I know Bonnaroo was two months ago, but I finally removed this CD from the player just this week. While trolling through the live videos from the festival looking for connections to make for you, the reader, I recalled that many attendees were commenting on the LCD Soundsystem set. So I click on the link for the track "I Can Change" and immediately I'm transported back in time to an Oingo Boingo show in Nashville at the Exit/In when they were supporting Dead Man's Party. I've since watched the other videos from Bonnaroo and I'm convinced Danny Elfman HAD to be an influence on this guy, James Murphy, who basically is LCD. Think TV On The Radio with a sense of humor. I detect a Cracker sensibility, too, also based on wryly humorous. Apparently, Mr. Murphy had a chance to write for Seinfeld, so I get the funny aspect of LCD. I hear a hundred other musical influences, all dating back decades ago. In addition to the aforementioned Boingo, there's a lot of Talking Heads, OMD, Yello, some Trent Reznor, and one song that morphs from Blancmange into the Cars....wow...
Anyway, I guess I had passed on this band before maybe thinking it was some techno crap based on the name. It's danceable, no doubt, with nine tracks weighing in at approx. 65 minutes, but it is far more intelligent than just dance music, it's also fun!
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