Canada’s second-most-well-known rock group, Arcade Fire, are playing a dangerous game. (Sorry, #1 will always be Alanis Morissette, even in the post-apocalyptic future, where the world is controlled by a one world government consisting of super intelligent, human-sized cats and the few people remaining reminisce in LOL-speak about a nostalgic past, a time they had never known, where Alanis Morissette ruled the airwaves, thanks to her vitriolic song about a benevolent TV character known only as “Uncle Joey.”) That game, of course, is not giant cat-baiting, D&D, or even The Most Dangerous Game, but instead the DELUXE EDITION REISSUE game.
That’s right, the Brit/Juno/Grammy Award-winning indie rockers are releasing a gussied-up deluxe CD/DVD version of The Suburbs on Merge come August 2 in the US. The new, improved, and probably more expensive version includes a longer version of the song “Wasted Hours (A Life That We Can Live),” plus unreleased tracks “Speaking in Tongues,” which features David Byrne, and the Byrne-free “Culture War.” The DVD includes Spike Jonze’s Scenes from the Suburbs, a companion documentary called, shockingly, Behind the Scenes from the Suburbs, and the music video for the song “The Suburbs.” In sharp contrast to the deluxe editions of other CDs, there’s not a booklet. JUST KIDDING! THERE’S A BOOKLET! Is there ever! It includes 80 hot pages of lyrics and photos taken from the Scenes from the Suburbs film shoot.
• Arcade Fire: http://www.arcadefire.com
• Merge: http://www.mergerecords.com
