12.18.2007

Best Song of 2007

According to Pitchfork, it's "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem. It's hard to disagree.

One of the greatest blessings in life is to have a set of interesting, passionate, brilliant, caring, thoughtful, hilarious friends, and one of the greatest curses is to be separated from every one of them. This song is about memories and about moving forward. How hard that is. The droning but frantic piano a perfect backdrop to the scene of getting older and missing those careless days of sometimes really stupid decisions made alongside your best friend. Wondering how you made it out alive and would you trade any of it for anything? Those stories, the stuff that has now become material for wedding toasts. "The memory of our betters, keeping us on our feet."

This song is best heard alone and loud.

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