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On The Suburbs

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Arcade Fire Songs can be triggered by a simple act. According to The Suburbs Songfacts, frontman Win Butler was sent a photograph of an old school friend of his, who was standing with his daughter sitting on his shoulders “at the mall around the corner from where we lived”. He added: “The combination of seeing this familiar place and seeing my friend with his child brought back a lot of feeling from that time. I found myself trying to remember the town that we grew up in and trying to retrace as much as I could remember.”

At the same time, other Arcade Fire band members of a similarly suburban origin across Canada had revisited their childhood environs and, in some cases, found there was not much left: buildings were boarded up, if they still existed at all; new roads and rivers had magically appeared, altering the landscape that now only existed in faded photographs. When they reconvened, this was the first song they wrote. Said Win: “We started working on the song, and once that started to sound like music it felt like we were making an album.”
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  • hawk_k

    cry

    12 days ago

  • JuliaKay337

    Possibly the best song ever.

    19 days ago

  • Jen420

    ♥

    21 days ago

  • MarissaPaige

    So I'm not the only one within whom this evokes something eerie, melancholy, curious, and strange? I get chills and it reminds me of downtown at about 1AM: no one on the streets, the traffic-lights just flashing. It's beautiful and makes me want to sit down and reminisce. I have no clue how to explain it and it makes me sound like a crazy person when I try to. Anyway, an undoubtedly beautiful song that can withstand infinite repeats.

    last month

  • thekills1985

    IDK, this is the only Arcade Fire I can get into and I've really tried!

    last month

  • Rawr_Jessy

    This song is just so moving....

    last month

  • Junior_Ribeiro

    so beautiful :')

    last month

  • everette0704

    :D

    last month

  • xxbluebirdxx

    so perfect.

    March 2012

  • Clembot

    love love love

    March 2012

  • sampointoh

    Great opening of a classic of an album.

    March 2012

  • chrismartiniana

    This song helps me get through some feelings (: so amazingly like that!

    March 2012

  • landeath

    <3

    March 2012

  • hersmokingsong

    there are no words to describe this song

    March 2012

  • G0DSTAR

    Man, this one gets me every time.

    March 2012

  • calabrisa

    Sometimes I can't believe it...I'm moving that's the feeling...

    February 2012

  • Fenomenalu

    There is a wonderful magic in this song I really can't explain or describe [8]

    February 2012

  • goku_utd

    "So can you understand? Why I want a daughter while I'm still young? I want to hold her hand and show her some beauty, before all this damage is done..but if it's too much to ask, if it's too much to ask, then send me a son.." That is all. Masterful.

    February 2012

  • bernlin2000

    Get chills every time I hear it on random: their best opener and the best song off The Suburbs.

    February 2012

  • MeliCoop

    Yessssss Arcade Fire. So good

    February 2012
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