June 21, 2025 • 58 mins
Dive into the haunting, anthemic world of Arcade Fire's debut masterpiece "Funeral" as we explore the album that redefined indie rock in the 2000s. This Montreal collective burst onto the scene with a sound that was both intimate and expansive, crafting songs from personal tragedy that somehow managed to feel universally uplifting.
What makes "Funeral" so powerful nearly two decades after its 2004 release? We unpack the album's unique structure, from the interconnected "Neighborhood" series to standout tracks like "Power Out" and the deeply personal "Haiti." While hits like "Wake Up" and "Rebellion (Lies)" brought the band commercial success, we focus on the overlooked gems that showcase the band's remarkable artistic range.
Behind the music lies a fascinating story of creative collaboration. Win Butler and Régine Chassagne lead a revolving collective of musicians wielding everything from traditional rock instruments to strings, accordions, and even hurdy-gurdys. This orchestral approach creates the album's signature sound – simultaneously melancholic and triumphant, blending influences from post-punk to classical arrangements.
The album's title wasn't chosen lightly. Created during a period when several band members lost relatives, "Funeral" transforms grief into something transcendent. Chassagne's Haitian heritage brings additional depth, connecting personal loss to historical trauma in ways that elevate these songs beyond typical indie rock fare.
Whether you're revisiting this album or discovering it for the first time, join us as we celebrate the simple lines intertwining throughout this landmark release. From its emotional storytelling to its innovative instrumentation, "Funeral" remains not just Arcade Fire's defining statement, but a testament to music's power to transform sorrow into shared catharsis.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing the songRebellion parentheses Lies is
my co-host and neighbor, tim.
Again, thank you for listening.
This is Arcade Fire's funeralepisode, their debut album,
critically acclaimed.
(00:40):
Arcade Fire, if you don't know,they're a Canadian band out of
Montreal, quebec, and I wouldsay that they would call them an
indie rock band.
They're known for a uniquesound, really energetic live
performances.
This album was recorded in 2004.
So Arcade Fire, they're a uhthat formed in 2001 in montreal.
(01:07):
It was the hometown of the, thefounding members, and uh.
Win butler is the, the leadlead guy.
He met uh, who ended upbecoming his wife, regine
shesanya.
I think that's how it's uh,kind of like champagne but
shesanya.
I think that's how it's kind oflike champagne but Chesanya.
Other members Richard ReedPerry, tim Kingsbury, jeremy
(01:33):
Garra, will Butler, the youngerbrother of Wynn, also performed
as well, but this is their debutalbum.
This is considered one of theirbest albums in the 2000s of all
, all, all the albums, but alsoone of their best albums.
So, um, it's got kind of a darkside to it a little bit.
(01:54):
Uh, you know, it's just about,uh, the deaths of several of the
band members relatives, which,uh, influenced the you know the
emotional, depth, thematicaticcontent, things like that.
So it was critically andcommercially successful.
They won numerous awards.
(02:15):
After this one, they wonGrammys in 2011 for Album of the
Year, for another album,suburbs, which was another one
of their albums.
I think they come out with likeinstead of like coming out with
an album like, which was, uh,another one of their apps.
I think they come out with likeinstead of like coming out with
an album like every other year.
There's one of these bands thatjust writes a hit album and
then another hit album like fouror five years later.
So their albums are spread out,but they're all super quality.
(02:38):
Um, they're known for like anuh, an eclectic uh, for like, an
eclectic musical style.
They're anthemic, that kind ofthing.
What else can I say about them?
Regine Chassagne plays a lot ofdifferent instruments, as does
(02:59):
Will Butler.
Winn Butler is the drivingforce.
He was, I think, like theoriginal member that like
brought it all together.
So, um, just a lot of peoplecollaborating, like.
When you watch their 2015, youknow live at earl court in lond.
(03:22):
It's super energetic.
They're all in sync with oneanother.
There's like maybe 12 or 13people on the stage.
So they've got that coremembership that I just name
checked.
But they've got a lot of otherpeople, you know, like a lot of
backup singers, rhythm section,they've got all kinds of stuff
(03:46):
going on.
So we're gonna listen to all thesongs, as we always do, and
then we're gonna rank our topthree non-hits.
So there's a number of songshere that I mean tim and I
talked a little bit about this,uh, before.
There's like four differentsongs, for the first five songs
are named neighborhoodhood One,two, three and four.
They've got parentheses, allthat stuff.
(04:08):
The third song, un Ame SansLumiere, which is like another
year, something like that, orOne Year Without Light.
That's it, that's thetranslation.
Some of the other songs, likewake up, is a really popular one
.
It's been a lot of commercialsand on the radio that kind of
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thing, and rebellion lies inparentheses.
Sonic tim's playing gets a lotof plays as well.
Those are the two big ones.
So I guess if we're gonnaexclude, if we can consider them
hits, I mean I would, um, Imean I, I'll be up front right
now.
I think the rebellion isprobably my favorite song on
(04:53):
this.
Uh, this album, um, wake up isgood too, you know.
You know it's all it's all good.
I mean too, you know, you knowit's all it's all good.
I mean, got the hockey playinghere.
They're hockey arcade fire.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I am fire.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I whoa, that got weird real quick.
That was tim, yeah, so we'regonna have a lot of funny sound
clips.
We're gonna be cracking jokesto and fro, uh, but you know,
because of the nature of thisalbum, you know we don't want to
.
Yeah, a lot of it is about,like, family members.
The song haiti is about, uh,like shes saying, shesanya is um
(05:38):
of both, I think, african andhaitian, and Canadian descent,
so a lot of her relatives fromHaiti who were killed in
massacres from the past arereferenced in the song Haiti.
We're dealing with some heavythemes, but all in the context
(06:01):
of good fun.
So, without further ado, here'sTim.
How's it going?
Bud, yeah, yeah, yeah, the napof my life and we're just going
to flush all the lies down thetoilet here.
Okay, we're going to be rebornafter this funeral here Reborn.
(06:22):
Let's hope for that.
Yeah, I do too.
Well, good, any parting wordsbefore we get into the songs.
A little air hockey.
What I spent a lot of time inthat Time crisis?
Sure, all those.
(06:43):
What was your favorite game,Frogger?
That was a great Pac-Man buyingthe Frogger machine.
