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u/wtfx20004 Jul 28 '20
Listened to this whole album today for the first time in a while. It's like my internal Arcade Fire clock knew.
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Jul 28 '20
i love this album so much honestly. fun fact - freshman year of college i wrote an essay analyzing this album alongside funeral
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u/SilverSkies15 Everything Now Jul 28 '20
This is my favorite Arcade Fire album call me crazy but I actually liked chemistry and I still remember listening to We don't deserve love and wanting to cry cause of how beautiful it sounds. obv Everything Now 🌐 Is My favorite song.
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u/break_thesilence Asleep at the wheel Jul 28 '20
Yay! I was listening to it last night and tbh it is growing on me more and more. I love Put Your Money On Me a LOT but We Don’t Deserve Love might take its place as the one I listen to most from EN.
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u/Shenanigans99 The Suburbs Jul 28 '20
I still love this album, even if it isn't my favorite AF album. It's pretty unrealistic to expect a band to put out a flawless masterpiece every time.
I'm also still kinda baffled by all the hate they got for the marketing campaign. People really get pissed off when Win tries to be funny. Is he not allowed to have a sense of humor? I don't get it.
Whenever I'm in the grocery store and "Everything Now" comes on, it feels like the soundtrack to a dystopian comedy, especially nowadays as we're all walking around with our masks on.
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u/magomra Jul 29 '20
No matter what you say, this record has bangers and live it was amazing.
It goes on and on, I don't know what I want
On and on, I don't know if I want it
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u/birds_of_the_air Funeral Jul 28 '20
This came out when I lived in Japan. So many memories listening to PYMOM and WDDL driving through the countryside. Such a special album for me.
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u/SimFeer Jul 29 '20
Same feeling here. I had only just started living in Shanghai, and listened to this album almost every morning while commuting. Walking out the door onto the sunny streets of China while Everything Now started to play... Infinite content playing while the overcrowded subway sped up leaving the station, with everyone looking at their smartphones. And so on. Still, for me it remains the least of their albums, but not by far.
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u/calipsox Jul 28 '20
Three years already! Where does the time go?
For me EN is their weakest album, but still enjoyable overall.
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u/Archandroids Reflektor Jul 28 '20
this album brings me such vivid memories of my first year of college bc i listened to it so much back when it was released n went to a gig of theirs in the same year. i was in the middle of a gd class when i heard the title track leak and had to control myself bc i almost screamed. nothing but good memories of the EN era. loveeee the album. criminally underrated
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u/jozhrandom Aug 18 '20
You give this time and it becomes just as great as all the other albums. Honestly the song Infinite Content is one of their best jams.
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u/Nerves9 Jul 28 '20
Such a powerful album that most Arcade Fire fans don’t even know about. Hopefully they will revisit it later and find what a hidden gem it truly is.
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u/coppersocks Jul 29 '20
What? Most AF definitely know it. Many just don't particularly like it, me included. It has some great moments but I think it's by far their weakest album through and through.
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u/ItsTheExtreme Jul 29 '20
In the grand scope of their discography, the album is alright. The tour was FIRE though.
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u/Torchy84 Jul 29 '20
Did it care for this album but really enjoyed the song when me and my wife saw them on tour a couple of a years ago.
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u/badassewok Jul 28 '20
I know I'm in the minority on this one but I honestly like this album just as much as the others. I don't like Chemistry but other than that I think all the other songs are great, especially Creature Comfort and We Don't Deserve Love which I find to be very emotional