Wake Up!

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I find that I am unreasonably obsessed with “Wake Up” from the Arcade Fire’s Funeral. It’s just so dramatic! You can hear a stream at the Merge Records site.

(Remember, I said “unreasonably,” although Pitchfork gave the album a 9.7, so maybe it’s not just me, although I think the PF review is extraordinarily over-earnest.)

11 thoughts on “Wake Up!”

  1. I love that song, too. It’s got an element of the Flaming Lips at their most moving, along with a touch of some Polyphonic Spree.

    Come to the show! We’ll sway and cry.

  4. We all have our vices. I’ve been known to partake of some Jethro Tull now and then. I think I’ll make this an anonymous post.

    If music – particularly rock music – is about creating an identity, nothing would make me want to run from this band more than that Pitchfork Review. “Overearnest” is an understatement.

    “So long as we’re unable or unwilling to fully recognize the healing aspect of embracing honest. emotion in popular music, we will always approach the sincerity of an album like Funeral from a clinical distance.”

    Whatever, dude. What-ev-er.

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  7. I love that song, too. It’s got an element of the Flaming Lips at their most moving, along with a touch of some Polyphonic Spree.

    Come to the show! We’ll sway and cry.

  10. We all have our vices. I’ve been known to partake of some Jethro Tull now and then. I think I’ll make this an anonymous post.

    If music – particularly rock music – is about creating an identity, nothing would make me want to run from this band more than that Pitchfork Review. “Overearnest” is an understatement.

    “So long as we’re unable or unwilling to fully recognize the healing aspect of embracing honest. emotion in popular music, we will always approach the sincerity of an album like Funeral from a clinical distance.”

    Whatever, dude. What-ev-er.