“If it’s a funeral…let’s have the best funeral ever.”

Last April, James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem played their last show ever to a capacity crowd at New York’s Madison Square Garden. So clearly, somebody filmed the preceding 48 hours and made a documentary about it.

The first trailer for “Shut Up and Play the Hits” dropped this week (the film premieres at Sundance in a few weeks) and the footage is chock-full of live concert action, Murphy putting on his pants, and band members smiling at each other, all set to the tune of LCD’s “All My Friends.” I love LCD Soundsystem and not going to their final gig is a regret I’ll have to live with for the rest of my life…or until the DVD comes out because they filmed it in its entirety.

But lets get real here. I feel like everyone makes a documentary about anything nowadays. As much as I love LCD Soundsystem, I don’t really know much about the man behind it all. That’s a big +1 for the film already. However, LCD Soundsystem put out three albums over the course of five or so years. It’s hardly a long-term career or project, even. Murphy was even quoted in Spin saying that LCD Soundsystem was created simply because The Rapture took a hike (“LCD was always sort of a half-thing,” he says. “All of that happened because I was at a loss not having the Rapture. I was never going to make an album or tour much — that came after they left.”).

So here we stand. On the precipice of a full-length documentary film…for a “half-thing.” I can’t be the only one that sees the absurdity in that. However, the final show did get rave reviews; the band did play all three albums, in full, back-to-back-to-back. That sort of love and dedication for the music really is admirable…even if only for a “half” project.

Check out the trailer….will you be seeing the film?