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and the key word of Spencer's post is "grudgingly," it should be said.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"It was something that Tim and I never pushed and weren't very interested in. That stuff was meaningless to me. I thought it was shit. At the time that stuff came out, I was like, 'This is crap'. I remember hearing 'Fool's Gold' and thinking it was really likeable and that a lot of college kids would like it, but it was like Vitamin C to me without the weird, crazy Japanese guy. It just never meant anything to me. I was in an American world at that time. I like some of it now looking back at it, but it's not a touchstone for me at all. I think they got kind of interested in that stuff. I think aesthetically a lot of that stuff is really meandering and unclear and all over the place."

Key words: "was"; "looking back at it"

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

spence he doesn't completely dismiss happy mondays or primal scream, the interviewer mentions how the rapture name those bands as touchstones and asks him if he feels the same and he responds that they didn't really mean anything to him at the time, that he was listening to other music, that he liked "fools gold" well enough, and that he likes some of it now. he hardly dismisses madchester as much as the pixies or pavement (he's blathers on some anti-scene rhetoric in general, so maaybe that could be taken as anti-madchester); english mag asks american artist is english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

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― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Last line of the article: "I also like Terry Riley a lot, not like a dillettante, this is something I love."

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

blount otm

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean are both rock reactions/interactions with dance culture? - yeah, but they're fairly different reactions, different fashion, drugs, not NEARLY the hippy vibe around murphy as with yr average bagboy.

nate i hope to god that's the last line of the article, you can just see his gears working there 'right the wire, hmm, ok i know what i'll say...'

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not into reformulating everything I posted on the lost thread, but I will say again that I'm not surprised at his remarks. I'll also repeat that the discomfort with dance music that I sense is what makes LCD Soundsystem so interesting and great anyway. He's at least engaging with the Other which I suspect attracts and repulses him.

(also, this all started with a discussion of the cover).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Which, with it's xeroxed disco ball, several times removed from the glitter, maintains its ironic distance.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it could also mean "glitter can be diy too!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

how has this thread become about LCD?! when surely 'Human After All' is the biggest news for ILM folk (apart from all those Radiohead fans hyuck hyuck) for nearly 5 years?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Matos, "right" and "wrong" ways of listening are accusations I would NEVER, EVER make.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

In other words, I'm very glad he loves Daft Punk, however, I'm curious as to which tracks he loves (and I have my suspicions). I should not have said "*get*".

Also, Steve is CORRECT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

However, I'm unsure as to what to say about it. I fully expect to be amazed musically and conceptually and I doubt the value of even speculating about how they're going to turn my world upside down!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

thing w/Daft Punk is that I can't even expect they'll floor me again; I just have to wait and see. that's what I do w/Basement Jaxx, too.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

so were you saying you had their album or LCD's?

speaking of Basement Jaxx, they've got a new track on their site which is pretty neat, the vocalist sounds a bit like Shystie at times

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

some people think i'm shy
some people think i'm nasty
but if you really want to know just ask me
and i'll say i'm shystie

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and they say UK rhymes is wack!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

so yes just to confirm, the new Daft Punk album will feature collaborations and appearances from James Murphy, Basement Jaxx and Shystie.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

daft punk feat. shystie and michel'le "me shystie, u nicety (morgan geisty remix)"

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently they turned down offers from The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

they completely dismissed them! (cf. future b-side "groovy train down the drain (fraiser crane remix)")

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Turned down offers for what? Crack?

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

(OK, that's strickly a Mondays joke, but hey)

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope 'Human After All' is the conclusion they make after an album full of robots and vocoders.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd rather they just dressed up as chairs (to go with that table they designed). 'Inanimate Objects, Would You Ow You Say Adam And Eve It?' to look forward to in 2008.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the snag with the title is that it's *been done*. on the last track of the felix da housecat lp, there's that track 'neon human' on which (thru a semi-human sounding vocoder) the warm voice but weary lyrics give a first person account of a robot wanting to be a human, having been a robot for so long. this idea of returning to humanity, shedding yr robot-skin is last year's HOTT dance thing! gah!

whoever's in charge of the VIRGIN press release ('from the hardcore BRAINWASHER to the pumping TECHNOLOGIC...') wants shooting.

nevertheless i cant wait 4 the record.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh it's a rub press release and the same thing is appearing on more sites now (Launch...) but still not The Raft! that's just weird incompetence surely.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"Neon Human"? Try Numan's "Metal". (Which was just rerecorded this year. With Afrika Bambaataa. And nobody told me?!)

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

stevem that 'ow you say adam and eve it' line made me laff!

― jimblountski, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

english mag asks american artist if english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

this is why I hate LCD Soundsystem, can we have a moratorium on this sort of country wars crap. the word english just fucking leaps out of that sentence. I mean so what if an English magazine asks him were English artists a touchstone, IT'S AN ENGLISH MAGAZINE.

You bad toothed British fuckers weren't influencing our indie when we saved your limey asses in the war huh! NO SIR!

I mean "I was in an American world at that time", yes at THAT time! There comes a point when this sort of insular crap just grates beyond being able to ignore it, perhaps that point is to do with further political happenings.

I mean you very seldom hear English people being so casually but staunchly patriotic, and actually so obliviously too. It's just sickening, there's a whole world out there and I can't be arsed listening to artists who are part of just one great glob in it, and revel in that, consciously or otherwise.

Or to quote Jess "I'd be perfectly happy for dance music to be made by gay guys in basketball shirts forever".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

not that half the LCD album isn't just alt-rock by any other name anyway, I'd rather listen to Screamadelica any fucking day of the week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I was not in an American world at that time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

not exclusively...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

We have baseball and Van Halen, we don't need you

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, Daft Punk aren't *really* "human after all", surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude or something!

TEH EXCITEMENT

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 24 December 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude

im a bit afraid theyll come out of it playing covers of beach boys songs.

― :| (....), Saturday, 25 December 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I shed a tear of joy when I heard the news, seriously. Finally, I can say there's an album coming out in 2005 that I'm actually looking forward to hearing.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 25 December 2004 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link

"And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!"

Goldworthy left Unkle even before they produced their first album and was almost singlehandedly responsible for their best stuff.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway Tim Goldworthy isn't in LCD Soundsytem.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

... and i cant find ANY reference to Primal Scream in that LCD Interview.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone's on the ball!

homework = 1997
discovery = 2001
new one = 2005?
-- jess

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

omg he must have a palantir or something

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you people worried about the sound of this record? Of course there's gonna be vocoders and robotic beats and shit! One of the songs is called "Robot Rock"!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a modified cover of Sade's "Lover's Rock", though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

no, superpitcher's!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 December 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i really love vocoders.

― Crapstone (Crapstone), Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

how long be4 the download? what, days or weeks do we think?

god i've missed them, and a real pining is kicking in about now.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

gahhhhhh!!! i can't wait any longer!!!

i keep typing HUMAN AFTER ALL into slsk and up comes an old Level 42 album.

salt, wounds etc.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

that's actually it. they're using the slap bass more. half fo Alan Braxe's productions sound like 'Running In The Family' anyway so the guys just went the whole hog.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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