LCD Soundsystem.JAMES MURPHY James Murphy may refer to:
How would you describe your music to your grandma? I'd say, "It's like crazy jazz, Grandma!" I'd say, "It's disco." What are you listening to these days? I like a lot of different tracks lately. People have been finding really interesting stuff to give me to listen to; like really old strange disco tracks that make me really happy. I recently started to like the first three songs on the Arcade Fire Arcade Fire (often known as "The Arcade Fire") is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2003 by the husband and wife team Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, the band's work features lush, anthemic arrangements and diverse instrumentation, necessitating a record. Things take me awhile to absorb. I tend to get one song and play it over and over again and that'll be a lead-in to a band. If you had to DJ a house party with one song on repeat all night, what would it be? "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. It's the classic disco track: robot music with a soul voice. It's just so simple and idiotic and perfect. Or "Loose" by The Stooges. That's probably the greatest rock song ever. It was my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. dance song for a really long time to play at parties and just tear people's heads off. It's just stone-cold, hair-on-your-arms-stand-up, freak-out stuff. Do you remember your first record? My first record ever was a 7-inch, "Fame" by David Bowie. My first album: I got some birthday money, went to the record store and bought Siouxsie and the Banshees Join Hands, The Fall Grotesque, and The Birthday Party Nick the Stripper Stripper Slang for an individual homeowner who strips the equity out of his or her home through mortgage refinancing. Proceeds are generally not re-invested, but spent on consumer goods. Notes: Most people get rich by saving and investing wisely. , all in one day. And all three of those records are three of my favorite things I've ever heard. What about your first CD? I didn't buy a CD 'til probably 1990. I'm sure it was just a CD of something I had on vinyl. I never really got too into CDs; I just don't feel like I own an album until I have it on record. And jewel boxes are ugly. They just feel like shit. They feel like cassettes, but cassettes are funny. I love cassettes. Were you ever into skating? I can't even fucking stand on my skateboard. I skated in the '70s on a little plastic thing. I was fucking terrible, absolutely abysmal, so I gave up. And then in the '80s, when I was in punk rock bands, all the kids who skated were hippies. They listened to The Dead and shit. So skateboarding when I was a kid was like hackey-sack-Dead-bullshit-hippie-boarding so I wouldn't be caught dead on a big deck. Then when I moved to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in '88 and started playing in bands, like every friend I had there was a skater. What's the most punk rock thing you've ever done? Make disco music. The most punk rock thing I could do is to keep re-evaluating punk rock 'cause it is awesome. It saved my life. But it can also be just as clique-y and childish as anything else. Kids are really mean to each other in it just like they are in high school. Punk rock can be a totally liberating, amazing thing, but it can totally be the cool club. Like, "Oh, we only like bands on this label and we only like bands that sound like this ..." So what is punk to you? You know, there are these arbitrary rules that don't make any sense. There's so much music that was punk as fuck that was way bigger than anything we would call punk rock, and that was the beauty of it. Like Suicide. They were like, "Yeah, we're gonna be huge. I play an organ with a beat box and that guy sings like Elvis." It's like, they're not gonna be huge! I love how deluded that was. When people say, "We're not gonna be big, and that's punk," that's the least punk think I've heard in my fuckin' life. David Bowie going out as Ziggy Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. is punk as fuck. Sun Ra is punk. But sounding like all your friends 'cause you're afraid to do anything else 'cause everyone will make fun of you is not punk. That's bunk. That's just willfully willfully adv. referring to doing something intentionally, purposefully and stubbornly. Examples: "He drove the car willfully into the crowd on the sidewalk." "She willfully left the dangerous substances on the property." (See: willful) signing up for more high school. Like, "I couldn't get enough fuckin' high school. I was so excellent at being terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. that I wore the wrong shirt, I'm gonna sign up for more of it. Maybe this time I'll win 'cause everybody'll be dysfunctional." |
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