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I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know anything about music at all. I just discovered Vampire Weekend on Saturday (haha, Oxford commas, right? Guys?) and most of the music on my iPhone is just random hipster junk left there by my exes. And, okay, Arcade Fire does happen to be like one of ten band names I was aware of in 2007, because we watched the Neon Bible flash video thing in a digital art class in school and I pirated the song because it’s a great song. I don’t even know what it is implying when I say that? I’m so afraid of talking about music because everyone has such strong opinions on everything. I don’t know anything about music, DON’T JUDGE ME. But still! Lets judge these people!
This site, WhoIsArcadeFire.tumblr.com and also the Twitter account @WhoIsArcadeFire basically just reposts other people being confused about who Arcade Fire is. Or sometimes people being confused about who the band “The Suburbs” is wondering why their album “Arcade Fire” won Album of the Year.
Haha, dumb people!
They’re on Facebook and they are posting dumb things like your cousins!
It’s not that they’re dumb because they don’t know who Arcade Fire is, they’re dumb because they’re implying that a band is undeserving of an award because “no one” has heard of them? That’s dumb. Don’t say dumb things like that. Or else you’ll get made fun of on blogs. The end.
[Thanks for the tip, Jill! and Mike]
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Arms folded tight indeed
Hey! People in Houston unite!
Unite! What I’m confused about is how they didn’t even have a show here or maybe they will, just no plans to yet.
Well some things are pure and some things are right. But the kids…
Hey Girl,
I’m too Sexy for the Grammy’s.
Did anyone else go on Arcade Fire memory lane yesterday? I played their albums all day, pausing from time to time to think, “Fuck yeah, Arcade Fire!”
Hey Girl,
we broke the Grammy’s.
I love the people who think they are named The Suburbs. And the girl who insisted that the number of top 10 hits is directly proportional to how good an album is (“How many top tens did they have? Lady Gaga should have gotten the award!”).
What’s especially hilarious is that people HAVE heard of them. The Suburbs debuted at #1 in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland.
Just not THESE idiots.
Well, lets do the math. They sold out Madison Square Garden 2 nights in a row, so that means at least …. ( + 12, carry the the 4) … 40,000 people have heard of them? Or maybe they all just bought the ticket on a dare ?
I think it’s dumb they think the Grammy’s are an actual award or something #OldJokes
As a nerd I am infuriated by those people. It’s ARCADE FIRE! Get it right!
Of Montreal (that’s where they’re from)
of Montreal
Third base.
My new standard response when I don’t understand something: “WHO R DAY? SUM SORTA VIDYA GAME?”
Thank you Calvin Munkton for both this new phrase and for your name, which I will use when I want a free stress ball at a trade show, but don’t want to write down my own name.
The Munkton Principle: If X= WHO R and Y= DAY than the SUM will always be SORTA VIDYA GAME
WUT u FAGZ talking about?!!Q!!!!! Who the fuck are the Suburbz!??!?!
definitely an excellent use of #appalled. some one went to the calvin klein school of appropriate hashmarking.
I was HOPING for an outlet for my Grammy-feuled rant that I’ve been holding in since I read the results yesterday morning! This is extra great, since my rant is in reference to this very band of which you speak!
So they won best album of the year, right? I can live with that, it does not upset me. I’ve never listened to them, but they probably deserved it! Maybe! But here’s where it gets sticky: they LOST in the Best Alternative Music Album category. What the what?! So they had a better album than anyone else last year, but they also did not have a better album than The Black Keys? Wrong. Stupid and wrong. I hate the Grammy’s.
I bet they would’ve won if they were The White Keys. #racism
“Q: Why aren’t the Black Keys allowed to drink? A: Because they are minors.” — Joke on the wrapper of Indie Rock Laffy Taffy*
*Not one I just made up
I laughed at this more than I am proud to admit.
Oh that Frank, always quick on the draw. Look at El Kabong over here…
Oh dear, don’t get me started on the awesomeness that is the Black Keys!
But Arcade Fire is still awesome too. Just sayin…
I’m with the Gabe Of The Day on this one, I’ve never listened to either band. My MP3 player is mostly Meatloaf and Counting Crows. But I fully accept that either band could be great, so I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying, you cannot win the overall best album category if you did not win best album for your respective genre, because that is not how superlatives work. UGH.
Alright, I see your point on that one FT. But who won class clown?
Violent JJ. During his acceptance speech, he sprayed the audience with Faygo and vomited on Michael Buble.
Maybe the Black Keys’ album’s awesomeness (I’ll take yourmom’s word for it) only reigned supreme in “Indie Land,” but the Arcade Fire album was awesome in a larger, more transcendent way . . ?
Possible, but it seems far more likely that these award ceremonies are just awful. Same thing happened during the VMAs, but was overshadowed by Kanyegate. He interrupted Taylor Swift for winning best video by a female artist, but then Beyonce won best video. Unless Beyonce transcends gender, I’m calling shenanigans.
