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LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas [dailymotion]

THE GOOD: 2007 is over! Also Feist and Wilco were both kept out of the albums Top 10, plus an honestly surprising, kinda heartening Winehouse-over-Rihanna singles upset, if only by 4 mentions. (And even if No. 2 Rihanna spanked No. 3 "All My Friends" by a whopping 32 mentions.)
THE BAD: As with the Idolator Pop Critics Poll, Peter Bjorn and John earn a Top 10 placing on the singles list despite the evil "Young Folks" first whistling its way into our lives in 2006. Damned twee Swedes.
THE WHAAAA? Radiohead beats M.I.A. to the No. 2 albums spot despite an equal number of points, thanks to four more ballot mentions that break the tie. Not quite fraud at the polls, but clearly the electoral college is not the only voting system that needs reforming.

P.S. Psyche. Full lists not after the jump. Feel free to check out the results and come back here to argue them. Or not. It's 2008 and we have plenty of Hannah Montana stories new things to discuss, even if I'm not 100 percent sure what they are yet. Maybe we'll find out it was Rockwell that really killed Heath Ledger or Courtney Love will put out an album where every song features the Soulja Boy "YAHH!" or the bottom will drop out of Web 2.0 and we'll all be forced to get real jobs. This year's gonna be silly, I just know it.

Pazz And Jop 2007 [Village Voice]

By now you've seen the critics' lists of the year's best music. But what about the folks who really count—the people? In interest of fairness and balance, I've decided to take the critics' choices to some regular folks. That's right: it's time once again for this column to exploit my family.

This time around, I played the 2007 Idolator Pop Critics Poll's Top 10 Tracks for my mom, my sisters, and my sister's friend who always comes over on major holidays. The listening session took place at my sister Brittany's apartment in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Christmas Eve, shortly after dinner and gifts (opening everything the night before is a longstanding family tradition). Also around were my sisters' very tolerant significant others, Brittany's daughter Veronica, and plenty of delicious leftovers. As usual, I typed everyone's responses on the fly and occasionally paused the songs to fill in gaps.

Dramatis Personae:
Lorie, mother, age 47; listens to Christmas music
Michael, author, age 32; listens to the Marc Anthony best-of Brittany got him for Christmas
Alex, sister, age 22; kicks everyone's ass at Guitar Hero III
Brittany, sister, age 21; listens to the M.I.A. and Billie Holiday CDs Michael got her for Christmas
Cherrelle, Brittany's best friend, age 21; listens to her Kanye West ringtone

1. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z, "Umbrella" (Def Jam) [117 votes]
Alex: You know this song, Veronica?
Brittany: She sings it all the time. Is it this version that's No. 1?
Michael: This is the main version.
Lorie: Is there any versions without rap?
Michael: No.
Lorie: [frowns]
Brittany: Would you dance to it, Mom?
Lorie: I can't dance to anything.
Alex: She can probably dance better than she can sing.
Brittany: She could probably play rugby better than she sings.
Alex: She used to put on—what was it, Mom?
Lorie: A show?
Brittany: Wilson Phillips!
Alex: And she used to sing into her bedpost: "Hold on for one more day . . . "
Lorie: Are you sure I was singing and not screaming? I was pole dancing.
Brittany: I'll scream if you say anything like that again.
[The stereo we are listening on is connected to the TV, on which a commercial for itt-tech.edu is airing]
Lorie: Is this the video? People performing surgery? I thought maybe instead of the little drapes they put over you they were using umbrellas now.
Brittany: Are you retarded, Mom?

2. LCD Soundsystem, "All My Friends" (Capitol) [89 votes]
Brittany: This reminds me of Schroeder—it kind of sounds like the Snoopy theme.
Michael: This is a song by LCD Soundsystem called "All My Friends."
Brittany: I wish I had a song about all my friends.
Alex: It'd be over by now.
Brittany: Michael, can you pass me that wine so I can drink my pain away?
Lorie: Good music. You couldn't hardly dance to it, though, could you? I could tell you what you could do to it, but not too many people could.
Alex: Not with you.
Lorie: No, by yourself!
Brittany: I think she's talking about cross-stitching. At least I hope so.
Michael: I'm surprised you guys like this so much; I thought the piano might turn you off. The song is basically about getting too old to party.
Alex: [immediately] No such thing!
Brittany: This is Alex's theme song in 10 years.
Lorie: It was my theme song 10 years ago.
Brittany: Fifty.
Alex: I want people to get drunk and karaoke at my funeral.
Brittany: [after talking to her boyfriend, who is from Mexico] Miguel thinks it's nice, too, and he doesn't speak English. [Author's note: He does too.] You know the twins on Peanuts who just jump? They could dance to this.
Lorie: I hope they play this at midnight mass tonight.
Michael: Why?
Lorie: So I can stay awake.

3. M.I.A., "Paper Planes" (Interscope) [66 votes]
Brittany: I've heard this. It's familiar. [The vocal comes in. Brittany holds up her just-unwrapped copy of Kala] It's her.
Lorie: I've heard this before.
Brittany: Where have you heard this?
Lorie: I've been listening to the radio. [chorus comes in] I wanna go to a bar!
Brittany: Is that what this reminds you of? The gunfire reminds you of the bars you go to? [turns attention back to music] I really like this. But it's so much different than, like, "Bucky Done Gun." You say you like this album more? But the last album was really different. She's more singing than shouting. Is she trying to be more mainstream? I think I could listen to this for longer periods of time if it's all like this. Miguel, how do you like this? The gunshot [in the chorus] reminds you of the border, doesn't it?

