LCD Soundsystem s/t poll

Losing My Edge.

Absolutely brilliant conceit paired with utterly compelling minimalism in the arrangement, and releasing it as their first song ever.

Yeah, they've done a lot of great, great songs, but Losing My Edge is all time. Still sounds like nothing else.

Tribulations because it still appears in my head every now and then

I haven't heard this record in years. Glancing at the track list, Tribulations is the one I immediately started singing.

Voted Yeah (Crass Version).

"Daft Punk..." -- it brings back a host of memories dancing at indie bars in spring '05. "Tribulations" because it's the most through-written new song.

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

for me it's Beat Connection but Yeah and Thrills are really close

Totally unfair poll by including the bonus disc.

I didn't listen to the bonus disc much tbh

Yeah pretentious version, the rest is mostly worthless to me

"Tribulations" is pretty good

gonna have to give this a listen. haven't heard this in at least a decade.

hell, im going to put on the Rapture and some DFA comps as well. might as well make a day of it.

woah i only had the one disc version missing all the tracks from Losing My Edge on

two things im noticing on re-listen:

1) i forgot how much he did the Mark E. Smith trick of ending most words with a vocal tic "set them up-ah". i don't think he really does this anymore but back in the day that was a big part of the sound for me. the early stuff has more of a don't-give-a-shit vibe because of it, and i think that was more appealing. they take themselves too seriously now.

2) dude has a great ear for percussion. you've got drumset, handclaps, hand drums, cowbell, all kinds of bells and whistles, etc. imo this kind of stuff can really make a song and one of the reasons he was a good producer out of the gate was getting that right.

Totally unfair poll by including the bonus disc.

kinda tempted to vote beat connection tbh

I'm probably the only person who's going to vote for Yr City's A Sucker.

beat connect

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this is "Tribulations"

beat connect

actually it's yeah crass

sorry for the confusion

they rarely got better than Beat Connection for me.

Their first single is their best single...

Yeah Crass for life.

Yeah Crass still sends chills down my spine.

however i think 'by the time i get to venus' > anything on here

It's been a long time since I heard this album, but it's Losing My Edge isn't it?

Yeah Crass for life.

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Oh wait you said crass, nevermind blech

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I've never been wrong.

repoll with the actual album tracks

Daft Punk got robbed.

i forgot how much he did the Mark E. Smith trick of ending most words with a vocal tic "set them up-ah".

And how fucking annoying it is.

Losing My Edge is all time. Still sounds like nothing else.

Apart from someone doing a Mark E. Smith impersonation over "Change" by Killing Joke that is?

looooool

I actually like this album musically but the MESisms are unbearable.

I concur.

kinda resent the last track for ripping off Eno/Cluster so shamelessly, then again that's sorta what LCD is all about

his shameless rips felt a little more interesting on this one than later on at least, like "drunk girls" and "somebody's calling me" were just like 'come on lol'

What is Drunk Girls a rip of, I should know it but I don’t

Dance Yrsef Clean was a bit of a disappointment, didn’t realize a huge part of that was basically ripped off wholesale

drunk girls is a rip of "white light/white heat"

didn't know about dance yrself clean being such a rip either, he at least did something interesting with it though. that's surely a case he should have at least given the pool a writing credit for it though

oh geez, of course it is

I agree DYC does some pretty cool stuff with it but it felt a little uncouth to rip such an obscurity and give no credit at all. with Somebody's Calling Me you at least its kinda assumed people get the reference

I found a great playlist (Reddit maybe) which had This Is Happening alongside the "originals":

The Pool - Jamaica Running = Dance Yrself Clean

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat = Drunk Girls

Executive Slacks - The Bus (12" Version) = One Touch

David Bowie - Heroes = All I Want

Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger = I Can Change

Grauzone - Eisbär = You Wanted a Hit

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) = Pow Pow

Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing = Somebody's Calling Me

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) = Home

Bron Under Punches was ripped off pretty thoroughly for another track off the new album, can't remember the name though

"other voices" or "change yr mind" which are both extremely remain in light-influenced? but both are at least just stylistic homages rather than being direct rips in the way a lot of his stuff is.

"pow pow" and "home" just sound 'talking heads-influenced' to me as well

None of that bothers me so much as the fact that he was misguided enough to think he could try to sound like Mark E. Smith and get away with it - I mean, as this poll demonstrates, he did get away with it, but wtf people??!?!? He's from Brooklyn!

Here's the playlist btw:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=m6zycX4hQ_SusLnN9-RW6g

someone on another thread pointed out that "Dance Yourself Clean" is also under heavy influence of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone* and I can't not unhear that anymore.

*who opened for LCD on their first or 2nd tour iirc

whats funny about that to me is that MES did accuse Murphy of ripping him off, but the track he was accusing him of stealing was "Fledermaus Can't Get Enough" from the Von Sudenfed record, which sure enough sounds like "Losing My Edge"....a song that came out 3 years earlier

talk of rip off got me trying to remember the name of this Peter Accident tune... huge proto-Murphy vibes imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvRu3_d50U

^^^file under "songs you only have to listen to once if that".

Losing My Edge is all time. Still sounds like nothing else.

Apart from someone doing a Mark E. Smith impersonation over "Change" by Killing Joke that is?

― Future England Captain (Tom D.)

I always heard it closer to Cardboard Lamb by Crash Course in Science: https://youtu.be/DdNH1urxXOw

But if the reference is actually Killing Joke then here’s yet another song that proves it does sound like something else.

The Killing Joke song itself is a rip off of "Me and Baby Brother" by War, so what goes around come around!

"Grauzone - Eisbär = You Wanted a Hit" - Wow

White Light/White Heat to Drunk Girls is a bit of a stretch.

It’s been years since I heard these LCD albums and a revisit today has made me realize that most of these songs would probably be better if they were half as long. The average LCD soundsystem song is 7 minutes long and it spends half of that waving to stolen ideas.

I guess that’s some nod to Led Zep.

"North American Scum" reminds me a lot of "Homosapien" by Pete Shelley

to put it mildly!

"Daft Punk is Playing At My House" immediately reminds me of AC/DC's "TNT" though I suppose most people caught that

That cardboard lamb track is terrific.

Tbf richard d james also sort of stole the same beat for caustic window’s “cunt” which is a terrible compilation track I won’t bother looking up on YouTube

LOL - their albums are always a pleasure for that reason. It can feel like you're rummaging through a great record collection, with Pete Shelley, Kraftwerk or who knows what else emerging to the surface.

Cardboard Lamb sounds more like a straight rip of Warm Leatherette than any of LCD's straight rips of things sound like their inspirations

The LCD rips don't really bother me, it's almost always re-creating an instrumental that he's writing a new song on top of. People seem to like that when Erykah Badu or Amy Winehouse have done it.

(credit is another thing entirely, of course they should be giving up some of the publishing)

Cardboard Lamb sounds more like a straight rip of Warm Leatherette than any of LCD's straight rips of things sound like their inspirations

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I agree.

i think lol

Windom Earl-looking motherfucker.

Complaining about stealing is boring.

I agree but posting the source is interesting.

fwiw, I don't consider any LCDSS track as theft. It's actually an amazing aspect of what they do to that it isn't.

that Peter Accident song is Chuck Prophet btw O_o