10 Years Of LCD Soundsystem's 'Shut Up And Play The Hits'

Indiecast

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Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In April of 2011, LCD Soundsystem performed a monumental three-and-a-half hour show at Madison Square Garden that was billed as their final show ever. Fans flew from all over the globe to say dance themselves clean and say goodbye to the dance-punk outfit that made a name for themselves with self-referential lyrics and impressive electronic arrangements. A little less than a year after the band waved goodbye, in January of 2012, a documentary called Shut Up And Play The Hits premiered at the Sundance Film Festival that their final show and interspersed with sections featuring frontman James Murphy reflecting on the band with prompts from Chuck Klosterman.

A decade later, that Madison Square Garden gig turned out to be more of a "see you later" than a "goodbye." LCD Soundsystem returned to the stage in March of 2016 before headlining Coachella that same year, and they even dropped a new record in 2017's American Dream. Everything that has transpired in the 10 years since Shut Up And Play The Hits was released greatly affects -- and perhaps completely undermines -- the film's context and one's ability to appreciate it as a swan song. On this week's episode of Indiecast, Steve and Ian try to come to terms with the legacy of the film, and LCD Soundsystem as a whole (32:46).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (51:19), Ian is plugging Pedro The Lion's new album Havasu, which came as a surprise earlier this week. Steve is urging people to check out Elvis Costello's The Boy Named If, which is the 32nd studio album from the legendary songwriter.

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:35 - Intro, Ian’s LA Weekly LCD Soundsystem Piece

4:21 - Nostalgia for Troll-y music lists + why you don’t see as many negative reviews any more

10:22 - Breaking News: Taylor Swift, Ambassador of Record Store Day

11:46 - Steve’s piece on the cd revival

16:09 - When We Were Young Fest

23:54 - Mailbag: Ian’s thoughts on The Grateful Dead

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.0	In this episode, we revisit the LCD sound system
0:21.5	documentary, shut up and play the hits on the film's 10th anniversary. My name is Stephen
0:26.9	Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. This is his farewell concert before the
0:30.9	reunion tour in five years. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, I think that is more true than you
0:37.2	might think. I mean, I got that is more true than you might think.
0:38.0	I mean, I got to let the indie cast listeners know that I'm doing this episode under protest
0:43.8	because, you know, my supposed friend and co-host Stephen Hayden committed what in my mind
0:50.1	is like the borderline, one of the most unforgivable betrayals I can imagine which is what are you
0:56.4	talking about posting something I contributed to from the LA weekly in 2012 I think like that's like
1:03.9	posting baby pictures like the same embarrassment except like you're 32 and probably should have known
1:09.2	better oh man it's it it's like you're blindsided me should have known better. Oh, man.
1:11.7	It's like, you're blindsided me with this.
1:14.0	I didn't know that this was cause and beef between us.
1:18.6	Because what you're talking about is on Twitter this week,
1:22.9	someone tweeted out this LA Weekly feature that ran 10 years ago on the 20 worst bands of all time.
1:32.2	And some of the bands included on this list include Oasis, Fleet Foxes, which that's a time capsule that people hated Fleet Foxes enough in 2012 to put them on a list like this.
1:45.8	A band that just seems totally innocuous now.
1:48.4	Red out chili peppers, Rush, Pearl Jam, Sex Pistols, Eagles.
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