Blasting “Should Have Shot Paul” while in the McDonald’s drive-thru waiting for my Chicken McNuggets. You might be thinking…well maybe that happened last week or something. No, no, this is a random memory from October 2009.
Do any of you have quirky music memories?
See for yourself. It’s pretty cool.
Wavves is coming through town on June 22, 2010. They’ll be playing at Great Scott, where they played in September (KLYAM was in attendance). That show was pretty solid…I mean I only recognized “So Bored” and “No Hope Kids,” but still was pretty solid. Is it worth ten singles? It may be worth ten singles just to see semi-new members Billy Hayes and Stephen Pope, formerly of Jay Reatard. I can’t really picture them playing along to noise.
Watch a clip of The Strange Boys performing a few of their songs PLUS the Black Lips join them up on stage during “Be Brave” and… “Bad Kids” !!!
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Band: LCD Soundsystem
Release: 5/2010
Label: DFA
1. “Dance Yrself Clean” – A-
2. “Drunk Girls” – B-
3. “One Touch” – C
4. “All I Want” – B-
5. “I Can Change” – B-
6. “You Wanted A Hit” – B
7. “Pow Pow” – C+
8. “Somebody’s Calling Me” – C
9. “Home” – B+
Comments: LCD Soundsystem is a pretty fun band. I didn’t think “Dance Yrself Clean” to be much fun until the electronics kicked in halfway through. It’s got some really catchy synths and keyboard fills. The song’s lengthy but not necessarily overly so. Are we not men? We are LCD Soundsystem. If only Devo took cues from Daryl Palumbo. “Drunk Girls” is a little obnoxious. It’s a finely constructed POP song, except it doesn’t really do much for me. It’s like a ThreeOhThree song minus the bullshit. If I must give Murphy credit, I will say the man is pretty freaking flexible. I mean, is it really that easy to go from sounding like Palumbo to sounding like Ian Curtis? See “One Touch” for reference. That’s like the Pussycats Dolls turning into the Dum Dum Girls kind of shit right there. Back to “One Touch.” It’s simple and boring. The boring factor continues.
Grade: B- (81)
Someone deciding whether or not to go see Jay Reatard at Harper’s Ferry:
“The idea of paying 50 cents a minute for rock does not equal a real show experience to me. I think lap dances are cheaper, for fucks sake!”
Obscene or natural? Well I’ll play it casual and post it here, anyway:
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 