themusicaddict's Greatest CD's Of All-Time: Arcade Fire's "Funeral"

Hello,

This is another one in my series on the greatest CDs of all-time. This blog is for Arcade Fire's amazing CD "Funeral". Honestly I don't remember how I discovered this CD, I'm just glad I did.

"Funeral" was released on September 14th, 2004, which means it's heading to it's 10th anniversary of being released. The CD was named as many of the band members recently had deaths in their families. Add Arcade Fire to the group of musicians whose best CD is also their first CD. Although Arcade Fire hasn't fallen off as badly as many other musicians. (Thanks to Wikipedia and Amazon for information for this blog.)

Arcade Fire's second best CD is probably "The Suburbs"- a very solid CD. "Neon Bible" is decent and their most recent CD "Reflektor" is growing on me.

My favorite song from "The Suburbs". "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)":

As always here's the link to listen to the full CD, I'll eventually add a video for each individual song:

1) "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)":

2) "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)":



3) "Une Annee Sans Lumiere":



4) "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)":



"Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" (Live):



Here's the first 3 "Neighborhood" songs back to back to back:



5) "Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)":



6) "Crown of Love": This is probably my favorite song on the whole CD- at least for today.



"Crown of Love" (Live):



7) "Wake Up":



8) "Haiti":



"Haiti" (Live at Austin City Limits):



9) "Rebellion (Lies)": (A sign of a great CD is even the 9th and 10th song into it every song is still great. This song would be the best song on most CDs released now, on this CD it almost seems like a throw away due to it's location on the CD.)



10) "In The Backseat":



"In The Backseat" (Live");



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