4. Amy Winehouse, "Rehab" (Republic) [60 votes]
Lorie: All right, hey! This is the suicidal one [Veronica] sings!
Brittany: No, that's Sean Kingston.
Lorie: Oh, I remember this song now. What happened to her?
Brittany: She's fucked up beyond words. This is kind of Christmassy. All the dysfunctional families can relate to this one at Christmas. [after the line, "I don't ever want to drink again"] You know, if drinking makes her sing like this, she should go ahead. I feel sorry for her, though. She has a lot of underlying issues, and it's so evident.

5. Justice, " D.A.N.C.E." (Vice) [54 votes]
Lorie: This sounds like the beginning of Romper Stomper Romper Room. You ever heard of that?
Michael: Sort of. Romper Room was the kids' show, and Romper Stomper is a movie about racist skinheads in Australia.
Brittany: I thought it sounded like schoolchildren but you brought that into a whole other light, didn't you, Mom? It's like "Rock with You," in the beat. They should put this on Dance Dance Revolution. That would be fun times.
Cherrelle: Romper Room sounds like a porno. This reminds me of the Jackson 5. I could listen to this, definitely.
Brittany: This would be fun to dance to . . .
Cherrelle: . . . If I was drunk.
Brittany: And you're drunk all the time!
Cherrelle: I should just start dancing.

6. Peter Bjorn & John, "Young Folks" (Almost Gold) [50 votes]
Lorie: Oh, I love this! [whistles along]
Brittany: How do you know this and I don't?
Michael: Where have you heard this?
Lorie: I heard it at work. I love that whistle part. It just grabs you right away.
Michael: This came out last year internationally, and did well on last year's poll, but it was released in America this year, which is why it placed again. It was a big crossover hit—Kanye West rhymed over it on a mixtape.
Cherrelle: Now, why do you wanna ruin a perfectly fine piece of music like this? He's been stepping out of his realm with that Daft Punk stuff.
Brittany: He's been taking a flying leap out of his realm with that.
Alex: I've heard this song before.
Brittany: Where did you hear it?
Alex: I don't remember.
Michael: It's a group called Peter Bjorn & John. They're Swedish.
Cherrelle: [to Alex] Well then, maybe you heard it at Ikea.

6. Battles, "Atlas" (Warp) [50 votes]
Brittany and Alex: [immediately] "The beautiful people, the beautiful people."
Brittany: It is! It totally is.
Michael: It's not.
Brittany: I hate to disagree with you, Michael. I didn't know Marilyn Manson was still making records. [vocals come in] They're singing it backwards; they're putting in subliminal satanic messages. We could do a ouija board to this.
Cherrelle: I couldn't listen to this alone. I'd need to turn all the lights in the house on. Let's have a séance. This is what Marilyn Manson makes love to.
Brittany: These are probably his kids. Hey, Alex, come over here and let me carve a pentagram into your arm.
[Lorie, in kitchen, drops a cake on her foot]
Brittany: See? This music fucked her up so bad she dropped a cake on the floor.
Alex: [growling] "Red rum. Red rum."
Brittany: Did you just say you were going to spin your head in a circle?
Michael: So, do you guys like this?
Brittany: I like it on Halloween.
Lorie: [calling in from kitchen] I'm scared to fucking death of this song!

8. UGK ft. OutKast, "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)" (Jive) [49 votes]
[Michael restarts the song a couple times so the group can hear the first verse]
Cherrelle: He sounds like he's trying to be a pimp.
Michael: Sort of—-it's called "Int'l Players Anthem." But Andre 3000's verse is about getting married.
Brittany: Is he going to marry me? That's all I care about.
Cherrelle: I don't love that old crap in the background. It's like '60s gospel that my mother would listen to.
Brittany: I think that's your mother singing in the background.
[Second verse begins]
Cherrelle: I like how he's talking about marrying someone and saying "bitch" and "pussy."
Brittany: They're gonna get "bitch" and "pussy" engraved on their wedding rings.
Cherrelle: I like this guy's voice.
Michael: This is Pimp C, who recently died.
Cherrelle: Well, how you gonna hate on a dead man?
Michael: OK, this is Big Boi now.
Cherrelle: They're both tiny men.
Michael: Big Boi is much smaller than Andre.
Cherrelle: [to Brittany] Andre could wear your clothes.
Brittany: I'd let him. He can wear my clothes anytime.
Cherrelle: This is all starting to sound alike to me.
Brittany: [to Cherrelle, who's black] Racist.

9. Feist, "1234" (Cherrytree) [48 votes]
Brittany: [immediately, to opening strums] "The beautiful people . . . "
Alex: This is the video with all the kids all skipping rope. [imitates choreography]
Brittany: [after the line, "Teenage hopes arrive at your door"] "Teenage hoes"?
Cherrelle: She keeps saying "ho."
Brittany: Very Christmassy.
Cherrelle: [sings] "1-2-3-4, you a ho."
Brittany: [sings] "5-6-7-8, your momma's a ho too/9-10-11-12, your grandma's a ho, too."
Cherrelle: If we weren't so mean, this would probably be a nice song.
Brittany: If we weren't so fucking cynical, we could enjoy this. If we hadn't just listened to Marilyn Manson . . .

