When he says "Your mother screaming" "That you don't deserve love", man, trying to picture a scene like that, is so hard. This lyrics are really heartbreaking. I love the contrast between the topic of the song and the light sound.
Describing my true experience with this song runs the risk of sounding fake. I just broke up with a live-in girlfriend of a few years, and decided to fly to Europe to visit wineries. I was half sleeping on the plane while listening to this album for the first time when this song came on. It struck me so profoundly that it woke me up. I looked out the window and was flying over the English Channel with the sun rising. The rest of that five week trip in the hills of Tuscany and deserts of Spain was defined by this song. I love it.
Your experience is so similar to mine. I, however, was flying over the Atlantic landing on Dublin. I cannot hear this song and not think about her, or the second her I met in Dublin. Every pint of Guinness since brings this song to mind. I love it so much I'm afraid of wearing it out so I don't listen to it often
I don't get it. It seems to have struck you profoundly that you 'Don't Deserve Love' - but you don't explain whether that's because of your previous relationship, your long-haul carbon footprint, or your alcohol habit. Please elaborate.
I think this album can show the ability that Arcade Fire has to create something sincerely beautiful. This feels like an unexpected kiss in an unexpected time of your life.
But it's funny that on every song someone says "best song on the album". I think this album will really grow on people and will be considered as one of the best.
widM- I agree 100%. This album is very different from the others and I see a lot of exactly what you said too. Every song has some people saying "this is the best on the album, you guys did an amazing job" and others saying "this is the worst album Arcade Fire ever put out. It's just terrible." I personally think that in 10 years a lot of people will be thinking "I hated this when it came out but now that it's grown on everyone else, and Pitchfork retroactively changed their score from 5.6 to 9.5 (Just like they did Radiohead's catalogue, they love to do that). Arcade Fire really did a great job not making the same album over and over."... Who knows though, maybe people will just give it the one listen and move on to what's next, I hope not though. Arcade Fire took a chance and I feel like they did a good job. I think the tracks I'm not huge on now will grow on me but Creature Comfort is amazing... Sorry for the book long response haha
How, in god's sake, so much people can state that this is not a good album?! This song alone is a masterpiece. Maybe one of the best poems written by them. Such a rollercoaster of emotions! In that sense, only comparable to Neighborhood #1 and Intervention.
This is an important remark! You like it because it's now familiar. Or, it's a "slow burn" of profound quality. This album didn't hit me instantly, although I was nuts about the single Everything Now. I went to two concerts. Tracks like this one are are now like comforting friends. The single Everything Now just seems like blah-blah-blah pop (although still a total hoot at a big concert!!) I think the album is generally great. Because it is familiar, or it has essential goodness in its soul? I don't know. Some of the crap I listened to in the 90s lights me up with hysterical nostalgia, although it's still pretty crappy.....
If God is Love... Love truly is all that we need to look at to live in God's light. Not a book, not a ritual, not bullying others into what you believe. Love is all we have.
This.... We saw Arcade Fire a few weeks ago... When they played this song, me and my best friend were just paralyzed, we just stood there, gazing at the beauty that was happening in front of us... Arcade Fire is one of music's hidden gem... I can't say anymore
cant explain the amount of love and nostalgia and hurt this song gives me, and I don’t want to explain it like everyone else in the comments is, because I’ll start crying
This song hits in a very real way. The rest of the album up until this point left me feeling quite empty, probably due to the masterfully vapid theme throughout the record, but then this song came in and hit me like a freight train. With this track, I think Arcade Fire is describing the heart of their new sound and what it all really means within the context of all the show and exposition going along with it. Good job Arcade Fire, you continue to wreck me ways I didn't even know I needed.
I gotta say, I really respect the new direction they've taken this album in, even though it took me a while to like the singles & some of the others have yet to grow on me. But songs like this are full of the very essence of Arcade Fire - I can almost imagine a stripped down version of this on the first EP. They sure haven't lost it.
God bless Arcade Fire for this outstanding, outrageous album. I dont need religion, I have Arcade Fire. My last Service was on July, 2nd in my Hometown, BERLIN!!!
This song make me feel that the whole album had a deep meaning. I felt so happy while listen to it this morning, and this is enough for me. Unfair critics, great album, meaningful songs, like this. Greetings from Colombia, see you in december : )
I read yesterday the critics review and they buried the album. And i was like, this is not true... Today i can say this is not true because sound and lyrics are awesome. Long live Arcade fire.
