The LCD Soundsystem Challenge: Make Silver Gold
Sound of Silver due March 20
Sounds like a good plan to us: [via Pitchfork]
According to the LCD deacon [James Murphy], the soundtrack to the Beyonce-boasting, Golden Globe-winning musical Dreamgirls moved 60064 units last week and held on to the number one Billboard spot...."straight up, if everyone who bought the first record bought s.o.s. the week it's released, then we're totally #1.... Taking Sound of Silver to #1 has its perks. As Murphy mused elsewhere, "i don't want to 'get' people to buy the record (it always bugs me when i feel like a salesman) but if we could figure out a way to have the people who'd buy it anyway because they want it to do it ALL AT ONCE, then i could go to radio stations and say 'can you please play north american scum, because it's on a top 40 record' and see what they say.
"i mean, no 'modern rock' station in the US is going to play a song like that, but at least i want them to say to my face 'no--because it's retarded' rather than what i usually hear, which is 'duuuuude! i LOOOOOOVE your band, man! daft punk is losing it's edge is my FAVORITE SONG!! but i just can't, because my hands are tied here to only play hinder and evanescence' etc. etc."