10. Kanye West, "Stronger" (Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam) [35 votes]
Brittany and Cherrelle: [immediately] "Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic . . . "
Cherrelle: I love this song.
Michael: Based on what you said earlier, I thought you didn't like it.
Brittany: No, I said I thought he took a flying leap out of his realm.
Michael: I misunderstood, then.
Cherrelle: Yeah, this is my ringtone.
Brittany: [deadpan] And that says a lot. You've really got to be a hardcore fan to have someone's song for a ringtone. And everybody turns around and says, "Hey, 'Stronger'! Let me holla at you!" [to Cherrelle] Does this ringtone make you stronger?
Cherrelle: [sardonically] I feel empowered. [song continues for awhile] I felt bad when his mom died.
Lorie: You know recently I just took a day off when my father's wife died.
Brittany: You know what's a big factor of why I don't like this song? Those awful fucking sunglasses with the blinds. They look retarded.
Cherrelle: You look like you have Down's Syndrome when you have them.
Brittany: Camp Courage sunglasses. [to Michael] Don't put that in there.
Michael: Can I please?
Brittany: If I get shanked for this, Michael, it's your fault.
Lorie: If you get shanked for this, I get a day off!

THE GOOD: Consensus cynicism be damned, it's kind of heartening that, after all the first-listen reviews and release date hype hype, people actually do seem to be repeat-listening to and enjoying the Most Important Album Of 2007. (You can decide which one we're talking about.)
THE BAD: That said, consensus keeps great records from Roisin Murphy, Dude N' Nem, and the Dirty Projectors, which "most often received first-place votes," off the singles list in favor of two Arcade Fire joints, two Radiohead songs, and (less irritatingly) two Spoon and LCD Soundsystem tracks each. Democracy!
THE WHAAA?: We've only included the Best Albums and Best Singles list after the jump, but interestingly, or perhaps just keeping with this year's vibe of established artists comfortably trouncing even well-regarded upstarts, only three of the winners in the Best New(ish) Act category make the album and/or singles lists, all down in the lower reaches save the expected Top 10 finish for Justice's "D.A.N.C.E."

Albums
1. Radiohead: In Rainbows
2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
3. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
4. The National: Boxer
5. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
6. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
7. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
9. M.I.A.: Kala
10. Battles: Mirrored
11. Feist: The Reminder
12. Okkervil River: The Stage Names
13. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
14. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
15. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
16. Menomena: Friend and Foe
17. Justice: †
18. Burial: Untrue
19. Deerhunter: Cryptograms
20. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
21. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
22. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
22. Kanye West: Graduation
23. Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
24. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
25. Band of Horses: Cease to Begin

Singles
1. LCD Soundsystem: "All My Friends"
2. Panda Bear: "Bros"
3. M.I.A.: "Paper Planes"
4. Battles: "Atlas"
5. Animal Collective: "Fireworks"
6. LCD Soundsystem: "Someone Great"
7. The National: "Mistaken for Strangers"
8. Feist: "1 2 3 4"
9. Justice: "D.A.N.C.E."
10. Arcade Fire: "Keep the Car Running"
11. Radiohead: "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
12. Radiohead: "Nude"
13. Arcade Fire: "Intervention"
14. Spoon: "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"
15. Of Montreal: "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
16. Spoon: "The Underdog"
17. Okkervil River: "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe"
18. Animal Collective: "Peacebone"
19. Beirut: "Elephant Gun"
20. UGK [ft. Outkast]: "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)"
21. Rihanna: "Umbrella"
22. Wilco: "Impossible Germany"
23. Jens Lekman: "A Postcard to Nina"
24. Caribou: "Melody Day"
25. Band of Horses: "Is There a Ghost?"

2007 Pitchfork Readers Poll [Pitchfork]

THE GOOD: The Top 10 belongs to what are by now the usual suspects (try to guess the precise order before clicking!), but this is probably the only year-end wrap-up where Sun City Girls guitar magus Sir Richard Bishop shares space with the handbag R&B of T2's bassline house anthem "Heartbroken," a soppy memory from the heyday of U.K. garage that grows on me with each listen. And unlike the bulk of 2007's best-of lists, most every entry comes with an MP3 or audio stream (or at least a video clip) so that you can decide in real time just how much you disagree with it.
THE BAD: Pretty light on dance/electronic music for a site with a monthly techno column by one of the best critics covering the beat and hip-hop's been more or less whittled down to the handful of expected/accepted 2007 Inter-faves (Kanye, Jay-Z, Wayne, etc.) in favor of Pitchfork's indie wheelhouse (which had a better-than-average year). Plus they didn't even have the balls to rank the Black Kids higher than No. 68.
THE WHAAAA? Pitchfork's (institutional) embrace of the pop charts is still so odd. (That it was one of the weakest years for American pop in my living memory notwithstanding.) For instance, nothing by Lloyd, Ne-Yo, Amerie (who they favorably reviewed, even if she scored no American hits this year), Keyshia Cole, Timbaland, Bobby Valentino, Beyonce, Chris Brown, etc. makes the list, which would be fine if there was a blanket ban on non-"Umbrella" R&B. Except why did a negligible soundtrack inclusion from one-hit ex-model Cassie (a song the entry even acknowledges is initially "devoid of any distinctive qualities") make it in?