Are suggesting that people are lazy or stupid enough to simply copy the opinions of others? That rather than form their own opinion on something they instead look to somebody else's opinion and go with that? That's a rather shallow and baseless assumption to make. This album is dividing both critics and fans because it's quite far removed from the Arcade Fire we know and expect. Even more so because this album rarely plays into the strengths of the band, neither musically or lyrically. It's a scattershot of styles, some of which work better than others, and that alone makes the album hard to appreciate as a whole. It's not musically consistent in any way, shape or form. It's OK for people to not like this work. As much as it for people to love it. I can completely understand why many would dislike it. I don't think the world is entirely mindless. I believe there are plenty of people, Arcade Fire fans and critics alike, who are capable of forming their own opinions on such things.
yeah it's not really baseless when i hear some people clearly just repeating (almost word for word, sometimes) opinions i've already seen given in certain critical articles. there are definitely reasons to dislike this album but you can't deny that many people have a tendency to parrot the beliefs of those they look up to
This record is so underappreciated, and I just don't understand why - the message is relevant for the times and most of it works musically. There are a lot of good tracks, but this one's my favorite. Everything Now, Creature Comfort and Electric Blue are also excellent.
It's just that people in general don't react well to change. Even Reflektor was trashed when it came out. Neon Bible was called a sophomore slump. Its a cycle that always happens.
This, Put your money on me, Good God Damn, Creauture Comfort and Everything Now all are pretty brilliant. Peter Pan, Chemistry and Infinite content should have just been left off the album.
Every record that divides people is good in my opinion. It keeps music fresh and unpredictable which is what we need. The old albums still exist and you can't expect bands as good as this to stick to one sound. Let them do their thing and experiment.
I think that's fair enough. I think Everything Now was risky and for some it paid off but for a lot of others it has proven too drastic a change. Will be interesting to see how people view it in a year or two.
I meant more that the change isn't necessarily the problem but that the quality doesn't seem good enough. Consider how many of the album's songs just repeat the title of the song over and over again.
That's absolutely true. Lyrically the album seems weaker, but I'd also put a lot of that down to the disco genre format. Disco invites repetition and direct lyrics as opposed to alternative rock which has a greater capacity for rich lyrics and storytelling. I do agree that the quality is not as good as the other four albums though.
Huh, I didn't consider that. Some of the ones that repeat a lot aren't disco, though (Chemistry, Infinite Content - Infinite Content probably being the worst offender of the album). I actually don't think of the album as trying to be a dance album but as trying to be a pop album in the way Bowie/Talking Heads/etc. can be considered pop. It's also not specifically one genre in a way that's actually kind confusing. It's synth/electronic-heavy on about half the songs or more and guitar-heavy in about a third of the songs. Earlier records have diversity without giving up coherence musically, but I don't think this album is coherent musically (although theme-wise it's as coherent as the Suburbs if not more, it's just not very subtle about it). Maybe due to multiple producers? I don't know. Lyrically, maybe they should have chosen subjects that were more personal (or approached them in a way that was more personal and fleshed-out). Most of these songs feel very 3rd person observation (even when it's written from a first person perspective) rather than the 1st person narrative you see in most of their other work. It feels very much "kids these days", and while it brings up topics worth talking about, it's doing so a bit too blatantly and not adding much new to the conversation. Musically, instead of bringing on multiple producers to help them create something that they wanted, I think they should have taken the time to experiment on their own and figure out what they wanted to create, even if that took years longer. Month of May is one of the simplest songs on the Suburbs, but it took them years to get it where it ended up (the song actually references this), and I think it stands up as a great song. I feel like there are several songs on this album that could really benefit from more time. Also, some of the sounds they use on this album seem strange (occasionally just annoying), and I think more time might have changed that (more time - weird sounds seem less novel - they change it to make it more timeless), but that's speculation.
This song paints such an image. I just see 18 yr old Win driving down a long desert road at night in 80s Indiana, with a sad girl in the front seat. With flashbacks of the night seeing the girls religious mum and dad shouting at her and win saying "they don't deserve love" cause they are sinners, she runs away with him stops by their church to pray for forgiveness for deciding to run away from home that night, at the part of the song where win sings "come down off the cross" it's to tell her to come off the alter cause it time to go. and it ends with the back in the present on the deserted road driving into the sun rise
This lifts the whole album - One of their best songs ever in my opinion!! So sad and beautiful that my eyes are swelling every time. "If you can't see the forest for the trees, just burn it all down and bring the ashes to me". Those lyrics give me the chills.
Honestly this is one album I seem to always have on repeat everyday. The lyrics could have definitely been improved on for certain songs (we can all agree on that) but the beats are on point which is what hooks me into playing this album and singing along. Thanks Arcade Fire.
Arcade Fire always give me such strong emotions! I was so afraid while listening to the album that there won't be anything purely emotional but when chours came in this song I bursted out crying. I am so thankful for this track
like every arcade fire album. they have a song for every mood im in. this makes me feel totally hopeless of love , but that its how a feel today. on friday i was like kinda in a 'everything now' kinda mood. thats why i love so much arcade fire. its been like a soundtrack of my life.
Absolutely love their new album, I was over the moon when I gave it a listen on vinyl yesterday!! I just love how they've tried new things and still sound great, it's such a great aspect for a band to have!!!!
