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North American Scum

"North American Scum"
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Single by LCD Soundsystem
from the album Sound of Silver
B-side "Hippy Priest Bum-Out"
Released February 26, 2007
Format
Recorded 2006
Genre
Length
  • 5:26 (album version)
  • 3:46 (radio edit)
Label DFA
Writer(s) James Murphy
Producer(s) The DFA
LCD Soundsystem singles chronology
"45:33"
(2006)
"North American Scum"
(2007)
"All My Friends"
(2007)

"North American Scum" is a song by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, Sound of Silver, on February 26, 2007 as a digital download and on other formats on March 5, 2007. It peaked at number 24 on the Belgian Flanders Tip chart and number 40 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is also frequently used to open up The Ron and Fez Show on XM Satellite Radio and was also featured in the 2008 film Step Brothers as well as the video games Saints Row 2 and Top Spin 4.

The music video for "North American Scum" was directed by Ben Dickinson. It features James Murphy initially in a photo shoot, then entering space via a door, planting a DFA Records flag on the moon and engaging Pat Mahoney in a fight on the moon being cheered on by Tyler Pope and Nancy Whang, and finally leaving space through another door where he meets himself, Mahoney and Whang in a room filled with leaves.

During the band's farewell performance on April 2, 2011 at Madison Square Garden, the band was joined onstage for "North American Scum" by several members of Arcade Fire, who sang backing vocals.


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