100: Ost & Kjex "Milano Mugolian (A Thrilling Mungophony in Two Parts)"
99: Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew "Backed Out on the..."
98: Old Time Relijun "Indestructible Life!"
97: Sir Richard Bishop "Ecstasies in the Open Air"
96: Times New Viking "Teenage Lust!"
95: Groove Armada [ft. Mutya Buena] "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)"
94: MGMT "Time to Pretend"
93: Antibalas "Beaten Metal"
92: Air "Mer du Japon (Kris Menace Remix)"
91: Menomena "The Pelican"
90: Miranda Lambert "Gunpowder & Lead"
89: Air France "Beach Party"
88: The New Pornographers "Myriad Harbour"
87: Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Me and My Imagination"
86: Rekid "Next Stop Chicago"
85: BARR "The Song Is the Single"
84: 50 Cent "I Get Money"
83: Sonic Youth "I'm Not There"
82: Tinariwen "Matadjem Yinmixan"
81: Modest Mouse "Dashboard"
80: Grizzly Bear "Little Brother (Electric)"
79: Magik Markers "Taste"
78: Amy Winehouse "Tears Dry on Their Own"
77: The National "Mistaken for Strangers"
76: Klaxons "Golden Skans"
75: Escort "All Through the Night"
74: Black Lips "Katrina"
73: The Twilight Sad "Cold Days From the Birdhouse"
72: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists "La Costa Brava"
71: The Shins "Turn on Me"
70: Cassie "Is It You?"
69: Roísín Murphy "Overpowered"
68: Black Kids "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"
67: Devin the Dude [ft. Andre 3000 and Snoop Dogg] "What a Job"
66: King Khan & the Shrines "Welfare Bread"
65: DJ Khaled [ft. T.I., Akon, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman & Lil Wayne] "We Takin' Over"
64: No Age "Neck Escaper"
63: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "I'm Not Gonna Cry"
62: Cool Kids "I Rock"
61: !!! "Heart of Hearts"
60: The White Stripes "Rag and Bone"
59: Lil Wayne "Upgrade U"
58: Shellac "The End of Radio"
57: Electrelane "To the East"
56: Aesop Rock "None Shall Pass"
55: Studio "No Comply"
54: Joanna Newsom "Colleen"
53: Bat for Lashes "What's a Girl to Do?"
52: The Clientele "Bookshop Casanova"
51: Kanye West [ft. T-Pain] "Good Life"
50: Dude 'N Nem "Watch My Feet"
49: Yeasayer "2080"
48: Liars "Plaster Casts of Everything"
47: T2 "Heartbroken"
46: Deerhunter "Wash Off"
45: The Honeydrips "Fall From a Height"
44: Pantha du Prince "Saturn Strobe"
43: Deerhoof "The Perfect Me"
42: Spoon "Black Like Me"
41: Los Campesinos! "You! Me! Dancing!"
40: Beirut "Elephant Gun"
39: Sally Shapiro "He Keeps Me Alive"
38: Matthew Dear "Deserter"
37: Blonde Redhead "23"
36: Okkervil River "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe"
35: Dirty Projectors "Rise Above"
34: The Tough Alliance "Silly Crimes"
33: Dinosaur Jr. "Almost Ready"
32: R. Kelly [ft. T.I. and T-Pain] "I'm a Flirt (remix)"
31: Cortney Tidwell "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects in Space Remix)"
30: Dan Deacon "Wham City"
29: Arcade Fire "Keep the Car Running"
28: Dizzee Rascal "Pussy'ole (Old Skool)"
27: Lil Mama "Lip Gloss"
26: Jay-Z "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is...)"
25: Kanye West "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
24: Gui Boratto "Beautiful Life"
23: Simian Mobile Disco "I Believe"
22: Animal Collective "Peacebone"
21: M.I.A. "Boyz"
20: Radiohead "All I Need"
19: The Field "A Paw in My Face"
18: Chromatics "In the City"
17: Burial "Archangel"
16: Feist "1 2 3 4"
15: Jens Lekman "A Postcard to Nina"
14: Caribou "Melody Day"
13: Of Montreal "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal"
12: Spoon "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"
11: Grinderman "No Pussy Blues"
10: Jay-Z [ft. Beanie Sigel] "Ignorant Shit"
9: Animal Collective "Fireworks"
8: Justice "D.A.N.C.E."
7: LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
6: UGK [ft. Outkast] "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)"
5: Rihanna [ft. Jay-Z] "Umbrella"
4: M.I.A. [ft. Bun B and Rich Boy] "Paper Planes (Remix)"
3: Panda Bear "Bros"
2: Battles "Atlas"
1: LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends"

Top 100 Tracks Of 2007 [Pitchfork]

LCD released my favorite album of the year—yes, me and seemingly every third rock critic on the planet—so I'm certainly not immune to the pleasures of universal fave "All My Friends" (a song so calculated to appeal to aged emos that I was rethinking including it here up until the last minute) or even the bullheaded mordancy of "North American Scum." But if it was James Murphy's lyrical dip into touchy-feely humanism that gave Sound Of Silver the edge over the sarcastic pastiche of its predecessor, the slow burner "Us. V. Them" revealed itself over the last 10 months as the album's greatest groove, which should still count for something when you're using the word "disco" to describe a band, whatever you're hyphenating it with. The guitars are at their most Afro-disco prickly, the Hi-NRG sequencers throb with Pat Mahoney's thrilling timekeeping, and discounting Silver opener "Get Innocuous," the well-documented Brian Eno vocal affectations are at their funniest.

LCD Soundsystem - "Us. V. Them" [YouTube]
LCD Soundsystem [Official site]

THE GOOD: Dance music! Lots of it! And not just Justice! Fact's Top 100 singles list is filled with dance 12s and EPs, from underground disco edits to Internet-hype picks to deep Germanic techno to dubstep, and their albums list is similarly foot-friendly. Totally refreshing, and making me think I should have paid closer attention to dance music this year.
THE BAD: Like a lot of (seemingly) dance/electronic-focused magzines, Fact's taste in guitar-based music sometimes feels a little shaky. Vampire Weekend released the best rock single of the year? If you say so, you crazy Englanders.
THE WHAAAA? On "Umbrella": "Just compare this take on a loved-up R&B ballad against, say, Beyonce's recent efforts, and you'll quickly see how special Rihanna is." Did the U.K. suddenly forget "Irreplaceable"? Has the planet gone mad? Am I still the only person alive who dislikes "Umbrella"?

