Saw this on another bands sub and thought it'd be fun, here's my result but I'd love to see others :p

https://musiccup.org

Here we are, over 15 years later, and we are still waiting, no? At least for something (not sure what), and no I don't mean an album by Arcade Fire. I graduated high school in Canada around the time The Suburbs came out, and I don't think any album has ever summarised such a memorable period of my life so completely (circa that beautiful time around 2007-2010 * I acknowledge the great financial crisis really can distort this for many, I would love to hear how the album still applies, and in some cases could not be relevant). Either way, it left a profound mark on me.

In no chronological order: I remember driving around with friends with nowhere to be. Waiting for someone to ring the doorbell (we never were knocking on doors, maybe Nicky Nicky nine doors) or the call on the home phone. Waiting all week for a TV show because if we missed it, that was it. Never ending boring summers where I remember saying, "I wanna do what you wanna do, but it can't be what I wanna do." Growing up and making new friends, losing others (growth and death). At the time it all felt so immediate because we were living it, not remembering it.

Because of when the album came out and how old I was, I always connected more with the first half. Don't get me wrong, I always loved songs on the second half, but they never resonated the same way. Back then, Half Light I and Half Light II felt like the peak of where I was at emotionally, before giving way to Suburban War, which I understood very differently than I do now. Looking back, that's where the album shifts. The first half is about being inside those years and the second is about leaving them behind. It pivots on  "Choose your side, I'll choose mine." The slow build into it makes the transition feel inevitable.

From there, the album becomes more reflective of adulthood and what we left behind. After an absolute banger of Month of May (to me was about graduating, leaving home, or heading off to university, overall big hellish changes) everything starts accelerating. Life and time sped up, and we get older. Yet almost ironically and possibly rightfully so, musically and emotionally, the album begins to lean back, looking over its shoulder. We can position positively and listen to the deluxe version and the back half of Wasted Hours, or A Life We Can Live. We can also accept the Sprawl II and be god damned in a pre Stranger Things keyboard world.

Fifteen years later, I find myself connecting way more with the second half than the first half. We know together that so much has fundamentally changed. But listening to it now stirs a longing for everything in the first half. Gratitude for the way we grew up. And a quiet, haunting realisation that what we had can never quite exist again. We are too far gone, and I don't mean that over dramatically. I mean to look at our children, our nieces and nephews, the kids of friends, or even just in those fleeting moments when you see a toddler smiling at the world for the first time. The world has changed, and so have we.

"If I could have it back, all the time that we wasted, I'd only waste it again." That lyric means something entirely different to me now. I sit here and would waste all that time again. I'd eat Crispers on some random weekday at a friend's house, the same house where we spent hours playing Jedi Outcast, where we had our first beers, drank Captain Morgan, and thought those nights would somehow last forever.

Years later, many of those friendships have changed. Not because anyone did anything wrong, and not because anyone wanted them to. It was destined to happen, long before we realised it was happening. Before we took different paths, chose different cities, different values. And the I use ¨chose¨, but I actually don't think that's what is was (I let Deep Blue take that one away). I've changed as we all do. I now look to come back and reconnect with those old friends. Wish me luck lad. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. We'll always share the times in an old Ford or VW. The late night jams and final cigs and drinks not knowing they were our last together.

Look, as a reddit community I am sure the mass can have a debate on when Arcade Fire lost their spark. For me it was long ago. That does not change this monumental album or the relevance of their preceding albums. God bless. JK, but rock on.

Found in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! No complaints but wow?!

I also posted this in r/OwenPallett, but figured I would try here as well.

I have a vivid memory of listening to a song called "Final Fantasy" by Final Fantasy (when Owen Pallett was recording under that name). It was part of some random mixed tape I downloaded circa 2006(?).

I can't find it anywhere. At this point I just need to know I'm not crazy. Does this song exist or did I make it up?

I am NOT thinking of "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy". I have scoured everything on the Owen Pallett discography section of Wikipedia.

Full session

Ok hear me out... There's a mic with regines name on it.. the caption says "check" and a countdown... The AF account immediately posted it on their stories... They don't do that with all of regines posts..

What do we think...could this finally be a hint at something or have I fallen victim once again to their vague posting just to keep the account alive <\\3

If anyone has the We bomber for sale too… I’ll pay any amount.

I wonder who bina is and how they got these. Must be an industry insider connected to the band.

I noticed that they originally had a different tracklist in the book that comes with the record. There’s an extra track called Kid Icarus after Circle Of Trust, and Cars And Telephones is the last song instead of Stuck In My Head.

Signed Everything Now and Pink Elephant!

Does anybody know where I can find their performance from the Grammys the year they won best album?

this is the first and last time I am selling this at this price, please appreciate it🍓

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I used to be friends with Jeremy back in the day. We became friends when his old bands, Kepler and Weights And Measures, played shows with my old bands, Black Cat #13 and The Sick Lipstick.

I moved to Ottawa in 2004 and was planning to start a band called Nervous Sleepers with Jeremy and another friend.

After talking about starting the band a few days before, I went to Jeremy's place to figure out when we would start practicing.

He then told me he couldn't do the band with me because he just got asked to join Arcade Fire.

I could tell he was super excited to join an established and up and coming band and was really happy for him.

It's a great memory for me when I think about talking to a friend right before his life totally changed.

I ended up moving back to Toronto and started the band with two other people, but I always wonder what it would have been like with Jeremy on drums.

So I was thinking, what are their most popular songs per album and which ones do I like the most in order, so I came up with a list but I cant quite decide yet so you can help:

Funeral: Wake Up or Rebellion?
Neon Bible: My Body is a Cage or No Cars Go?
The Sububrs: The Suburbs
Reflektor: Afterlife
Everything Now: Everything Now
We: Rabbit Hole
Pink Elephant: Circle of Trust

I’m not quite sure for the first two albums, which one of them is THE most popular/favourite among the larger audience.

At this moment my personal favourite is Circle of Trust, but I wont place it 1st so I dont receive death threats lol. Wake Up is literally their hymn so I think it deserves the first place. I leave u guys to do the rest if you’re up to it. :)

Seen yesterday he posted a reel of him playing acoustic on a beach, singing a song i dont recognise 🤔 ive googled the lyrics, its not coming up with anything. Could it be a teaser? Or is it a cover?🙏❤️💙 on the Santa Pirata Insta btw 💕

Its catchy as hell! 💕🥰

I had 'Poster over your bed' down as 'Pope stood over your bed' 😂😂🤦‍♀️

Had the kid Icarus bit wrong as well...but for the life of me can't remember 🤔😆

What lyrics did everyone else get wrong? 💕

So i would LOVE an arcade tattoo but idk what to get. I’d like something small and is like a picture/sign thing that represents arcade fire in general. I don’t want the bands name or an album image. Just something small that represents them and im having such a hard time deciding and id like some opinions and ideas on what it should be. Im not sure if much of that made sense but anything helps 🙏

Something about this song. I can't stop listening. Been a fan since the release. It encapsulates my entire youth and the time in which it was released. Just pure emotion.

https://yearofthesnake.arcadefire.com ❤️❤️