Alright. It's been a couple days. Here's my favorite band, but I was very confused by this album. I hated Peter Pan. Good God Damn was kind of boring. Both Infinite Contents felt pointless. But I spent a day listening to their full discography, re-listened to this, and I'm starting to really appreciate it. I know nobody cares, but I'm picking out a lot of classic Arcade Fire elements as well as some new aspects that only they could pull off in this album. What I'm saying is that I think I'm just really proud of Arcade Fire for always impressing and surprising me.
iamspinelli Yeah I feel a bit like you, Didn't like Peter Pan, found Good god damn and Chemistry utterly boring but this song, Put your money on me and Creature comfort kinda makes up for it imo... Signs of life too after a few listens
Listen to the album twice a day, once on the way to work, again on the way home. Of course songs pop into my brain as I work, the important lyrics "bubble up" as Regine might say. Newsflash friends....this is a classic album, the continuity is there, listen more carefully. Totally reject the argument there are weak songs on this album. That's a big nope. People, please put aside the need for nice, neat, 4 minute songs that are snug like musical LEGOS. Art is suppose to make you slightly uncomfortable. As Win said recently "people hated Wake Up the first few times we played it." Consider that for a moment. Now everyone gets all emotional because they have something to love and we all connect for a few minutes in the certainty of our common love and fear for each other, and our collective journey together. There is so little music now that deserves respect. Music your children will ask you about when they "Wake Up." Nothing on this album is a throw away. Since you reading this comment, you are probably a fan. On that basis chances are you are pretty intelligent, just enjoy the feeling. The walls of the diamond mine are all around you. Love all you people, whoever you are, however you arrived here....Peace.
Spot on.. They go out of there way to make mundane songs which are brilliant, look at normal person or we exist.. In another 4 years time they'll have another album out and people will be sayin I'ts not has good EN.. I'm not too keen on the disco theme tbh..
I love them so much and this song broke my heart. So effortlessly beautiful but so raw. It made me wonder what was this about. Luckily Win and Reg seem as happy as usual so i guess even if the song was about them, they got through it.
Anthony Fantano said the lyrics were cringy and all his fanboys jumped right on that train. I guess some people started confusing blunt with cringy. "Born in a diamond mine, it's all around you but you can't touch it". Some of the best lyrics since Reflektor. Great track, good album.
Okay here's the deal with Creature Comfort, it's one of the best songs on the albums but it's so obnoxious for him to declare how Funeral saved someone's life in such a blatantly show off-y way. I love this album and I think it will age very well, but dear lord Win why write such obnoxious lyrics
He didn't specifically say it saved her life. "she filled up her bathtub and put on our first record"...maybe she just gave up on suicide. Also, knowing the way Win makes his music - it probably happened so writing the truth isn't obnoxious.
Just an awesome tune. Liked it the first time I heard it - gets better & better every time. They better play this one live when I go see them in Chicago Oct 30.
I'm not sure what he means by that. Religious people, or guys with messianic complexes? Not sure. Its powerful and evokes feelings, but I don't know how to directly interpret it
This is one of the most beautiful and saddest songs Arcade fire has ever created! I can't understand how no one reacts to this or the "Money + Love" video..... I keep waiting for them to play it again at their concerts. Someday you'll get the love and recognition you deserve.
God, this is what I aspire to be a musician. This type of music. It's weird but it's great and an instant classic. One day i would want to get that point like Arcade Fire!
Yea after the new album release. This still is the most heartbreakingly beautiful song they’ve done. Regine’s heavenly vocals and Win at the end. Underrated album
Keep both eyes on the road tonight 'Cause I'm driving home to you A terrible song on the radio Baby what else is new? You don't want to talk You don't want to touch You don't even wanna watch TV You say I can't see the forest for the trees So burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me Keep both eyes on the road tonight 'Cause God knows where I've been Officer please, don't check my breath That ain't my only sin You don't want to talk You don't want to touch You don't even wanna watch TV If you can't see the forest for the trees Just burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me Keep you waiting, hour after hour Every night, in your lonely tower Looking down at all of the wreckage When we met, you'd never expect this And you said, maybe we don't deserve love Maybe we don't deserve love Maybe we don't deserve love We don't deserve We don't deserve love Maybe we don't deserve love Keep both eyes on the road tonight 'Cause I'm driving home to you Terrible song on the radio Baby what else is new? Been hiding my scars in broad daylight bars Behind laugh tracks on TV If you can't see the forest for the trees Just burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me Keep you waiting, hour after hour Every night, in your lonely tower Looking down at all the wreckage When we met you'd never expect this And you say, maybe we don't deserve love Keep you waiting, hour after hour Every night, in your lonely tower Looking down at all the wreckage When we met you'd never expect this And you say, maybe we don't deserve love Maybe we don't deserve love Maybe we don't deserve love We don't deserve We don't deserve love (We don't deserve love) Mary, roll away the stone The men that you love Always leave you alone Well go on Mary Roll away the stone The men you love always leave you alone You hear your mother screaming You hear your daddy shouting You try to figure it out You never figured it out Your mother's screaming That you don't deserve love If you don't deserve love And if I don't deserve love What could we deserve? Come down off your cross And tell me! It's always the Christ-types Mary, roll away the stone The one that you love Always gonna leave you alone Particularly the Christ-types Mary, roll away the stone The one you love Always leave you alone It's always the Christ-types You're waiting on
I put the new album to play and sat down playing any mobile game on my phone. I listen to everything thinking "well that is ok", but when it came to this song I took my attention from the cell phone and started to cry, a lot, inexplicably. I can't stop listening anymore.