Top 100 Tracks
01. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 'Get Innocuous'
02. ROISIN MURPHY 'Overpowered'
03. VAMPIRE WEEKEND 'Mansard Roof'
04. HOLY FUCK 'Lovely Allen'
05. PATRICK WOLF 'The Magic Position'
06. MIA 'Paper Planes'
07. BATTLES 'Atlas'
08. PANDA BEAR 'Bros'
09. BURIAL 'Archangel'
10. FOALS 'Hummer'
11. MATTHEW DEAR 'Don & Sherri'
12. SANTO GOLD 'Les Artistes'
13. BURAKA SOM SISTEMA 'Yah!'
14. STEREO IMAGE 'Red Nights'
15. CHROMATICS 'Running Up That Hill'
16. RIHANNA 'Umbrella'
17. FRIENDLY FIRES 'Strobe'
18. KLAXONS 'Golden Skans'
19. STILL GOING 'Still Going Theme'
20. BLACK KIDS 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You'
21. PINCH 'Get Up' feat. Yolanda
22. MODESELEKTOR 'The White Flash' feat. Thom Yorke
23. WAX STAG 'Short Road'
24. SINDEN & COUNT OF MONTE CRISTAL 'Beeper'
25. FEIST 'My Moon, My Man'
26. WIGHNOMY BROTHERS 'My Gloomy Head'
27. HOT CHIP 'My Piano'
28. TIMBALAND 'The Way I Are'
29. LATE OF THE PIER 'Bathroom Gurgle'
30. TODDLA T 'Do U Know?'
31. CAJUN DANCE PARTY 'The Next Untouchable'
32. ROBYN 'With Every Heartbeat'
33. VON SUDENFED 'Fledermaus Can't Get It'
34. AFRIKAN BOY 'One Day I Went To Lidl'
35. CHLOE 'Around The Clock'
36. DJ BLAQSTARR 'Shake It To The Ground'
37. SKEPTA 'In A Corner'
38. IPSO FACTO 'Harmonize'
39. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR 'Classique #2'
40. DUDE N DEM 'Watch My Feet'
41. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 'Peacebone'
42. DEVENDRA BANHART 'Seahorse'
43. RUSTIE 'Jagz The Smack'
44. BISHI 'Never Seen Your Face'
45. WHITE RABBITS 'The Plot'
46. LA PRIEST 'Engine'
47. AME 'Fiori'
48. PETE & THE PIRATES 'Come On Feet'
49. THE ALIENS 'Honest Again'
50. JUSTICE 'Stress'
51. BRODINSKI 'Bad Runner'
52. YEASAYER '2080'
53. D1 'Sorrow'
54. JACK PENATE 'Second, Minute, Hour'
55. DIZZEE RASCAL 'Flex'
56. LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION 'Galaxy of The Lost'
57. UNCLE SAM 'Round The Way Girls' (Tes La Rok Remix)
58. PLUGS 'That Number'
59. VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS 'Chief'
60. A MOUNTAIN OF ONE 'Brown Piano' (Version by Studio)
61. THE COCK N BULL KID 'Dead'
62. PANTHA DU PRINCE 'Saturn Strobe'
63. FINDLAY BROWN 'Losing The Will To Survive' (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)
64. BECK 'Cell Phone's Dead' (Ricardo Villalobos Entlebuch Remix)
65. FREE BLOOD 'Quick & Painful'
66. FLYING LOTUS 'Tea Leaf Dancers'
67. CRYSTAL CASTLES 'Crimewave'
68. DIRTY PROJECTORS 'Rise Above'
69. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 'Tiergarten' (Supermayer Remix)
70. GANG GANG DANCE 'Oxygen Demo Riddim'
71. NOZE 'Remember Love'
72. THE BUG 'Skeng' feat. Flow Dan & Killa P
73. HATCHBACK 'White Diamond' (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
74. FRANKIE VALLI 'Beggin'' (Pilooski Edit)
75. ARIL BRIKHA 'Room 337'
76. LIARS 'Houseclouds'
77. APPLEBLIM 'Vansan'
78. BONDE DO ROLE 'Office Boy'
79. DUKE DUMONT 'Lean & Bounce'
80. MARK E 'R&B Drunkie'
81. WILD BEASTS 'Assembly'
82. CHROMEO '100%'
83. DURRTY GOODZ 'Switching Songs'
84. BLACK AFFAIR 'Japanese Happening'
85. COKI & BENGA 'Night'
86. KELLEY POLAR 'Chrysanthemum'
87. T2 'Heartbroken' feat. Jodie
88. JUNIOR BOYS 'In The Morning' (Hot Chip Remix)
89. PONI HOAX 'Antibodies'
90. THEORETICAL GIRL 'The Hypocrite'
91. DAVID E. SUGAR 'Oi New York, This Is London'
92. THE FIELD 'A Paw In The Face'
93. SAMIM 'Heater'
94. SEBASTIEN TELLIER 'Sexual Sportswear'
95. SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO 'It's The Beat'
96. CONNAN & THE MOCKASINS 'Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend'
97. JOHNNY FLYNN 'The Epic Tale of Tom & Sue'
98. ROLAND APPEL 'Dark Soldier'
99. BAT FOR LASHES 'What's A Girl To Do?'
100. GROSVENOR 'Nitemoves'

Top 20 Albums
1. PANDA BEAR - PERSON PITCH
2. BURIAL - UNTRUE
3. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - SOUND OF SILVER
4. M.I.A - KALA
5. STUDIO - WEST COAST
6. KLAXONS - MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE
7. MATTHEW DEAR - ASA BREED
8. FIERY FURNACES - WIDOW CITY
9. HOLY FUCK - S/T
10. JUSTICE -†
11. ROBERT WYATT - COMICOPERA
12. BATTLES - MIRRORED
13. IRON & WINE - THE SHEPHERD'S DOG
14. PANTHA DU PRINCE - THIS BLISS
15. LIARS - S/T
16. MODESELEKTOR - HAPPY BIRTHDAY
17. CHLOE - THE WAITING ROOM
18. RICARDO VILLALOBOS - FABRIC 36
19. ALIENS - ASTRONOMY FOR DOGS
20. DURRTY GOODZ - AXIOM

