Arcade Fire are one of Canadas most widely beloved (and reviled) bands with four studio albums to their name, but on their current world tour, theyve mostly made headlines for singing other peoples songs rather than their own. Now theres nothing wrong with a well-placed cover, and you cant fault music publications for posting poorly-shot fan YouTube videos on slow news days, but the groups regionally friendly choices (Fugazi in Washington! Feist in Calgary!) have lacked, shall we sayinspiration.
This weekend, the band finishes WebContent Tour 2014 (Toronto tonightand Montreal on Saturday), which means they have just two more chances to fuel blogs with content for the rest of the year, so they'd better make it count. Heres a list of 30 other songs that they could cover. Some of these choices are so obvious, its hard to believe Arcade Fire havent thought of them already, while others are less predictable but surefire crowd-pleasers.
A no-brainer really.
Do you think Win Butler invested in Pono?
Q: Whats more quintessentially Canadian than this song?
A: This.
Are you really going to let The Killers one-up you?
R.I.P. Death Grips (2010-2014).
It's not cheesy if it'sKanye Wests No. 1 song.
Indie covers of popular rap/R&B songs are generally the worst, but think of the web traffic!
See above.
The bottom in this case refers to a loft in Montreal.
With Owen PallettonSoulja Boys part.
Ironically of course.
Break Stuff has become a staple of Mac Demarcos live shows, but theres still Fred Durst & Co.s other big hit.
Still the worst part of Orange Is The New Black.
Covered in the style of Sideshow Bob.
To really give the haters something to talk about.
Sure, R.E.M.s Radio Free Europe was a good choice, but do you know who else is from Athens, Georgia? The B-52s.
A brief list of things Jody Highroller and Win Butler have in common: both grew up in Houston, bothbasketball fans, funny haircuts.
Quick, while hes relevant.
Why not? You've already learned the chords.
Outside of high school marching bands, has anybody ever covered this song and managed to look cool in the process?
If anybody can coax the Thin White Duke out of hiding, its Win Butler & Co. Also, this song is atrociously bad.
Whats more meta than Arcade Fire covering a cover of one of their own songs?
They already have the corpse paint.
For 24 hours or more.
30 More Songs Arcade Fire Should Cover by Max Mertens | Chart Attack.
