The Showdown

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1868

The 'good stuff' (actually almost all of it IS except Andy Bell) and I have learned two things:

- The Lex and I seem to be in hivemind mode this week (Goat Team aside)

- John Cameron is the least pop man in the Universe.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Do you like the Lindstrom rmx? I love the og as well but could seriously not comprehend anyone not liking that rmx.

I've always hated Erasure anyway. We have PSB, we never needed them!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

The Lindstrom mix is a big improvement, because it gets rid of most of what's annoying about the original and replaces it with some kind of modern Europoppish mix of "Hot Stuff" and "I Feel Love", which is pretty genius. But it leaves those vocals on!

I actually pretty much disregard most of what LCDS has done, that one Juan McLean single aside that I quite liked.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

B-b-but what about 'Yeah' and 'Losing My Edge' and 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House My House' and 'Beat Connection'! I have had some of the best times of my LIFE to those songs. Yeah most of the album proper is lame but they are one of the best live bands I've ever ever seen, and when they're on they're just unstoppable. I like the vox when they're shouty, not when they're singy.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

No, no, no and no. My opinion on LCDS is that for such trailblazing people, their ideas have been done before for the main, and their disco is hugely unconvincing.

But then again, I hate fun and I can't dance. And we disagree on shouty vocals, you like them in artists I don't, and I in those that you don't, tho I can't think of specific examples and such.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Does anyone consider them that trailblazing? They're just uber-hedonistic brain-slamming fun for me.

Also I think they're one of those bands best experienced with other people, preferably a POSSE, so you can all shout YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH and punch the air together.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Tribulations" was amazing live at Glastonbury.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can imagine that being AMAZING.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was particularly good cos they were in the John Peel Tent and it had been a day of remorseless underachieving neo-garage and neo-Britpop wank, and suddenly LCD Soundsystem BROUGHT THE BEATS. And they opened with "Beat Connection"!!

I was in a somewhat delicate medical state by that time but our tent was well in earshot so I sat in my camping chair and punched the air.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They're best when you're completely dazed by a night a few days of rave rave rave, aren't they? Sprawling and drunken enough to reflect you're state of mind but banging enough to make you continue. One of my favourite LCD non-live moments was putting 'Daft Punk' on after Vitalic @ Fabric, when we should have gone to sleep or at least sat down, and it made us drink five more bottles of rosé and have a mini-rave in the living room.