For a brief moment at a younger time, I was very eager to learn to how to tame tigers. I think there was a show on Kunskapskanalen about the tamers of lions, bears and sea creatures at circus parks. There is something about being able to take something that is alive and wild and making it do things that you ask of it when you ask with no fear. When I listen to LCD Soundsystem, I feel a similar feeling that I felt about being a wild animal dominator: James Murphy takes things that seem wild and brings them into a way of being together in almost perfection.
The first song on this music album is really something. Some people say he is just a clever mimicry of The Talking Heads or David Bowie or some other greats, which hey that's pretty cool! What pop music isn't borrowed from it's other forefathers? LCD Soundsystem always makes me feel gay. And when I say makes me feel gay, I actually mean I would maybe have sex with a man. I don't ever feel this way. When I watched the men's diving of the Olympics I didn't even have any tingling. But when I listen to LCD Soundsystem I feel like having sex, and maybe with a tiger, a tame one I mean. I think it would be dangerous to attempt this with something in the jungle.
'This is Happening' has such a deep insertion of beats and wonderful melody. It's dancing but also is making you think. Parts of 'Drunk Girls' as much as one could say it's a throwaway part are extremely sweaty, heavily lubricated penetrations. I can only imagine the crowds of an NYC party just being really sexual all over each other as it plays.
'One Touch' has some great analog type sounds that start out being very out of synchronicity but take on a whole as the song climaxes. The lyrics are a meta way that is signature Murphy: 'I don't think that we will be pleased with this/we have waited a long time' it might be about Obama, or about the band itself waiting so long to make another song release, or maybe prolonging climax as the Asian says 'One Touch!' as well along with him. The song 'All I Want' reminds me a lot of Brian Eno 'Another Green World' album with longer guitar fedback girth.
On 'You Wanted A Hit' there's a feel of the Far East or a massage parlour maybe in the seedy underbelly of a city. It reminds me of the movie 'Big Trouble In Little China' in which Jack Burton is hilarious~! There's a lot of slow grind to the latter few tracks as in a pornographic or perhaps a club of strippers. If I were James Murphy and walked in a place with stripping and heard my own voice, I'd be so happy! haha!
Is that 'Nightclubbing' by Iggy Pop? Oh no it's track 8! 'Somebody's Calling Me'! Maybe somebody should call Iggy Pop's lawyers! ha ha! Overall though this is righteously great regardless of it's more obvious taking from other places. Life is too short to think that we're not all big tiger tamers!!!
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