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Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
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The first song on Arcade Fire’s 2010 album The Suburbs. Like their other work, it’s concerned with growing up, but isn’t fictional – it’s about band members Win and Will Butler’s
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Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
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Arcade Fire reminisces on simpler times when everything wasn’t readily available to us and we had more time to ponder on our lives.
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Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)
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[Verse 1: Win Butler] / Alexander, our older brother / Set out for a great adventure / He tore our images out of his pictures / He scratched our names out of all his letters / [
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Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
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One of the most popular songs on Neon Bible, “No Cars Go” is an epic anthem that builds to a joyous climax, but is still one of the most immediate songs in Arcade Fire’s
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Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
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“Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” is a sumptuously theatrical opener– the gentle hum of an organ, undulating strings, and repetition of a simple piano figure suggest the discreet
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Arcade Fire – Everything Now
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The first single from Arcade Fire’s fifth studio album, Everything Now, was released while the band played a secret set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. A clip had already been
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Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
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Off of their concept album, The Suburbs, Arcade Fire explore one of the most prominent aspects of suburban life (sprawl) in “Sprawl II” (and its predecessor, “Sprawl I”). This
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Arcade Fire – Electric Blue
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Both a meditation on generic modern music and the crumbling of a relationship from a woman’s perspective in the modern age, “Electric Blue” (possibly a reference to the influence
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Arcade Fire – Wake Up
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The 7th track and the 5th and final single from Arcade Fire’s debut album, Funeral, “Wake Up” is one of Arcade Fire’s most popular songs, and the song that the band has typically
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Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
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The penultimate song on Funeral remains one of Arcade Fire’s best-loved anthems. As on many of the album’s songs, Win Butler adopts the persona of a defiant child, rebelling
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Arcade Fire – Haiti
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Chassagne’s evocative illustration of her homeland on “Haiti”, the country her parents fled in the 1960s is both distantly exotic and starkly violent, perfectly evoking a nation in
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Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
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“Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” is set in the North American economic boom of the ‘80s and ‘90s. It has been suggested that there was a blizzard in '98 that may have inspired this
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Arcade Fire – Deep Blue
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Deep Blue is the 12th track from Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. The track offers a post apocalyptic take on the decline of human creativity in an increasingly mechanized world.
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Arcade Fire – Intervention
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[Verse 1: Win Butler] / The king's taken back the throne / The useless seed is sown / When they say they're cutting off the phone / I tell 'em you're not home / No place to hide
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Arcade Fire – Rococo
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A look at conformism in today’s youth.
The major theme is that these young people go around using words such as “Rococo” to sound educated and artsy, without really knowing what
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Arcade Fire – Afterlife
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“Afterlife” had its debut on Saturday Night Live.
An official lyric video was released before the release of the Reflektor album, featuring clips from Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus
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Arcade Fire – Peter Pan
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“Peter Pan” is the fifth song on Arcade Fire’s new album Everything Now. The song gathers inspiration from the fictional character Peter Pan, created by J.M. Barrie. He has the
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Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
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This song is capable of being incredibly inspiring to average, everyday listeners just as much as it is to Arcade Fire.
Anyone who has ever worked for “the man” knows how
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Arcade Fire – Black Mirror
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Neon Bible is, in some ways, an unwelcome and very welcome departure from Arcade Fire’s predominately indie and cathartic songs from before. The first line, if you’ve heard this
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Arcade Fire – Modern Man
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[Verse 1] / So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man / And the people behind me, they can't understand / Makes me feel like / Makes me feel like / So I wait in line, I'm a modern man
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Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues)
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This song had alternative titles as it was being created, including “Joe Simpson,” who is the father of Jessica Simpson and an inspiration for the narrator of the song (see https
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Arcade Fire – In the Backseat
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This song describes the singer’s sudden thrusting into control of her own life after the death of her mother Alice. She describes her life before her mother’s death as “being in
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Arcade Fire – Vampire / Forest Fire
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[Verse 1] / You want to be set apart? / Burn all of your art repair the wasteful part / I'm a vampire in a forest fire / Hey! we all got to keep warm / Driving towards the storm
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Arcade Fire – Crown of Love
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[Verse 1] / They say it fades if you let it / Love was made to forget it / I carved your name across my eyelids / You pray for rain, I pray for blindness / [Chorus 1] / If you
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Arcade Fire – Suburban War
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This song is mainly about Win Butler’s old friend, and this song is the main theme of their short film, Scenes From The Suburbs.
In this film, the main character’s best friend
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Arcade Fire – Half Light I
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“Half Light I” forms the centerpiece of The Suburbs along with “Half Light II” This track explores the idea of growing up and seeing the Suburbs in a different light, a recurring
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Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
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[Verse 1] / A vial of hope and a vial of pain, / In the light, they both looked the same / Poured them out on into the world, / On every boy and every girl / [Hook] / It's in the
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Arcade Fire – Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
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“Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” is Arcade Fire’s second single from their sixth album WE, (annouced on 12 April via instagram post) following “The Lightning I, II”. The song is
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Arcade Fire – Joan of Arc
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This song exists on two levels. First, it tells the tale of Joan of Arc, the Frenchwoman who, according to a vision she claims to have seen when she was twelve, helps inspire the
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Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort
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Creature Comfort (an object that makes a person feel more comfortable or happy) was first played at Arcade Fire`s surprise warmup gig at Primavera Festival, on 01/06/2017
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Arcade Fire – Windowsill
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This song is all about watching everything lose control. Win said for that the medium motives for the album were TV and the ocean. He said the ocean represents lack of control
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Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Continued)
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The final song on the album, “The Suburbs (Continued)” is a short but poignant testament to the themes of childhood, memory, and growth that run throughout. The Suburbs often looks
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Arcade Fire – Porno
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In the internet age, pornography is more accessible than ever. “Porno” explores the effect that has on intimacy, both physical and emotional. Our narrator insists he isn’t like the
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Arcade Fire – Empty Room
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The fifth track off of Arcade Fire’s third album The Suburbs, this fast-paced tune about loneliness and isolation is one of three tracks on the album to feature lead vocals from
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Arcade Fire – Une année sans lumière
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“Une année sans lumière,” a French phrase translating to “A Year Without Light” in English, is the calm before the storm of the album’s next track, “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out
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Arcade Fire – Ocean of Noise
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The 5th track off Neon Bible explores the concept of an “ocean of noise” we live in. Similarly referenced in their track Reflektor, that time called the “Reflektive Age”, the “
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Arcade Fire – Generation A
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[Intro] / This is Generation A and we're not gonna wait! Argh! / [Verse 1] / They say wait a little longer / And the times are gonna change / They say wait until tomorrow
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Arcade Fire – Supersymmetry
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This song is about grief for a departed lover.
It was originally written for Spike Jonze’s film, Her.
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Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
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Perhaps the most understated of all of the “Neighboorhood” tracks from Funeral, “7 Kettles” is Butler’s reflection on the inevitable passage of time. The ‘watched pot’ in the
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Arcade Fire – Put Your Money on Me
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“Put Your Money on Me” details an intense love, and dives into the various uses and effects of money and how it changes people. It is viewed as a sign of confidence or strength in
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Arcade Fire – City with No Children
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The 6th track off Arcade Fire’s Grammy winning masterpiece The Suburbs draws on the album’s introspective themes of youth and adulthood, whilst drawing on biblical imagery. The
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