Funeral

A great debut by Arcade Fire, it has the typical sound that we have come to know of Arcade fire, but at the time of release, their style was quite new and fresh. Filled with lots of emotion and atmosphere, I think it's one to add to the record collection! Best: Neighbourhood #3 Worst: Neighbourhood #4

I had listened to The Suburbs on a recommendation before listening to this and really liked it so i was hopeful. it’s definitely not as good but there are some really great moments, the best of which comes at the end of Crown of Love with the switch from 6/8 to disco 4/4

Top 3 Songs: 1 - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (1) 2 - Wake Up (7) 3 - Rebellion (Lies) (9)

Rockindie 2004.. jahas jahas..Paskinta paskaa btw rummut aina samat rummut pum pump pum pum pum menee tahtia.. Se pelastaa että oikeesti conceptual hyvä alnumi ja hyviä kappaleita.

it is definitely a good album. No song drags the experience down but the songs itself aren't that great and wonderful. It's good but it doesn't achieve the 4/5 7.5/10 (3/5)

They brought an original sound, which is not easy to do. Worth a few listens, at least.

3,75

This was quite good. The vocals are quite distinctive. Not sure if this is something to worry about later since Morrissey's vocals were also distinctive. There is good pace to this album.

This is a terrific debut release. It’s well-developed with lovely arrangements – the violins and accordion make for a big sound – and lyrically they tackle heavy themes. The one weak link might be Win Butler’s vocals, which don’t hold up when he really tries to belt it out.

Back in 2004 I walked into my local record shop and started to thumb thru the racks of records when this music came on that really caught my attention. I had never heard anything quite like it before. It was so unique and so original sounding. I asked the clerk who it was and he proudly announced it was this new Indie band from Montreal called Arcade Fire. I grabbed it and couldn’t wait to get home to listen to it. I still think this is probably their best release and one of the best Indie albums from the early 2000s. The songs on the album are similar sounding but yet very cohesive and the segues from song to song are just perfect. This is a very high 4, almost a 5 for me.

the third arcade fire album on this project but their debut album (excluding their ep). it contains a lot of their usual morose, melancholy sound. some indie music can be real misses for me, but with arcade fire, i know they are dependable, based on the other two albums i've heard of theirs throughout this project. like with their other albums, they created a theme on funeral. it can be moody but they do stay on theme. "crown of love," the standout, breaks your heart, and it's not like "wake up" makes you feel any better. i like all three neighborhood songs, and they really tie the album together. i found myself disappointed by régine chassagne, the female vocalist, and i'm not sure her voice is strong enough to carry a song by herself, but at least there were only two solo songs. also, this guy win butler sounds like a real piece of work. unfortunate arcade fire makes such good music.

Ok

the pretty sounds from this album seem to scratch an itch in my brain that has been nagging my subconscious for several months now. ive wanted to listen to something like this for so long, something that feels like a mix of neutral milk hotel (especially with the album art!) and my bloody valentine. but at the same time i feel like saying the above is an injustice to how uniquely all of the records elements synergise together. you dont see some of the instruments and individual styles used together as often as some of the songs on here do. im a big fan of the sounds on this record; theres something spectral about them, maybe its got something to do with the theme and the title of the album, "funeral". its strange. but in a good way. i really feel the depth of the emotions that come from the vocals, especially with the dude. i feel like as enthusiasts of music we dont really talk enough about the little vocal intonations that go into adding to the whole experience of a record. i notice the same things in film, we love talking about the grand and loud emotional performances of actors and often avoid the performances that convey so much through subtlety. theres some french weaved into here as well, which im definitely a fan of. i think it goes well with the themes and sounds. my top 3: power out is definitely one of my favourites on this album. i just like the sounds and lyrics a lot. 7 kettles is really interesting to me, the way they used the sound of the kettle and very smoothly weaved it into the song. rebellion is definitely my favourite. it sounds dreamy yet ambitious at the same time. and i really love the theme of it as a whole. PS in the backseat is such a beautiful outro. it makes me feel the same way id feel as a child when my favourite adventure movie was ending, or when i finished reading 13 reasons why. its just a peaceful grieving. so good

Definitely very good 00s indie but not my favorite 00s indie.

Solid 4* album. I love the genre!

Solid indie album, enjoyed the vocals. Nothing felt too interesting though.

Wasn't really familiar with Arcade fire before this and quite enjoyed this

Very clean with some very nice songs on it. A lot of the album disappears into the background a bit though,

An amazing debut album from one of my fave bands. It's very close to a perfect record, except for a couple of so-so songs.

