This was my best friend's favorite song. He died eight months ago and tonight was the first time I was able to listen to it in full since his funeral. I've had it on loop for maybe thirty minutes now. In a weird way, I feel like I can hear his heart in the music. This isn’t the type of music I usually listen to but its beautiful.
It's going to be used in a film next year May about imaginary friends with Ryan Reynolds. It's in the trailer. So I guess you will be hearing it a lot the next coming time... I hope it makes you think about your friend with a smile...
I’m 43 and tomorrow I travel 229 miles with two friends I’ve known since I was 5 years old to see LCD Soundsystem. I have a feeling when they play this it’s going to be one of the most beautiful moments in my life so far.
Good for you, dude! I am 39, but I will be 15 in my soul forever... I am from Brazil, lived in Japan, and am now in the USA, and I still have hold of my childhood friends. We talk weekly in groups we made on WhatsApp (some of us are all over the world), and we hang out and go to shows when we get together (some of their own bands, as some of my friends, are musicians). Some guys and girls have added +1 to our friendship as they grow up and find relationships. However, we are a tight bunch that never loses contact even when we have partners unhappy with our strong connection; now my friends and I are making over 30 years of friendship... its always beautiful to be with friends and see art, music, theater, crafts, no matter what, it is fucking amazing, you are forever young at this moments. I truly hope you have had the time of your life with your friends in this show!
James has talked about music growing with you as you age. He specifically mentioned in one interview how he used to think the Smiths were sad, and now finds humor in them. I know that these lyrics will grow with me as I age, and although I can feel the beauty of certain lines, they are still mysterious to me. I also know there will come a time when they suddenly strike a chord in a way they hadn't before, or the meaning will shift. That my friends is the pinnacle of good songwriting.
The Smiths are a great example. I used to think "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" was really gloomy and melodramatic. Now I think it's funny and sarcastic
Anyone who can’t hear the humor in Morrissey’s lyrics isn’t paying any attention. Although the songs referring to the brutal crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are certainly not meant to be funny. Morrissey was clearly deeply affected by the murders.
he is secretly one of the best lyricists i've found. it's obtuse but unpretentious. and even though it's all about him, it's completely translatable to my life.
I remember waking up early in the morning, tuning in the music channel on the TV and casually listen to this song, I didn't understand english at the time but I fell in love with this song, it made me feel so nostalgic even tho I was 14 yo at the time, man I feel old...
This track always makes me think of my friend Slick. We are a couple thousand miles away, and don't get to see each other often enough. He loves LCD more than I do, so I'm sure he'll find this comment one day. Love you, buddy.
I was at a party a few years ago and the host heard the full length of this song start and he grabbed the remote and changed it and was like "he's just playing the same notes over and over again." - you just don't get it dude it's fucking beautiful it's amazing
Totally this, I saw them at Glastonbury and the final moments of this song literally had me on the floor picking up pieces of myself for about an hour afterwards
Hearing this at 19: we are unstoppable, I love my friends. Now: where are my friends , where did that time go, youth is fleeting I am vulnerable ❤❤❤❤ Love this song
When I got to see lcd soundsystem in Dallas. They melted my heart and soul with thier music. It was sensory overload and it was beautiful. Thank you for reminding me of the things to live for 🤘👏👏👏🍻🏒🇮🇪
Perfect. From the first time I heard it, under stressful circumstances years back. So personal, powerful, I start getting a little emotional before I even hit play.
This song reminds me of one of my favourite bars in Glasgow, the Variety Bar. I was a bit of a regular for a while and this song seemed to be on constant repeat, I’m guessing they liked it a lot.
This song I feel like I could write an entire essay on. I song that I liked as a teen has evolved over time to mean so much more to me as I am now in my 30s
As someone who is about to be past 9th class/grade this song hits hard knowing that I won't see a lot of my friends after this year, that "where are your friends tonight" lyric hits especially hard
I’ve had many late night with this song, along with waking up and feeling great about my homies and knowing today is going to be great! This song came out in my late 20’s and I’m damn near 40 so, it still holds that moment for me!
This makes me wanna cry... If you were born between 1998 and 2008, you were the last decade to know the radio and live with the radio solely as a means of finding masterpieces like this... I was born in 2001. I was 6 when this song came out, and it was magical to me then. Now it’s hard to compete with
Man you guys missed out. I was born in 1991 one of the last generations not to have a cellphone till highschool. We scraped our knees and lost our innocence on 9/11. The soundtrack to this was some of the most complex and deep music ever written. I remember getting high for the first time listening to this song in the background in a smelly garage in NY. Don't ever grow up!
I'll be heading 90 miles to Dublin today to see them. I'll be thinking of my hipster best friend that passed away that I couldn't stop swapping LCD soundsystem songs with when we were younger.
