LCD Soundsystem s/t poll

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