All language subtitles for LCD Soundsystem - Shut Up and Play the Hits 2012 1080p

We're rolling.
Rolling, Richie.

Rolling, Danny.

Did we not
just pull off a high school play
at Madison Square Garden?

It was awesome.

Dude.

That was the last show.

You have 15 messages.

James, it's Keith.
Well, you knew that, didn't you?

Um... So, uh, I guess you're sleeping.

Well, I hope to fuck you're sleeping
after last night, man, that...

Do I have to get up?

Do you wanna go out?

My guest tonight...

is the leader of the band
LCD Soundsystem.

Please welcome James Murphy!

Whoo!

Whoo! Boom!

Hey, Mr. Murphy.
Thanks so much for coming on.

Seriously?

I got a beef to pick with you here.
Can I get up front at the top?
You ready for this?

- Yes.
- Okay, you are a pretty
successful rocker.

Moderately successful.
Moderately successful rocker.
Still.

You're walking away
from fame.

This is your last appearance
on television, correct?
Yes.

As LCD Soundsystem.
Yes.

Okay.

No, that's all right.
I'll have another show tomorrow.
It's all right.

And your last show is coming up
at Madison Square Garden.

Yes.
Why walk away
from the rock world?

You didn't start until you
were in your 30s, right?

But you've never been,
like, "youth rocker."

You've always been kind of
doing your own thing.

I mean, you're popular, man!

Because it started later,
I had a life beforehand...

and there's a lot of things
I want to do.

Like what What do you
want to do afterwards?

I really like...
I like making coffee.

There are only three ways
to end your career as a rocker...

overdose,

overstay your welcome...

or write Spider-Man: The Musical.

I didn't think rockers
get to walk away like that.

Jesus-fuckin'-Christ.

We're just doing this
for sound check, so...

Sounds really good.

Maybe we play without?

How you doing, Nancy?
I'm okay. How are you?

Good.
Good.

- When's doors?
- I don't know. 7:00.

It's not gonna be possible.

We want some of this time back.

Yeah, I know.
And I feel like
we were told something,

and we were not allowed
to make it go faster,

so they gotta take responsibility.

I think we can push it till,
I think, like, 6:30 or something.

It's kind of a bit close to doors.
It's just, like, gettin' it goin'.

You know, I...
All right.

Christina?

Nancy, did you get a bracelet?
No.

Do you want one?
Of course.

Do you want one now?
Do I?

Yeah.
Are you wearing one now?

Yeah.
This is all right, you know.

This is our time.

... a couple of things clear

If you're afraid
of what you need

If you're afraid of what you need

I'm afraid my children are gonna
think... because this is the first time they've
seen me doing anything musical,

'cause they're so young...
that they're gonna think
that now when I go away,

what I do is
I come to a place like this.

I get painted white
and I go up in a fucking, like...

talking to a guy in a spaceship.

There's gonna be
a lot of people here.

I think there's going to be,
like, 18,000 people here.

Hello.
Hey.

Hi.

I'm not late, am I?
No.

I got lost coming here.
Welcome to weird.

Ah. You've got a tie on today,
I see.

I'm wearing...
I didn't anticipate that.

I'm making an attempt to, uh...

Is that okay?
Yes. Making an attempt
to dress better in my retirement.

In your...

Uh, is it okay
if I tape-record this?

Yes.
Okay.

Huh. Well...

Uh...
Is it okay if I take notes?

You're taking notes as well?
I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding.

Well, you can if you want.
Working on my...
on my stuff.

Well, tell me this then...
This might be a good way to start.

This is the end
of LCD Soundsystem.
Yes.

And it's ending in
a strangely controlled manner.

It's, like, there was a record.
There was an announcement.

There's a last show.
Everyone's aware that it's ending.

When you start a band,
do you imagine how it will end?

I didn't start a band.

I made a record,
and then we had...

People were asking us to play,
and it seemed like a cool opportunity...

to go to London
and play this cool gig.

I mean, we'd always call ourselves
the LCD Soundsystem cover band.

We were the best LCD Soundsystem
cover band in the world.

Because we were doing essentially
what a cover band does.

There was a record made
and then we would listen to it.

In fact, I was very adamant about,
I will never tour,

will never do the bullshit,
like, you know, go away
for a really long time...

and tour and all the stuff
that everybody else does.

'Cause I didn't want to.
It seemed stupid.

So there was no conception of, like,
"We're starting a band. Will it end?"

And at that time, you're playing to
how many people in most shows

I mean, our first show
was a couple thousand people.

Like, who... I mean...
Was it here?

That was in London.

We started by playing parties.
We didn't want to play shows.

We'd all been in...
Pat and I and Tyler,
we'd been in punk bands...

and didn't want to go
fuckin' play shows.

We wanted to play at dance clubs.
We wanted to play to people
who were having fun.

We didn't want to do anything
to do with, like, the whole, like,

you know, standing-around bit.

- Hey!
- We gotta rehearse. Quick hug.

How's it going?
You gonna rehearse?

Yeah, we got to rehearse.
We're doing a show in between
when we go on and now.

Hi.
Did you guys just get here?

We just got here, yeah.
Awesome.

We just ate dinner down the street
while everyone in their white suits
was walking by.

It was pretty awesome.
Yeah, this is what
I'm talking about.

Jeremy showed me his.

You look so dashing, Keith Wood.

But no tie though, Keith?

