June 4, 2025 • 69 mins
When James Murphy turned down writing for Seinfeld to pursue music, no one could have predicted he'd create one of the most influential dance-rock albums of the 2000s. "Sound of Silver" by LCD Soundsystem, released in March 2007, forever changed the landscape of electronic music by injecting it with raw emotional depth rarely found in the genre.
In this episode, we immerse ourselves in the hypnotic world of LCD Soundsystem's sophomore masterpiece. We trace Murphy's journey from club DJ to reluctant frontman, exploring how his background shaped the band's distinctive sound – a brilliant fusion of disco beats, post-punk sensibilities, and electronic innovation. The album draws from an eclectic range of influences including the B-52s, David Bowie, and the Smiths, creating something both nostalgic and groundbreaking.
We spend considerable time unpacking the emotional core of the album. "Someone Great" stands as a haunting meditation on loss that Murphy intentionally keeps ambiguous, allowing listeners to project their own experiences. Meanwhile, "All My Friends" captures the bittersweet reality of aging and evolving relationships with its relentless piano motif and poignant lyrics. These tracks demonstrate Murphy's remarkable ability to create dance music that makes you think as much as move.
The cultural context of mid-2000s New York City looms large throughout our discussion. We explore how the album serves as both a celebration and critique of urban life, culminating in the love-hate letter "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down." We also discuss Murphy's complicated relationship with fame, which would later lead to LCD Soundsystem's dramatic (if temporary) farewell shows at Madison Square Garden.
Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering this album for the first time, our track-by-track breakdown reveals the brilliant craftsmanship and emotional depth that makes "Sound of Silver" an enduring classic. Join us as we rank our favorite non-hits and discover how an album released over 15 years ago continues to resonate with remarkable clarity today.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris and playing the songSomeone Great from LCD Sound
Systems' Sound of Silver albumis my co-host, tim.
We want to thank you thepodcast.
Thanks for listening.
Today we're going to listen toa great indie electronic rock
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dance album New York City kindof a dance rock, electronica,
kind of a band and album.
So it was LCD Sound Systems,sound of Silver.
It was released on March 12,2007 by DFA Records.
That is the.
(01:12):
I guess the owner or the leadperson is James Murphy, who was
also the front man of the group,and so this is his baby.
You know, james Murphy goes wayback, gen X kind of a guy and
well, I mean we'll get into hisbackground, his significance,
how he came to rise, but that'llbe.
(01:33):
We're going to talk about themthroughout the album, but what
we're going to do today is whatwe do as always, which is listen
to an album in its entirety andthen rank our top three
non-hits at the end of the show.
We're going to exclude anysongs that are hits Within the
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dance rock sphere from the 2000s.
You could probably say maybeone or two of these songs could
be considered like a hit or youknow, of course there's some
more than others, butnevertheless we'll hash it out.
So again, thank you forlistening.
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We really appreciate it.
What else can I say about thissong?
This album came out with a lotof critical.
Again, thank you for listening.
We really appreciate it.
What else can I say about this?
This album came out with a lotof critical acclaim.
They cite the B-52s, the Fallyes, david Bowie and Can as
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influences.
Also, omd Bronski, beat theSmiths.
Those were all sort of from myday.
I cross over to a few of thosenames Love, yes, love David
Bowie, the Smiths, b-52s thoseare all great artists for sure,
and you can hear a lot of it inthis album.
It's got sort of like a discobeat to it.
(03:04):
In this album it's got sort oflike a disco beat to it, but
with like, or you know, rock andelectronic sensibilities.
So I think it's yeah, the moreI listen to it, the more I get
into it.
You know Tim has seen him, Ithink, once or twice, I think
it's, and he can.
He can give you his, histhoughts, his, his anecdotes.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Would you listen?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
to the gibberish they've got you saying so anyway
.
Also, murphy attended New YorkUniversity, I guess, like one
thing here is he was offered ajob writing for the sitcom
Seinfeld.
He did not expect the show tobe successful and chose to
continue with music instead.
(03:50):
So, wow, yeah, and he's alsothe creator of DFA Records late
1980s, and he picked the nameDeath From Above after seeing a
helicopter emblazoned with theslogan in the film Apocalypse
Now.
So there's a little backgroundinto DFA records, so, and I
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guess I mean he's considered tohave gotten the band going, you
know, a little bit later in life, so to speak and there was I
just recently.
I mean I think he and I areprobably the same age, and so I
think that they in life, so tospeak, I just recently I think
he and I are probably the sameage I think that in 2012, I
guess he got a little bit burntout with the whole grind A
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documentary was made that waslike Shut Up and Play the Hits,
yeah, a documentary from 2012.
So it kind of just gives you thebackground of how I guess the
end was supposed to be someshows that they did at Madison
Square Garden, and it wassupposed to be the end of the
band and I think since thenthey've come back sort of.
(04:55):
Tim described them as beingsomewhat elusive, so since that
time period, but you know, but Ifeel like I missed the boat.
I I can see how this would havebeen, these shows when it
really super cool to be at,maybe in like the late 2000s,
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you know, in the new york, youknow the new york dance scene,
the club scene.
It was probably incredible.
You know now that you know,especially like, if you're in
that, I mean cause I didn't, Iwasn't, yeah, I didn't live in
New York.
I've never lived in New Yorkcity.
It's probably.
It's just kind of intense andit's its own thing and as a New
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Yorker you identify with a.
New York way of life.
It's a, it's a, it's a wholething.
But without further ado, tim isjust getting everything just
set up.
Oh super.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We're safe.
Yep, we're safe.
We're safe for the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right, how you doing, bud you doing good yeah,
tasty waves, here Got some coolbuds.
Cool, cool buds, cool wowthat's right yeah what
Speaker 1 (06:14):
can we tell you about this wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So give me your, can you give me like a little bit of
a taste of, uh, your backgroundwith with them and how you see
them as a band and as aninfluence on you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I think he's an offbeat sort of guy that wants
to make this music and doesn'twant the fame about it.
And he was in a grind, maybe ofthese Joe Jobs with an
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extensive collection of nametags and hairnets, maybe writing
for Seinfeld.
I maybe had heard he tried tobe a finance guy or maybe that's
wrong but he didn't like it,got a bunch of music equipment.
You know one.
It took them a while to get ittogether.
One music instrument afteranother.
(07:09):
Yeah, they kind of just keptfinding and buying and really
getting into this sort of like.
You know, the Daft Punk playingat my house sort of got them
going.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And they gave me like a cult following right, but at
the end of that tour, like atthe end of that show, from shut
up and play the hits yeah, he'sjust like this, yes, he, he
feels washed up even thoughthey're sort of like at the
height of popularity, andthey're.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
He's rock and he just doesn't have the energy he's at
an age where, yeah, he'sprobably in his mid-40s at that
time and it's just grinding onhim and it's not even that it's
like.
Is that?
What is this, you know?
I don't know it's, it's sort oflike, uh uh, a midlife crisis of
some sorts.
You know, maybe he to, to, tomake the band in the first place
(08:05):
, and then you know it's likenot even, that's not even what
he wants.
You know, it's like what he'salways, constantly on this
journey and it's dictated by him, which is the coolest part,
because he's just a force to bereckoned with.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He's a creative force which is just and then the rest
of the performers, thepersonnel.
They sort of take his direction.
Yeah, I mean, they're reallygood musicians.
They play really tight together.
I mean I think that's a creditto them.
I mean, even though he's thedriving force behind it, the
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other musicians are very good.
Yeah, they're very good they'reperforming.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
He's kind of directing the whole thing.
They're friends.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's not like they're just random people right, it's
like you know he's, they're,they're a band you know, and
they the other people play arole other.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
They might have been friends before, you know, he
even joined the band I I'm notsure, but yeah, you know the
whole.
I've saw the documentary andI've seen them in DC after their
uh, which album was that?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Um, I'd probably have to get out to discography.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I mean, I just know they have a debut album, the
American dream album they toured.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
So I saw them after that and around 2000, 17, 18 in
DC and they're very good.
It's all black and white.
The disco ball, the lights areall you know.
People wear black and whitesort of oh cool it's all I don't
know color toned the whole showsort of like a radio head show.
(09:41):
It's like yeah, that must havebeen a black and white on the
shades of gray maybe I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What year did you say this was?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
When I saw him.
Yeah, maybe 2017, 18.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh, okay, yeah, so this is at the Anthem right.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah at the Anthem DC .
That's a great venue to seethem in, I bet yeah and I saw
the documentary in theatersactually and it was very good
and he really just wanted to notbe that famous, not be touring
all know touring all the timeand maybe, uh, just normal
(10:16):
person, right, yeah, whateverthat normal everyday person.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, that doesn't get recognized and yeah new
normal yeah, well, that in mind,let's, let's get, let's get
into it.
Man, we've got a lot to cover.
We may even skip through someof these because it's kind of
long, but we'll uh, we'll bejudicious here.
This is Get Innocuous.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, innocuous, having no adverse effect.
Harmless Not likely to offendor provoke to strong emotion.
Harmless I had to look that up.
Oh, innocuous, yeah, yes,that's the definition there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right, yeah, that's what I've always understood it
to be.
But yeah, that's a gooddescription.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
They added a few things For those who don't know
vocab.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, yeah, just harmless.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Scream innocuous.
