once again, i am indie pete

[rone]

I normally don't get too wrapped up in an album's track order; i can tell what albums are well constructed, which tracks hang well together in the order in which they were released, and which albums are a bit of a hodge-podge but ultimately aren't hindered by their track order.  I listen to my music library on shuffle, anyway, so i can go from Ministry to Beethoven to Juan Luis Guerra 440 to Robert Fripp and i don't really so much as blink.

However, i feel very strongly about the fact that the track order of the first four tracks on The Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is completely backwards.  The album should start off with "Intervention" in order to have, with "My Body Is a Cage", two big pipe organ songs bookending the album.  Then the pacing quiets with "Neon Bible", picks up again with "Keep the Car Running", then slows again with "Black Mirror".  The rest of the album flows quite nicely, but the first four songs as released are simply awkward.  Go on, give it a listen and tell me i'm wrong.

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Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Maybe try making an Arcade Fire station on Pandora. Their first EP is poor but has one very good track on it. The first LP, Funeral, has a few dull songs but many stirring ones. Neon Bible is more consistent and polished, but suffers from a bad start. I like `em, but it's not a band i can unreservedly recommend.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Okay, I haven't actually heard of The Arcade File at all. Why are you asking me these questions?