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2004 single by Arcade Fire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" is a song by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire, and the first track on their debut album Funeral. It is the first of the four-part "Neighborhood" series found on Funeral. It was the band's first single, released several months before the album as a 7" vinyl record on June 20, 2004, to a pressing of 1500 copies. The B-side to the album is a recording of the song "My Buddy" by swing musician Alvino Rey. Rey is the maternal grandfather of Arcade Fire members Win and William Butler.[2]
"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" | ||||
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Single by Arcade Fire | ||||
from the album Funeral | ||||
B-side | "My Buddy" | |||
Released | June 20, 2004 | |||
Recorded | August 2003 – early 2004 | |||
Studio | Hotel2Tango (Montreal, Quebec) | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:48 | |||
Label | Merge | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Arcade Fire | |||
Arcade Fire singles chronology | ||||
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Arcade Fire re-issued the single on November 29, 2019 as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event.[3]
In August 2009, the song was named #10 on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[4] In a 2012 Beats Per Minute article on The Essential Arcade Fire, it was named the band's most essential track by writer Lucien Flores.[5] Flores writes, "'Tunnels' has all the elements of a great Arcade Fire song: a head-bobbing rhythm section, lyrics that harken back to an imperfect past, a seamless blend of instruments, and a cathartic coda."
7" single
Additional musicians
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