"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"
Single by Arcade Fire
from the album Funeral
B-side"My Buddy"
ReleasedJune 20, 2004
RecordedAugust 2003 – early 2004
StudioHotel2Tango (Montreal, Quebec)
Genre
Length4:48
LabelMerge
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire singles chronology
"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"
(2004)		 "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)"
(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.[2]

Arcade Fire re-issued the single on November 29, 2019 as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event.[3]

Critical reception

In August 2009, the song was named #10 on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[4] 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.[5] 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

  1. "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" - 4:48
  2. "My Buddy" (Alvino Rey Orchestra, live radio broadcast, 1940) - 2:32

Personnel

Arcade Fire

Additional musicians

References

  1. 1 2 "The 50 Best Alt-Rock Love Songs". Spin. February 12, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (Vinyl)". Discogs. June 20, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Murray, Robin (October 11, 2019). "Arcade Fire To Re-Issue Debut Single 'Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)'". Clash. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The 200 Best Songs of the 2000s". Pitchfork. August 21, 2009. p. 11.
  5. ↑ Flores, Lucien (August 2, 2012). "The Essential Arcade Fire". Beats Per Minute.
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