There's one called Defender,that was kind of cool.
There was Joust Pac-Man.
Tapper was good.
(07:04):
Knockout pac-man, oh tapper.
Yeah, tapper was good.
Knockout bald bull piston,hurricane glass joe glass joe
was easy.
He just like knocked him outlike three, three or four
punches.
Yeah, we should get somequarters and go and just have a
(07:25):
good time.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You owe me a quarter.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's right, joe.
I know Slippery Joe.
Sorry about your mail orderbribe.
Slippery Pete, slippery Pete,that's right.
Yeah, didn't Kramer have anaffair with her or something
like that.
It was before she was married,though according to him, yeah.
So it's a great album.
It hits in the feels a lot.
You know a lot of a lot ofdoubles and triples with the
(07:50):
jokes with the arcade and thefire and the yada, yada, yep,
you know, get your get yourMountain Dew, get your get your
mozzarella.
Let's go, yep, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Perfect combination of Mountain Dew and mozzarella.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, as long as we can just get the, you know not
have too much grease on thejoystick, you know.
So anyway, all right.
So without further ado, let'sgo to the first song.
It's called Neighborhood One inTunnels, in parentheses.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Here we go All right and if the snow buries, my
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neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Snow burying neighborhoods is common in
Montreal.
I imagine it's a little bit sad.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Now I'm getting a little bit glib Well placed yeah
.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Shout to Linda Richard, meet me in the middle,
the middle of the town.
Since there's no one that'saround, we let our hair grow
long and forget all we used toknow.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And the Kramer you're in charge of taping off the
loaders, lock and load Forgetthe curl From living out in the
snow.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You change all the land.
Sleeping in my head as the daygrows dim, I hear you say golden
hair.
Oh, if I'm the best Baby Jesuspowers, you're very good, that's
(10:42):
a good.
I hope that you can use yourbaby Jesus powers to heal.
We forgot all the names there,the names we used to know, a
shout out to the children, ofcourse.
But sometimes we remember ourbedrooms and our parents'
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bedrooms and the bedrooms of ourfriends.
Then we think of our parents.
Whatever happened to them,you'd change all the way
Sleeping in my head.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's a question a couple of guys like us ask a lot
when are the parents?
It's like, oh, they left us along time ago.
It's all I'm trying to see.
Purify the color.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Purify my mind, purify the color.
Why don't you purify yourselfin the waters of Lake Minnetonka
, there?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
you go, shout out to Prince, shout out to Lake
Minnetonka.
Oh, that is high and mighty.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Shout out to Lake Minnetonka.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
With joy in your heart.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I hope that you can use your baby Jesus powers to
heal me old man.
I'm kind of surprised this songisn't more popular.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
This is this is tolerable it's tolerable right
(13:03):
amount of grease on the joystick.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
There we go.
Alright, that was a it'stolerable, a good amount of
grease on the joystick.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
There we go.
All right, that was a goodstart.
This is neighborhood number two.
Is it Laika, laika Bird?
You're getting good with thefather, you're?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
getting good with the father.
You're home, free.
He tore our images out of hispictures he took himself out of
(14:19):
his life.
Come on, alex, you can do it.
Come on, alex, there's nothingto it.
If you want something, don'task for nothing.
If you want nothing, don't askfor something.
All my love, shut up, justleave me alone.
What, what?
(15:00):
Mom, mom, mommy, mommy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sort of like.
It's almost too much Like.
What's that thing Talking heads, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, there's a
(15:31):
four on the floor.
Yeah, it's missing for me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, it's missing.
For me, Fear, grief, isnature's most powerful and most
beautiful.
Y'all believe it's a day or two.
Y'all believe it's a day or two.
(16:13):
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Shout out to the neighbors.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Now the neighbors, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
All right, watch the truck Double jump Eat the fly,
eat it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, this is the French one Une année sans
lumière.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
One year without light In my nissan denier.
Je monte un cheval Qui portedes ailleurs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hey, my eyes are shooting sparks.
The news you declare Deep outI'm prepared.
Yeah, there's like a wholetranslation here.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All the birds again.
Hey, your old man should knowyou see a shadow, something.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
There.
So, hey, I like this one.
It's nice and it's simple linesintertwining.
I mean.
I know it has a powerful andsweet sentiment.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Simple lines intertwining.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now I'm getting a little bit clamped.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It is.
I am getting a bit clamped.
Anyhow anyhow, if you thinkthat I'm going gonna sit around
and wait for you, you can forgetit.
You tell him sad Linda, in fasttimes.
It really tried to hide.
If she's in, just give it toher.
(19:25):
She's in, give it to her.
She's in love, showing her myold face, old face.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
This is the best night of my life.
Do not come with me to the cashbar.
We shall make beautiful musictogether right here.
He's actually in the music.
I don't see anything.
Yes, clipping off a loadage.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Locking off the loadage.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right.
So if I'm the best, you're verygood.
Let's say good, all right, thisis Neighborhood 3.
This is a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Power out I need a battery for this kind of job.
Can I at least steal a battery?
Fine, steal the battery.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
They did this one good live in the girl court
recording of their live show.
It was 2015.
Yeah, regine, she's playing allthe different music, all the
different instruments, thehurdy-gurdy, all that stuff.
It was like hurdy-gurdy,hurdy-gurdy, it's got like a
(21:07):
wheel on the violin.
Shout out to Donovan, the oldtime Gertie, gertie song.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I'm not gonna give you a light, I'm gonna show you
the light.
I'm baby Jesus.
(22:03):
Dear tiny Jesus, your tinyjesus, go holding fleece diapers
with your tiny little fat holdup this pawn he's a man.
He had a beard.
Darling light of my life, I'mnot going to hurt you.
(22:28):
You didn't let me finish mysentence.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
That got kind of weird.
From the Jesus one to theshining.
I stand by that.
I mean it's a hodgepodge, right.
I mean there's a ton of stuffgoing on.
I mean these guys are like it'slike, yeah, there's so much
(23:02):
going on.
It's like it's like ooh, what'sup with that?
I like it.
It's in a good way.
It was like chaos.
Is it a dream?
(23:27):
Is it a lie?
I think all of you decide it'sa lot of candy for the kids.
Jesus Christ, I'm getting paid.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Cause I'm in a state For my kids Because I'm his kid,
my last kid.
Great boy, my man With a lot ofsoul, he just was like a flash
(24:04):
of green light.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And that was it shout out to radiohead.
Paranoid android.
This is what the sound's like.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake
Minnetonka?
Your time, time, time, but Ibelieve I requested the handjob.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Okay, tim, that was important.
I don't know about that.
All right, why don't?
You let me fix you some of thisnew mo' cocoa drink.
All natural cocoa beans fromthe upper slopes of Mount
Nicaragua, no artificialsweeteners.
All right, there we go.
Mo' cocoa Save that one for thesuburbs episode with mo' cocoa.
(25:45):
Mo' cocoa, mo' cocoa drink.
Save that one for the suburbsepisode With Rococo.
How?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
about this new In the fields of Lake Nicaragua.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Or Mountain Nicaragua .
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I got it.
I got it.
Time keeps creeping through theneighborhood, killing old folks
, waking up babies, just like weknew it would.
(26:36):
This is dark Look.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Right amount of grease on the joystick.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Shout out to Sue, but my heart keeps watching Through
the skin of my eye Also, youhave like really big eyes and
that freaks me out sometimes.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Thank you, I'm getting a little bit clipped.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I close my eyes and nothing changed.
Now I'm getting a little bitclearer, just some water.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm getting hotter.
This pasta's not going to boilitself.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, what pasta sauce are you rolling with?
These days I've been, I've beeninto carbone tomato.
Yeah, okay, no, that's a goodanswer.
I mean, I was just it's allmarinara.
To me it's just like which, uh,which brand you know?
Oh, yeah, no, yeah, yeah,making your own's the best.
(28:30):
You add this here and there andjust keep layering on.
It's not heaven.
I'm pining for no.
Carbone is good.
It's like the Carbone rollercoaster.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, get a ride on the old bum roll.
Nevermore Can't raise a babyMotor.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Just like a sea.
I like the strings.
They're very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Gotta get my time.
I like the strings.
They're very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Is she doing the hurdy-gurdy?
Is that what I'm hearing Shoutout to Rasheen on the
hurdy-gurdy?
I like the end of this song.
(29:59):
It's like you got to give ittime.
It's just like a seed down inthe soil.
You got to give it time.
You can't raise a baby on motoroil.
Yeah, that was a missedopportunity and I regret it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I can do this by yourself, Jerry.
I've been preparing for thismoment my entire life All right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, that was neighborhood number four.
Now, this is Crown of Love.
This one kind of starts offlike this and gets more intense
as it goes on it's a littlepsycho, whispering eye.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I pray for blindness.
If you still want me, pleaseforgive me the crown of love Is
falling from me.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
If you still want me, please forgive me.
Shouldn't we be giving someshout-outs to the other members
of the band?
When Butler and Regine get youknow, Be alive as well.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my
bedroom.
The only thing that you keepchanging is your name.
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My love keeps growing, stillthe same, just like a cancer,
and you won't give Me a straightanswer.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is the drums.
We've got Howard Dillon.
He's holding it down right.
Tim Kingsbury is the bassBassist.
The crown of love is fallingfrom me.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
He's backing up yeah, for.
Gene.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
There's a couple, several synthesizers played
Richard E Perry, electric guitar, synthesizer, organ accordion.
Yes, yeah, good analogy.
Call Wynn Butler and RegineChasson.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
They can be.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, they can be the Robert Plant, howard Billerman,
of course, bonzo.
Well, richard Reed Perry, no,no, no.
Tim Kingsbury, john Paul Jones,because they're the bass
players.
Richard Reed Perry, he's the.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, they overlap.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, the Led Zeppelin analogy.
It was a tough one.
I think we pulled it off.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yes, 70 lines into 20 .
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yep, there's like a bunch of other things.
I've got a harpist.
Anita Frost Shout out to Anita.
Sophie Trudeau on violin.
Jessica Moss violin Jen Heistekviola.
Michael Olsen cello PietroRomano.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Sarah Newfield playing the piano.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, steve got it Is it afeather or something?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What was that?
No, it was like the pen withthe feather on it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, a quill.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
That's right.
Yeah, you didn't say what is aquill.
You have to say it in front ofthe question.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
This isn't Jeopardy sound.
You have control of the quill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Also, you can arcade fire for that.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We should do that Little Jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We should go out and fish Right.
Crown of the book.
That wasn't bad.
Funerals are insane.
Do you know what your top threeare?
Yet you haven't.
(35:10):
You're going to see what'sgoing to strike your fancy.
Wake up, sisters.
This is a big one.
This is a popular one.
Are we going to make this one ahit or not?
This is Wake Up.
Oh, okay, right here.
Oh, you just want to see likethe yeah, where are I saying?
(35:35):
You mean the song?
Oh, singles, like all the four,like Neighborhood, 1 through 3
were singles.
Rebellion and Wake Up were allsingles singles.
Rebellion and Wake Up were allsingles.
You're talking about this song,song of the 2000s Ranked by
(35:59):
Rolling Stone.
Of course this is a hit.
Yeah, yes, let's take that outbecause they're too good.
This podcast is about the verythings, the ones that didn't get
(36:21):
the buzz.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
They deserve something we feel things.
My heart's colder and I can'tsee that it's alive.
Oh wow, that was a live versionof the song being performed
(37:01):
with David Bowie in 2005.
Live Children Wake up 2005,.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Live in the country.
What was that?
Oh, oh, the intro song.
Yes, for me it's Frank James.
Oh, for the Premier League yeah, aston Villa and Burnley, I
(38:02):
don't know.
Okay, I got it.
I've heard this anthem so manytimes.
Now that you mention it, it'salways.
This part is always a sniveling.
It's nice that they made moneyfor, maybe Earthquake 2010.
They've had numerous disastersPast tense.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Past tense and see where I am.
What is the deal with thepeople Reaching and touching my
(38:57):
head?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
This is the nod to the script.
Now you're here, love is here.
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Now, with my lightning boltsare glowing, I can see where I
am going With my lightning boltsare glowing.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, yeah, that cool note's great.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
They wake up.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
asleep, you better look out the window.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You better look out the window.
All right, this is Haiti.
Ohagne is a page-shaper.
It's her parents havingintegrated her into the
community before she was born.
They had.
I think there was like auprising in the 60s.
