ARCADE FIRE - EVERYTHING NOW

I think it's meh

What the fuck who still cares about this band?

>>73116511
Why do they still fucking bother with music videos.

Really, who is still watching music videos, especially "indie" rock music videos if they aren't directed by some Hollywood auteur?

And the song is meh. I loved this band a lot but they aren't making music that feels pretty dated right now. Actually this sounds a lot like ABBA what the fuck.

holy shit this song is so laughably bad

>>73116511
Jesus they really are a piss poor ""indie"" U2 now. Musically, lyrically. and stylistically

it sounds like U2 and ABBA had a baby

>>73116511
I don't hate it, but I'm worried.

Usually Arcade Fire albums have one really fucking good single and the rest of the album is overlong ehness. Right now we're starting at okay.

that's bad enough to be on the radio

>>73117005
Arcade Fire was already on the radio moron

Oh no, they've lost it haven't they? This isn't bad, but it seems their glory days are over.

>>73117018
your college NPR station doesn't count

>>73116956
This

>>73116871
>now

Lol they've always been shit

>>73116511
>stealing the 1975's aesthetic
/ / A R C A D E F I R E / /

>>73117045
Alternative airplay:
>Ready To Start - #16
>Reflektor - #17
>Afterlife - #22
>We Used to Wait - #22
>Keep the Car Running - #32

Rock airplay:
>Reflektor - #24
>Afterlife - #43

AAA airplay
>Modern Man - #8
>Reflektor - #11
>I Give You Power - #18
>Afterlife - # 18
>The Suburbs - #26

>>73117074
Funeral is still easily one of the top 10 rock albums of the 2000s.

Eh I thought it was pretty decent actually, get a more Fleetwood Mac-y vibe off it than anything.

Never thought I'd say this but it's a 5/10 at best. Too bad because it starts off good.

>>73117193
too repetitive

does anyone else just want a fucking indie rock band to have shit production and no access to electronic instruments? this is getting boring

>>73117373
there's a whole wave of bandcamp trash you may like

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>>73116511
Why does every big band walk the same path of coming out with something great, then slowly descending towards mediocrity?

Arcade Fire has literally become U2.
A couple years from now we will roll our eyes everything they release something.

Every fucking 21st century band keeps going through the U2 phase:
>establish self as serious, earnest rock artists amongst tastemakers
>have a real breakout/hugely acclaimed album
>shift direction to experiment with electronic music
>keep doing that but making it blander
>then start incorporating more elements of your old sound again, but blander
>5 - 10 years later, you've become completely irrelevant outside of group of hardcore fans

>>73117074
'no'

Why does it sound familiar?

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>>73116871
>>73116895
>>73117437
>>73117453
>U2 is bad

>>73117103
those don't count retard. I mean actual radio. That plays normie shit

>>73117524
80s U2 was good
90s U2 was alright
00s U2 was mostly trash
10s U2 who even gives a fuck

It's because of the >>73117453 phase

It's a good song.

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>>73117549

>>73117453
Sounds like Radiohead

>>73116511
It's boring

>>73117691
Yeah, Radiohead are also casualties of the U2 effect, though their fans don't want to admit it.

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>>73117691

>>73117577
Shit taste. I fucking despise people like you who praise mediocrity. Kill yourself.

>>73117757
You must be great at parties, anon.

>>73117777
q u a d s

c o n f i r m

>>73116956
>one really fucking good single

Did you listen to any of their albums more than once?

>>73117757
lol. You're the type of kid to dislike a band because of it's audience.

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Their new "Website" is cringe.
>windows 95 aesthetic
>2017

Following in the footsteps of U2 they have become old, rich and out of touch with their core fanbase. Yet still going through the motions

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>>73118045
>video.mp3

>>73117691
Only if you look at their EMI records.
Every album after HTTT has been vastly different from anything else they made before, and in no way is neither In Rainbows or KOTL "just blander versions of their old sound".

>>73116771
me

Man, I feel like they let Regine run a bit too wild with the melodies these two records.

Just basically make a sweet hook and a few cool melodies, also throw in a very repetitive 2-3-note thingie on some unusual instrument, then just drown everything out in bass and drum.

Actually would love if they went the Bon Iver way, but alas it seems that them getting a cold reception for Reflektor means this one will be definitely a very "safe" record

I feel like it's a very context-sensitive single, the lyrics certainly hint at something more darker following that, so maybe they just use the contemporary 8 layers of irony shtick. Although then it'll be very weird to release it as the first single. Maybe the album will be better.

