Shut Up And Play The Hits

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers... An even better band. One of 
the best, if you ask me.

John Cale covered them as well (the wonderful "Pablo Picasso").

But I doubt that Richman reads Pynchon...

Thomas


Am 26.01.2014 06:55, schrieb David Morris:
> And I REALY like that his vibe contains ellements of Johnathan Richmand
> and the Modern Lovers, and the Violent Femmes.  At least that's ho I
> hear it.
>
> On Saturday, January 25, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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