Arcade Fire

by **SeanBe** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:44 am

zabird wrote:You should go see Brian Jonestown Massacre then. If you like nutty frontmen, Anton's your man

Cool. Cheers.
They've been around a good while, haven't they? I've heard of them for ages, but never investigated properly.

by **zabird** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:08 pm

SeanBe wrote:Cool. Cheers.
They've been around a good while, haven't they? I've heard of them for ages, but never investigated properly.

Yeah, quite a while, I think. Some friends are huge BJM fans and got me interested. Check out the movie "Dig!" for starters.

My favorite song of theirs:

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by **withahip** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:13 pm

Great tune, the guitar has that "Heart of Stone" riff with a much cooler vocal melody.

by **black francis** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:28 pm

by **withahip** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:05 pm

Those skateboards need some special sound effects when they do ollies and grinds . .those little knocks and scratches don't do the moves justice.

by **ufotofu** » Mon May 19, 2008 5:14 pm

There's a clip on YouTube of them performing "Keep the Car Running" with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It's like a fan high... the two bands combined are amazing.

by **black francis** » Tue May 20, 2008 3:20 pm

That sounds a bit sketchy to me but I'll give it a go.

Still listening to both albums and I stand by my initial comments. Black Mirror is still killing it.

by **fat cherry** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:40 am

can't say I get this band at all, or the buns references, such as they are, at least on this link. However the buns twitter today mentions that they won a prize last year and the link they give opens the site below:

An interesting idea I suppose but as al the warnings onthe page say, kind of processor intensive - has windows flying open all over the place, also takes some time to load. Recommends using Google Chrome which I dont have on my PC but worked OK-ish in safari, not at all in IE, or maybe thats intentional. Anyways you put your hometown/childhood home and part of the thing is.... well it'd spoil the surprise. Even so, I'm not about to rush out and buy this song.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

by **withahip** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:42 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxA2kR3r5bM[/youtube]

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:17 am

fat cherry wrote:can't say I get this band at all, or the buns references, such as they are, at least on this link. However the buns twitter today mentions that they won a prize last year and the link they give opens the site below:

An interesting idea I suppose but as al the warnings onthe page say, kind of processor intensive - has windows flying open all over the place, also takes some time to load. Recommends using Google Chrome which I dont have on my PC but worked OK-ish in safari, not at all in IE, or maybe thats intentional. Anyways you put your hometown/childhood home and part of the thing is.... well it'd spoil the surprise. Even so, I'm not about to rush out and buy this song.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Same feeling FC. I like some of their stuff, but not a band that generally excites me. I got meself a copy of Funeral when it came out and haven't really felt a burning desire to revisit them much since. Still, I can see why alot of people like them. Not the Bunnymen references though, nothing similar at all.

That "processor intensive" website sounds a bit dodgy, like one of those porno sites from about a decade ago that would hijack your computer, download a trojan virus, re-direct your dial-up to some weird server in the Bahamas and then fire off multiple windows of porn pictures everytime when going on the Interwebs.

by **fat cherry** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:12 am

well its kind of interesting, in that its a bit of a non-linear kind of approach, and maybe the google browser handles it better but the windows have different stuff going on in them - some film, some animated images (birds flying) and some using the google earth thing to flash up images of where you put in at the start (oops, given it away now) and another you are supposed to write in (a message to your younger self, not sure about that, I htink I could pen a message from my yunger self such as, get on with it you old fart etc), and it all goes a bit slow after a while. Its certainly challenging for the anti-pop-up brigade. But again a kind of interesting experiment in multimedia. Visuals spoilt a bit because all the windows have the windows bar at the top. Maybe Chrome doesn't have those. My youngest sprog told me the other week IE was rubbish and I ought to start using Chrome. But on top of that the music's a bit dull. The one hipster put up was much better, and ahad a fit bird in it playing a violin. You see, thats what this bloke is up against in his modern approach.

by **crystal89** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:15 am

One of the best live bands, saw them at Ally Pally on the back
of their Neon Bible tour, and they were absolutely fantastic.

I'll never forget the *disabled* scotsman doing some crazy ass dancing.

Seriously go see them live, especially in a theatre type venue they're untouchable.

by **black francis** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:04 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:
That "processor intensive" website sounds a bit dodgy, like one of those porno sites from about a decade ago that would hijack your computer, download a trojan virus, re-direct your dial-up to some weird server in the Bahamas and then fire off multiple windows of porn pictures everytime when going on the Interwebs.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:26 pm

Well it was at the time, as the ISP re-routing ran up my phone bill very very fast with it redirecting it every time I went on the Interwebs, which wasn't that often back then. Had I not discovered what was going on and got the virus removed then my phone bill per month may have well cost the English equivalent of several thousand dollars. They were shit pop-ups anyway. Kind of like this if I recall:

by **withahip** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:29 pm

Dial up? When did that happen? 15 years ago?

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