All I can think of when I hear this song is Father John Misty's Total Entertainment Forever

>>73117453
accurate

This is painfully mediocre. Reflekor at least had good lead singles. This album is already starting out on bland.

>>73116511
How do you go from one of the most beautiful indie rock albums to this drab song

>>73117453
hey whats that on the horizon
>tame impala

>>73116511
fucking love it. It's like ABBA

>>73116771

Me.

>>73117453

Don't forget the part when they start taking themselves way too seriously and put out a pretentious concert film intermixed with interviews proclaiming them to be the absolute pinacle of human achievement. Both U2 and Arcade Fire went through this phase.

>Best New Track

>>73116511
"I'm in the black again
Can't make it back again"

D R O P P E D

>>73116511
This will be the first universally-agreed-to-be-mediocre Arcade Fire album, I guarantee it.

>>73116511
>That many closeups of Win's face
Terrible choice.

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>>73119589
>HEY YOU GUYS!!

Great track. Maybe one of their best of this decade. I don't get the hate. The strings are fantastic and fluid, the message of the song is uplifting and as far as "pop" songwriting, it's written incredibly well with ear popping melodies and harmonies. Also, the production is better then 90% of the songs on Reflektor (That's right, I'm talking to you James), and in general it sounds like an improvement and refinement on the Indiesco sound they introduced on Reflektor

>>73119631
>and as far as "pop" songwriting
Yeah, I would be fine with this if Arcade Fire was a fucking pop group.

>>73119631
>Also, the production is better then 90% of the songs on Reflektor
that's because it was produced by Thomas of Daft Punk

>>73119533
if shitty lyricism is the main concern here you should've dropped them fifteen years ago

>>73116771
Me

I like the song. But we will never have another Funeral or Neighborhood #1.

It's like waiting for Muse not to be shit and top Origin of Symmetry.

Have the entered their All That You Can't Leave Behind phase?

>>73119779
>It's like waiting for Muse not to be shit and top Origin of Symmetry.
They did, it was called Absolution

It's a very Talking Heads sounding song. Very much like Burning Down The House.

You guys would probably have hated talking heads too 4 or 5 albums into their career when they started being influenced by world rythems and synths.

Trends repeat. Lots of bands started out rock at the end of the 70s and started using synths in the 80s when they became popular. That's not a bad thing.

Anyways the songwriting on this sounds much closer to funeral than reflektor

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i was wrong, it's actually very good

>>73119856
kek

>>73116771
Me. You just got FIRED.

>tfw love Arcade Fire but think this song is meh as fuck but now that I know it's produced by Thomas Bangalter I'm trying my best to like it

>tfw new Foo Fighters is better than this

>>73116771
Me.

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>>73119856
So BNTs go only to p4k legacy acts like Arcade Fire/The National/LCD etc, or top 40 pop. Got it.

Why everyone is comparing this song to ABBA? Sounds like Bowie Low era to me.

>>73116771
Me.

Kek, this song is awful. RIP

I think this song fucking rules, but I seem to be the only one.

>>73116771
you

There my favourite band but my god I hate this fucking song, there's also another song off the album on YouTube and it sounds equally as bad. Why couldn't they just stick to making sweet nostalgic songs, why are they going down this electronic route :(

>>73121033
It's not because it's electronic. It's bad because it's just a fucking disco song.

>>73116771
I do

>>73116771
I care. They're one of my favorite bands.

>>73117530
"Alternative radio" basically plays normie shit anyways. Stuff like twenty one pilots and Lorde dominates "alternative radio"

>writing the song off based on your first listen

literally what the song is talking about

>>73118526
am i from another timeline? I remember reflektor getting great reviews.

Liking this aesthetic better than Reflektor.

A very very good first track.

>>73118526
Neon Bible did the worst. Reflektor did very well.

>>73121250
How many times must a person listen to a song before they're allowed to say whether they like or dislike it?

first thing I though was ABBA, especially that middle part

>>73117730
ah yes, i especially love the Pablo Honey influence on TKOL
you dumb fuck

>>73116511
LOL ABBA IM DEAD

>>73121333
liking or disliking is plebbery

>new War on Drugs
>new Demarco
>new Arcade Fire

A good year lads.

