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Post by roentgenizdat on Jun 28, 2007 6:59:03 GMT -5
07/07: 185 198 ARCADE FIRE NEON BIBLE 4,043 4,869 -17 267,927
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jul 5, 2007 6:19:28 GMT -5
Dropped off the BB200.
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jul 11, 2007 11:51:18 GMT -5
Billboard.biz: Shifting our focus to 2007's top-selling digital albums, there are five that have sold more than 100,000. The year's biggest digital set is Maroon 5's "It Won't Be Soon Before Long," with 174,000 in digital sales through the week ending July 1. That's 19% of its overall total. But that's no match compared with the digital share of Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible," with that configuration accounting for 26% of its overall total (271,000).
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Post by roentgenizdat on Aug 23, 2007 2:26:32 GMT -5
Arcade Fire, Electrelane Hearst Greek Theatre Berkeley, Calif. June 1-2, 2007 $535,500 8,500 / 8,500 2 / 2 $31.50 Another Planet Entertainment
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Post by busyboy on Oct 6, 2007 10:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by oscillations. on Oct 7, 2007 15:37:22 GMT -5
Saw them last night at the hence legendary AF/LCD SOUNDSYSTEM/BLONDE REDHEAD/LES SAVY FAV/WILD LIGHT show. Lived up to very high expectations. Great experience.
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Post by banet2001 on Oct 8, 2007 14:16:35 GMT -5
Saw them last night at the hence legendary AF/LCD SOUNDSYSTEM/BLONDE REDHEAD/LES SAVY FAV/WILD LIGHT show. Lived up to very high expectations. Great experience. Wow that is a very impressive lineup. Hopefully the Arcade Fire will be back before too long and not be away for a few years like they have claimed.
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Post by oscillations. on Oct 8, 2007 15:41:18 GMT -5
^They told us "we'll see you in a few years" & everybody booed, and Win said "Oh, booing us? That's real nice!" haha
The setlist was fantastic: 1. Black Mirror 2. Keep the car running 3. Neighborhood #2 (Laika) 4. No Cars Go 5. Haiti 6. I'm Sleeping in a Submarine 7. My Body is a Cage 8. Cold Wind 9. Intervention 10. Antichrist Television Blues 11. The Well and the Lighthouse 12. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) 13. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) 14. Rebellion (Lies)
Encore: 15. Headlights Look like Diamonds 16. Wake Up
LCD: 1. Get Innocuous 2. Us vs. Them 3. Time to Get Away 4. North American Scum 5. All My Friends 6. Someone Great 7. Tribulations 8. Movement 9. Yeah 10. New York I Love You
Blonde Redhead, I don't remember exactly, but they played a lot of 23, including the title track, which is like my favorite song of 2007, and the Japanese bonus track "Harry & I". They played a bit of Misery Is A Butterfly, too.
I need Les Savy Fav's setlist. Their show was 99% spectacle. Hilarious.
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Post by oscillations. on Oct 9, 2007 14:10:46 GMT -5
VILLAGE VOICEArcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem at Randall's Island Two budding stadium-rock titans salute a summer that refuses to end by Andy Beta October 8th, 2007 11:01 AMWith the end of each summer comes a complementary outdoor concert meant to signal that imminent change of seasons. Woe to promoters, though, who this year attempted to book that serotinal event for late August or Labor Day weekend, as the heat extended week-deep into October, turning this gargantuan double bill into that hallowed occasion. And here I am, spending this summer day indoors, continually refreshing the beonlineb.com website so as to enjoy a heavily hyped Internet “surprise” that (as a friend jokingly esteemed) basically amounts to a glorified e-card from Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler and crew, before heading out to Randall’s Island to join 25,000 others still bedecked in white shoes, cut-offs, and pork-pie hats. Bookended by Jumbotron screens, the bands use different tactics to rock a stadium-size crowd. Ostensibly a one-man band in the studio, the live quintet incarnation of LCD Soundsystem no longer centers on James Murphy and his decidedly anti-charismatic frontman guise, but rather the workhorse kick and unflagging high-hat sixteenths bashed out by drummer Pat Mahoney, stripped to a pair of yellow jogging shorts. On songs like “Get Innocuous” and “Time to Get Away,” LCD is similarly pared down: Restrictive and repetitive motifs are slowly built, synched, and sustained, all components emulating dance music’s build and release from within the confines of rock-song structure. Being the final show of their tour together (the two entities having had so much summertime fun that they released a BFF seven-inch split-single), a procession of Arcade Fire members march out to guest on nearly every LCD number, the Canucks self-indicting on “North American Scum.” As an immense mirror ball (about the size of a discotheque) illuminates the throng and the noise grows, the crowd is seeded with glow sticks; flung far and wide, they’re an apt image of the No Man’s Land between disco, rock, and rave that LCD inhabit. A video montage of televangelists presage the appearance of our headliners, one pastor possessed enough to evoke the threatening image of “the Holy Ghost up your rear end” to her gathered flock. More populous and sartorial-minded than any working ska band, the Arcade Fire’s take on stadium rock is nothing short of a new religion for the gathered masses, cramming catharses into every chorus and verse. Propelled along by accordion, pipe organ, mandolin, fiddle, and French horn, the band also deploys the tactics of youth-group ministries, making rock-as-religion (and such lame, band-nerd instruments) seem cool once more. As the twang of an electric mandolin announces the Gore-baiting “Keep the Car Running,” the crowd erupts, shouting along with every line. On “Intervention,” a certain Texas-born, global-warming–denying hypocrite gets indicted for “working for the church while your family dies.” Drawing heavily from this year’s Neon Bible, the band packs in so much shock and awe that each number feels like a Broadway production of Born to Run: The Musical. The Arcade Fire live experience easily steels true believers despite the songs’ maudlin, death-plagued subject matter, but then again, what mega-church doesn’t have biblical catastrophe as its underlying foundation? Perhaps aware of such end times, Butler, drenched in sweat, dedicates “Cold Wind” to the summer sticking around one last day.
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jan 15, 2008 12:39:51 GMT -5
01/19: RE 195 ARCADE FIRE NEON BIBLE 4,233 5,614 -25 340,849
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