I don't understand how people can trash an album that hasn't even been out an entire week. Reflektor took months to grow on me and I have a feeling this album will be of the same effect.
Not only is this the best song on the album, but I believe it's one of the best songs arcade fire has ever made
agreed. i think its my 2nd or 3rd AF song ever
A masterpiece among masterpieces.
I feel you....I really do...✌️
Aye
Agree. And nice picture
When he says "Your mother screaming" "That you don't deserve love", man, trying to picture a scene like that, is so hard. This lyrics are really heartbreaking. I love the contrast between the topic of the song and the light sound.
that part hits me so hard :(
Describing my true experience with this song runs the risk of sounding fake.
I just broke up with a live-in girlfriend of a few years, and decided to fly to Europe to visit wineries. I was half sleeping on the plane while listening to this album for the first time when this song came on. It struck me so profoundly that it woke me up. I looked out the window and was flying over the English Channel with the sun rising. The rest of that five week trip in the hills of Tuscany and deserts of Spain was defined by this song. I love it.
Beautiful. Shame about all this Covid Nazi shit. Keep on trucking as they say , noh in Scotland though , more like gan on yersel ")
doesn't sound fake at all. more real than anything in fact. im glad you shared your story
Your experience is so similar to mine. I, however, was flying over the Atlantic landing on Dublin. I cannot hear this song and not think about her, or the second her I met in Dublin. Every pint of Guinness since brings this song to mind. I love it so much I'm afraid of wearing it out so I don't listen to it often
I don't get it.
It seems to have struck you profoundly that you 'Don't Deserve Love' - but you don't explain whether that's because of your previous relationship, your long-haul carbon footprint, or your alcohol habit.
Please elaborate.
someone please tell me that I'm not the only one who cried like a baby with this song
i cried like a duck that had just lost a piece of bread.
ten minutes ago.
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd it can also be sign of amazingness
Could still cry
No no, def not the only one. It's a one of a kind song.
"Mary, role away the stone. The men you love always leave you alone". That line broke me.
Not only is this one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard but it’s also one of the songs that doesn’t get nearly the attention or respect it deserves.
I think this album can show the ability that Arcade Fire has to create something sincerely beautiful. This feels like an unexpected kiss in an unexpected time of your life.
Tiago Homder beautifully said, so powerful man
*clap* *clap* *clap*
you've just described the feeling
Wey concuerdo. Que deep, me encanta oli
This is gorgeous. Instant classic.
Sebastian Suarez You couldn't have even finished the song yet, what are you talking about?
Allé Karidi It's been out for a few hours already...
Allé Karidi album come out well before they put up these uploads of it
Siiiiii
Hate to be nitpicky, but "instant classic" is an oxymoron.
This is the best song on the new record, mainly because it feels the most effortless. Not repetative, not forced. Just beautiful.
Totally agree, the only one not too repetive and that builds and builds.
Its the only song on EN i like.
But it's funny that on every song someone says "best song on the album". I think this album will really grow on people and will be considered as one of the best.
widM- I agree 100%. This album is very different from the others and I see a lot of exactly what you said too. Every song has some people saying "this is the best on the album, you guys did an amazing job" and others saying "this is the worst album Arcade Fire ever put out. It's just terrible." I personally think that in 10 years a lot of people will be thinking "I hated this when it came out but now that it's grown on everyone else, and Pitchfork retroactively changed their score from 5.6 to 9.5 (Just like they did Radiohead's catalogue, they love to do that). Arcade Fire really did a great job not making the same album over and over."... Who knows though, maybe people will just give it the one listen and move on to what's next, I hope not though. Arcade Fire took a chance and I feel like they did a good job. I think the tracks I'm not huge on now will grow on me but Creature Comfort is amazing... Sorry for the book long response haha
The lyrics just beautiful. Implanted ideas even buried by time often arise and affect us for life and also our poor love ones, very sad but true. :'(
This song takes you to a different place. This is the arcade fire I love.
It takes _me_ to the _same_ place.
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How, in god's sake, so much people can state that this is not a good album?! This song alone is a masterpiece. Maybe one of the best poems written by them. Such a rollercoaster of emotions! In that sense, only comparable to Neighborhood #1 and Intervention.
It's maybe their best album. I think many realize that now LOL. But so many at first ragged on it. Such an amazing tune
Their voices in the last 2 minutes are magical! Favorite song along with Everything Now
I hated this entire album to death. Then I listened to it again...and again...and again.. and again.. and again... man. Arcade fire is amazing.
