Song of the Day #5,933: ‘Daft Punk is Playing at My House’ – LCD Soundsystem

Continuing my look at the albums of 2005…

Pretty much every one of these Decades series serves up an album that is definitively not for me. For 2005, it’s LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled debut.

This indie electronica record received rave reviews and landed two Grammy nominations. Critics praised it for throwing a bunch of genres into a blender and mixing them all up to a sick dance beat.

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Song of the Day #5,335: ‘new body rhumba’ – LCD Soundsystem

I interrupt your normally scheduled Random Weekend for a couple of bonus movie posts.

My initial plan was to spend next week featuring five of my favorite musical moments from last year’s films. I culled the list down to seven but was having trouble deciding which to cut. Then it occurred to me that nobody is forcing me to constrain these posts to the weekdays.

So I’m starting my music moments early.

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