Shut Up And Play The Hits

[David Morris]

Thanks for pointing this all out.  This is great shit. I always discounted
LCDSS as techno, and I don't dislike techno. NPR has great clips.

On Saturday, January 25, 2014, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> is a documentary of the final concert of LCD Soundsystem, interspersed
> with an interview of frontman James Murphy the following day as he
> discusses what the band meant to him and why he decided to break them up at
> the height of their popularity and acclaim.
>
> Early on in the film the camera pans to a well stocked bookshelf and pans
> in on well thumbed copies of Mason Dixon and Inherent Vice, before Murphy
> begins to explain how he began reading Gravity's Rainbow when he was a
> teenager more as a posture than out of genuine literary curiosity, but that
> Pynchon's writings, themes and perspective have fundamentally altered his
> own view of art and the wider world.
>
> LCD Soundsystem won't appeal to some of the older members of the P-list -
> I suppose you could call them post-punk revivalists - but John Cale liked
> them enough to cover All My Friends.
>
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