I wasn't really expecting an earth-shattering experience Saturday night at Randall's Island in NYC, but I sure as hell did have one. I saw Arcade Fire. And I must say off the bat that this was truly one of the greatest live shows I have ever seen in my 27 years of seeing live bands. If you saw Springsteen in 85-86 or before, U2 in the early/mid 80s (pre-Joshua Tree), or post-OK Computer Radiohead, you can relate somewhat to the awe-inspiring , jaw-dropping magic and majesty I experienced.
Very few bands can bring me to weep at their beauty, and if you told me a year ago Arcade Fire would, I'd call you a silly goose. By Sunday morning, I was a changed person, I had seen the light. I knew they were great, I heard they were amazing live, but it wasn't until I saw it myself that I fully understood. Four years ago, they were an obscure, embryonic band from Montreal, comprised of two brothers from Texas, a few stray Canadians, and a French-Canadian woman from Haiti who was married to one of the brothers, the one who sang lead, named Win. Since then, they have wowed and performed onstage with David Bowie and David Byrne, opened for Bowie and U2, and had one of their early epics ('Wake Up')serve as the song that U2 took the stage to on their last tour. Pretty amazing. Live, they own the crowd from the second they hit the stage, with a somewhat subdued song, 'Black Mirror'. From there, the show builds to an epic close, with the crowd whipped into an ecstatic frenzy.
I now have faith that perhaps another band may someday emerge that can match this experience that I thought was gone foreve

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