when you look at LCD soundsystem and
James like it's such an eclectic
collaboration of both like musical
influences but then also like strong
comedic influences when you listen to
his songs it's like oh of a teenager a
real emotional teenager and it's just
like it's just funny writing it's like
really funny it's like a just a funny
joke where their songs their moments
during the show that stood out or felt
like a special occasion that song us
versus them to my grave someone great
all my friends obviously deaf punk is
playing at my house the first beat drop
of dance herself for me yeah I love
starting out a song just so relaxed and
bouncing and then realized it's a greeny
I moved to New York around early 2000
but that was when like for a Strokes
record the White Stripes rapture and all
these awesome debut albums were coming
out and I remember I'd heard losing my
edge because I knew the rapture and gfa
Records losing my edge was great and
like really funny and cool and different
and then I remember there's a lot of us
like waiting for like oh when is the
first LCD album gonna come out I
remember like going on all those like
download sites and stuff like like boink
and things like that like trying to see
like all ones that ones this album gonna
leak I was listening the radio it was on
kxl you the college radio station and
the song came on the radio that was
completely I it was a little Sonic Youth
II it was a little Talking Heads
and it was a really it was just magical
and kind of hovering and haunting it was
a song your city's a sucker which was in
their first single but it was maybe a
little bit down the line they and I was
like completely amazed by this song and
I think that might be one of my favorite
songs with detox losing my edge I had on
the radio my Carmen oh my god
that's just the perfect the perfect
antidote for all the crap I'm listening
to it's kind of got a bit of funk about
it's got a bit back disco about it the
reference is all the good stuff he knows
his music
my job was the most boring job in the
world I had to wear a tie and I only
file and photocopy fine I started
listening to music in my work I taught
school I don't have to photocopy file
and I was listening to us be damned by
l-c subsistence Italy in that case that
I wasn't a photocopier light and all
that I started hearing us be then over
and over again well to me in my
situation I was up and my Bob or the
office took them and I went speaking my
box and I told him I was quitting my
work all my friends for me because the
because it takes so long to get to the
actual chorus so it's this massive build
I worked at a summer camp and there
wasn't really anyone there who I knew
that had the same music taste as I did
and one night on my night off I met
these wonderful to international guys
who worked there they came from the UK
just to work for the summer I decided to
take them off campus one night and they
asked me if we could stop by a record
shop to pick up the new LCD Soundsystem
help him and we immediately clicked and
the whole summer that album was on
repeat and got so many people into the
heaven on the last night we were
listening to the album one last time
because we didn't know when we would see
each other again we put on all my
friends and we got to say goodbye I'll
never forget that summer based off of
that song all our friends I put that
track on I know exactly how I'm going to
feel at the end of it and where I was
when I first heard it a song and in a
feeling and an emotion in your past like
nothing else
you
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