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These guys again?
Did not enjoy this at all.
Hot garbanzo garbage
nose que tipo de musica es esta pero no me gusto nada, 0.
Not my cup of tea at all, intently, wannabe artsy, fuck off arcade fire. Giving this one star is way too much.
Jag trodde nog att tidens tand skulle gjort mig aningens mer vänligt inställd till det här. Men ju mer jag lyssnar nu desto mer frustrerad och närmast provocerad blir jag. Runt den här tiden och lite innan var det hur många band som helst som sysslade med den här crescendopopen i olika former, det var oerhört tröttsamt. Det var väl egentligen bara Flaming Lips som lyckades nåt sånär (?). Bristen på vettiga låtar döljs av ett enda långt vanvettigt crescendobyggande. Allting låter så oerhört överspänt, AF verkar dessutom dela uppfattning med Yngwie Malmsteen att "more is more" och hela bygget utmynnar i en bombasm som är både direkt osmaklig som obefogad. Jag minns att när den här vågen pågick som allra mest, lyssnade jag väldigt mycket på Tom Waits, det måste ses som nån slags sundhetstecken.The XX kom också i den här vevan med sin känsliga minimalism, det var oerhört befriande. 00talets hipsterkultur hade inte många rätt, i synnerhet inte vad gäller smak, det är väl AF ett typermpel på. Att dom ett par år senare gick och sålde sin själ (om dom nånsin hade nån) till Google gör knappst saken bättre
why is this app shoving arcade fire up my throat???
Didn’t like this at all. God knows why I’m having to endure a second Arcade Fire album. I wanted to give this a two, and point out that everything is done competently but the longer it went on the more it infuriated me. For me, it’s insulting that this is placed on the list next to some records that are in different leagues. I’m sure that can be said about a lot of albums here too. Maybe I’m just not receptive to it today, but I’ve got to be honest with myself and in approaching this list.
Bad, very bad. Just not good at all.
Not really into this, pretty watered down Christain rock it feels like.
Alright, for the quantity of times I see them in festivals here in Brazil, I knew it would be either very ok or very pretentious. It's the second option. This is a big what if Florence + the Machine wasn't a good vocalist and lyric genius with identity. Seriously, it's good baroque pop, but with a weak singer and bland lyrics, and the vibe is a bit weird for some reason. Apparently it's supposed to be inspired by some big names according to Wikipedia... Is Dylan, Elvis or Springsteen with us in this work? I can't see. Win Butler said he "watched a lot of TV preachers, get-rich-quick schemes on YouTube." Like buddy, believe me, you could explore this serious problem of greedy exploitation of faith in better terms. This is not as good as it could be. I wish a better songwriter would challenge themselves with this theme. I give it a 1 for imagining Florence doing this theme.
Das Album ist wie ein 45 minütiger Song; und leider kein guter. Absolute Monotonie, Gesangsqualität schlecht und manchmal schläft jemand auf einer Kirchenorgel ein. Ja, ich bin verkatert, aber je länger es dauert, desto mehr fühlt es sich wie eine Stecknadel unter dem Fingernagel an, die man ab und zu ein wenig hin und her bewegt
I do not like this. At all. Why is this even on the list? At least The Black Album rocks.
Time to close the arcade.
I don't mind the actual music! For 'my body is a cage' the sound is actually very enticing. But jesus christ I hate the singer's voice and the lyrics is so repetitive and grumpy.
really couldn't vibe with this. the organ, the vocals. this indy 2000s stuff just isnt for me. it's atmospheric and melancholic but i need some energy or i guess something more interesting for me personally. i could see and know ppl into this but i can't get past some of the fundamental elements of this soundscape 1/5
Uninteresting and monotonous.
I didn’t hate all of it
Hated.Boring and annoying.
Nope. Creep.
Ridiculously boring.
nah. I understand a lot of people like these guys. I am not one of them. Their LP, "Funeral" was ok. I simply find nothing redeeming in their work.
You can clearly tell the band would end up where they have recently, musically speaking. In hindsight, it's mostly indie-pop slop with a lot of pseudo-intellectualism and sometimes overbearing noise and sonic elements that make the production value very weird to me. To address the big (pink) elephant in the room, it's impossible not to feel that it is disingenuous the way the band portrays its sound and themes, knowing what we know today about its lead singer. Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna die before I listen to any more of Win Butler singing.