I enjoyed reflector "supersymatry" is probably my favourite song if there's I'd be happy If this album has 3 decent songs because the two I've heard are awful

>>73121370
Yeah I'm hopeful for War on Drugs, but I suspect this will be the first Arcade Fire album to be a total let-down.

we need hamsters on this.. too much pan flute

>>73117691
This is really wrong, they started with really crappy albums and they got better progressively, they peaked (for sure) but they're not going downhill or getting worse as the case of U2 or Arcade Fire, they're still relevant making good albums

>>73116511
at 0:50 I had a physical reaction of absolute repulsion and want to stop living.
>>73119196
don't you DARE compare this to them. It's not that good.

>>73121389
>i enjoy having dyslexia
fixed 4 u

>>73116771
Me, tour, excited

>>73121467
pleb

>>73121478
Typing on my phone.

also what do y'all think about the bonus songs on reflektor? i actually prefer them to all the core songs

there was a period a few weeks ago where i kept listening to those same 6 deluxe songs again and again

It's good for a while but it's quite a long song without much happening. Either make it shorter or switch it up a bit more.

>>73121500
Oh shit I didn't even know they HAD bonus songs for Reflektor. Gotta look those up now.

>>73121514
They're pretty bad

>>73119631
How, exactly, is it uplifting? The lyrics are about a family that has a bunch of shit they don't need and pretend to be happy

>>73116771
I do

>>73121333
8

>>73121553
Yes it's about that but, the main point is that media dominates the world, and there is no genuine human emotion in the world.

Every inch of sky's got a star
Every inch of skin's got a scar
I guess we've got everything now
Every inch of space in your head
Is filled up with the things that you read
I guess you've got everything now
And every film that you've ever seen
Fills the spaces up in your dreams
That reminds me

They're going back to their "rebelling from the modern world" aesthetic.

>>73121615
This

>>73121333
zero times

also GOOD TRIPS

>>73121615
Also to add to that the song also says that media is no substitute for real human contact.

Take note 4chan neets.

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>>73118435
>>73119221
>>73119721
>>73119945
>>73120153
>>73120214
>>73120947
>>73121071
>>73121108
>>73121488
>>73121555
>2017
>Listening to arcade fire

>>73117519
Cause it's extremely generic and derivative

This is just dull. I like disco pastiche and I like minimal electronic pop like the beginning, but neither is good. I was indifferent to most of Reflektor but those songs were fantastic live, I even see this translating the same

and we need to bad Win from ever writing a lyric about a car ever again jesus christ

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this was garbage, just compare it to neighborhood #1 after listening to that song. They should have quit after the suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_IHjWXbuM&list=PLA75D108EFD1732E1

>>73122012
different =/= bad

>>73122012
faggots like you would complain that "they're just releasing the same album again and again!" if they didn't innovate

>>73122029
its different and bad

>>73122048
they should just make music that is enjoyable. This song is bland

>>73122048
No, that first album is just so alive and exciting compared to the sexless dance music they've done on their last two.

>>73116511
Song is a minute too long.

>>73116771
Nobodies

I just leaked

Everyone ITT talking shit about Reflektor must've never seen them live. Plenty of the songs on the album are phenomenal live

>>73122509
I've seen them live and you're fairly right, but that doesn't change the quality of the album

It's really not good.

Funeral and The Suburbs will always have a place in my heart though. No other albums can give me such pangs of nostalgia and longing for my teens.

>>73122012
desu their new song isnt much different from this one

Reminds me of the Reflektor single - I thought it was pretty meh first 2-3 listens then grew a bit more after that

It wasnt until the full album came out that I was able to actually appreciate the song more

>>73121408
They haven't made a classic album in a decade. They're starting to slip little by little, though they've had a great run for sure.

>>73121514
don't, they are cringe-inducing

Funeral = Reflektor > The Suburbs > Neon Bible

>>73116511
https://youtu.be/jBU79RRE7GY

Better or worse?

>>73119856
epic xdxd

>>73123700
>neon bible last
>it's their best album

kek

>>73116871
>t. efrim menuck
https://youtu.be/kso9IU7_yy8

>We want the ABBA crowd

>>73121391
If you expect an album to be a let down and it shit is it really a let down?
hmm...

>>73121514
most of it is garbage, get right and crucified again are tolerable

>>73123700
Reflektor > Funeral > Suburbs > Neon Bible

that being said, Neon Bible is still a great album

>listen to arcade fire
wtf i want to kill myself now

I used to like this band, but then they insulted daddy Trump and I had to delete all their albums

The song is alright but the chorus is TERRIBLE. It's really bad when the "hook" of the song is the worst part. That boring repetition of "everything now" is such bad songwriting.