Funeral

2/5. Basic easy listening.

Sounds like Arcade Fire. Pleasant and forgettable.

Arcade Fire arrived with a fully-formed sound and delivered their most cohesive and emotional album in one fell swoop. “Funeral” is easily one of the most influential albums of the 2000s, with every band from Florence + the Machine to Black Country, New Road being indebted to its powerful songwriting. Its influence has not been all positive; the likes of Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men may have never broke the mainstream if it was not for Arcade Fire. However, this does show the deep resonance of Arcade Fire’s climactic style, as even taking their basic formula without approaching the writing or performance skills or the virtuosity of the band could bring mainstream success. And ultimately, Arcade Fire execute their formula better than anyone else, giving us a number of the best indie anthems of the 2000s (“Neighborhood #1 (Power Out)”, “Neighborhood #3 (Tunnels”, “Rebellion (Lies)” and “Wake Up”), only punctuated by beautiful ballads like “Haiti” and “Une Annee Sans Lumiere”.

Idk not bad but it’s just kinda been background noise

More less.

third arcade fire album in a week, it really feels like i am being punished for something. or this list is trying really hard to prove me that arcade fire has something more than just repetitive, meandering songs.

rape allegations

I would rather have not listened to this album.

Their albums eventually fell off, and I don’t like Winn Butler, but this album is great.

gosto muito deles, mas esse álbum não tinha ouvido. gostei um tiquinho menos agora talvez?

melhor do que o meu preconceito indicava, mas ainda assim não é lá essas coisas.

97

Yet another meh. Not bad, but not great.

Господи, такое говно этот аркейд файр, вот ни сколько не сомневался что я услышу всё то же шаблонное миллениальское говнище с этим annoying ass голосом. В тот раз я был добрее и поставил 2, в этот раз оценка будет ниже.

Have never heard about them so it is like at first hearing. I like good indie albums and this is a very good one.

Great album, a powerhouse of a genre and at a time but difficult to listen to it now.

Great album. Great band

I was not going to listen to Arcade Fire, but my daughters and their classmates did, and they loved them. A smart high school teacher at least takes a listen and when I did, and I found out why told me why. This is a solid album that paved the way for the excellent indie rock of the 2000s and 2010s. It is a must-listen for music fans.

Great album. Just a shame that Edwin Farnham Butler III has been credibly accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct and assault. Also his name is Edwin Farnham Butler III.

not much of my style didnt liked much

Good, but not my favourite Arcade Fire album. Love the sound but there doesn’t seem to be anything exceptional to me here. 3/5

Great album, always expertly produced and put together, sweeping songs and harmonies, some of the most interesting music to come out of the early 2000s indie scene.

definitely sounds like an album rym/pitchfork would cum buckets over, and i tend to be quite partial to that stuff lol favourite songs: une annee sans lumiere, neighborhood #3, in the backseat least favourite song: none

Ahora si

Arcade Fire present an important question: how annoying can a piece of music truly be? Between the awful, compressed production that aims to grate and Win Butler's horrible excuse for a vocal performance, Funeral becomes an endurance test. Will I manage 47 minutes of listening to this without bashing my head against the wall? The odds are growing against me with every passing second. There are a couple of positives, though. Win Butler doesn't sing on some tracks (the closer is actually a pretty great song), the lyrics are mostly compelling and it's shorter than Suburbs. Only Neon Bible left and I can ignore this band for the rest of my life, God help me.

Classic

Nothing special but fine

Solid album with some bangers

nie pamiętam go ale polubilam kilka

This just isn’t really my kind of sound. I’ve never been a big fan of that early-2000s indie/alternative style, and this album leans hard into everything about that era that usually loses me. I can hear that there’s a lot going on musically, and I get why people connected with it. The arrangements are big, dramatic, and clearly put together with a lot of care. But for me, the whole thing just felt too self-serious and overly earnest. Nothing here was awful, but very little made me want to hear it again. I know this is considered one of the defining indie albums of the 2000s, but it mostly reminded me why that particular sound has never done much for me.