Ever wanted to listen to Emo music but hated how terrible the vocalists were and how shallow their lyrics were? Well, guess what: There’s not only an album, but an entire band about that. Think if an emo outfit grew out of adolescence and dumped all the awkwardness with it, and you would have Arcade Fire. This is their debut. First album. And it sounds as grandoise as a progressive rock record recorded by a veteran band. The confidence they have on this record is staggering. I mean, again, this is their DEBUT! And here they are, giving some of the most rousing stadium-stompers this side of the early 2000s! Gone are the indie “slacker vibes” that bands like Pavement brought to the table, now these indie outfits have something deeper to say. The production gives the songs a cinematic quality to them: that kind of sprawling sound that seems larger than life. And nowhere does the album lose any of its momentum. It keeps building, and building, and building, until it finally climaxes at “Rebellion (Lies)”, another impressive anthem. It’s no secret that this album gets the praise it does, this is the real deal. No other 2000s indie act could boast such an explosive debut (maybe barring Franz Ferdinand but I’d argue that’s a different case), at least over in North America. A great driving album where you’re on a long rural highway and can pay attention to the lyrics a bit more. Standout Songs: “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” “Crown of Love” “Rebellion (Lies)”

A great album I’ve never paid much attention to. Hard to believe it came out in ‘04. Wake Up famously made the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are look good and the first track is a classic. My faves were Crown of Love and Rebellion.

Putting the fun into funeral.

emo for pyros

Reminds me of 1st Bank Center with Kyle. Great album, great time. 4.5 for memories. Maybe 3.5 for music.

J’étais pas sûr d’aimer à ma première écoute, mais dès que je l’ai relancé j’ai tout de suite accroché. C’est un bon mix de rock et d’arrangement syphonique, les chansons flow l’une dans l’autre, pis bonus c’est des Montréalais

Love this album

Indie rock. No está mal.

Can't rate this without nostalgia.

not what I expected but really good, should revisit later

this is a great indie-rock album. Really takes me back to my early/mid-20s.

Nice

Vraiment préféré celui-là à Neon Bible. Les compositions sont meilleures, le style est plus unique, le son est plus recherché en général. Même si je suis moins fan d'albums indie rock, c'est le genre d'album qui est très solide et qui vaut la peine d'être essayé. Mérite amplement sa place d'album phare dans le genre. 8/10

Rainy day, perfect to start off this challenge. Also I already had "Wake Up" liked?? No idea when but when I was listening to the album I was like, oh I like this one and sure enough I already had it like :)

Cool album. Enjoyed the piano and the strings. Interesting sound.

Easy to listen to indie

I’d give it a 7.5 out of 10. The first half was pretty boring with the neighborhoods but got much better.

Great debut.

The album itself is a 5/5 but Win Butler ruined it for me.

Good patiche of all the pop rock that came before it. Solid release. Too bad about Butler.

Liked it alot

Couple of solid tracks but didn’t blow me away. Obviously don’t have the nostalgia that this album (or band) brings. The good is good enough for a 4.

I’m familiar with this album and have a few songs from it that I really enjoy. It was nice to listen to it again after a long time.

Didn’t really vibe with this album it’s a 3.5 stars really but I’ll round it up to 4.It’s indie rock that’s pretty good.

Great stuff

They sort of all merge together. Which isn’t a bad thing.

Some good jams

After reading the wiki, it impresses me that this album was all but complete after one week. Crown of Love hits feels. Wake Up is a classic to me. But Haiti and Backseat with the female vocals really surprised me, they were softer and yet more of statement pieces for me. One thing that alludes to the "Indie" realm for me here is the unpolished, unrefined sound with some classical instruments is a cool juxtaposition.

Beter dan andere album

That one song sounds like that one song by Kodaline.

bcnr vibes. track one bangs. driving rhythm is really cool. I like a good indie clip on the vocals. what on earth time signature is track 2. the backing vocals work in a cool way here. still cool. cool guitar lead here in track 3. softer vibe. the mixing of the drums is very specific but sounds good. I like this song quite a bit. I like the whole melody being built off a simple phrase. fuck yeah. the sliding bass oh yeah. banger. on about track 4 now. I love the simple sliding bass. reminds me of pattos bassline on track 6 of iwutbf. what an instrument. this all just works so well. the mix is so full. holy shit this is mad. 10/10 song wholeheartedly. that song had me groovin. I think a picture of houses at nighttime would be a better album cover for this album. not a bad cover but the music gives vibes of the sunken suburbs in Derek Mahon day trip to donegal poem. the subtle building here in track 5 is cool. I like this feature on the website of taking notes. makes more present listening experience. this song is yet to Get a heart but I'll mention it's really cool to use kettle whistling in the music. this is cool mixing technique have 2 violins panned hard left and right double tracking the same thing then have 1 cut out and then change. I'll have to try that when recording mark for guitar or something. track 6 I think I recognise this chorus. this is sick. I get why this album is so famous. I prefer the use of strings here than on the last track. the start of the verse section gives ed Sheeran vibes. this chorus slaps tho tbf. I'll definitely be revisiting this album!!! this song is kinda Concorde. I wonder why the next song is so popular. oh that's a cool drum groove. vocals sound cool. track 8 is nice but not anything mad at least on first listen. I need to get new headphones these ones get uncomfortable ridiculously quickly. hell yeah track 9. I love a good hard panned clean tone small electric. the structuring of this song is cool. makes sense. shaped like a series of ramps. was that a key change or a dodgy chord change. mmm . I like the soundscape trach ten. mmm . chune to end it on. I like that technique of simplifying the melody that was big and grandiose into something really small to end it off. as far as the album over all I definitely preferred the first half to the second. the first half blew my mind the second have was really quite good. it lost me a little with neighbourhood 4 kettles, but that was probably just the pace change and from how much I messed with neighbourhood 3 power out. very cool

A bit too orchestral for me but I’d listen to some songs again

This is the sound of 2004 at UVM. Start to finish it's so lovely. Doesn't hit quite as hard as it did back then, the sound has been so redone. But still brings it back.

