Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)

Awesome performance of this song. It's taken me a while to warm up to Arcade Fire, but I'm really starting to dig them. They've got some Talking Heads, art-rock flavor and some noisy Modest Mouseian elements, and of course, they're also just all their own thing.

Artist: Arcade Fire
Year: 2004
Rating: Hot!
Noteworthy: Laïka, serving as the song's central metaphor, was the doomed Russian dog who became the first mammal launched into space on Sputnik 2.