Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. daft punk is playing at my house
2. too much love
3. tribulations
4. movement
5. never as tired as when i'm waking up
6. on repeat
7. thrills
8. disco infiltrator
9. great release

Disc 2:

1. losing my edge
2. beat connection
3. give it up
4. tired
5. yeah (crass version)
6. yeah (pretentious version)
7. yr city's a sucker (12" version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13181 in Music
• Released on: 2005-02-15
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
2007 reissue of the single disc version of the Electro Rock band's debut album featuring one bonus track: "Yr City's A Sucker". Originally released in 2005, LCD Soundsystem's self-titled debut lived up to all the hype surrounding it and featured a modern hodge-podge of electronic sounds that owed a huge debt to their influences but remained original and exciting. EMI.

Amazon.com
So much has been said about disco-punk's King Midas, New York musician/producer James Murphy, that it's kind of hard to believe that we've had to wait until 2005 for the debut album from his dancefloor project, LCD Soundsystem. LCD's classic triumvirate of early singles--"Losing My Edge," "Give It Up," and "Yeah"--joined the dots between punk-rock, disco, and funk in a way that hadn't been seen since the New York downtown scene of the early '80s, but these are bravely relegated to a bonus disc in favor of a suite of new material that reworks the band's influences in new, often explicit ways: take "Movement," for instance--a homage to the Fall that finds Murphy barking "It's a fat guy/ In a T-shirt/ Doing all the singing!" over punchy analog synths, or the quietly majestic "Great Release," a doff of the cap to Brian Eno circa Taking Tiger Mountain. For all his encyclopedic musical knowledge, however, it's one of Murphy's strengths that he seldom seems uptight about the practice of music-making: it's how he can get away with penning a gonzo disco-punk number and naming it something as fantastically flippant as "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"--and more importantly, it's why LCD Soundsystem succeeds as a splendid dance record as well as a smart intellectual exercise. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Good Music, Bad Discs
These CDs come with the infamous "Copy Controlled" technology which requires you to install software on your computer just so you can play it. If you want to jump through hoops in order to play your disc, and you would also like to risk possible negative side-effects of the newly installed software, this CD is for you! Perhaps there are other versions of this CD out there. I wish I had not purchased this one. Too bad, because the music on it is good from what I heard at a friend's house.

Love it
I discovered LCD Soundsystem last year at the Arcade Fire concert in Seattle. This is great music for working out, listening loud with your headphones on, or just for playing while relaxing at home. Great album.

After an interesting review session
I just recently read "Bob"'s comments above (the first available) and found them to be quite interesting if not justified. It seems that he has taken the opportunity to terrorize a songmaker that is gifted with complex style and listenability. Well, all is fair in reviews I guess, however I believe this CD deserves a rebuttal.
Mostly, this disk has fantastic tunes, sounds, and interjected words. I don't think its the greatest disk ever made - yet it stands out as an impressive collection of wonderful ideas. If you are into punk rock and electronic music it might make for a good listen (at least for the first 20 or so times).

Bob - keep listening to those wonderful other bands you like so much.