Top 100 Tracks Of 2007 [Fact; HT: Matos]

THE GOOD: Because the Guardian's list reprinted lines—and star ratings—from each ranking album's original review, we can all see that either the music writers have changed their stance on the Klaxons or the Guardian's fired the person who gave Myths Of The Near Future one star, saying that "Indie chancers trying to pass this ropey stuff off as a dance revival is insulting and pointless." But maybe I appreciate this because Myths grew on me over the course of 2007, too.
THE BAD: Feist's The Reminder at No. 10. Britney Spears' Blackout at No. 17. Hey, if you're going to have the year's most talked-about dance-pop album on your list, why not get really ballsy and put it ahead of the snoozy dinner-party music?
THE WHAAA? "Like a hunk of blue cheese, Tennessee's Kings of Leon seem to be getting better with age." Really, Guardian? Really?

1 LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
2 Radiohead, In Rainbows
3 The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America
4 MIA, Kala
5 Klaxons, Myths of the Near Future
6 Kings of Leon, Because of the Times
7 Grinderman
8 Battles, Mirrored
9 PJ Harvey, White Chalk
10 Feist, The Reminder
11 Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare
12 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
13 The Felice Brothers, Tonight at the Arizona
14 Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
15 Les Savy Fav, Let's Stay Friends
16 The Good, the Bad & the Queen, The Good, the Bad & the Queen
17 Britney Spears, Blackout
18 Bruce Springsteen, Magic
19 Josh Ritter, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
20 El-P, I'll Sleep When You're Dead

2007's best albums [Guardian; HT Matos]

THE GOOD: Hey, look, the first list that actually remembers that electronic/dance music still exists, and/or that Justice wasn't the only dance act to release an LP this year. Plus stuff that gets played on the radio that's not "Umbrella" or Kanye West! It's like popular music actually has some breadth or something.
THE BAD: We actually have little in the way of beef with these lists, though they do confirm that Miranda Lambert, a very goood singer who made a solid album, has found herself turned into the Muzik Mafia of '07 by the planet's rock critics.
THE WHAAA?: Vampire Weekend's single ahead of Rihanna, R. Kelly, Lil Mama, and the best song off the Kanye LP? Also we're starting to feel like the only people on Earth who got a rah-rah rash whenever Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" came on MTV. Even Stephen King liked it!

Albums

50. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
49. Paramore - Riot!
48. Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Casket Letters
47. 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
46. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
45. Strategy - Future Rock
44. Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
43. Basteroid - Upset Ducks
42. Calle 13 - Residente O Visitante
41. Andy Palacio & The Garfuna Collective - Wátina
40. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
39. UGK - Underground Kings
38. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water is Life
37. Devin The Dude - Waitin' to Inhale
36. Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm
35. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
34. Dungen - Tio Bitar
33. Stars Of The Lid - And The Refinement Of Their Decline
32. Low - Drums and Guns
31. Menomena - Friend and Foe
30. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
29. Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
28. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
27. Of Montreal - Oh Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
26. Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond to You
25. Battles - Mirrored
24. Studio - West Coast
23. !!! - Myth Takes
22. Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season
21. Caribou - Andorra
20. Dalek - Abandoned Language
19. Liars - Liars
18. Justice - Cross
17. Grinderman - Grinderman
16. The Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
15. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
14. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
13. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
12. Phosphorescent - Pride
11. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows
09. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
08. M.I.A. - Kala
07. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
06. Kanye West - Graduation
05. The National - The Boxer
04. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
03. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
02. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
01. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

50. Weeping Willows - The Burden
49. Ciara - Like a Boy
48. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
47. Pleasure ft. Brett Anderson - Back to You
46. Devin the Dude feat. Andre 3000 and Snoop Dogg - What a Job
45. Christophe Willem - Double Je
44. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
43. Dominik Eulberg - Die Alpenstrandläufer von Spiekeroog
42. My Teenage Stride - Chock's Rally
41. Janelle Monae - Violet Stars Happy Hunting!
40. Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts
39. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
38. R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt (Remix)
37. Paramore - That's What You Get
36. Twilight Sad - Cold Days from the Birdhouse
35. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
34. Rihanna - Umbrella
33. 50 Cent - I Get Money
32. Pink Reason - Down on Me
31. Kanye West feat. Dwele - Flashing Lights
30. The Field - Everyday
29. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
28. Jason Aldean - Johnny Cash
27. Animal Collective - Peacebone
26. Miranda Lambert - Famous in a Small Town
25. Patrick Wolf - Accident & Emergency
24. Battles - Atlas
23. Linda Sundblad - Lose You
22. St. Vincent - Now Now
21. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
20. Against Me! ft. Tegan Quin - Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart
19. Björk - Earth Intruders
18. Lil' Wayne - Dying
17. Kathy Diamond - All Woman
16. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
15. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
14. Digitalism - Pogo
13. Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin'
12. Spoon - Yr Cherry Bomb
11. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
10. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
09. Lil' Wayne - Upgrade U
08. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
07. The National - Fake Empire
06. Radiohead - House of Cards
05. M.I.A. - Jimmy
04. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
03. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
02. UGK ft. OutKast - International Players' Anthem
01. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

THE GOOD: PJ Harvey's astounding White Chalk makes a surprisingly high appearance at No. 3, not that we're complaining. Also Uncut's got to be the only relatively high-profile music mag in the world, other than The Wire, that would put Robert Wyatt's art-drunk album about sobering up, Comicopera, in its Top 10.
THE BAD: People really did love that Wilco album, didn't they? Things get a bit flabby in the AAA-friendly mid-section of the albums list with the exception of Les Savy Fav's very fine comeback. Also the Arctic Monkeys at No. 2 seems a bit of a stretch for an album where even fans grumbled and whispered about sophomore slumps.
THE WHAAA?: As Maura wondered, how do EPs count as "songs"? With the format enjoying something of a minor resurgence, is it time to bring back the EP category across the board when it comes to best-of lists?