There was a dictator and familymembers that were killed in
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those uprisings.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's like a very personal song, I've heard it.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I mean we could look up the translation.
I think the native languagedoes it justice.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I'm feeling justice.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It goes back and forth in English.
I kinda like that In the riverwe will go.
He was the dictator, yeah.
Hunting stops for spirits, guns, killing, killing soldiers.
They're saying all the undeadborn in army.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
All the tears of us.
I'm searching for the past.
I'm searching for the past.
I'm searching for the past.
(43:58):
I'm searching for the past, I'msearching.
There are a lot of those gamesthat are playing this time.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Oh, cool got the thing at the end Very artsy.
(44:37):
Yeah, that's the perfect.
So it goes right, right intorebellion.
That was a cool transitionthere.
I didn't know.
(44:59):
Okay, so Haiti goes right intorebellion.
That was good, that was cool.
(45:23):
It's kind of like the bass line, from when the Streets have no
Name.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Or no, no or yeah, where the Streets have name, or
uh yeah, where the streets haveno name, I do too.
Sweet minutes Give an end, solift us For the island.
People say that you'll dieFaster than Without water, but
we know it's just a lie.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
A square cent, a square dollar 90% of what people
are forced to listen to in theday is someone trying to force
them to buy something they don'tlike that was a quote from a
good book at a certain pointyou've got to say shut up.
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It's like someone poking atyour face all the time.
It's the door to try to goabout your life in a certain way
or say stop giving it.
Every time you close your eyes.
Every time you close your eyes,every time you close your eyes
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Whispering eye.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Also, you have like really big eyes, and that freaks
me out sometimes.
Thank you, thank you, I'm notgonna give you a light.
(47:24):
What are you doing?
Oh, this is good, becausewinter is coming, I can use
(47:50):
these long johns again.
I say that you'll die Fasterthan workout water, but we know
it's just a lie.
Scared of sun, scared ofdaughter.
Scared of sun.
Scared of daughter Wearing thatwith the butler's voice.
Scared of sun, scared ofdaughter.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Now here's the sun, it's alright.
Butler's voice.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah, coming from the gut.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
It's a another anthem Every time you close your eyes
(49:06):
you know what's underappreciatedthe violin, the strings, on all
these songs.
We should be praising a lot ofthat.
I like how they pepper in allthose other little instruments
like the xylophone.
There's so much going on andthen in the live video they've
got the guys in the back playingthe percussion.
They do bring in a lot ofdifferent styles and elements
(49:30):
and instruments that are bothelectronic, synthetic as well as
organic, hurdy-gurdy, all that.
I mean it's kudos to them forthrowing the whole kitchen sink
at it, kind of a thing, right?
(49:52):
So we've got a couple morecoming.
I think when are we at?
I think, it's the last one?
Yeah well, time flies whenyou're having fun.
Oh my gosh, so many mom jokes Iwant to put in there.
(50:20):
It's a classy show, I don'tknow what to write.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Oh, steve, my family trees Losing all its leaves,
crashing towards the travesty.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Kind of haunting and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
To melt the street beneath your feet.
To melt the street.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Beneath your feet To melt the street.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Beneath your feet.
I'll stay In the night I'vebeen lying To dry.
(51:35):
Poor house.
That's depressing.
That's depressing.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Can you imagine your life just being, yeah, the NBA
your whole life.
Yeah, you've just been tryingto get your license.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
You gotta go back to the NBA.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
They keep telling you you forgot something, you
didn't sign something, you gottago back, yeah, and then the
fees increase.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
I do not want to shout out to the other people
Now I'm getting a little bitclamped In the backseat.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Now I'm getting a little bit clamped.
Speaker 2 (52:29):
I don't have to try, I don't have to speak Anyhow,
anyhow you think that I'm just?
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Poor, sad thing, though.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Anyhow, he thinks he's gonna get back together for
you.
This is the.
(53:21):
This is the climax here.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Woo Woo, there's going to have to be owls out
there.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Woo Woo this way.
Woo Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo,woo, woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Woo Woo.
Yeah, we could Do it over this.
We'll play in the background.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
All right, yeah, so what are you thinking about with
number three?
All right, yeah, so what areyou thinking about with number
three?
Oh, good choice, mm-hmm, yep, Iagree.
Mm-hmm.
Very worthy, mm-hmm.
(54:23):
Okay, good one.
Number three is this is whatwe're listening to in the
backseat Very worthy, okay, goodone.
Number three is this what we'relistening to in the backseat?
This is my number three.
I just think it's a beautifulsong and it's touching and I'm
genuinely very Clint.
Alice died and, yeah, I'mfeeling for it.
Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so,number three.
(54:47):
You're on number two.
Mm Should be there.
Yes, I wanted you know.
(55:09):
That is worthy of being on thetop three.
I'm going to go.
Number two Haiti, which youlisted as number three.
I think it was.
Yeah, just the story.
I like the story behind it.
I like the story behind it.
I like how the artist makesherself vulnerable and puts it
all out there in prose, thehumanizing.
(55:33):
I wasn't aware of that massacreand that brought that to my
attention.
It helps you look through thoseexperiences that brought that
to my attention and, uh, ittakes you, helps you look
through those experiences with,uh, a human standpoint, instead
of it just being something thatyou read about as another
(55:54):
killing or another massacre.
So, um, I bet you, a lot offamilies from all over the world
can relate to it.
So, anyway, that's number twofor me over the world can relate
to it.
So anyway, that's number twofor me.
Wow, great outro.
I love that outro.
That was great.
Yes, I did.
I liked it too.
(56:15):
I guess honorable mention forin the backseat, maybe it.
But honestly, yeah,neighborhood number three, power
powers out, that's your numberone.
Yeah, mine too, man, that wasgreat.
Yeah, yes, neighborhood threepower out my number one as well.
(56:42):
Yeah, it's just an energeticsong.
I liked the xylophone in it.
There was a chorus.
They're doing what they'redoing best on that.
It's the anthem of it.
It's just that ending part ofit.
(57:05):
That sounded a lot likeRadiohead was cool.
I liked how they drew thatinfluence and made it their own.
That was cherry on top.
Speaker 3 (57:13):
Here is the frogger, this is the front door and this
is the outlet.
