What's the French for 'Down wit da yoof?'

[caddyman]

I know nothing about them, their website is impenetrable (maybe it’s just the office server acting the slippery eel), and I think they only have the one album out, but I quite like The Arcade Fire. I bought the album some time ago, having seen them on Later with Jools Holland, I added it to my Walkman, but only really gave it a single listen. Since the Walkman is generally on shuffle, I haven’t listened to them since.

So today I set the play mode to normal and shuffled through to deliberately listen to stuff that rarely slides through the cans. Funeral became that album, and I am enjoying it immensely.

The band remind me of someone, but I’m damned if I can recall who, but it’s more than one band, that’s for sure. Here and there, there are snatches that could be British Sea Power, but then they veer off on some other tack.

Who would have thought that I might like something produced by a bunch of Québecois? Well, Quebec residents, at least.

I am 'down' with the Montreal Indie scene. Who’da thunk?

Comments

wtf is going on over there bryan?

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1575411,00.html

Re: wtf is going on over there bryan?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when the defence against terrorism is to remove the very liberties the terrorists are attacking.

I daresay that it will happen here, in the US and anywhere else where only the short term view is taken.

Re: wtf is going on over there bryan?

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I was nervous for a while after I broke my arm:

Stains on hand (from iodine swabbing)

bulky coat (because I only had one that fitted over the cast, which I HAD to keep dry)

Laptop - kept with me, and harder to take off

nervous movements - because I didn't want to either trip or be run into

beard

[rotwang.livejournal.com]

One of my colleagues foisted a copy of this on me along with something I was actually after. At first I wasn't sure, but it has really grown on me. A good variety of styles on the one album too.