LCD Soundsystem - "Too Much Love" live at Madison Square Garden (4/2/11) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Apr 04, 2011
DESCRIPTION:
Song seven from the epic final show at Madison Square Garden.

From the excellent Pitchfork song by song write-up:
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From the album LCD Soundsystem; 2005
Written by James Murphy
Produced by the DFA

An early song about aging, "Too Much Love" finds James Murphy at 34 modestly and meekly pondering the consequences of segueing into a new, slower phase of his life. More spacious than a lot of the cluttered tracks on LCD's debut LP, it finds him with one foot planted firmly in the Bowie/Eno sonic axis he so loves and the other pointing toward the wider, spacious sonics of Sound of Silver. Still a little more tentative with his vocals, Murphy had a tendency to impersonate when he used his voice more melodically than rhythmically early on, and here is no exception.

His almost-somnambulist delivery effectively mirrors both the shimmer and delicate pulse of the song's first half and the clattering rhythm that later dominates it. Positioned on the debut album between bright-eyed singles "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" and "Tribulations", "Too Much Love" feels like a hangover song, the low-energy mutterings of someone trying to locate faded memories in a clouded mind. In most every way, it comes off like a test run for the "how did I get here?" tracks on Sound of Silver, a tentative step toward locating songs about himself and his internal feelings in the light of day right alongside the ones that documented the previous night. --Scott Plagenhoef

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7947-you-were-there-the-complete-lcd-soundsystem/1/
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