Today is going to be my first full review in English, just to give it a try,
We're gonna continue our talk about the indie rock Canadian band "
Arcade fire" , and their very first album "
Funeral", which was released on 2004/2005, and was nominated for the
Grammy award for best alternative album and was ranked at #151 of the best 500 albums of all time according to the
Rolling Stone;
the album songs are more like a series named "Neighborhood" referring to different eras,
lets's get on with the first song:
Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_IHjWXbuM
the song is a mix of indie rock & post-punk genres, was released as the first single few months before the album, and was ranked at #10 of the greatest tracks of the 2000's according to Pitchfork.
the song is more like a theatrical opening, and i think it's about love and growing up during the counter cultural revolution during the 60's ;
the first verse is from the childish perspective, when he sings "
i'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours"
then comes the teenagers' "
our skin gets thicker" and " we let our hair grow tall" as an indication of the rebellish feeling teens have,
Finally, comes the adult perspective at the last verse "
then we tried to name our babies ...."
Neighborhood 2 (Laika)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siFsdInZqC0&feature=kp
I'm into the suggestion that the song is about Alexander Supertrampp and "Laika" the first dog to be sent by the Russians into the space, it's about how both left their families, and Alexander who left his miserable life,
and both were intended to be left there and meet their death at the end of the "adventure" .
another saying is that it's about the "Clockwork Orange Alex" but i'm not convinced .
Neighborhood 3 (Power Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqGiCXtvokM&feature=kpthis song is pretty dark, with lots of metaphors and verses like "
the children are dying in the snow" and "
don't have any plans/dreams"
the song is as if his dad dies of a heart attack, "power's out in the heart of the man" and having him buried 'ice has covered up" and the kids no longer have any elder or supervision, choosing fighting and many wrong choices,
then at the greatest injustice spots, the music kind of explodes, people then hiding out the lights from the kids and leaving them die !
Wake up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdNdjF-htY
another song to be ranked as one of the greatest songs in the 2000's by the NME and the Rolling Stone,
I even recently listened to the song in Ben Stiller's new move " the Secret Life of Walter Mitty",
the lyrics are relatively shorter,
the song is about growing up losing innocence, and about those little things we bury inside and continue ignoring them till they eat us up from the inside, leaving us cold and insecure,
Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfWC4Sgkcs
the song contains an extra genre, progressive rock, the song was chosen as one of the greatest songs of all time by
Pitchfork,
Blender, &
NME .
I find it absurd that some reviews claim that it's about that not sleeping will not kill you!
It's about rebelling (obviously) and that not closing your eyes to the "lies" is not gonna make you die.
The
Rebellion is about
Waking up against "
tuning everything out" and not letting the society or the system tell us to "like the peace
in the backseat" . the song is kind of connecting the whole album together <3
for those who liked the album ,
torrent links;
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3596842/Arcade_Fire_-_Funeral
Direct links;
http://www.mp3boo.com/mp3-download-arcade-fire-funeral.htm
and may Music be your guide :)
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