Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

At first, I couldn’t get into Arcade Fire’s latest release. For some reason I am hesitant to jump on board a release that is critically acclaimed. Probably something to do with some Freudian issues with my potty training as a child. For whatever reason, I was a skeptic.

Then I heard the track “Antichrist Television Blues” (which, I’ve heard, is based on Joe Simpson, who is the Simpson girls father/manager). This track blew my fucking socks off so hard that the very concept of socks is a distant memory for me. The track sounds like a cross between an Old Elvis Presley and a Young Bruce Springsteen. It grabbed me by my throat as if to say, “Listen up, because I’m one of the most awesome songs you’ve heard this year.”

And you know something? … It was right.

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After I realized the potential of this one track to pump awesomeness straight down my ear canal, I started to go back and listen to the rest of the tracks. I could list each track and give a point by point review, but I’ll leave it at this: Don’t walk, RUN to your nearest privately owned record store and pick up this album.