That's right, it really didfill the, you know, simple lines
intertwining.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
It really did feel, you know simple lines
intertwining when I was jammingon this.
It was natural to find thesesort of you know riffs that sort
of sit in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yep, the songs have a circular feel to them.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, there's some
barbershop raga in there,there's no question about that.
But it's just the way you know,like you said, simple lines
intertwining.
It's the way it's all puttogether it is.
It is innovative, right, andit's all a part of a theme
(58:04):
funeral it's, you know it's.
It's well done for being a, youknow, kind of a depressing
topic or such.
Funerals are insane.
Funerals are insane.
All right, any last words.
So that was a good one, man.
Speaker 3 (58:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (58:25):
Yep, all right.
All right, zip it in and zip itout.
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing the songRebellion parentheses Lies is
my co-host and neighbor, tim.
Again, thank you for listening.
This is Arcade Fire's funeralepisode, their debut album,
critically acclaimed.
(00:40):
Arcade Fire, if you don't know,they're a Canadian band out of
Montreal, quebec, and I wouldsay that they would call them an
indie rock band.
They're known for a uniquesound, really energetic live
performances.
This album was recorded in 2004.
So Arcade Fire, they're a uhthat formed in 2001 in montreal.
(01:07):
It was the hometown of the, thefounding members, and uh.
Win butler is the, the leadlead guy.
He met uh, who ended upbecoming his wife, regine
shesanya.
I think that's how it's uh,kind of like champagne but
shesanya.
I think that's how it's kind oflike champagne but Chesanya.
Other members Richard ReedPerry, tim Kingsbury, jeremy
(01:33):
Garra, will Butler, the youngerbrother of Wynn, also performed
as well, but this is their debutalbum.
This is considered one of theirbest albums in the 2000s of all
, all, all the albums, but alsoone of their best albums.
So, um, it's got kind of a darkside to it a little bit.
(01:54):
Uh, you know, it's just about,uh, the deaths of several of the
band members relatives, which,uh, influenced the you know the
emotional, depth, thematicaticcontent, things like that.
So it was critically andcommercially successful.
They won numerous awards.
(02:15):
After this one, they wonGrammys in 2011 for Album of the
Year, for another album,suburbs, which was another one
of their albums.
I think they come out with likeinstead of like coming out with
an album like, which was, uh,another one of their apps.
I think they come out with likeinstead of like coming out with
an album like every other year.
There's one of these bands thatjust writes a hit album and
then another hit album like fouror five years later.
So their albums are spread out,but they're all super quality.
(02:38):
Um, they're known for like anuh, an eclectic uh, for like, an
eclectic musical style.
They're anthemic, that kind ofthing.
What else can I say about them?
Regine Chassagne plays a lot ofdifferent instruments, as does
(02:59):
Will Butler.
Winn Butler is the drivingforce.
He was, I think, like theoriginal member that like
brought it all together.
So, um, just a lot of peoplecollaborating, like.
When you watch their 2015, youknow live at earl court in lond.
(03:22):
It's super energetic.
They're all in sync with oneanother.
There's like maybe 12 or 13people on the stage.
So they've got that coremembership that I just name
checked.
But they've got a lot of otherpeople, you know, like a lot of
backup singers, rhythm section,they've got all kinds of stuff
(03:46):
going on.
So we're gonna listen to all thesongs, as we always do, and
then we're gonna rank our topthree non-hits.
So there's a number of songshere that I mean tim and I
talked a little bit about this,uh, before.
There's like four differentsongs, for the first five songs
are named neighborhoodhood One,two, three and four.
They've got parentheses, allthat stuff.
(04:08):
The third song, un Ame SansLumiere, which is like another
year, something like that, orOne Year Without Light.
That's it, that's thetranslation.
Some of the other songs, likewake up, is a really popular one
.
It's been a lot of commercialsand on the radio that kind of
(04:31):
thing, and rebellion lies inparentheses.
Sonic tim's playing gets a lotof plays as well.
Those are the two big ones.
So I guess if we're gonnaexclude, if we can consider them
hits, I mean I would, um, Imean I, I'll be up front right
now.
I think the rebellion isprobably my favorite song on
(04:53):
this.
Uh, this album, um, wake up isgood too, you know.
You know it's all it's all good.
I mean too, you know, you knowit's all it's all good.
I mean, got the hockey playinghere.
They're hockey arcade fire.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I am fire.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I whoa, that got weird real quick.
That was tim, yeah, so we'regonna have a lot of funny sound
clips.
We're gonna be cracking jokesto and fro, uh, but you know,
because of the nature of thisalbum, you know we don't want to
.
Yeah, a lot of it is about,like, family members.
The song haiti is about, uh,like shes saying, shesanya is um
(05:38):
of both, I think, african andhaitian, and Canadian descent,
so a lot of her relatives fromHaiti who were killed in
massacres from the past arereferenced in the song Haiti.
We're dealing with some heavythemes, but all in the context
(06:01):
of good fun.
So, without further ado, here'sTim.
How's it going?
Bud, yeah, yeah, yeah, the napof my life and we're just going
to flush all the lies down thetoilet here.
Okay, we're going to be rebornafter this funeral here Reborn.
(06:22):
Let's hope for that.
Yeah, I do too.
Well, good, any parting wordsbefore we get into the songs.
A little air hockey.
What I spent a lot of time inthat Time crisis?
Sure, all those.
(06:43):
What was your favorite game,Frogger?
That was a great Pac-Man buyingthe Frogger machine.
There's one called Defender,that was kind of cool.
There was Joust Pac-Man.
Tapper was good.
(07:04):
Knockout pac-man, oh tapper.
Yeah, tapper was good.
Knockout bald bull piston,hurricane glass joe glass joe
was easy.
He just like knocked him outlike three, three or four
punches.
Yeah, we should get somequarters and go and just have a
(07:25):
good time.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You owe me a quarter.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's right, joe.
I know Slippery Joe.
Sorry about your mail orderbribe.
Slippery Pete, slippery Pete,that's right.
Yeah, didn't Kramer have anaffair with her or something
like that.
It was before she was married,though according to him, yeah.
So it's a great album.
It hits in the feels a lot.
You know a lot of a lot ofdoubles and triples with the
(07:50):
jokes with the arcade and thefire and the yada, yada, yep,
you know, get your get yourMountain Dew, get your get your
mozzarella.
