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I used to write letters, I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met,
by the time we met, the times had already changed
So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart, I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was lost standing in the wilderness downtown
Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last
It may seem strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
(We used to wait)
we used to waste hours just walking around
(We used to wait)
all those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown
We used to wait, we used to wait
We used to wait, sometimes it never came
(We used to wait) sometimes it never came
(We used to wait) I'm still moving through the pain
I'm gonna write, a letter to my true love
I'm gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again, gonna move to the pain
Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last
We used to wait, we used to wait
We used to wait, sometimes it never came
(We used to wait) sometimes it never came
(We used to wait)
I'm still moving through the pain
We used to wait, we used to wait, we used to wait
We used to wait for it, we used to wait for it
Now we're screaming "Sing the chorus again"
We used to wait for it, we used to wait for it
Now we're screaming "Sing the chorus again"
I used to wait for it, I used to wait for it
Hear my voice screaming "Sing the chorus again"
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it
This is bad.
Yesterday my kids and I were reminiscing and they asked what that cool video song was from back when they were young with all the birds flying over the screen..
IT was of course "we used to wait" by the Arcade Fire and I was pleasantly surprised to see the web video still works.
Damn that was innovative - showing off HTML5.
For those who havent tried it, you need Google Chrome (possibly on a PC/laptop) and allow popups - you punch in your address, and the song video features satellite/Streetview images on your home in the song (in a very creative way). Very cool indeed.
http://www.thewildernessdownto...
That is super weird/cool. I think a million pop up windows have showed up but it does work!
IT was of course "we used to wait" by the Arcade Fire and I was pleasantly surprised to see the web video still works.
Damn that was innovative - showing off HTML5.
For those who havent tried it, you need Google Chrome (possibly on a PC/laptop) and allow popups - you punch in your address, and the song video features satellite/Streetview images on your home in the song (in a very creative way). Very cool indeed.
http://www.thewildernessdownto...
Maybe some negatively polarized stay silent in votes.
SO refreshing. Saw them in concert. Special. Energy.
You got that right. Blew the over-critical Zürich crowd away!
Surprised this is still playing on Radio Paradise. I'll have to pass until Butler's sexual assault cases are resolved. Up in Canada, Arcade Fire is off the air.
Be careful, sex is assault.
Yes we used to wait, which was no bad thing. A handwritten letter on the doormat was a lot more special and personal compared to an email.
Another great thing about a hand written letter...
They don't require electricity to read.
I know Arcacde Fire would be among top 3 on that list.
True enough. Letter writing is a vanishing art, more's the pity. A handwritten letter contains so much more information than an email, and is directly and intensely personal. I still have letters going back three decades, but I'm sure I'd not keep emails that long. Even if I did, the chances are they'd not be readable in 20 years hence. There's an awful lot to be said for 'analogue technology', and I write that as an IT tech of long standing. Can you imagine songs like "My baby wrote me a letter" in the days of email and text? "My baby sent me a text" just doesn't quite have the same romanticism, somehow...
Here's a song by Sir Mix-A-Lot (of Baby Got Back fame) bragging about having a pager. :)
I still like it.
Saw them live in Zürich, brought the house down big time!
so is the bas playing.
and the vocals just soar!
This must be the greatest band ever!
ha! ha! ha!
I did my best to create a new hump.
"Let's"? Are you changing your posting habits? Anyway, as I said elsewhere, please call me Mal. If you insist on being formal, I'd prefer Mr. Hate (not that I'd expect you to understand the reference).
One could ask the same about your typing.
Mr. Malice, let's try to be more positive with comments and less antagonistic.
One could ask the same about your typing.
Will you accept a 7 legged spider? This one is valued at $233.95
http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
H8ters are always loud. Self-justification. Say it loudly enough and often enough and it will become the truth.
Yep. This confirms my perception of them as high-school drama kids who take themselves much too seriously.
So you're that one person who *can* tell a book by it's cover?