Is win butler a weird fucker? Yes. Is this an impressive debut? Also yes.

Reminded me how much I like bass guitar with good headphones. And how much I don’t like distortion on vocals.

Well, this is much better than any overplayed Arcade Fire song I've heard on the radio. Genuinely a really good Album with unique sound and ambition. Only got a 4* because it won't get much airplay from me in future, but enjoyed the couple of run throughs so far.

Brings back vibes from my college days at the Dalton Depot.

Started out as a traditional sounding Indie album but the last half was superb. The use of strings added to the great textures of sound.

Really liked this when it came out, perhaps because I saw them live many times with various indie luminaries of the age (The National! The Killers! Wolf Parade! Modest Mouse!). It's still pretty good although parts are a bit over-earnest and awkward.

much more exicted about this one!!! was pretty good i do prefer a shorter album it was chill 4/5

Great album

Out of this universe...... very, very nice :-)

Absolutely brilliant debut album. Sadly it's also the high point of their career so far. Their second album was very weak, followed by a string of very good to excellent albums. Their most recent is awful - preachy and irritating. Not a good look when you consider the trouble Win Butler has gotten himself into.

I feel like I’m half a generation off when I hear this album. I was 26 and heard “Power Out”, probably on MySpace and I loved it. It takes me back to an in between time and space where I was nowhere near being a kid, but also didn’t have a lot of grown up concerns. All the same, it’s not a part of me like the music I was listening to 10 years earlier. Really good songs from start to finish. But when I listen to it, I get this feeling of borrowing someone else’s stuff. Not my own. Another generation’s.

Arcade Fire is one of the bands that makes me wish it was still 2004.

Pretty good, but it didn't hold my attention very long as outstanding. Probably a personal music taste preference though.

Good stuff

triste esperanzador y divertido, todo ello bien cohesionado. me ha gustado(4,5/5 ONN). Vibrante, con fuerza y muy musical, me ha gustado mucho. No os perdáis un directo suyo. (5 LNM).

hey this is pretty good! starts off great but neighbourhood 3 and 4 are kinda unnecessary I feel. Best tracks: neighbourhood 1 (tunnels), crown of love, wake up

Truly one the finest debut albums by a Canadian band, Funeral shines on almost every track and continues to be Arcade Fire's greatest achievement. I saw the band during the Funeral tour when it came out and I can't think of a better concert I've seen and the intensity and pure physical energy the band puts fore during their live shows was something to see. I've seen them since and the songs from Funeral are still the highlights of the shows. With Win Butler's recent douchey (toxic) behaviour with some fans, I can't bring myself to give 5 stars, the music and album deserve it, but the band has left me with question marks.

Definitely worth several more listens.

4.25

It is beautiful record though I felt I was in an indie move in 2005. It seems dated and a product of its time still I will probably add it to the collection.

Great album! Wasn't a fan of Arcade Fire before, but I like this kind of indie rock. None of the songs is a clear radio hit, but the whole record maintains a pretty high quality from the start to finish. I'll soon listen to this album again, but it looks like a sure thing to buy a vinyl.

This record is so so good! And what a great experience to listen through the whole album with the lyrics in front. Musically, Arcade Fire is great, but the lyrics is where they truly shine! Key Tracks: Neighbourhood #1 - #4, Crown of Love, Wake Up, Rebellion (Lies) 9 out of 10

It’s bittersweet. I feel like that’s the best way I could describe it. It’s great.

Pretty much a modern classic. They arrived as a force of nature. The album hold together well. Its epic in a U2 kinda way, it hit the loud quiet dynamic like the Pixies and it feels emotional. 4.5

Liked this a lot, from a time before the hipster crown jumped in and ruined it.

Fun indie pop rock

ok

Exceeded expectations!

Couple bangers, in general a v good rock album

Pretty good! I definitely enjoyed The Suburbs on first listen quite a bit more, but this isn’t bad still. Biggest complaint is that the vocals are so hard to hear behind all the instrumentation. 7/10

Great album. I’ve owned it for a long time although I rarely listen to it. “Haiti” would find itself on a list of my favourite songs ever.

Not quite 5 but very close.