No, because
I haven't had time to go
and fucking buy one, have I?

I wanted a black and white tie
or even a bow tie, right?

But I haven't had
a fucking minute.

And then, check it out.

Rattlesnake, rattlesnake,
rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake

I'll see you guys later.
How much time do we have?

Not very much.
About five minutes.
Five minutes.

Ow.
Let's try and enjoy this.

Are you guys good?

- Do we have everybody?
- Yeah.

We were just saying that, right?

Has anyone looked round?
We have everybody?
All right, let's go.

Don't you want me to wake up

So give me
just a bit of your time

Arguments are made
from make-outs

Then give me just
a bit of your time

You've got to
bring the results in

You're gonna play it
till the time comes

Forget your string of divorces

?Just go and throw
your little hands up

It's like

No

Honey, it's me

No

I miss the way the night goes

With friends who always
make it feel good

This basement has a cold glow

Though it's better
than a bunch of others

So go and dance yourself clean

Hey, go and dance yourself clean, yeah

You're throwing marks
into pieces

You're winning arguments
to pieces

Oh

It's your show

It's your show

It's your show

It's your show

Put your little feet down

Hey, oh-ho

We should try a little harder

In this tedious march of the few

Every fucker's getting younger

And there's a part of me
hoping it's true

Thanks very much.

So, this is... this is
a very weird experience for us.

Uh, in keeping with
the history of our band,

we're hoping it will be a relatively
weird experience for everybody.

Uh...

We do... We...

It feels weird 'cause
we were gonna play this one...

We played four shows last week,
and they were really good for us
and fun and important,

so...

And it's sort of like we just have
this one big last party,

and it's just gonna keep going.

This is kind of a pretentious question,
but I think I'd be interested in your response.

When does art begin?

Okay, this is a constructed interview.
All interviews are construction.
Right.

You can say that all conversation
is a construction.
Yeah, that's okay.

So at what point does something
start becoming art?

When do you feel like you are making art
and not just making something?

Um...
That is a pretentious question.

No, but it's like...

I know you're a fan of pretension,
so I thought I could ask
pretentious questions...

No, totally.
Because you like
pretentious ideas, right?

Pretension is, like,
a way to not just play football.

Like if I think about myself as a kid,
I was kind of a pretentious kid.

I read so much shit
just because I wanted to seem cool.

So I would read all these books,
and as I got older, I'd be like...

"These books were great,"
and they actually informed
my world view...

and, you know, like,
became part of my personality
in a totally different way...

once I got older
and was not so, like,

panicking about image maintenance
and all that sort of stuff.

So, like, if being pretentious
got you to read Gravity's Rainbow,

you still read Gravity's Rainbow,

and as, like, an older dude,
that's part of your makeup.

When you're reading Gravity's Rainbow
as a 16-year-old to seem cool,

who are you attempting
to seem cool for?

Who, in your mind,
is the audience for you as a person...
Right.

that would be impressed
or somehow changed...

or would appreciate the fact that you
were reading this difficult book?

Was that even something
you're conscious of?

I don't think you're conscious
that you're trying to impress anybody.

You know the guy who...

dressed like
he was in The Clash...

in, like, Louisville...

You know what I mean?
The guy who says, like,

"Everyone here is an idiot.
I gotta get out of here
where it's real."

So you were that person?
You hated where you were at?

I hated where I was.
I wanted to just bomb it.

I was, like,
"Man, if I lived in London, I could
go see these bands all the time."

Or, "If I lived in New York,
I could meet Andy Warhol."

But here it's, like, you know,
kids calling kids faggots
and stuff like that.

You just feel like you live in hell.

I guess a lot of kids feel that way,
but you were actually projecting
a life in London for yourself...

and you thought...
you were constructing in your mind
what that would be like,

and it seemed completely alien
from the life you were having.
Yes.

It's just like when you think about
rock stars and you'd think about,
like, David Bowie.

You'd be like,
"He's from fuckin' Mars."

In my mind,
he was from outer space.

Like he's not a person.

This isn't a person that would, like,
wake up and whose foot would hurt...

because they kicked a couch
the night before.

What I liked about these guys,
and thought they were
just unattainable...

and that the best you could get
was just to act like them.

And you'd never be like them.
It was impossible.

But you could, like, if you liked Lou Reed,
you could wear sunglasses
and a leather jacket...

and not talk much.

But, like, you couldn't be that.

It's like a movement
from a small place to a bigger city?

Or it's a bigger bag
to strap the ego of a tiny baby?

It's like a discipline
without the discipline

Of all of the discipline

It's like a movement
without the bother of all of the meaning

But you're history,
and I'm tapped

Yes, sir, I'm tapped

You're pillaging,
and I'm tapped

You're so chic, I'm tapped

It's like a rock show without the rock
and all of you show up

Or it's a cum shot without the cum
and all the inevitable throw up

It's like a fat guy in a tuxedo
doing all the singing

Or it's a couple of dads
and a few friends trying hard to...?

Stay in, and you know,
you're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're pillaging, and I'm tapped

Here come the rich now
and the rich start singin'
'bout how poor they is

It's like a disciple
without the discipline

Of all the discipline

It's like a fat guy in a tuxedo
doing all the singing

It's like a couple of dads
and a few friends

Trying hard to stay in

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're so chic, and I'm tapped

It's like a rock show without the rock
and all of the show

It's like a discipline
without the discipline

Doin' all the discipline

It's like a culture
without the culture of all the culture

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

You're history, and I'm tapped

I forgot to turn my phone off.

