#41

Yeah after reading Meet Me In the Bathroom alot of people seem to think he is a bit of a dick or at least from around that time he was. But, at the sametime he seems to acknowledge it.

#42

Holds up better than This is Happening imo

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#43

Maybe I would have liked them if I was 10-15 years younger. Maybe/maybe not. i don’t seem to like any of the highly acclaimed 2000s bands.

SeemsIDon’tReallylikeIndieMusic/5

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#44

Think I listened to American Dream once, quite liked it and have never felt the urge to listen again. Conversely I listened to This Is Happening a lot but just suffered through/skipped the dreck like You Wanted a Hit and Pow Pow.

#45

They’re a strange case of the main singles being one of the worst on their respective albums:

Daft Punk
North American Scum
Drunk Girls

Drunk Girls is especially dire. Awful track. Can’t see why anyone would put it in their LCD mix.

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#46

‘American Dream’ is a fucking great song,as is ‘Oh Baby’. I go back to it way more than This Is Happening.

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#47

Really liked This is Happening at the time but it feels patchy when I go back to it now. I think American Dream is genuinely really great, much better than it has any right to be. Hard to hold the reunion against them when he had such a quality album up his sleeve.

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#48

I Used To is one of their very best songs, as well as How Do You Sleep obviously

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#49

Somehow forgot about that, awful song.

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#50

Quite like North American Scum but, I acknowledge it isn’t great. Daft Punk was the 1st song I heard by them Zane Lowe used to absolutely rinse it on the radio, won’t hear a bad word against it best of those 3.

They didn’t play Drunk Girls at the Apollo last time I saw them think they have acknowledged it’s shit.

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#51

Tonite is the first lead single they’ve released that isn’t borderline unplayable shite.

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#52

4.5 rounded up to 5. I love them dearly and have many many happy memories attached to their music.

This song, man.

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#53

How Do You Sleep is a top 3 LCD song for me… genuine goosebumps when they played that live.

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#54

Echo above that they don’t have a perfect album, but not sure any band over the last 20 years can match them for a 15-20 song best of.

One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen, MSG show as close as any contemporary band has to a Stop Making Sense, can’t really begrudge them the comeback when it’s what they wanted to do - would’ve been daft for them not to out of some misguided principle. The original farewell was clearly what they/he felt at the time and not a cynical, calculated cash grab.

American Dream is underrated and not far behind Sound Of Silver/This Is Happening imo. Think it was my favourite LP of whatever (admittedly fairly forgettable) year it came out. How Do You Sleep? up their with their very best.

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#55

5/5 thanks.

One of my all time favourite bands. Top5 easily. Live shows are absolutely life affirming and feel quite lucky to live (relatively) close to the Barrowlands which they’ve said multiple times is their favourite venue.

I think seeing them at T in the Park back in '05 in the slam tent was actually a life changing show for me. Dance music was no longer just Sash or Alice DJ.

Sheeldz touched on it above but that last tour, playing at SWG3 - one of my favourite ever shows. Was a year to the day since I broke up with my long term ex, I was with a new lady (still am), totally smitten. She was beaming ear to ear and danced the whole night. The setlist was perfect (ok, missing Yeah!), Young Fathers tearing shit up, warm night, he thinly veiled often talks about something in the air. I was just so, so happy. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Fucking love this band.

James Murphy is a dick.

#56

When I was 16 and at my first Leeds festival, LCD Soundsystem were headlining the second stage on the Sunday evening. I’d gone to the festival with a bunch of people from school and nearly all of them went to see Guns n Roses. I’d been trying to get people to come and see LCD all weekend but no one wanted to come with. In the end, me and a girl I really fancied sloped off to the second stage. We got distracted on the way though and just wandered around for ages, riding on the Ferris wheel, drinking straight vodka and chatting to strangers, and never saw any of the show.
In the morning, I woke up in my tent covered in my own vomit.
4/5

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#57

Sounds like you had the better night, I think that’s the night the festival pulled the plug on them when they were mid song

#58

I never, ever enjoy a full album by them but the highs are so ridiculously high that it has to be a 4.

It’s a shame their albums decent into occasional noodley wank otherwise they’d be the perfect band.

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#59

Big 'ol 5 from me. Yes they’re pretentious and self-referential and not really all that original. Fuck me though if that ain’t what I am too.

One of my favorite memories is seeing them at Electric Picnic when they returned, with my best friend and a random pilled-up gremlin from the ragtag bunch we’d ended up camping with. I’d look over to see this sham totally vibing - at least until Movement came on. He looked dead worried then

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#60

Ah l’amour!

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