You are right that the curve favors the band. It's just that the h8rs are vehement. Squeaky wheels, if you will.
Amen. Wish things would slow down a tad......Would not mind waiting once in a while
Go to the DMV. Some things never change.
Amen. Wish things would slow down a tad......Would not mind waiting once in a while
I bet you don't use public transport....
Yep. This confirms my perception of them as high-school drama kids who take themselves much too seriously.
Amen. Wish things would slow down a tad......Would not mind waiting once in a while
Kind of my reaction too. Catchy at first, but then they get repetitive and boring.
+1. Annoying for me. Must mute.
Love it!
https://thewildernessdowntown.com/
You'll need an HTML 5 browser like Chrome.
That interactive video is way cool, I agree, and you also need Google Earth.
This fantastic album won me over!
Cheers
PJB
arcade fire by radiochicas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radiochicas/
Neon Bible es uno de los discos que más se destacó y elogió durante 2007. Los responsables de esta obra son los músicos de la banda canadiense Arcade Fire.
Luego de un estupendo debut , la edición de algunos lados B y un EP grabado en vivo junto a David Bowie, se dedicaron a hacer un disco repleto de canciones sorprendentes y emotivas.
Este numeroso grupo originario de Montreal está liderado por el cantante, guitarrista, bajista y pianista Win Butler acompañado por su mujer, la también multi-instrumentista y cantante, Régine Chassagne, el guitarrista Richard Reed Parry, el bajista Tim Kingsbury y Will Butler, hermano de Win. Junto a ellos colaboran otros músicos especialistas en instrumentos de cuerda.
Además del combo instrumental tradicional de guitarra, batería y bajo, los miembros tocan el piano, violín, viola, cello, bajo doble, xilofón, teclados, cuerno francés, acordeón, el hurdy gurdy y el arpa. Esta inusual composición hace que sus presentaciones en vivo sean únicas y sumamente cautivadoras.
En los últimos años han sido los creadores de dos discos imprescindibles y que deben ser escuchados.
This photo was taken on March 7, 2005.
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That's pretty damn good, I'd say. I know the Dutch have a deserved reputation for coolness and sophistication, but that's still impressive. Do you have a link to the top 100? I'd be curious to see what else is tickling Dutch eardrums.
Arcade Fire are really growing on me. At first their sound irritated, then it was Ho-Hum, then it was intriguing, now it's edging into Likeable territory. It's the lyrics that are really doing it for me - intelligent, poignant often, and they make you think. I do like it when a band slowly but surely worms its way into my affections, like a slow-burning fuse.
As one of those ´cool and sophisiticated´ Dutch, I have googled up the full list you asked for. The 2010 Top 100 according to the listeners and visitors of https://3voor12.vpro.nl/
1 Mumford & Sons – The Cave 2 Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait 3 The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio 4 Moss – I Apologise (Dear Simon) 5 Go Back To The Zoo – Electric 6 De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig – Sterrenstof 7 Muse – Resistance 8 Pearl Jam – Just Breathe 9 The XX – Islands 10 The Black Keys – Tighten Up 11 Tim Knol – Sam 12 Yeasayer – O.N.E. 13 Kings Of Leon – Radioactive 14 Gorillaz ft. Mos Def & Bobby Womack – Stylo 15 Triggerfinger – All This Dancin’Around 16 Balthazar – Fifteen Floors 17 Absynthe Minded – Envoi 18 Graffiti 6 – Stare Into The Sun 19 Ducksauce – Barbra Streisand 20 Vampire Weekend – Holiday 21 Broken Bells – The High Road 22 DeWolff – Don’t You Go Up The Sky 23 Editors – Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool 24 Beach House – Zebra 25 Lucky Fonz III – Ik Heb Een Meisje 26 Kasabian – Fire 27 Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends 28 Caribou – Odessa 29 The Tallest Man On Earth – King Of Spain 30 Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar 31 Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn 32 Band Of Skulls – I Know What I Am 33 Flinke Namen – Wolken 34 Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You 35 Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires & Werewolves) 36 Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane 37 Garcia Goodbye – You Know Exactly How I Feel 38 The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing 39 Florence & The Machine – Kiss With A Fist 40 Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss 41 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 42 Local Natives – Airplanes 43 Band Of Horses – Factory 44 Selah Sue – Raggamuffin’ 45 Eels – Spectacular Girl 46 Blaudzun – Quiet German Girls 47 Jonsi – Boy Lilikoi 48 Opposites – Licht Uit 49 Villagers – Becoming A Jackal 50 Jack Parow – Cooler As Ekke 51 Torre & Roos – Iemand Dood 52 The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang 53 Fake Blood – I Think I Like It 54 I Am Oak – On Trees And Birds And Fire 55 Customs – Rex 56 LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls 57 Party Harders vs. The Subs – The Pope Of Dope 58 Pendulum – Watercolour 59 Midlake – Acts Of Man 60 Blood Red Shoes – Light It Up 61 Interpol – Barricade 62 Shaking Godspeed – Godspeed 63 Die Antwoord – Enter the Ninja 64 Green Day – Last Of The American Girls 65 Massive Attack – Paradise Circus 66 Biffy Clyro – Bubbles 67 My Chemical Romance – Na Na Na 68 John Legend ft. The Roots – Wake Up Everybody 69 The Mad Trist – Pay The Piper 70 Grinderman – Heathen Child 71 Manic Street Preachers – (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love 72 Typhoon & New Cool Collective – Bumaye 73 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix) 74 Kanye West – Power 75 Sufjan Stevens – I Walked 76 Far East Movement – Like A G6 77 Foals – Miami 78 Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel 79 Wolfmother – White Feather 80 El Pino & The Volunteers – There’s No Cure For Stupidity 81 Paramore – Brick By Boring Brick 82 Baskerville – Devil’s Town 83 The Temper Trap – Fader 84 Ginger Ninja – Sunshine 85 Hurts – Better Than Love 86 Kensington – Youth 87 Deadmau5 feat. Rob Wire – Ghosts ‘N Stuff 88 Mark Ronson feat. Q-Tip – Bang Bang Bang 89 Warpaint – Undertow 90 Kelis – Acapella 91 Antony & The Johnsons – Thank You For Your Love 92 I Am Kloot – Northern Skies 93 C-Mon & Kypski – More Is Less 94 Isbells – As Long As It Takes 95 Krach – And So I Do A Little Dance 96 Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love 97 Avi Buffalo – What’s In It For? 98 Deerhunter – Helicopter 99 SIA – Clap Your Hands 100 Magnetic Man feat. Angela Hunte – I Need Air
That's pretty damn good, I'd say. I know the Dutch have a deserved reputation for coolness and sophistication, but that's still impressive. Do you have a link to the top 100? I'd be curious to see what else is tickling Dutch eardrums.
Arcade Fire are really growing on me. At first their sound irritated, then it was Ho-Hum, then it was intriguing, now it's edging into Likeable territory. It's the lyrics that are really doing it for me - intelligent, poignant often, and they make you think. I do like it when a band slowly but surely worms its way into my affections, like a slow-burning fuse.
I think this is spot on point, I agree wholeheartedly!
11/10 and goodnight.............it's a bit late
I mean 11/10 for the quality of the comment by tutakea, sorry if you thought I WAS TRYING TO RIG THE VOTING. Heaven forbid, we're past the burning bushes now, eh?
I could not agree with you more...
Hear, hear (pun intended); as a resident of a town bordering Canada, we get more of this than most...
I could not agree with you more...
Considering 'Google'' is financed and partly run by the CIA me thinks I will give that a miss.
Proof?
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*the top 100 of a respected music foundation, no mainstream audience...
