so i asked pat and nancy to come over to my apartment for coffee and told them: “i’m going to record some music. should i make up a band name, or make a “james murphy” record, or should it be LCD?” we all thought a good amount about it. we have had lives for the past 5 years, which has been nice, and those guys have made amazing music with Museum Of Love, the Juan MacLean, and all sorts of other things. i’d managed to do a bunch of fun, dumb stuff which mostly annoyed people who were into the band because, well, subway turnstiles and a coffee aren’t LCD, basically.
at any rate, they both said “let’s make an LCD record”. you see, if they didn’t want to, which i’d half assumed, then there’s no such thing as LCD. imagine this: me making a record, calling it LCD, and then you go to the show and there’s just some guy playing drums over there, or some other person playing keyboards. horrifying. then imagine this: i make a “james murphy” record, or, i don’t know, an “everteen” record, or whatever made-up name i come up with, and there’s pat playing drums, and nancy. maybe al isn’t too busy with hot chip so he comes to play. what the fuck is that? here were our choices: 1. make music with your friends and call it something else, which seems hilarious (everteen) or egomaniacal to the point of sociopathic (james murphy solo record). 2. make music, but WILLFULLY EXCLUDE your friends because of the horrors in option 1. 3. make an LCD record with your friends, who want to make said record, and deal with whatever fall-out together. 4. don’t make music, to avoid the horrors of all of the above. 5. make music and, like, hide it somewhere. we decided, clearly, on option 3, and i was fully prepared for a certain amount of “oh fuck that guy” over-it stuff—in fact welcomed it. it’s strangely energizing to have people who don’t make music themselves take potshots at you from the internet. and there’s always been a current of O.F.T.G. with me (i’m saying me and not us because, let’s be honest… no one hates anyone else in LCD, partially because they’re unhateable, and also because they have the wisdom to not shoot their mouths off nearly as much), and that’s just fine. i’m pretty used to it, and find it relatively funny.
Mit Losing My Edge, Yeah, Someone Great und Get Innocuous haben LCD einige meiner All Time Lieblingssongs geschrieben. Das Livekonzert 2007 in Berlin war eines der besten meines Lebens. Bands, die Joy Divisions No Love Lost covern, haben per se meine größte Liebe (s. nun auch Die Nerven). Trotz einiger Vorbehalte (s. Musik-News) freue ich mich jetzt doch täglich mehr.
“Troubled times, kids, we got no time for comedy.” (Phife Dawg)
Ob die Motivation für das Comeback noch lange anhält? Beim gestrigen Headline-Auftritt im "T In The Park"-Festival waren offenbar kaum Leute da....traurig. Nur am Wetter kann's nicht gelegen haben.
Den Artikel habe ich gestern auch entdeckt und ich kann es noch immer kaum glauben, was da auf dem Bild zu sehen bzw. nicht zu sehen ist. Ja, traurig ist das
hm, bei denen bin ich gespalten. die hangover-hymne "american dream" finde ich toll, "call the police" klingt aber eher nach new order-abklatsch. kein schlechtes stück, aber ein bisschen langweilig.
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