The Arcade Fire covers archive :: 22 covers and counting!
April 12th, 2010 by Matt
Now that it’s official that the Arcade Fire will be making their return to the stage, I figured it’d be fun to add them to the long list of covers archives I’ve put together. So sure, everyone knows the Arcade Fire used to do a mean cover of the Talking Heads, but did you know they’ve done Smiths, Clinic and Sam Cooke covers?
The Arcade Fire covers archive :: 18 covers and counting!
MP3: Arcade Fire – A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Age of Consent (New Order)
MP3: Arcade Fire – All The Umbrellas in London (Magnetic Fields)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Born In The U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Born On A Train (Magnetic Fields)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Brazil (Ary Baroso/Ed Russel)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Distortions (Clinic)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Five Years (David Bowie)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cindi Lauper)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Guns Of Brixton (the Clash)
MP3: Arcade Fire w/Neil Young – Helpless (Neil Young)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)
MP3: Arcade Fire – The Last Time (Rolling Stones)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Heroes (David Bowie)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son (France Gall)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Still Ill (The Smiths)
MP3: Arcade Fire – State Trooper (Bruce Springsteen)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Such a Shame (Jay Reatard)
MP3: Arcade Fire – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads)
MP3: Arcade Fire – Wave of Mutilation (Pixies)
And there are a few that I don’t have MP3s for, but we have video of: “Bizarre Love Triangle” “Boys Don’t Cry” “Dancing in the Dark / Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
Thanks to the Torture Garden and the fine folks at the Us Kids Know message board for making this possible and a lot easier. If you’ve got any covers I’m missing, leave a link in the comments or email them on over!
Tags: Arcade Fire·cover·covers archive·mp3
Taylor // Apr 12, 2010 at 10:41 am
I have an MP3 of them playing “Love Will Tear Us Apart” with U2 if you’d like it. Quality’s not great though.
Matt // Apr 12, 2010 at 10:43 am
Sure thing! Email it my way if you don’t mind.
Kenny Bloggins // Apr 12, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Did dude ever get his basketball back?
Jake // Apr 12, 2010 at 3:41 pm
You can convert the video here: http://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/.
I’ve been doing it for a lot of the more obscure covers and cool live things on youtube. Cheers.
Helena // Apr 13, 2010 at 9:52 am
I heard them cover “Heroes” at an Obama rally; it was ah-mazing.
Marc // Apr 13, 2010 at 10:58 am
They covered “Queen Bitch” with Bowie in Central Park in the fall of 05 or 06, can’t remember, but it was an unbelievable encore (Bowie also sang a verse of “Wake Up”).
Thanks for compiling this! Can’t wait to see these guys at Lollapalalla!
steve m // Apr 13, 2010 at 12:16 pm
great post man.
i think Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son was by serge gainsbourg thought. could be wrong.
Hanan // Apr 13, 2010 at 1:04 pm
hey! cheers for posting one of these for arcade fire. I have an mp3 of them doing the intro to “I’m so bored with the usa” by the clash and segueing into “intervention”
here it is:
http://www.box.net/shared/o2miqgu5kb
Chris P // Apr 13, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Nice Matt, can’t wait for Lollla…
Joe // Apr 13, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Don’t have the mp3 but I saw them do Dylan’s “Hard rain is gonna fall” in Austin. I think it shortly after 9/11.
Eleonore // Apr 13, 2011 at 3:39 am
Hi, thanks for all of this !
Might sound stupid, but can we download the songs or are they only for streaming use ?
Fake Plastic Tunes // Apr 21, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Hey thanks for putting this list together, pretty awesome post. I can’t get enough of Arcade Fire lately, I am happy to be alive in the days of AF and tell my kids about them in 20 years.
Would you mind if Iused this list/link in a post over at my site? Iwould of course redirect everything your way and give you the credit just wanted to do a post on Arcade Fire Covers as well, and this is the master list out there.