THE ARCADE FIRE's new album, Neon Bible, is marvelous. This will probably shred whatever indie cred I had (not much, considering I posted Paris Hilton's "Nothing In This World" with unironic pleasure), but with the exception of a few songs, I wasn't such a huge fan of their first album. Neon Bible, though, I love straight through.
This video for their song, "My Body is a Cage," is a mash-up or sorts; the YouTuber took the song and set it to clips from Sergio Leone's spaghetti western, Once Upon a Time in the West. Cool how well it works. The song, while not my favorite on the album, is moody and powerful nevertheless.
Arcade Fire - "My Body is a Cage"
My body cage ain't big enough for the both of us, pardner.
Bonus! Here's the group performing "No Cars Go" at Rock en Seine in Paris. I love the way Régine Chassagne's vocals are brought further forward in this version, how, at the end, they're all just belting it out, and the way they yell "Let's go!" with so much gusto. A great song about the desire to escape to someplace safer and more innocent.
Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go (Live at Rock en Seine)"
"Little babies, let's go!"
And what the hell, here's the same song from the ACL festival, this time with more propulsive drumming and tighter instrumentation.
Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go (Live at ACL Festival)"
"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream."
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