Arcade Fire – Funeral
7″ – Built to Spill – “Car” and “Girl”
Funeral is the 2004 brilliant release by The Arcade Fire. This album is an emotional landscape of beautiful songs including the four Neighborhood songs, “Rebellion(Lies)” and the now sports anthem “Wake Up”. When the Arcade Fire performed Wake Up and Rebellion (Lies) at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in 2007 it was an almost religious experience and one of the best shows I’ve ever seen at The Gorge. For me I didn’t hear this album until early 2005 and it hit me like a lightning bolt. It was on repeat in my CD player and I-Pod for weeks as I was amazed at how original the album was. That’s the bottom line to this album it’s very rare to find a new album by a new band that it 100% original. Funeral sounds just as amazing now as it did five years ago.
The 7″ I picked today is “Car” and “Girl” by Built to Spill. Car is my favorite Built to Spill song… It’s the perfect pop song, has great guitar riffs and it’s over before you know it. I’m always stoked when I’m digging through 45′s at home and find this one. The B side is Girl and it’s a great Built To Spill song that sounds almost like a indie version of a pop punk song.
Arcade Fire – Funeral Track Listings
Side A:
1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
2. Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
3. Une Annee Sans Lumiere
4. Neighborhood #3 ( Power Out)
5. Neighborhood #4 (Kettles)
Side B
6. Crown of Love
7. Wake Up
8. Haiti
9 Rebellion (Lies)
10. In The Backseat