You should know what it means,yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It just seems like a lot of syllables to describe
what it is, but it makes yousound smart.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Where does it break?
Here?
They do these sort of subdued.
I love how they introduced thelines of percussion, almost to
make a melodic rhythm, arhythmic melody.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, they're using different technologies.
Yeah, or yeah, thesepercussions it's kind of cool,
you can hear it too.
Like these patterns.
Yeah, Like a muffled.
I like how it kind of cool, youcan hear it too.
Like these patterns.
Yeah, Like a muffled.
I like how it kind of graduallygets louder.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Shout out to the runners this is a good uphill
song here.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
This is a good call.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
This could be one of the best running songs Keep
going.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Get that VO2 max up, let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Get Jack some Darjeeling tea.
Going Get that VO2 max up.
Let's go Get jacked with someDarjeeling tea.
Go on a run, get out there yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Very disco-y.
Very disco.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Oh, this is getting heavy.
It makes his voice really standout without as much other
melodies, right?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Nice harmony there Socky Come on.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Shout out to Tony, my dear, where he's carous and
inefficient.
Bring you along with thepretense and pay the way for the
coming release, oh, comingrelease here.
I kind of look a little chilly.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, this is a total running song.
I can see myself.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
That's not so bad.
Could be worse, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It could be worse.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's tolerable.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's tolerable, it's the real life.
I'm gonna make you feel alive.
If you're by my side, I'm gonnamake you feel alive.
You will stay Until the morningcomes.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You can't normalize, don't admit, you can't feel
alive.
You can't normalize, you can'tnormalize.
You can't normalize Normal.
Okay, new normal, don't correcthim.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
New normal.
That's what it's all aboutnormal.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That's what it's all about.
I kind of look a little sillyand my feelings are hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Ah, that feels, that feels better.
Pat Mahoney's rocking the drumsyeah, let's get the band.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Who do we got on, yeah, pat Mahoney on drums.
We got Nancy Nancy Wang Sidevocals, drumming.
She does kind of everything.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's like Tyler Pope Right.
Good lineup, good drummer,great look.
I think the drumming would justbe exhausting.
(16:27):
He may be doing the same beat.
Oh yes, he looks like he's justgoing the whole time.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Well, you know, when you're drumming you don't have
as many cares in the world, orhis cares and ambitions when
they come.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, are we good with this one?
Don't correct him.
You ain't got to correct him.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, I think it kind of winds out.
There's another minute of this,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
There you go.
All right, that was good,though, so this next one is time
to get away.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So what's this?
The tastiest choice momentbetween you guys.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We're getting away here.
We're getting away.
I'm doing the podcast grindhere, that's right it's time to
get away.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
It's time to get away from you.
It's time to get away.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's time to get away .
It's time to get away From you.
You bought a lot of money,simple drum beat here, but me
More contemporary maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think so.
A little raga Good drama.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Great look Good drama .
Great look Good drama.
Sorry, Pat.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They do get Raga on this Indie Raga.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, it is Indie Raga.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
James.
Well, it's B-52-ish is Raga.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
It's time to get away .
It's time to get away Like theharmony From you.
I'm dying to get away.
I'm dying to get away.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'll give you a little time alone here Next time
we'll talk it over.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make
it our time?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Our time, our time, our time, our time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That had potential.
I fell flat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like manual.
You know what the fuck is hetalking about what, what, what,
what, what could it ever be?
So it's time to get away.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
It's time to get away .
It's our time.
I'm dying to get away If I'mhere.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Get away.
It's our time, it's our time,let's talk about it.
It's really not that complex ofmusic I just Talk is cheap Pity
you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Talk is cheap.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Talk is cheap Next time we could talk about Good
drama, great look.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Or even start again.
You know Shout out to those Funrelationship woes.
You know Voice how you feel.
Don't repress your emotions.
If it gets a little too intense, just get away.
I knew you were low man, butthe truth is.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
I was shocked.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
It's sort of in that getting away part of the
argument.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Sarcastic snappy part of it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, it's got yeah, we talked about that it's got
that emotional depth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah he gets into you .
Speaker 5 (20:52):
He's feisty.
He's a little feisty.
He's a little like he's emo.
He's a loose wire.
I think yeah, sort of Bloodpower.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was never lying.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I'll get your damn kids for this, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Shout out to Billy Madison.
All right, so this one iscalled this is North American
Scum.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
There are a lot of good songs Shout out to the
magazine readers in NorthAmerica only Okay, okay, I mean
we do have those.
We've got magazines.
I've got a lot.
Oh, my crawl space, in my attic, little corners of the house
tucked away, lots of magazinesokay, yeah, wait like playboys,
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or what do you got Home?
And Garden.
Scientific American, scientificNorth American.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, but I mean nothing like worse than
Penthouse.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Get your mind over there I'm.
Educating myself worse thanlike Penthouse.
Get your mind out of there.
We're.
Yeah, you've got like I'meducating myself, come on it's
beauty magazine day.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I don't know, I don't know, oh, where to begin when
we're North American, but in theend make the same mistakes all
over again.
Come on, north American.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
You're Arcot Ramathorne Ram and I'm Rod
Farmer Rod.
Yeah, this is a goodsuper-cheaper song, car-ram-rod.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Because they're sort of North American cops.
They're kind of like right bythe border.
Okay, I get it.
Yeah, shout out to the SuperTrooper fans.
I think this just fits Deeperand deeper the mashup of this
song Way down.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Kids get off your damn iPhones.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Unless you're listening to us.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
We don't have magazines.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'll get your damn kids for this.
But there's no love man.
There's no love when the kidsare uptight.
I'll get your damn kids forthis.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
So throw a party till the cops come in and bust it.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Car Ramrod, let's go now.
Car Ramrod, oh, you wereplanning it.
I didn't mean to Car Ramrod,sorry.
You're Arcot Ramathorn Ram andI'm Rod Farber Rod.
Car Ram Rod.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Hey, this one is.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Does that mean it's well, it's one nine, isn't it?
Yes, so you tell me Is thisOkay, this one is.
Does that mean it's Well, it'sone night, isn't?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
it yes.
So you tell me, is this In theLCD sound system world?
Is this a hit?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah, probably, but For the indie world?
Yeah, maybe.
Yes, I would say it would be.
I've heard it on the radio, Ithink I have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I wouldsay it would be.
I've heard it on the radio, Ithink I have.
Yeah, shout out to all the gunowners in America these babies
(24:46):
can go off.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Second of all, it's If you get someone to pay the
rent.
Wahoo North.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
America.
It's the furthest you can livefrom the government.
Ooh, not in DC.
I saw them in DC.
We're pretty close to thegovernment there.
Yeah yeah, I don't think a lotof church-going folk listen to
this stuff.
No well, church-going listen tothis stuff.
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No well, the berlinners, okay,shout out.
You're not that much differentthan us.
Uh, yeah, but you're not northamericans, so you're not that
much different than us yeah butyou're not North American, so
you're not Sorry.
Well, you wish you were.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
That's not a bad thing, you might wish you were,
but I don't know, not right now.
Well, we don't go there.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I didn't wear deodorant today, but you know
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I'm going to be thinking.
I didn't smell anything.
Is it safe?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, you can smell it.
It's the sage.
Yeah, you can smell it, it'sstrawberry North American
strawberries, that's right.
Look at these overseasstrawberries.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do they have strawberries Of?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
course they do.
Strawberries are actually justa Native American food, is it?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Nah, just the Native American food, is it?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
No, no, yeah, what, oh man I'm sure they've got some
of that Brazil or something.
What the?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
fuck is he talking about?
I'll sit next to him and playthat.
I gotcha.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I got you good on that, okay, oh, shout out to
Canada.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right, I'm back.
Okay, it's what someone great.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Fucking mummy's in there.
It's not so bad.
Fucking mummy's in there.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right, this is trippy, can you live in that
moment?
I want to know how they gotthat sound that little
(27:26):
high-pitched.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
It's like the chirping like a bird.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, a little bird sound.
Yeah, I think it's recordscratching.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's what I think the ISO sound.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It is.
This is kind of.
This reminds me of that movie,revenge of the Nerds.
When they do like thehomecoming you know they have
like da da, da, da, da, da, da,da, da, da, da da.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Alright, I just did it myself.
Well, you're looking at me likewhat the fuck is he talking
about?
All right, I just did it myself.
Well, you're looking at me likeI've never.
You probably haven't seen it.
I've never seen it.
Yeah, I mean, it came out likeyears before I could afford it,
yeah, so that was a missedopportunity.
I should have gotten a coupleclips.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
That's what are we going to do.
What are you going to do?
That was a missed opportunity.
She got a couple clips.
That's it.
What are we going to do?
What are you going to do?
It's, I miss the way we used toargue Locked in your basement.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That line sounded weird.
Locked in your basement, canyou live in that moment?
Can you live in that moment, asit's early?
And that should be a perfectwarning that some things are
(29:34):
wrong.
To tell the truth, I saw itcoming the way you were
breathing, but nothing canprepare you for it.
The voice, on the other hand,this is pretty, this is deep
stuff.
Not just saying that, yeah,just play a cheap sound clip.
(30:02):
Deeper and deeper.
The worst is all the lovelyweather.
