The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)
by Mr. Little Jeans
Here's a great cover of Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" which, as you know, was on the album that won the Canadian-based band Album of the Year at the Grammy's. I like it because, aside from the singer's voice, it captures that wistful vibe of the lyrics that is so fantastic about the original and presents it in a way that is both similar and unique. Highly synthesized, so you lose the fantastic instrumental parts, but Mr. Little Jeans hopes to make up for it with her beautiful-disarming-and-soothing voice. Just FYI -- Mr. Little Jeans is well-known enough to have a last.fm page but not enough to have a wikipedia. You'd think that would be the second thing an artist would do after establishing their presence on the Internet....Facebook, Twitter, then Wikipedia....okay, third thing. Anyway, I love this song. It makes me think of simpler times. Running through the sprinklers, making forts out of couch cushions, eating s'mores. Now, I walk past all the cookie-cutter tract homes and just feel....resentment. ::sigh:: I guess bitterness is the price of experience...probably a bad attitude. Some doctors just published a study about how bitterness fucks up your life in more ways than one. I haven't read it, but I'm sure it's legit. I'm on a tangent, so I'll stop now. Just because I love the original so much, you can watch it after the jump.
The Suburbs
by Arcade Fire
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