single
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ah goddamnit Jordan beat me to it. Didn't want to start a new thread because an official title isn't confirmed. This can be our official talking spot!
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, a mod can just change the title when they announce the name
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
god this album sucked
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
XD
Hah. This song is weak though. What did we hear first of Sound of Silver...it leaked in full before any singles were hyped right?
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think "north american scum" & "daft punk" are my two least favorite songs on their respective albums, so i'm not putting too much stock in this
i do think it's pretty good tho -- it's sort of surf-rocky? also i dig the refrain even tho it's kind of cheap -- solo is cool too
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
This track is wack in a pleasant way, even the self-plagiarizing ("North American Scum" at the 1:30 mark). I do keep expecting him to go all RADIO ON like Jonathan Richman.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
to be fair, I've read a track-by-track of the album which claims this is by some distance the worst thing on it
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.peterguy.merseyblogs.co.uk/2010/03/lcd-soundsystem-third-track-by.html
& there is a clip for another track here http://www.juno.co.uk/products/Pow-Pow/386997-01/
this sounds more like a typical drawn out dancey lcd song a la "yeah" (not to make too much of it)
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dear God this is awful. Sounds like fucking Weezer or some shit. Worst LCD single BY FAR.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay this has actually grown on me after a few more listens, talk about jumping the gun. It's nifty.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
The track-by-track article is encouraging. Doran on another thread also repped the first track in particular.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
james murphy, eat your heart and also elton motello out
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
that piece is god's work, altho i we all could've done w/o "Four minutes in and everything goes sexually squelchy, like Daft Punk have emptied their electro ballsacks all over the production suite."
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
that was the best line
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost don't really see the resemblance actually. The Plastic Bertrand version is better anyhow.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
i just realized that this album & the new dream album are being released on the same day
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
song sounds like Brian Eno's True Wheel meets Magazine or something
― Zeno, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
this isn't very good
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's almost like he made like an indie rock record or something amirite
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
dave, they're very similar imo - JBJG sprang into my head pretty much instantly
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay I've completely turned myself around on this song. Even more concise and loveable than North American Scum. As for influence-spotting musical references, I hear early 80s Belew-Fripp in the solo and as the song crescendos I'm immediately reminded of one of my favourite bands, Stereolab - the juddering two note bassline, analogue synth drone, vocal harmonies. I'm going to listen to it again.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Eno meets The Jam..
― Zeno, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is OK and expect it to grow on me over time.
― Bee OK, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
this sounds rather closer to the strokes +- blur than stereolab or eno or anything dignified like that which in some aspect it may resemble
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty psyched for this
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
'we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.'
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
die antwoord need to fucking answer that back tbh
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't think that line was directed at africa
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh ok it was directed at france then
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
a country that has a president
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
'we have herman van rompuy'
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
bad song
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
i really love "All My Friends," "Something Great," and "Get Innocuous," from Sound of Silver, and a bunch of the other tracks are solid, so i'm still going to check this out probably, unless the critical consensus is that it's awful
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
critical consensus will have this album of the year dude
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's LCD Soundsystem ffs
it's LCD Soundsystem's final gift to a fucked-up world
a world where nothing is certain except JAMES MURPHY and his uncanny ability to fuse rock and dance music into universal art that packs a real groove!
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
ks you'll have to forgive him he's british
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
All that's missing from Murphy's critbound project is a Daryl Hall cameo.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahahaha LJ
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is a v fun song and u mad
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 08:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
u being anyone who thinks this is wack
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 08:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
good song
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
that single is so so bad :o
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
i dont understand why its earning so much dislike
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
cuz it sounds like lumpen britpop with beered-up football chanting? completely completely sucks, even the so-called groove is tedious
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is actually worse than I was expecting. :-/
It's like he aims for The Cars but just lands short like a yodeller with laryngitis.
― Delia & Daphne & Celeste (Masonic Boom), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is kinda obnoxious
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
RIP Soundsystem
maybe i am deaf but this doesnt sound so far removed from anything else theyve done that itd be received with so much derision
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well, I don't actually *like* LCD Soundsystem to start with so it's no surprise I don't like it, Max!
― Delia & Daphne & Celeste (Masonic Boom), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
it sounds pretty far removed from the lcd songs i've loved - "yeah", "losing my edge", "tribulations", "beat connection", "get innocuous", 45:33...
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
mm ok that makes more sense i guess
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
i dont think this is great but ive only listened to it a couple times--seems pretty fun/in-keeping with stuff they do. i can hear the britpop but i dont hate britpop so it doesnt bother me.
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
I get what Lex is saying but it's far too effete to be called any serious kind of beer boy anthem. It's quite similar to White Light/White Heat' as done by Lodger Bowie at demo stage or live. Got hints of glam Eno, Wire AND Family Fodder! (And, yeah, it reminds me a bit how I felt about tracks like... Tapes and North American Scum when I first heard them.)
