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SONGS OF THE DECADE #65

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LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (2007)




In case the ad for Grand Theft Auto IV didn't already convince you, it is exceedingly difficult, despite your best intentions, to walk down the streets of New York City with "Get Innocuous!" blasting in your iTunes and not feel like the baddest motherfucker ever to strut in the city where strutting was born.

That obvious hyperbole is accounted for in the song's title, but more important is the quantum leap in maturity James Murphy showed on LCD Soundsystem's second LP. "Get Innocuous!" is one of the boldest opening tracks of any album this decade, and probably did more to cement Murphy's critical untouchability than any other track, more the "Yeah" Song, more than "Daft Punk," more than "All My Friends."

After being dance rock's chief sarcasm trader if the decade's first half, Murphy began 2007's Sound of Silver by bringing the Daft Punk kids back to the rock club. A tough, bulldozing song with distorted baritone vocals, "Get Innocuous" has more red meat rock with synths than almost any post-Pavement lo-fi guitar rocker, but overcomes any cynicism through pure raw power. "Get Innocuous!" may be as real as any synthetic rock song has ever gotten.

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