Years ago, back when you were busy clapping chalk erasers together, I was up until the hours of the nite, the later ones, and listening to such FINE and FORWARD THINKING bands such as 6 Finger Satellite. Around that time, this sideways man above these letters was running sound for them. He later started a label and a dance-y doohick band that goes "bloop bloop bleep bleep boom boom chk boom boom chk chk chk chk crash!" or something. Ok.
So this is the 3rd LCD album, and boy, is it long! I mean, 9 songs and it's 65 minutes long. Of course by now you've heard "Drunk Girls" on XRT, and what with it's 3.45 time and fast tempo, it fits. But after that, the second shortest song is 5.54! Maybe James or whatever his name needs to work on quality control, because most people here won't make it through the first 3 songs. "Dance Yrself Clean" is great but gets repetitive as does "One Touch". And it's a damn shame that people will zone out after the first 20 minutes, because track 4 is AASEOME! It's called "All I Want" and its this little pop beat with this 2 note guitar line and it just chugs along and is so darln catchy! Like the swine flu! Max thinks it's too poppy, but he's a silly goose.
"I Can Change" just sounds kinda "meh". Not too crazy, the synths in the beginning throw me off. "You Wanted a Hit" is a 9+ minute dance beat with lyrics about record labels wanting hit songs, but the beginning sounds like Kraftwerk! YAY! GERMAN SYNTH MUSIC BY NIHILISTS! Oh! and there's that next one "Pow Pow", which quotes "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood with slightly stream of thought lyrics, but is pretty sweet. But once again, 9 minutes with little variation. "Somebody's Calling Me" is some flippidy slow thing that feels excruciatingly long as its 7 minutes long of "duh duh duh do-dahhhhhhh". The last track "Home" is great stuffs.
Let me make a statement here:
LCD Soundsystem in songs like "Home" and "All I Want" makes the music U2 wants to make these days - dancey, modern and an opportunity for Bono to stretch his voice. Maybe that's why I like these songs, because I like U2 when they write good songs.
But I'm goofballs for coconut jazz!
OVERALL RATING - Greg Kot's toe, painted by Jim.
KEY TRACKS - Home, All I Want, Dance Yrself Clean, Pow Pow
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