I understand why this song is polarizing (seriously, look at the distribution of the user ratings — it's really love or hate), but it completely hits me where it counts.

Sure, I listen to a lot of "serious" music, but there's no denying the energy in this tune.  It just makes me want to crank the volume every time.  You have to listen to it on a powerful system to really feel it, especially late in the song when the bass is sliding around like a California earthquake.  I've probably played this song and album more than any other music I've purchased this year.

As someone who grew up listening to this type of music the first time it came around (think 1978-1982), I think LCD Soundsystem is the real deal.  Sure they borrow from the past, but they also chart their own path.  All 3 of their albums are worthwhile and I like Sounds of Silver best.  They're playing the Hollywood Bowl later this year — that should be one big party.

Holy sh*t I hate this. This is what happened when Schroeder grew up, kept playing his toy piano, and started taking E.

 Jamunca wrote: 

...so far this is my Summer 2010 song. Hard not to dance on the train home when I've got this drowning out all the vanilla pop rock spilling out other people's earphones. I wish it left me feeling more clean.

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It's kinda boring until the sort-of cheap-sounding video-game keyboard kicks in. Then it gets really boring. Just MHO.

The jerk reference in the lyrics reminds me of what a friend frequently said in college, "Some people act like jerks.  Some people are jerks. For example, Pete Rose, IS a jerk."  He never said it any other way. 

Bitchin cowbell, BTW

dull / generic spoken word against a bland beat. and then it turned into a techno nightmare.

I was listening to this earlier. I agree when you say too long , but still truly awesome. Not down some people's street, but still good music.  

A good 3 minutes too long.

Don't care so much for the lackadaisical first quarter of the song, but the latter part is typical LCD fun times!

Tight Pants Ironic Moustache Crowd: The Notorious TPIMC. They suck... lattes!  Snarf!

Is that Kermit the frog singing?

 lysisphere wrote: 
Are you kidding???

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This sounds like something that would appeal to the tight pants ironic moustache crowd, so I'm highly prejudiced against it.  Also never loved LCD Soundsystem.  This is kinda alright though, I gotta say...

This is what my voice sounds like when I DON'T sing in the shower...  Not the kind of song I'd listen to if I wanted to relax and Zen-out, but it does have a catchy beat. IMO, that's all it has going for it.

Most appropriate for large sound systems with plenty of bass. Hooooolyyyyyyy.

Not really appropriate for office speakers.  

So far, this thread is either "I have monkeys in my head, and I speak for them when I say we love this" or "AACK! Kill it with fire!!!"

Hence the 5.7 rating.

As for me, there's only 2 LCDS songs I get into, and this isn't one of them. But I don't hate hate hate it either. So, I'll just help it maintain the 5.7 with a 5 of my own.

 SigmaBetaTooth wrote: 
I heard that too.  Interesting guy, somewhat odd, but that's not surprising.  I don't think I'd give his tunes a second listen if I hadn't heard him talking about them.

Oh, and definitely tooooo loooooong.

This song really is great. It's not down a lot of folk's allies down here. But this song, really is amazing. 

Haven't listened to RP for about three months, and this is the first thing I hear when I return...and it just sucks.

See you in another three months.

Thomas Dolby called; he wants his synthesizer back.

Make it stop. Please.

 lysisphere wrote: 
Wow, I just dont know where to start.... try sitting quitely and dealing with yourself for awhile....and I mean with your own thoughts, you may find the monkees are trying to tell you something.

 aelfheld wrote: 
+juan

This is oddly appealing.

Interesting track, but could've done with being about two minutes shorter... Began to grind on me after what felt like five minutes. Vocals were deliberately far back in the mix, but (with certain specific exceptions COUGHradioheadCOUGH) I generally like to understand vocalists!

Fresh Air recently had a story about James Murphy (re)introducing dance/pop into Indy rock.  Wasn't sure I'd heard LCD Soundsystem before.  Now I have and am very glad for their contributions.

 shutter wrote: 
  Me too