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The interviewer here deserves major props. He's asking really well thought out questions and is clearly a huge fan of the bands music.

I'm currently living my adolescent years in Suburb Houston, 1 hour from The Woodlands. This band just hit me so hard....

what an interesting and kind man, i was so shocked at how he welcomed everyone to montreal at the start of the interview and offered everyone a montreal pass if they ran into trouble. my heart is warm.

I'm from The Woodlands too and was in Will's grade. I remember his mom coming to our school to play harp.

I Love Win Butler.

i feel like it would be easy to get nervous interviewing a guy like Win Butler. He's non-chalant about it, but his intensity is not something you want to get tangled up in.

damn that death star question was so unexpected

I love watching him tease Everything Now so early

Hes a Genuis. To get accepted into Phillips Exeter you have to be a child genius with pure A+ 😭

This interviewer really is top notch. He obviously is really dedicated to his work and wants the artists to feel like he knows them and their work. Makes Win feel very comfortable right away. What an awesome channel! Thanks for this. I am a really big fan of AF

I remember seeing King Family specials on TV when I was a kid. Yes, I'm old. Win looks like his grandfather Alvino Rey.

Very informative insight into my favourite band, and the magnificent album Funeral.

Such a great interview! Thank you

I love you Win Butler.

Made my Monday :) Thanks for the interview Win!

I just adore him and Arcade Fire

Foreshadowed infinite content!!!

Shout out to The Unicorns. Hells yes.

1:18:20 Regine really wanted to play a keytar so we found a dude with a speaker in a shopping cart but it was making cheesy sounds and it sounded like crap!! 😂 😂😭 I'm so dead ☠️

This is great

This was so pleasant

jaja, 01:29:00 he mentions the infinite content model, which would later pop up on the next record everything now...

so good

That was awesome

Thanks

Hey Win...if you ever have a need for a Canadian pianist who spent her teenage (and adult!) years listening to The Cure and The Smiths, I'm your woman!

1:35:45.... ASK YOUR QUESTION.. Stop rambling, what is your question that you'd like his response to vs trying to keep it going back n forth... Win handled that excellent. I'd be like, I'm sorry what is your question..

Really liked Reflektor never listened to Funeral or The Suburbs... Gonna check the earlier records out.

Hate that they skip the music. the lcd soundsystem one they didn’t skip music, it was great.

SOME ONE POINT ME TOWARDS THE FORGOTTEN RECORD THAT NOBODY SUPPOSEDLY LIKED! PLEASE AND THANK YOU

Are the parts where they listen to the songs available somwhere? I'm curious seeing Win listening to his own music. Great Interview! Great Interviewer!

I loved The Suburbs record but being someone who lives just south of The Woodlands I find his description here not very flattering. True, it's suburbia, all major cities have it...but The Woodlands is pretty nice as far as suburbs go. He railed on Mitchell (the developer) for his fracking, but The Woodlands is actually a very eco-friendly design which is amazing considering it's origin in the 70's. They basically took a forest and only gutted enough trees to put down the roads, houses, businesses etc. All the stores are buried behind a tall tree line so you feel like you are in the country driving around. No commercial signage is allowed over 3 feet high. It's very pretty and aesthetically appealing for a major metro suburb. If you had to live in Houston, it's a great spot to be. Lot's of wooded trails and not many ugly big box stores and home rooftops dotting the horizon. Compared to the usual suburb where they waste all the trees and throw up concrete and ugly houses, The Woodlands seems like a great place for a kid. Of course everyone likes to bag on their home town as being horrible...but seriously, come on Win. Could've been much worse. Hey Mitchell may have been a big oil fracker, but he saved most of the trees. Win's dad worked for Haliburton (ewwwwwwwww) yet he made Win. It's not all bad haha.

the isolation part in estudios is so true you can tell just within the first seconds of a song and it sounds so sterile... most pop music nowadays is like that and that's why artists like mac demarco stand out (besides his talent obviously) he masters the acoustics of a music the feeling of waves bouncing back and forth...

18:32...yEAHHH, pOrtuguese in the House!!!

which bands where on that list of influences?

I swear something was like keeping ur music from me. I never heard it until this year in March. And if I knew anything about anything when we were together I obviously would not have ever left. But that chick that was outside calling u tim when i went to see if ur car was still there before opening any doors I shouldnt , and since u said someone was coming with ur brother , and already I was being blamed for why u hadn't learned "the drums on piano " yet, cuz I didn't know anything else about your music yet, I thought leaving would like protect you from what was killing us. I didn't know anything. All I knew was I love u instantly, and that I only felt safe with you. I would go anywhere to be with you but since you called me the cab, I've been stuck in hell ever since. I didn't know it was with me in the cab, it just got way too hot and I couldn't breathe again so I got out and walked home , I guess thats how hell came with me. I couldn't ever connect any info of what I was guessing it seemed like and the shit I learned since then. THERE WAS AND IS NO OTHER HIT*(THE BITCH SAYING ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT IS WHO I WOULD NEVER AND CANT EVER TRUST AGAIN)* clearly we were spied upon and I don't believe u would just listen to bullshit like that , but it hasn't stopped this whole time, back to two years before we even met. I just want us to be together again like we were. I didn't know u didn't know that I really didn't know anything. I just started watching ur live shows I can't watch too much it hurts to see how hurt u were. Everything I heard that u seem to think I choose over you is a huge misunderstanding. I had bad people, untrustworthy people surrounding me. Everyone would rather throw me out in the street to be raped and murdered because they think a diamond or money will appear. Fucking idiots right? Was I supposed to not hear it for another year?! Please tell me thats not the case. If it was true love is the only excuse that makes this acceptable but only when u get us out of here

The Clash

1:29:26 everything now foreshadow

I keep thing, though, that the interviewer would be next to you on the couch asking-' so. you've got 5 minutes left to live. what's that like? '

What does he mean by "we released a record a year ago, we just called it something else and nobody liked it" ?

Loves Montreal so much he moved to New Orleans 😂

YES. Win, my experience finding musicians has been the same. Flakes. Fucking flakes everywhere.

no mention of MTV...

Watching this in 2023 and 2 more amazing albums later...its crazy how much shit he says that is almost like unconscious clues and hints about these 2 records...infinite content (song on everything now)...regine on the keytar which she plays on a few songs and plays live now (started with songs like creature comfort and now onto age of anxiety) and his feelings about a lot of todays society and how shit is today all pours into WE and pretty much the whole album in its entirety and is his way of showing his distaste and emotions about feeling a sense of being almost lost and wanting to be found but not by todays standards if that makes sense...but the worst is knowing poor win had so much hope and believed we could do better...sigh..if he only knew Trump was coming

Geeze what's with the comment section

35:12 guy on his phone. Randomly scrolling. What is wrong with people like that. 36:52 still on his phone.

WTF WAS THAT DEATHSTAR QUESTION 🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

If you can't put the song, at least refer them so we can look it easily.... stupid copyright laws

All good things begin with being exposed to the music of Depeche Mode.

Interviewer is 17 going on 40

oscars a poseur

this interview makes me fell v uncomfortable

Who else is watching this on the toilet?

People be freakin out about him likin Hillary. WTF did you expect? Besides, if he said he was for Trump, his career would be instantly over.

"Hillary Clinton will be a great president" - WTF Win?!

Win, stay out of politics, stick to music.

yawn - he's almost as boring as his music