September 2011
Anonymous asked: a friend of mine introduced arcade fire to me when he casually namedropped Funeral as a good album one day at school. before then i'd never heard him say anything about liking music at all. i was intrigued and i downloaded it and fell immediately in love, especially with the song Laika. from that day forward we began to trade music and and become closer friends. we learned a lot from each...
Thank you all for submitting your Arcade Fire...
I do have to have you guys stop submitting now though because i think it basically just took over. lol! But thank you all for sharing i love reading them all.
Yours truly- Miranda
Anonymous asked: i remember being around twelve years old when i first heard arcade fire. i was in the backseat of a car at night with my sister and her best friend. rebellion (lies) came on, and i just remember everything in that moment was so beautiful. i stared at my sister and her best friend as they sang along and clapped, and i remember smiling and clapping, but wanting to sing the lyrics so badly. five...
kaybray asked: I first heard of Arcade Fire when I was in 8th grade (early 2005). I was watching something on Fuse and the music video for "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" came on. Ever since then, I have been a hardcore AF fan. I saw them once in Nashville and even met Win, Jeremy, and Sarah after the show. Then I got to see them again at Bonnaroo. Harmonizing to "Wake Up" with 80,000+ people =...
somethinglikesunrise asked: I first heard "Rebellion (lies)" by Arcade Fire when I was on a way to a ... prepare yourself.. DOG SHOW yes, a dog show with my mom and brother (my mom is strange). This was in 2005 so I was in 5th grade... it was in the summer and my sister had just recently loaded a bunch of songs on my newly acquired iPod. The moment I heard the pounding drums I instantly fell in love. I listened to...
enaticosencantados asked: I Knew This Band In 2008, My Best Friend Gave Me The Album "Neon Bible" As A Gift, I Don't Know Why But At First I Wasn't Really A Good Fan, A Couple Of Songs Were Good To Me And That's It...But All Changed In 2009 (My Brain Was More Mature I Guess) Suddenly All Make A Sense To Me, Their Music Is So Pure, Fantastic, Epic, Their Remember Me The Good Times, The Summer, The...
tiredandtrueofheart asked: The moment I heard AF for the first time was also the moment I fell in love. I was sitting in a cinema and watching the trailer for Spike Jonze' 'Where The Wild Things Are' and I thought the song was incredible - so rawly emotional and beautiful. So when I got home I googled "our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up" and bought Funeral and Neon Bible and the rest...
growingbackwardswithtime asked: I first heard about Arcade Fire about two years ago. A friend of mine sent me their music. I put it on my iPod but only occasionally listened to it. She then got tickets to a show in my city, but at the last minute wasn't able to come. She gave me the tickets for free to take a friend. I went and ended up seriously falling in love. Since I wasn't as into them when I first saw them live,...
jenny-lee-lindberg asked: at the age of 11 my dad was playing Haiti on the stereo. I instantly started dancing. Surprisingly, at that age I wanted to hear other songs by them. I listened to the entire album "Funeral". You could figure out the rest :P
Anonymous asked: I first started listening to Arcade Fire because of my media production teacher actually! He had Neon Bible on his classroom computer that we used to cut videos and he used to let us listen to music during class. Neon Bible was the first AF song/album I heard, and i've been hooked since.
b0naparte asked: I had heard people mention Arcade Fire about 2 years ago but I never really took the time to listen to them.. I found out about a year ago that Win&Will grew up in the town that I live in and that their whole new CD would be based on them returning here. So I decided to listen to their music&the first song I listened to was Wake Up. I honestly got chills listening to them&they have...
Anonymous asked: I picked up Neon Bible on a whim when I was 14. The album cover and the title interested me. When I brought home and listened to it I thought it was beautiful. I loved everything about it, lyrics, music, instruments and how it made me think. The next day I went back to the record shop and bought Funeral. I've loved them ever since.
