Shut Up And Play The Hits

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thanks! Good band.

Thomas

Am 26.01.2014 03:52, schrieb Johnny Marr:
> 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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