1.9
pre one direction o david bowie chafa
The instrumentals on this album are mainly used to fill in the sound instead of driving the songs forward. This combined with the weak vocals make the album an absolute slog to get through.
Out of the 3 Arcade Fire albums I’ve listen to so far this one is the worst, and it actually makes me mad. I know that with 1001 albums on this list sone of them will be bad, but it seems like filler like this makes up half the list.
i didnt really hear anything special
Tremendamente malo. Ni me voy a molestar en detallar todo lo que no me gustó.
previously only listened to my body is a cage on this album - so far do not like the first song "black mirror"- It is a bit too alternative for me. - this album is sooo boring I actually cannot. - its giving men with man buns and beards that open a burger shop.
Zzzzz
kom knappt igenom första låten, så otroligt tråkig
millenial core
I understand why people compare this band to U2. They both have no soul.
Horrible
Did not understand the arcade fire hype then and do not understand it now.
Jedan od bendova za koji te ljuti da su stekli slavu, užasan album, užasan!! 1/5, 1/10
what kind of sick joke is it to listen to two arcade fire joints in one week? cmon dude
Nah not for me. Woke indie shit 0/10
Muddy and to self serious
This was crap
Boring as sin
Not in my wheelhouse.
This sht is ahh. A lot of the good reviews on this seem to be blinded by nostalgia. This sounds like the imagine dragons of whatever genre this is supposed to be.
sounds like a band that would have a dorky dress code on their tour
A real stinker. Self-serious dumb guy poetry to the highest degree. Chamber pop adjacent sound (already a hard sell) without any sense of humour or playfulness. Awful stuff, get outta here.
Not a fan
3/1001 скучная, претенциозная и затянутая хуйня дебильная манера исполнения + еще более тупые текста невыносимо слушать
скучный бред, таких альбомов будто сотни существует, тупо ост для осд. очень бесит голос и манера произношения. единственный трек который сильно понравился был испорчен мужланом этим. лан он буквально каждый трек своим скулением испортил
Meh Heard this one before seen them in concert Underwhelming before all the allegations against the singer, didn’t bother listening to again
Not for me
Fer fex sake, this is going to be awful and it was.
TS was mid
0/5. Mehhh!
worthless
Listened several times to this album. I wanted to hear something redeeming. But it just never clicked. There were some good riffs, but nothing great. It's a pass for me.
They have better songs. But the lead singer is cancelled now, right?
garbage
uhhhhh ok wakaflocka.gif
Not A Fan...Not my style of Music
Definitely my vibe, but something seems off about it. Like an amateur who has had no training in lyric writing and draws "inspiration" by copy/pasting from other songs and smashing them together. The music and vocals don't take their time. Every song feels rushed and improved.
"Neon Bible" is a confusing choice for one of the 1001 essential albums. Arcade Fire may have been early to the scene for indie rock, but when I think of indie rock classics, Arcade Fire does not even cross my mind. The songs feel the same, the instruments are distant, and overall I was waiting for this album to end.
Neon Bible is what I call "approximately". It is approximately pop, it is approximately rock, it is approximately indie. I can approximately understand what they're saying. It approximately sounds okay. I didn't know what to expect from Arcade Fire and they delivered nothing. The Well and the Lighthouse was nails on a chalkboard.
Don't get it.
Neon bible?! How about Neon Babble. The music is sonically fine and I can see why it was influential in creating the stomp/clap music like Mumford and Sons... or more like Blandford and Sons! I digress... But the lyrics on this album are just unbelievably cringy. Like, embarrassingly bad. I only made it to Black Wave/Vibrations before I just couldn't do it anymore. They sound like 15 year old trying to be clever but missing the mark. I would give this 0 stars if I could because of how bad the lyrics are. Would not listen again. Two thumbs down.
Listened while I did admin work…. It was so uncaptivating that I didn’t realize the album had ended and restarted.
Pretentious, repetitive, faux intellectual drivel
Dull Dull Dull
Just very dull! Couldn't finish.
Lol no way
Imagine dragons type shiii boring as fuck
Yawn. Next album, please.