Really liked this album when this first came out and it still holds up well. Shame they went downhill after this

Great album

Sorry nerds. Best song: Crown of Love, Worst song: Neighborhood 4. 78/100

What an album. Magical even. I remember seeing them at the Pyramid at glasto and Wake Up with all the flags and that waving was goosebumps gear. That Win Butler is a dirty ticket though isn’t he?

Excellent album from a top class gang of gimps

I enjoyed it, the beats were surprisingly good, felt like the template for bands like Arctic Monkeys, Lo-Fi and The 1975

Melancholy and emotional. Perfect music for those rainy days when you want to turn inward.

Emotional, powerful, loud. This was an enjoyable listen. Every song felt like something out of a coming-of-age film soundtrack. The lead singer’s voice can be a bit polarizing, but I enjoyed it. There are some pretentious parts of this album as well. It really embodies the 2000s indie sound.

I really like this album, but it is curated almost to a fault. I feels like a theater performance, I’d have to listen more to get it I think. In The Backseat is an incredibly track though.

Never got into Arcade Fire but this album might be the exception. First Listen?: Y Fav. Track(s): Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), Wake Up Rating: 3.7/5

nice album, 4 stars

I love Arcade Fire, but not in a 5* kind of way

Amazing album, solid vocals and great song writing

Loved this

Solid record. Too bad it’s looking like he’s a creep.

If only they made more albums like this

When this first came out I couldn't stand hearing Wake Up constantly, and would change the channel on the radio the second I heard it come on. While I still feel they're a bit up their own ass being 'artists' I do enjoy the music a lot more now. Regine is a treasure, don't hurt her Win.

Fantastic! I loved the Alvino Rey add on the Japanese Delux edition. I'm a big fan of the 40's music so this was a surprise and really fun bonus. The album itself is great. I've heard this one a few times now and think it has grown on me. 4/5

Good instrumental

Bretty gud loved the orchestral vibes and mesh of different instruments to form a nice cohesive ensemble. Unfortunately canceled though cancel me cancel me

From first listen, particular favourites were Neighbourhood #3 and Crown of Love. Definitely liked this album, will want to listen again. Men ruin everything and we can't have nice things ever :| still a good album but Win Butler can rot.

Big fan of Arcade Fire, but hadn't listened to this full album in a long time. It's really, really, good - I love the almost orchestral sound they create - and there aren't many bad songs on this. Definitely a little pretentious when it comes to song titles (I'm inherently sceptical of most albums that have songs split into different numbered tracks) but there's so much depth to the record that I can move past that. There's also tonnes of energy, coming at you in slightly different ways, and the album if anything gets better than worse as you get towards the end. I've always found that I can take or leave their albums after the first listen or two, but they really grow on me. 4/5, not far off a 5.

One of those generational albums that is a good listen if you want to get into the millennial groove

A first time listen for me! Much more familiar with later Arcade Fire albums. I like it - a bit more gritty, maybe slower? All round enjoyable listen.

Definitely a good album. Most of the songs were one big track, with a couple breaks between them. Worth a listen later.

Very cool album. Strong dynamics, lots of emotion, good sense of taste, even some interesting instrument choices.

Started off a bit slow for me but picked up into something unique, interesting, foot-tapping

Quintessential 2000s indie. Held together nicely on the strength of its two enormous singles. As an album everything seems to move to seamlessly from one song to the other bringing a different feeling to listening from start to finish.

Chill indie-rock, very enjoyable, but nothing really original

It's a nice contrast - I got the Suburbs yesterday, and respected the musicianship, but found the whole thing very flat. Whereas this is rather lovely - the naivety, and the willingness to try for an epic sweep make it much more exciting. Wake Up and Neighbourhood 3 make the failures elsewhere more than worthwhile. I feel like this may be one of those bands that may have been better off without success. Perhaps they may have kept it simpler (if this could be described as simple).

Great album.

Fjölbreytt lagasmíð og mikið lagt í útsetningar, raddanir og slíkt. Áhugavert.

the original architects of the twee faux country indie movement. this really did sound like nothing else when it was released, hard to imagine now there is an abundance of imitations with shouting bits in it (looking at you lumineers). having not listened to it for years its better than i remembered.

Every time I close my eyes I picture myself at my own funeral. I'm surrounded by an orchestra of dwarves playing Arcade Fire tracks on flutes. My mother is crying, my father is dancing. My wife and children are nowhere to be seen. It's a sorry state of affairs. In the distance I see the shadowy figure of a woman I used to love. Her face is pale, with crimson lips. I try to reach out to her. I scream, but she looks through me blankly. I fall to me knees and crawl towards my coffin. It's draped in a Chelsea flag which has been completey covered in the jizz of the entire Chelsea first team and backroom staff. I laugh. The ground opens and I fall into hell. This is where I finally see my wife and children. They hate me. It's everything I ever wanted.

Really good. I can tell where other bands were influenced by this album. The sound is similar to a lot of stuff that is popular right now.

First full arcade fire album, a lot of it sounded similar but I can see why they blew up.

