Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Also gotta love the Hot Chip (one of the UK's most underappreciated bands)/LCD link. 
LCD Soundsystem
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Oh, how should they be referred to then?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
OU is too cool to like 'bands'.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Excrement. I hate their music and hate how they are a band in a world of thankfully faceless and disposable dancd music. They don't seem to get it.
perhaps they could be an "outfit" or beat combo
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
What's the obsession with bands? Why do we have to have them? Is it cos music journalists need them to justify their existence?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Or some lone fella twiddling on a keybored.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
No need for any of them. It's not rock n roll.
are they? Most people I know who're into LCD Soundsystem are indie types. They don't sound much like dance music.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
And making better music.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Indeed. It's dance music for people who feel it needs a handle/corporate identity so they can write about it
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
So you don't like any 'bands' then?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
You entirely miss the point of lcd. There are dance music elements but that's just part of it. Can't you appreciate that music made by bands (rather than just a bloke with a keyboard) can be dance music? In fact, music that originally got people dancing wasn't electronic.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i would if any of it was acceptable as good music
I'm not sure whether LCD soundsystem are Country or Western though.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Better.
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
There is a bit more to it than that. There are elements to their music from the 60s onwards that encompass house, rock 'n' roll, chart pop, singer songwriter AOR/(MOR to be less generous), indie, disco, new wave...
I think Murphy's brilliant at putting these influences together and combing it with a natural talent to write songs.
OU expresses his hatred for LCD in terms of such sincerity that I love reading him slag them off.
I take issue with that though. It's not always dance music, it's always seemed sincere to me, and the talent seems to be there to back it up."Someone Great" is one of the best most beautiful pop songs I've heard in my life. I can't see how they're just some soft option for people who can't handle real beats. Murphy seems to make what he wants, when he wants.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Rollin' and Scratchin': no words, banging tune, and still a band that you can hang your hat on if you really must. Compromise?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Listened to their first few tunes of This Is Happening and just can't see the appeal. Just listen to Bruce Springsteen and get it over with ffs.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I suspect that says more about your insecurities than mine. There's old and young at both gigs and raves.
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Young people should reclaim music back from past-it old farts like us. There is a sense that contemporary music culture is more stagnant than it was in the twentieth century, and middle-aged ravers and gig goers might not be helping.
Old people move, you're in the way.
Old people move, you're in the way.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Older people shouldn't listen to music made by younger people? Come off it! I remain thrilled by novelty. Stagnation is not for me.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
perhaps that's it. Some identify with a whiny constipated guy moaning about how he used to be cool. Some don't and just enjoy the sound of the music, the new music
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
You're right. People can listen to whatever they want. But I think to some extent, but not entirely, that music culture is one of diminishing returns. Think how music smashed its way through the twentieth century - new styles of music, new ways of going out and partying constantly emerging, the young at the vanguard in rock, punk, acid house.
Now, dance music culture, rock music culture, hip hop culture are so mature, and the artists and the audience getting older and older. There's a case for it all being ripped up and started again by kids with fresh canvasses.
If you see what I mean.
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Hehe. I liked this one. His voice seems to have been lifted from the singer of The Modern Lovers. It can't be a coincidence that he references them.
LCD is new music. Electronic music is now as recycled and old as Little Richard was to kids in the 80s. It's only because you're a decrepit middle-aged nostalgic that it seems to you that you're there at the front of the revolution.
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