Let's go, yep, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Perfect combination of Mountain Dew and mozzarella.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, as long as we can just get the, you know not
have too much grease on thejoystick, you know.
So anyway, all right.
So without further ado, let'sgo to the first song.
It's called Neighborhood One inTunnels, in parentheses.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Here we go All right and if the snow buries, my
(08:53):
neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Snow burying neighborhoods is common in
Montreal.
I imagine it's a little bit sad.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Now I'm getting a little bit glib Well placed yeah
.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Shout to Linda Richard, meet me in the middle,
the middle of the town.
Since there's no one that'saround, we let our hair grow
long and forget all we used toknow.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And the Kramer you're in charge of taping off the
loaders, lock and load Forgetthe curl From living out in the
snow.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You change all the land.
Sleeping in my head as the daygrows dim, I hear you say golden
hair.
Oh, if I'm the best Baby Jesuspowers, you're very good, that's
(10:42):
a good.
I hope that you can use yourbaby Jesus powers to heal.
We forgot all the names there,the names we used to know, a
shout out to the children, ofcourse.
But sometimes we remember ourbedrooms and our parents'
(11:09):
bedrooms and the bedrooms of ourfriends.
Then we think of our parents.
Whatever happened to them,you'd change all the way
Sleeping in my head.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's a question a couple of guys like us ask a lot
when are the parents?
It's like, oh, they left us along time ago.
It's all I'm trying to see.
Purify the color.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Purify my mind, purify the color.
Why don't you purify yourselfin the waters of Lake Minnetonka
, there?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
you go, shout out to Prince, shout out to Lake
Minnetonka.
Oh, that is high and mighty.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Shout out to Lake Minnetonka.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
With joy in your heart.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I hope that you can use your baby Jesus powers to
heal me old man.
I'm kind of surprised this songisn't more popular.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
This is this is tolerable it's tolerable right
(13:03):
amount of grease on the joystick.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
There we go.
Alright, that was a it'stolerable, a good amount of
grease on the joystick.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
There we go.
All right, that was a goodstart.
This is neighborhood number two.
Is it Laika, laika Bird?
You're getting good with thefather, you're?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
getting good with the father.
You're home, free.
He tore our images out of hispictures he took himself out of
(14:19):
his life.
Come on, alex, you can do it.
Come on, alex, there's nothingto it.
If you want something, don'task for nothing.
If you want nothing, don't askfor something.
All my love, shut up, justleave me alone.
What, what?
(15:00):
Mom, mom, mommy, mommy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sort of like.
It's almost too much Like.
What's that thing Talking heads, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, there's a
(15:31):
four on the floor.
Yeah, it's missing for me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, it's missing.
For me, Fear, grief, isnature's most powerful and most
beautiful.
Y'all believe it's a day or two.
Y'all believe it's a day or two.
(16:13):
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Shout out to the neighbors.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Now, the neighbors can't stand.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Now the neighbors, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
All right, watch the truck Double jump Eat the fly,
eat it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, this is the French one Une année sans
lumière.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
One year without light In my nissan denier.
Je monte un cheval Qui portedes ailleurs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hey, my eyes are shooting sparks.
The news you declare Deep outI'm prepared.
Yeah, there's like a wholetranslation here.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All the birds again.
Hey, your old man should knowyou see a shadow, something.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
There.
So, hey, I like this one.
It's nice and it's simple linesintertwining.
I mean.
I know it has a powerful andsweet sentiment.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Simple lines intertwining.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now I'm getting a little bit clamped.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It is.
I am getting a bit clamped.
Anyhow anyhow, if you thinkthat I'm going gonna sit around
and wait for you, you can forgetit.
You tell him sad Linda, in fasttimes.
It really tried to hide.
If she's in, just give it toher.
(19:25):
She's in, give it to her.
She's in love, showing her myold face, old face.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
This is the best night of my life.
Do not come with me to the cashbar.
We shall make beautiful musictogether right here.
He's actually in the music.
I don't see anything.
Yes, clipping off a loadage.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Locking off the loadage.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right.
So if I'm the best, you're verygood.
Let's say good, all right, thisis Neighborhood 3.
This is a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Power out I need a battery for this kind of job.
Can I at least steal a battery?
Fine, steal the battery.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
They did this one good live in the girl court
recording of their live show.
It was 2015.
Yeah, regine, she's playing allthe different music, all the
different instruments, thehurdy-gurdy, all that stuff.
It was like hurdy-gurdy,hurdy-gurdy, it's got like a
(21:07):
wheel on the violin.
Shout out to Donovan, the oldtime Gertie, gertie song.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I'm not gonna give you a light, I'm gonna show you
the light.
I'm baby Jesus.
(22:03):
Dear tiny Jesus, your tinyjesus, go holding fleece diapers
with your tiny little fat holdup this pawn he's a man.
He had a beard.
Darling light of my life, I'mnot going to hurt you.
(22:28):
You didn't let me finish mysentence.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
That got kind of weird.
From the Jesus one to theshining.
I stand by that.
I mean it's a hodgepodge, right.
I mean there's a ton of stuffgoing on.
I mean these guys are like it'slike, yeah, there's so much
(23:02):
going on.
It's like it's like ooh, what'sup with that?
I like it.
It's in a good way.
It was like chaos.
Is it a dream?
(23:27):
Is it a lie?
I think all of you decide it'sa lot of candy for the kids.
Jesus Christ, I'm getting paid.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Cause I'm in a state For my kids Because I'm his kid,
my last kid.
Great boy, my man With a lot ofsoul, he just was like a flash
(24:04):
of green light.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And that was it shout out to radiohead.
Paranoid android.
This is what the sound's like.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake
Minnetonka?
Your time, time, time, but Ibelieve I requested the handjob.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Okay, tim, that was important.
I don't know about that.
All right, why don't?
You let me fix you some of thisnew mo' cocoa drink.
All natural cocoa beans fromthe upper slopes of Mount
Nicaragua, no artificialsweeteners.
All right, there we go.
Mo' cocoa Save that one for thesuburbs episode with mo' cocoa.
(25:45):
Mo' cocoa, mo' cocoa drink.
Save that one for the suburbsepisode With Rococo.
How?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
about this new In the fields of Lake Nicaragua.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Or Mountain Nicaragua .
