesuch (2002)
04. Radiohead - In Rainbows | ATO (2007)
05. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois | Asthmatic Kitty (2005)
06. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism | Barsuk (2003)
07. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | Warner Bros (2002)
08. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica | Epic (2000)
09. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time | Sub Pop (2006)
10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes | Sub Pop (2008)

Neon Bible coming in at a very decent 19th place. The full list can be found here.

Arcade Killers?

Är väl inte direkt något fan av The Killers men bandets frontman Brandon Flowers verkar åtminstone ha huvudet på skafft:

“I think you can always do better,” says Flowers. “An awakening for me was Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible record. The lyrics just blew my mind. It felt so in line with what was happening right now. But it was good because it lit a fire under me and made me want to be a better writer. And now that the lyrics are finished, I’m really proud of the lyrics on this album.”

Återstår att se om det märks någon förbättring på nya skivan.

Något är i görningen...

En hel del Arcade Fire-fans har i dagarna fått ett telefonsamtal om det går för sig att de kan få använda deras inspelade samtal till Neon Bible-telefonlinjen som var öppen för allmänheten att ringa till när Neon Bible släpptes. Någon form av dokumentär ska det vara men mycket mer än så vet ingen. Ska bli kul och se vad det blir av det här!