The Great Arcade Fire Post
{from December 2005}
It's all been said before, but still, the best band of the year, and the best album. But we're getting slightly worried now. That live version of 'Love will tear us apart' with U2 wasn't great, was it? And is it too much to expect a second album as good as Funeral? But still, the follow-up will be worth the wait. And any band that just starts busking outside an NY subway deserves every bit of praise they get.
{for recent Arcade Fire news see here}
{All links + new ones working again. Merry Christmas!}
Ye Olde Rare Stuff:
William Pierce (demo)
Winter for a Year (demo)
Neighbourhood#3 (Power Out) demo
The Great Arcade Fire (old demo)
Asleep At The Wheel (old demo)
Asleep at the Wheel (demo/Christmas recording)
Old Flame (demo/Christmas recording)
Sleeping in a Submarine (demo/Christmas recording)
In The Backseat (demo/Christmas recording)
Headlights Look Like Diamonds (demo/Christmas recording)
The Flood (demo){Asleep at the Wheel}
Surf City, Eastern Bloc
Alligator Mine
Cars & Telephones
Sonata
Virgin Mary Highway
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Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts (live, unreleased)
In The Backseat (acoustic version)
Woodland National Anthem (acoustic version)
Intervention, live
Born on a Train (Magnetic Fields cover, KCRW)
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Power Out, live on Jools Holland
Rebellion (Lies), live on Jools Holland
Rebellion (Lies), live on Radio 1
In The Backseat, on Xfm
Wake Up, live on Xfm
Laika on Xfm
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Final Fantasy - No Cars Go (live)
Vitaminsforyou - No Cars Go
Foo Fighters - Keep The Car Running (live)
Norah Jones - Ocean of Noise (live)
Calexico - Ocean of Noise (live)
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Haiti (live on First Avenue)
Five Years (live David Bowie cover)
Maps (live Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
Age of Consent (live New Order cover)
Brazil (live Ary Boroso/Bob Russell cover)
Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)
The (Olde) CBC Session:
No Cars Go
Seven Kettles
Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)
In The Backseat
Haiti
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The Arcade Fire on KCRW
Tracklisting:
Wake Up
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Vampire Forest Fire
Interview
Intervention
Born on a Train
In The Backseat
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The White Session
Intervention (live on KCRW)
Live at First Avenue
TripleJ Interview 1 & part 2
Ye Olde Viddy Video:
Dancing In The Dark (Springsteen) & Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
Headlights Look Like Diamonds, live video
Love Will Tear Us Apart, video (& U2)
Boys Don't Cry (busking at Union Square)
Ye Olde Not Olde At All - live 2007:
Keep The Car Running (live)
Ocean of Noise (live)
Rebellion (Lies) (live)
Black Wave/Bad Vibrations (live)
Intervention (live in Canterbury High School)
Guns of Brixton (The Clash, live)
Guns of Brixton (on the Culture Show)
Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son (France Gall, live)
Distortions (Clinic, live)
Still Ill (The Smiths, live)
A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke, live)
Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon, Live)
Heroes (David Bowie, live)
{With thanks to the good and dedicated folks at the Us Kids Know forums.}
posted by shane at 4:46 PM
27 Comments:
"The Arcade Fire - Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts" got the same link as "The Arcade Fire - Surf City Eastern Bloc" :(
But the rest is GREAT. Thanks!!
Y'know... It took a while to do this, so I just can't be bothered changing it again. But thanks anyway.
Wonderful post .... Linked on my blog DoCopenhagen / Thomas
Greetings from NYC.
Love your site. It's so nice when a blog such as yours has personality.
The Arcade Fire windfall was spectacular, but where in the world can one find the band's cover of "Brazil"?
Happy New Year.
There's a whole gig in streaming video on Fabchannel.com.
Great post! In case you're interested, here's their cover of 'Brazil' uploaded to yousendit.com:
http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31S2Z2MM6HI7S2HFVGP84C4L14
fantastic post; thanks :] you wouldn't happen to know where i could find a video recording of their performance with bowie at the katrina relief benefit, would you? i can't seem to find one anywhere.
I think it's on the Us Kids Know forum, there's a video of them and Bowie playing 5 years and wake up.
such a pity that i´m unable to download anything of this (considering the 56k modem). merde!
Just wanted to say thanks for all the links! Much appreciated.
can you tell me about the white session album alignement? and do you know black session? I hope you can help me. thanks. kamandru
hej hej,
no post this whole year so far?
please let's have more of your thoughts and music if all of it is that inspiring!!!
i loved the final fantasy-interview.
(and the wolf parade press release earlier on ;)
do you have more?
NYC here again...
Aw, heck. I missed the deadline for that link to the "Brazil" song. Triple merde!
But thanks so much for thinking of me!
files aren't found!?!
files not found!?!
the files don't work anymore.. is there a way to re-post them?? i would die of joy.
I'll see what I can do, but I moved this year and have little space on my laptop, so lots of these are now gone. But I'll give it a go...
It would be great if anyone who already has some of these could upload them to savefile.com and send me the links by email or comment here. In the spirit of giving an' all.
OH pleasepleaseplease & thankssss!! that would be great!
do these links actually still work!?!?!?!?!
No, all the savefile links went down when they went to 2.0
but I'm planning on reposting all of these in time for christmas.
But I might not have all of them, so if you have one, be nice and upload it o who am i kidding nobody's gonna bother.
the woodlands acoustic track is from Guelph, Ontario, Canada's Undertones webpage. It was recorded in the studio there i believe. you can find another track and an interview... from a few years ago.
http://www.undertones.ca/index.php?page=radio
check out the site for arcade fire, air and other sweet tracks....
http://thepenguinswimminghole.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/for-your-pleasure/
I just LOVE hearing anything Arcade Fire has ever recorded in any capacity, anywhere, no matter what! Also, I love Pitchforkmedia.com, because they give fantastic reviews to all the coolest bands, like The Shins and everything like that! Yay!
i know it's a little offtrack, sorry...
My Brightest Diamond in Concert Tonight!
Salzhaus, Winterthur, Switzerland.
https://www.starticket.ch/start.asp?EventID=218&ShowID=10257&ShowDetails=1&language=D
maybe some Swiss readers in here :)
i just saw your site mentioned in the irish times so i had to come and take a look!! and i can see why it was mentioned there my craving for the Arcade Fire has been answered!! thanks and hello
a new video-clipe
"Black Mirror"
http://mtv.uol.com.br/mtvoverdrive/?name=VIDEOCLIPE&id=102956
this page is amazing!! thanks for posting it.
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