Hrm!
I thought this one was inspired by Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." Looking back letters aren't really technology, but still.

One time I cited "you'd better look out for love" as the last line of "Wake Up." I was pretty embarrassed when someone pointed my error out to me.

Crackity Jones does, too. I think that Funeral is better than Neon Bible, but I think that an argument can be made for Neon Bible being the superior album. I think that's a stretch, however, when it comes to The Suburbs.

Oh, and I don't have a booklet, they're just what I hear. I listened again and your version could easily be right.

I hardly even think of influence when it comes to Arcade Fire. I mean, I know they're there, but they don't sound like other bands. Other bands sound like them, you know?

And now I just feel dumb.

But I don't know your handle!

I feel like those lyrics might be wrong…

I don't mean that it's necessarily a bad thing, I just thought it was a weird choice in the wake of that. However, there is this bitterness in the album that doesn't quite sit right with me, personally. However, that "putting his foot down" thing was rushed and poorly-worded. Sorry.

I demand that you listen to "Suburban War" exactly the way that I am telling you to listen to it. I am ludicrously sincere to the point that autism becomes apparent and all you can do is watch me type and say "gosh."

Quit intellectualizing, damn you!

Also, my version of the album has "Suburban War" at track fifteen, but most copies will have it at track nine. I find that my version makes more sense. While putting it after "Half Light II (No Celebration)" would have the couple leaving after a repeated "one day they will see us long gone," "Suburban War" would…

A- is spot on. This is my least favorite Arcade Fire album.

I've always found that it's more fair to judge the quality of an album by your enjoyment as your number of listens approach infinity instead of based on any initial five or so listens.

Yeah, Steven. It just felt like Kyle was giving you a hard time with that. Still, I think you should pretty much listen to Funeral until it clicks. Even if it takes a thousand times, it's kind of completely worth it.

Lone, what do you think of The Suburbs relative to the other Arcade Fire albums. I have to say that thematically and lyrically it's positively wondrous, but I think that musically it falls far behind what they did on either Funeral or Neon Bible.

I don't know how you did it, but I find the timing in this comment very funny.

Would The Suburbs have been different if Owen Pallett had been available? I don't know how much of a conscious choice scaling back on the strings was.

I like listing off my favorites too damn much, so I won't miss the opportunity. This is in ROUGH order excluding The Suburbs because even after ten listens, I don't know where to place it. The National's High Violet, Titus Andronicus's The Monitor, Dessa's A Badly Broken Code, Janelle Monae's The ArchAndroid (Suites…

I think it's their worst. I don't think it's the best of the year.