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Revolution 9 said:
Name 3 albums better than Funeral? I'm just curious. The crap statement was a joke for now.
While it's only opinion in the end, I believe most people who blog, and write about music had it listed in the top
5 albums of the decade. I tend to agree.
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Well, yeah, there's been only 1 year in this decade so far. It's a bit early to be throwing that out. And it got an 87 from critics on metacritic, so critically speaking, it'll probably only break the top 20 of the decade.

Getting a grammy is all about the flow of popularity. They probably should have got one for Funeral, but they hadn't established themselves enough.

Now, The Suburbs is "boring" depending on what you're looking for. It's a much more mature album than their previous two. The album is an entire concept, songs referencing each other lyrically, etc. The more you listen to it, the more you realize it's their smartest album yet.

Lastly, anybody who listens to Sprawl Pt. 1 and says, "This is boring," is dead inside.

- Craig
 
Lance-A-Million said:
Best albums of the past ten years... somehow thats something entirely up to personal taste. And the fact is that people pumping up Funeral so much probably listened to less than 20 new albums the past 10 years. There's just so much music out there. Arcade Fire just managed to become critical darlings from the start of their career (not to say that they weren't good) and has just ridden that gravy train all the way home.
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It's always personal taste, agreed.
I'm curious what albums in the past decade you think were better?
 
Craig K. Manscill said:
Well, yeah, there's been only 1 year in this decade so far. It's a bit early to be throwing that out. And it got an 87 from critics on metacritic, so critically speaking, it'll probably only break the top 20 of the decade.

Getting a grammy is all about the flow of popularity. They probably should have got one for Funeral, but they hadn't established themselves enough.

Now, The Suburbs is "boring" depending on what you're looking for. It's a much more mature album than their previous two. The album is an entire concept, songs referencing each other lyrically, etc. The more you listen to it, the more you realize it's their smartest album yet.

Lastly, anybody who listens to Sprawl Pt. 1 and says, "This is boring," is dead inside.

- Craig
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Pitchfork Media gave the album a 9.7 out of 10 rating, and ultimately ranked the album #2 on their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list, after Radiohead's Kid A.[1]
 
Revolution 9 said:
Stoner rock. You likey? Saw them in NYC. Enjoyed the show.
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Dead Meadow is good. Not really stoner rock, but close for indie.

These guys are the kings of stoner rock though, especially their early stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKj5cJ9_KSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOIprVzWvI
 
I bought tix the other day, Sec 5 row 1, boom. I've wanted to see them for several years, I loved Funeral, Neon Bible was pretty good, but I haven't really gotten into the Suburbs yet.
 
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