Music Banter - Arcade Fire

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Originally Posted by ForgottenHero

^Hey we've all got our own opinion, and thats just fine. Though I dont know what you mean by everyone, there are 6 posts in this thread (mine makes 7), and i did 2, and you were the 6th one! i mean hell, thats not exactly everyone. Besides, we all got our own tastes. Thats all, no big deal.

I said people I know , not people on here. I know people have their own tastes , but that doesn`t explain why people like something.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I guess you must have missed the ones where I said good things about Joy Division , Lee 'scratch' Perry , P.I.L. , Nick Cave , Belle & Sebastian , The Clash , Muddy Waters & many others.

I`m only asking why people think it`s such a good album thats all , You think it`s a good album , fair enough. I`m only asking whats so great about it.

^ We dont really need to say WHAT it is we love about it. We just do. It's like everything else. Some people can't see what others see in certain things. It's just how it is. We don't need to get all scientific here, it's just music. Now all that being said, I like some of those choices you listed, most notably being Joy Division.

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Originally Posted by ForgottenHero

^ We dont really need to say WHAT it is we love about it.

Well no you don`t but this is a music forum after all & i`m trying to get a debate going .Reading post after post saying 'i think they`re great' gets boring

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Well no you don`t but this is a music forum after all & i`m trying to get a debate going .Reading post after post saying 'i think they`re great' gets boring

I agree with you on that. But at the same time, we were just answering the dudes question. We all said we liked it, so its hard to be diverse when we all agree on what he was saying.

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Originally Posted by ForgottenHero

Everybody loves Joy Division!

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Originally Posted by hookers with machineguns

Everybody loves Joy Division!

haha, I have noticed that. I just hope they dont get beat to death, and become the one band everyone wants to talk about, then soon, idiots adopt it, and yadda, yadda, all downhill from there.

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Originally Posted by ForgottenHero

haha, I have noticed that. I just hope they dont get beat to death, and become the one band everyone wants to talk about, then soon, idiots adopt it, and yadda, yadda, all downhill from there.

And I get called the 'elitest' one around here

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I guess you must have missed the ones where I said good things about Joy Division , Lee 'scratch' Perry , P.I.L. , Nick Cave , Belle & Sebastian , The Clash , Muddy Waters & many others.

I`m only asking why people think it`s such a good album thats all , You think it`s a good album , fair enough. I`m only asking whats so great about it.

Someone who likes Belle and Sebastian calling another band monotonous. I think I've heard it all now...

I said that I said something good about them , I didn`t say they were one of my favourites

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Right so i`ll probably get flamed to hell for this because it seems if you don`t agree with popular opinion you`re 'arrogant' or 'elitist' but what the hell i`m past the point of caring what people think.

Seriously i`ve seen so many normal rightminded people go nuts about this album declaring it the best thing ever , people who`s opinions & tastes I normally hold dear , wetting themselves over it like R Kelly at a primary school.

Yet it`s one of the dullest things i`ve ever heard, there are already a million bands that sound like this lot , what are they doing to deserve such praise?
Seriously every song to me just sounds like a monotonous drone.The thing just has no life in it.Easily the most over rated album i`ve heard since the first Interpol album.

I'm possibly going to get flamed for agreeing with this, but this is exactly my experience of this lot to a tee. The most resepcted of friends musical-taste-wise, who have introduced me to the most beautiful and wonderful bands, have claimed this the best album to come out this year. I just don't see how/where/when/why.... maybe I'll listen to it again...

The most overrated thing since interpol in general, imo. ;)