The Black Keys weren’t nominated for Album of the Year. Arcade Fire’s “competition” was Katy Perry.
I think the Grammy voters just figured that everyone deserved a piece of their terrible, terrible pie.
“To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.” — Sir Issac Newton
http://whoisladyantebellum.tumblr.com/
Is it hypocritical of me to totally agree with this tumblr, but then find the Arcade Fire and Die Esmerelda Spaulding ones utterly ridiculous/just plain mean?
I laughed so hard at:
I want to see a “Who Is Katy Perry” one!
It’s odd, cause, the people who are watching the Grammy’s are USUALLY pretty full of musical culture…….
My Who Is Esmerelda Spalding tumblr didn’t take off as well as I hoped. What is Who Is Arcade Fire tumblr anyway? Never even heard of it.
(#TFLN)
Perhaps you should have started it off “DIE ESMERELDA SPAULDING!”. I’m sure that would have had a better ring to all the Beleibers.
This also would have been popular with German Esmerelda Spaulding fans.
The Bart, the..
Maybe because her name is Esperenza? Anyway, apparently Beib fans went wild on her wiki page… ‘Esperanza Quesadilla Spalding’ ok i did actually laugh at that one.
http://gawker.com/#!5759473/bieber-fans-attack-esperanza-spaldings-wikipedia-page
It’s times like these that remind me why I’m glad I do not come in contact with 99% of the population out there. I’ll just stay in my bubble in which Arcade Fire is a household name and I can be utterly oblivious to the vast majority of acts that actually get recognized by the Grammys.
Also I’m pissed at the Grammys because they snubbed the only group I was really pulling for (Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society) in the large jazz ensemble category (no joke, I’m a huge music nerd), but I don’t expect anyone to share my anger for that.
I am not ashamed (okay, I’m very ashamed) to admit that I’ve never heard of 90% of the artists that came out after around 1995. As far as my iPod is concerned, Bruce Springsteen is in the running for Best New Artist. So I had not heard of them, which now puts me among the ranks of the “Deanna Effin Macks” of the world. Ugh my life.
Careful, you keep down this road and @GooseDouche may one day refer to you as “my boy”
Me neither, BF. I asked my wife who I was looking at and what sort of music they made at least 10 times on Sunday. Of course, I just discovered how great Blind Faith was…
Blind Faith is AWESOME! We’re so totally cool.
Baby Friday And The Infinite Sadness
Powermans 5000
Our Lady Huckapeacest
steve winwood
Katy Perry is better than everyone that they haven’t heard of. Including, but not limited to:
Every jazz musician
Every classical musician
Every composer ever
Ummm, she has a lil something called TALENT
That’s more than a LITTLE talent, amirite? Hubba hubba!
Always this:
I arrived at my Grammy viewing party (What? It’s February in VT. I will do literally anything for human contact at this point) ready to tear Katy Perry’s head off with my words, and just as I started someone was like “Oh yeah, I used to hang out with her when she was dating my roommate who was in the LA music circuit, and she’s really nice, we had a lot of fun.” And after that I had to keep it ALL TO MYSELF. What are the fucking chances?
i am late to this party, and you will never see this. but there is a band out here in LA who i saw and the singer used to date katy perry. he announced on stage that he had, and that he wanted to sing a song he wrote about her… “it’s called Santa Barbara Whore.” good band.
http://www.myspace.com/ilovetherambles
I wish I had a gif of Russell Brand’s face looking all sad at Katy Perry when she lost to Lady Gaga. It was LOLworthy, for sure.
I guess I get that they haven’t reached the same audience as Eminem and GaGa, but I mean…on SNL twice, done every late night show, on the Daily Show, headlined almost every major festival both sides of the pond, debuted at #1 on Billboard, been on the cover of nearly every music publication. Ready to Start was on regular rotation in like four stores I go to.
Maybe all that stuff is less mainstream than I perceive it to be?
No, I’m pretty sure they’re one of the biggest bands in the world right now. It’s more that these people are Top 40 folks, and there are no bands allowed on the singles charts these days.
Yeah, top 40 right now is nothing but pop and hip-hop. Maybe some adult contemporary sneaking in.
Related note, It’s funny when I look at the Grammy nominees for Best Alternative (AF, Band of Horses, Black Keys, Vampire Weekend) vs best Rock Album (Muse, Pearl Jam, Petty, Neil Young).
Um, what’s the dividing line here? What makes a fairly traditional blues rock band (Keys) “alternative” and a grunge-alt-music pioneer (Pearl Jam) “rock”? What radio stations they get played on? More importantly, why am I trying to logic out the Grammys?
They consider “alternative” a genre. In 2011. Enough said, don’t think about it. They don’t.
There’s a really great one on there where the person is like WHY DID ARCADE FIRE STEAL EMINEM’S AWARD, IS THIS REAL LIFE
Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality?
finally have an excuse to post this .gif on videogum
the two hours I spent making this are finally vindicated
that is AMAZING. time well spent!
WIN
soo good.
More like “Wat r da Grammeez?”
