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“Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” by The Arcade Fire

From the album Funeral (2004)

“Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” by The Arcade Fire appears on 26 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2005 and 2024. It was first released in 2004 on the album Funeral. Its best result is #9 on the CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #49 alternative song of 2005, #1,299 alternative song of all time and #456 of the '00s.

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16stations
#9best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
2005–2024years charted

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"Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" comes from Funeral, Arcade Fire's 2004 debut, and it was the third single the album gave up, released on Rough Trade in 2005. Butler and Chassagne wrote the words with former member Deu, starting from the 1998 ice storm that left Montreal in the dark for more than a week, and then letting the blackout stand in for something bigger and bleaker: the lyrics are cryptic, full of despair and dead ends. The music is the opposite of despair, a rush of electric guitars from Win Butler and Richard Reed Parry, Régine Chassagne's synthesizer, Will Butler's xylophone, Tim Kingsbury's bass, Howard Bilerman's pounding drums, and strings, harp and French horn crowding in.

It reached number 26 in the UK, and in 2006 the band won the Juno for Songwriter of the Year for it and two other Funeral songs, with its video nominated for Video of the Year.

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#StationCountdownof
2005 70 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2005 107
2005 100 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2005 100
2005 68 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2005 107
2005 51 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2005 89
2005 35 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2005 101
2005 17 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 150
2005 18 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2005 102
2005 43 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2005 230
2005 49 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2005 103
2005 9 CRNC 90.1 Niagara / Toronto, ON CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of 2005 91
2005 132 ModernRock.com Online ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 400

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2005 356 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2006 296 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2007 206 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 269 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 539 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 247 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2009 144 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) 200
2010 148 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium 200
2010 232 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 211 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 203 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 379 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 171 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2022 197 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2024 408 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055

Also listed as: Neighbourhood # 3 (Power Out); Neighbourhood #3 (power Out).

Charting alongside it in 2005

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  6. 6Speed of SoundColdplay

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