dolemitesooner
3/30/2007, 02:50 PM
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I really enjoy all things David Lynch from movies such as Blue Velvet to the short-lived Television series Twin Peaks. His dark surrealist, and at times gothic images give a somewhat different look at society. When first hearing Arcade Fire and their sophomore album Neon Bible I immediately thought that this music would be great with visuals directed by Lynch. During my first time listening to Arcade Fire and Neon Bible I thought they were crap much like I first thought when watching my first David Lynch film “Fire Walk with Me”, but much like David Lynch after a few more viewings, or listening in this case, I grew to love Arcade Fire.
Neon Bible is in fact a very bleak, and somber album much unlike thier first Album Funeral. From the very first track “Black Mirror” I felt as if I was walking down a dark hallway surrounded with strange Salvador Dali Paintings. The first track really sets up the album well giving you almost a look into the future and what will come in later tracks. In the song Win Butler the front man for the Canadian band asks the question, “Mirror Mirror on the wall show me where the bombs will fall?” Sending the notion that some sort of impending DOOM is coming. At the end of the song you can almost here bombs going off in the faint distance in the background. This sets up what seems to be the theme of the album where in almost every song there seems to be some sense of worry.
Throughout the album this sense of worry and doom comes from all different directions. In the song Windowsill Butler talks about what he thinks are problems in America, “Don’t want to live in my father’s house no more. Don’t wanna fight in a Holy war. Don’t want the salesman Knocking at my door. Don’t wanna live in America no more.”
Then in the Chorus it seems as if he is speaking about the threat of global warming when delivering the lyrics “Cause the Tide is high, and it’s rising still, and I don’t want to see it at my windowsill.
In the upbeat almost 80’s sounding “Keep the cars running” the band takes you through musically a high-speed chase of sorts. Then two songs later the band becomes very gothic with a blaring church organ playing and the what sounds like a huge orchestra backing the band in the song “ Intervention.” In this song Butler seems to take on the Church.
The band hits the mark near the end of the album with “No Cars GO” This song is Political Surrealism at is best, and very left almost speaking of a communist society. After many songs speaking of doom and running away from the church, and state and the problems they see coming in the future it seems that the band may think that these left ideas are the answer to the problems that they bring up during the album.
Over all I thought the album was amazing it takes some time to warm up too, but give it that chance. I give it Three and a half out of 5 stars and is one of the best albums I have heard this year.
The only thing that I did not enjoy about the album is that I thought it ended on the wrong note. The album ends with a very Nin sounding, “My body is a cage”. I felt like the Album should have ended with “No Cars GO”, but what in the hell do I know I am just Dolemite and this is my Bone-up.
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I really enjoy all things David Lynch from movies such as Blue Velvet to the short-lived Television series Twin Peaks. His dark surrealist, and at times gothic images give a somewhat different look at society. When first hearing Arcade Fire and their sophomore album Neon Bible I immediately thought that this music would be great with visuals directed by Lynch. During my first time listening to Arcade Fire and Neon Bible I thought they were crap much like I first thought when watching my first David Lynch film “Fire Walk with Me”, but much like David Lynch after a few more viewings, or listening in this case, I grew to love Arcade Fire.
Neon Bible is in fact a very bleak, and somber album much unlike thier first Album Funeral. From the very first track “Black Mirror” I felt as if I was walking down a dark hallway surrounded with strange Salvador Dali Paintings. The first track really sets up the album well giving you almost a look into the future and what will come in later tracks. In the song Win Butler the front man for the Canadian band asks the question, “Mirror Mirror on the wall show me where the bombs will fall?” Sending the notion that some sort of impending DOOM is coming. At the end of the song you can almost here bombs going off in the faint distance in the background. This sets up what seems to be the theme of the album where in almost every song there seems to be some sense of worry.
Throughout the album this sense of worry and doom comes from all different directions. In the song Windowsill Butler talks about what he thinks are problems in America, “Don’t want to live in my father’s house no more. Don’t wanna fight in a Holy war. Don’t want the salesman Knocking at my door. Don’t wanna live in America no more.”
Then in the Chorus it seems as if he is speaking about the threat of global warming when delivering the lyrics “Cause the Tide is high, and it’s rising still, and I don’t want to see it at my windowsill.
In the upbeat almost 80’s sounding “Keep the cars running” the band takes you through musically a high-speed chase of sorts. Then two songs later the band becomes very gothic with a blaring church organ playing and the what sounds like a huge orchestra backing the band in the song “ Intervention.” In this song Butler seems to take on the Church.
The band hits the mark near the end of the album with “No Cars GO” This song is Political Surrealism at is best, and very left almost speaking of a communist society. After many songs speaking of doom and running away from the church, and state and the problems they see coming in the future it seems that the band may think that these left ideas are the answer to the problems that they bring up during the album.
Over all I thought the album was amazing it takes some time to warm up too, but give it that chance. I give it Three and a half out of 5 stars and is one of the best albums I have heard this year.
The only thing that I did not enjoy about the album is that I thought it ended on the wrong note. The album ends with a very Nin sounding, “My body is a cage”. I felt like the Album should have ended with “No Cars GO”, but what in the hell do I know I am just Dolemite and this is my Bone-up.
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