A funny thing happened to music terminology while you've been raising your kids, specifically there has been explosion of descriptive terms and genres, making it harder for the returning music fan to sift through. It used to be so easy to describe a band like LCD Soundsystem. You would have called them a "dance" band. Now you would get an argument that they are Dance-Punk, Shit-Disco or one of a million other opinionated blogging descriptors. While Ralph's World songs were being branded onto the part of your brain that let's you enjoy music, you missed New Wave, No Wave, Chillwave, Dancehall, Grime, Bassline, Nu Metal, Indie, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Pop Punk, Mall Punk, Mashup, Crunk, Hyphee, Twee... If you missed out on "Post Punk" then you have no idea what "Post Punk Revival" is reviving right now.
All you need to know about this record is that it's really good, it'll make your head bob uncontrollably, it's pretty much one guy, James Murphy, it's kind of dance, kind of electronic, kind of rock and he has a couple other really good albums that preceded this. It might even cause you to "dance". Just buy it and play it really loud.
My picks from the album are "All I Want" and "Pow Pow".
Anyone remember TV Pow from Ray Rayner? Maybe that show is where my love of puppets started. powpowpowpowpowpowpow
BTW - LCD has an older song that could be the theme for this blog, "I'm Losing My Edge", except that he was being sarcastic. For the lost parent unfortunately, it's dead on.
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