I'm stunned it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,because what's?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
the difference.
There's all the work that needsto be done, karam Rock, and it
(30:47):
keeps coming, and it keepscoming, and it keeps coming, and
it keeps coming, and it keepscoming, till the day it stops.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I wish that we could talk about it Till the day I'm
past the problem when someoneknew I couldn't start it Too
(31:48):
late for beginnings.
I'm trying to figure out moreabout this song, but it's really
good.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It says Murphy has intentionally avoided explaining
the songs.
Songs are songs and to reducethem is to waste them there.
Yeah, he did a really good job.
We're safe.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
For the moment.
Yeah, he did a really good job.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Author Daniel Poppock found solace in the song after
a breakup relating to the linethere's all the work that needs
to be done as a prompt forself-reflection.
Maybe we're safe in the moment,yeah Uh but then when someone
great is gone, our feeling ofsafety is not there.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, this is one of the.
Do you consider this one a hit?
I think so, yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
A lot of people consider that their best song
ever.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I do too.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
And this one.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
The Daft Punk one from the previous album was a
big one too.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
A big one.
Yeah, maybe not LCD SoundSystem Head's favorite.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
The way this album flows.
Cool, because I mean, I thinkit leads up to this song, but
there's there's other good songsafter this one, but this is.
Yeah, all my friends, I don'thave to run this one by Robin,
(34:04):
let's go.
Let's go ahead a little bithere.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Riddled was.
Nostalgia Song finds Jamesrecalling his crazy younger
years Excitement and baddecisions.
Middle age Priorities change,friendships fade.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
He was 37 when the song was released and start to
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And if it's crowded, all the better.
Better late than never.
Maybe he needed that amount oftime to get the song right.
It feels better.
This seems like their best songon this album.
We're going to call this a hit,though.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
I don't think any of them are hits.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think we're open to .
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Let's just go free rain.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, we shout out to the friends listening.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Thanks for listening, friends.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, this is a good opportunity to thank our friends
.
We have a lot of mutual friendsand we have good family and
friends.
Shout out to all of you.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
If the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun
comes up, and I still don't wantto stack my phone.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Then it's the memory of our betters that are keeping
us on our feet.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Five years turns into ten years.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Whatever the plan is, that's kind of a cool line
First five years trying to getwith the plan, Next five years
trying to get with the plan nextfive years trying to get with
the friends.
(36:52):
I wonder how different it is tobe Like at this stage of life
Back then as it is At the sameage right now.
Because, like after, after highschool, like you didn't have
the, you didn't have theinternet there was really no,
there was.
Iming was just starting,starting when Patrick got out of
(37:14):
college, yeah, and so, and hadeverybody had it down you know
to where.
Now you can just like lookanybody up.
So I mean, do you just touchyour friends like nowadays?
Do you think or did the sameway?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
yeah, internet or any kind of easy modality to reach
friends doesn't mitigate thehard sort of spending time
together and actually doingthings together or just existing
(37:51):
together.
You have to coexist, you knowand do things.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But the whole online relationship didn't exist in the
same way then as it does now.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Which probably made friends that were true friends
even more important.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, or you could develop relationships at a
different level when it's liveor in the flesh, in person.
Right, yeah, you're right.
(38:37):
You get more context, you getbody language and really knowing
how a person is doing comethrough.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Cooler when you can see it.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
Salesforce into the night.
Yeah, oh fool, oh fool, oh fool.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Oh fool.
And with a face like atelevision child in, you can
sleep on the plane or reviewwhat you said.
When you're drunk and the kidslook impossible to end, you
think over and over hey, I'mfinally dead, I let the trip and
(39:40):
the plan Come apart.
And I am, you can turn it onyourself.
You're a ridiculous cop.
You forgot what you meant whenyou read what you said.
And, yeah, we knew you weretired.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But then, where are your friends tonight?
Once more into the breach.
Dear friends, if I could seeall my friends tonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
(40:20):
That's a great party song For awedding, something like that.
Yeah Right.
Yeah something like that yeahRight, yeah, that was good.
All right, this is Us Versusthem.
That's a nice contrast to thatlast song, ups and downs,
(41:02):
playing pretty minimally rightnow.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
The time has come, the hour time.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
This is our time, podcast time.
That's right, let's go playingthat bass, slapping the bass.
Shout out nancy wang, who'sliterally I don't think it's
doing anything at this moment.
Shout out her anyway, like inthe songs.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Nancy, Is that her name?
Just say no.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Nancy.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Just say, oh yeah, Just say no.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
We're really building up to this.
This is A little.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Is it James Murphy or ?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
James Brown here, I don't know.
Yeah, it is very JamesBrown-ish 21st century James
Brown.
Pat Mahoney's crushing it.
Speaker 8 (43:25):
Tyler Pope.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, I'm a real fan of Pat Mahoney's drumming.
It's hard to just keep the timelike that, just at this pace,
and even if it's the same rhythm, he's also doing the rock out
with that.
He's doing that.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
People want to tell you All the middle people want
to dance.
It's true, love.
Block out the sun Over me, overme, and spoil, spoil all the
(44:10):
fun.
Oh, that's quite fun.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
What's your take on the song?
How do you feel about it?
It's long, it's 8.29.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, it's kind of repetitive.
It's always very repetitive's.
All all this very repetitive,yeah, but that's what electronic
music is.
I mean, I don't think we'vecovered such an electronic no, I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I I dig it.
That was the 80s right, well,no, yeah, well, I mean it's.
It's evolved up to this pointlike you've got brianno.
You know those.
I don't know even the who.
When we did those, I guess forthe 70s.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Some references from the who.
The way they are Sure, Likeeven that background noise right
there Right, Sounds a littlebit like the who Sure.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yeah, but at this point in time it's 2007, and a
lot's been done up to this point, so they're taking from a lot.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yeah, technology has gotten better, or it has.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
More convenient maybe , yeah, from this time period.
But I mean, what they have towork with is really cool how
they're blending the cowbellwith the actual bass, with all
the keyboards.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
Could we use a little more cowbell?
Speaker 8 (45:54):
That's impossible.
Talk to me.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
Could we use a little more cowbell?
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Your eyes, lonely and drunk On your knees.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
No, I can pull it back a little if you like.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
Not too much, though I'm telling you, fellas, you're
going to want that cowbell.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I'm telling you, fellas, that's James.
I don't know, james, I don'tknow about this much.
Cowbell, fellas, I can pull itback a little bit, nancy, fellas
, nancy, you want to play thatcowbell?
Speaker 8 (46:45):
Just say no Us and them Over and over again.
Us and them over and over again.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
Us and them over and over again.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Us and them over and over again.
Us and them over and over again, over again, because all the
good people want to rescue, allthe smart people want to talk to
you, and all the good people dois if we need that extra push
(47:25):
over the cliff.
Speaker 7 (47:26):
You know what we do.
Push over the cliff.
You know what we do.
Pitch out of the cliff.
You know what we do.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Put it up to 11 One now.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Us Extra Pitch out of the cliff Over and over again.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
Pitch out of the cliff Reveal Over and over again
.
Us Pitch out of the cliffResell over and over again.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
To us to resale.
Ah, would you listen to thegibberish they've got you saying
it's sad and alarming.
Speaker 8 (48:05):
Resell over and over again To us to resale To over
and over again, New normal.
Over and over again.
All the good people want to askyou Over and over again.
All the clever people want totell you Over and over again.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
Over and over again.
That's what it's all about, man.
Over and over again, Eating,drinking fucking sucking, Come
on.
Speaker 5 (48:47):
Over and over again.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
It's over and over I think we can Next.
Speaker 5 (48:52):
Okay, yeah, there we go.
All right, I think I skippedover this song.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah, I feel like I want to do it right now.
This is getting cool.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
All right, it's got us peeps here.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
It's called.
Speaker 5 (49:19):
Watch the Tapes Shout out to the Diddy Jury.
Okay, watching the tapes.
Yeah, hey, watch those tapes.
They're alarming.
Yeah, they're horrible.
That's what James doesn't want.
Speaker 8 (49:39):
He doesn't want that Hollywood life.
Yes, socking, come on.
Come on, I'll get you dance kitfor this.
Hey, man, you can take it aslong as they don't shove you out
in the cold.
It's not getting better.
(50:02):
No, it's not getting better,man, it's just getting older and
I will be the one to come afteryou.
Hey, we do a rental.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
I will do Cold tomorrow.
Looks like she's going to turncold tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
They love LCD in Fargo, oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
We'll get some downloads.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Shout out to oh, here we go, double time.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
Yeah, four to the floor.
Eight to the floor.
I know.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I like how they're slowing it up and speeding it up
.
Slow it down, speeding it up.
Speaker 8 (51:10):
You come for the weekend and you stay for the
year.
Avoid all your plants, becausewe're making our day jobs into a
steady career.
We're both high, high, high,high high on lemon seals.
(51:30):
We all go, go, go, go, climbonto sinking ships and now.
Avoid all the cold sidewaysglances and now Celebrate,
celebrate, celebrate and thenturn to stone.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
(51:50):
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
You're tall.
25 pamphlets and watch thetapes.
You're 25.
And now you're all out ofescapes.
Go, that's me.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Look at all that hair .
Speaker 2 (52:05):
I can't believe.
I thought that looked good.
It must have been high.
That's me.
Speaker 8 (52:10):
I'm afraid that you're brave to steal blackout,
which makes you a star.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
(52:31):
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
All right, wow.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
All right, so Sound of silver Talk to me.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Makes you want to feel like a teenager.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
I'll get your damn kids for this.
Remember the feelings of areal-life, emotional teenager.
Then you think again.
Sound of silver talk to meMakes you want to feel like a
teenager.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Oh no feel-feeling in the heart Naughty feelings.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Naughty feelings.
Speaker 6 (53:13):
A real-life emotional teenager.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
Talk is cheap.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
I want your body.
I kind of look a little sillyand my feelings are hurt.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
That feels, that feels better.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
And my feelings are hurt.
Salking, come on of silver.
Talk to me makes you want tofeel like a teenager.
(54:09):
We need to make this evenweirder than it is.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
It's not so bad, could be worse.
Rock and roll, simple linesintertwining.
Also you have like really bigeyes.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
Crazy, it's just wild , weird stuff.
Feels a little weird.
Speaker 5 (55:19):
Feels a little weird.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Should we get a word from our sponsor?
What are we thinking?
Speaker 4 (55:22):
a cocoa.
Let me fix you some of this newmo' cocoa drink.
All natural cocoa beans fromthe upper slopes of Mount
Nicaragua, no artificialsweeteners.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Yeah, actually that's a good sponsor for this one.
You need a little coffee to getup to this.
Speaker 3 (55:40):
Maybe a little more than that oh.
Speaker 5 (55:51):
Simple lines.
Intertwining Sounds of simplelines, sounds of silver.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
I'm liking this.
Yeah, this is at a pacedifferent than the other songs.
Deeper and deeper Way down itsounds kind of tropical.
Speaker 5 (56:23):
It does.
It sounds like tropical, yetit's like lounge jazz.
Now, yeah, it's technicalDrippy jazz.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, drippy jazz.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
Drippy jazz, drippy jazz.
Speaker 6 (56:33):
This is some drippy jazz.
Drippy jazz, just some drippyjazz.
I'm a teenager, until youremember the feelings of a
real-life, emotional teenager.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Then you think again, makes you want to feel like a
(57:12):
teenager.
It's a really low bass yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:16):
Double drop D.
Speaker 6 (57:26):
Really faint synthesizing.
Speaker 5 (57:31):
Should we skip ahead like a minute here you want to?
Okay, it's kind of a oh, oh,it's kind of cool.
I think Don likes this.
These babies can go off.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
This is cool.
Can you live in that momentWith this genre?
A beat goes on and on for aprolonged period of time Versus
something a little bit morecommercial.
It's sort of intentional foreffect for a prolonged period of
time versus something a littlebit more commercial.
Right, it's sort of intentional, it's for effect, it's for live
music.
Yeah, that too.
Yeah, of course, just gettinginto a mood, something like
(58:28):
trance.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Yeah, they'll play it even longer when it's live Sure
.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
Which is great, as best you can, with clear eyes
and love in your heart.
Speaker 2 (58:43):
All right, yeah, good timing on that.
All right, all right, it's justgoing to be the organ, so we'll
go to the next one.
Oh, this is the last song NewYork.
I.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Love you, but you're bringing me down but you're
bringing me down New York.
I love you, but you're bringingme down.
Speaker 2 (59:06):
It's like a touching ode to his hometown.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Like a rat in a cage Pulling minimum wage.
New York, I love you.
Speaker 5 (59:24):
He's embracing his Frank Sinatra here.
Who loves you, baby?
His Tom Jones.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
New York, you're safer and you're wasting my time
.
New York, you're safer andyou're wasting my time, come on,
swing baby, you were filthy butfine.
Platinum, come on, but theyshuttered your stores when you
(59:56):
opened the doors.
Take the high road, baby, tothe cops who were bored Once
they'd run out of crime.
New York, you're perfect.
Oh, please, don't change athing.
You're mild billionaire Mayor'snow convinced he's a king.
Your mild billionaire mayor Isnow convinced he's a king.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
And so the boring collage.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
I will all disrespect .
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
In the neighborhood bars.
I'd once dreamt I would dream.
Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
Shout out to Pete's.
Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
New York, I love you.
Where is Peter's?
Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
You ask Midtown.
Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
There's a ton of the twist but we're fresh out of
shout Like a death in the hallthat you hear through your wall.
Speaker 8 (01:01:01):
Oh, there you are, peter.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
New York, I love you, but you're freaking me out it's
got pictures of celebrities.
New York, I love you, butyou're bringing me down all
ethnicities Not like do theright thing, Sure.
Speaker 8 (01:01:19):
New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down.
Yeah, like a death of the heart.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Jesus, where do I start?
But you're still the one poolwhere I'd happily drown.
No, it's kind of.
Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
And I'll take me off your mailing list for kids who
think it still exists.
Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Yes, for those who think it still exists.
Maybe I'm wrong and maybeyou're right.
Maybe I'm wrong and maybeyou're right.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
This is sort of like a love-hate relationship that he
has with the city.
Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
Maybe I'm wrong and maybe you're right.
Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Yeah, definitely Gentrification.
Wow, god damn it, I like it?
Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
Yeah, definitely, gentrification.
Wow, oh, maybe, mother, goddamn it, I like it and there'll
always be somebody there for youand you'll never be alone.
But maybe she's wrong, maybeI'm right, and just maybe she's
wrong.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'mright.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
And if so, here's the answer Guitar solo yeah, this
is the closest we've gotten tosome guitar, right?
(01:02:58):
Yeah, I like it Touching, justlike chill out.
(01:03:28):
Yeah, this is the last song,right?
Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah, so what's this?
Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Taste is choice man.
Well, like this is like at theend of the shop play the hits.
This is like the last song heplays.
This is supposed to be like hisfinal encore.
This is the last song, yeah,the last song he'd ever play.
And then the guy got backtogether again.
Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Yeah, but Four years later, but it was still a very
To be in Madison Square Gardenwhen you played that Like a
self-fulfilling prophecy, almostyeah, it must have been really
kind of a cool.
To go out on a high, you know,and then come back yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Alright.
Well, that's good stuff, man.
So do you have a top three Fromthere?
I'm thinking you know All right.
That's good.
It's good stuff, man, so do youhave a top three from there.
Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
You know, I think, new York, I love you, but you're
bringing me down as numberthree.
Okay, that's good stuff so muchand I think, um, it maybe
doesn't say exactly what he'strying to say, but maybe that's
(01:04:59):
the point, I don't know.
He's always sarcastic andconvoluted in his you know, is
it bringing down or is it, youknow, bringing him up and down
at the same time?
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Yeah, it's complex.
Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
It is yeah, well, the lyrics are really yeah, it is a
good song and I want to, I'mgonna, I'm gonna say number
three, north american scum, nice, but it's my number three
because it rocked.
You know, I it just I liked howit like built, built up and
built up and kind of got itdidn't really it didn't feel
(01:05:39):
political, it got regional kindof.
Yeah, I don't know, but simple,simple hands intertwining.
Yeah it was good.
Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
So it was a good song , it was a banger.
Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
It was a banger.
Yeah, what's your number two?
Oh, it's gotta be it's hard todecide, but these are all on the
table, right?
Yeah, I'm going to go all myfriends.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
That's number two.
Shout out to the friends youknow 37 when he made this and
around the same age.
You know, friends come and goand old friends, you know, are
like what?
Stars in the sky.
You don't always see them, butyou know they're there.
Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
So yeah, cheers Just gives you that.
You know, that pit in yourstomach.
You know kind of a thing.
It's like you love your friends, call your best friend, yeah,
but it's also, you know, it'skind of as you get as you grow
up older, sometimes you growapart and you know it's just,
(01:06:43):
you still love them though.
Yeah, my number two is someonegreat, nice, it's brilliant, you
know it's uh, you know I have afeeling that you're going to do
better, a better job of tellingus why that's a great song, so
(01:07:03):
I'm just going to leave it atthat.
You know I'm not going to getdeep in it.
It just I need to listen to itmore.
You know I I can't do it justicebut is it your number one?
Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
That's my number one, yeah, it's.
It's, uh, maybe a song of ofloss.
You know, yeah, and somebodythat is your mentor.
It could be, it could be anyany anybody, um, somebody you
looked up to family member yeah,role model um of course yeah I
(01:07:34):
don't want to get personal Again, like James, we shouldn't try
to dissect these songs too much,because then it takes the joy
out of it.
Maybe In a way You're right Inhis eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Yeah, well, that's why it was like I think, that's
why I want, I'm going number one, all my Friends, because I see
it, I want to, I want to, I wantto put on the, the pedestal, uh
, the positive song in this caseyou know we should.
Music should be uplifting usand not being dragged down by
(01:08:11):
loss, or I mean, sometimes itcan be therapeutic, you know.
It can make you feel, you know,not alone when you hear a sad
song, like someone great or likea nostalgic, let's put it that
way.
Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
I think it's more nostalgic than sad.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Yeah, yeah, but I, I'm just, I think I'm in the
mood to be like, yeah, all myfriends, you know it's, you're
celebrating and you're alltogether and that that uplifting
vibe and spirit that it has,and after listening to all this,
I can see how it'd be like alot of a good thing all the time
and something that you justneed to get away from.
(01:08:48):
Yeah, yeah, which culminateswith new york.
I love you, but you're bringingme down, kind of a thing, but
uh just a lot of people in asmall place.
But a great album.
I mean, I even like Us Versusthem.
There's something about thatsong.
Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Yeah, time to Get Away.
North American Scum GetInnocuous.
Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
There's a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
They're all good, they're all much on the list of
non-hits that people who don'tknow this band.
It could be your favorite songIf you like electronic music.
Maybe a lot of people don't.
Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Yeah, but it's just, it's concentrated in the New
York scene in the 2000s.
You know it has.
It's a, it's a time and a place.
That's what this album is, butit's it's good, it's good stuff,
so we'll put a.
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris and playing the songSomeone Great from LCD Sound
Systems' Sound of Silver albumis my co-host, tim.
We want to thank you thepodcast.
Thanks for listening.
Today we're going to listen toa great indie electronic rock
(00:38):
dance album New York City kindof a dance rock, electronica,
kind of a band and album.
So it was LCD Sound Systems,sound of Silver.
It was released on March 12,2007 by DFA Records.
That is the.
(01:12):
I guess the owner or the leadperson is James Murphy, who was
also the front man of the group,and so this is his baby.
You know, james Murphy goes wayback, gen X kind of a guy and
well, I mean we'll get into hisbackground, his significance,
how he came to rise, but that'llbe.
(01:33):
We're going to talk about themthroughout the album, but what
we're going to do today is whatwe do as always, which is listen
to an album in its entirety andthen rank our top three
non-hits at the end of the show.
We're going to exclude anysongs that are hits Within the
(01:59):
dance rock sphere from the 2000s.
You could probably say maybeone or two of these songs could
be considered like a hit or youknow, of course there's some
more than others, butnevertheless we'll hash it out.
So again, thank you forlistening.
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We really appreciate it.
What else can I say about thissong?
This album came out with a lotof critical.
Again, thank you for listening.
We really appreciate it.
What else can I say about this?
This album came out with a lotof critical acclaim.
They cite the B-52s, the Fallyes, david Bowie and Can as
(02:42):
influences.
Also, omd Bronski, beat theSmiths.
Those were all sort of from myday.
I cross over to a few of thosenames Love, yes, love David
Bowie, the Smiths, b-52s thoseare all great artists for sure,
and you can hear a lot of it inthis album.
It's got sort of like a discobeat to it.
(03:04):
In this album it's got sort oflike a disco beat to it, but
with like, or you know, rock andelectronic sensibilities.
So I think it's yeah, the moreI listen to it, the more I get
into it.
You know Tim has seen him, Ithink, once or twice, I think
it's, and he can.
He can give you his, histhoughts, his, his anecdotes.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Would you listen?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
to the gibberish they've got you saying so anyway
.
Also, murphy attended New YorkUniversity, I guess, like one
thing here is he was offered ajob writing for the sitcom
Seinfeld.
He did not expect the show tobe successful and chose to
continue with music instead.
(03:50):
So, wow, yeah, and he's alsothe creator of DFA Records late
1980s, and he picked the nameDeath From Above after seeing a
helicopter emblazoned with theslogan in the film Apocalypse
Now.
So there's a little backgroundinto DFA records, so, and I
(04:12):
guess I mean he's considered tohave gotten the band going, you
know, a little bit later in life, so to speak and there was I
just recently.
I mean I think he and I areprobably the same age, and so I
think that they in life, so tospeak, I just recently I think
he and I are probably the sameage I think that in 2012, I
guess he got a little bit burntout with the whole grind A
(04:33):
documentary was made that waslike Shut Up and Play the Hits,
yeah, a documentary from 2012.
So it kind of just gives you thebackground of how I guess the
end was supposed to be someshows that they did at Madison
Square Garden, and it wassupposed to be the end of the
band and I think since thenthey've come back sort of.
(04:55):
Tim described them as beingsomewhat elusive, so since that
time period, but you know, but Ifeel like I missed the boat.
I I can see how this would havebeen, these shows when it
really super cool to be at,maybe in like the late 2000s,
(05:17):
you know, in the new york, youknow the new york dance scene,
the club scene.
It was probably incredible.
You know now that you know,especially like, if you're in
that, I mean cause I didn't, Iwasn't, yeah, I didn't live in
New York.
I've never lived in New Yorkcity.
It's probably.
It's just kind of intense andit's its own thing and as a New
(05:39):
Yorker you identify with a.
New York way of life.
It's a, it's a, it's a wholething.
But without further ado, tim isjust getting everything just
set up.
Oh super.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We're safe.
Yep, we're safe.
We're safe for the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right, how you doing, bud you doing good yeah,
tasty waves, here Got some coolbuds.
Cool, cool buds, cool wowthat's right yeah what
Speaker 1 (06:14):
can we tell you about this wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So give me your, can you give me like a little bit of
a taste of, uh, your backgroundwith with them and how you see
them as a band and as aninfluence on you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I think he's an offbeat sort of guy that wants
to make this music and doesn'twant the fame about it.
And he was in a grind, maybe ofthese Joe Jobs with an
(06:49):
extensive collection of nametags and hairnets, maybe writing
for Seinfeld.
I maybe had heard he tried tobe a finance guy or maybe that's
wrong but he didn't like it,got a bunch of music equipment.
You know one.
It took them a while to get ittogether.
One music instrument afteranother.
(07:09):
Yeah, they kind of just keptfinding and buying and really
getting into this sort of like.
You know, the Daft Punk playingat my house sort of got them
going.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And they gave me like a cult following right, but at
the end of that tour, like atthe end of that show, from shut
up and play the hits yeah, he'sjust like this, yes, he, he
feels washed up even thoughthey're sort of like at the
height of popularity, andthey're.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
He's rock and he just doesn't have the energy he's at
an age where, yeah, he'sprobably in his mid-40s at that
time and it's just grinding onhim and it's not even that it's
like.
Is that?
What is this, you know?
I don't know it's, it's sort oflike, uh uh, a midlife crisis of
some sorts.
You know, maybe he to, to, tomake the band in the first place
(08:05):
, and then you know it's likenot even, that's not even what
he wants.
You know, it's like what he'salways, constantly on this
journey and it's dictated by him, which is the coolest part,
because he's just a force to bereckoned with.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He's a creative force which is just and then the rest
of the performers, thepersonnel.
They sort of take his direction.
Yeah, I mean, they're reallygood musicians.
They play really tight together.
I mean I think that's a creditto them.
I mean, even though he's thedriving force behind it, the
(08:39):
other musicians are very good.
Yeah, they're very good they'reperforming.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
He's kind of directing the whole thing.
They're friends.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's not like they're just random people right, it's
like you know he's, they're,they're a band you know, and
they the other people play arole other.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
They might have been friends before, you know, he
even joined the band I I'm notsure, but yeah, you know the
whole.
I've saw the documentary andI've seen them in DC after their
uh, which album was that?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Um, I'd probably have to get out to discography.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I mean, I just know they have a debut album, the
American dream album they toured.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
So I saw them after that and around 2000, 17, 18 in
DC and they're very good.
It's all black and white.
The disco ball, the lights areall you know.
People wear black and whitesort of oh cool it's all I don't
know color toned the whole showsort of like a radio head show.
(09:41):
It's like yeah, that must havebeen a black and white on the
shades of gray maybe I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What year did you say this was?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
When I saw him.
Yeah, maybe 2017, 18.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh, okay, yeah, so this is at the Anthem right.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah at the Anthem DC .
That's a great venue to seethem in, I bet yeah and I saw
the documentary in theatersactually and it was very good
and he really just wanted to notbe that famous, not be touring
all know touring all the timeand maybe, uh, just normal
(10:16):
person, right, yeah, whateverthat normal everyday person.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, that doesn't get recognized and yeah new
normal yeah, well, that in mind,let's, let's get, let's get
into it.
Man, we've got a lot to cover.
We may even skip through someof these because it's kind of
long, but we'll uh, we'll bejudicious here.
This is Get Innocuous.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, innocuous, having no adverse effect.
Harmless Not likely to offendor provoke to strong emotion.
Harmless I had to look that up.
Oh, innocuous, yeah, yes,that's the definition there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right, yeah, that's what I've always understood it
to be.
But yeah, that's a gooddescription.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
They added a few things For those who don't know
vocab.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, yeah, just harmless.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Scream innocuous.
You should know what it means,yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It just seems like a lot of syllables to describe
what it is, but it makes yousound smart.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Where does it break?
Here?
They do these sort of subdued.
I love how they introduced thelines of percussion, almost to
make a melodic rhythm, arhythmic melody.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, they're using different technologies.
Yeah, or yeah, thesepercussions it's kind of cool,
you can hear it too.
Like these patterns.
Yeah, Like a muffled.
I like how it kind of cool, youcan hear it too.
Like these patterns.
Yeah, Like a muffled.
I like how it kind of graduallygets louder.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Shout out to the runners this is a good uphill
song here.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
This is a good call.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
This could be one of the best running songs Keep
going.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Get that VO2 max up, let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Get Jack some Darjeeling tea.
Going Get that VO2 max up.
Let's go Get jacked with someDarjeeling tea.
