Arcade Fire - "We Used to Wait"

[lockebox]

Second single from "The Suburbs". Goes for adds December 7th.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Meanwhile, Modern Man is being sent to Triple-A.

[halo19]

That's really how the album's cycle has worked. I don't think "The Suburbs"/"Month of May" went for Alternative adds, but I think they both got some Triple A airplay and were available on the Cool New Music page.

I wouldn't have minded if "Modern Man" became a both-format single, but maybe they'll come around to it later. It's definitely my favorite of the songs I've heard from the album so far.

[llires]

I like "Modern Man" it's my second favorite, the first one being "Ready to Start."

[Nicholas2.0]

Meanwhile, the Spike Jonze-directed video for "The Suburbs" just came out last week:


As "The Suburbs" is the song off the new album I've heard second most, it's easily my second favorite song I've heard from the album at this point. I stream it and "Ready to Start" from All Access constantly, and don't think I didn't notice when "Modern Man" got put up in the last week or two. I really need to stream/download/(buy?) the album and get it under my belt before the end of the year.

[Matt4319]

Hell yes! It's about to hit #1 on my personal chart this week. It's always satisfying when a song you pick out and champion later ends up being a single.

Here's one of thousands of videos that were created for the song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYdJAi-BBrs

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I enjoy the video concept for this song. It's fun! I also enjoy the song as well.

I think so far, The Suburbs is my favourite track from this album although there's a dancey song with the girl's vocals near the end that I thoroughly enjoy also!

[Shadows in the Dark]

Top 50 on Alternative:

52 50 ARCADE FIRE We Used To Wait 164 142 22 0.377

[lockebox]

Top 40 - Alternative

52 40 ARCADE FIRE - We Used to Wait 216 157 59 0.481

[Coin-Operated [Boy]]

I relish this song.

[Shadows in the Dark]

Top 30 on Alternative:

35 30 ARCADE FIRE We Used To Wait 285 267 18 1.066

[lockebox]

31 22 ARCADE FIRE - We Used to Wait 422 311 111 1.49

This is really blowing up now. They have two songs in the top 40 with 100+ bullets. Can't remember that happening too often.

[jvandyck87]

Limp Bizkit probably did that with "Rollin'" and "My Generation" I would think. On active rock, Metallica might have done that with three songs: "The Day That Never Comes", "My Apocalypse", and "Cyanide", but I don't know whether they were all in the top 40 simultaneously and if they all had +100 bullets at the time.

[halo19]

Difference is that "MG" and "Rollin'" were released simultaneously. Arcade Fire have clearly picked up new interest after their AOTY Grammy.

[jvandyck87]

Oh certainly. Those three Metallica songs were all leaked to radio around the same time too. But they were examples of the phenomenon he described.