Hear Arcade Fire’s Live Cover Of Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass”
It would appear that Arcade Fire’s embrace of disco and funk has already gone way beyond their Reflektor album. At a show in Houston last night, the band covered Blondie’s beyond-classic disco jam “Heart Of Glass,” with Régine Chassagne handling the vocals and the band doing a strong version of that song’s supple groove. Chassagne and her bandmates can’t conjure the icy cool of the original, but maybe they deserve points for trying. Listen to a recording of the live rendition below.
They’re going to be trying out Donna Summer or “I Will Survive” by the end of this tour, aren’t they?
UPDATE: Here’s video. Naturally the song came right after “Sprawl II”…