August 2011
those-entrails asked: My mum was (and still is) OBSESSED with Wake Up so that automatically made me dislike Arcade Fire. In about 2008 I downloaded some mix and it had No Cars Go on it and I just remember thinking "this is the best song I'll ever hear" and I've been absolutely in love with them ever since. I saw them in June and it was one of the best nights of my life. My mum still likes to go on...
arcadecryer-deactivated20121205 asked: I heard Wake Up when my brother played it in his room one day when I was starting 8th grade, I asked what the band was and he said Arcade Fire and that he saw them last year. Then he gave me his CD of Funeral to listen to and, well, I haven't given it back since. I just sort of fell in love with them, and then I neglected them for a couple months, because I was listening to a lot of Florence...
rubberrings asked: first time i heard arcade fire, i was pulling out of a mcdonald's turning left onto a main road. rebellion lies was barely getting air play. i remember i got goosebumps at "now here's the sun, it's alright." i pulled over, waited for the dj to name the artists, wrote it down on my mc'd's bag (the only paper available). it still feels like it was just yesterday...
Anonymous asked: I was getting ready for school and MTV played the Ready To Start video, but I changed the channel because I didn't know who were them. At the next day the video was in MTV again and I heard half of the song and changed the channel, and the next day MTV played the video again at the same hour and I heard them and I loved them. Then I heard The Suburbs (the song) and really liked it, but I...
nerd-bomber asked: how i first heard of arcade fire is actually a real short story not long like the rest of the people here but i'm gonna share it with you anyway :D it was when they were on mmvas 2005 and that was it, i fell in love with their song rebellion and quickly became fond of them :)
Anonymous asked: The first time I ever heard Arcade Fire was 2007 in the Lakai Fully Flared video. From then on out I was in love. I have everything they've ever made ever on vinyl.
petitemiku asked: i was first introduced to arcade fire when i was really young because my half sister was friends with Sarah Neufeld when AF started. the band played at Sala Rossa which is a restaurant that's quite close to my house actually... i even saw posters for them on telephone posts and whatnot haha. at first, i really hated their songs but then finally in 8th grade, i started loving neon bible and...
inevitabilities asked: I saw Arcade Fire on SNL for their first performance. Something about it changed me. There was nothing like it back when it aired, and you still don't hear anything like them now. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) and Rebellion (Lies) are still in my music library added from that very date they were on. My love for them has flourished and so has my Arcade Fire collection.
asoldieronyourmind asked: The day the Suburbs came out I was browsing a record store thought it looked interesting so I bought it. Fell in love, than bought Funeral, Neon Bible and their EP shortly after and I am now officially hooked. They give me so much faith in music and I now believe that I can do whatever I want to do in life. Thank you Arcade Fire, from the bottom of my heart.
oldfolksarcadefireperu asked: The first song I heard was Keep The Car Running in 2007 thanks to a local radio and the second one was No Cars Go. Those songs seemed so dark and strange, I was amazed but I didn't search more of Arcade Fire for a reason that I still don't know. Three years passed and in 2010 everything changed, I saw their presentation at Madison Square Garden on the internet and I felt really alive....
psychedez-deactivated20120729 asked: When I was a freshman my math teacher introduced me to them. I didn't even listen to them until a couple months later when I fell in love, like IN LOVE. I first listened to intervention and onto the rest of neon bible, then funeral, and I went to the MSG concert the promoted the suburbs with my two good friends. I just feel like they've been there for me as I grew up to describe...
blindcinema asked: I saw their video for Rebellion (Lies) on Much Music back when it came out, and I really liked what I was hearing. I think I was in Grade 7 at the time, and I've been an AF lover ever since. I finally got to see them last June when they played those secret shows in Toronto. I had bronchitis, but I still went. And as expected, they blew my mind.
thechristina asked: I actually met my boyfriend of 3 years through Arcade Fire, but he was already a huge fan of them. At the time he was in a band, and they were supposed to play a show for a high school event. I was recruited to play the glockenspiel, backup vocals, and keyboards (All Will-like haha), and my boyfriend decided to do a cover of "No Cars Go". I was hooked right away, and now we've seen...
yourweaponisguilt asked: I guess we're all sharing our Arcade Fire stories? My ex's 2nd favourite band was Arcade Fire (we met because our favourite band was Metallica), and she put Neighborhood #3 on a mix-cd she gave me for Christmas. I didn't think much of it and I actually hated them once we broke up, but I tried downloading Funeral randomly after my best friend passed away. I ended up falling for Crown...
coerciveleftfist asked: My friend recommended them to be when Neon Bible first came out. I listened to Neon Bible first and fell in love with it. Then I listened to Funeral and fell in love with it. Time passed. The Suburbs came out. I fell in love with it. They came to my city on my birthday. I watched one of the best shows of all time. I went to Coachella. I saw one of the best shows of all time. I have a glowing ball...
burningbridges-breakinghearts-d asked: It was a boring sunday at home watching videos in Youtube, and then Arcade Fire appeared in related videos i started to watch their concert at Rock en seine 2005 and I thought it was another band i even remember that i said 'bleh they are like The mars volta with violins' (I regret that words right now xD) after a long time I started watching the same concert again and then the one at...
sheepypu asked: I heard Wake Up in the Where the Wild Things Are trailer. xD It swiftly became my favourite movie, and Arcade Fire my favourite band. I saw them live in Cardiff last year and it was honestly once of the most awesome things I've ever seen.
