"I've been listening to less than jake for 6 years now, and this is one of their best. It's just telling you to open up your eyes and take a good look at the people around you. Do you really know them? If theanswer is no, then maybe you should take the time to do it. That's my take, anyway."
"The stumbling and self-overlapping, and might I mention insidious piano motif, which gradually allows snapping drum machines and periodic, gradually increasing guitars to give it shape, clearly owes much to the sinuous, minimalist rhythms of New Order's "Blue Monday," but only in structural terms. Sure, it's a tightly looped piano, but it still feels real nonetheless---the resonance of the instrument (and oh, it's the most resonant instrument) is untainted by the fact that the same small number of notes is repeated incessantly. Thematically, its frenzy mirrors the feeling of an insane rush that we realize only retroactively, after we've busied ourselves to the point of distraction for so long that we've clearly lost sight of what might be more important. There's one line in this song that hit me in an autobiographical spot the first time I heard it, and has only gained potency with each listen: "you spend the first five years trying to get with the plan, and the next five years trying to be with your friends again." More than any single lyric of recent vintage, this one pretty perfectly describes my current situation, one which I'll spare you for the sake of time. Just know that it's 6 years, not 5, and I'm in the first year of the second set."
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends | 5 |
| Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads | 3 |
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:38 (eighteen years ago)