LCD Soundsystem s/t poll

I concur.

kinda resent the last track for ripping off Eno/Cluster so shamelessly, then again that's sorta what LCD is all about

his shameless rips felt a little more interesting on this one than later on at least, like "drunk girls" and "somebody's calling me" were just like 'come on lol'

What is Drunk Girls a rip of, I should know it but I don’t

Dance Yrsef Clean was a bit of a disappointment, didn’t realize a huge part of that was basically ripped off wholesale

drunk girls is a rip of "white light/white heat"

didn't know about dance yrself clean being such a rip either, he at least did something interesting with it though. that's surely a case he should have at least given the pool a writing credit for it though

oh geez, of course it is

I agree DYC does some pretty cool stuff with it but it felt a little uncouth to rip such an obscurity and give no credit at all. with Somebody's Calling Me you at least its kinda assumed people get the reference

I found a great playlist (Reddit maybe) which had This Is Happening alongside the "originals":

The Pool - Jamaica Running = Dance Yrself Clean

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat = Drunk Girls

Executive Slacks - The Bus (12" Version) = One Touch

David Bowie - Heroes = All I Want

Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger = I Can Change

Grauzone - Eisbär = You Wanted a Hit

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) = Pow Pow

Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing = Somebody's Calling Me

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) = Home

Bron Under Punches was ripped off pretty thoroughly for another track off the new album, can't remember the name though

"other voices" or "change yr mind" which are both extremely remain in light-influenced? but both are at least just stylistic homages rather than being direct rips in the way a lot of his stuff is.

"pow pow" and "home" just sound 'talking heads-influenced' to me as well

None of that bothers me so much as the fact that he was misguided enough to think he could try to sound like Mark E. Smith and get away with it - I mean, as this poll demonstrates, he did get away with it, but wtf people??!?!? He's from Brooklyn!

Here's the playlist btw:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=m6zycX4hQ_SusLnN9-RW6g

someone on another thread pointed out that "Dance Yourself Clean" is also under heavy influence of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone* and I can't not unhear that anymore.

*who opened for LCD on their first or 2nd tour iirc

whats funny about that to me is that MES did accuse Murphy of ripping him off, but the track he was accusing him of stealing was "Fledermaus Can't Get Enough" from the Von Sudenfed record, which sure enough sounds like "Losing My Edge"....a song that came out 3 years earlier

talk of rip off got me trying to remember the name of this Peter Accident tune... huge proto-Murphy vibes imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvRu3_d50U

^^^file under "songs you only have to listen to once if that".

Losing My Edge is all time. Still sounds like nothing else.

Apart from someone doing a Mark E. Smith impersonation over "Change" by Killing Joke that is?

― Future England Captain (Tom D.)

I always heard it closer to Cardboard Lamb by Crash Course in Science: https://youtu.be/DdNH1urxXOw

But if the reference is actually Killing Joke then here’s yet another song that proves it does sound like something else.

The Killing Joke song itself is a rip off of "Me and Baby Brother" by War, so what goes around come around!

"Grauzone - Eisbär = You Wanted a Hit" - Wow

White Light/White Heat to Drunk Girls is a bit of a stretch.

It’s been years since I heard these LCD albums and a revisit today has made me realize that most of these songs would probably be better if they were half as long. The average LCD soundsystem song is 7 minutes long and it spends half of that waving to stolen ideas.

I guess that’s some nod to Led Zep.

"North American Scum" reminds me a lot of "Homosapien" by Pete Shelley

to put it mildly!

"Daft Punk is Playing At My House" immediately reminds me of AC/DC's "TNT" though I suppose most people caught that

That cardboard lamb track is terrific.

Tbf richard d james also sort of stole the same beat for caustic window’s “cunt” which is a terrible compilation track I won’t bother looking up on YouTube

LOL - their albums are always a pleasure for that reason. It can feel like you're rummaging through a great record collection, with Pete Shelley, Kraftwerk or who knows what else emerging to the surface.

Cardboard Lamb sounds more like a straight rip of Warm Leatherette than any of LCD's straight rips of things sound like their inspirations

The LCD rips don't really bother me, it's almost always re-creating an instrumental that he's writing a new song on top of. People seem to like that when Erykah Badu or Amy Winehouse have done it.

(credit is another thing entirely, of course they should be giving up some of the publishing)

Cardboard Lamb sounds more like a straight rip of Warm Leatherette than any of LCD's straight rips of things sound like their inspirations

― bat ain't Thad (sic), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I agree.

i think lol

Windom Earl-looking motherfucker.

Complaining about stealing is boring.

I agree but posting the source is interesting.

fwiw, I don't consider any LCDSS track as theft. It's actually an amazing aspect of what they do to that it isn't.

that Peter Accident song is Chuck Prophet btw O_o