On the Twitter someone asked "First song on a road trip." It's always been this every time my dog and I go to beach. Because my best friend and I are going to our special place. Those trips led to me getting my Masters degree in my 40s. This song to me is about being old, but realizing the trip is far from over.
The entire song is composed of two chords. That’s not an exaggeration; I mean literally two chords. All My Friends may be a good song, but Bohemian Rhapsody is probably the most inaccurate song you could possibly pick to compare it to. This song has two chords and doesn’t even really have verses or choruses, let alone a bridge. Meanwhile, Bohemian Rhapsody is an incredibly complex song harmonically and features many different sections that essentially amount to three totally separate songs in one. I almost can’t think of a song that is _less_ like Bohemian Rhapsody than this one.
@@therainman7777I think what he means is what each song represents for their genre. Both are meditations on life and aging that perfectly embodies their genre while also being an incredible song.
@@peterthirdandthebridges I don’t see how you could cal bohemian Rhapsody a meditation on life and aging. The lyrics are disjoint, with the first section being about a despondent man seemingly considering suicide; the second section is largely nonsense lyrics that mean nothing; and the third section sounds like something from a typical love song, perhaps where the singer has grown frustrated with their love and is going to leave. The fact that the three sections are so different lyrically is in line with the fact that Bohemian Rhapsody is really three separate song fragments stitched together. I don’t see any reasonable way to call the lyrics a meditation on life and aging, though. As for the two songs being stellar representations of their genres-again, I would have to disagree with respect to Bohemian Rhapsody. The song is not really a good representation of _any_ genre, because it is basically impossible to even place it in any specific genre. It’s also completely unlike any other popular song of its era, so it’s hard to see how it’s representative of anything, other than its writers’ genius and originality. Above all I objected to the comparison because Bohemian Rhapsody was a revolutionary, radically unusual and unique song that broke every convention imaginable at the time and was unlike anything anyone had ever heard before, with incredibly complex harmony, melody, song structure, and so on; while All My Friends is a pretty straightforward pop song, based on two chords, and fairly conventional harmony, melodicism, and song structure. It’s a good song, but there’s really nothing radical, revolutionary, or highly unique about it.
@@therainman7777 bohemian rhapsody is the pinnacle of the rock opera styles that had been developed by famously the who and pink floyd on the wall it was not revolutionary, simply the culmination of many different sounds that queen and other bands had done before. The lyrics focus on guilt and mortality for the majority of the song. All My Friends also focus on guilt and mortality, not as abstractly though, where BR sings about death as suicide and having a place in hell, AMF sings about death as an oncoming inevitability and the sad reality that the older you get the more people you lose. The themes are not identical but there are some parallels. Also AMF is an incredibly interesting song harmonically. The piano accents 6 which over the IV chord becomes a 2. The guitar accents 2 which over the IV becomes a 6. These parallel each other and create a feeling of no movement as we circle around the same intervals. This leaves room for the vocal to define what intervals interact and what intervals don’t, for when the vocals sings a 3 or 7 its acts as a 7 or b5 over the IV chord, which creates and incredibly interesting dissonance evoking the melancholy of the lyrics.
For the longest time I thought this song was really sad and about friends that you lost along the way but it’s not. It’s about appreciating the friends you have in your life and being with them
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..
The intro is exactly like The 1975’s intro song on their newest album, and the “This is how it starts” is exactly the same as “Sex” by The 1975 too, wild.
A1 songwriting, some of the best I’ve ever heard. The 2000s along with the 60s and 70s was the zenith of music, we didn’t realise it at the time but given what we have now, we surely do. Genius track.
imagine reading this when you just finished the previous chapter and youre about to enter the last one. You can hear nothing, only silence and the sounds your pc makes. cant find a more menacing and alarming feeling than this.
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 That's how it starts It comes apart The way it does in bad films Except in parts When the moral kicks in You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can And the next ten people who are trying to be polite When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France Yeah, I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight? And to tell the truth Oh, this could be the last time So here we go Like a sail's force into the night And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool On the road, there's always this And if I'm sewn into submission I can still come home to this And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand 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 plan come apart in your hand You look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop You forgot 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? 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 ◇♧◇♧◇♧◇♡◇♧◇♧◇♧◇♧
I finally got to to see LCD live, along with IDLES (who are incredible). LCD closed the show out with this song, I can't think of a better song to close with.
Over lockdown I was in a very abusive relationship and the other person totally totally isolated me from my friends, in and out of hospital, there was a point when I really thought I'd lost them all after all the things I did and said to them and put them through. Things changed though, I got out of that situation the world opened up again, me and my friends repaired our bonds and the very people I thought I'd lost who where part of my life for what was a decade but I know now again will be the rest of my life, where all sitting there at this French cafe with the moon night illuminating us all whilst we where chatting shit and drinking cocktails we couldn't afford. Then this came on and it was one of the most perfect moments of my life.
