Album Rating: 1.0

Honestly not a bad shout. First five for sure, then it’s kinda pointless after that (WE is marginally… okay “definitely” better than EN but who cares, lol)

Album Rating: 1.5

WE is just painfully safe to me as I said in my review for that one, and it’s aged like total milk. End of the Empire just has me bursting out laughing now



For all the many, many, many faults of Everything Now (infinite content is next to Alien Nation for worst thing they’ve done imo), it was at least a swing for the fences, which was a large part of this band’s appeal for me since the beginning

Album Rating: 2.0

Wait whoah this conversation just led me to find that there's a Reflektor disc 3!?

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^its just b-sides. They already existed in the deluxe version/Reflektor Tapes. Get Right, Crucified Again, etc. I liked those songs but I understand why they weren’t included on the album. What’s on the album is vastly better

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My ranking would be:

Funeral = Reflektor > Suburbs > Neon Bible >>>>>>>>>>>> WE > this >>>>>>>>> Everything Now

Everything Now needs like a negative option. Start pulling points off their old album type score. It’s that bad.

Album Rating: 2.0

Yeah I listened and they were very forgettable. Glad they stayed b-sides.

Album Rating: 1.5

this album is what I imagine music sounds like to someone with severe depression

Album Rating: 1.5

I reviewed Reflektor back in the day and honestly, it's a review I'd delete if I had the power to because after quite a while had passed, my opinion on it changed drastically.



Everything Now was so bad that it made me dislike a lot of their back catalogue even. Like I don't know what they were going for on that record emotionally, but it comes across as so phony and self obsessed, that I listen to even The Suburbs or Neon Bible and that phoniness is all I can hear when I listen to them. And yeah it also made Reflektor seem much worse in retrospect too.



I've seen people calling Everything Now their attempt at their own Achtung Baby. If that's the case, they failed HARD lol

Album Rating: 1.5

I do think there’s a good theory the (relatively) subdued reception to Reflektor (which was still overwhelmingly positive at the time lol) broke Win’s brain and ego, because it is only afterwards that the band became with irony and technology and laying down branching paths of plausible deniability.



I can easily see this tainting their older material given how sincere those records seemed and now you wonder if they (read: Win) were always this full of shit



I don’t think I’m cynical enough to believe that, but I don’t blame others for feeling that way. In terms of where they started to where they are, it’s hard to think of a more disappointing trajectory in an act as Arcade Fire creatively and just as people

Album Rating: 1.5

Reason I mention the Achtung Baby thing is because that album's defining trait is its overall sense of irony and self awareness, the cynical sense of humour running throughout it. Reflektor was already a sign to me that AF take themselves way too seriously. There's zero of the swagger required to make that album anywhere near on the same level. So if that album couldn't do it, then Everything Now certainly couldn't.



I think the pinnacle of all this to me was the Reflektor tour. The decision to ask everyone to dress formally for the gigs came off as really weird and bizarre, and although I don't live in the US, it came off as utterly tone deaf to a lot of people who did live in THE US given the post-Bush era. But even in Canada, I saw them on that tour and it was very fascinating to me because it was a case of "wrong band, wrong time, wrong venue". It was very interesting to me.



And yeah as for my other comment, like I would go back and listen to even Funeral, and my reaction would range back and forth between "okay yeah this one still kinda slaps" and "OMG WERE THEY ALWAYS THIS LAME".

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“Everything Now was so bad that it made me dislike a lot of their back catalogue even.”

Feel that completely. When I say Everything Now might be the WORST album ever made, I don’t think that’s dramatic nor a stretch. I fuckin despise that record with every fiber of my being. Never will touch it again and wish I never had to think about it it again. And they are ruining their reputation and legacy with every album they continue to churn out. I feel like I should give this more along the lines of 1.5 or 2 because I do not like it but there’s nothing here as grating as some of the choices on EN but I’m beginning to truly hate this band despite the fact I really do love their first four albums.

I was just likening the runtime to age, I didn't think it was that confusing.

Saying that Everything Now is the worst album ever made makes it hard to take you seriously.

Album Rating: 1.5

Reflektor felt ambitious at the time - a band like Arcade Fire who always had big ideas, swinging for the fences with a double album - upon release it would be easy to see it as a continuation of the same genius hot streak that they started their career on. But with the benefit of time, it doesn't deserve all of its runtime. Still way better than what would follow

I wouldn't argue with that.

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"...Everything Now might be the WORST album ever made..."

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It sounded much better live, which isn't always the case. It's still disappointing - not one I return to.

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2.5/5? Yeah right. Lol. Peter Pan and Chemistry are ungodly terrible. Creature Comfort is grating and cloying. Infinite Contents are stupid and serve no purpose. Intro and outro serve no purpose and don’t really deserve to exist. The title track is goofy, stupid, and isn’t grand enough to hold the theme of the album together. It’s a complete mess at best and utterly inconceivable disaster at worst. I can’t even consider it a finished product tbh. I can’t fathom any rating over a 1 for it. It is literally the worst album ever made.

Album Rating: 1.5

“ The decision to ask everyone to dress formally for the gigs came off as really weird and bizarre”



isn’t this a fairly normal thing bands do all the time? I’ve seen many bands with a sort of dress code or uniformity in outfits

Creature Comfort is ace, Put Your Money On Me and We Don't Deserve Love are very good, and the title track and Electric Blue are decent. The rest ranges from forgettable to wretched. 2.5/5 seems about right to me.

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Even the best song on EN isn’t a 2.5 to me. I’d say they range from 0 to 2. And the only ones over a 1 would be We Don’t Deserve Love and Put Your Money on Me. Most everything else id rate 0-0.5. It’s awful.

Anyway seeing this on the front page with “Stink Elephant” is hysterical