365 project:'working for the church while your family dies"

69.

artist:arcade fire
album:neon bible

someone mentioned the other day that they believed that they were the only person that liked neon bible over the suburbs or funeral. id like to tell you, Scott, that you are not alone. i also like neon bible the best, though this definitely wasn't always the case.

right around the time that this album came out, everyone i knew on a particular forum was going ga-ga over it, so when i saw it in the library, i borrowed it, thinking id love it, too. NO. not even a little bit. i really just didn't get it. at all. i took the album back to the library and that was that. i wasn't going to bother with this band ever again, because this just wasn't my scene.

maybe a year or so later, a whole bunch of my friends were getting together in Pittsburgh for the weekend, and i drove out with a friend of mine named Eric. after a few hours of me harassing Eric's ears with the stuff i was listening to at the time (which if i recall correctly ended up being nothing but Brand New over and over again) he asked if he could pick a CD. he was actually driving at the time so i had no problems. the rule as far as I'm concerned is that whoever is driving should have final say in the music on the radio.

as i was listening to the tracks on the album, i decided i really liked it a lot, but i had no idea what it was that we were listening to. i didn't ask because I'm weird like that and would rather not know than ask a question of someone a lot of the time, so i just let it go. but i really liked whatever we were listening to, and tried to take note of some of the lyrics so that i could google it later.

as it turns out, later that night someone mentioned arcade fire and Eric laughed and said something about having listened to that on the drive in, and i found myself terribly bewildered. really? that was the same CD that i had decided a year ago that i hated?

i am always amazed to find out that i actually love something that i thought i hated, or conversely that i hate something that i once loved. this was one of the most shocking to me, though.