1. Black Mirror: lots of paranoia, the overall feeling of being watched. The takeover of screens and the dependence on them is going to take over completely. Nobody can run away from it; the mirrors are everywhere and increasing as this was released in '07. This relates directly to the mass surveillance in the US, along with the rise of fascism and AI. This being the start, it paints a heavy and moody album ahead with outward dark themes. 2. Keep the Car Running: the Orwellian influence is so apparent, I think it was inspired by Why I Write and 1984, themes of dystopia and the political culture. The idea of patriotism and intelligence, the balance or everything crumbles. Thus far, I am not super into the drums and guitar here - it is very folk-indie, and it doesn't quite match. Like the ukulele here? Not sure. 3. Neon Bible: dealing with religion and culture, again inspired by a book - A Confederacy of Dunces. I do enjoy the critical view of holiness in the greed and corruption of politics/general culture. I don't love this track. Honestly, this album is giving "I'm so much morally better than you, and you should listen to my wisdom after I read some books that made me think." I don't know if that's justified, but that's how I feel. 4. Intervention: talking about the War on Terrorism and criticizing the politicians for lying and continuing to push everyone else down. The haunting patriotism and the chimes, consistent beating drums feel like an army instrumental. "Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home." The trauma that soldiers face when they come back, the inability to reintegrate into society. For what? For their life to fall apart under the name of "God"? "Been working for the Church while your life falls apart" -- all of this disaster and tragedies under the name of the State, which claims to be serving God. 5. Black Wave/Bad Vibrations: a reference to "Good Vibrations" about creating a new self and future. "Ce sera un long voyage sur les vagues de l'oubli." When Win Butler comes in, it kinda destroys what was built in the beginning. Also, talking about eating in the ghetto with an expensive plate... didn't land with me. I get the sentiment, but it could've been worded differently IMO. I like the outro a lot. Buildup is great on this song. 6. Ocean of Noise: this song is hitting another symbol apparent in this album of the ocean as a lack of control in life. The noise here is consumerism and propaganda. Especially nowadays, people get lost in their tailored feeds and fake news. They are lost in the noise of the internet, and we opened Pandora's Box, especially with AI. I am haunted by how closely this ties to how I feel about the state of the world currently. The piano is super heavy and sonically consequential feeling. The end feels like accepting the chaos of life and the massive ocean that we all exist in. "Time to work it out," along with strings/horns that feel more upbeat and light. Optimistic ending. 7. The Well and the Lighthouse: about a person who made decisions leading to ruin, following malice because of their poor decisions. I'm not sure what this track is doing on this album? "You always fall for what you desire or what you fear" is an interesting lyric here before the switch-up of rhythm/melody. The strings are so beautiful in this switch-up. I'm confused about this one and the message behind it, maybe I'm missing something... 8. [Antichrist Television Blues]: this song is inspired by Joe Simpson using his daughter Jessica Simpson, increasingly worse abuse. Super creepy reality of her horrible trauma with her father. Sacrificing his daughter and her well-being for fame and fortune under the guise of the Lord. The reference to the mockingbird lullaby is so gross, and fits how her father justified his actions. There are heavy biblical references, I am not well-versed enough to point them all out. The end is abrupt as fuck. 9. Windowsill: carrying potential pain from living with the singer's father, metaphorical or not, it could also be about the beliefs that the family held. "I don't wanna fight in a holy war"; "I don't wanna live in America anymore" - the way this is still the feeling almost 20 years later. The impact of TV and media, along with consumerism and propaganda, takes away his view from his windowsill (the way he perceives the world?). The message on this song captures exactly how I've been feeling about the world, anticipating another world war, and the incessant ads/propaganda fed to us. 10. No Cars Go: very big shift in energy from the last one. This is upbeat and joyous, I love the drums and guitar riff on this. I think the "heys" could've been left out, kinda reminds me of the Lumineers lol. I do enjoy the lyrics about knowing a place where you can truly escape the corruption and terrors of the world today. I'm wondering if that place is sleep, a place where the luxuries of civilization are obsolete. Lyrics are so basic and kinda don't have much substance in my opinion. I agree with a comment on Genius that a 12-year-old could've written these lyrics... This song dragged on for way too fucking long. I was cringing the last few minutes, I had a hard time sitting through it. 11. My Body is a Cage: drum beat reminds me of a pulse, pipes are haunting, and that organ is too. This song delves into the mental struggles of anxiety and the mind holding one back from their potential/what would make them happy. I think I've heard this one in Euphoria, and it was such a heavy song that fit well. This song is relatable as someone with extreme mental health issues. I feel like the music builds to an anxiety attack or total shutdown. I don't feel strongly about this album. I get what they were going for, but it just gives a false higher morality vibe, and that contradicts all the messages in the song. It doesn't flow through super well, and I just think it's alright. I would not listen again. He just kinda cringes me out, icky vibes from him. Turns out he's a creep!