I still hate it, after all this time. :D
This is an important remark! You like it because it's now familiar. Or, it's a "slow burn" of profound quality. This album didn't hit me instantly, although I was nuts about the single Everything Now. I went to two concerts. Tracks like this one are are now like comforting friends. The single Everything Now just seems like blah-blah-blah pop (although still a total hoot at a big concert!!) I think the album is generally great. Because it is familiar, or it has essential goodness in its soul? I don't know. Some of the crap I listened to in the 90s lights me up with hysterical nostalgia, although it's still pretty crappy.....
@@jeffimber7152 know Tool?
@@santiagoferrari1973 Not very well -- Maybe I should get to...
At first I thought it had too much dragons, like 'Peter Pan' and 'Chemistry'. Now I can't stop playing it. This one is a real blanket on my shoulders.
Shit, man. This song hits so hard on a personal level.
i know-
Crushing
If God is Love...
Love truly is all that we need to look at to live in God's light.
Not a book, not a ritual, not bullying others into what you believe.
Love is all we have.
I'm so happy, you can create new albums, styles, but the essence never get lost, I'm fucking in love for this álbum!!!!
Right, that is signs of one of the greatest bands... Reinvent without Reinventing!!! AC💕💕💕💕
I love when Régine sing like in this song, it's so satisfying..
This....
We saw Arcade Fire a few weeks ago... When they played this song, me and my best friend were just paralyzed, we just stood there, gazing at the beauty that was happening in front of us... Arcade Fire is one of music's hidden gem... I can't say anymore
They appeal to everyone , even me, a metal head!
Amazing track to have near the end of the album. One of their best songs period
cant explain the amount of love and nostalgia and hurt this song gives me, and I don’t want to explain it like everyone else in the comments is, because I’ll start crying
This song hits in a very real way. The rest of the album up until this point left me feeling quite empty, probably due to the masterfully vapid theme throughout the record, but then this song came in and hit me like a freight train. With this track, I think Arcade Fire is describing the heart of their new sound and what it all really means within the context of all the show and exposition going along with it. Good job Arcade Fire, you continue to wreck me ways I didn't even know I needed.
I gotta say, I really respect the new direction they've taken this album in, even though it took me a while to like the singles & some of the others have yet to grow on me. But songs like this are full of the very essence of Arcade Fire - I can almost imagine a stripped down version of this on the first EP. They sure haven't lost it.
God bless Arcade Fire for this outstanding, outrageous album. I dont need religion, I have Arcade Fire. My last Service was on July, 2nd in my Hometown, BERLIN!!!
This song make me feel that the whole album had a deep meaning. I felt so happy while listen to it this morning, and this is enough for me. Unfair critics, great album, meaningful songs, like this. Greetings from Colombia, see you in december : )
I read yesterday the critics review and they buried the album. And i was like, this is not true... Today i can say this is not true because sound and lyrics are awesome. Long live Arcade fire.
Mario Franković lol one critic drags the album and everyone else jumps on the bandwagon. it has become such a cliche scenario by now lol
cliche and sad :)
Are suggesting that people are lazy or stupid enough to simply copy the opinions of others? That rather than form their own opinion on something they instead look to somebody else's opinion and go with that? That's a rather shallow and baseless assumption to make.
This album is dividing both critics and fans because it's quite far removed from the Arcade Fire we know and expect. Even more so because this album rarely plays into the strengths of the band, neither musically or lyrically. It's a scattershot of styles, some of which work better than others, and that alone makes the album hard to appreciate as a whole. It's not musically consistent in any way, shape or form.
It's OK for people to not like this work. As much as it for people to love it. I can completely understand why many would dislike it. I don't think the world is entirely mindless. I believe there are plenty of people, Arcade Fire fans and critics alike, who are capable of forming their own opinions on such things.
yeah it's not really baseless when i hear some people clearly just repeating (almost word for word, sometimes) opinions i've already seen given in certain critical articles. there are definitely reasons to dislike this album but you can't deny that many people have a tendency to parrot the beliefs of those they look up to
I felt like Reflektor was the same way. So honestly I'm just confused why everyone is so suddenly upset by it
This record is so underappreciated, and I just don't understand why - the message is relevant for the times and most of it works musically. There are a lot of good tracks, but this one's my favorite. Everything Now, Creature Comfort and Electric Blue are also excellent.
It's just that people in general don't react well to change.
Even Reflektor was trashed when it came out. Neon Bible was called a sophomore slump. Its a cycle that always happens.
@@sanchitvarma1282 yeezus
I love Arcade fire but electric blue is one of the worst tunes they have. Regines voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard in electric blue.
The Best of the album
Sadly ..
It's part of a bigger picture i think actually.
It's apart of a bigger picture I think.
This, Put your money on me, Good God Damn, Creauture Comfort and Everything Now all are pretty brilliant.
Peter Pan, Chemistry and Infinite content should have just been left off the album.
No hyperbole, one of my favorite songs they've written.
