Song · The Arcade Fire
“Intervention” by The Arcade Fire
From the album Neon Bible (2007)
“Intervention” by The Arcade Fire appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2007 and 2016. It was first released in 2007 on the album Neon Bible. Its best result is #40 on the CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #297 alternative song of 2007.
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"Intervention" is the Neon Bible song that feels most like a sermon delivered at full volume, and Arcade Fire kept every stage of it in-house: the Canadian band wrote, arranged and produced it themselves, then mixed it with Nick Launay after Scott Colburn and Markus Dravs handled the recording. It became the third single from that second album, surfacing digitally in 2006 before a 2007 seven-inch on Rough Trade in Britain and Merge in the States, with Calexico covering "Ocean of Noise" on the flip.
The band played it on Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2007, and it has held up: Pitchfork later put it at number 271 among the top 500 songs of the 2000s.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 40 | CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 65 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 54 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 | 136 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 772 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 359 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2016 | 579 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
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