Beautiful

Good album, started of not so good got better as it went on Lead singer reminds me a bit of Jeff Buckley Bass after wake up is on fire 3 stars is harsh could be 4

Det var meget nice tøs a'

Jeg bliver aldrig Arcade Fire-fan. Der er noget med hans måde at synge på, der næsten bliver lidt ulideligt :) Resten er jo egentlig fint nok, men ikke mega interessant imho 2.6

Living dead

A stunning debut that redefined alternative pop and hip influenced more bands than just about anyone since the Velvet Underground. Iconic.

Was kinda hyped, but nothing to write home about, the sound never was that interesting to me but by the end it was just really boring.

3.5

4.0

Used to listen to it a lot. Then stopped. Some of the tracks still are effective, but maybe I'm less into earnestness now.

Solid album. I really enjoyed it. I’m a fan of the band and the three albums on this list are really good. Probably their best three albums, a nice run.

Not coming back

The album itself is four, maybe five stars. When it dropped it was massive. There was a sincerity to it that was instantly captivating and not captured again in anything they released after. I love this record. For the purpose of this list, one star is what it gets, because multiple sexual abuse allegations can not be condoned. It is sad how many times I have had to write something similar on prior reviews and I only just broke album 600 recently.

Album would be great without the caterwauling, whining, wailing vocals. the woman that sang on the last track should have sang the whole album

nostalgic for a time when I first really started listening to music, searching it out on weird torrents to put on my iPod.

I liked this one more than my last Arcade Fire album. The indie rock sound is nice, I just never feel all that pulled into the album all the way. Still a fun listen.

I loved rebellion and the soaring instrumentals on wake up but rest was a flop

Just a whole lot of whining hooting hollering whimpering and whinging.

3.909565217391304

average alternative music

2000s indie , fine for what it is but I find it dull Canadian Coldplay

I have to say five stars. This is so amazing, when it was released it felt like nothing I'd ever heard before. In my travelling years, I saw a lot of these guys live and it was always euphoric. Wake up is an all time anthem. What a record

Of course it's a perfect album! It's a shame Will Butler is a douchebag. It used to be my favorite album. It's been a long time, but I still love it, it's too perfect to be hated. Yes, it's a popified version of post-rock, but you gotta be a monster to not get into it. It's perfectly crafted, joyful music pieces.

Pretty bland. Decent instruments on a couple tracks but nothing stood out enough to me. Also the singing was annoying. A generous 3/10

Big meh. Only one song I liked. 2 star

I thought it sounded nice but wouldn't say any of it has stuck with me

Really annoying voice one of which is linked to an incredibly shitty person. The instrumentals were a little fun at least.

Tuesday, 21 October, 2026 Great album. A few dud tracks, but the hits are amazing.

I forgot how much I love this album. Its from a specific time of my life. But the Neighborhood #3 Power Out still kills it no matter the time of life.

I like their instrumentals and sound a lot but I feel like their songs would be better without vocals. Like their lyrics and singing don’t add anything to what would be really good music.

Made me sad and nostalgic but in a good way. I always thought the arctic monkeys and arcade fire were the same but I’m glad I know better now

more whiny boys who can't sing being propped up by better instrumentals and melodies than they deserve

Didn't grip me how it used to.

Decent.

Iconic debut album, sounds so massive. Outstanding

The album was fine. Nothing great that stood out to me but wasn't bad in any way. Nice to have on, just nothing that I'd be coming back to for more. Firmly in the middle.

