All My Friends sooooo good. Here's what I had written about it back in May:
This song is amazing. I had never heard an LCD Soundsystem song before this one. I listened to Sound of Silver after hearing this, and this song is an album killer. Every song before this one (with the exception of Someone Great) is nothing but “the song before All My Friends” and every song after this one is “this song isn’t All My Friends. It’s sad, really, and I let Rusty hear my displeasure with the way he killed Sound of Silver for me. I still need to hear other songs in LCD Soundsystem’s discography, but I’m nervous that I’ll never fully be able to enjoy them because I heard this crown jewel first. I will forever hold them up to this standard. I love this song. It quickly became one of my all-time favorites. That incessant piano is like a clock throughout the entire song. It’s amazing. All My Friends is a song about looking back, but the piano keeps us moving forward. I could continue into more philosophical bull**** that would make me puke if I reread it, but I’m not going to. I absolutely love the way the song forms around the piano, the way more is added to it. It starts as a crawl, but before you know it, the song is at full speed. It just keeps building and building, and by the time he starts singing “Where are your friends tonight?” you realize how great the previous six minutes were. While listening, you had taken for granted everything that had flown into and out of your ears, and it’s this one moment that makes you realize all that is gone and you are at the end. That’s what “Where are your friends tonight?” is for me. Every time, it makes me realize that this song is awesome, but now it’s over, and it leaves me sad. I had before said the song didn’t live up to its potential, but after repeated listens, I started to realize how powerful that moment of the song was. I kept replaying this song, and I couldn’t figure out why. And then I saw that it was “where are your friends tonight?” that kept making me miss everything I had just heard. This song makes me fearful for the future. Someday years from now, I’m going to hear this, and it’s going to break me down. I’m going to look back at my life, and I’m going to want to redo everything. But I’ll realize I can’t. And just like I can’t replay this song forever, I’ll need to move on. I don’t look forward to that day, but at the same time I do.
Since then, I've learned to appreciate all of Sound of Silver (that first half of the album rivals any set of five songs in any order from any album I've ever heard), as well as the rest of LCD's discography. Everything after that part still holds true. All My Friends is still the shortest eight minutes ever, and it's still making a case to be my favorite song ever. With college graduation looming in a week, this song becomes even more powerful. Feels bittersweet, man.
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