MEh
2/10
This album was so unenjoyable that it caused me to temporarily abandon this project after over a year of consistent listening. I always try to listen through the whole album, but I just have to give this one star and move on
🙈
I hate Arcade Fire
1 stern
Boring
If they’re giving out awards for “most overrated band”, these guys are up there along with U2 and Coldplay. This is a finely polished turd
whole lotta yapping. like shut up brother
Too much drama
There is nothing new here, I see no value in this record.
One album you mustn't listen to. Absolute crap.
Sounds like Imagine Dragons if they were a Christian Rock band
"Arcade Fire - I liked their album that came up earlier. I wonder why I'm finding this one kinda boring and annoying...". {checks review of Funeral} "Oh. Never mind".
This was another band that passed me by in the early 2000s for some reason. Initial impressions were that this was by the numbers indie rock with a heavy Coldplay influence, but as it went on it grew more irritating. They threw what sounded like a choir of children into the mix but it was the singer’s voice that had a wheedling ‘please feel some emotions’ vibe to it. Anyhoo, turns out he’s a massive online sex pest, so this album can get in the bin.
Fairly convinced I'm not going to like this. Sounds like a bunch of hipster church kids formed a band. Someone take that bell away from the kid.
Terrible cover artwork. And I find this sort of thing a bit tiresome. Sounds like indie-by-numbers, mashing together all the 'best' bits of various other bands. It feels calculated and empty. Throw that into the new world where not only has every band that every existed reformed and gone on a reunion tour, but at least one member of any given band will have a skeleton that will pop out of its closet at some point and it's hard to just enjoy this as music, given that backdrop, whether true or not.
Chirst. I fucking hate this indie shite.
Nah.
Just not for me.
Boring!
not my fave
I can find no reason to recommend this to anyone.
I feel like Jean Girard after watching Highlander. I continue to be baffled by the hype around this band. So far it's the best album I've heard from Arcade Fire. It's like Bruce Springsteen but bad, boring and forced through a 2000s hipster filter.
Yuk!!!
Not good
3.67 rym indie di merda 1/5
overblown, pseudo-dramatic, like a goth ELO, with hints of U2 and occasional nursery rhyme melodies.
Mmh
Wasn’t a fan of their style
What a load of crap.
Terrible
I used to love them but after learning he’s a d*ck and part of the Me Too problem o can’t support that
That was bad, like terrible. I hit play... Skip... Skip... Skip... And stop... No thank you.
Horrible and uninteresting.
Denso, aburrido y pretencioso.
Not For Me...
The music was OK but the lyrics were disgraceful
I like Ocean of Noise. The rest of the album just feels like an ocean of noise
Black Mirror sets the tone with a real pop vibe - something I'm not a fan of. Kept the car running - Happy Clappy crap. Neon Bible - slow and ok Intervention - dreadful It drones on and on, track by track, in the same vein. Not for me. It's a 1 star
Black Mirror: 4/10 mid Keep the Car Running: 6/10 best song ig Neon Bible: 4/10 Intervention: 3/10 what is happening here Black Wave / Bad Vibrations: 5/10 Ocean of Noise: 5/10 The Well and the Lighthouse: /10 (Antichrist Television Blues): /10 Windowsill: /10 No Cars Go: /10 My Body Is a Cage: /10
Do they want to be Bowie or Springsteen? Can see this album being the soundtrack of an angsty teen movie. Over the top and not enjoyable.
Nothing Bible.
bok gibi
No thanks.
Nix für mich
Not for me.
Annoying voice, sry
Day24 - i’ve heard of arcade fire but not their music and it’s not for me. every generation has their moody music but this is pretty terrible
I hated it. I’ve had a terrible run these first 4 days haha
sexual abuser
Not a fan at all. The singing comes off monotone and the music behind it never catches me. It quickly became background noise
Not my taste
kacke
extra boring U2
Aww...C'mon! I call bullshit. I have to question the validity of this list when we've had two Arcade Fire albums in two weeks, but nothing from Fugazi, The Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr., etc. Do better, Album Generator. Do Better.