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marielbrazen asked: i found out about arcade fire when i was sick from school and rebellion lies came on mtv and really like it. i listened to them on and off for years until the suburbs came out and i fell in love with them all over again.
noyougo asked: Well, this is pretty lame, but a couple years ago when Neon Bible came out I thought it looked like a pretty interesting album, and I always had the intention of checking it out, but I ended up not buying an album until they won the Grammy this year. I got The Suburbs and it was just so new to me, I fell in love with it. I proceeded to buy Neon Bible and Funeral and... I'm completely obsessed...
thewestcoastlady asked: I remember when Arcade Fire came out, it was THE Arcade Fire. I thought it was a really cool name, i don't remember where I first heard someone mention it. So i got the Funeral album and i listened to it, and i've loved them ever since... and i'm so proud to have been their fan every step of the way. i'm glad they're getting so much (long overdue)recognition now.
bro-sevelt asked: I was taking a road trip with my sister in around 2005 (I think?) and she had just bought Funeral, we listened to it for the entire 8 hour drive and I fell in love. Seen them twice now! First time on Halloween 2007, then in Hyde Park in June this year.
iron-on asked: I had downloaded Funeral and Neon Bible from the library my sophomore year of high school. I never gave them a chance until senior year at a camp when I met a girl with similar musical taste as me. It's been 3 years since then and I have yet to see them live. I'm loving all these stories, old and newer love :'}
sue-rreal asked: downloaded an arcade fire song from my literature professor's music blog. i've been hooked on the band since that.
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My boyfriend was supposed to go with me but since it is on a Wednesday and he is in a hard program he can’t come up! So I have an extra paperless ticket.
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panjoga asked: the first Arcade fire song that i heard was the cover of My body is a Cage by Peter Gabriel. i was just stunned. that was i think 2009 or begging of 2010. saw them last year at a concert. it was the best concert I've been to.
mymindisafreeway asked: I was sitting at the computer on the trailers part of the apple website, and i saw that the where the wild things trailer was out. so i watched it, and an acoustic version of wake up was in it, with win's voice the main focal point. i had never heard anything like it, and i wanted more. the next day was like my second day of highschool, and my carpool person actually played wake up off a mix...
Anonymous asked: I haven't seen them live yet either. I even had a ticket to see them last November, but my gig was cancelled because of a NATO summit. I was so sad.
iamrob asked: i'm about to go see them live now in manchester :D so excited!!
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YOU GUYS! you are all talking about seeing them live, or meeting them. It’s making me so sad! i have never seen them live!!! =C
Thank you all though for sharing, i have read them all and it is great to see that all of you were so influenced by them.
zgenderfreshandsay asked: 3 years ago my aunt told me about Arcade Fire. She said that they are pretty awesome and that I should listen to couple of their songs.I did,but I didn't liked them that much. So, in December 2010 my aunt gave me her iPod because I wanted to listen to something new.I switched to shuffle and the first song that started playing was "The Suburbs".I fell in love with that song,just...
butwestillhavetheradio asked: How I was first introduced to Arcade Fire? It was back in 2005. We were going to Lowlands festival in the Netherlands. The then boyfriend of a friend told me we had to go see Arcade Fire, and he send me some songs. It was like nothing I ever heard before, so ofcourse I had to see them at the festival. We did, and the rest was history, best show in my life. I'm pretty sure I actually saw this...
allinablur asked: During Neon Bible era I watched a bit of one of their gigs on MTV out of curiosity because I had heard people praising them. I thought they were unusual. Then one day in 2009 I watched Keane doing a little cover of Wake Up before one of their own concerts and that was what definitely sparked my interest in Arcade Fire. The rest is history. And Wake Up is still one of my favourite songs.
