IS TEH LCD SOUNDSYSTEMS' "Original Run" THE E2 E4 FOR OUR TIME?

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― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

this is actually pretty good, tho will test as workout music before deciding for real!

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I want to shell out $9.99 :/

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

THAT COVER REMINDS ME OF:

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

MUSIC TO POOP 2

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

"The band tapped for the latest Nike+ installment specializes in icy, dancefloor-friendly indie rock that has so far appealed primarily to coked-up Brooklynites. Sound like an ironic pairing with a workout soundtrack? The key insight here is that dance music is dance music, and it's motivating for a workout, even if it is idiosyncratic and referential to sources you are never going to be able to find in the dated, subcultural black holes that inform LCD Soundsystem."

Oh yes, indeed.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit. Matt beat me to it.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I mean what is this part, in particular, saying: "even if it is idiosyncratic and referential to sources you are never going to be able to find in the dated, subcultural black holes that inform LCD Soundsystem." So the track references sources that we won't be able find in the dated, subcultural black holes that inform the band. Where do we find them then? Coked-up Brooklynites, please inform.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/electronic/battery/battleship/batbox.JPG
Manuel Göttsching OST

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

are there hacks to get rid of the iTunes only-play-this-song-on-five-computers-bullshit?

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ripsters?

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

you could remove the drm with a program

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

how many computers do you want to play it on?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

i mean is it available through a p2p

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

sendspace?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ripsters?

I READ NICK SYLVESTER TOO

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

BO KNOWS DANCE-ROCK

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTFairUse

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rocketgrande.com/images/lcd_soundsystem_02.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.msanthrope.com/jamesmurphy/JMpics/j-obit-lasagna.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

The greater your weight, the lower your IQ, say scientists

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

The greater your weight, the lower your IQ, say scientists
uh huh huh huh ha
The greater your weight, the lower your IQ, say scientists
uh huh huh huh ha

Zinc has very paradoxical effects in the body:
small amounts over a short period of time enhance immunity
larger amounts over longer periods suppress immunity.

[cowbells]

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

This is the thread where we turn news items into LCD Soundsystem songs

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

that'll be funny for about -5 seconds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

This is a thread where a killjoy bitches within 5 posts of the thread being started?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

A lil sumn sumn like that.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm into that one.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

To be completely honest, though, I'm super excited to hear it.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

i had a weird ilx dream last night that i was shopping at other music (which had been bizarrely condensed into a extraordinarily long hallway) . after reaching one end of it i was pleased to see that Drew Daniel was about to start an in-store performance. except that he was dressed/make up'd like Klaus Nomi and only played LCD Soundsystem songs.

wtf?

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Wednesday, 18 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

maybe that was real and you are dreaming now!!!!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night
i had a weird ilx dream last night

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

so, is this thing good? has anyone heard it? I was going to buy it tomorrow, but it'd be nice to have at least some idea before shelling out...

― jackl (jackl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

first, give us your body mass index.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

[insert James Murphy fat joke]

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Please, please, fuck off, lfamular.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... Knight takes Queen. What's on your mind, Sebastian?

― Bjorn Deleuze (Ocelot Wildly), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

That said, I'm actually not clear what this even is from the link (and I can't open iTunes at work). Is it new songs? A mix?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

A really, really, really long-ass new song, kind of. For which the DFA have received filthy Nike lucres.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

i've been listening to it all morning. it's really fucking good. almost makes me want to get fit again. i got YSIed it so i don't think there's issues with 5 plays and drm nonsense

― matagouri (matagouri), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

YSI?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

srsly.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

SRSLY!!!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'M SERIOUS, MUHFUCKAS!

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

wow, i guess i hit a chord

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

F#maj7.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

YSI.

― jackl (jackl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

second try.

― jackl (jackl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I bought it yesterday from iTunes. It's more like three songs than one, but yes, it's very very good. I'm going to be listening to it a lot. While I work out. Sigh.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jackl with the hahas.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

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how so?

i mean i absolutely agree that morality can't be called 'objective'.

so why make an exception for slavery?

i find these things more or less equally repugnant.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

because just about everybody agrees on slavery?

