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 Post subject: Roxy Music Vs Arcade Fire
PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:05 pm 
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My wife (who is somewhat younger than me) is a big fan of Arcade Fire. I gather that Mr Ferry himself is an admirer.

And yet, and yet. I listen. I admire the emotional swirl of some of the tunes, the hypnotic swell of the choruses. But where is the brio, the vim, the vigour? Is there anything unexpected? I can sort of see it, but it all strikes me as a bit drab when compared with the mighty Roxy.

On the other hand, they've only charged us £25 for tickets to see them, so they can't be all bad.

Scores on the doors. Roxy Rovers 9, Arcade Thistle 8. Thoughts, my fellow Roxifianados?


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 Post subject: Re: Roxy Music Vs Arcade Fire
PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:48 pm 
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Your wife has a great taste in music imo, apparently so has her husband ;)
My fav vid by them comes with another great singer, David Bowie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wEBmLht5g

I've seen them live once, in 2006 and I liked them.

By the way, some more Roxy M (former) news...
Eno's out with cd, between 1-15 th of November only 2-3 weeks after the Olympia release.

http://brian-eno.net/#headlines

Interesting design..

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 Post subject: Re: Roxy Music Vs Arcade Fire
PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:22 pm 
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I bought their new album .. and there are a few great moments ... The title track ...... and I particularly like Rococo... deep, dark... full of disdain and celebration !
But I also feel it could be 2 or three songs shorter ... I also feel that some of the songs plateau and don't really maintain the momentum promised in the first 2 minutes .......


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