"Rebellion (Lies)" is a song by Canadian

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Arcade Fire Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Jeremy Gara. The band's touring line-up includes former core ...

. It was the fourth single released from the band's debut album, ''

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''. The single was released in both CD and

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formats with the song "

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" as the B-side. The single peaked at number 19 on the UK singles chart, the band's best performance on this chart to date.

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. 2005-09-17. On the album ''Funeral'', "Rebellion (Lies)" immediately follows the song "Haiti", the ending of which has the same bass beat and leads right into the beginning of "Rebellion (Lies)". The song has enduringly been the band's closing song at appearances at music festivals and at the end of most of their shows. In October 2011, British pop singer

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released a cover in support of ''Songs to Save a Life'', a benefit project in aid of Samaritans.

Accolades

The song was one of three tracks mentioned in the band's nomination — and win — of the

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. The song was also nominated for Best Independent Video at the 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards. In May 2007, ''

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'' magazine named the song as #29 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In April 2009, the song was featured in ''

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'' magazine's "500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" as #380. In August 2009, the song was ranked #69 in

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's ''Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s''. In 2009, ''NME'' ranked the song as the 9th best of the 2000s and in October 2011 they named it as 2nd in their list of the 150 greatest songs from the past 15 years.

Appearances

The song was featured on a season 5 episode of the television series '' Six Feet Under''. This song was originally intended to be used during the closing scene of the pilot for the television series ''

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'', but the band refused to grant the rights for its use.

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's " Open Your Eyes" was used instead. In 2006, the song was featured in a commercial promoting

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's Product Red campaign. Since 2008, the song has been used as opening theme for the Italian talkshow "Otto e mezzo" on

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network. In 2011, filmmaker Matthew Wisniewski set hi
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to the song.

Track listing

#"Rebellion (Lies)" – 5:05 #"Brazil" – 3:54

Personnel

Win Butler Edwin Farnham Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne. Early l ...

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, Jaguar electric guitar *

Régine Chassagne Régine Alexandra Chassagne (; born 19 August 1976) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, and is a member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler. Early life and career Régine Alexandr ...

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Richard Reed Parry Richard Reed Parry (born October 4, 1977) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switchin ...

- Rickenbacker electric guitar, backing vocals,

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* Tim Kingsbury -

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, backing vocals *

Howard Bilerman Howard Bilerman (born September 25, 1970) is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer based in Montreal, Quebec.

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, engineer, recording *

Will Butler William Pierce Butler (born October 6, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a former member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom he recorded six studio albums. Butler was a member of the band fo ...

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, backing vocals Additional musicians *

Sarah Neufeld Sarah Neufeld (born August 27, 1979) is a Canadian violinist who is known for her work with indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom she is a former core member and currently a touring member. She has contributed to each of the band's studio al ...

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– violin, string arrangements * Michael Olsen –

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Charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2005 singles Arcade Fire songs 2004 songs Rough Trade Records singles Merge Records singles Songs written by Win Butler Songs written by Régine Chassagne Songs written by Tim Kingsbury Songs written by Richard Reed Parry UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles