| | LCD Soundsystem CD LCD Soundsystem Discography of CDs
 (6 Customer Reviews)
 |
|
Our Price: $16.09  CDFor Sale Usually ships in 1 day
|  |
Finally unleashed for the length of a full album, Murphy's muse still offers up plenty of John-Foxx-will-rise-again retro synth sounds, but he expands his palette as well. The irresistibly catchy "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" is a funky, riff-driven party-starter that compares favorably to vintage Beck, and "On Repeat" indicates a fascination with the lyrical cadences of the Fall's Mark E. Smith. Moving further back in time to the art-rock era, "Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up" is a dreamy tune that could have slipped unnoticed off Pink Floyd's MEDDLE, and "Great Release" is an unabashed, slow-building Eno homage. To keep the club kids happy, a bonus disc featuring LCD's previous singles (including the aforementioned faves) is tacked on to an already-attractive package.
As half of the NYC underground-legend production team DFA, James Murphy was responsible for countless crafty retoolings of late-1970s/early-'80s sounds of the electroclash/post-punk-revival variety. Wearing his "artist" hat under the LCD Soundsystem moniker, Murphy concocted his own minimal-synth club hits, full of both hipster irony ("Losing My Edge") and catchy electro-hooks ("Yeah").
2cds. 1st Album Fr.Dfa Label Mastermind,James Murphy.
LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy (various instruments); Tim Goldsworthy, Pat Mahoney , Tyler Pope, Eric Broucek, Nancy Whang.
Rolling Stone (No. 968, pp.70-2) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[M]urphy has followed [the single 'Losing My Edge'] with an album that's just as good....[these tracks] either push the extremes of Murphy's dance-rock fusion...or fall unexpectedly far outside it..."
Spin (p.64) - Ranked #5 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[W]ith his trippy, studio-pop mimicry of Lennon and Eno, the man who taught the indie kids to dance now tricks techno tots into humming along."
Spin (pp.89-91) - "[A] set documenting, like the best, most heartfelt mix tapes, a sweet time that can't be fully recaptured." - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (No. 808, p.100) - "[F]abulous dance music....unites the club and indie-rock crowds in ways few have attempted since the '80s..." - Grade: A-
Uncut (p.74) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[H]ere the will to change, improve, transcend and question positively thumps out in a liquid crystal display."
Alternative Press (p.128) - 5 out of 5 - "[A]n album that will survive the fleeting tastes of cosmopolitan hipsters..."
Magnet (p.115) - "This is a one-man walking jukebox with a lifetime's worth of records in his head..."
Magnet (p.104) - "You can dance to almost anything here, but between breaths, you'll marvel at his control and the way each sound pops like a primary color."
The Wire (p.44) - Included in The Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year."
The Wire (p.46) - "Self-reference, satire, retro, all of these are abundant on LCD SOUNDSYSTEM....For the anxious and disoriented who need to know where it's at, well, here's one place to start."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.62) - Ranked #1 in Mojo's "2005 Dance/Electronic Albums Of The Year"
Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[C]louds of Beatle melody mushroom through 'Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up' while the euphoric chant of 'Great Release' is almost ecclesiastical. More proof that cool is what Murphy makes it."
Clash (magazine) (p.75) - "Murphy produced a glorious dance record that poked fun at the cliquey, self-conscious scene it moved on from while still being an homage to the New York movements -- punk, disco, new wave -- that actually meant something." LCD Soundsystem Music Review Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Pretty boring
Was forced to listen to this on a road trip & was very bored. Very forgettable album with no surprises or innovation. If you like skinny repetitive keyboard melodies, this might be your thing.
Submitted by Mark (Knoxville, TN)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
 savage
brilliant album. was really needed i.e. good timing. Really glad to hear something like this emerge, hope they keep it up.
Submitted by Emer (Leixlip, Ireland.)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
 music for yuppies
nothing edgy or trippy about this. this is only edgy or trippy music for yuppies and office workers. LCD Soundsystem are leaders in the new "indie-yuppie" scene, the phrase coined by the head of Vice Records.
Submitted by Edgar (London, UK)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
lcd fearlessly lays down their vision of cool
Listen to disc 2 of this LP before disc 1, trust me. disc 2 is where lcd came from and disc 1 is where they're going. Murphy is fearless in transferring his life changing punk past, his nearly forgotten dance past, and his vision for what a band should be. Quoted as saying "the bass guitar is the most beautiful instrument," it's very heavy on great basslines, trippy movements, uptempo dance beats, and punk guitar riffs coupled with keyboards. Don't buy what everyone including the record labels want you to buy, make an independent purchase and fight the system with lcd soundsystem...
Submitted by Jimmy Jams (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No B-O-M-B !!
This one is a powerful,extremely BRILLIANT "bomb" of an album !
Submitted by Enrico (BARI,Italy)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No List All Reviews | Have you heard this album? |  |
Purchase LCD Soundsystem CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | TV On The Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes CD (2004)
LCD Soundsystem album
 $12.99    
| | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
LCD Soundsystem CD music
$12.05
This Montreal ensemble's fiery debut is marked by surging guitars, soulful strings, ...
| | Bloc Party Silent Alarm CD (2005)
LCD Soundsystem music CDs
$10.79
On this immensely appealing debut, SILENT ALARM, the London-based quartet Bloc Party fulfills the promise of their barnstorming 2004 singles "Banquet" and "She's Hearing Voices." Led by magnetic frontman Kele Okereke, the band extracts the most fascinating aspects of the previous 25 years of British ...
| | Lcd Soundsystem Sound Of Silver CD (2007)
LCD Soundsystem songs
$8.85 
As wryly noted on LCD Soundsystem's debut 2002 single, "Losing My Edge," in the underground music arms race, aging hipsters are losing ground against young upstarts who are (perhaps) unaware of their own influences. And if influences are the stuff with which post-millennial musicians are made, Murphy has trumped us all. Touching ...
| | M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us CD (2005)
LCD Soundsystem album
$9.89
| | Tesla Into The Now CD (2004)
LCD Soundsystem CD music
$8.49
| | Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets CD (1998)
LCD Soundsystem music CDs
$14.59
BEFORE THESE CROWDED STREETS was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Crush" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy ...
| | Robert Palmer Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley CD (1974)
LCD Soundsystem songs
$6.85
| | Joan Armatrading Love And Affection: Classics 1975-1983 CDs (2003) Remastered
LCD Soundsystem album
$18.15
This is the way a Joan Armatrading best-of collection should be assembled in the first place. The numerous single-disc compilations never came close to being representative of her achievement as a recording artist. Culling 43 tracks over eight years and 11 albums is even better in many ways than issuing an Armatrading box set. All of the expected material from the early years is included on disc one, such as "Cool Blue Stole My Heart," "Travel So Far," "Dry Land," "Down to Zero," "Love and Affection," "Help Yourself," "Woncha Come on Home," "Show Some Emotion," "Willow," "Barefoot and Pregnant," "Bottom to the Top," "You Rope You Tie Me," "Your Letter," and many more, including "The Flight of the Wild Geese" from the soundtrack to the film. It covers Armatrading's prolific period from 1975-1979, where a lot of old hippies, now upwardly mobile professionals seeking mellow escapes from their relentless and often ruthless pursuit of "the good life," got off the bus and remained stuck, listening only to her early records along with those of the Jacksons, Eagles, and James Taylor. The only problem with this is that Armatrading was just beginning to gain a confidence that led her to become really adventurous, taking huge chances with both her songwriting and production styles in the 1980s. She became a pop singer whose lyrics were anything but pop and whose music expanded the boundaries of pop to include reggae, jazz, and slippery folk music. Admittedly, the results were sometimes erratic, but were never, never less than utterly compelling. Disc two features all four tracks from the excellent How Cruel EP, including the reggae soul-drenched bluster of "Rosie," the title track, and "He Wants Her," with its dubbed-out drums and snaky guitar slinking through her sensual vocal. Eight cuts from the Me Myself I album represent the vast majority of it; it also marked Armatrading's first true rock & roll outing. She had heard the late-'70s music from England and Jamaica -- as well as the Lower East Side of New York -- and was affected by it. She didn't try to make punk rock or new wave music, but she let its freedom enter her songwriting consciousness and open it up. As she hung out with producers like Richard Gotteher (Robert Gordon, Mink DeVille, and Lou Reed) and Henry Lewy, rock and roll became Armatrading's chosen ...
| | Pinecones Shirley Kramer CD (2001)
LCD Soundsystem CD music
$12.69
The Pinecones hail from Oakland, California, where hail is rare. Over the years, their eclecticism and ...
| | St James' Gate Juice Of The Barley CD (2006)
LCD Soundsystem music CDs
$17.09
The band plays the last note of the night and the sound of the bagpipes is still reverberating through the room. They come off the stage exhausted but they’re smiling and you just know that they have had as much fun performing as the jam-packed audience did listening. This is St. James’ Gate, a rollicking, rambunctious Celtic band based in Central Alberta. They have been playing their own brand of Celtic music since they formed back in 2000 and have been honing their craft ever since. From their modest beginnings to playing packed venues these boys certainly know how to show everyone a good time. They feel equally at home performing for home town crowds and at venues such as O’Reilly’s Pub, Erin’s Pub, and the Outer Cove and Ramea Rock Island Music Festivals in Newfoundland. These boys have cross country appeal. Whether playing for thousands while headlining for the Canada Day celebration in ...
| | John Foxx Modern Art CD (2001) (Import) Import; Australia
LCD Soundsystem songs
$24.95
This 18-track anthology neatly summarizes the solo career of John Foxx, who recorded several solo synth-pop albums after leaving Ultravox following their third album; features the singles "Underpass" and "No One Driving" as well as some previously unreleased material.
His affection for cool synth soundscapes enriched by a love of nature and a strong Catholic mysticism, John Foxx has always been a man of more depth than the new romantics he once inspired. Fortunately, the many facets of Foxx's complex persona get a fair representation on Modern Art, the second retrospective of his long but interrupted career and a superior collection to the previous Assembly. The remastered album manages to hit most of the essential highlights, making it a fine introduction, yet won't be superfluous to more dedicated fans thanks to a handful of sought-after offerings from throughout Foxx's two decades as a solo artist after leaving Ultravox. ...
|
|
|
14395 
buttons below to play song samples
Adobe Flash
Email a Friend
