Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

ch-scene - Re: Arcade Fire. I'm not insane.

ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: RTP-area local music and culture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Arcade Fire. I'm not insane.
  • Date: 18 Mar 2007 18:28:10 GMT

grady wrote:

> If your favorite CD review site couldn't be bothered to at least
> attempt to understand the very real appeal that the band has, then
> they're doing you a disservice. It's easy to take pot-shots at bands,
> and much moreso if they're popular, but for a band like the Arcade
> Fire, who are on a tiny label with a similarly tiny promo budget, to
> get as huge as they did based on their debut album and their live
> shows, there's clearly *something* at work there, and any critic who
> expects to be taken seriously should at least make an attempt to suss
> that out.
>

The "Eat shit - ten million flies can't be wrong" theory of music
criticism.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page