| Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) | |
| Cover: | Tunnelscover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Arcade Fire |
| Album: | Funeral |
| B-Side: | My Buddy |
| Released: | June 20, 2004 |
| Recorded: | August 2003early 2004 |
| Length: | 4:48 |
| Label: | Merge |
| Producer: | Arcade Fire |
| Next Title: | Neighborhood #2 (Laïka) |
| Next Year: | 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.[1]
Arcade Fire re-issued the single on November 29, 2019 as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event.[2]
In August 2009, the song was named #10 on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[3] 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.[4] 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."
7" single
Additional musicians