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

that's not proof of objectivity; and it opens the door to a historical relativism because once upon a time not everybody agreed about it. so it couldn't have been onjectively wrong then. if something's objectively wrong, it's *always* objectively wrong. but it was the same exploiting landowning and industrial class in britain which outlawed slavery that okayed "indentured" asian labour in south africa and indeed used pre-teens in its factories. in those days notions of the 'cash wage' weren't so advanced, blurring the line between slavery and 'regular' labour -- though obviously the transportation of slaves etc puts US/south american slavery on another level.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but i'm not talking about objectivity, i'm talking about "objectivity".

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think conditions in nike's factories are morally repugnant, and it's not because i'm ignorant to what those conditions are.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

blimey.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

i mean: god i do, they're fucking appalling.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I should note that by objectively I meant "objectively" - as in, shorthand for a community's belief that "there is no sliding scale that can justify this."

I'm trying to talk about this issue in a non-committal sense so as to not re-polarise everyone - I'm surprised that this is such a divisive issue...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair, tim, we're on three different continents and there isn't a community at work!

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

is hunta's objection to slavery based less on the quality of life of slaves, than on their 'moral' position of unfreedom? for me the former is as important as the latter; and life is not *much* better for a modern (or indeed 18th-19th century british) sweatshop worker than it was for the slaves.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

kunta kinte to thred

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not doing anything to play down the 'slavery was shit' meme. no-one has made a popular tv serial about the life of an asian sweatshop worker yet. but it probably wouldn't be much like 'berverly hills 90210'.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wow I would have thought this thread was supposed to be about music.

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love digressions like these when they get so involved. (See also That Mia Thread.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, well I just mentioned Bush a lot on the thread about the new Who album, so fair enough.

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

let's not talk about "objectivity" or objectivity anymore

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Can't search for the DFA thread at the moment, but Tim Goldsworthy's remix of Home Video's "Penguin" is very very pretty indeed.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno what it is about the DFA. They never answer their press emails, never respond to promo requests, many many times I've tried to contact them but no response. I don't whether it's egotism or what? DFA people read this thread - what is up with this?

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

sorry that sounds harsh and this is probably not the right place to bitch. maybe they don't need the support of the dance community because they're big indieland?

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hey good dog, what is your real name, who have you tried to contact and what
exactly are you looking for? I tried to email you, but that seems to be a fake email, as it bounced back twice.

We live in neither the Dance Community or Indie Land, more like a
semi-comfortable suburb in between and visit both frequently. I respond to literally every email I get sent to me personally, as many will attest. I don't recall ever getting one from you and my real email is listed plainly for all to see.

If you are referring to the catch-all email address that is listed on our website, all I
can say is that gets approx. 1,000 emails a day. It is a total waste of time
to try that. 75% is spam mail and therefore many times we need to delete the
whole folder to clean it out. I check it when I can, but it has become hard
work to comb through it.

We almost never ever send out promos, except for when a PR firm send out a mailing for a new release. We mail vinyl to DJ's who ask or who we know, usually personally. It seems more effective than dropping 500 singles through a lifestyle service like Giant Step or something. And why even send out cd promos anymore, when most of the music can just be gotten for free?

Are you a journalist? DJ? Promoter? Blogger?

and yes I have read this thread when it was initiated but stopped soon after....someone I know tipped me off that someone on it was "looking for me"......here I am!

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Saturday, 4 November 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

It'd be really cool if Lego had "Indie Land" lego minifigs.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

.... to be included with limited edition DFA releases!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

this ain't Mo Wax.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Sunday, 5 November 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

tim goldsworthy zing zang ZONG

― manute lol (sanskrit), Sunday, 5 November 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, well I just mentioned Bush a lot on the thread about the new Who album, so fair enough.
-- An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (bimble87...), Saturday. (Bimble...) (link)

i absolutely adore The Chemicals Between Us when i was thirteen... i don't see much of a connection with the who.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 6 November 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

or do you mean the BUSH the politician?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 6 November 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't looking for you so much as surprised you hadn't made an appearance to lay down the party line like on every other DFA thread.

anyway, the track is fucking excellent. waiting with bated breath for the vinyl release.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 6 November 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I meant Bush the poltician, I mean EVIL STOOPID FIRE DEVIL, etc. Elections coming up.

