LCD Soundsystem - “All I Want”
Since we’re right around six weeks away from 2011, it’s time to start flexing our list muscles and undertake the increasingly futile exercise of cataloging our super-important musical experiences from this year. Point out (astutely) how silly this year-end talk is as much as you want, but people aren’t going to stop doing it. We’re constantly bombarding ourselves with media and we need a way of periodically making sense of it.
The other side of it for me, though, is that now I get to fret about just how cliche my take on the ‘Best of 2010’ will be, how hype cycles will come back to bite my buttocks and how horrid it will be when I read other people saying less-than-glowing things about the stuff I like. This song by LCD Soundsystem sounds big and triumphant but also wounded and vulnerable, just like the famous song it pays tribute to. Because of that whole tribute thing, it’s not just a song about difficult romances and stuff, it’s a song about history, about how great things decay as they get older and how it’s sad but we have to let it happen anyway because living in the past is the easiest way to lose your edge. And maybe the fact that it’s such a stereotypically LCD set of themes isn’t evidence of a lack of creativity so much as proof of what a difficult circumstance it can be to accept. Forget about Pitchfork’s ‘Best New Music’ tag—this is a song that people need to hear.
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