Arcade Fire's 'Neon Bible': 10 Things You Didn't Know

Given the current political climate, it's easy to forget just how bleak things already seemed 10 years ago. Under George W. Bush, violence in Iraq had worsened beyond measure and the Great Recession had kicked in. Artists responded accordingly, and some of 2007's most potent records included Björk's raging Volta and M.I.A.'s confrontational Kala, but the singular statement of its time was Arcade Fire's towering, thunderous Neon Bible, which debuted at Number Two on the Billboard charts