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I got it.
I got it.
Time keeps creeping through theneighborhood, killing old folks
, waking up babies, just like weknew it would.
(26:36):
This is dark Look.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Right amount of grease on the joystick.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Shout out to Sue, but my heart keeps watching Through
the skin of my eye Also, youhave like really big eyes and
that freaks me out sometimes.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Thank you, I'm getting a little bit clipped.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I close my eyes and nothing changed.
Now I'm getting a little bitclearer, just some water.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm getting hotter.
This pasta's not going to boilitself.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, what pasta sauce are you rolling with?
These days I've been, I've beeninto carbone tomato.
Yeah, okay, no, that's a goodanswer.
I mean, I was just it's allmarinara.
To me it's just like which, uh,which brand you know?
Oh, yeah, no, yeah, yeah,making your own's the best.
(28:30):
You add this here and there andjust keep layering on.
It's not heaven.
I'm pining for no.
Carbone is good.
It's like the Carbone rollercoaster.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, get a ride on the old bum roll.
Nevermore Can't raise a babyMotor.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Just like a sea.
I like the strings.
They're very beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Gotta get my time.
I like the strings.
They're very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Is she doing the hurdy-gurdy?
Is that what I'm hearing Shoutout to Rasheen on the
hurdy-gurdy?
I like the end of this song.
(29:59):
It's like you got to give ittime.
It's just like a seed down inthe soil.
You got to give it time.
You can't raise a baby on motoroil.
Yeah, that was a missedopportunity and I regret it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I can do this by yourself, Jerry.
I've been preparing for thismoment my entire life All right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, that was neighborhood number four.
Now, this is Crown of Love.
This one kind of starts offlike this and gets more intense
as it goes on it's a littlepsycho, whispering eye.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I pray for blindness.
If you still want me, pleaseforgive me the crown of love Is
falling from me.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
If you still want me, please forgive me.
Shouldn't we be giving someshout-outs to the other members
of the band?
When Butler and Regine get youknow, Be alive as well.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my
bedroom.
The only thing that you keepchanging is your name.
(31:51):
My love keeps growing, stillthe same, just like a cancer,
and you won't give Me a straightanswer.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is the drums.
We've got Howard Dillon.
He's holding it down right.
Tim Kingsbury is the bassBassist.
The crown of love is fallingfrom me.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
He's backing up yeah, for.
Gene.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
There's a couple, several synthesizers played
Richard E Perry, electric guitar, synthesizer, organ accordion.
Yes, yeah, good analogy.
Call Wynn Butler and RegineChasson.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
They can be.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, they can be the Robert Plant, howard Billerman,
of course, bonzo.
Well, richard Reed Perry, no,no, no.
Tim Kingsbury, john Paul Jones,because they're the bass
players.
Richard Reed Perry, he's the.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, they overlap.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, the Led Zeppelin analogy.
It was a tough one.
I think we pulled it off.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yes, 70 lines into 20 .
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yep, there's like a bunch of other things.
I've got a harpist.
Anita Frost Shout out to Anita.
Sophie Trudeau on violin.
Jessica Moss violin Jen Heistekviola.
Michael Olsen cello PietroRomano.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Sarah Newfield playing the piano.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, steve got it Is it afeather or something?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What was that?
No, it was like the pen withthe feather on it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, a quill.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
That's right.
Yeah, you didn't say what is aquill.
You have to say it in front ofthe question.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
This isn't Jeopardy sound.
You have control of the quill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Also, you can arcade fire for that.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We should do that Little Jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We should go out and fish Right.
Crown of the book.
That wasn't bad.
Funerals are insane.
Do you know what your top threeare?
Yet you haven't.
(35:10):
You're going to see what'sgoing to strike your fancy.
Wake up, sisters.
This is a big one.
This is a popular one.
Are we going to make this one ahit or not?
This is Wake Up.
Oh, okay, right here.
Oh, you just want to see likethe yeah, where are I saying?
(35:35):
You mean the song?
Oh, singles, like all the four,like Neighborhood, 1 through 3
were singles.
Rebellion and Wake Up were allsingles singles.
Rebellion and Wake Up were allsingles.
You're talking about this song,song of the 2000s Ranked by
(35:59):
Rolling Stone.
Of course this is a hit.
Yeah, yes, let's take that outbecause they're too good.
This podcast is about the verythings, the ones that didn't get
(36:21):
the buzz.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
They deserve something we feel things.
My heart's colder and I can'tsee that it's alive.
Oh wow, that was a live versionof the song being performed
(37:01):
with David Bowie in 2005.
Live Children Wake up 2005,.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Live in the country.
What was that?
Oh, oh, the intro song.
Yes, for me it's Frank James.
Oh, for the Premier League yeah, aston Villa and Burnley, I
(38:02):
don't know.
Okay, I got it.
I've heard this anthem so manytimes.
Now that you mention it, it'salways.
This part is always a sniveling.
It's nice that they made moneyfor, maybe Earthquake 2010.
They've had numerous disastersPast tense.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Past tense and see where I am.
What is the deal with thepeople Reaching and touching my
(38:57):
head?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
This is the nod to the script.
Now you're here, love is here.
(40:07):
Now, with my lightning boltsare glowing, I can see where I
am going With my lightning boltsare glowing.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, yeah, that cool note's great.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
They wake up.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
asleep, you better look out the window.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You better look out the window.
All right, this is Haiti.
Ohagne is a page-shaper.
It's her parents havingintegrated her into the
community before she was born.
They had.
I think there was like auprising in the 60s.
There was a dictator and familymembers that were killed in
(41:37):
those uprisings.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's like a very personal song, I've heard it.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I mean we could look up the translation.
I think the native languagedoes it justice.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I'm feeling justice.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It goes back and forth in English.
I kinda like that In the riverwe will go.
He was the dictator, yeah.
Hunting stops for spirits, guns, killing, killing soldiers.
They're saying all the undeadborn in army.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
All the tears of us.
I'm searching for the past.
I'm searching for the past.
I'm searching for the past.
(43:58):
I'm searching for the past, I'msearching.
There are a lot of those gamesthat are playing this time.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Oh, cool got the thing at the end Very artsy.
(44:37):
Yeah, that's the perfect.
So it goes right, right intorebellion.
That was a cool transitionthere.
I didn't know.
(44:59):
Okay, so Haiti goes right intorebellion.
That was good, that was cool.
(45:23):
It's kind of like the bass line, from when the Streets have no
Name.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Or no, no or yeah, where the Streets have name, or
uh yeah, where the streets haveno name, I do too.
Sweet minutes Give an end, solift us For the island.
People say that you'll dieFaster than Without water, but
we know it's just a lie.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
A square cent, a square dollar 90% of what people
are forced to listen to in theday is someone trying to force
them to buy something they don'tlike that was a quote from a
good book at a certain pointyou've got to say shut up.
(46:13):
It's like someone poking atyour face all the time.
It's the door to try to goabout your life in a certain way
or say stop giving it.
Every time you close your eyes.
Every time you close your eyes,every time you close your eyes
(46:55):
Whispering eye.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Also, you have like really big eyes, and that freaks
me out sometimes.
Thank you, thank you, I'm notgonna give you a light.
(47:24):
What are you doing?
Oh, this is good, becausewinter is coming, I can use
(47:50):
these long johns again.
I say that you'll die Fasterthan workout water, but we know
it's just a lie.
Scared of sun, scared ofdaughter.
Scared of sun.
Scared of daughter Wearing thatwith the butler's voice.
Scared of sun, scared ofdaughter.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Now here's the sun, it's alright.
Butler's voice.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah, coming from the gut.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
It's a another anthem Every time you close your eyes
(49:06):
you know what's underappreciatedthe violin, the strings, on all
these songs.
We should be praising a lot ofthat.
I like how they pepper in allthose other little instruments
like the xylophone.
There's so much going on andthen in the live video they've
got the guys in the back playingthe percussion.
They do bring in a lot ofdifferent styles and elements
(49:30):
and instruments that are bothelectronic, synthetic as well as
organic, hurdy-gurdy, all that.
I mean it's kudos to them forthrowing the whole kitchen sink
at it, kind of a thing, right?
(49:52):
So we've got a couple morecoming.
I think when are we at?
I think, it's the last one?
Yeah well, time flies whenyou're having fun.
Oh my gosh, so many mom jokes Iwant to put in there.
(50:20):
It's a classy show, I don'tknow what to write.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Oh, steve, my family trees Losing all its leaves,
crashing towards the travesty.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Kind of haunting and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
To melt the street beneath your feet.
To melt the street.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Beneath your feet To melt the street.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Beneath your feet.
I'll stay In the night I'vebeen lying To dry.
(51:35):
Poor house.
That's depressing.
That's depressing.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Can you imagine your life just being, yeah, the NBA
your whole life.
Yeah, you've just been tryingto get your license.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
You gotta go back to the NBA.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
They keep telling you you forgot something, you
didn't sign something, you gottago back, yeah, and then the
fees increase.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
I do not want to shout out to the other people
Now I'm getting a little bitclamped In the backseat.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Now I'm getting a little bit clamped.
Speaker 2 (52:29):
I don't have to try, I don't have to speak Anyhow,
anyhow you think that I'm just?
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Poor, sad thing, though.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Anyhow, he thinks he's gonna get back together for
you.
This is the.
(53:21):
This is the climax here.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Woo Woo, there's going to have to be owls out
there.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Woo Woo this way.
Woo Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo,woo, woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo Woo.
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Woo Woo.
Yeah, we could Do it over this.
We'll play in the background.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
All right, yeah, so what are you thinking about with
number three?
All right, yeah, so what areyou thinking about with number
three?
Oh, good choice, mm-hmm, yep, Iagree.
Mm-hmm.
Very worthy, mm-hmm.
(54:23):
Okay, good one.
Number three is this is whatwe're listening to in the
backseat Very worthy, okay, goodone.
Number three is this what we'relistening to in the backseat?
This is my number three.
I just think it's a beautifulsong and it's touching and I'm
genuinely very Clint.
Alice died and, yeah, I'mfeeling for it.
Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so,number three.
(54:47):
You're on number two.
Mm Should be there.
Yes, I wanted you know.
(55:09):
That is worthy of being on thetop three.
I'm going to go.
Number two Haiti, which youlisted as number three.
I think it was.
Yeah, just the story.
I like the story behind it.
I like the story behind it.
I like how the artist makesherself vulnerable and puts it
all out there in prose, thehumanizing.
(55:33):
I wasn't aware of that massacreand that brought that to my
attention.
It helps you look through thoseexperiences that brought that
to my attention and, uh, ittakes you, helps you look
through those experiences with,uh, a human standpoint, instead
of it just being something thatyou read about as another
(55:54):
killing or another massacre.
So, um, I bet you, a lot offamilies from all over the world
can relate to it.
So, anyway, that's number twofor me over the world can relate
to it.
So anyway, that's number twofor me.
Wow, great outro.
I love that outro.
That was great.
Yes, I did.
I liked it too.
(56:15):
I guess honorable mention forin the backseat, maybe it.
But honestly, yeah,neighborhood number three, power
powers out, that's your numberone.
Yeah, mine too, man, that wasgreat.
Yeah, yes, neighborhood threepower out my number one as well.
(56:42):
Yeah, it's just an energeticsong.
I liked the xylophone in it.
There was a chorus.
They're doing what they'redoing best on that.
It's the anthem of it.
It's just that ending part ofit.
(57:05):
That sounded a lot likeRadiohead was cool.
I liked how they drew thatinfluence and made it their own.
That was cherry on top.
Speaker 3 (57:13):
Here is the frogger, this is the front door and this
is the outlet.
That's right, it really didfill the, you know, simple lines
intertwining.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
It really did feel, you know simple lines
intertwining when I was jammingon this.
It was natural to find thesesort of you know riffs that sort
of sit in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yep, the songs have a circular feel to them.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, there's some
barbershop raga in there,there's no question about that.
But it's just the way you know,like you said, simple lines
intertwining.
It's the way it's all puttogether it is.
It is innovative, right, andit's all a part of a theme
(58:04):
funeral it's, you know it's.
It's well done for being a, youknow, kind of a depressing
topic or such.
Funerals are insane.
Funerals are insane.
All right, any last words.
So that was a good one, man.
Speaker 3 (58:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (58:25):
Yep, all right.
All right, zip it in and zip itout.
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