Music: LCD Soundsystem Self Titled, Hexfix93’s Review.
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LCD Soundsystem Double CD
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How did I discover this band? When I first booted up the full retail version of Burnout Paradise(playstation 3), I hear this strange song when I started playing the game “Us v Them”. I hated it, in fact it made me post this awful message on the sony ps3 forums about a lot of the bad music in the game(which I take back a little now, and is a whole other story). I was like, man does all of their music suck this bad? Was I in for a surprise. I found tons of youtube videos on the band, and found some amazing songs. Was blown away. The song that sold me to the point ov where I had to go buy all of their lps was the song “Tribulations”. This song reminds me of New Order. Love it.
What makes me like this band so much? I was not expecting it at all, the guy sings very unique, the music is very different. It’s a huge melting pot of ideas and diversity. I’m old so I can hear all the influences in it, and a lot of it is form music i know and love. I can hear a lot of analog synths as well and tight kick ass real drums. I love “Losing My Edge”, this song is great, it reminds me of Meatbeat Manifesto, with a talking heads vocal spoken word over the top. and the line, “I hear your buying a synthesizer and an arppegiator, and throwing your computer out the window, because you want to make something real”, is one of the best lines I have ever heard in a song.
I love how this lp uses funk, rock, electro, disco, big beat, techno, punk, and a 70s vibe with a modern edge. I also like the song “Movement” as well. It’s electronic Punk! with some psycho beatnik. Reminds me of old punk and the white stripes.
To me this band is like if you took, the talking heads, meatbeat manifesto, new order, pfunk, the white stripes, pinky floyd, the b52s(old stuff, more for the guitar strumming), and the chemical brothers and mixed in a bag, out would come LCD Soundsystem. The song “Never as tired as when i’m waking up” Sounds like pink floyd, it’s so strange to hear how different all the songs are, and to pull it off that well takes an immense amount of talent.
On the song “Give it Up”, the vocals remind me of the vocals robert smith did on the “boys don’t cry” LP. His vocals are all over the place on this record, it’s amazing how versatile the vocalist is. The opening track “daft punk is playing in my house” sounds like something out of the 70s, I know I’ve heard those hooks in old music before, be he twisted it all up kind of like revolting cocks.
This is not for your standard goth or rivet heads. In fact this appeals to the side of me that likes the talking heads, b52s, chemical brothers, new order, and meatbeat manifesto. It’s something new, and that is why I reviewed it, I cannot just review the old music I like hahahaah. I Highly recommend this if you like any of the bands I mention above. Buy now! Click Here to buy LCD Soundsystem on CD. Click Here to buy LCD Soundsystem mp3s high quality DRM free for 8.99, double lp. That is a seriously kick ass deal for a double lp.
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January 30th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Blimey! I hope this website does as good a job of selling your music as you do of selling other people’s. Looks like yet another one that I’ll have to check out. You should be on a commission!
January 30th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
this band is defianetly talented with all ov its cool styles .. i like it
January 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I just read that this band has done a cover of the Banshees’ “Slowdive”. I really have to hear that. I’ve played the Banshees’ 12″ original to death.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I got the cover of “Slowdive”. It’s the second track on “Disco Infiltrator”. Cost 84p + £1.24 postage from Amazon UK. I won’t be chucking out the original. Covers are funny. If they’re too much like the originals they suffer by comparison and if they’re too different, you lose what you liked about them in the first place.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
i’m in love with ‘tribulations’
this band is very varied, each song is different