26 February 2007
SOMETHING IN HAITIAN
CRAZY CARL MENTIONED ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Riff Market "Back on the Market" Edition
The SNL sketch above namedrops Philadelphia comedian Crazy Carl, who figured prominently in the previous RM post "Crazy Carl Weekend Adventure." Needless to say this is pretty awesome. 88 RIFFS
But the Other Thing Is
I actually got to see Saturday Night Live, live, Saturday night, and watch that post-show Arcade Fire set, during which something occurred to me about this band, and said thing has brought me back out of a weeklong hiatus. Shtick or cliche or not or neither, these guys are still pretty amped about being a rock&roll band. Like imagine you're in a rock&roll band, and your rock&roll band has been asked to play some of your new songs live on television--you'd probably be really psyched about that. These guys play their new songs live on television pretty much every couple of days anymore and they're still psyched about it. When Win smashed his guitar at the end of "Intervention," it didn't seem to me about [failing to be] doing something fuck-it-all punk, more just about smashing a guitar at the end of "Intervention." I've seen a lot of bands play music and smash stuff afterwards, and there's never been a moment when I've said to myself "actually, this concert would be more awesome if these guys weren't smashing all this stuff." If being cool means I have to pretend that smashing stuff isn't awesome, count me out and meet me for drinks at Odessa.
Plus we're talking about "Intervention," which is this pretty fraught and hopeless song, this swell of anger after being misled so hard. Win was probably pretty psyched to smash that guitar! He was probably pretty angry, at least a little. Plus have you ever smashed a guitar? Destroyed anything for that matter, maybe like the time Assman shoved a metal pole through my windshield when we were trying to steal a "No Right Turns" sign? Cliches become cliches for reasons, and I'm really starting to love this band if only because they're not afraid to be a little cliche from time to time, to just fucking go for it, the rest of you be damned. 88 RIFFS
// posted by NBS @ 9:00 AM 
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yeah. also, he broke a string during the song. and breaking strings makes you even angrier. (I should know.)
the guitar smash was wicked!
whoever you are you hit the nail on the head! i just saw the march 31st rebroadcast of their snl performance and it was completely mindblowingly ethereal.. i have seen an abundance of reactions on the web here and all there is to say arcade fire have this intangible quality that defeats any egoic minds that critisize.. they bring this excitement in music that i experienced with nirvana when i was 12.. 12 years later..
?wonder if this post is completely nihilistic at this point?
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whoever you are you hit the nail on the head! i just saw the march 31st rebroadcast of their snl performance and it was completely mindblowingly ethereal.. i have seen an abundance of reactions on the web here and all there is to say arcade fire have this intangible quality that defeats any egoic minds that critisize.. they bring this excitement in music that i experienced with nirvana when i was 12.. 12 years later..
?wonder if this post is completely nihilistic at this point?
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