5 Liked it well enough but on second listen this really clicked with me. Pretty much every song is brilliant

10/10 - So good, peak mid 2000s indie/alternative music. Not forcefully different, just hits home as it should. Also unlike other albums from the period, not overly long, just the perfect storytelling album

I feel like I should have liked arcade fire more than I actually do. They remind me of a mix between Bloc Party, Modest Mouse and Interpol which are all bands I love. But idk, it is just sounds like a watered down version of them, and one step removed from stomp, clap, hey. And then there is the allegations... I never really cared about Arcade Fire, but now I really don't. Their music isn't good enough to separate the art from artist. Low 1 (it would be a high 3 without the allegations)

Funeral from Arcade Fire is a 2000s indie classic, many of the tracks high on my rotation list.

Høyrt gjennom nokre gonger. Gjekk frå 2 til 3 etter kvart

Liked it a lot more than Neon Bible.

О, а вот это по-настоящему любопытная и разнообразая пластинка. Немного не то, что я обычно слушаю, но это точно стоит того, чтобы послушать. Лучшая песня: Neighborhood #2 (Laika)

It's really weird to think I was completely aware of this album at the time of its release but could just never find a physical copy or a quality album torrent at the time. Still sounds really great years later

Great album, although they probably don't deserve as many in the list and this is sufficiently inconsistent that I'd drop it. The great songs are as good as anything they've done, but there are a couple of songs that are a bit of a drag

It's okay. Not my favorite.

Splitting hairs but more like a 3.5 for me. I already had strong time and place associations with this album but it's been a while since I heard it front to back and I forgot which tracks were on it. Not my favorite arcade fire album but all the elements that I love them for show up here and there.

It’s fine… there was a time this was a great album but now it’s fine, it brought with it too much annoying music also fuck the singer

Word to Dan Patrick

Это был самый слушабельный из трех альбомов Arcade Fire, что попались мне в первые 78 дней (!). Тем не менее предыдущие два поставили столь поздний низкую планку, что преодолеть ее было довольно просто. Данный рейтинг позволил мне понять, что музыка этой группы в подавляющем большинстве мне совсем не заходит, хотя раньше казалось, что они ничего

Very good album.

If I’ve learnt anything on this journey, it’s that I don’t like Arcade Fire (how, almost a year into this, has 1% of our albums been by Arcade Fire??) I did like Neighbourhood #4. The strings were lovely and I’m constantly saying that a watched pot never boils (“I closed my eyes and nothing changed” was an absolutely devastating follow-up)

This album is so good. A non-skip album

Preferred the songs when Reginé was lead vocalist compared to Win Butler - both this and the instrumental was too droning for my taste in the latter case. Added 'Haiti' and 'In the Backseat' to my liked songs, the former in particular was a pretty song, nice melody.

I will admit that this album pretty much sums up Arcade Fire for me. By which I mean while I think Arcade Fire has some pretty good songs I also find a lot of their songs to be pretty meh. This album was no different. A few songs were kind of cool and the rest didn’t do much for me.

7/10

For me, Arcade Fire are one of the few consistently interesting bands still going today. Terrific debut album!

Arcade Fire is a band that I should love but I only tolerate. Their big hits are huge, but I find them quite mediocre. Again, I should love them, but it's a hard one. This was a solid album that I'll forget, outside of that one Walter Mitty song. And that's kind of a shame.

4 - not a big fan of his voice. Music is ok.

Fattar inte riiiktigt grejen, men verkligen inte hemskt heller

Toppen, med flera av deras bästa låtar.

Kanske egentligen väldigt bra, men det finns också nåt lite irriterande över det.

det är nära 5!

I've had only limited experience with these guys. I didn't mind some of their singles. This album is really something special though. Cohesive and complete, it really comes together well. You can tell already after the first few songs. Every other album I've pulled on this list described as "chamber pop" has royally sucked, but this is very good. 5/5

Usually I'm into this kind of indie-rock. But here is nothing to really hook me. Weak three stars for this funeral. 2,5

One of the best debut albums of the century, eh? I love “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out),” but the album is strong from start to finish.

Meh

Kina boring tbh

Having heard some more of Arcade Fire’s recent music, I was excited for this album. Wow, no idea how or why this made this list, but the real question is how did they continue a career in music after this?

Pretty awful from start to finish.