Album Description
The second album from Montreal’s Arcade Fire exceeds all expectations. With string and orchestral arrangements by two of the band members, “Neon Bible” is full of both half-assed punk rock mistakes and meticulously orchestrated woodwinds. Processed strings and mandolin. Quiet rumbles and loud rumbles. But mostly just eleven songs that the band thinks are really good.Amazon.com
For their second full-length, the Montreal-based seven-or-eight-piece Arcade Fire show themselves capable of Big Rock, as original, and as potentially marquee-topping as TV on the Radio and Sigur Ros. Regardless, the intentional murkiness of these pleasantly anthemic New Wave dirges makes it sound as if the music has already … More >>
NEON BIBLE
Yo. Everybody! Hey! Wow! I can’t believe how bad this is? What? Are you kidding me. What do you do? Where do you hang out? It must be wack. The first album was somewhat ok. If you’re into theater or something. This. It was just plain old the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my life. People! The emperor is naked. And it ain’t pretty. Rating: 1 / 5
man, i can NOT believe people are slobbering all over themselves for this ratty, third-rate Echo and the Bunnymen RIPOFF. i would rather listen to ian mc cullogh pass gas than listen to these clowns “sing.” i accidentally saw them live a few years ago, sadly touring with the once-fantastic David Byrne, and they were even worse live. totally lacking in originality. bunch of theater geeks doing “Bunnymen: The Lousy Outtakes Musical!” ugh. they are probably all very nice kids, but no, not even occasional geniuses bono, bowie, and byrne can trick people who actually know about music into buying this sad, boring nothing. Rating: 1 / 5
Come on guys, my son bought this for me saying that Michael Stipe and David Bowie raved about this band and he knew I was big fans of both. But, from the first cut to the last, it just does not go anywhere. I forget the cut, but the line is ” I don’t want to live in America anymore”, well guess what? Head back to Canada. I suggest do not waste your money on this CD. Rating: 1 / 5
I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it. This is the band that’s supposed to be the hottest commodity within the indie community? I’m sorry, was that a joke? I must have missed the punchline.
This is bar none, some of the most uninspired, boring, tedious, pretentious, and self-important drivel that I have been exposed to in quite some time (including Amy Winehouse’ excrutiatingly painful debut).
I am actually embarrased that they are Canadian considering the fact that we have bands like Metric, Stars, The Dears, Tokyo Police Club, Mobile, Pilot Speed, The Trews, The Deadly Snakes, etc. who each in their own respect, blow the hell out of Arcade Fire. There is no fire here, nor any soul to speak of, just a bunch of easily forgotten soundscapes that don’t even scratch the surface of a band like The Flaming Lips. What I’d like to know about is the actual criteria from which these “Stellar Reviews” are extracted. Maybe I’m missing something, I’ll admit that. But somehow, I don’t think so. Judge for yourself I guess. Maybe if they spent more time working on “actual songs” instead of dressing like freaks from an Amish community, they’d have a little more to offer, but then again, probably not! Rating: 1 / 5
If you liked the uniqueness and energy present and welcome in their first CD “Funeral”, then you are in for a surprise. This has to be the most boring, repetitive, mirthless, disappointing piece of garbage I have ever heard. While some tracks sound like they are being performed from the bottom of a well (or maybe from a hole directly connected to the underworld, I am not sure), other tracks sound like the instruments are being played by trained performing monkeys, who only know three chords. The subject matter is never funny, never fun, never smart; it is dull and depressing and basically trying too hard to be different, from the very beginning up to the very end. Reselling on Ebay? You betcha.
Rating: 1 / 5