Go on a run, get out there yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Very disco-y.
Very disco.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Oh, this is getting heavy.
It makes his voice really standout without as much other
melodies, right?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Nice harmony there Socky Come on.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Shout out to Tony, my dear, where he's carous and
inefficient.
Bring you along with thepretense and pay the way for the
coming release, oh, comingrelease here.
I kind of look a little chilly.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, this is a total running song.
I can see myself.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
That's not so bad.
Could be worse, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It could be worse.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's tolerable.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's tolerable, it's the real life.
I'm gonna make you feel alive.
If you're by my side, I'm gonnamake you feel alive.
You will stay Until the morningcomes.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You can't normalize, don't admit, you can't feel
alive.
You can't normalize, you can'tnormalize.
You can't normalize Normal.
Okay, new normal, don't correcthim.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
New normal.
That's what it's all aboutnormal.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That's what it's all about.
I kind of look a little sillyand my feelings are hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Ah, that feels, that feels better.
Pat Mahoney's rocking the drumsyeah, let's get the band.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Who do we got on, yeah, pat Mahoney on drums.
We got Nancy Nancy Wang Sidevocals, drumming.
She does kind of everything.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's like Tyler Pope Right.
Good lineup, good drummer,great look.
I think the drumming would justbe exhausting.
(16:27):
He may be doing the same beat.
Oh yes, he looks like he's justgoing the whole time.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Well, you know, when you're drumming you don't have
as many cares in the world, orhis cares and ambitions when
they come.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, are we good with this one?
Don't correct him.
You ain't got to correct him.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, I think it kind of winds out.
There's another minute of this,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
There you go.
All right, that was good,though, so this next one is time
to get away.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So what's this?
The tastiest choice momentbetween you guys.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We're getting away here.
We're getting away.
I'm doing the podcast grindhere, that's right it's time to
get away.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
It's time to get away from you.
It's time to get away.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's time to get away .
It's time to get away From you.
You bought a lot of money,simple drum beat here, but me
More contemporary maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think so.
A little raga Good drama.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Great look Good drama .
Great look Good drama.
Sorry, Pat.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They do get Raga on this Indie Raga.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, it is Indie Raga.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
James.
Well, it's B-52-ish is Raga.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
It's time to get away .
It's time to get away Like theharmony From you.
I'm dying to get away.
I'm dying to get away.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'll give you a little time alone here Next time
we'll talk it over.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make
it our time?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Our time, our time, our time, our time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That had potential.
I fell flat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like manual.
You know what the fuck is hetalking about what, what, what,
what, what could it ever be?
So it's time to get away.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
It's time to get away .
It's our time.
I'm dying to get away If I'mhere.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Get away.
It's our time, it's our time,let's talk about it.
It's really not that complex ofmusic I just Talk is cheap Pity
you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Talk is cheap.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Talk is cheap Next time we could talk about Good
drama, great look.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Or even start again.
You know Shout out to those Funrelationship woes.
You know Voice how you feel.
Don't repress your emotions.
If it gets a little too intense, just get away.
I knew you were low man, butthe truth is.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
I was shocked.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
It's sort of in that getting away part of the
argument.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Sarcastic snappy part of it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, it's got yeah, we talked about that it's got
that emotional depth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah he gets into you .
Speaker 5 (20:52):
He's feisty.
He's a little feisty.
He's a little like he's emo.
He's a loose wire.
I think yeah, sort of Bloodpower.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was never lying.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I'll get your damn kids for this, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Shout out to Billy Madison.
All right, so this one iscalled this is North American
Scum.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
There are a lot of good songs Shout out to the
magazine readers in NorthAmerica only Okay, okay, I mean
we do have those.
We've got magazines.
I've got a lot.
Oh, my crawl space, in my attic, little corners of the house
tucked away, lots of magazinesokay, yeah, wait like playboys,
(21:48):
or what do you got Home?
And Garden.
Scientific American, scientificNorth American.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, but I mean nothing like worse than
Penthouse.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Get your mind over there I'm.
Educating myself worse thanlike Penthouse.
Get your mind out of there.
We're.
Yeah, you've got like I'meducating myself, come on it's
beauty magazine day.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I don't know, I don't know, oh, where to begin when
we're North American, but in theend make the same mistakes all
over again.
Come on, north American.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
You're Arcot Ramathorne Ram and I'm Rod
Farmer Rod.
Yeah, this is a goodsuper-cheaper song, car-ram-rod.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Because they're sort of North American cops.
They're kind of like right bythe border.
Okay, I get it.
Yeah, shout out to the SuperTrooper fans.
I think this just fits Deeperand deeper the mashup of this
song Way down.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Kids get off your damn iPhones.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Unless you're listening to us.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
We don't have magazines.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'll get your damn kids for this.
But there's no love man.
There's no love when the kidsare uptight.
I'll get your damn kids forthis.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
So throw a party till the cops come in and bust it.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Car Ramrod, let's go now.
Car Ramrod, oh, you wereplanning it.
I didn't mean to Car Ramrod,sorry.
You're Arcot Ramathorn Ram andI'm Rod Farber Rod.
Car Ram Rod.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Hey, this one is.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Does that mean it's well, it's one nine, isn't it?
Yes, so you tell me Is thisOkay, this one is.
Does that mean it's Well, it'sone night, isn't?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
it yes.
So you tell me, is this In theLCD sound system world?
Is this a hit?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah, probably, but For the indie world?
Yeah, maybe.
Yes, I would say it would be.
I've heard it on the radio, Ithink I have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I wouldsay it would be.
I've heard it on the radio, Ithink I have.
Yeah, shout out to all the gunowners in America these babies
(24:46):
can go off.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Second of all, it's If you get someone to pay the
rent.
Wahoo North.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
America.
It's the furthest you can livefrom the government.
Ooh, not in DC.
I saw them in DC.
We're pretty close to thegovernment there.
Yeah yeah, I don't think a lotof church-going folk listen to
this stuff.
No well, church-going listen tothis stuff.
(25:25):
No well, the berlinners, okay,shout out.
You're not that much differentthan us.
Uh, yeah, but you're not northamericans, so you're not that
much different than us yeah butyou're not North American, so
you're not Sorry.
Well, you wish you were.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
That's not a bad thing, you might wish you were,
but I don't know, not right now.
Well, we don't go there.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I didn't wear deodorant today, but you know
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I'm going to be thinking.
I didn't smell anything.
Is it safe?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, you can smell it.
It's the sage.
Yeah, you can smell it, it'sstrawberry North American
strawberries, that's right.
Look at these overseasstrawberries.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do they have strawberries Of?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
course they do.
Strawberries are actually justa Native American food, is it?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Nah, just the Native American food, is it?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
No, no, yeah, what, oh man I'm sure they've got some
of that Brazil or something.
What the?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
fuck is he talking about?
I'll sit next to him and playthat.
I gotcha.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I got you good on that, okay, oh, shout out to
Canada.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right, I'm back.
Okay, it's what someone great.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Fucking mummy's in there.
It's not so bad.
Fucking mummy's in there.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right, this is trippy, can you live in that
moment?
I want to know how they gotthat sound that little
(27:26):
high-pitched.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
It's like the chirping like a bird.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, a little bird sound.
Yeah, I think it's recordscratching.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's what I think the ISO sound.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It is.
This is kind of.
This reminds me of that movie,revenge of the Nerds.
When they do like thehomecoming you know they have
like da da, da, da, da, da, da,da, da, da, da da.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Alright, I just did it myself.
Well, you're looking at me likewhat the fuck is he talking
about?
All right, I just did it myself.
Well, you're looking at me likeI've never.
You probably haven't seen it.
I've never seen it.
Yeah, I mean, it came out likeyears before I could afford it,
yeah, so that was a missedopportunity.
I should have gotten a coupleclips.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
That's what are we going to do.
What are you going to do?
That was a missed opportunity.
She got a couple clips.
That's it.
What are we going to do?
What are you going to do?
It's, I miss the way we used toargue Locked in your basement.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That line sounded weird.
Locked in your basement, canyou live in that moment?
Can you live in that moment, asit's early?
And that should be a perfectwarning that some things are
(29:34):
wrong.
To tell the truth, I saw itcoming the way you were
breathing, but nothing canprepare you for it.
The voice, on the other hand,this is pretty, this is deep
stuff.
Not just saying that, yeah,just play a cheap sound clip.
(30:02):
Deeper and deeper.
The worst is all the lovelyweather.
I'm stunned it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,because what's?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
the difference.
There's all the work that needsto be done, karam Rock, and it
(30:47):
keeps coming, and it keepscoming, and it keeps coming, and
it keeps coming, and it keepscoming, till the day it stops.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I wish that we could talk about it Till the day I'm
past the problem when someoneknew I couldn't start it Too
(31:48):
late for beginnings.
I'm trying to figure out moreabout this song, but it's really
good.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It says Murphy has intentionally avoided explaining
the songs.
Songs are songs and to reducethem is to waste them there.
Yeah, he did a really good job.
We're safe.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
For the moment.
Yeah, he did a really good job.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Author Daniel Poppock found solace in the song after
a breakup relating to the linethere's all the work that needs
to be done as a prompt forself-reflection.
Maybe we're safe in the moment,yeah Uh but then when someone
great is gone, our feeling ofsafety is not there.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, this is one of the.
