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There's a mysterious LCD Soundsystem two-disk album lurking in my CD collection, brought blinking into the light in the process of arranging all my CDs onto their new shelves. (Fact! The letter B takes up almost one whole shelf out of five, on account of the David Bowie/Belle & Sebastian alphabetical confluence. It must be Fate.) I wot nothing of LCD Soundsystem, nor why such a disk might end up in my collection. Did someone lend it to me? if so, why? It really doesn't look like my kind of thing, although I have to admit that to date I haven't fired it up in the player, owing to (a) the fact that it declines to play unless I download files, which always narks me off, and (b) fear of the unknown. The Wikipedia article specifies a "dirty electronic beat", which is so not me. Also, I've been watching altogether too much Fringe and there's a good chance that unspecified disks will employ highly manipulated sound-waves to turn my brain to jelly or mutate me into a hedgehog or something, owing to all the weird science.

I'd randomly suspect

maxbarners, man in my immediate social circle most likely to be associated with "electronic beat", but he denies all knowledge. Suspicious.

If you're responsible for the above, please own up, and also, more importantly, explain why?

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I can definitely recommend LCD Soundsystem. Although it's certainly quite electro/techno, so probably not your thing. :-)

pK.

I don't mind electro so much (being a double-dyed Eurythmics fan and all), but techno definitely fails to groove my ploons. I am, however, intrigued by your subject line. Who is lying naked on a beach in Ibiza in 1988? You? me? the cd? If it's a condition of actually listening to it, I fear I fail on three counts out of four. (I'm ok on "1988").

Apologies; it's paraphrased from "Losing My Edge", my favourite LCD Soundsystem track, mostly because of its lyrics:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/LCD_Soundsystem:Losing_My_Edge.

Did you find the person who planted this CD in your collection? :-)

Yes! have tracked it down to Young Nick, who interprets "lend me David Bowie concert DVD" as "lend me David Bowie concert DVD plus a bunch of random stuff, including obscure Nick Cave offshoot bands and, apparently, LCD Soundsystem." He should know better than that.

Those lyrics are actually rather fun. A bit along the lines of "Radiohead? is just a band."

Scroobius Pip? Ah yes, very good too. :-)

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