Okay, to start the overview of Lollapalooza 2010 which ended last night at Chicago's Grant Park, let's play a game. It's called "Top This Set" and up first is festival headliner, Arcade Fire.
Oh, as Hawk Harrelson would say, "This game is ovah!"
That's because despite some great music throughout the three days, no one is going to surpass Canada's Arcade Fire who raged through a 90-plus minute set to send thousands of hot, worn out, and delerious fans home happy. Despite significant sound bleeding through from a reunited Soundgarden (playing almost a mile away), Arcade Fire was able to connect with its intricate, tight, melodic music. Even more surprising is that the Fire decided to spend the bulk of the night debuting music from its new The Suburbs CD, released only six days ago. Sandwiched between set opener "No Cars Go" and set closer "Keep the Car Running" from the breakthrough Neon Bible was the bulk of the new CD -- and frontman Win Butler was surprised at the response.
More than once as he thanked the jumping, clapping, arm-waving completely enthralled audience for their presence and attention, saying "It's pretty intimidating to come out at a festival like this and play our new songs, but to have you singing them back to us is just amazing."
Hands down the best set of the festival.
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