Since 7:30 this morning,
I've been having people calling...

saying how much they loved it, um,

saying how come
they got such crap seats,

they couldn't get into the party.

You know, listen,
I couldn't even get into the party.

Anyway, listen, are you coming
into the city later on?

If you do, it would be
really nice to see you,
see if you've survived.

Um, there was an e-mail here
from Matt Thornley saying,

um, did you want to see the gear...

which they put out in the middle
of last night in the storage place.

Did you want to see the gear
before it gets sold off...

and dispersed to the winds
kind of thing.

I think he thought
that you might like to do that.

So, look,
drop by the apartment later on
and I'll see you then.

Bye.

What's the difference between who you are
and the perception of you?

From what you can tell
from talking to others.

People seem to think that me or we...
the people in the band...

like, we're exceptional,
differently exceptional
in some way...

or, like, more talented...

or... there's something special.

Where, for me,
the whole goal of the band,

a big, huge point of the band
was just, like,

being very, very...

getting rid of as much
of that as possible.

French bulldog...
whatever the hell you are.
Yes.

French bulldog?
Yes.

How you doing there, baby?
She's good.

Rather than being a bad person,
you're just, like, "I can't be David Bowie.
That's crazy."

People are, like,
"Well, I can fucking be that dude."

But I don't think
that's how it works though.
I know.

It's not the character
that makes people feel that.

It's the place they are
in the culture.
That's what I've come to realize.

That's, like... That's
the wildly, significantly...

We were really ambitious
and competitive,

but that wasn't the ambition.

What was the ambition?
I don't know. To be like...

To leave a mark, I guess...

To leave a stain.

That's how it starts

We go back to your house

We check the charts

And start to figure it out

And if it's crowded, all the better

Because we know
we're gonna be up late

But if you're worried
about the weather

Then you picked
the wrong place to stay?

And so it starts

And so it starts

You switch the engines on

We set controls
for the heart of the sun

One of the ways
we show our age

And if the sun comes up,
if the sun comes up

If the sun comes up
and I still don't wanna stagger home

Then it's the memory of our betters

That are keeping us on our feet

You know, you spent the first five years
just as fast as you can

And the next five years
trying to be with your friends again

You're taking 45 turns
just as fast as you can?

Yeah, I know it gets tired,
but it's better when we pretend

It comes apart

The way it does in bad films

Except the part

When the moral kicks in

And we're running out of the drugs

And the conversation's
winding away?

I wouldn't trade one stupid decision

For another five years of life

You know, you drop the first 10 years
just as fast as you can

And the next 10 fuckers
who are trying to be polite

You know, when you're blowing
85 days in the middle of France

Yeah, I know it gets tired

Only where are your friends
tonight

To tell the truth

This could be the last time

So here we go

Like a sales force into the night

Night

Yeah, if I made a fool,
if I made a fool

If I made a fool on the road

There's always this

Yeah, and if I'm sewn
into submission

I can still come home to this

And with a face like a dad
and a laughable stance

You can sleep on the plane
or review what you said

When you're drunk
and the kids leave impossible tasks

You think over and over,
"Hey, I'm finally dead."

Oh, if the trip and the plans
come apart in your hand

You look contorted on yourself
your ridiculous prop

You forget what you meant
when you read what you said

And you always knew you were tired,
but then where are your friends tonight

Where are your friends tonight

Where are your friends tonight

Tonight

If I could see all my friends tonight

If I could see all my friends tonight

If I could see all my friends tonight

If I could see
all my friends tonight

Thanks very much.

Let me just quickly explain
how this is going to work.

We, uh... We have a...

We have a really long show tonight.

And to do that for us and for you,

we're just gonna take
a couple of breaks.

Last one keep me going

Lars.
Jesus, I called you Lars.

Jesus Christ.
You know what?

That's what playing
in a big place does...
it makes you into Metallica.

I'm not done.

I mean, we're done as LCD,
but we need to do some amazing shit.

It will be tremendous, yeah.

Arcade Fire is wondering
which mike they go to.

The singer is gonna go
to the far... that side,

the singer side.

Horns here, singers there.
The same way it has been?

Yes.
Okay.

Have you met Keith?
Yeah, yeah.

We have.
Hello. Thank you.

I'm just saying that when you signed up
and then when Spike signed up,

it made me so happy.

Right on.

Oh, my gosh!

Hey, little man.
Hi.

Can I get a high... Oh.
Yeah, you don't care.

- Hey.
- Hi.

- Nice seeing you.
- So nice to see you.

Wait, wait. You need a wristband.
You need a special wristband.

You guys sound so fucking good
out there, man.

I'm so honored.

We're just standing around like
20-year-olds losing their minds.

We have the background singers'
stand with two mikes,
and then we have the band...

They're gonna share.
They're gonna be on the vocal mikes.
The horns are playing the horns.

Right, but...
There's three mikes.

The background singers have...
There's three mikes.

And then we have Reggie
and Nancy's if they need it.

Where do you want them to be?

Background, Reggie, background.

The time has come, the time has come

The time has come today?

The time has come,
the time has come

The time has come today?

Bells.

The time has come, the time has come

The time has come today?

The time has come, the time has come

The time has come today?

