Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
2. Too Much Love
3. Tribulations
4. Movement
5. Never As Tired As When I�m Waking Up
6. On Repeat
7. Thrills
8. Disco Infiltrator
9. Great Release

Disc 2:

1. Losing My Edge
2. Beat Connection
3. Give It Up
4. Tired
5. Yeah (Crass Version)
6. Yeah (Pretentious Version)
7. Yr City's A Sucker

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11156 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-24
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
So much has been said about disco-punk's King Midas, New York musician/ producer James Murphy, that's its kind of hard to believe that we've had to wait until 2005 for the debut album from his dancefloor project, LCD Soundsystem. LCD's classic triumvirate of early singles – "Losing My Edge", "Give It Up", and "Yeah"--joined the dots between punk-rock, disco, and funk in a way that hadn't been seen since the New York downtown scene of the early '80s, but these are bravely relegated to a bonus disc in favour of a suite of new material that rework the band's influences in new, often explicit ways: take "Movement", for instance – a homage to The Fall that finds Murphy barking "It's a fat guy/ In a T-shirt/Doing all the singing!" over punchy analogue synths, or the quietly majestic "Great Release", a doff of the cap to Brian Eno circa Taking Tiger Mountain. For all his encyclopaedic musical knowledge, however, it's one of Murphy's strengths that he seldom seems uptight about the practise of music-making: it's how he can get away with penning a gonzo disco-punk number and naming it something as fantastically flippant as "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"--and more importantly, it's why LCD Soundsystem succeeds as a splendid dance record as well as a smart intellectual exercise. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Debut album from New Jersey's James Murphy, one half of theacclaimed production team DFA - largely responsible for putting New York's "punk-funk" scene on the map. Murphy's own solo effort crosses the minimalist, psychedelic sounds of 70sgreats like Can or Brian Eno with an almost mechanical sense of rhythm, with tight, martial beats aimed squarely at thedancefloor. This CD version includes a bonus disc compilingLCD's singles since 2003.

Customer Reviews

well, i think it's pretty cool...
A few of these reviews have been attacking this cd for being boring and repetitive, and yes, in all honesty i can see where they're coming from... but if you like music that's not frightened to stick with a cool beat for a few minutes longer than most pop songs - then you'll love this.

Basically - what you hear is what you get. It's like a daft punk album - after you've heard one or two tracks you know pretty much what to expect. The first lcd song i heard was 'losing my edge', which i thought was completely amazing and led me to buy the album, which completely met all expectations.

So this album might well not be your thing... but the only advice i can give in that respect, is that you make sure to listen to at least one or two of the tracks before you buy it, so that you won't then have to complain in reviews about what a waste of money it was...

LCD [come down to the dance floor and dance!] system
I dance to this record. I dance so hard i get headaches and those little flickering stars areound the edge of my vision. I don't dance. Ever. And this album makes me want to... NME in their own smug way praise this all the time... And for once, they're right about someone other than Bloc Party... James Murphy is a god. It's true to say if you like anything for Foo Fighters to Daft Punk and back again, there will be something for you on this album. From the cd1 opener 'Daft Punk is playing at my house' you know you've found something special... And then you get to 'Give It Up', my personal favourite on the album... In terms of dance music, I haven't been this excited since On The Ropes by Mint Royale was released... And Give it Up is now my weapon of choice even over the mighty 'Shake Me' (one of the best dance tracks of our generation). The only reason this won't sell is because people today are shallow minded. One side like 'alt.'. One side likes 'crunk 'n'... whatever it is this week'. This merges them, throws it out a window into a vat or toxic waste, soaks thoughroughly, spin drys and then jumps in the mud...
'There's every kid for miles at my house, my house'... With the cd in you'll possesion, they'll have good reason to be there!

Dance music's future?
Dance music is in a bad state in the 21st Century. Aside from a handful of visionary groups remaining like Faithless or the Chemical Brothers, even the 90s champions are either fading away (i.e. The Prodigy) or have gone underground (i.e. Underworld, Aphex Twin, albeit the latter at least voluntarily). This leaves us with hundreds of no-name DJs and vaguely attractive female vocalists warbling a solitary lyrical motif over boring synths. In fact, the DJs seem to do little except dip the tone control for the middle eight.

It would appear that James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem mainman and maverick producer, is the man who could well save dance music. Not only is this deluxe two-disc package fantastic value - it comes with a second disc collecting all of LCD Soundsystem's singles from 2002 onwards, right back to debut 'Losing My Edge' - but unlike most double albums, it's difficult to trim these 100 minutes down to a single disc's worth. The quality is very high throughout, possibly due to the eclecticism on show.

As shown on 'Losing My Edge,' Murphy is defined and inspired by his record collection and aside from its namechecking in that song, you can hear it all over these two discs. The Beatles, of course, are present in 'Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up,' while his love of punk can be found in 'Tired' and elsewhere. Classic dance music as well as the spindly guitars of post-punk show up in brilliant single 'Tribulations.'

One song, however, fails to betray any of its influences but also proves why Murphy is the future of dance. 'Yeah (Pretentious Version)' is an eleven minute meander through synthesisers, keyboards, drum machines, percussion and enthusiastic whooping from Murphy himself. Across its long running time, not a single moment is slack or worth ignoring, and there is little (if any repetition), the exact opposite of what dance music has become in the modern age. It's truly thrilling to hear someone taking such influence while also showing how much they will hold themselves soon enough.

LCD Soundsystem is the album that will take Daft Punk's place in your hearts; as indicated by the first track of the first disc. If this is what dance music is to be like in the future, we're all in for a great ride.