Since I didn’t have very good taste in music until I was about 15, when I first listened to the burned copy of Funeral by Arcade Fire that my friend gave me, it had been around for about five years and they had already released their second album. And at this point in my life, I’ve pretty much tapped the well of my love for Arcade Fire dry after listening to every album ad nauseum for the better part of a year and a half, then another six months after I saw them last year.
But there’s not really anything that can undo the way I felt when I first listened to Funeral all the way through. There’s not much to say about the album that every music blogger in existence hasn’t said, but that’s not going to stop me. It’s easy enough to enjoy “Rebellion (Lies),” which is easily the most popular song of the album right next to “Wake Up,” but liking only those two songs can keep somebody from getting what a personal, complex, and polished work the album is as a whole.
