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All Songs Considered

Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' at 20

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We look back at Arcade Fire's monumental debut album, why it was so special, the ways it changed the musical landscape, and how it sounds two decades later.

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0:00.0

On Bolzai, an interview that will blow your mind.

0:05.7

Eve takes us back to her battle wrapping days.

0:08.4

I remember that when it started being filmed and it was like,

0:11.5

assault the camera, assault the camera.

0:12.7

Assault the camera.

0:14.7

Yeah, that's basically how I wrapped.

0:16.3

All that and more on bullsey for maximum fun.org and NPR.

0:21.3

Stephen was actually, he just had this running gag through all of his texts to me yesterday

0:26.0

if I could just find out who this Arcade Fire Band is I will be ready to go for this taping and I was kind of like rolling my eyes through all of them like he wasn't getting me and then last night he says

0:39.7

Arcade Fireman I just don't know if I could just figure out

0:43.4

and when he said Fireman, that was when I finally broke.

0:47.4

I'm like when I typed Arcade Fireman into Wikipedia.

0:51.0

And that's when I finally just like finally just

0:53.2

finally.

0:54.0

It's amazing how they could, they're celebrating the 20th anniversary of this debut album

0:59.4

and who's still making these jokes. Jokes. So Stephen Thompson here, also with us as Rayna Durras, host of World Cafe from WXPN.

1:16.0

And Reyna, you're from Canada, where in Canada are you from? Are you from Montreal?

1:19.5

No, I'm from Toronto, but Canada is a small town in a way that looks like a huge country on a map.

1:26.2

So it all feels connected.

1:28.4

So where were you in your life when a funeral came out 20 years ago?

1:32.0

Were you a sentient being at that point?

1:34.0

I was.

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