This makes cry.
probably the most beautiful Arcade Fire song to date.
"Been hiding my scars in broad daylight bars.."
Fantastic album guys!! different but so good
Every record that divides people is good in my opinion. It keeps music fresh and unpredictable which is what we need. The old albums still exist and you can't expect bands as good as this to stick to one sound. Let them do their thing and experiment.
Don't have a problem with the direction, just that they didn't pull it off well enough.
I think that's fair enough. I think Everything Now was risky and for some it paid off but for a lot of others it has proven too drastic a change. Will be interesting to see how people view it in a year or two.
I meant more that the change isn't necessarily the problem but that the quality doesn't seem good enough. Consider how many of the album's songs just repeat the title of the song over and over again.
That's absolutely true. Lyrically the album seems weaker, but I'd also put a lot of that down to the disco genre format. Disco invites repetition and direct lyrics as opposed to alternative rock which has a greater capacity for rich lyrics and storytelling. I do agree that the quality is not as good as the other four albums though.
Huh, I didn't consider that. Some of the ones that repeat a lot aren't disco, though (Chemistry, Infinite Content - Infinite Content probably being the worst offender of the album). I actually don't think of the album as trying to be a dance album but as trying to be a pop album in the way Bowie/Talking Heads/etc. can be considered pop. It's also not specifically one genre in a way that's actually kind confusing. It's synth/electronic-heavy on about half the songs or more and guitar-heavy in about a third of the songs. Earlier records have diversity without giving up coherence musically, but I don't think this album is coherent musically (although theme-wise it's as coherent as the Suburbs if not more, it's just not very subtle about it). Maybe due to multiple producers?
I don't know. Lyrically, maybe they should have chosen subjects that were more personal (or approached them in a way that was more personal and fleshed-out). Most of these songs feel very 3rd person observation (even when it's written from a first person perspective) rather than the 1st person narrative you see in most of their other work. It feels very much "kids these days", and while it brings up topics worth talking about, it's doing so a bit too blatantly and not adding much new to the conversation.
Musically, instead of bringing on multiple producers to help them create something that they wanted, I think they should have taken the time to experiment on their own and figure out what they wanted to create, even if that took years longer. Month of May is one of the simplest songs on the Suburbs, but it took them years to get it where it ended up (the song actually references this), and I think it stands up as a great song. I feel like there are several songs on this album that could really benefit from more time. Also, some of the sounds they use on this album seem strange (occasionally just annoying), and I think more time might have changed that (more time - weird sounds seem less novel - they change it to make it more timeless), but that's speculation.
This song alone proves that if Arcade afire wanted to create another great album they would definitely bring back memories of their past albums.
Alberto Cortez THIS!
A lot of people are smashing this album. There are about three or four bad songs but the rest is amazing. Put your money on me is soooo good
floupster agree : Loooove Put your money on me too...could listen to it all day and all night long.
Everything now and everything now: continued are both amazing aswell
This song paints such an image. I just see 18 yr old Win driving down a long desert road at night in 80s Indiana, with a sad girl in the front seat. With flashbacks of the night seeing the girls religious mum and dad shouting at her and win saying "they don't deserve love" cause they are sinners, she runs away with him stops by their church to pray for forgiveness for deciding to run away from home that night, at the part of the song where win sings "come down off the cross" it's to tell her to come off the alter cause it time to go. and it ends with the back in the present on the deserted road driving into the sun rise
What a videoclip!!!! OMG
That would be a great video! You should totally pitch that to Arcade Fire, on Twitter maybe.
It took the world a couple of years to catch up to this album. Its December 2021 and it all makes sense now. Here we are.
2:23 love this part
5:00 😉
We Don't Deserve Arcade Fire
Dammit beat me to it
ahahahaah YES
Its the one we need, not the one we deserve.
I'd say the same thing about Earth
probably
que excelente canción! tan dulce, melancólica, potente... No alcanzan los adjetivos para definirla. solo gracias
This lifts the whole album - One of their best songs ever in my opinion!! So sad and beautiful that my eyes are swelling every time.
"If you can't see the forest for the trees, just burn it all down and bring the ashes to me". Those lyrics give me the chills.
I met this song in one of their concerts, they played while walking around the crowd, i didn't hear before, those kind of things change you.
This album's masterpiece.
Honestly this is one album I seem to always have on repeat everyday. The lyrics could have definitely been improved on for certain songs (we can all agree on that) but the beats are on point which is what hooks me into playing this album and singing along. Thanks Arcade Fire.
Masterpiece! Can´t stop listening. Blown away....
Easily best of the album
Arcade Fire always give me such strong emotions! I was so afraid while listening to the album that there won't be anything purely emotional but when chours came in this song I bursted out crying. I am so thankful for this track
Man, I find that the chorus really ruins this otherwise beautiful song. It reminds me of the chorus of "I love you, always forever."
This has massively cheered me up. This is so great, I can't even fathom anything right now.
