Funeral
Arcade Fire
Funeral
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) | 4:47 | 361,812 | |||
| 2 | Neighborhood #2 (Laïka) | 4:16 | 78,240 | |||
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Une année sans lumière | 3:40 | 375,362 | ||
| 4 | Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) | 5:11 | 339,531 | |||
| 5 | Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) | 4:48 | 293,018 | |||
| 6 | Crown of Love | 4:41 | 329,584 | |||
| 7 | Wake Up | 5:34 | 372,393 | |||
| 8 | Haïti | 0:00 | 49,291 | |||
| 9 | Rebellion (Lies) | 5:09 | 410,866 | |||
| 10 | In the Backseat | 8:54 | 165,588 |
About this album
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.
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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Shouts
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supperelias wrote:
best album of last decenium IMO
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Scrumpel wrote:
bigger than Jesus
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lucastize wrote:
better than Jesus
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amariea wrote:
this album changed my life. [7]
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cannibalisms wrote:
ineffable masterpiece
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FootToFace wrote:
i'm not a huge fan, but it deserves the praise. it's very well written.
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mike3k wrote:
Best album of the decade and one of the best albums ever.
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Scrumpel wrote:
this album changed my life. [6]
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wc91 wrote:
this album changed my life. [5]
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zhakely_pehsska wrote:
I like it, but I somehow get the feeling it could be a lot more complex than it is now.
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greenwarri0r wrote:
Perfection.
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naseoj wrote:
this album changed my life. [4]
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Juddu wrote:
this album changed my life. [3]
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whobeatalex wrote:
this album changed my life. [2]
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new_shit wrote:
this album changed my life.
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brownstar wrote:
This is one of my Top 25 albums of the decade. I'd love for your feedback on my list, a lot of heart and effort: http://katuwapitiya.com/?p=632
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Scrumpel wrote:
I couldn't imagine life without this album.
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evilhexx wrote:
album of the decade, quite possibly
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chachachoke wrote:
Pretty wonderful service. A very big album, a very long musical movement.
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naseoj wrote:
oh please, ostrich, the album is perfect just the way it is.
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Recent Activity
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dwupton1 wrote about Funeral in The Last Decade Tossed Off In Some Lists. yesterday evening
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