BEST OF 2010 (songs) #1 LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean

I chronicled my own existential response to this song in my review of LCD Soundsystem's "This Is Happening" earlier this year, and I think that experience sums up the power and the glory of this song sufficiently enough:

"So I am walking down the street and listening to my new favorite song "Dance Yrself Clean" while struggling with a serious case of writer's block, namely how to say what I want to say about about this damn album. The song is playing and the night is one of those perfect spring nights clocking in around 72 with a breeze blowing from the west. Sure, it's pleasant now, but that breeze is the tip of a storm front ready to bring two full days of thunderstorms to my world. No need to worry about that now, just let the music sink in and feed off of some of that kinetic energy in the air. Then it all suddenly clicks, the song, the album, my immediate situation as an aged-indie rocker who still, to quote Triumph, has the "magic power of the music in me," and for a brief moment I feel enlightened, and "Dance Yrself Clean" is my soundtrack. Indeed, this is happening.

Looking back at that moment I am amazed at how James Murphy a/k/a LCD Soundsystem could create such a perfect song; one that can effect you so intensely on a personal level, but, as they used to say on American Bandstand, 'has a good beat, and you can dance to it.' He is also the same guy who, though so much self-referential irony, deflates what just happened. Nevertheless, in that moment of listening to his music, all of my own personal relations and emotions are imploded and then expanded. If there had been a camera...only if, I could have been a star, because in that moment, on that street, I was the character who finally let go of whatever baggage I was carrying around, and cleanse myself of it all, at least temporarily, much like a character in a Noah Baumbach film. After all, there was a reason Baumbach tapped Murphy to score his latest film "Greenberg." Looking back at that moment it strikes me that the success of Murphy's music is dependent on our own life experiences, our own existential situations and how well he is able to reflect them in his songs."

P.S. "If we wait until the weekend, we can miss the best things to do..."