A pleasant, steady, and inoffensive rock album. Their style isn't too exciting in my opinion so each track seemed to lean more on the composition, which was mostly fine. The bulk of the album didn't live up to its best tracks, but when does it ever

Je pensais qu'Arcade Fire était un groupe de rock de pubs britanniques, il n'en est en fait rien, cet album était tout bonnement excellent. J'en profite pour vous faire un retour sur l'avancée du projet d'enceinte dans les locaux de mon entreprise: mon patron n'a toujours pas donné suite, je l'ai relancé en joignant un plan detaillé de construction de l'édifice audio. A suivre

The instruments, production and lyrics were good from track one. The drummer needs to try something besides a hi-hat disco beat. The constantly strained vocals were not my favorite but they grew on me—or at least, the virtues overcame the distraction over time. Haiti Mon Pays and Rebellion(Lies) cemented it for me. This is a great album!

Well composed album. Chill listen.

Good but not great. No real stand out tracks (other than Rebellion (lies) which I knew before) but works well as a whole piece. Singing in French and playing accordion are always welcome here!

a bunch of bangers here

Love this

Solid hipster garbage

Приятный для прослушивания альбом. Есть запоминающиеся композиции.

Started somewhat slow but then really came on towards the end. The hit was Wake Up and it's a great song. Rebellion is great. Definitely an Arcade Fire album. Deep song meanings and such a wonderfully distinct sound. I think it will need to be listened to again to appreciate it fully.

Listened before and really enjoy it, but it's one of those albums where - besides a couple of songs, the sounds really blend together. Good in that it's a good sound and cohesive, but hard to pinpoint those songs for relistens.

There were some really beautiful moments on this. I will definitely be giving Arcade Fire a deeper investigation. Thanks, 1001albumsgenerator!

So layered. And much like Prince, once you get used to the melody, they offer you a second melody in the same song.

Pretty good 2000s era indie rock. I don’t love it but I’ll gladly listen to it again

Great stuff.

Great indie rock. I love this type of music. So nice to listen to, very relaxing. 8/10

I understand that this is good, and I mean half of indie rock that came after this sounds like it, but i didn't enjoy listening to it really. It's bringing me down. Not a fault of the album, it's me lol

Has some really nice moments, high recommend.

Light. Shade. Tenderness. Drama

Arty glory

great

solid catchy indie rock that has cast a long shadow over the rest of the genre. feels a little designed-for-radioplay but that is fine by me!

Ingrained in me. I can’t even tell if I like it any more. It just exists as part of my sonic landscape. Yes, he’s whiny. I just don’t seem to care.

Hermoso álbum. Gran recomendación.

Dit is potjandorie goeie muziek. Leuke melodietjes, beetje poppie rock muziek van de 21e eeuw. ****

Really cool album

Uitstekende plaat!

When this album first came out I was way too deep in the throes of pop-punk to get much out of it. Revisiting it 15 years later really let's me appreciate what a well-crafted indie/alt record this is

Already one of my favorite albums! They just released new music that sounded like it harkened back to this era, so revisiting their early stuff might help prime their new album.

Bless this album.

I love the hell out of this album. Really quintessential indie music.

Folksy indie rock with some great sense of scale and powerful melodramatic vocals. Thought the opener "Tunnels" was fantastic but not so much the follow-up. It picks up again from there on though, "7 Kettles" is beautiful, the disco-infused outro to "Crown of Love" is cool and the anthemic "Wake Up" is also very effective but I must admit that I don't exactly get the masterpiece status this album has. It's great but nothing more than that.

I really dig it

Never heard it before. Enjoyed it a lot

I really enjoyed this album, more than I expected to. Great catchy, energetic songs, soaring arrangements. Fave Songs: Crown of Love, In the Backseat, Wake Up, Rebellion (Lies), Une année sans lumière,Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

Great

Liked this more than I thought I would, saved two songs.

Muito bom.

Part of it is treadmill music. Part of it is montage music. And I don't mean that in an Eddie Haskell sort of way.

Cuando salió este disco no me voló los sesos y en esta ocasión tampoco. Sin embargo, sí cambió mi perspectiva sobre el grupo y el álbum, pedo entender ahora la fascinación de mucha gente por la banda. Musica y letras muy cuidadas, sonido pulcro y complejo. 3.5 que sube a 4.

Me cuesta mucho trabajo esta banda porque me gusta como suenan sus armonías, instrumentaciones y estructuras, pero me súper zurra su voz y me hace querer dejar de escuchar en cuanto empieza a cantar. Tratando de dejar de lado los gemidos que hace pasar por canto, la verdad es que es un disco bonito, nostálgico pero sin llegar a extremos y que sube y baja de tono y de intención muy bien. No más por eso llega a la 4 estrella.

big up for Wake Up giving me a moment one time

4.5

I’ve listened to this album before but once it came up here I tried again. I listened to it 3 times mainly because it’s so easy to get lost in the songs. They are very enjoyable and feel like an indie orchestra. It follows the pattern I find great of music that sounds uplifting but the lyrics are the opposite. This album is an indie staple. 7.9/10

Bom.

very yas

No conocía esta banda. No tenía claro si era de los 70 o los 2000.. muchos elementos. Buen descubrimiento.

