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Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
| cover = Tunnelscover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Arcade Fire
| album = Funeral
| B-side = My Buddy
| released = June 20, 2004
| recorded = August 2003early 2004
| studio = Hotel2Tango
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 4:48
| label = Merge
| writer =
| producer = Arcade Fire
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Neighborhood #2 (Laka)
| next_year = 2005
}}
"'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.
Arcade Fire re-issued the single on November 29, 2019 as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event.
Critical reception
In August 2009, the song was named #10 on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". 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. 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."
Track listing
'7" single'
#"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" - 4:48
#"My Buddy" (Alvino Rey Orchestra, live radio broadcast, 1940) - 2:32
Personnel
Arcade Fire
*Win Butler - vocals, electric guitar*Regine Chassagne - backing vocals, drums
*Richard Reed Parry - piano, backing vocals, organ, engineer, recording
*Tim Kingsbury - bass, backing vocals
*Howard Bilerman - electric guitar, engineer, recording
*Will Butler - percussion, backing vocals
'Additional musicians'
*Sarah Neufeld violin, string arrangements
*Owen Pallett violin, string arrangements
*Michael Olsen cello
*Pietro Amato horn
*Anita Fust harp
References
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