And all the good people wanna rescue

From all the terrible people
who wanna talk to you

And all the smart people
wanna tell you

That all the little people
wanna dance, it's true

So the time has come,
the time has come

The time has come, the time has come

The time has come,
the time has come

The time has come,
the time has come too

Shit.

The time has come,
the time has come

The time has come today?

The time has come, the time has come

The time has come today?

And all the good people
wanna rescue

From all the terrible people
who wanna talk to you

And all the smart people
wanna tell you

That all the little people
wanna dance, it's true

So, cloud

Block out the sun

Over me

Over me

And spoil

Spoil all the fun

Won't you please

Yeah

Cloud

Block out the sun

Over me

Over me

And spoil

Spoil all the fun

Won't you please

Yeah

If you please

Please anyone

Talk to me

Talk to me

All you boys

Lonely and drunk

On your knees

Yeah

Us v. them

Over and over again

Us v. them

Over and over again

Us v. them

Over and over again

And again

All the good people
wanna rescue

From all the terrible people
who wanna talk to you

And all the smart people
wanna tell you

All the little people
wanna dance, it's true

Us v. them

Over and over again

Us v. them

Over and over again

Us v. them

Over and over again

Us v. them

Over and over
and over again

Us v. them

Over and over again

Because you had mentioned,
you know,

if you liked Lou Reed,
you could wear sunglasses or whatever
and all these things.

So how did that apply
to LCD Soundsystem,

in the sense that when people
who are fans of your band
are at your show,

is the experience mostly musical
with just a little bit of cultural, sort of,

kind of melded through?

Or is it sort of a shared 50/50 thing...

where the culture is
as much as the music?

It's gotta be a 50/50 thing.

I think, experientially,
it's gotta be a division
between those things...

because I didn't go
to shows that I loved...

I've never gone to a show
and loved it...

without believing something
about the people that are doing it...

whether it's belief that I carried in
and they confirmed by their performance,

or a belie fin them
that they got me straight
from the performance,

I didn't know them.

Like, if you go see Nick Cave...

He's one of these last
sort of mythic guys.

He's like a real mythical guy to me.

Like, growing up,
listening to The Birthday Party,

like, he was terrifying to me.

And in becoming
a recording artist,
whatever,

and getting older,
I'm starting to realize,

there's no way...
I'm still in this position
where I'm, like,

I have to let go of some...

I have to recognize he's just a dude.

He's gotta go check his e-mail,
and he's gotta check in for the plane.

Um, but up there, there's just
something else happening...

that, like, I, as, you know,
not a 16-year-old,

am still transported by.

Ooh

Ooh

Shame on you

Shame on you

Hey?

Your love away from me

You can't hide it

Hey?

Your love away from me

Shame on you

Hey?

Your love away from me
You can't hide it

Hey?

Your love away from me

Shame on you

Your love away from me

You can't hide it

- Hey?
- Ooh

Your love away from me
Shame on you

Your love away from me

You can't hide it

Hey?

Your love away from me

Shame on you

Oh, no

- Still you can
- But I'll be lonely?

Oh, no

Still you can
And I'll be lonely?

Hey?

Your love away from me

You can't hide it

Hey?

Your love away from me

Shame on you

Your love away from me

You can't hide it

Hey?

Oh, no

Still you can tell
by the way I walk

New situation

Got your love light

Swing to and fro

It's a love
that can never hold me

No time

I'm gonna do what it takes

To be lovin' like you do

Not what you told me

But I've got to let you know

But can lead me through lovin'?

I don't feel like it's one note

And I know that it's in me

Symphony, symphony?

All by myself?

It's lucky?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Givin' you some information
But I'm done tryin' to move

Yeah, oh, oh

Sound of silver, talk to me

Makes you want to feel
like a teenager

Until you remember
the feelings of?

A real, live emotional teenager

Then you think again

Come on.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello?

I'm at the office.

Well, I have a bunch of shit.
I have, uh...

Nancy left clothes
at the, um, Tribeca Grand
at the after party,

and, uh, I left my computer
at the...

Yeah, I put it in a record bag.
I'm a fucking idiot, so I deserve it.

It feels disturbingly normal.

No, I don't feel, uh...

I haven't had time.
I'm still running around like crazy.

I know. Dude, I haven't
been here in a year.

We're gonna have dinner at Marlow.

I hope. I can't get in touch with Al.
I can't get in touch with Tyler.

That's why I'm trying to see everybody,
before everybody just disappears.

Hello.

You're awake.

I... I got your thing.

No. I just... I'm at the office.

I know.

I know.

I'm trying not to think about it.

I have to fucking go
to the storage space
and look at all the shit.

I mean, it's, like, a fortune
to store it there.

Well, just look at the list.
I don't have to look at
the fucking funeral pyre.

Okay.
I'll see you in a little bit.

I know. I just have to
go deal with the gear.

Okay. All right.

I love you.

Bye, little person.

I don't know
if you'll take this as a compliment
or as a negative thing,

but sometimes I do think
"Losing My Edge" is the most brilliant
thing you've done...

and that that might stand alone
separately...

not because it's the greatest song
you ever made,

but it seems like the ideology
and the sentiment of that song...

is not only very timely
for what was happening in the world,

but I don't really think...
I can't think of any other songs like that.

But I'm losing my edge

The kids

Are coming up from behind

Yeah, I'm losing my edge

And I'm losing my edge

And the timing of it was really good...

because the Internet was causing people
to have a different relationship with history.

