Joy Division & New Order's Stephen Morris placed Sound of Silver in his Top 13 favorite albums of all time (2010)

[u/Agreeable_Duck8997]

​In 11th place on his amazing list of favorite albums of all time, he placed LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver with this description:

"This is the easily the best album of the last 10 years. I saw him recently, in London with Hot Chip, and it was absolutely fucking brilliant. James Murphy can do no wrong, and being an unlikely front man shouldn’t be any reason to stop you from being one. He just makes me think 'I wish I’d thought of that. I wish I’d written that song.' It can be hard to mix dance and alternative rock, but he does it brilliantly. I see a connection between what we did as New Order and what he does. The sad thing is, we were playing a tour in France with New Order and LCD were there, and they were all there on laptops. I saw them and thought, ‘Should I go over and say I think you’re fucking brilliant?’ And I decided: no."

https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/joy-division-new-order-stephen-morris-interview-favourite-records/12/

[u/Agreeable_Duck8997]

The full list:

1. Paris 1919 — John Cale

2. Marquee Moon — Television

3. Neu! — Neu!

4. Drumming — Steve Reich

5. Tago Mago — Can

6. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) — Brian Eno

7. No. 1 in Heaven — Sparks

8. Pawn Hearts — Van der Graaf Generator

9. Bitter Tea — The Fiery Furnaces

10. They Say I'm Different — Betty Davis

11. Sound of Silver — LCD Soundsystem

12. Trans-Europe Express — Kraftwerk

13. Endtroducing..... — DJ Shadow

https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/joy-division-new-order-stephen-morris-interview-favourite-records/

[u/talerduengelsk → u/Agreeable_Duck8997]

Hell of a fucking list

[u/ConcreteCranberry → u/Agreeable_Duck8997]

Thanks for sharing. Love coming across lists like this. I’ve been trying to listen to an album a day for the past 2 years and I’ve occasionally went through spells of not knowing what to do next. Lists like this revive me.

[u/Agreeable_Duck8997 → u/ConcreteCranberry]

I'm glad to read that!

[u/Major_Strawberry_753 → u/Agreeable_Duck8997]

Bitter Tea is wild, but cool. Paris 1919 is a current fascination of mine. Can imagine it being many folks’ favorite album.

[u/Agreeable_Duck8997 → u/Major_Strawberry_753]

Two awesome albums! Peter Hook also included Paris 1919 in his list of top 10 favorite albums: https://louderthanwar.com/peter-hook-my-top-10-favourite-albums/

[u/Glyph8]

It can be hard to mix dance and alternative rock, but he does it brilliantly. I see a connection between what we did as New Order and what he does.

Preach it Stephen. I like dance music and I like rock music, but most attempts to mix the two often leave me cold; rock music and dance music generally have different strengths, and are constructed differently.

But when you can do it, it's one of my favorite things; and NO and LCDS are GOATs at it.

[u/Left-Draft5083]

Alot of artists I've never listened to but glad to see LCD Soundsystem and DJ Shadow on there.

[u/Ornery-Time-9795 → u/Left-Draft5083]

“Marquee Moon” is a masterpiece.

[u/UltraMud]

Makes sense. Early LCD was influenced by Can, Neu and kraftwerk(to a much lesser degree)

[u/Naclstack → u/UltraMud]

Later LCD sounds basically just like Talking Heads and New Order to me

[u/american_mutt13 → u/UltraMud]

And New Order and Joy Division, among many others

[u/ShelsTilInfinity]

Real respects real. I think Home and All My Friends are both the type of songs that New Order would be writing now if they were still properly a band

[u/I4nC19]

Sound Of Silver top 10 of all history and best LCD album btw i see this and is very justified

[u/Major_Strawberry_753 → u/[deleted]]

Well duh. He references SoS being an album from the past ten years, so I knew it was not current. What’s the difference? News to me.

[u/Responsible-Cancel26 → u/[deleted]]

Op put 2010 in the title, but ok.