Regardless this LCD track is an awful lot of fun. And whats with this 45:33 business? I daresay thats brilliant. I wasnt very impressed at first, to be honest, but eventually I understood.

Once again my web browser complains every time I try to type an apostrophe.

― All The Furniture Is In The Garage (Bimble...), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

i just got this on vinyl! still so good.

― haitch, Thursday, 25 October 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

is it hard to listen to it on vinyl while you're jogging?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 October 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

How do they do the transitions on the vinyl (it's a double LP, isn't it?)

Do they just fade in/out or do they separate out the different sections.

If it's the latter, I'm definitely buying it! Is that a promo? It's not out till November, is it?

It's such a great record, though. Although it's crap to jog too. It's the wrong speed.

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

jog to, not too. Sorry.

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

i'm a pretty slow jogger!

yes, double 12", promo from the record store. i assume they'll have the e2-e4-style cover for the full release. they do separate out the different sections properly too, not just fade in/out - 'part 2' has a long build before the part where it recognisably becomes 'someone great'.

― haitch, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

s1ocki i am limited to circling the room at this point. may have to rethink exercise strategy.

― haitch, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Cool! That's what I was hoping.

I'm going to see James Murphy DJ tonight, actually. Really looking forward to that too.

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

is it hard to listen to it on vinyl while you're jogging?

http://www.metropotam.ro/La-zi/2007/06/art2627496824-Design-your-life-Dieter-Rams-si-Braun/TP1%20portable%20phono%20radio.jpg

― jed_, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

is this getting its own remix album at some point (possibly containing only artists with the word 'prince' or some phonetically-spelled variation thereof in their name)? prins thomas had his own remix of 'part three' on his RA podcast mix, and thisisnotandexit blog lists the prince language remix of 'part one' as one of his dj faves for feb.

― jermainetwo, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:28 (seventeen years ago)

i just have to say this song is almost worth the lives of half a dozen pre-teen sweatshop laborers
-- max (maxreax), Monday, October 23, 2006 5:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

^^
i stand by this bold statement

― max, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

this thread makes me sad for the days when i actually wanted to have substantive discussions abt things on ilx

― max, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:37 (seventeen years ago)

what put you off, specifically?

― blueski, Monday, 17 March 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

this thread makes me sad for the days when i actually wanted to have substantive discussions abt things on ilx

-- max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:37 PM (Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:37 PM) Bookmark Link

can you restate this in seven words or less?

― The Reverend, Monday, 17 March 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

man I had no idea vahid was such a fan of "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

It's such a great record, though. Although it's crap to jog too. It's the wrong speed.

tried jogging to it last night - not the most brisk piece of music ever recorded, it has to be said. but then i may be the world's slowest jogger. the drums coming in at the start of part 3 was quite good in a "speed up a bit!" way.

― haitch, Monday, 2 June 2008 07:37 (seventeen years ago)

I'll have this on my iPod before dawn, mark my words.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 2 June 2008 07:47 (seventeen years ago)

this is really good. i actually ran a 10k to it a couple years back, worked great!

― stephen, Monday, 2 June 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

me too but i had to switch to some upbeat kanye for the final dash.

― ledge, Monday, 2 June 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

shame on you!!

― The Reverend, Monday, 9 June 2008 07:16 (seventeen years ago)

Has anyone heard the track Cassius have done for this series? I like Cassius but I'm not sure I'm willing to drop $10 on a 45-minute track of which I can only hear thirty seconds as a preview...

― Telephone thing, Monday, 9 June 2008 07:33 (seventeen years ago)

i love the first track

― the next grozart, Monday, 9 June 2008 07:47 (seventeen years ago)

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