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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 30, 2024 23:06:10 GMT
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Jun 30, 2024 23:23:06 GMT
10/10 - It's lazy to quote for justification but I feel nothing sums it up better than this Stereogum retrospective from 2013. "So, then, in celebration of paradoxes. “All My Friends” is happy and it’s sad. It’s naïve, but also disillusioned. It can make you feel twenty again. It makes you feel forty before your time. It makes you feel twenty and forty at once. It spirals into drug-fuelled escapism, and it spirals into nostalgia. It’s mature. It’s the sound of sobering up. It’s the song you play as the party peaks. It’s the song you put on headphones when you walk home in the early hours of the morning, and some nights you triumphantly reminisce about all the experiences of your life, but maybe the edges are haunted and just as you step up to your front door and Murphy’s last refrain echoes “If I could see all my friends tonight” you also know you’re searching, too, that you feel all the dejection and isolation that’ve been as much a part of these last thirteen years as a new online version of community, or as much as anything else. It’s a song about 1987 and 1997 and 2007 and probably 2017. Even weighed down by all of this, it still moves. And because we have no other option, because this is our new millennium life: We still move, too."
www.stereogum.com/1469481/deconstructing-lcd-soundsystems-all-my-friends-and-trying-to-define-the-best-song-of-the-millennium/columns/sounding-board/
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Jun 30, 2024 23:27:32 GMT
Also, I wouldn't say it's in the peripheral. LCD Soundsystem just played it at Glastonbury yesterday and they were one of the biggest indie bands of the 2000s, even playing Madison Square Garden for their "final" show.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 1, 2024 9:03:38 GMT
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I think I’d like the song even more if it were either a minute shorter, or if there were a more significant shift in the instrumental texture by the end. The repetition works in its favor for most of it because of the layering effect throughout and the small changes that happen in the texture keep it engaging, but it sort of plateaus in the last couple minutes. While I get that that choice musically complements the song’s lyrical themes most likely, my attention still began to drift a bit during that final stretch because of its relative static quality.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 1, 2024 13:29:23 GMT
7/10 Um, this board is goofed on skunk weed tbh: LCD Soundsystem were great but they get less interesting as you get older as bands about "sound" rather "songs" often do - I loved them then, and now far less.....actually - there is not any LCD album I play close to half as much as Oasis' first 2.......which are evergreen, timeless in a way LCD never could be, or Parklife - or any Blur full album actually either - because Oasis had the better songs in 94/95 and one of them............was Wonderwall  Now having said that LCD has one of the greatest songs - Losing My Edge.............but this.............. is not that........ |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 1, 2024 16:46:52 GMT
9/10 one of their best. Love how the music builds around that piano. Good vibes
I nominate Debaser by Pixies
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Post by Archie on Jul 1, 2024 17:29:18 GMT
9/10. I miss my friends 😞
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