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[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011 by Lizzy Goodman (2017)?

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I've read parts of it

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[jinjurloaf]

[middleclassfashion]

Julian was very nervous. He was very apprehensive about that record; he really, really wanted it to be successful. I felt like he was under a lot of pressure. I felt like he wasn't a hundred percent happy with it. I felt like maybe he wanted it to sound differently...Maybe more of a step forward. Maybe not a Gordon Raphael record. I invited him to the book release party for my novel and we wound up at the Library afterward and after that, we ended up with these two girls back at my apartment doing coke all night. I can't remember their faces or names. They were hipster girls. I don't know whose coke it was. It wasn't mine. But Julian, he kept playing the album on my little red boom box. And he kept going, 'I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.' And I was like, 'It sounds really great, man. It's going to be great.' Because I thought it was a great record. And he kept going, 'I don't know.'

Marc Spitz, from Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

[thebookbeard-blog]

We wrote it in Nick’s room with the blue drum machine and a four-track recorder. I was really lovelorn at the time. 'They don’t love you like I love you' was straight from a love letter and I just plucked it out of there because I thought it had a good ring to it. Just a simple statement that really stuck with people. You know, I say 'love letter' but it was a fucking e-mail. Motherfucker. You know what? I’m going to rewrite history right here. I wrote it with a quill. It was a feather quill, written in blood.

Karen O on writing “Maps” in Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

[npr]

LCD Soundsystem is back. The New York indie band blended dance music and punk rock to critical acclaim in the 2000s. Six years ago, the band announced it was breaking up. The band's legendary farewell shows sold out New York's Madison Square Garden.

But last year, frontman James Murphy announced that more music was on the way. LCD Soundsystem started touring again, playing small venues and huge festivals. And now, the band has released a new album, American Dream.

Music journalist Lizzy Goodman, who chronicled the scene in which LCD Soundsystem emerged in her book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011, spoke to Rachel Martin about the new album, LCD Soundsystem's return and the attendant controversy.

It's Happened: LCD Soundsystem Is Back With 'American Dream'

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

[somekeepsakes]

Paul & Sam on September 11, 2001

Paul Banks: I was on Grand and Ludlow, where I lived.

Sam Fogarino: I was in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I watched them fall from my roof.

Paul Banks: I had a job then - at that point I was doing data entry for Scholastic News. This is after I bailed on doing a real career. I was just doing shit work. I woke up to 1010 WINS every day, and some chick phoned in and said, "A plane crashed into the Twin Towers." I thought, "Ah, cool, I'll go see that." Because I'm thinking, "It has to be a Cessna, some moron in a Cessna just crashed into the Twin Towers." I walk down and see Armageddon happening.

You know how in movies like King Kong, women put their hands over their mouths and run the other way? I saw that for real. That's not just a film trope. That's an animal thing that humans do. A reflex.

I volunteered that whole day. My roommate Sebastian and I get on these MTA buses and we drive across the West Side Highway. We take off our T-shirts so they can be used as tourniquets for all these people we're going to rescue. They're teaching us CPR. You know, this was official. But we're just standing around. I wound up kind of saying to some fire marshal guy, I was like, "Are we gonna go in? Are we gonna do anything?" And he said, quote, "We're waiting for that building to come down." So I can vouch for the fact that they knew ahead of time that building seven was going to fall. Whether there was a conspiracy or not, I don't know. But I didn't do shit. I just stood around on the West Side Highway with my shirt off, with the volunteer group all fucking day, until sundown. But the one thing that I took away as being really, really memorable was seeing a bus full of firefighters going to the site. Fast-forward a couple of hours. It's dark, and the bus comes back with all the lights on inside, showing the firefighters completely covered in ash. I can see their faces and the look was deep dejection. That shit was heavy.

Sam Fogarino: For a couple months thereafter there was a great sense of paranoia and New York bonded together. It was like, "Oh, man. I'd rather be in shitty New York with people pissing on my leg."

I'd say for a minute we probably collectively thought that it was over, that we were not going to make a record. But then it became fuel for the fire. New York puffed up again and said, "You picked the wrong city. You picked the wrong one," and on a microscopic level this little band, Interpol, is going to put out a fucking record anyway.

- Meet Me In The Bathroom, Lizzy Goodman (2017)

[spacekingjack]

I'm going to make something so fucking good that I'm worthy of that thing I lust after.

Paul Banks, Meet me in the Bathroom 

[jinjurloaf]

from Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011 (2017) by Lizzy Goodman