Eh
I have tried to like Arcade Fire for years, but it still has never resonated with me.
Big miss for me. I am typically not into the whiney singer sound, and this album had it in spades. Alot of the sounds were... i dont know generic? I zoned out most of the album. I do like My Body is a Cage, but thats about it.
it's giving cold hotdog water, but the album flows alright
💩. Lyrics sound like they were wrote by a 7th grader trying to write above their skill level. Sometimes a female vocalist sings and it's okay.
Boring
No thanks!
The rare all skips album. Full of songs I would take as an opportunity to use the bathroom at a concert. Every song has at least one motif that bugged me. Like the same three notes on a chime at the end of every like. Perfect for walking at midnight after a middle school breakup
Not for me. Wasn’t expecting them to sound like that however. Still wanted the album to be over for the last 3/4 of it.
Despite being relatively recent, there wasn't much in here that I liked or felt was truly original. This album could have been from "U2" and I wouldn't have guessed any differently. First because it has a religious theme and secondly because there is a lot of borrowing going on in here. Without surprise this band came to relevance from being front-runners for U2. I have a fear that this list will be a bit too america-centric. There are some genres which hold a lot more importance to the north american audience (e.g. country) which will earn them positions on this list without being a musical novelty. Similarly there is a marketing issue of north americans waking up to a style only once it has been done by a north american band. I feel that's the case here.
Listened to 1/2 Not into the indie-style
Wynn Butler sucks. Next.
piss
1. black mirror - 1 2. keep the care running - 1 3. neon bible - 1 4. intervention - 1 5. black uuave - 1 6. ocean of noize - 1.5 7. the uuall and the lighthouze - 1.5 8 antichrizt - 1 9.uuindouzill - 1 10. no carz go - 1 11. my body iz a cage - 1
Durge
Pish
Ach, das sind Arcade Fire? Will ich nie wieder hören müssen.
Sucks balls
Dreary, tiresome dirge-pop. Use your time more productively by cleaning your shower out.
Shittiest band on earth makes a perfect soundtrack to wish to die faster
I don’t know what it is but I really don’t like Arcade Fire. The last album ‘The Suburbs’ didn’t quite hit home and this sank even lower. I think the chord progression they use just isn’t for me, or it’s too cheerful sounding or something. I wanted to like it, but for the whole album I just couldn’t wait for it to be over, and I wanted to skip every song. I think this is also the first album I rate 1 star even though the production and sound is actually good. Here it’s just the music that really don’t work for me.
I'll be honest. Though I actually think they're overrated, I'm dropping an extra start because Wyn Butler turns out to be a massive, misogynist douchebag. And he's about as Canadian as July 4th.
Arcade fire needs to be shot for this
Had some hope that this might be better than ‘Funeral’ after the first couple of songs. Newsflash: it’s not. It’s as pretentious, overdone, dramatic and whiny as ‘Funeral’ if not more. It’s a hard pass from me.
Meh. Will forever be remembered as the song (not album) that opened U2's indoor "Elevation Tour" concerts. The band got lucky...
Sorta forgetable
Not my music, too simple
This is music? Really? It's the most boring music I have ever heard.
Man, this really is just an "Ocean of Noise", huh? Really not good, and the addition of a member being an assaulter? Man, easy to hate this. It's pretty funny that this bad mix of Mumford & Sons and Modest Mouse is on here three times, yet nothing by either is on here. Not that I'm dying for Mumford & Sons to be on here, but all this feels like to me is indie rock with too much of a budget.
Arcade Fire are a band at the front and centre of the appalling, dismal state of music in the early 2000s. This album, coming in around 2007, does not do anything positive towards shedding that early-2000s plague of pompous overindulgence. It's ostentatious, pretentious and generally not pleasurable to listen to. I straight up don't enjoy it.
Nah
Technically terrific album. Plenty of talent and a great sound. But I'm a no. I'll side with against this-- again. https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2022/11/a-reckoning-within-the-arcade-fire-fandom/
Abuser. Whiner. Did not listen.
Fucking corny
this isn't even in the top 1000 albums of the 00s