Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Arcade Fire on SNL

I can't stop listening to the song "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" ever since I saw Arcade Fire's performance on SNL last Saturday. True, the vocals on the recorded version are much better, the dancing was a bit distracting, and (as one blogger put it), the outfits look like something from a Tron wedding, but even if they seem a bit awkward and nerdy in appearances, these nerds can rock.



And perhaps most impressive is that these nerds can write. The lyric from this song that most haunts me: "Living in the sprawl/ the dead shopping malls rise/ like mountains beyond mountains/ and there's no end in sight,/ I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights!"

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