Truly beautiful. They r amazing in every song they play. Love them.
I knew this was a beautiful song. To hear this live the other night in Dallas at the AF show was amazing. It’s so emotional.❤️
This is the only song on the album that actually sounds like the Arcade Fire I love.
Wasted Hours it is a really good album, fans and critics are doing too much! its saddening to watch
Put Your Money On Me is amazing
Best song on the album, this is a masterpiece
like every arcade fire album. they have a song for every mood im in. this makes me feel totally hopeless of love , but that its how a feel today.
on friday i was like kinda in a 'everything now' kinda mood.
thats why i love so much arcade fire. its been like a soundtrack of my life.
I listen to this song the first day of school and the last day every single year ❤ holds a special place in my heart fr
Caralho... que música!
Absolutely love their new album, I was over the moon when I gave it a listen on vinyl yesterday!! I just love how they've tried new things and still sound great, it's such a great aspect for a band to have!!!!
Casey - that's what makes artist. They doesn't get stuck on their first stuff.
best jam of 2021 **from 2017** // ...if u can't see the forest for the trees / just burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me...
I LOVE this album. Every single Arcade Fire album is flawless, but, definitely, this album, especially this song is the song of my life.
Not a big fan of the new record, but this song almost singlehandedly makes it worthwhile.
i mean nothing is gonna come close to suburbs thats for sure, this album isnt my favorite but theres a couple of songs on it that i like
Man! Love for this song would be an understatement! i wish more like this beauty too come along 😌😍
Alright. It's been a couple days. Here's my favorite band, but I was very confused by this album. I hated Peter Pan. Good God Damn was kind of boring. Both Infinite Contents felt pointless. But I spent a day listening to their full discography, re-listened to this, and I'm starting to really appreciate it. I know nobody cares, but I'm picking out a lot of classic Arcade Fire elements as well as some new aspects that only they could pull off in this album. What I'm saying is that I think I'm just really proud of Arcade Fire for always impressing and surprising me.
iamspinelli Yeah I feel a bit like you, Didn't like Peter Pan, found Good god damn and Chemistry utterly boring but this song, Put your money on me and Creature comfort kinda makes up for it imo... Signs of life too after a few listens
Listen to the album twice a day, once on the way to work, again on the way home. Of course songs pop into my brain as I work, the important lyrics "bubble up" as Regine might say. Newsflash friends....this is a classic album, the continuity is there, listen more carefully. Totally reject the argument there are weak songs on this album. That's a big nope. People, please put aside the need for nice, neat, 4 minute songs that are snug like musical LEGOS. Art is suppose to make you slightly uncomfortable. As Win said recently "people hated Wake Up the first few times we played it." Consider that for a moment. Now everyone gets all emotional because they have something to love and we all connect for a few minutes in the certainty of our common love and fear for each other, and our collective journey together. There is so little music now that deserves respect. Music your children will ask you about when they "Wake Up." Nothing on this album is a throw away. Since you reading this comment, you are probably a fan. On that basis chances are you are pretty intelligent, just enjoy the feeling. The walls of the diamond mine are all around you. Love all you people, whoever you are, however you arrived here....Peace.
Spot on.. They go out of there way to make mundane songs which are brilliant, look at normal person or we exist.. In another 4 years time they'll have another album out and people will be sayin I'ts not has good EN.. I'm not too keen on the disco theme tbh..
I went through something similar. I listened to all their stuff, tried this out again and I think I got it.
Good god damn is boring?! Did you even listen to the lyrics?
I start to cry, damn. :(
I think this is the best track from this album..Fucking awesome!!!
Definitive highlight of an overall great album.
I love them so much and this song broke my heart. So effortlessly beautiful but so raw. It made me wonder what was this about. Luckily Win and Reg seem as happy as usual so i guess even if the song was about them, they got through it.
Anthony Fantano said the lyrics were cringy and all his fanboys jumped right on that train.
I guess some people started confusing blunt with cringy.
"Born in a diamond mine, it's all around you but you can't touch it". Some of the best lyrics since Reflektor.
Great track, good album.
Trener MorskihPasa completely agree some of the dankest concepts explored with levity
When lyrics from songs like Chemistry are 90% repeating the word "chemistry", criticizing the lazy song writing isn't incorrect.
I believe he was talking about Creature Comfort.
Okay here's the deal with Creature Comfort, it's one of the best songs on the albums but it's so obnoxious for him to declare how Funeral saved someone's life in such a blatantly show off-y way. I love this album and I think it will age very well, but dear lord Win why write such obnoxious lyrics
He didn't specifically say it saved her life. "she filled up her bathtub and put on our first record"...maybe she just gave up on suicide.
Also, knowing the way Win makes his music - it probably happened so writing the truth isn't obnoxious.
Just an awesome tune. Liked it the first time I heard it - gets better & better every time. They better play this one live when I go see them in Chicago Oct 30.
The song must be fractal in nature, as it curls, spirals and folds through you, to reach every cell.....like breath, the essence of beauty
I want to live in their world that they beautifully create with their music.