And a young person
could suddenly be as fluent...
didn't have to have the life experience.

And I feel like that song...
which is why it's so interesting to me...

is that your awareness
that this was happening to you, I think,
was very unique.

Yeah, I'm losing my edge

I'm losing my edge

I can hear their footsteps

When they get on the decks

I never took exception,
but I always found it very funny...

that people saw this like... you have
these funny songs, "I'm Losing My Edge."
Then you'll be serious.

I was, like, that song
is as serious as a heart attack.

That song is really sad.
There's funny parts in it.

Yeah, of course.
But there's funny parts
at a funeral.

Yeah, I'm losing my edge

To the Internet seekers

Who can tell me

Every member of every good group

From 1964 to 1978

Y'all wake up
Losing my edge

At that moment, I was, like,
very aware that that was, like,
a really weird place to be...

to be 30...

and have never really succeeded
at being cool,

and then suddenly
it's like the world slowing down,

and me seeing my way in it...

and realizing how easy things are,
just playing the music that I like.

All these other deejays are playing
all this boring shit,

and they're terrified...
they're terrified to mess up their mix
or lose the dance floor.

And I can come out
and, like, already be on Ecstasy
before I'm playing...

and just start playing,
like, The Stooges.

And all it would take is there
to be a couple people that were just,
like, "This rules. This person's insane."

Now I'm losing my edge

The first inkling of, like,
the sun going down on that moment...

I was going to see a band
at the Brownies,

and I looked over,
and someone's playing
"Mind Your Own Business" by Delta 5.

And I'm, like, "What Wait a second."

Then they played Liquid Liquid,
and I'm, like, "Wait. "These people
are playing my fucking records."

And I suddenly got panicked
that all my great new life would come...

It's like a sad hipster deejay
Revolutionary Road.

Right I'm, like, "This little dream
is gonna come to an end."

And I... I wrote a song from it.

Whoo... hoo... hoo

I heard that
you have a compilation

Of every good song
ever done by anybody?

Every great song
by The Beach Boys

All the underground hits

All the Modern Lovers tracks

I heard that you have
every seminal Detroit techno hit
1985, '86, '87

I heard you have every Niagara record
on German import

I heard that you have

A CD compilation

Of every good '60s cut

And another...
a box set from the '70s

And I hear you're
buying a sequencer

And an arpeggiator
That's the best move

And throwing your computer
out the window

Why Because you'd like
to make something real

What would you like to make?
Like to make a Yaz record

I hear that you
and your friends

I hear that you and your friends

I hear that you and your friends
have sold your guitars

You bought turntables

I hear that you and your friends
have sold your turntables
and you bought guitars

I hear that
everyone that you know

Is more relevant

Than my favorite fuckers I know

Have you seen my records

This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders

Section 25, Mars, The Black Dice

Did you ever hear
of these records I know

Sexual Harassment

Dorothy Ashby, PiL
Fania All Stars

The Human League
The Monks

Lou Reed, Scott Walker

Joy Division, 10cc

Eric B. and Rakim

Index, Basic Channel

Soul Sonic Force
Just hit me

Juan Atkins, David Axelrod
Electric Prunes

Gil Scott-Heron

You can't hide

Your love away from me

You can't hide

Hey?

Your love away from me

But shame on you

Oh, I love the unity, man.

Unity!
Unity!

The knuckle that Juan has.

Are we on?

Am I here?
Over here, spotlight.

Hi, everybody.

Well, well, well.

Madison Square Garden.

Guess who I'm here with.

This is James Murphy...

his older brother Tom.

Everybody say, "Hi, Tom."

Hi, Tom!

Tom, how do you think
your little brother is doing tonight?

I'm not gonna be critical.

I think he's doing pretty well.

How about you?

That was...

That's pretty good.
I think that was a pretty good response.

So you're enjoying the show
so far, everybody?

Good.

I think what we should do now
is thank LCD Soundsystem...

for making all this amazing music for us.

So, on the count of three, let's all say,
"Thank you, LCD Soundsystem."

One, two, three.

Thank you, LCD Soundsystem!

And now back to you, gentlemen.
It's all yours.

Thanks, guys.
Have a good night.

Something really quickly.

You might think this is a big show
and we're putting on a big show.

Um, there's a lot of people
who just volunteered to do this with us,

like, flew themselves here
and performed with us...

and who live here
and just put their time in.

And I want you to know
that there's a lot of people...

who just dedicated themselves
to doing this,

to put this weird thing on
in this totally...

in a boxing arena, basically.

We had a tour a couple years ago...

with our friends, with a band...

who is, I mean,

technically from Canada,
but there's two Americans.

North and south.

There's two Americans.
North... Southern...

Well, you guys are like...
You guys are like Bush.

You know, you've got the Maine... Texas...

There's Central America too, technically.

Yeah, you've got both.

So we did a...

We did a tour, and weirdly,
there was a song that thematically worked...

as well as musically worked
to have people play with us.

Shut up and play the hits!

Ladies and gentlemen,

for our live record called
Shut Up and Play the Hits...

Whoo!

Nah, I'm not going to...
Fuck you guys. Know what I mean?

And we have two...
Aw, man, this is like a history trip.

Two horny horns,

one kind of flatulent drummer...

and three troubled souls.

Three troubled...
Four troubled souls.

Huh, huh, huh

It's Australia, 2008!

