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Old 08-11-2010, 02:58 PM   #4031 (permalink)
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I really don't like Arcade Fire.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:00 PM   #4032 (permalink)
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For some reason a lot of people do, I mean it's a really good album, but I just can't see it being named one of the greatest albums ever...I mean it's not up there with Dylan or the Stones.
I didn't like it at all. It just didn't click with me. And apparently Battles is a bad rip-off of The Arcade Fire, so you'd think I'd like it.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:03 PM   #4033 (permalink)
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I don't really see much in common between the Arcade Fire and Battles tbh
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:06 PM   #4034 (permalink)
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I haven't really heard anything by Battles, I gotta admit, but if they are a sorta rip off band, I'm not terribly interested...
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:06 PM   #4035 (permalink)
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I don't really see much in common between the Arcade Fire and Battles tbh
Me neither, but everybody was complaining about that, for some reason.


@ Scottsy:
they're not a ripoff, not at all, but the pitchfork crowd was complaining about it. Here's one of their songs:
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:06 PM   #4036 (permalink)
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I haven't really heard anything by Battles, I gotta admit, but if they are a sorta rip off band, I'm not terribly interested...
They aren't even the same genre.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:06 PM   #4037 (permalink)
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I gave that fight up a long time ago.
I just don't see how grouping unlike things under a unified banner makes any sense.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:08 PM   #4038 (permalink)
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They aren't even the same genre.
hehehehe, well then I'll cut 'em some slack!
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:16 PM   #4039 (permalink)
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I just don't see how grouping unlike things under a unified banner makes any sense.
this happens all the time in music, though. look at post-rock, krautrock, post-punk, etc etc... they aren't so much descriptions of a SOUND, they're more just umbrella terms for a musical ideology or aesthetic. Swell Maps and Joy Division hardly sound similar, but they're definitely both post punk bands.

Classic rock is a particularly useless grouping though, in my opinion. I certainly don't think of Black Sabbath as a 'classic rock' band by any stretch of the imagination.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:21 PM   #4040 (permalink)
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I really don't like Arcade Fire.
Me neither. In fact, I pretty much hated them after getting sick and irrated by their debut. But their new one is pretty enjoyable. He quit crying.
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