Do you consider this one a hit?
I think so, yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
A lot of people consider that their best song
ever.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I do too.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
And this one.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
The Daft Punk one from the previous album was a
big one too.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
A big one.
Yeah, maybe not LCD SoundSystem Head's favorite.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
The way this album flows.
Cool, because I mean, I thinkit leads up to this song, but
there's there's other good songsafter this one, but this is.
Yeah, all my friends, I don'thave to run this one by Robin,
(34:04):
let's go.
Let's go ahead a little bithere.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Riddled was.
Nostalgia Song finds Jamesrecalling his crazy younger
years Excitement and baddecisions.
Middle age Priorities change,friendships fade.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
He was 37 when the song was released and start to
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And if it's crowded, all the better.
Better late than never.
Maybe he needed that amount oftime to get the song right.
It feels better.
This seems like their best songon this album.
We're going to call this a hit,though.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
I don't think any of them are hits.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I think we're open to .
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Let's just go free rain.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, we shout out to the friends listening.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Thanks for listening, friends.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, this is a good opportunity to thank our friends
.
We have a lot of mutual friendsand we have good family and
friends.
Shout out to all of you.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
If the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun
comes up, and I still don't wantto stack my phone.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Then it's the memory of our betters that are keeping
us on our feet.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Five years turns into ten years.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Whatever the plan is, that's kind of a cool line
First five years trying to getwith the plan, Next five years
trying to get with the plan nextfive years trying to get with
the friends.
(36:52):
I wonder how different it is tobe Like at this stage of life
Back then as it is At the sameage right now.
Because, like after, after highschool, like you didn't have
the, you didn't have theinternet there was really no,
there was.
Iming was just starting,starting when Patrick got out of
(37:14):
college, yeah, and so, and hadeverybody had it down you know
to where.
Now you can just like lookanybody up.
So I mean, do you just touchyour friends like nowadays?
Do you think or did the sameway?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
yeah, internet or any kind of easy modality to reach
friends doesn't mitigate thehard sort of spending time
together and actually doingthings together or just existing
(37:51):
together.
You have to coexist, you knowand do things.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But the whole online relationship didn't exist in the
same way then as it does now.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Which probably made friends that were true friends
even more important.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, or you could develop relationships at a
different level when it's liveor in the flesh, in person.
Right, yeah, you're right.
(38:37):
You get more context, you getbody language and really knowing
how a person is doing comethrough.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Cooler when you can see it.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
Salesforce into the night.
Yeah, oh fool, oh fool, oh fool.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Oh fool.
And with a face like atelevision child in, you can
sleep on the plane or reviewwhat you said.
When you're drunk and the kidslook impossible to end, you
think over and over hey, I'mfinally dead, I let the trip and
(39:40):
the plan Come apart.
And I am, you can turn it onyourself.
You're a ridiculous cop.
You forgot what you meant whenyou read what you said.
And, yeah, we knew you weretired.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But then, where are your friends tonight?
Once more into the breach.
Dear friends, if I could seeall my friends tonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
If I could see all my friendstonight.
(40:20):
That's a great party song For awedding, something like that.
Yeah Right.
Yeah something like that yeahRight, yeah, that was good.
All right, this is Us Versusthem.
That's a nice contrast to thatlast song, ups and downs,
(41:02):
playing pretty minimally rightnow.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
The time has come, the hour time.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
This is our time, podcast time.
That's right, let's go playingthat bass, slapping the bass.
Shout out nancy wang, who'sliterally I don't think it's
doing anything at this moment.
Shout out her anyway, like inthe songs.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Nancy, Is that her name?
Just say no.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Nancy.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Just say, oh yeah, Just say no.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
We're really building up to this.
This is A little.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Is it James Murphy or ?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
James Brown here, I don't know.
Yeah, it is very JamesBrown-ish 21st century James
Brown.
Pat Mahoney's crushing it.
Speaker 8 (43:25):
Tyler Pope.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, I'm a real fan of Pat Mahoney's drumming.
It's hard to just keep the timelike that, just at this pace,
and even if it's the same rhythm, he's also doing the rock out
with that.
He's doing that.
Speaker 8 (43:44):
People want to tell you All the middle people want
to dance.
It's true, love.
Block out the sun Over me, overme, and spoil, spoil all the
(44:10):
fun.
Oh, that's quite fun.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
What's your take on the song?
How do you feel about it?
It's long, it's 8.29.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, it's kind of repetitive.
It's always very repetitive's.
All all this very repetitive,yeah, but that's what electronic
music is.
I mean, I don't think we'vecovered such an electronic no, I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I I dig it.
That was the 80s right, well,no, yeah, well, I mean it's.
It's evolved up to this pointlike you've got brianno.
You know those.
I don't know even the who.
When we did those, I guess forthe 70s.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Some references from the who.
The way they are Sure, Likeeven that background noise right
there Right, Sounds a littlebit like the who Sure.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yeah, but at this point in time it's 2007, and a
lot's been done up to this point, so they're taking from a lot.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yeah, technology has gotten better, or it has.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
More convenient maybe , yeah, from this time period.
But I mean, what they have towork with is really cool how
they're blending the cowbellwith the actual bass, with all
the keyboards.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
Could we use a little more cowbell?
Speaker 8 (45:54):
That's impossible.
Talk to me.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
Could we use a little more cowbell?
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Your eyes, lonely and drunk On your knees.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
No, I can pull it back a little if you like.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
Not too much, though I'm telling you, fellas, you're
going to want that cowbell.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I'm telling you, fellas, that's James.
I don't know, james, I don'tknow about this much.
Cowbell, fellas, I can pull itback a little bit, nancy, fellas
, nancy, you want to play thatcowbell?
Speaker 8 (46:45):
Just say no Us and them Over and over again.
Us and them over and over again.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
Us and them over and over again.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Us and them over and over again.
Us and them over and over again, over again, because all the
good people want to rescue, allthe smart people want to talk to
you, and all the good people dois if we need that extra push
(47:25):
over the cliff.
Speaker 7 (47:26):
You know what we do.
Push over the cliff.
You know what we do.
Pitch out of the cliff.
You know what we do.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Put it up to 11 One now.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Us Extra Pitch out of the cliff Over and over again.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
Pitch out of the cliff Reveal Over and over again
.
Us Pitch out of the cliffResell over and over again.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
To us to resale.
Ah, would you listen to thegibberish they've got you saying
it's sad and alarming.
Speaker 8 (48:05):
Resell over and over again To us to resale To over
and over again, New normal.
Over and over again.
All the good people want to askyou Over and over again.
All the clever people want totell you Over and over again.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
Over and over again.
That's what it's all about, man.
Over and over again, Eating,drinking fucking sucking, Come
on.
Speaker 5 (48:47):
Over and over again.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
It's over and over I think we can Next.
Speaker 5 (48:52):
Okay, yeah, there we go.
All right, I think I skippedover this song.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah, I feel like I want to do it right now.
This is getting cool.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
All right, it's got us peeps here.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
It's called.
Speaker 5 (49:19):
Watch the Tapes Shout out to the Diddy Jury.
Okay, watching the tapes.
Yeah, hey, watch those tapes.
They're alarming.
Yeah, they're horrible.
That's what James doesn't want.
Speaker 8 (49:39):
He doesn't want that Hollywood life.
Yes, socking, come on.
Come on, I'll get you dance kitfor this.
Hey, man, you can take it aslong as they don't shove you out
in the cold.
It's not getting better.
(50:02):
No, it's not getting better,man, it's just getting older and
I will be the one to come afteryou.
Hey, we do a rental.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
I will do Cold tomorrow.
Looks like she's going to turncold tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
They love LCD in Fargo, oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
We'll get some downloads.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Shout out to oh, here we go, double time.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
Yeah, four to the floor.
Eight to the floor.
I know.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I like how they're slowing it up and speeding it up
.
Slow it down, speeding it up.
Speaker 8 (51:10):
You come for the weekend and you stay for the
year.
Avoid all your plants, becausewe're making our day jobs into a
steady career.
We're both high, high, high,high high on lemon seals.
(51:30):
We all go, go, go, go, climbonto sinking ships and now.
Avoid all the cold sidewaysglances and now Celebrate,
celebrate, celebrate and thenturn to stone.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
(51:50):
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
You're tall.
25 pamphlets and watch thetapes.
You're 25.
And now you're all out ofescapes.
Go, that's me.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Look at all that hair .
Speaker 2 (52:05):
I can't believe.
I thought that looked good.
It must have been high.
That's me.
Speaker 8 (52:10):
I'm afraid that you're brave to steal blackout,
which makes you a star.
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
(52:31):
Read all the pamphlets andwatch the tapes.
All right, wow.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
All right, so Sound of silver Talk to me.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Makes you want to feel like a teenager.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
I'll get your damn kids for this.
Remember the feelings of areal-life, emotional teenager.
Then you think again.
Sound of silver talk to meMakes you want to feel like a
teenager.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Oh no feel-feeling in the heart Naughty feelings.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Naughty feelings.
Speaker 6 (53:13):
A real-life emotional teenager.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
Talk is cheap.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
I want your body.
I kind of look a little sillyand my feelings are hurt.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
That feels, that feels better.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
And my feelings are hurt.