Huh, huh, huh, huh

Huh, huh, huh

Huh, huh, huh, huh

Oh, I don't know, I don't know

Oh, where to begin

We are North American

And for those, for those
who think that we're from England

We're not

We've been on planes and on trains
till we think we might die

Far from North America

Well, your buildings are old
and you might have lots of mimes

I hate the feeling
when you're lookin' at me this way?

'Cause we're North American

But if we act all shy
it'll make it go away?

Makes it okay?

Oh, I don't know, I don't know
oh, where to begin

'Cause we're North American

But in the end
make the same mistakes all over again

Come on, North Americans

Fuck, yeah, North American scum

Yeah

We are North American

Shout, shout, shout it

And all the kids, all the kids
they want to make the scene

Here in North America

And all your kids
get to read it in your magazines

We don't have those

So where's the love, where's the love
where's the love

Where's the love
Where's the love tonight

But there's no love, man

There's no love when the kids are uptight

Uh, uh, so

So throw a party till the cops come in
and bust it up

Check outta of?
North America

- Oh, you were planning it
I didn't mean to interrupt
- Sorry?

I did it once
and my parents got pretty upset

Freaked out in North America

And then I said the more I do it
the better it gets

Check out North America

We are North American scum

We're from North America

We are North American scum

Check out
We are North American

New York's the greatest
if you've got someone to pay for it

North America

And it's the furthest you can live
from the government

Some proud American Christians
might disagree

- Hah!
- North America

New York's the only place
we're keepin' them off the street

Oh!

We can't have parties
where they go all night

Shut down in
North America

Or like Berlin
where they go another night

All right!

Uh, uh

You see, I love this place
that I have grown to know

- Come on
- North America

And, yeah, I know you wouldn't
touch it with a 10-foot pole

- Come on
- North America

We are North American scum

We're from North America

We are North American scum

We are North American

Take me back to the States, man

North American scum

Where we can rock

To North America

Where the deejays are so much fun

Spinnin' North American scum

And don't blame the Canadians

Let's go, North America

So you strike me as somebody
who is acutely aware of your age,

that your age seems to play a role
in a lot of the things you think about.

Not just the years themselves,

but the amount of experience
and stuff like that.

And, you know, if you were a writer,
you would still be young.

That's why I've always wanted
to get into that.

And if you were an actor,
you'd be kind of right in the sweet spot.
Yeah.

But when you're a musician,
a rock musician...

or an athlete or, like, a mathematician...

the assumption seems to be
you have to succeed early.

So how much is your motive
for quitting the band...

solely a product of,
you feel too old to be doing it,
and it feels weird?

I was 38 years old and I said,
"I'm going to make a record."

Um, you know,
"Going to make another record."

And then I blinked and I was 41.

And I don't have any kids,
and I want to have kids
and I want to have a life.

And I feel like
that's, like, a genuine thing.

It's, like, I can't...
I blink twice more and I'm 50.

Every time I go on tour,
I get new gray.

When I don't go on tour...
I didn't go on tour for two years...

I got no extra gray.

I didn't age at all in two years.

I saw pictures.

When I got home
from Sound of Silver tour...

and when I got ready to go on tour,
and it's the same.

And then a month or two into tour,
you know, a big patch on my neck.

And I'm like,
"Well, that's the visible, funny sign."

Like, I'm getting gray hairs
on my face.

But what the fuck's
going on inside?

What's going on in my liver
or in my lower intestine, or...

You know, I don't want to die.
I don't want to die.

How you feelin'?

I'm fucked.
Fucking hell.

What...

I am absolutely fucked.

Smells a bit like gas.

It does. Actually, it's this...

It's this new addition and it's, like...

It's spewing gas,
but not enough to kill you.
Is that bad?

I feel like somebody
put my head on the desk...

and hit me with six bottles
of champagne.

That was me.
I think it was me, actually.

Good champagne though.

Yeah, I'm absolutely whacked.

I spent the whole morning
just staring at the wall.

Kind of like, "Am I here?
Am I there What the hell?"

You know,
27-hour day and all that.

But seriously,
how fucking amazing was that?

How fucking amazing
was that?

I feel great.

I feel super weird,
but I feel good.

It is super weird,
it's completely weird,

but it's, like, we fucking went out
on a total fucking high.

I didn't feel great this morning...

but I feel pretty good now.

There was backstage booze,
I think, that I want to make sure...

Believe me, you...

From what I saw,
you had your fair share, dear boy.

It's a long show.

It's a long show.

Thank God you weren't drinking
Irish cunt, is all I can say.

Exactly.

Oh.

Uh, London.

Don't recognize it.

Uh, I think we'll say bye-bye.

Just wait till you see this.

You now have a weird one for me?

This is kinda like Monty Python
meets LCD Soundsystem...

at Madison Square Garden.

I'm going to leave this with you...

and go to the little boys' room
and have a pee-pee.

Dude, what is this thing?

It's your trophy, mate.

This is a sad object, dude.

There it is.
LCD Soundsystem sells out.

It literally says "sold out."

Sold out.

I've got a perfect solution
for your giant bottle of Scotch.

- What?
- Bring it to Marlow tonight for dinner.

Ahh.

Well, here's the thing.

I'm trying to keep
my marriage happy and intact.

Um, Laurie has to go away tomorrow.

Right.

And I need to be upstate
to look after the dogs,
take care of the farm.

Keep the serfs in line?