Considering 'Google'' is financed and partly run by the CIA me thinks I will give that a miss.
Dude, your tinfoil hat slipped off, the rays are boiling your brain; quick, duck into the dishwasher - it's your only chance. . .
Beg to differ. The best maple syrup is from Vermont.
And I'd like to see some growth, variety, change, flexibility of style from Arcade Fire before we go canonizing them.
I don't think he was canonizing them, but I agree with the Vermont sentiment.
For the record...Bill played Kathleen Edwards...no shatting occurred.
Edit: Oddly enough, the song was Change the Sheets, and in reading that song's comments I see someone made a previous poop reference. o_O
/I'll let it go now...no pun intended.
You might need one of these:
This is one of the reasons I love RP. HA!!
Can't do this on XM!!!!
https://thewildernessdowntown.com/
You'll need an HTML 5 browser like Chrome.
Considering 'Google'' is financed and partly run by the CIA me thinks I will give that a miss.
True enough. Letter writing is a vanishing art, more's the pity. A handwritten letter contains so much more information than an email, and is directly and intensely personal. I still have letters going back three decades, but I'm sure I'd not keep emails that long. Even if I did, the chances are they'd not be readable in 20 years hence. There's an awful lot to be said for 'analogue technology', and I write that as an IT tech of long standing. Can you imagine songs like "My baby wrote me a letter" in the days of email and text? "My baby sent me a text" just doesn't quite have the same romanticism, somehow...
"Well she wrote me a letter, said she couldn't live without me no more. Listen mister can't you see I've got to get back with my baby once more."
OR
My GF txtd me said she'd off herself if I broke up w her. Yo 'dude dya know what I'm saying - need to chill with her ASAP - TTYL
True enough. Letter writing is a vanishing art, more's the pity. A handwritten letter contains so much more information than an email, and is directly and intensely personal. I still have letters going back three decades, but I'm sure I'd not keep emails that long. Even if I did, the chances are they'd not be readable in 20 years hence. There's an awful lot to be said for 'analogue technology', and I write that as an IT tech of long standing. Can you imagine songs like "My baby wrote me a letter" in the days of email and text? "My baby sent me a text" just doesn't quite have the same romanticism, somehow...
Well, speaking only for myself, I have emails going back at least 15 years.
https://thewildernessdowntown.com/
You'll need an HTML 5 browser like Chrome.
True enough. Letter writing is a vanishing art, more's the pity. A handwritten letter contains so much more information than an email, and is directly and intensely personal. I still have letters going back three decades, but I'm sure I'd not keep emails that long. Even if I did, the chances are they'd not be readable in 20 years hence. There's an awful lot to be said for 'analogue technology', and I write that as an IT tech of long standing. Can you imagine songs like "My baby wrote me a letter" in the days of email and text? "My baby sent me a text" just doesn't quite have the same romanticism, somehow...
When I was in high school I used to write letters back and forth with a girl I went to school with. I don't remember how we started writing letters back and forth, but I always looked forward to getting a new one from her. It was odd, we didn't really speak much in school (she was a grade ahead of me) and only went out once, but there was always something about getting her letters that made me happy.
I also don't remember why we never really dated. I remember she dated one of the school "rejects" for a while, maybe in my teenage ignorance I saw her as tainted somehow after that. She had a fantastically odd sense of humor that I didn't really understand then but would have enjoyed now, a way of linking every day things with obscure and odd concepts and ideas that was well beyond anything our classmates would have understood.
It's funny how something like that stays with you and helps shape the person you are as an adult. Without her brushing past my life for the brief time she did, I don't think I would have had the sense of humor that I have now.
Thanks Kerry, where ever you are now.
True enough. Letter writing is a vanishing art, more's the pity. A handwritten letter contains so much more information than an email, and is directly and intensely personal. I still have letters going back three decades, but I'm sure I'd not keep emails that long. Even if I did, the chances are they'd not be readable in 20 years hence. There's an awful lot to be said for 'analogue technology', and I write that as an IT tech of long standing. Can you imagine songs like "My baby wrote me a letter" in the days of email and text? "My baby sent me a text" just doesn't quite have the same romanticism, somehow...
