They were shamelessly derivative but such good fun in 2000s.
Still sounds amazing imho
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I saw them live around 2007, they morphed a live version of Paperclip People - Throw into All My Friends, it was absolutely wicked
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I loved the DFA label although musically I felt they lost their way later on with the newer acts. The fallout with Goldsworthy was a bit messy too.
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made for a hell of a song tho!
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I really liked the early juan maclean too. I totally get that sunshine jones was pissed off but this was such a killer tune live. I saw them at cargo in London maybe 15 years back. Such a sweaty vibe tho nothing as intense as this!
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I still like a lot of their stuff but he nicked everything (ACR, The Fall, Talking Heads…), don’t think he’s had an original idea in his life and the whole NYC/Brooklyn/Williamsburg thing felt really contrived and artificial to me
Still think this is great
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100%
But they DID open my ears to so much forgotten underground music from early 80s and mixed it up with house. All felt really exciting for a while. The Lizzy Goldman book captures it really well
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45:33 & Freakout are way ahead of Sound of Silver
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Not a huge fan, but do like some of their stuff, the Nike thingy being my favourite. They are amazing as a live band though, with everything actually played ‘live’.
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Had “Losing My Edge” pop up in the headphones as I was stalking the aisles of Sainburys for last minute family dinner vibes.
As spot on and relevant in 2024 as it was back in the day. Funny to me how many of the references in the track I didn’t know/get then, but totally understand now.
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I always got the impression Murphy was winging it really almost as a parody but then suddenly he became the real thing, which is why LCD were a bit deer in the headlights when they started getting earnest fans with real emotions. Not to say he didn’t have a shrewd business brain too but perhaps things did get a bit out of hand as they got bigger?
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I love the first part of 45:33, the way it builds into the piano and the handclaps and the harmonising with that great bassline…‘shame on you!’…one of the best things they ever did.
After that i’m not really bothered with the rest.
I used to run listening to it ( what it was made for apparently) and just used to go back to the start again when the first part ended.
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Tim Goldsworthy is an interesting character, was at Mo’ Wax when they were one of the coolest labels in the world and doing great stuff (Lavelle went prog house after he left i think 
) and then had a second act at DFA and seems to have done the same there?
Don’t know much about him or what his role was at either label but he seems to have been involved when the good stuff was happening.
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Yeah the Meet Me In The Bathroom book was great. Great insight into early dfa with David Holmes bringing the Mitsubishis to NYc.
Loved that Juan McLean/Rapture split 12” on DFA.
Give Me Every Little Thing still a massive tune.
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My Mrs worked at Plant Bar nyc when it was the place to be and running regular nights at Centro fly and on to body and soul sunday… Great time in the city 
If I remember right Ron Trent had a Monday party with guests and you would only hear about it leaving body and soul…
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How many times do they want to disband then reform?
Edit: I’m afraid I was very drunk!
The new 12" releases seem to be interesting.
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LCD x Idjuts…
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Went to despacio at the royal festival hall years ago. Was pretty special. Had tickets for despacio at the roundhouse around the time COVID hit and it never went ahead.
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I made it to the Roundhouse session, was pretty special with really impressive sound and a lovely crowd.
Met the head sound tech from Macintosh at our hotel afterwards, he was fretting that the sound wasn’t perfect and planning further tweaks to that ridiculous rig…