And to be fair, Marlow's
is kind of a young person's hangout.

You know...

You kind of...

You dress them up,
you put them on fucking
Madison Square Garden's stage,

you sort it all out,
and what do you get Abuse.

Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Whoo!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

The red place used to be a...

It was something else,
wasn't it?

Yeah, it's a French restaurant,
and it's been, uh...

But all these places,
they've all changed.

It's New York.
Everything changes.

What?
"It's New York, darling.
Everything changes."

Well, it does.
Perpetual state of flux.

Including us.

Including you.

So this is weird,
but I've got to roll.

I've got to go.

Take care of yourself, huh?

Love you, dude.
Love you, James.

I'll give you a call tomorrow, all right?
Yes, boss.

Look after yourself.
Yes, boss.

Drive safe.
I'm retired.

Do you like talking about yourself?

Like, is it fun to have someone
ask you these questions...

and basically say,
"Consider your life
and put your life in a context...

"that other people will understand"?

I wish I could say, like,
"No, I find it so hard."

Why would you want to say that?
I would think you'd want to say,
"I love it."

No, because it just seems like,
again, you know...

I know you think that you
should say you don't like doing it...
I don't like...

but you seem
very comfortable with it.
I don't like boring interviews.

So when I have to do interviews
and it's just like,

"So did Daft Punk really play
in your house?"
Yeah.

And it's, like, you know what...

And we call that talk...
You gonna go talk about yourself?

That's what we always joke.
"I gotta go talk about myself
for a half an hour."

Um, that I find really boring.

But I think
that underlying loneliness,

or that underlying desire
to be understood,

like to clarify, you know,
this endless kind of like...

is pretty real.

And...

explaining...

I want to...
You know what I mean?

I want to explain sometimes.
Like, not everything.

I don't want to get into, like,
"What's that song mean?"

That stuff drives me a little bit crazy,
but explaining why,
explaining the position...

I'm obsessed with the position,
like where this stuff is coming from.

Like songs I like...
I like when songs are from a place.

Not about something,
but from a place, from a moment.

I wake up and the phone is ringing

Surprised, as it's early?

And that should be the perfect warning

That something's a problem

To tell the truth, I saw it coming

The way you were breathing

But nothing can prepare you for it

The voice on the other end

The worst is all the lovely weather

I'm stunned it's not raining

The coffee isn't even bitter

Because what's the difference

There's all the work that needs to be done

It's late for revision

There's all the time and all the planning

And songs to be finished

And it keeps coming
And it keeps coming

And it's keeps coming
till the day it stops

- And it keeps coming
- And it keeps coming

And it keeps coming
till the day it stops

And it keeps coming
And it keeps coming

And it keeps coming
And it keeps coming

And it keeps coming
And it keeps coming

And it keeps coming
till the day it stops

I wish that we could talk about it

But there, that's the problem

With someone new I could have started

Too late for beginnings

You're smaller than my wife imagined

Surprised you were human

There shouldn't be this ring of silence

But what are the options

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

When someone great is gone

We're safe

For the moment

Saved

For the moment

I've always had this belief
that people or bands...

or whatever entities,
whatever you want to look at...

they're sort of remembered
for their collection of successes,

but they're sort of defined
by whatever is their singular failure.

This is kind of a sports example,
but Michael Jordan is remembered...

for all these great things he did
as a basketball player...
Right.

but I feel like
his singular failure was,

you know, his inability
to distance himself from competition.

That led to his gambling problem,

and it's led to his inability
to have a good life after basketball.
Right.

So I'm curious.

When you look at LCD Soundsystem,
or even just the trajectory of your life,

sort of, what were the successes,

and what do you feel might be
the defining thing you failed at?

You can climb a mountain

You can swim the sea

You can jump into the fire

But you'll never be free, no

You can shake me up

And I can tear you down?

You can jump into the fire

You can jump into the fire
You can jump into the fire

You can jump into the fire

We can make each other happy?

We can make each other happy?

We can make each other happy?

We can make each other happy?

You can climb a mountain

You can swim the sea

You can jump into the fire

But you'll never be free, no

You can shake me up

And I could tear you down

You can climb a mountain

You can swim the sea

You can jump into the fire

But you never will be free, no, no

You can shake me up

And I can tear you down

You can jump into the fire

You can jump into the fire

You can jump into the fire

You can jump

Into

The fire

You didn't answer the last part
of my question though,

which is, if you were...

I'll just ask the question.

What was the biggest failure...

What's the biggest failure?
of LCD Soundsystem?

Aside from like, you know,
when the volcano hit.

We didn't make it to Dublin
for the opening shows.

I felt really bad about that.

Yeah, that can't be
your biggest mistake.

You can't blame a volcano
for your biggest mistake.

I think the biggest failure...

I don't know if it's a failure.
I don't know yet.

Uh, stopping.

I've been a little obsessed
with, like...

Okay. You see these Kanye tweets.

People will be like, "You're"...
People call him ridiculous, or...

You know, make fun of him
for being egotistical
and all this other shit like that.

But I saw a quote
where he was just, like,

"Nobody's being a rock star.
None of you people are doing it.

Everybody is chicken.
Everyone is scared.
Like, scared to fail."

Scared... You know,
and it'd be, like, I'm doing it.

And I feel that if there is anything
that is going to be our great failure,

it's that...

even though I think I'm getting out
for what I think are not those reasons,

fear of failure or fear of
the responsibility of getting bigger,

it makes me suspicious,

because these other reasons
happen to also...

serve that potential fear.