Beg to differ. The best maple syrup is from Vermont.
And I'd like to see some growth, variety, change, flexibility of style from Arcade Fire before we go canonizing them.
Yea, Vermont! Wooohooo! That's where I am. We're practically Candada, though.
I heard you play a distorted piano through the Walleye
I heard you play a distorted piano through the Walleye
Lulz. :) Were you over there for that? Hilarious.
I guess I'd better be careful where I go mumbling things like "What the hell is the big deal with Arcade Fire? They seem pretty dull to me..."
(Duck and run)
I'm going to go with two kids in Batman costumes all the same...
I'm going to go with Carol and K.W.
Saw them last summer at a 2 day concert. Widely regarded as the best act of the festival. Performance and sound-wise they blew the following bands (to name a few) out of the water that weekend:
Weezer
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Stars
The National
Devo (Yes, devo)
Snoop Dog
The Black Keys
Keane
Metric
I heard you play a distorted piano through the Walleye
I heard you play a distorted piano through the Walleye
fingerpin wrote:
I'm going to go with two kids in Batman costumes all the same...
fingerpin wrote:
Incredibly powerful project. I was really moved.
I agree, it really explores new territory for engaging the listener, I was really moved to have the house that I grew up in appear in the video, the crows are are a nice touch also - even my daughter the teenager was impressed..
of thier lives when in concert. They really love what they do and it shows.
So much talent in this group !!! Another fine product brought to you from Canada.
I'll take Arcade Fire and a side of Maple Syrup any time!
Beg to differ. The best maple syrup is from Vermont.
And I'd like to see some growth, variety, change, flexibility of style from Arcade Fire before we go canonizing them.
Agree 100%. There was a performance on the Juno Awards maybe 5 years ago that included an actual high school marching band and absolutely blew my mind. I've also heard from reliable sources that they're absolutely killer live, so I'm inclined to think the SNL performance was some kind of sloppy anomaly.
Saw them last summer at a 2 day concert. Widely regarded as the best act of the festival. Performance and sound-wise they blew the following bands (to name a few) out of the water that weekend:
Weezer
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Stars
The National
Devo (Yes, devo)
Snoop Dog
The Black Keys
Keane
Metric
And that's why they one 2011 Grammy's for best album of the year. Sez a lot about Grammy's or U?
You might need one of these:
And that's why they one 2011 Grammy's for best album of the year. Sez a lot about Grammy's or U?
of thier lives when in concert. They really love what they do and it shows.
So much talent in this group !!! Another fine product brought to you from Canada.
I'll take Arcade Fire and a side of Maple Syrup any time!
On the vinyl version of this tune the piano part fades out a bit then comes back in and keeps repeating (skipping back) at the end of side 3.
At first I thought the record was defective until I realized it was just a clever little effect!
They do that on lots of turntablist records, but I had no idea so many clever pop artists have made use of lockgrooves.
panlad wrote:
On the vinyl version of this tune the piano part fades out a bit then comes back in and keeps repeating (skipping back) at the end of side 3.
At first I thought the record was defective until I realized it was just a clever little effect!
But don't shoot him...
Don't shoot her, it's a chick. Wife of the lead singer and she does backup as well as Sprawl II, one of my favorite songs from his album. A deliciously imperfect voice if I've ever heard one.
https://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
thanks for sharing, supercool. I like these guys even more now.
On the vinyl version of this tune the piano part fades out a bit then comes back in and keeps repeating (skipping back) at the end of side 3.
At first I thought the record was defective until I realized it was just a clever little effect!
Six people in this band. How can so many people make such small and inconsequential sounding music?
Are some of the band members doing fashion design on their outfits, rather than playing instrument or vocals?