My Top 1000 Songs #783: Creature Comfort

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

I'll say right off the bat, I'm not a big Arcade Fire guy. I think there's a pretty solid 80-minute CDR mix scattered over their catalog, but that's probably sufficient for me. Still, something about "Creature Comfort," from 2017's Everything Now (an album I otherwise mostly passed on) grabbed me on first listen and is still pretty damn compelling. The individual parts are impressive--the electronica groove, a killer riff, Regine Chassagne's stop-in-your-tracks cheerleader vocal responses; plus a darkly vivid and conflicted youthful angst/suicide theme. But it's also a "big" song, one of their cuts that totally merits the band's booming, overpopulated presence. (Also--great video!)

As with any selection on the list from within the past decade or so, there's the risk that, another decade from now, it's mostly forgotten, but it still seems to play frequently in my head unprompted, showing some surprising staying power.
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