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Arcade Fire has more members than Wolf Parade
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NY Magazine: What do you see as the biggest aesthetic and philosophical differences between you guys and the Arcade Fire?Wolf Parade play Terminal 5 in NYC tonight (July 31) and tomorrow (August 1). Spencer will also be will be back in NYC to play two more shows in September with Sunset Rubdown.Spencer Krug: You want me to compare Wolf Parade to Arcade Fire right now?
NY Magazine: You don't have to.
Spencer Krug: I think the differences are huge. If you want to talk about the sonic aesthetic, they have more members, they have more ambition, more of a drive for perfection than we will ever have, so they sound bigger and they sound better. [Laughs] They will always sound tighter and more thought-out. Arcade Fire has everything just so. And that is to their benefit as a band, probably.
We're friends, but we're very different in terms of music and even probably politics, and how we approach our place in the world, if that makes sense. I don't mean politics, like what they stand for, but the way they operate within this industry. They're just more successful and have had to deal with things that we'll never have to deal with it, like whether or not to play Saturday Night Live.
In related "news", Radiohead & Arcade Fire are BFF.
Posted on July 31, 2008 12:17 PM
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he could have said all of that in one sentence
'arcade fire is better than wolf parade'
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:30 PM
Arcade Fire is so much better than Wolf Parade, it's a joke
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:30 PM
holy crap I'm excited for tonight and tomorrow!
Posted by wiscod | July 31, 2008 12:33 PM
god, both are horrible bands.
why cant we talk about cpc gangbangs, the only montreal band that matters?
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:39 PM
I like both bands.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:41 PM
Anyone have an idea what time wolf parade will hit the stage tonight?
Posted by jables | July 31, 2008 12:44 PM
I'll take Wolf Parde over Arcade Fire any day. To each his own...
Posted by CN | July 31, 2008 12:48 PM
Their new album is a rock opera.
I'm in the lobby getting peanuts
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:49 PM
rock opera? hardly.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:51 PM
If Lester Bangs was still around, Wolf Parade would be his favorite band. No doubt.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 12:59 PM
i wouldnt say one is better than the other, they're just different.
and people better be fucking rocking out at these shows, hopefully the manhattan crowd wont be frozen like usual.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:04 PM
c'mon people, there no reason to disagree. They BOTH suck.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:12 PM
>>If Lester Bangs was still around, Wolf Parade would be his favorite band. No doubt.<<
Yeah.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
He would fucking PISS ALL OVER THEM. Literally. Hot streams. Puh-leeeeeeease!
They're an okay band, but LB would take one look at 'em and laugh a phlemy laugh.
Posted by SoySalami | July 31, 2008 1:19 PM
arcade fire doesn't have more members, they are just posing next to a mirror!
Posted by Reflektor | July 31, 2008 1:21 PM
121pm - lmfao...
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:32 PM
I think someone needs to literally piss all over you 1:10 PM. You deserve it.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:40 PM
"why cant we talk about cpc gangbangs, the only montreal band that matters?"
You mean a 16th early 80's hardcore copycat band? Get outtttaaaa heeeeeeea'. Wolf Parade is pretty good, Arcade Fire I sort of grew bored of.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:42 PM
I heard a rumor Bowie might show up at tonight's Wolf Parade show. Stay tuned..........
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:43 PM
Bowie's playing with Frampton tonight. Glass Spider tour reprise.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:49 PM
Thats is impossible! Bowie is coming over to my house for our fantasy football draft. He has the #3 overall pick. Steven Jackson?
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:51 PM
what a spectacularly lame family of bands that canada has provided!
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 1:58 PM
^^^^^^
what a spectacularly lame comment
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 2:04 PM
anyone who doesnt like wolf parade is, in a word, retarded. start using your ears people and get away from your bullshit crap music (oh, Bon Iver, oh, new gay disco music fad...) idiots...
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 2:13 PM
i like wolf parade.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 2:15 PM
I don't know anon 1:51. You could make a decent case for Bowie to take Westbrook with that 3rd pick.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 2:21 PM
People...PEOPLE! you're missing the point here. it was a dumb ass fucking question to begin with, and spencer's initial shock at the question summed it up right there.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 2:26 PM
>>anyone who doesnt like wolf parade is, in a word, retarded. start using your ears people and get away from your bullshit crap music (oh, Bon Iver, oh, new gay disco music fad...) idiots...<<
Wow.
You've got some anger issues.
I suggest a warm bubble bath and lots of scented candles.
Posted by I Am Curious, Mauve | July 31, 2008 2:32 PM
wolf parade set times anyone?
if wintersleeps @ 8, whens wolf parade?
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 3:33 PM
Wolf Parade at 9pm
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 5:05 PM
Lester Bangs' favorite band of today would probably be Pissed Jeans.
Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2008 9:17 PM
Great show last night. Spencer and Dan killed it.
Language City (Terminal 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkYXx1YAIs
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 8:14 AM
awesome show last night...
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 8:19 AM
Hahahaha.
The show was amazing last night!!! All you haters can suck it!!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 8:44 AM
I said to my friend last night: I wonder how many people who hate everything are going to come on BV this morning and talk about how crappy the show was. Looks like the early risers have taste and agree with me that it was an awesome show last night. Wish I could do it again tonight!
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 9:01 AM
It was fantastic, no-nonsense show. The sound wasn't bad either. Hopefully all the too cool for school commenters on this site stayed home and washed their skinny jeans.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 9:18 AM
You Are A Runner and I Am My Father's Son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemwLLnfVAA
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 9:38 AM
My favorite show of 2008 and I have a lot of shows to compare it to.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 9:53 AM
I definitely agree. Good show (but not better than gogol bordello at same venue on NYE). played 7 off ATQM and 9 off AMZ. Crowd clearly rocked out more to songs off the first album.
Went on at 9:11 and off at ~10:20 w/ encore until ~10:35pm. Didn't see wintersleep, how were they?
Posted by James | August 1, 2008 10:08 AM
wow they were amazing. the crowd was surprisingly awesome too
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 10:36 AM
fancy claps was the shit
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 10:43 AM
set list for last night anyone?
show was fucking awesome.
dan b. is the man.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 10:51 AM
no, spencer k. was the man.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 11:24 AM
The band was great, but the moshing?? Come on, what year is it?? Even spencer asked what the deal was with the moshing. You could tell he was not happy about it at all. There is nothing wrong with dancing, just don't start pushing and slamming into each other and generally pissing everyone off around you. There are better ways to let out how much you hate your parents/schoool/life. I understand they draw a much younger crowd these days, but I still wish they had made one of the two shows 21+.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 11:40 AM
why no grounds for divorce last night?!
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2008 2:42 PM
What is the mix like for the shows between the 2 CD's? More from the Mount Zoomer or is it even from both cd's? Seeing them in a couple hours....
Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2008 4:17 PM