"all my friends" is the one that really resonates with me, especially at this point in my life.

Here's where I come in. Just sit back and relax. You ain't gonna need aspirin for this. You know what I'm talking about? I think you do.

Yeah, great work Paul. Hardly noticed GDB wasn't doing it, which is a compliment because Andrew was ace at this.

Good list overall, I think. Too much Kanye for me and too many not that great songs by uniting indie rawk bands like Dashboard doing well, but I expect both of those. Can't think of a singles list I've seen that I've liked more actually. 'Paper planes' and 'Umbrella' at #2 and #3 was awesome. I guess my #1 missing out means I might be able to work on that for next year.

Good shit, SOMB.

those other dudes know this shit is number 1 type shit

never fuck without a rubbah

I've got to say I don't get this "All Build/No Climax" thing. It's there in the repeated "Where are you friends tonight?" which are sung in a much more less-restrained kind of way, and the repeated wails of "If I could see all my friends tonight" that close out the song. I don't know what everyone was waiting for, it's LCD Soundsystem: cymbal rushes, cannons firing, a guitar solo?

The youtube comments on it are amazing, too:

caley, you're absolutely right, that section, "If I could see all my friends tonight," is, lyrically and melodically, the big payoff.

don't listen to sickpup, he wouldn't know a melodic resolve if it was rammed up his ass by a Kraft Foods truck.

Yeah, pretty much. They'd be pretty good songs otherwise, but lyrics that actually mean something to me on a personal level elevate both to "really fucking good" levels.

why would you want a song that accurately describes your life?

escapism >>>>>>>>>>>>> reality

There's something strangely enjoyable (maybe not the best word for it) about listening to someone else put your feelings into words (and to music), especially when it's something you feel but can't necessarily verbalize yourself. The effect is even stronger when the emotions evoked are painful/difficult (loss and aging in Someone Great and All My Friends, respectively). People are attracted to music that can evoke a strong emotional response, so those two songs are particularly attractive.

You've got something of a dick yen. Care to discuss.

Do you even know who Jens Lekman is?

he was referring to T-Pain regarding the vocoder (which it's completely fucking annoying imo, but i've only heard like 2 or 3 T-Pain tracks ever other than guest spots.

Ok, his post still makes no sense to me.

heres a quick one:

its kinda crappy i'll get to a better one

reading your posts is like huffing paint.

i'm surprised your brain has enough power to regulate your breathing.

lol, old people.

i'm old and i love LCD. hell, Murphy's older than me.

lol, psychotic homely self-loathing troll

yea you are old.

like everyone has already said (and its no use trying to convice others that they are great songs, though they are) the songs are definitely a lot more mature than his last album, but murphy is really struggling with that crisis that a lot of us go through of trying to be older and responsible but wanting to stay young and care free. i think its really a big mid twenties epidemic, which explain why there seem to be this bell curve, age wise, of band/ song appreciators. these two songs are definitely lyrical gems and, if you kind of want to just listen to music to drown out the bg sounds of those damn kids on your yard, than it wont do it for you. but if you want to listen actively and have some emotional connection to what you are listening to... then this album is perfect and amazing. though may seem underwhelimg to older folks who have already been through it, and the younger who have yet to. for me.. its juuuuuuust right.

i find the album so interesting becuase at first listen you are like, WTF is this, i want to dance and rock and shit. then you listen again and again and you get it. the tone of someone great gets to you... the middle of the album totally sparks something in you and wham! you love it. or at least, thats what happened to me.

Yes, but we can all be pleased to know that within a 15 minute period on any chr station you'll hear that already played out gimmick.

i was bored, so here are two crappy ones.

Holy shit.


The truth is that this singles list is an embarrassment. I'm not saying it's SOMB's fault, but rather the state of music at the present time. So much hype, so much crap. I've decided to bless you all with some quality rock with which you can repent. Let there be rock. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Forgo so OTM my balls fell off.

Hey Montana, why don't you fuck off and die you massive fucking cunt. You know next to nothing about modern music and you didn't vote anyway so on behalf of everyone that did vote, go fuck yourself.

I've told him how we feel so I'd appriciate it no one engaged with him in this thread nor the album one.

That's what talented bands do. No one was expecting that from LCD Soundsystem.

i speak so much game and truth it hurts people. REAL TALK.

Hey,

I like the LCD Soundsystem CD and all (voted #7ish?), but I don't get the whole thing about the lyrics of the songs. The music is way too good for me to pay attention to the lyrics.

I've listened to it 2 more times today, trying to pay attention to them, but I keep getting lost.

Mitchell OTM. Posts like those are ban-worthy (ATTENTION MODS), in my eyes. Reminding me of why I was so hostile towards him back in 2005 or whenever.