Albums:
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
3. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
4. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
5. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
6. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
7. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
8. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
11. Björk - Volta
12. Battles - Mirrored
13. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
14. M.I.A. - Kala
15. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
16. Grinderman - Grinderman
17. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
18. Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods
19. Feist - The Reminder
20. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
21. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
22. Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
23. Rilo Kiley - Under the Brightlight
24. Lessavy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
25. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
26. Manu Chao - La Radiolina
27. Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
28. Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
29. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
30. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
31. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
32. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
33. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life
34. The National - Boxer
35. Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart
36. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
37. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
38. The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
39. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
40. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
41. Justice - †
42. Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
43. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
44. Maps - We Can Create
45. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
46. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
47. Nick Lowe - At My Age
48. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
49. Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
50. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond

Songs:
1. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
2. Rihanna - Umbrella
3. Feist - 1,2,3,4
4. Battles - Atlas
5. The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)
6. M.I.A. - Jimmy
7. Klaxons - Golden Skans
8. Mutya & Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)
9. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
10. Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
11. Effi Briest - Mirror Rim
12. Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothing
13. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
14. Lavender Diamond - The Cavalry of Light EP
15. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
16. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
17. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
18. Babyshambles - Delivery
19. Caribou - Meolody Day
20. Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band EP

Uncut Best Of 2007 [Acclaimed Music Forums]

Which is exactly what the well-intentioned Hua Hsu does in his newest piece for Slate praising "All My Friends." I for one have nothing against Hsu—less than nothing. He's a good writer whose interests span both termite art and mass-culture artifacts; he was responsible for Slate's immortal, oft-cited 2005 piece "Notes on 'Humps': A Song So Awful It Hurts the Mind," which in deconstructing the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" declared "a song can be so bad as to veer toward evil." No argument here!

Nonetheless, reading his "All My Friends" piece—in which he keenly deconstructs the song's winning approach to post-rave-culture nostalgia—Maura and I are reminded of our many acquaintances who think that just because their eight friends are sick of talking about a song or a band or an album, it must be ubiquitous. Too often in the piece, you stumble across something like this:

"All My Friends," the brilliant and deeply nostalgic new single from LCD Soundsystem ... bears all the traits of a ubiquitous dance-club hit, [but] this only half-explains its massive popularity.

"Massive"? Last we checked, "All My Friends" wasn't charting anywhere. And we're not being nasty or unfair and only counting the pop charts: it's not on any small-radio or niche-sales chart, either, not the Modern Rock, Dance Club Play or Dance Singles charts, nor is it even on Billboard's "Tastemakers" chart, which rewards the kind of record that sells well at Other Music or Newbury Comics.

It's not charting anywhere on iTunes best-sellers' lists, either—but here's where the plot thickens. "All My Friends" is not available for sale as an a la carte download at all. On iTunes, it's an "Album Only" download as part of Sound of Silver, and then only in its original, seven-minute incarnation. Murphy's four-minute "radio edit" of the song is the basis for the song's music video, and it can be acquired via gray-market means on certain file-sharing sites. But not on iTunes. So to be fair to Hsu, there's no real way of knowing how "massive" "All My Friends" is, because Murphy hasn't made it trackable.

It's possible that the album version of "All My Friends" isn't on sale for 99 cents because of royalties: numerous songs over seven minutes are restricted on iTunes because of arcane publishing rules that price long songs at a higher rate. (Voila! The explanation for jam bands.) But you'd think Murphy would make the four-minute version more widely available and try to garner at least a medium-size hit. Then again, this is a guy who was hoping to convince all 60,000 of his debut-album buyers to give him a top 10 debut in March by buying Silver its first week; maybe he's still hoping to keep the album pumped up.

Whatever Murphy and Hsu are thinking, we'd like some evidence that this lovable song is getting played somewhere besides your white earbuds. Yesterday's Slate writeup might vault LCD Soundsystem into the realm of (ew) yuppie-indie Starbucks culture. But any Idolator reader who hears "All My Friends" booming from a car besides their own—even a Prius—should drop us a line. We'll take back everything we said here.

The melancholy greatness of the LCD Soundsystem hit. [Slate]
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends [YouTube]

Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends [MP3, link expired]
Franz Ferdinand [MySpace]
LCD Soundsystem [MySpace]

lcd record 1 (the old record) sold a total of 60559 in the US since it was released. meaning, straight up, if everyone who bought the first record bought s.o.s. the week it's released, then we're totally #1. i'm sure some people who bought the old record have now moved on to extreme noise or something, but maybe there are enough new people to make up for it!

So how's that working out for him so far?