Great

Heard it before but not for a few years. One of my favourites from when I was a teenager, very catchy and much prefer it to their later albums. Very youthful sounding album

This is a vein of indie rock from the 2000s that I find quite enjoyable. Now normally I enjoy a raw and rough sound, but this is one place where I think their mellower sounds later in their discography really shine, and the rawness seems detrimental to the overall feel of the album.

Good album but I have heard it several times before when it was first released.

2004 - indie rock

Pretty cool atmospheric indie rock. Reminds me of Bright Eyes but less emo

Pretty good! Have it on vinyl!

Iako je Neon Bible meni najbolji njihov album, ovaj album definitivno ide iza njega. Nedugačak, al po svemu su koliko znamo na ovom albumu neizostavni klasici indie rocka. Favoritne pjesme: Neighborhood #1, #2, #3, #4, Wake Up, Haiti i Rebellion (Lies).

Ugodna šetnja po Volovčici uz ugodan albumčić!

Mjao älskar arcade fire så mycket!! även om jag tycker att de kunde höjd ljudet på vocals (ärligt talat det är på antlers-nivå). Wake up är!!!!

It's arcade fire

I am sure that I have heard of Arcade Fire, but I cannot quite place what work I know of the band. This album was all new for me. It was musically interesting. I don't know how often I will actually seek it out for a listen in the future, but it was nice to spend the day with it today.

Liked it a lot, beautiful, might have to Listen to it a few more Times tho

Surprised by this one. Not a huge arcade fire fan, but I hadn't listened to this one. While not exactly my cup of tea, I can see the hype.

Did this one cause the Indie hype? Further listening required

8/10

Indie - Kinda poppish - would totally listen to again

Wake up is a great song 👍👍

Like it

Indie rock. No está mal.

this is my first album so i'm not sure what to say hear but i really enjoyed it and want to give it more listens

Indie pop perfection.

Rebellion (Lies) is an absolute tune. This was peak teenage fun times so my rating is mostly based on nostalgia.

8/10. really good and emotive. almost gave this a 9 but i think it needed more contrast- there was too much loud, layered, choral vocals stuff so that things just kind of ended up blurring together in a way.

7/10. Sounds like 2000's Indie Music, for better and for worse.

I feel like they pulled a lot of punches despite having some compelling ideas. 7/10

The highlight of the album is the magisterial Wake Up. All the tracks before it feel like one long introduction and build up to this particular highlight. I find this album quite hard to pin down - I enjoy the music but I don’t know what the band are trying to say. Maybe this doesn’t matter.

кайовый инди рок, где то лёгкий, где то потяжелее

It doesn't fully hold my attention the whole way through, but really the only thing I can say negatively about this. Soundscapes are insane #whenyouwatchingthemovieandwakeupplays Already Saved: Wake Up; Rebellion (Lies) Saved After Listening: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)*, Neighborhood #2 (Laika)

Picks me up when i'm feeling low

Nice and chill. Overall enjoyable.

Solid 4 Stars - great album that I've listened to several times before. There's something about it that may not completely click with me, which is why I haven't given it 5 stars.

Prefer the later albums, rougher round the edges than I remember. But a sign of good things to come.

Tres bon. On voit ou il s’en vont, un apercu de ce qui s’en vient. Ca vaut le detour franchement . 4.5

good enough to listen twice

I think I had too much hype going into this album and my unfairly high expectations weren't meant. Still, a great album and Wake Up deserves all the plays it gets.

I do actually like multiple songs on this album. I enjoy it and admit my normalcore tastes sometimes

Arcade Fire is amazing. 4 stars.

Conoscevo il gruppo solo di nome e questo disco mi ha sorpreso in positivo. Il sound ha una sua originalità nonostante le similitudini con alcuni gruppi degli anni 2000, molto saturo però senza essere eccessivo. Lo risentirò.

Had heard one of the tracks before. Sits well within the album which is strong and consistent.

I liked that

I surprisingly really enjoyed it. It has a unique sound and production, the songs don’t particularly stand out from one another but as a whole the album is a good indie album.

Made me watch their Glastonbury appearance from 2007 again, better live.

I actually like this a good deal. It's a bit 'quirky' but varied enough with some neat musicality to it.

An album I’ve been meaning to listen to more. Really liked it. Wake Up is still the standout but the whole album has a nice flow to it

Phenomenal

3,8 Tof albumke! Nog wel men ding! Would play again

Some pretty good tracks. A few fall into the indie trap of simple drum beat + constant strum pattern, but still interesting enough to keep my attention.

Reminds me of my freshman year of high school :)

There is a possibility that I've listened to this album before. Arcade Fire is a band that I wonder why I don't like more. I admire a lot about their musicianship, and what they've done. I just haven't caught that sense of "oh, I need to hear some AF right now". The album is good. "Rebellion (Lies)" is my favorite. There weren't any tracks that I didn't like. This album probably squeaks in to the category of "I'd listen again"

Would give this 5 but might have been influenced by nostalgia, love this album

Really enjoyed this album and the whole atmosphere it gives off! Super fun experience!

