Funeral by Arcade Fire

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) 4:48 531,801
2 Neighborhood #2 (Laika) 3:32 154,267
3 Une année sans lumiere 3:41 66,535
4 Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) 5:12 512,773
5 Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) 4:49 431,821
6 Crown of Love 4:42 476,550
7 Wake Up 5:35 568,941
8 Haiti 4:07 408,540
9 Rebellion (Lies) 5:10 598,797
10 In the Backseat 6:20 247,373

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About this album

Slag Records (2011) Released: 18 Nov 2011 10 tracks (47:56)
Funeral is the debut full-length album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004 in North America by Merge Records and on February 28, 2005 in Europe by Rough Trade Records. It was given its title because several band members had recently lost members of their families: Régine Chassagne’s grandmother died in June 2003, Win and William Butler’s grandfather (swing musician Alvino Rey) in March 2004, and Richard Reed Parry’s aunt in April 2004.

Preliminary recordings for Funeral were made during the course of a week in August 2003 at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal, Quebec, and the recording was completed later that year.

The album produced 5 singles. The most successful, “Rebellion (Lies)”, peaked at #19 on the UK Singles Chart. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Alternative Music Album. It received wide critical acclaim and topped many year-end lists. It was ranked eighth in Bob Mersereau’s 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums, and #2 on Pitchfork’s 200 Top Albums of the 2000s

Initial critical response to Funeral was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 90, based on 30 reviews. Allmusic reviewer James Christopher Monger gave the album a rating of four and a half stars out of five.

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  • FellipeKyle

    Is my opinion. I heard it and not liked. I respect everyone's opinion, respect mine too. And me too.

    Saturday afternoon
  • emergingsynergy

    still love this album... just great....

    21 days ago
  • KasparovDeepBlu

    v 16, Brazil >Implying music taste

    22 days ago
  • goldenslumbers1

    v he's gonna need some polysporin for that burn!

    23 days ago
  • LuizRigotto

    v said the dude whose most listened artist is "foster the people"

    last month
  • FellipeKyle

    This is not better than The Suburbs.... in truth, this isn't so good...

    last month
  • PinkFloydrulez

    canadian bedroom rock

    last month
  • yalewyatt1

    you like it because it is indie lol?

    last month
  • pablo323

    This is INDIE

    last month
  • Stormcrow

    Christmas 2005 to me... fabulous...

    March 2012
  • AstsamVilla

    Best album ever made.

    March 2012
  • metawirt

    Great album, but poor sound regrettably...

    March 2012
  • xxLallyxx

    when nostalgia kicks in, in a few more years this album is going to be on the all of the greatest albums of all time lists

    March 2012
  • davebutter

    Haiti is my favourite. Top album

    March 2012
  • KasparovDeepBlu

    Heartexplosion/10 BNM

    March 2012
  • KasparovDeepBlu

    oh god so many feels [2]

    March 2012
  • ArcadeFirez

    Best albums of 2000s, along with "In Rainbows" by Radiohead

    March 2012
  • Stugard

    Dunno how I ever thought this was boring. It just hit me like a ton of bricks the other day, and now I'm pretty sure it's even better than The Suburbs.

    March 2012
  • Nakkinak

    oh god so many feels

    February 2012
  • philipt42

    Best album of the century so far.

    January 2012
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