is this the worst website ever? i kind of love how shit it is, but is that just me? i mean, i see other bands’ slick websites and i think “these guys don’t do this themselves!” i mean, i often know them, and i KNOW they don’t do it themselves–it’s almost INSANE to think they’d do it themselves, but still… i LIKE that i do it myself. with sonya—don’t get me wrong. i don’t know SHIT about html or whatever, and sonya koshuta does all that here, but as far as content goes, it’s like–me, being an idiot, typing crap in a little box on something called “dashboard”. this is in the “QuickPress” section. anyway, i like that it’s crap. that works for me. i wish, however, that it was easier for me to make crap ON it. maybe i’ll focus a little and add some stuff more often. it seems like everyone just looks at facebook anyway, and that if i want anyone to see this i’d have to post it to facebook, or maybe tweet it or something.
i was considering shutting both the twitter and the LCD facebook page down, but that seems lazy. maybe it’ll be fun to post recipes, or christmas cards, or golf scores or whatever retired people do. anyone wanna look at pictures of my grandkids?
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No! I love how it is, not everything should be solely on Facebook. I subscribe to this site via Google Reader. I know it won’t be as active as it was when LCD was still a band, but i’ll still read it!
Good luck James and enjoy your retirement!
I love the website, warts and all. Never change!
You do not need to delete the twitter and facebook accounts, you can always stop using them. Though pictures of grandkids and granola recipes would be pretty great anyway.
Don’t shut the site down. Flashy websites are overrated. This place feels special.
Whatever you do, it will be awesome.
I like this website, it’s clean and clear, unlike many slicker websites, which are pretty but difficult to navigate.
If you post things here, I will read them… Facebook and Twitter definitely get more views though.
You could do weekly recommendations of new albums and music or old overlooked albums and music.
That’d be cool…
You could make a new album…..
That’d be super cool…
this site is intimate, informal, charming, and crucial. the ideal storage space for the miscellaneous. keep it.
Please keep it. We love you.
I would like to know what coffee shops you recommend around the world. And I, in turn, can tell you where to get the best coffee in Chicago. (The best anything in Chicago, actually.) But please no golf scores. I am now picturing you in plaid knickers and it is making me sad.
I really like the website as it is. It shows that a lot of care went into it to do it yourself and the animated buttons were delightfully poor, but still all good.
On a different note, it is a shame I never got to see LCD Soundsystem live… :'(
I vote do not change it. I do not use twitter, nor Facebook ,so this is my only source of LCD/James Murphy/Special Disco Version news (outside of the Google).
Set up a Tumblr, James. Is perfect for what you want to do here. Let’s you make crap on it real easy like.
never understood tumblr. but never understood twitter either.
i just quit fb and twitter. it’s fun. just saying. please keep on with the site — and if you could share some of the coffee wisdom, that’d be swell!
Of course this is one of the worst website of the music industry (PIL’s one is competitive actually), but I also like the fact that is kind of outdated. It’s a “Low-Fi” website, and that’s great.
Anyway, I don’t have facebook and twitter neither, so don’t stop posting on this website, (I’m really interesting in your golf card from south Spain). Since MSG, (that I saw on Pitchfork TV, in France (yes, I’m French)) I’m crying every night that God’s making. I cry because you did well and also because I miss you guys so much (I’m kind of emotional). So for the french rednecks who are not participating of the great social networks adventure, and like the old fashion html website, please keep going. (And sorry for my engli… heu american).
Bye.
PS: db you’ve got great ideas, keep going too.
I would love to see pix of your grand kids. I’m old enough to have some myself but one of my goals is to meet you in person, so if ever in the Seattle area, let me know and I will treat you to dinner!! Looking forward to the last show DVD!
i think the site is tremendously appropriate for you. it’s awesome in its simplicity and knowing that its just you and Sonya doing it adds a special element to it. i usually check your site before checking fb/twatter, but that might just be me. dont delete stuff! preserve the memory! and you should definitely post recipes. i hope you’ll post ones you think of in wee hours of the morning when its still last night… youre the man james murphy!
awesome! will do.
just keep the damn thing and keep it as cruddy-looking as it is. not everyone has you on speed-dial, y’know. 🙂
Responded over in the forum, but forgot to add: define crap! When say you wish that it was easier to do stuff on the site — this is WordPress, yes? — what do you want to do here (or online in general) that you can’t do now?