Amazingly well formed for a debut album. Sounds immediately like Arcade Fire. Remember hearing it for the first time and being blown away (h/t Stu Fletcher).

nice!! enjoyed

Surprisingly enjoyable. Interesting enough to lift it from the usual indie rock

הכי טוב עד עכשיו, אין לי מה לומר

An early aughts indie classic, obviously.

Fuck, I had notes but forgot to save! It's a good album, very theatrical and purposeful in it's songwriting. Back half had me hooked more than the front. Gave it 3.5 on rym sooooo I'll give it a 4 here

This album was good. Right up my alley. Their hit, Wake Up? Way good. Except the end was part I’d never heard before and I didn’t like the end of that song as much as the beginning.

Me gustan mucho mas son 3 trabajos posteriores, sobre todo The Suburbs que sería un 10. Pero es un buen disco

"He tore our images out of his pictures He scratched our names out of all his letters Our mother should have just named you Laika" (Neighborhood #2 (Laika) Debería escuchar más Arcade Fire porque la verdad es que me gustan un montón.

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" Released: June 20, 2004 "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)" Released: March 28, 2005 "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" Released: May 23, 2005 "Rebellion (Lies)" Released: September 12, 2005 "Wake Up" Released: November 14, 2005

Indie rock

Better than I thought given that I'm not a huge fan of the singer's voice. Also possibly because one of their famous songs (Wake Up) seems to be my least fav so far.

Pretty good actually...

Takes me back to Ontario! Rebellion lies is still fun.

Man, this brings me back. Great record.

Poco pero muy poco le falta para llegar al 5.

Really accomplished debut. Although I'm not a die-hard AF fan like most of my peers, I really enjoy them, their fun, great live, as is this album. I know most of this album despite never owning it, they are simply so pervasive. Love the rich instrumentation, driving rhythms, big dynamic variations. The most folky/americana style songs are less my style (Kettles). It's hard to judge this album without the hindsight of knowing the phenomenon they would become. It certainly is a stand-out amongst the proliferation of long forgotten 00s indie bands. Favourites: Neighbourhood # 3 (Power out) - ominous minor bass strings Neighbourhood # 1 (Tunnels) - tension Rebellion (Lies) - anthem

Shorter Album, enjoyed the vibe. Very spacious and full of feeling. Most likely has an external cause that drove the album to be made the way it is. Moves like a story.

Pretty Chill Music

Wake Up is a hell of a song but this album is good to listen all the way through.

Nothing stuck out to me, but it was pretty good

Yes fine, ok then

What cave have I been living in the past 20 years? Never heard of this group. Enjoyed it! Oh Canada!

This album came out when I was a sophomore in college so I remember it vividly. I had one roommate who was kind of a dick and he really liked it so it soured parts for me at the time. Regardless there is a nice theme going throughout this of growing up and forgetting your humanness, which as I get older I think about more and more. Wake Up was so overplayed that I can't listen to it much anymore, but the other tracks are still great. Not something I'd always listen to but was a nice thing to come back to.

At first it was fine but didn't stand out. Listening again, though, I like it more.

4.5

Classic. Great study album

Love me some Arcade Fire

My revisit to this record made me like it waaaaaay more than I used to. I do really like some Arcade Fire songs but I never loved the band. I’m gonna revisit more of their older records.

Great album. Fantastic band.

отличный альбом, один из интереснейших в современном альт-роке. очень печальная работа, в которой такие элементы, как скрипка и орган, сидят совершенно спокойно и лишь добавляют эмоциональности.

A wonderful album!

Modern classic and wake up is legend. Hell of a first album.

So I guess Arcade Fire is art rock/indie rock, which explains why I like this album so much so far. It's exactly my vibe. I don't know if it's objectively amazing but subjectively, I like it very much.

Best debut album of all time? No, but damn if this one isn’t ambitious

7/10

the singer is so fucking annoying but very good instrumentals, somber feeling

I used to love this album when I was younger, and it is by no means bad at all - but now that I'm revisiting it, I'm realising that beneath all of the passion and grandeur, there's a real lack of substance on a lot of these songs. There's a whole lot of uhs and ahs, and some of the songs are a little corny, while others just don't get as intense as they try to - I think the lead vocal (which is also great at times) and the kinda flat production has a lot to say here. It is very genuine and I appreciate that alot, but the songs are just not quite there. I did really enjoy "Haiti" and "In the Backseat" though, the highs are really high. 7/10

Seventeen year old Scott is reemerging from his slumber to sadly nod along to Funeral. 38 year old Scott (39 in just over a week) thinks it’s decent enough for a wee Sunday walk by the river. Favourite track: In the Backseat

If the arcade is so fire, how come we're having a funeral instead? If you pretend that joke is funny, then it's actually pretty funny Very listenable, exactly what you might expect

I've never really gotten into Arcade Fire. I've heard their more popular songs and I think they are fine, but I've never been inspired to listen to anything deeper. So this was my first time listening to a full album of theirs and the first time hearing most of the songs on the album. I have kind of the same feeling I've had for a lot of the albums I've gotten here lately.... it was fine to listen to, but nothing really stood out for me and I don't know that I would seek out listening to it again. I know that Arcade Fire influenced a lot of other bands that followed them and they've been extremely successful over the years, so no problem with this being on the list. It just doesn't really do much for me personally.