So far, we only have a handful of online sales rankings to look at. And while these positions provide strictly anecdotal data, they do give an idea of how Sound Of Silver is faring against such just-released records from the likes of Modest Mouse and Joss Stone. All positions are as of this morning:

Amazon: No. 17
iTunes album chart: No. 9
BarnesandNoble.com: No. 26
Insound.com: No. 5

It looks as though Murphy's biggest challenge is not only fending off Isaac and Joss—both of whom could cross the six-figure mark, according to HITS—but dealing with last week's surprising amount of top-five debuts. Perhaps if Silver had been released in the dead of early winter, it would have stood a chance of hitting the upper echelons of the chart; as it stands now, it'll be lucky to break the top ten. Of course, this was all just a tongue-in-cheek PR stunt, rather than a sincere desire for world domination merely disguised as a PR stunt. Right?

- "...But there's also the tenderness of "Someone Great," a detailed account of grieving over a dead friend. The keyboard line that starts this elegy throbs like a hard fact that can't be reversed, and as Murphy sings about his regrets — that the sky weren't so blue, that he will move on — other elements build, every one slightly abrasive, adding up to something beautiful. It's a perfect metaphor for the off-kilter daze we call consciousness, carrying us through this cruel, wonderful life." [LA Times, four stars]
- "...When it's all said and done, Murphy's real legacy to dance music will be his production sense. He's an analog obsessive with a general aversion to software, and Sound of Silver reflects that. Far removed from the compressed, trebly and overmastered paradigm that's gripped electronic music in the last decade, Sound of Silver sounds deep, spacious and full-blooded. (Like, um, an old rock record.) It's an absolute joy to listen to, for every possible reason, not the least of which is because, these days, those epiphanies feel like they're coming fewer and farther between." [Pitchfork, 9.2]
- "...But somehow it all holds together as an album (the New Wave-y tunes "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" help), and by the end, ex-indie-rocker Murphy comes full circle, returning to his roots with the Pavement-meets-Morrissey comic lament "New York I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down." [Rolling Stone, four stars]

In the last two weeks, about half of the new albums with featured reviews on Pitchfork, an independent-music Web site, were recorded either in makeshift studios or professional ones in pastoral settings. Arcade Fire bought an old church outside Montreal to record last week's "Neon Bible," which has since sold 92,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Brit-rock band the Kaiser Chiefs recorded their second album, "Yours Truly, Angry Mob," which comes out March 27, at a country manor in Berkshire, England. (Rustic is relative: The manor includes a professional studio and advertises its gym and heated pool.)

[LCD Soundsystem]'s well-reviewed new album, "Sound of Silver," will come out Tuesday, at the same time as "Living with the Living" from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, which was recorded at the same countryside studio in North Brookfield, Mass. There, the 100-acre Long View Farm Studios operates like a bed and breakfast — with recording studios in a barn and a 19th-century farmhouse. (Nightly room rate, with recording sessions: $1,000 to $2,000)...

One reason for the recent wave: Smaller and less expensive digital production tools have allowed producers and bands to set up studios in unusual places. (Rock outfit My Morning Jacket has recorded in a Kentucky grain silo.) Moreover, music's sales slump has put many studios out of business, and their equipment has flooded the market, according to Mark McKenna, general manager of Allaire Studios, a facility in New York's Catskill Mountains. "The whole business is becoming decentralized," he says.

There are several creative advantages to working in an off-the-beaten-path locale, including less noise, fewer distractions, and a "we came here and we gotta do this" sense of purpose. Plus, you can grow your own drugs, thus eliminating the middle-man, and allowing you to spend your weed per diem on boondocks prostitutes.

'Great CD — Loved the Crickets' [WSJ, registration required]

so, you get a manager. at first you don't want one, and you don't know why you don't. it seems strange. but things eventually start falling through the cracks - you book two gigs on the same day, interviews get missed, artwork is turned in late and you get one. maybe you get one and then fire him/her, get sued, and wonder why you chose to do this childish thing for a living in the first place, but that's a different story, so let's jump to you-have-a-good-manager-that-you-like. so you have a good manager that you like, and you get an email from him/her that says, basically, "the guardian wants you to write a blog type thing, about 400 words, twice a week for a bit. it can be about anything you want, not music necessarily." and you think about it, and write back that you'll do it. that's it. your manager got an email from a guy at a label who spoke to a person at the guardian, and that's the trail. you are sort of way over here, and you write an article-thingy on ultimate fighting because, well, you really like it, and you think it's funny because people always think you're kidding when you talk about it, even though you're totally serious, and that funny face that they make to cover the angles makes you curious about humans, and sometimes that's a better reason to make something. i mean, often the reasons people make things are pretty bankrupt: you try to impress people, or get some sort of vanity fulfilled via external praise, etc., but then along comes "let's see what happens if i do this", and somehow that becomes a great reason to make things. someone might attack me for this. i might read from someone a comment that you should make things for some inspiring reason, but this thinking usually comes from people who don't make things very often. i thought like that for years, but then, for years i didn't make anything. at any rate, you read all the comments, and it becomes clear that the most interesting thing for you to do is to reply in the comments section, though you know it's a bad idea, and you regularly get reminded that acting like this looks bad, etc., but it just seems like a better thing to think about than "oh just forget it you can't worry about this stuff". truth is, i don't worry very much, but i do find it fulfilling.

He lost us somewhere around "via external praise, etc.," during which our SHIFT key got up and walked out of room in protest.

LCD blog # 3: it's a brand new day [Guardian Unlimited]

The new LCD Soundsystem record is all over the Internet, and we have Little White Earbuds to thank for the track below. Is it just us, or is James Murphy channeling Zevon on that "how-ooooh" bit?

LCD Soundsystem - Watch The Tapes [MP3, link removed]
Truce, fingers not crossed [Little White Earbuds]

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 Nike+ Original Run [MP3] (That was quick. DFA's lawyers rep harder than Jay-Z's! Now that "Nike"'s gone, Daft Punk really is playing at our house.)
Just Do It! [fluo kids]