So touching every time. One of the best track of EN.
Where would we be without music like this💜
this song makes me sob every time. i love it
Canción maravillosa, lástima que falten canciones con esta musicalidad y ritmos en este album.
The golden thread continues with Arcade Fire.....that falsetto at the end is absolutely heart breaking. Particularly the Christ types....
I'm not sure what he means by that. Religious people, or guys with messianic complexes? Not sure. Its powerful and evokes feelings, but I don't know how to directly interpret it
@davidanderson6055 the ambiguity makes it more powerful, playing with the same themes of Eros and Agape
Poualalala cest un diamant brut... tellement folk et spontanée cest Kdo c'est offert généreusement du fond du cœur ! Merci
listener from day 1... thank you keep surprising me... When i think they cant get any better
This song breaks my heart and builds it up again.
Probably their best song, a masterpiece.
The chord progression is similar to Radiohead - Creep, especially at the start. Good song.
Great song but The last 2 minutes of this are truly special.
Bless arcade fire for this amazing album 🙏🏻
Syd it's turning into one of the best tunes they have done
It's my favorite album!
Amo la voz y la melancolía de Win, 0:43 y ya se que me encantará, ni hablar de sus letras.
This is one of the most beautiful and saddest songs Arcade fire has ever created! I can't understand how no one reacts to this or the "Money + Love" video..... I keep waiting for them to play it again at their concerts.
Someday you'll get the love and recognition you deserve.
God, this is what I aspire to be a musician. This type of music. It's weird but it's great and an instant classic. One day i would want to get that point like Arcade Fire!
beautiful album
Una carezza per l' anima. Molto bella. Grazie A.F.
Yea after the new album release. This still is the most heartbreakingly beautiful song they’ve done. Regine’s heavenly vocals and Win at the end. Underrated album
AF always strong af.
I see what you did there. :D
This song is so precious
6 anos depois e ainda molha meus olhos
Listen on a good player, lights off, no distractions.. Beautiful song and probably my favourite AF track..
Keep both eyes on the road tonight
'Cause I'm driving home to you
A terrible song on the radio
Baby what else is new?
You don't want to talk
You don't want to touch
You don't even wanna watch TV
You say I can't see the forest for the trees
So burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me
Keep both eyes on the road tonight
'Cause God knows where I've been
Officer please, don't check my breath
That ain't my only sin
You don't want to talk
You don't want to touch
You don't even wanna watch TV
If you can't see the forest for the trees
Just burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me
Keep you waiting, hour after hour
Every night, in your lonely tower
Looking down at all of the wreckage
When we met, you'd never expect this
And you said, maybe we don't deserve love
Maybe we don't deserve love
Maybe we don't deserve love
We don't deserve
We don't deserve love
Maybe we don't deserve love
Keep both eyes on the road tonight
'Cause I'm driving home to you
Terrible song on the radio
Baby what else is new?
Been hiding my scars in broad daylight bars
Behind laugh tracks on TV
If you can't see the forest for the trees
Just burn it all down, and bring the ashes to me
Keep you waiting, hour after hour
Every night, in your lonely tower
Looking down at all the wreckage
When we met you'd never expect this
And you say, maybe we don't deserve love
Keep you waiting, hour after hour
Every night, in your lonely tower
Looking down at all the wreckage
When we met you'd never expect this
And you say, maybe we don't deserve love
Maybe we don't deserve love
Maybe we don't deserve love
We don't deserve
We don't deserve love
(We don't deserve love)
Mary, roll away the stone
The men that you love
Always leave you alone
Well go on Mary
Roll away the stone
The men you love always leave you alone
You hear your mother screaming
You hear your daddy shouting
You try to figure it out
You never figured it out
Your mother's screaming
That you don't deserve love
If you don't deserve love
And if I don't deserve love
What could we deserve?
Come down off your cross
And tell me!
It's always the Christ-types
Mary, roll away the stone
The one that you love
Always gonna leave you alone
Particularly the Christ-types
Mary, roll away the stone
The one you love
Always leave you alone
It's always the Christ-types
You're waiting on
I put the new album to play and sat down playing any mobile game on my phone. I listen to everything thinking "well that is ok", but when it came to this song I took my attention from the cell phone and started to cry, a lot, inexplicably. I can't stop listening anymore.
that synthesizer sounds the way i feel ❤ what an amazing band 🎉
The best song on the new album
Can't stop listening to this, damn!!!!!
Aw man I’ve been listening to this song for 5 days straight. Can’t get enough of it. It makes me cry. :(
Brilliant
So brilliant. I've NEVER loved a band as much as these artists. Thank you Arcade Fire for your work. Your message.
Simply BEAUTIFUL ♥️
I don't understand how people can trash an album that hasn't even been out an entire week. Reflektor took months to grow on me and I have a feeling this album will be of the same effect.
Best song on the album.
Unashamedly have been listening to this for the past 4 hours on loop