How sure are we that this isn’t a well orchestrated operation by Da Cake Eatur to be recognized by us? He seems to be able to find his way around a keyboard better. At least sometimes.
If I’ve never heard of it, it can’t possibly be good.
Look, I”m sure these people have a good excuse. They probably aren’t up to date on indie music artists because they have spent the last couple years getting their masters in being fucking tools.
Speaking as a gentleman who lives in Williamsburg, I must ask: I THOUGHT EMINEM WAS DEAD? And wasn’t Lady Gaga like so 2008?
Also Arcade Fire hasn’t been good since their original demo EP. I saw them live in a montreal club in 2002. Totally sold out with Funeral.
I was going to be like: “HAY STOP IT THAT GUY,” then I realized you were clearly making fun of “that guy.”
That vein of criticism reminds me of something one of my friends who hates on Arcade Fire used against them one time: “They think they’re so, like, DIY. I bet they hang tin cans.” I still have no idea what the fuck this is supposed to mean.
Yeah clearly my various downvoters didn’t get my little joke.
Now don’t get me started on The Antlers, Destrucity…
“I bet they hang tin cans” is my new comment for everything.
“It’s not that they’re dumb because they don’t know who Arcade Fire is, they’re dumb because they’re implying that a band is undeserving of an award because “no one” has heard of them?”
YES! One thousand times this.
Basically a repost of what I said on Reddit, but I was completely baffled that so many people seemed not to know who they are. They’ve put out three albums and have been nominated for a Grammy every single time. They’ve played on SNL and on David Letterman, they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone and other mainstream music press, and their songs have been featured prominently in a lot of popular TV shows and movies. I mean, if you haven’t heard of them, maybe you just don’t know that much about popular music? Maybe? It’s okay, that doesn’t make you a bad person.
They haven’t been spoon-fed to people on top 40, so clearly they don’t have as much merit as a great artist like Katy fucking Perry.
Finally, after years of rewarding manufactured pop candy , we get back to an artist with some substance.
This one’s for you guys.28 year old references? Good for you, dude. Good for you.
HAHAHA! Whenever I make fun of the Grammys, I ALWAYS mention that Toto one, what, like four of them? Because when I think of great music, I think of “Hold the Line.”
*won. Jesus, that’s a horrible typo.
I have this on vinyl.
I literally just spit out my coffee at this.
“what the fuck is the arcade fries?”
“I dunno but they sound delicious”
simply the best thing ever.
WHO DA EFF IS JOHN GALT? dNT NO DEEZ PPL. #newstuffizgayyyyy
And this is from a woman who was once married to the lead singer of Whitesnake:
Not really music you can roll around on the hood of your car to, I guess.
The hood of my ’87 Honda Accord disagrees.
You are that old.
She’s 50. I wonder how many 50-year-olds loved the Beatles in 1966. It is fun to imagine my grandmother (born 1916) saying “I’m not THAT old — who the HELL thinks these Beatles are good? Am I losing my marbles? Cuz they’re no Benny Goodman.”
There’s something about the sequence of words in “Dog the Bounty Hunter” that never fails to make me giggle.
This person needs to re-evaluate their life choices:
Nice job.
That’s actually the official Fall Out Boys twitter. I don’t know if that makes it better or sadder.
I saw Pete Wentz walking around at the first Lollapalooza (second phase), at which Arcade Fire played a fantastic set to a warm reception.
Arcade Fire make an album about suburban teenage life, and suburban teens are *pissed* that this band robbed the award from their precious, insipid, un-relatable, and generally terrible pop stars. #ironygum
What amuses me is that, 10 years from now, songs from ‘The Suburbs’ will probably still be floating around in the public consciousness, but when was the last time you heard a track from “Two Against Nature’ by Steely Dan? Ever? (It won FOUR Grammys, including album of the year in 2001)
Anyway, I like Arcade Fire, and good for them, but LOL @ the Grammys in general.
“Two Against Nature” is a really good record, but I am a Steely Dan fan and I think that puts me in the minority. I mean, Steely Dan’s really good you all.
I understand that they are a well-respected band, but for some reason they never grabbed me like other people I know. Which is odd, because in theory they should be right up my alley. Just one of those things…
I understand, and I certainly would never judge a person by what music they do or do not like. It took me a while to get into them, but they have some really fantastic, and funny, songs.
An excuse to post this video, which I love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxef8AfVQg
I have been really enjoying the Arcade Fire stuff. I call it LOL 2: Laughter Beyond Laughter.
Arcade Fire can and does put out singles, but listening to an entire album reinforces the themes they explore musically and lyrically. Nobody has to like them, and I certainly understand if they’re not to everyone’s taste, but they are definitely in a different league than the pop ingenues and rakes that litter the Grammy nominations and our airwaves.
well it is certainly satisfying as a regular lurker to have sent in this tip (thanks guest-Gabe for using my irl name) that has inspired such a wonderful and long collection of comments! so glad you all enjoyed this tumblr as much as i did its pretty great