Song · The Arcade Fire
“Creature Comfort” by The Arcade Fire
From the album Everything Now (2017)
“Creature Comfort” by The Arcade Fire appears on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the album Everything Now. Its best result is #6 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2017.
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"Creature Comfort" was the second single from Everything Now, Arcade Fire's fifth album, in 2017, and it rides a pumping, relentless synth-pop pulse. All six members share the writing credit, and the band co-produced with two outside heads: Portishead's Geoff Barrow, who also plays synthesizer, and Pulp bassist Steve Mackey. Craig Silvey mixed it.
They first played it at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona that June. Tarik Mikou's video puts the band in shiny gold suits in a bare room under a flickering strobe, with the lyrics scrolling past on a ticker, and NPR's Stephen Thompson read it as matching the album's themes of impossible expectations, pressure to fit in and the deafening noise of modern life.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 77 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 17 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | 102.1 The Edge's Top 20 Songs of 2017 | 20 |
| 2017 | 9 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 16 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2017 | 15 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 6 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 7 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2018 | 20 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 88 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 88 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 523 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2026 | 811 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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