I chuffing love this song and 'Sound of Silver' is easily in my top five records of the year so far...

Sorry Daniel, you are just wrong on this one. Great song, excellent album, best of the year so far and the covers for the b sides are brilliant as well.

This is MADNESS!

Aside from the fact that I loved Sound of Silver (the best example of an art rock album this year) and thought All My Friends was the most interesting account of success and growing old, the fact is that James Murphy founded DFA. I find it unlikely that he would drop himself from his own label.
Yes, the single does sound musically like a Secret Machines piano riff looped for eternity, but collectively with the lyrics and other sonic flourishes, it's a deeply reflective, affecting and profound listen.

What an awfully wrong review.

I agree that the new LCD album isn't as good as the debut, but its still pretty good and All My Friends, to me, is the standout track.

This song is ace. So's the album.

if this is an experiment into how wide of the mark a music review can actually be, then congrats

its all subjective blahdeblah etc, but seriously Mr. Ross.. you barely deserve to have ears, never mind a position as a music journalist

you hit the wrong key on your damn board? You meant to press 8, or 9.

you're a towel. This song is great Mr Daniel Ross. So there.

i feel for you on this one. although i got a kicking for the manics review, and those guys definitely are shit.

is an amazing song, it's video is quality too + the franz ferdinand cover is brilliant! seriously, one of my favourite songs this year!

here's my calm analysis of why your review is fairly wide of the mark:

basically, the whole piece is so loaded with preconceptions you can barely see anything else.

It's not danceable? I sort of agree, its a bit too offbeat and unfunky to get me hitting the dancefloor. But is that really the point? Is that what they were aiming for? To me it seems far more indebted to Krautrock than any sort of 4-to-the-floor dance number. But you're thinking hey, it's the DFA flagship, and they make dance music right? But this isn't as good a dance song as some of the rest, its a bit too ploddy. This to you = Not Good. But maybe its supposed to, you know, fit with the mood and message of the music and not just provide some identikit beat that you can shake your bits to. Maybe the sluggishness is supposed to tie in with the weariness and dissatisfaction of the lyrics and music. Maybe i've read to much in to it there, but the point remains

On the same point, you seem to expect dance music, but also denigrate it for having 'little else going on'. Ummm.. isn't that a main feature of this style of music? Repetition. He's unlikely to chuck in a time-changed bridge or a pensive ukelele solo or some other piece of 'interest'. And if it is like i think a motorik influenced piece, then repetiton is absolutely key to the whole thing, and there's no need for the ebbing and flowing, 'build it up then drop the shit' sort of style you might get on a dancefloor number

As for the vocals not being 'anguished enough'... who the fuck says vocals have to be anguished to have emotional resonance, or at least anguished past a certain level? Maybe the semi-anguished, disdainful tone represents something of the personality or mood of the people involved in the narrative. Just because it doesn't feature breakdown histrionics doesn't mean emotion isn't adequately expressed. Look at the vocal performance on Someone Great for proof that a style of singing unconventional to the purpose of expressing emotions can be more expressive than a billion warblers (that is, to my mind, the most powerful song of recent times and the highpoint of the album)

I also have a big problem with the 'actually finished' bit. To me, that sounds like it fails to fulfil some set of boundaries by which you class something 'finished'. What, you're saying its structurally unfinished? OK, it does seem to finish as its reaching some sort of momentum or peak, but maybe thats for the purposes of the song. As its ostensibly about getting older you can probably imagine the metaphorical implications of it all 'ending too suddenly'. Or maybe Murphy just liked it that way.

Or are you saying it's too lyrically unrevealing, and that not enough has been rounded off? I think thats sort of the idea as well. As with the entire album it seems like Murphy is trying to tease us with the true meaning of the songs, making us attribute our own explanations to them. No, he doesn't reveal any answers, and no, there aren't any clear cut morals or messages to be drawn. But this is the reason why i keep revisiting the album and trying to make more out, something i would need to bother with had it all been set out in a classic songwriting fashion.

So yeah, I might sound like a bit of a LCD Soundsystem apologist/overattributer here, but I’m really not that much of a fan boy. And though I do like the song, it misses out on the ‘best song on the album’ award by quite a few places. I just thought your review was coming from completely the wrong place

Daniel Ross' last review, of LCD Soundsystem's 'All My Friends' single, was not very good. This paraphrasal from that review is not very good, either. It begins promisingly enough, tripping over itself in an entertainingly sarcasm crossed with irony sort of way, and then it just plods 'til its inevitable joke's-not-funny-anymore climax. One grasps for more wit to demean this review than this protracted rebuff, but there really is too much wax in Daniel Ross' ears.

Seriously, man. Get that checked out. Everyone else can hear one of the songs of the year.

is wrong. This song isnt supposed to be some sort of funky disco song. Its like a song off power corruption and lies with extra steve reich esque piano parts. Its awesome. And i dont know why you want the vocal to be more anguished? Do you want it to be emo or something?

Each to their own and that, but you're so, so wrong

wrong review.

you are wrong. You did however shoot yourself in the foot with the very first sentence, so I knew not to take your review very seriously. Thanks for that, at least.

are an absolute moron, Daniel Ross. You arse.

it is a very good tune and an album. go and read history. who writes these reviews ? klaxons fan club or something ??

i heard that bernard and hooky liked it.

but think the album is a bit over-rated.

All their tunes sound the same to me.

I mean, didn't people stop listening to that first LCD record after a couple of spins?

end of.

..have renewed my faith in DIS, after that truly shocking review.

Please don't let this guy write one again, unless you're just looking for reactions. If you are just looking for reactions, then that is plain stupid.

are a fool.

it is rare i feel the need to berate a reviewer personally, but the fact remains: you are a fool...

we admire some DIS writers BUT
you shouldnt give someone LCD review who doesnt understand why new order's ceremony/in a lonely place 12 inch is one of the great singles in pop music history.

This is a really, really good song.

i mean, if its nearly 8 minutes long on record, could they have done some kind of rubbishy edit?

this is one of my favourite songs of sound of silver...!
must be a 9