Arcade Fire: Wake Up Cover (At Graduation)

We convinced them to let us play it.
Oh yes.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• arcade
• fire
• funeral
• neon
• bible
• wake
• up
• rebellion
• neighbourhood
• power
• out
• live
• at
• lowlands
• glastonbury
• cover
• acoustic

[pytko3]

Nice job! I liked how that girl used that weird keyboard that you blow into(whatever it's called) at 3:50(I know Arcade Fire uses an accordion for that sound). It looks like an instrument that Arcade Fire WOULD use, though. I think they use something similiar to it (only smaller) in some of their other songs. This must've made your graduation really memorable.

[muteculture]

@pytko3 Hey thanks, it definitely was memorable! I'm glad we filmed it. That little keyboard is called a melodica and Arcade Fire actually used one way back in the day! Thanks for your kind words.

[paperbirds760]

This makes me sooo happy,

I really want my high school to do this for my graduation next year, and I plan to ask them if we can thanks to this video :)

Do you have an arrangement of the song I could possible use then?

[muteculture]

@paperbirds760 I'm really glad you liked it! However, we all just heard it out by ear- but! The basic progression is only on any tablature site on the internet :)

[markaidin]

dude this is incredible!! really good voices and the breakdown at the end was sick. your lucky you have a cool high school. my school played that cheesy graduation song. imagine how epic it would be if you had the whole band playing with you.

[muteculture]

Thank you & at the time we had a whole band (check out Vultures Of Pop Culture, we're not around anymore) but they didn't want the whole band playing because only 3 of us from the band were graduating.

This was good enough for us though :)

[lukesand94]

the drumming is sweet

[pytko3]

@muteculture So that's what it's called. Thanks. Yeah, they did use one that was smaller(about the size of a harmonica) I've seen them use it in videos back when they were promoting "Funeral". Actually, I think they're still using it.

Arcade Fire is my favorite band. My girlfriend and I went to go see them back in April and it was EXCELLENT!

I think Arcade Fire would've been honored knowing that their BEST song was played at a graduation.

[pytko3]

You all want this song to played at your graduations?! Everyone, there are people who want this song to be played at their WEDDINGS! How cool is that?! Just shows how incredible this song is and what amazing songs Arcade Fire can make! :)

[talyaxxschmalya]

I graduate next year, and I want to do this! :D

[jimm0729]

Arcade Fire at a high school graduation? This is the coolest ever.

[LittleMissMoose]

this is so beautiful.

[L0lrYaNL01]

Its nice but im not really feeling the spirit with everyone else