A friend try to explain it to me (I mean Twitter). Consequence ? Now I feel stupid. But the one you wrote about the BEP was kind of hilarious. Hating ears and loving money often sounds the same. Except with Katty Perry.
Keep doing what you do the way you do it, James. You didn’t accomplish everything you have by following fads.
Keep the website… The crappiness is what makes it great, it has a “real” feel to it… Recipes would be great, I’m a vegetarian, just sayin’
James, the site works well! People want content, they want to know what you’re up to, they want to find out where your next gig is at, they want photo’s of you and the band doing everyday stuff, and they want to interact with other fans who love your music and what you do.
Your site does all this extremely well.
Simplicity is the key. Adding a veneer of glitz won’t add to the experience – likely just the opposite. People want you!
Dont get enamoured with fancy graphics and effects. It’s all about your content, and allowing your audience to get to the content quickly and easily. We care about you, we want to know you’re still grooving, and someone is seeing it happen live, and you’re still loving what you do – tell us your stories – good and bad.
I run a web agency with 250 employees built from the ground up, so I do know this business. Im also a massive fan… I was there… at MSG and many other times!!! The only thing I’d change/add is allowing people to comment on yourposts, and you interacting back with them. Leverage the community aspect – it’s powerful.
I know you sweat the details, but hey, you’ve done good with this site – you really have. Be proud.
JK
PS – Thanks Man.. for everything!!!!!!
you really do need to keep the site as is. and I would highly recommend you post recipes! I’m pretty much echoing everything that was already said, but we really do love you. Come on, if Steve Albini has a food blog, why not you?
I work professionally building the front end of huge corporate (the man) websites, like fuse.tv, bbcamerica, mbusa.com and bankofamerica.com. They’re all struggling to keep up with each other, in terms of design, functionality and user experience(UX). For them, I can understand the plethora of updates and the need to keep up. But for you, I love that you keep it clean, simple and personal. This line in your css keeps me smiling when I visit your site:
font-family: courier,arial,sans-serif;
The only thing I’d change is from your table layout to a more fluid div layout, you’d get faster loading times and versatile with mobile devices.
P.s. I’d like to give Twitter, Facebook and Myspace, each a plastic spoon; so they can eat my a$$.
LOVE your website. HATE industry websites. You should be able to make it so anything you post here automatically goes to your face & twit pages at the same time? (DON’T give those up, someone(s) else would just become the go-to fakes…)
I look at this all the time! I really love this website, and I love how its simplicity makes me feel connected to LCD. Twitter is entertaining, Facebook is bloated (which is its own fault). This is great.
i’ve got this rss’d, so i never miss anything
the diy vibe is a big part of the charm
actually, i *prefer* the simplicity and ‘i had a thought guess i’ll write a post on the blog’ feel — “macks” got it totally right on June 5
i like it. i’m not on facebook and i don’t go to twitter, so this suits me just fine.
the only thing i would change is to add an announcement indicating that there will be a SDV residency in NYC sometime soon 🙂
dare to dream. cheers!
man ill verbally abuse you while on extacsy at sonar at 5:30 in the morning when youre djing if you shut this down(i wont really) but yeah dont shut it down, woo sonar!
James, do what you feel it’s the best for you – we trust your good sense and great taste! But one thing’s for sure: I love this website, just the way it is 🙂
marianna
Second the bulk of the comments:
keep the site up, and leave it as is.
We have enough style-over-substance out there already.
Plus, you can do much better things with your time than fiddling with the look — would rather hear you dj than see slick pics.
Plus, off topic, but needs to be said:
That Heart of Sunrise tease was WAAAYYY too short, awesome of course, as all the other 3.5h’s
Thanks for the final week in toto, the T5’s hit the spot…
It’s perfect the way it is. Everybody else do the streamlined flashy moving bits flim flam type sites..there’s no need.
This works – don’t muck about with it.
I dont get twitter though – I just dont..
How about maybe sticking up some soundbooth material from a few gigs or something?
Like – ones from Dublin? Please?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Keep it- that way we can all keep on pretending that LCD are still alive and well!!
the site is fine, and the fact that it isn’t slick and flashed-to-death is part of what make it so fine.
so i vote “keep on” in the poll. and sure, bring on recipes and photos and odds and ends. schematics. cel-phone photos. maps without keys. photos of keys.
and golf is fun.
if you delete it, how will I follow your every move?!
I would love your grandkids pics
Shut that shit down. its worthless. I dont need to know if some one just farted….
Dump your brain here. I like the intimacy of it.
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