Also shout out to the Canadian hipster I met at a house party who loved thst Iâd been to Bolton - âBolton is the home of the donk!â - and told people how he knew the AF drummer - âman, he was the best drummer in Ottawaâ
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SIX
lovely.
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Really good to be honest
Also Win Butler looks like Richie from Bottom in the Rebellion video and itâs moderately funny
Itâs a 10 from me. I love it. I came to it with apprehension as I am a big constellation fan and NMH, but they won me over really quickly. I saw them at Reading in 2005 when they were touring funeral and they were so good. Glad to have seen them for each album and they are always brilliant live.
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10/10. Probably my favourite debut ever. Wish Iâd seen them around this time, but managed to catch them around Neon Bible. The energy and intensity of funeral is something to behold
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Trying to imagine whoâs doing the arguing here. You and a friend? Split personalities?
Sgreen: Funeral is definitely my favourite album of all time
Sgreenâs interlocutor: You think? I reckon Radioheadâs Kid A is probably your favourite. Look at how often you play it.
Sgreen: Nah, Iâm telling you: I like Funeral more than any othe album. Means so much to me. The sequencing is unreal, the best songs flow from mellow indie-orchestra to ragged anthemic rock, and the album as a whole reflects this too. Production-wise, it pretty much sounds like it was recorded in a basement but it completely works.
Sgreenâs interlocutor: Youâre wrong, mate. Thereâs probably half a dozen albums you like better than FuneralâŠ
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This is just about the easiest 10/10 of all of them so far.
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9/10, but only because Turn On The Bright Lights is 10/10 and itâs not quite as good as that. Picture dump below of their Leadmill show in 2005. It was so good. Got my ticket signed after too (Regine did the smiley face).
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Wi, Wils, пilп and пeep are definitely my top 4 members
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Thatâs just crazy talk.
I found Neon Bible a huge disappointment at the time, but it did slowly grow on me. But, itâs not in the same league as Funeral which is so far beyond anything else they (or pretty much any other band) have done.
I do like all their albums though except the last one which⊠well letâs just not talk about it and hope itâs just an anomaly.
âI GUESS WEâLL JUST HAVE TO ADJUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOOHHHHOOOOJHOOOJHOOOOHHWWOOOOOOOOOOOâ is still one of the most skin pricking moments of musicâŠabsolutely brings tears to my eyes when belting it out in the car
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neon bible > suburbs > funeral
That is very cool. £11 well spent!
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I was there too. I donât know whether it was just the extreme amount of pre- gig hype which set my expectations unreasonably high or whether they were having an off night, but I donât remember greatly enjoying it.
Great, great album. One of my biggest gig regrets is that I had tickets to see them at the Academy in Bristol around this time and was well up for it, but when the night rolled round, the wife and I were both really ill and couldnât have driven from Cardiff to Bristol. If I was to see them now itâd be a much bigger venue and theyâd probably play some songs from the albums that came after Neon Bible so it wouldnât be as much fun. Still gutted about it, and @brightlightâs photo extravaganza from the same tour is not helping matters, no sir.
Trying far too hard there⊠Smh
The next time I saw them (Manchester Apollo, Neon Bible tour) was the opposite, it felt flat and just wasnât the same. Though Leadmill I was front row, and you canât really fail to be swept up with it then.