That said... AC/DC, fuckers. The real shit.

but the dilemma you describe isn't just a 20something thing. many of my older friends and relatives, who are in their 40s, 50s and 60s, are still going through it.

Why hello grumpy Mitch!

Mitch, remember this band? People like you thought it would be the next big thing, called it "great music". Half the shit you listen to is of this quality:

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You just can't see it. Half the shit in this list is of this quality. Blinders people. Remove them. Thank you.

the first time i actually LISTENED to someone great i cried like i was fucking cutting onions on christmas. it was intense.

Montana:

Why the fuck are you even here?

I'm glad it did well, but I was a little disappointed that it didn't get a top 5 placing. Seeing a few other people have it as their #1 definitely mad me smile. Having said that, I can definitely deal with LCD having the #1 single (unless it would have been "North American Scum").

"All My Friends" is pretty much all build. That's why it's so good. That and the lyrics. I'm not the only one that's in the age range that completely gets what Murphy is talking about.

Yes. The impenetrable fortress of Murphy's genius can only be navigated through a tiny age-defined prism of narcissism and aimlessness. That's brilliant.

I've said my piece and I'm 100% right.

is this a girl thing? i totally did, too.
In my defense, the week I got this record, a close friend of mine died. That said, Someone Great hit me like a fucking train/brick wall/other cliche thing it hurts to run into. It still does, its an intense song.

As for All My Friends, somehow people even my age (18) can relate to that song (see paves) even though its something we (at least I) haven't really gone through. Its just that good of a song. I can't imagine listening this and not paying attention to the lyrics

You're right. I'm sorry. We're all capable of understanding everything and age and experience have nothing to do with how we deal with or react to things. When I watched Away From Her, I was like "Psh man, I totally know what it's like to love someone for 40 years and then watch them deteriorate with Alzheimer's".

The longer I'm here the more I appreciate Montana. He's a Hamlet among Poloniuses.

another one of these threads huh

Damn, "Tubthumping" is a good-ass song.

I detect a note of sarcasm in your otherwise nonsensical post.

Yes, Captain Obvious, of course your age, sex, creed, geography, financial situation, educational level, and everything else that makes you a unique and beautiful desert flower factors into how you deal with or react to things. (Even when you're called upon to muster a little brain power and try to relate to something out of your purview, a la Away From Her, which ostensibly exists so everyone--even you--can know "what it's like to love someone for 40 years" etc.)

What I was taking issue with, despite the fact that my post only coincidentally followed yours, is the notion that LCD can only be truly understood by self-pitying jobless (fired-for-cause) 23-27-year-old North American Scum. I find that position to be both arrogant and myopic.

Why does everyone keep throwing in these 1996 Internet insults into the "All My Friends" thing? The song isn't talking about being unemployed or unattractive or working a 9-to-5 office job at all. I'm not speaking for anyone else, but I'm not (and I don't think anyone's saying) "you can only get this song if you're in this age bracket". As someone else said, she's 18 and the song speaks to her about what's happened with her set of high school friends. It's just one of those things that's more relatable becase it's written from a certain point of view. There are Dylan songs that are more relatable to older guys who have been thru a divorce. I can take my own experiences with relationships and apply it to those songs, but a guy's who's been through the exact situation Dylan is talking about will obviously relate more.

Actually, that's exactly what something's saying:

I'm actually going to stick up for Montana here since he's entitled to have his opinion, just like everyone else. Granted sometime's he posts without any sort of tact but whatever, most of us are old/mature enough to be able to deal with it without having to tell him to fuck off and die. Besides, its not like its one way with Montana. Plenty of you guys make digs at his musical tastes all the time, so deal with it.

Also if you are able to bypass the element of superiority in his posts, he actually has a point with regards to the overall quality of the singles on offer here. The top 10 especially which is supposed to be the 'cream' so to speak.

But anyway, lets not let this deteriorate into another pointless squabble.

Finally, kudos to Paul for making this all happen.

Remember when bands actually took an idea and made a song that had everything? Those were called "good songs".

Year after year we get saddled with these half-assed indie mood pieces that lack complete songs. Then they are hyped up as these works of art by johnny@wordpress.com.

Come on.

i believe any beef stems from "you can't complain about polling results if you dont vote"

Fair enough. But does that mean that people aren't going to complain about him in the albums thread? Doubt it.

remember when poetry had to be written in metered verse, otherwise you were considered a no-talent moron?

Great station.

I can tell you that no one will even remember the vanilla, lifeless "All my Friends" even three years from now. The fact that it placed at #1 is very sad news for this forum, and music in general.



World class single:


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forgettable vanilla garbage:

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How is it even possible that an artist long chided by trendy urban scenesters completely mangles any single released in 2007? Strange how this world works, eh?