Keep the Car Running

Keep the Car Running

Infobox Single
Name = Keep the Car Running


Artist = Arcade Fire
from Album = Neon Bible
Released = March 19 2007 (UK)
May 8 2007 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Genre = Indie, Alternative
Length = 3:29
Label = Rough Trade Records, Merge Records
Chart position = * #56 (UK)
Last single = "Black Mirror"
(2007)
This single = "Keep the Car Running"
(2007)
Next single = "Intervention"
(2006, 2007)

"Keep the Car Running" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It is the first single released from the band's second album, "Neon Bible" in the UK (while "Black Mirror" is the first in the US). The single was released on March 19 2007 on a 7" vinyl with the B-side, Broken Window in the UK under Rough Trade Records. This song was #22 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. [No byline (December 11, 2007). [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601363/the_100_best_songs_of_2007/6 "The 100 Best Songs of 2007"] "Rolling Stone". Retrieved 2007-12-21]

The single was released in the US on May 8, 2007 under Merge Records. It is also alternatively titled "Keep the Car Running/Broken Window". It peaked at #32 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks Chart.

The band performed the song during their February 24, 2007 appearance on "Saturday Night Live".

The song was covered by the Foo Fighters on 17 August and 18 August 2007 during their European Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Tour at the The O2 in London. The band played it once during a set for Jo Whiley's "Live Lounge" and again during a concert for BBC Radio 1's Six Weeks of Summer concert event in Brighton. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/summer/2007/brighton/gallery/foos/16.shtml#jump BBC Radio 1 website] 17 August 2007] Dave Grohl announced to the audience that he had played the song earlier in the day but was unhappy with it as he felt he did not perform it well enough, so he felt it was his duty to retry it. He said during the first recording that he listens to the song every morning when he wakes up.. The song can be found on The Foo Fighters' Let It Die EP.It was also performed live by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, joined by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, on October 14th in Ottawa.

Track listing

#"Keep the Car Running"
#"Broken Window"

References


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