Just the way it sounds to me
as you're talking, that actually,

if... if my theory is true...

that people are remembered
for their multiple successes,

but they are defined
by a singular failure...

it would seem your singular failure...

would be an inability
to stop being self... conscious.

The fact that you're saying that the problem
might be quitting the band,

but what it really is,
is you're already thinking
what quitting could mean...

or could be perceived to mean,
or what your real motive might be.
It's more inside.

I want to look back and be very,
very proud of everything that we did.

And I feel like right now I'm...
with a couple of snafus here and there...

I'm very, very like...

I like the way we've handled ourselves
and I'm proud of that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

But this quitting stuff, even though
I'm, like, it's the right thing,

I wonder if me saying, like,

"I don't want to be a famous person
because I like riding the subway.

"I like eating food.
I like being a normal person.

"I like it. I'm 41.

"I don't think I could adjust
to the kind of weird dichotomy."

But is that a good enough reason?

If you believe in your band...

and you claim to like music
and you claim to like
making music for people,

is that a good enough reason to quit?

The lead-up to it
was so excruciating,

but I promised myself
that I was going to enjoy it...

Oh?
and I did.

Hello.

Very good. Williamsburg, please.
Second exit off the bridge.

Williamsburg,
second exit off the bridge, please.

Williamsburg.

Hey, hey!

Yeah, I guess we can...

This is our last song.

Okay, let me point this out,

that even now,
at the end of our band,

I fucking didn't say that
so you would say "Oh, no."

It wasn't the false...

It wasn't, like, "This is our last song."
"Oh."

- This is our last song!
- No!

And...

There's a lot of people here
that we don't know...

that came and put a lot of effort
into coming to see us,

and we want to thank you very much.

Everybody...

And the people who are sitting up there
who have a hard time seeing, I'm sorry.

Thank you so much for coming
and doing this with us on both sides.

And all of our friends,

a few that we know,
are in this little area here,
so give them a wave.

They're good people.
They're not shitty people
who wanted free tickets.

They're good people.

And my family, hi.

And my sister and brother are here,
and their kids.

And hi, you guys.

And...

Um, I hope it's okay.

I'm wearing my dad's watch, so...

Tonight.

New York, I love you?

But you're bringing me down?

New York, I love you

But you're bringing me down

I only get to pause
an interminable amount once more.

This is my last endless pause.

Like a rat in a cage

Pulling minimum wage

That's very... That's very dramatic, Nancy.

New York, I love you

But you're bringing me down

New York, you're safer

But you're wasting my time

Our records all show

You're filthy but fine

Oh

But they shuttered your stores

When you opened the doors

To those cops who were bored

When they ran out of crime

New York, you're perfect

Oh, please, don't change a thing

Your mild billionaire mayor's

Now convinced he's a king

Yeah

Oh, the boring collect

And I mean all disrespect

In the neighborhood bars

I once dreamt I would drink

New York, I love you

But you're freaking me out

New York, I love you

But you're freaking me out

Like a death in the hall

That you hear through your wall

New York, I love you

But you're freaking me out

New York, I love you

But you're bringing me down

New York, I love you

But you're bringing me down

Like a death of the heart

Oh, Jesus, where do I start

But you're still the one pool

Where I'd happily drown

And oh

Take me off your mailing list

For kids who think it still exists

Yeah, for those who think it still exists

Maybe you're right
and maybe I'm wrong

Maybe you're right
and maybe you're wrong

Maybe you're right

Maybe you're right

And just maybe you're wrong

And oh

Maybe Mother told you true

And there'll always
be somebody there for you

And you'll never be alone

But maybe she's wrong

Maybe I'm right

And maybe she's wrong

Maybe I'm wrong
Maybe I'm right

And if so

Is there

Standing in the door
of the Pink Flamingo?

Crying in the rain?

It was a kind of so-so love?

And I'm gonna make sure
it never happens again?

You and I

Had to be the standing joke
of the year?

You were a sleep-around,
a lost and found?

And not for me?

I fear?

I tried to make it work?

You in a cocktail skirt
and me in a suit?

Well, it just wasn't me?

You're used to wearing less
and now your life's a mess

So insecure, you see?

I put up with all the scenes

And this is one scene
that's going to be played my way?

Take your hands

Off me?

I don't belong?

To you?

You see?

Take a look?

At my face?

For the last time?

I never knew you
You never knew me?

Say hello, good-bye?

Say hello?

Wave good-bye?

Under the deep red light?

I can see the makeup sliding down?

Hey, little girl?

You will always make up?

So take off that unbecoming frown?

What about me??

Well, I'll find someone?

That's not going cheap in the sale?

A nice little housewife?

Who'll give me a steady life?

And won't keep going off the rails

Take your hands

Off me?

I don't belong?

To you?

You see?

Take a look?

At my face?

For the last time?

I never knew you
You never knew me?

Say hello, good-bye?

Say hello?

Wave good-bye?

We've been involved for?

Quite a while now?

And to keep you secret?

Has been hell?

We're strangers meeting?

For the first time, okay??

Just smile and say?

Hello?

Say hello?

Then wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Then wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Then wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Then wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Then wave good-bye?

Say hello?

Say good-bye?

Good-bye?

Say good-bye, say good-bye?

Good-bye??

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