Another Monday, another LCD Soundsystem long song. This one is from 2010 and the third LCD Soundsystem album This Is Happening. I remember feeling a little underwhelmed by the album but looking at it now maybe that was me and not James Murphy. The songs were good but none matched the sheer emotional dance music majesty of Sound Of Silver's peaks. I payed it through recently and it sounded great, the melancholy tinged dance pop of I Can Change, the sleek NY sounds of Pow Pow and Drunk Girls, a song Murphy described as 'dumb' but also said that he liked dumb stuff. In May 2010 Drunk Girls was released as a single, the 7" coming with a Wooden Shjips cover of the song as its B- side and the 12" with a remix by Holy Ghost!
Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix)
Holy Ghost! are a synthpop duo from Brooklyn. Their remix splices electro, indie rock and disco, a New Order- ish, pulsating, high energy seven and a half minutes of fun with James outlining what drunk girls (and drunk boys) are and what they do, the shallows and depths of hedonism and his belief in waking up together.
My teenage son holds it as a common belief that this is the best LCD album and Dance Yrself Clean is their best song.
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