Salking, come on of silver.
Talk to me makes you want tofeel like a teenager.
(54:09):
We need to make this evenweirder than it is.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
It's not so bad, could be worse.
Rock and roll, simple linesintertwining.
Also you have like really bigeyes.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
Crazy, it's just wild , weird stuff.
Feels a little weird.
Speaker 5 (55:19):
Feels a little weird.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Should we get a word from our sponsor?
What are we thinking?
Speaker 4 (55:22):
a cocoa.
Let me fix you some of this newmo' cocoa drink.
All natural cocoa beans fromthe upper slopes of Mount
Nicaragua, no artificialsweeteners.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Yeah, actually that's a good sponsor for this one.
You need a little coffee to getup to this.
Speaker 3 (55:40):
Maybe a little more than that oh.
Speaker 5 (55:51):
Simple lines.
Intertwining Sounds of simplelines, sounds of silver.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
I'm liking this.
Yeah, this is at a pacedifferent than the other songs.
Deeper and deeper Way down itsounds kind of tropical.
Speaker 5 (56:23):
It does.
It sounds like tropical, yetit's like lounge jazz.
Now, yeah, it's technicalDrippy jazz.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, drippy jazz.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
Drippy jazz, drippy jazz.
Speaker 6 (56:33):
This is some drippy jazz.
Drippy jazz, just some drippyjazz.
I'm a teenager, until youremember the feelings of a
real-life, emotional teenager.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Then you think again, makes you want to feel like a
(57:12):
teenager.
It's a really low bass yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:16):
Double drop D.
Speaker 6 (57:26):
Really faint synthesizing.
Speaker 5 (57:31):
Should we skip ahead like a minute here you want to?
Okay, it's kind of a oh, oh,it's kind of cool.
I think Don likes this.
These babies can go off.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
This is cool.
Can you live in that momentWith this genre?
A beat goes on and on for aprolonged period of time Versus
something a little bit morecommercial.
It's sort of intentional foreffect for a prolonged period of
time versus something a littlebit more commercial.
Right, it's sort of intentional, it's for effect, it's for live
music.
Yeah, that too.
Yeah, of course, just gettinginto a mood, something like
(58:28):
trance.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Yeah, they'll play it even longer when it's live Sure
.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
Which is great, as best you can, with clear eyes
and love in your heart.
Speaker 2 (58:43):
All right, yeah, good timing on that.
All right, all right, it's justgoing to be the organ, so we'll
go to the next one.
Oh, this is the last song NewYork.
I.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Love you, but you're bringing me down but you're
bringing me down New York.
I love you, but you're bringingme down.
Speaker 2 (59:06):
It's like a touching ode to his hometown.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Like a rat in a cage Pulling minimum wage.
New York, I love you.
Speaker 5 (59:24):
He's embracing his Frank Sinatra here.
Who loves you, baby?
His Tom Jones.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
New York, you're safer and you're wasting my time
.
New York, you're safer andyou're wasting my time, come on,
swing baby, you were filthy butfine.
Platinum, come on, but theyshuttered your stores when you
(59:56):
opened the doors.
Take the high road, baby, tothe cops who were bored Once
they'd run out of crime.
New York, you're perfect.
Oh, please, don't change athing.
You're mild billionaire Mayor'snow convinced he's a king.
Your mild billionaire mayor Isnow convinced he's a king.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
And so the boring collage.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
I will all disrespect .
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
In the neighborhood bars.
I'd once dreamt I would dream.
Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
Shout out to Pete's.
Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
New York, I love you.
Where is Peter's?
Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
You ask Midtown.
Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
There's a ton of the twist but we're fresh out of
shout Like a death in the hallthat you hear through your wall.
Speaker 8 (01:01:01):
Oh, there you are, peter.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
New York, I love you, but you're freaking me out it's
got pictures of celebrities.
New York, I love you, butyou're bringing me down all
ethnicities Not like do theright thing, Sure.
Speaker 8 (01:01:19):
New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down.
Yeah, like a death of the heart.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Jesus, where do I start?
But you're still the one poolwhere I'd happily drown.
No, it's kind of.
Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
And I'll take me off your mailing list for kids who
think it still exists.
Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Yes, for those who think it still exists.
Maybe I'm wrong and maybeyou're right.
Maybe I'm wrong and maybeyou're right.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
This is sort of like a love-hate relationship that he
has with the city.
Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
Maybe I'm wrong and maybe you're right.
Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Yeah, definitely Gentrification.
Wow, god damn it, I like it?
Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
Yeah, definitely, gentrification.
Wow, oh, maybe, mother, goddamn it, I like it and there'll
always be somebody there for youand you'll never be alone.
But maybe she's wrong, maybeI'm right, and just maybe she's
wrong.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'mright.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
And if so, here's the answer Guitar solo yeah, this
is the closest we've gotten tosome guitar, right?
(01:02:58):
Yeah, I like it Touching, justlike chill out.
(01:03:28):
Yeah, this is the last song,right?
Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah, so what's this?
Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Taste is choice man.
Well, like this is like at theend of the shop play the hits.
This is like the last song heplays.
This is supposed to be like hisfinal encore.
This is the last song, yeah,the last song he'd ever play.
And then the guy got backtogether again.
Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Yeah, but Four years later, but it was still a very
To be in Madison Square Gardenwhen you played that Like a
self-fulfilling prophecy, almostyeah, it must have been really
kind of a cool.
To go out on a high, you know,and then come back yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Alright.
Well, that's good stuff, man.
So do you have a top three Fromthere?
I'm thinking you know All right.
That's good.
It's good stuff, man, so do youhave a top three from there.
Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
You know, I think, new York, I love you, but you're
bringing me down as numberthree.
Okay, that's good stuff so muchand I think, um, it maybe
doesn't say exactly what he'strying to say, but maybe that's
(01:04:59):
the point, I don't know.
He's always sarcastic andconvoluted in his you know, is
it bringing down or is it, youknow, bringing him up and down
at the same time?
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Yeah, it's complex.
Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
It is yeah, well, the lyrics are really yeah, it is a
good song and I want to, I'mgonna, I'm gonna say number
three, north american scum, nice, but it's my number three
because it rocked.
You know, I it just I liked howit like built, built up and
built up and kind of got itdidn't really it didn't feel
(01:05:39):
political, it got regional kindof.
Yeah, I don't know, but simple,simple hands intertwining.
Yeah it was good.
Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
So it was a good song , it was a banger.
Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
It was a banger.
Yeah, what's your number two?
Oh, it's gotta be it's hard todecide, but these are all on the
table, right?
Yeah, I'm going to go all myfriends.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
That's number two.
Shout out to the friends youknow 37 when he made this and
around the same age.
You know, friends come and goand old friends, you know, are
like what?
Stars in the sky.
You don't always see them, butyou know they're there.
Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
So yeah, cheers Just gives you that.
You know, that pit in yourstomach.
You know kind of a thing.
It's like you love your friends, call your best friend, yeah,
but it's also, you know, it'skind of as you get as you grow
up older, sometimes you growapart and you know it's just,
(01:06:43):
you still love them though.
Yeah, my number two is someonegreat, nice, it's brilliant, you
know it's uh, you know I have afeeling that you're going to do
better, a better job of tellingus why that's a great song, so
(01:07:03):
I'm just going to leave it atthat.
You know I'm not going to getdeep in it.
It just I need to listen to itmore.
You know I I can't do it justicebut is it your number one?
Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
That's my number one, yeah, it's.
It's, uh, maybe a song of ofloss.
You know, yeah, and somebodythat is your mentor.
It could be, it could be anyany anybody, um, somebody you
looked up to family member yeah,role model um of course yeah I
(01:07:34):
don't want to get personal Again, like James, we shouldn't try
to dissect these songs too much,because then it takes the joy
out of it.
Maybe In a way You're right Inhis eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Yeah, well, that's why it was like I think, that's
why I want, I'm going number one, all my Friends, because I see
it, I want to, I want to, I wantto put on the, the pedestal, uh
, the positive song in this caseyou know we should.
Music should be uplifting usand not being dragged down by
(01:08:11):
loss, or I mean, sometimes itcan be therapeutic, you know.
It can make you feel, you know,not alone when you hear a sad
song, like someone great or likea nostalgic, let's put it that
way.
Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
I think it's more nostalgic than sad.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Yeah, yeah, but I, I'm just, I think I'm in the
mood to be like, yeah, all myfriends, you know it's, you're
celebrating and you're alltogether and that that uplifting
vibe and spirit that it has,and after listening to all this,
I can see how it'd be like alot of a good thing all the time
and something that you justneed to get away from.
(01:08:48):
Yeah, yeah, which culminateswith new york.
I love you, but you're bringingme down, kind of a thing, but
uh just a lot of people in asmall place.
But a great album.
I mean, I even like Us Versusthem.
There's something about thatsong.
Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Yeah, time to Get Away.
North American Scum GetInnocuous.
Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
There's a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
They're all good, they're all much on the list of
non-hits that people who don'tknow this band.
It could be your favorite songIf you like electronic music.
Maybe a lot of people don't.
Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Yeah, but it's just, it's concentrated in the New
York scene in the 2000s.
You know it has.
It's a, it's a time and a place.
That's what this album is, butit's it's good, it's good stuff,
so we'll put a.
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