Am I the only one who thinks the new LCD Soundsystem is utter garbage?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This LCD Soundsystem is just not very good. In fact, I think it stinks. And I've felt this way for a while now, since it leaked many months ago. I thought it was awful then, I've tried to give it a few shots when friend after friend after trusted music opinion kept calling it the best thing evar, and every time I try and listen I get more and more frustrated because the songs are just plain awful. Now Pitchfork has chimed in and gave it best music of the millennium status and I honestly feel that I'm in some controlled experiment conspiracy like the Truman show where everybody is in on the gag but me. What the hell is going on here? I mean LISTEN to it! The only track I'd consider on the good side of the mediocre line is Get Innocuous Someone Great, which is just a single cut from the impressive Nike Jogging mix. New York I Love You??? Holycrap sounds like something he ripped off from open mic night at the Bowery Poetry Club. Sound of Silver is a total joke, with the most trite and obvious chorus, backed by the most trite and obvious beat progression. North American Scum is completely average and forgettable as a lead single. I could go on, but I'd need to listen to the album again to refresh my memory and I'd rather not give my itunes playcounter the satisfaction.

I guess my only vindication will come when James Murphy will give the inevitable interview to Pitchfork in 8 months (before co-headlining Radio City with Ok Go) where he states he whipped the entire album up in one afternoon while constipated on the toilet to spite his fans who enjoy his music too much. This'll happen the week after Timberland signs on to produce the next Black Dice album and Fergie announces she's pregnant with Zach Condon's twins. At least then I'll know it's the world that's gone mad, not me.

Comments

[Chris]

Dude, you know that we freakishly see eye to eye on pretty much everything, but this time I gotta say that you are way off. This album is tops. Loved it right away from first listen and hundreds of listens have followed. I'm mystified by your displeasure.

[Joey]

Now you know how I felt at that My Chemical Romance show at SXSW last year. It's probably wrong to say something was cut from the Nike mix and slapped onto the album, because it was most likely recorded for the album way before and mixed into the Nike thing, a la a rapper's mix tape before his album comes out. Gotta promote, dude. 'New York I Love You' is absolutely terrible, but 'Get Innocuous' and 'Someone Great' are really awesome songs.

Hey Jeff, why don't you go listen to some Kiss Kiss or something and leave good music to the rest of us!

(kidding of course)

[jerry]

I love Kiss Kiss! And I love LCD! Not sure what you are missing, but I love the whole album with the exception of New York I Love You.

[J]

You're not alone -- you can spend some time here, watching those folks hash shit out. I've only just started listening to it, and like it so far. But not nearly as much as I love that Dan Deacon record.

[JK]

I agree with you 100%. I listened to it months ago and I'm shocked at how great the reviews have been. makes me wonder if i was listening to the wrong album.

[tricia]

This record puts dance in my pants and a song in my heart at least twice a day. Rather than find my own words just to disagree with a friend's opinion here, I'll instead cite this Stylus review. They give the "emotionally and physically" moving album an A-.

"what elevates LCD Soundsystem beyond being just the greatest tribute band in the world is the consummate love and style with which Murphy exercises his pastiches, and, increasingly on Sound Of Silver, the sheer weight of emotion he manages to manipulate through his surprisingly rich songwriting."
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/lcd-soundsystem/the-sound-of-silver.htm

I think so too. And I even like "New York," the subject is cheesy but it's a pretty song that works for me if you imagine it written for a person instead of a city.

[gerorge harrison]

Maybe if you don't like the whole album thats one thing, but you cant listen to that song 'Someone Great' and tell me if that shit came on at the next party or club you're at you wouldn't love it to pieces. A record like this in the context of you sitting in your apartment on your headphones or on the subway with your head down is just missing the point.

[Dodge]

Garbage is harsh, but it's not really that great...I agree...and I usually love everything LCD does.

[Electronics Philippines]

Well, I understand your point, we have different views when it comes to electronics. I think you need an LCD that makes you satisfy. Anyway, thanks for sharing this post. I enjoyed reading your post.

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