Not for me, but also can appreciate the musicality. Very 2005.

Nice album but not really my taste

Not my kind of music, sorry

❤️‍🔥 it's just a pretty great album 💥neighborhood #1 (tunnels) 💥neighborhood #3 (power out) 💥wake up 💥rebellion (lies)

Not my style

I know this was huge when it came out and the reviews are insanely good (maybe too much), but for me this just feels so early 2000s and doesn't do much. Wake Up is a great song but also so overplayed. This type of sound just doesn't speak to me. That said, I appreciate the concept here and it's not a bad listen at all. I'm glad people find meaning in this. Top Songs: Crown of Love, Wake Up, In the Backseat

Sounds like the Killers and the Lumineers merged to form a band for people who are too cool to like the Killers and the Lumineers.

There's a reason I rarely listen to anything recorded in this century. Points for being Canadian, though, I guess.

There’s a lot to admire here. It’s massively ambitious, a sprawling epic of a thing which is far more accomplished than a debut album has any right to be. The songs are beautifully structured and build in huge crescendos….. but….. sometimes the ambition gets in the way and it almost becomes this huge impersonal edifice that doesn’t allow you in easily.

I enjoy the indie flare to it, but it just never grabbed me the way some others did.

One of those where it has all the elements of an amazing album but just really doesn’t land for me

Quite good, not all tracks for me

Listened to it while running. Some nice classic indie songs but some a little generic.

Reminiscent of teenager years

Repeat listen

Didn't grab me, but I'm intrigued

Good album, nothing extraordinary but nothing bad. I enjoyed this band's vibe on the last album on this list. Only problem is a lot of it sounds the same and blends together but still a good quality band and album

It didn’t grab me

Not really a big indie rock fan. It was nice listening, but nothing that moved me, made me wanna dance, or would make me choose it over something else to play.

3 songs I really like, the rest are very mid

not bad music, just kind of forgettable

Álbum interessante, mas não estaria entre os mais memoráveis da minha vida. 3.5/5

Not bad! Kind of dreamy

Wow what a nostalgic start to this whole thing. I remember listening to this on my green ipod mini in my year 8 classroom. Shame the guy turned out a dick but also what an era for collage style album covers. I kind of want to use this as a diary but I don't know how to write anymore! This feels like the Wes Anderson movie of music, heavy on the twee but I still vibe with a lot of it. Hard to separate from my teenage self though.

was never all that hot on this despite being heavily into the pitchfork-core of the era growing up. still sounds a bit staid in its grandiosity, and often made me wish i was listening to a different band, but there are some affecting songs here and besides Wake Up i enjoy everything on here in a passive sort of way

I thought this was just okay. 5.5/10

Need to hold a wake for my outsized memories of this album.

Good album - hangs together nicely. The music isn't quite right for me though.

6,7/10 wkurza patetycznością

Absolutely love this album

Samma sound med ett malande komp, men inte samma klass som Neon bible vi tidigare haft. Saknar låtar som riktigt griper tag. Svag trea.

I liked the instrumentals. CLASH was the word i would use with strong rumbling rolling sounds. I didnt love the vocals with a drawn twingy pitch that made words difficult to understand, but felt like it suited the album.

I listened to it once and it left my ears as soon as I finished it

Meh

Up and down here. Wake Up is awesome, and has been on my playlists for a long time, as well as Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), but the rest of the album struggles to ascent to such heights. I can't decide if it's the overwhelming choiriness at times, or perhaps some lackluster delivery that holds it back.

i went through phases with this album. first, it was cool to like Arcade Fire, then it was cool to hate Arcade Fire, then it was cool to like them again. I listened to this album again when we drew it for the first time in probably ten to fifteen years and found it mostly okay with a couple of standout tracks. i dunno that i'd revisit it again by choice, but i don't hate it so it's probably a high three. it's one of the "big" albums that reminds me of the phase of my life where i jumped on the train called "i hate this band because they're popular"

it played and was on

Definitely some bangers here, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I remembered. I found many of the songs to be very messy from an Audio perspective, like I couldn’t tell what was going on until the instrumentals cleared up. 3.5

I think this is the least enjoyable Arcade Fire album, mostly because of Butler's voice (I'm glad it changed in later albums). There are still some stunning moments across the album.

This just used to do a whole lot more for me. I think Arcade Fire might just have to be one of those bands I totally lose touch with.