Love Family Fodder!
― Doran, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.
Is this a lyric or an ILE post?
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
It's the ILE board description now, anyway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
And what's Murphy doing glomming onto Fela into 2010? He should be all about Mulatu Astatke by now.
― Doran, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
Nas: Hipper Than LCD Soundsystem
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 12:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was kind of horrified at the start but it won me over.
― skip, Friday, 26 March 2010 12:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah this song is horrible. A 40 something old man singing about drunk girls, give me a break. Terrible song.
― van smack, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
the "girls" are all the guys in the band living in the house in LA according to pitchfork
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
I do get that this is a logical extension of his aesthetic/fits within the oeuvre but that's not a reason to like the song imo
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, 26 March 2010 13:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like this song.
p.s. stoked for lj's insight once the album comes out.
― caek, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol
caek you'll notice I didn't trash the song - I merely said it reminded me of an Elton Motello classic
but yeah you are right to be stoked - I might even like it this time!
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 13:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
the fact that you think this song sounds anything like the elton motello song makes me think that you have some bizarro sound filter in your head when it comes to lcd soundsystem
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 14:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
the basslines, man! also the lyrical content and the vibe. add a load of bright n bouncy synths to the motello and bam
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
i am sure your opinion of this album will be very interesting, whether positive or negative.
― caek, Friday, 26 March 2010 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
LCD Zingsystem
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like this song.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
this song is gone ;_;
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 26 March 2010 15:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
can you post mediafire links here
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 15:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^
well, maybe not horrified, but it didn't have the wow factor of hearing anything off sound of silver for the first time. seems pretty clear that this is going to be an outlier though, still looking forward to the whole record.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
No.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Its here though: http://www.nme.com/news/lcd-soundsystem/50393
This song is great, you are all mad.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is clearly the joke track that appears 2/3rds of the way through the album though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is the lead single though unfortunately
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
which means 0 in 2010
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
could mean that there is more of this stuff
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
studio clips may or may not reveal what the rest of the record sounds like?
via their youtube channel
― jaime, Friday, 26 March 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
i have to imagine that they'll play at least a few (if not a bunch) of new songs at coachella in a few weeks
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 20:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is sorta the same way I felt about the first single from the last lp - "North American Scum" to me was horrible, and I thought 'what the F is this crap' for a first single. Then heard the album and thought it was great. But still didn't care too much for that song though.
― van smack, Saturday, 27 March 2010 00:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 12:42 (Yesterday)
agree with this after hearing drunk girls and that AWFUL pow pow song. horrible macho shouting with some background sneering. hope the rest of the album isn't like this.
― NI, Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Drunk Girls" sounds tossed-off, formulaic LCD by numbers...He's done this style before as others have pointed out
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
cue nme 'rock is back' lcd cover story. music is bullshit
― teresa banks (r1o natsume), Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
jams murphy is in the gutter
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
i remember it were all beats around here
Anyone would think they'd turned into Cold Chisel or Rose Tattoo.
― Doran, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
i thought about "it were all the field around here" but eh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
It were all Fields of the Nephelim round here...
― Doran, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha there's always been a strong rose tattoo element to lcd.
i've never really liked the monotone barky side of LCD so was hoping the new stuff would be more emotional disco like 'someone great', 4533 and 'all my friends'. or even the bouncy pop of 'yeah' and the deceptacon remix. the two i've heard just seem more of the usual dry detached plodstomp, with added jockrock. looking forward to hearing 'dance yourself clean' though - i've never been the biggest fan but when they're good, they're awesome
― NI, Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this gonna leak before he comes up with a name? considering how many people seem to have heard it...
― iatee, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is Happening.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hah awesome, love the title/art. Just trying to think what the cover reminds me of...some early-to-mid 80s early CD art by an established artist, no?
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha what a terrible corporate buzztitle and lame franz-ferdinand-inspired cover art
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
what a disaster for lcd
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
could they be any more corporate
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
i mean hes wearing a suit
RIP indie
can't believe jams sold out and went w/ an unironic corporate buzztitle and decided to be inspired by franz ferinand
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
corporate buzztitle
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh good, there's enough zinging going on here to cover me too
good looking out, guys! ^_^
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
looks like "this" isnt happening at all, unless "this" is "a corporate buzztitle"
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
D'oh for being the only person who likes the cover. It's no New Amerykah pt 2, but I think it's dapper.
ILM cynicism strikes again!
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like the cover
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
i would love it, if it werent inspired by franz ferdinand
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^remembers when indie wasn't dead
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
reminds me a lot of lodger : david bowie.
― mark e, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
i believe that was inspired by franz ferdinand as well
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
seriously lj, do you sometimes sit there and think to yourself "let's see, what is the most speciously infuriating thing I could write to make my fellow posters sprain their eyeballs from reflexive rolling" before you post?
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha at Bowie travelling forward in time and being inspired by Franz.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
franz ferdinand was born way the fuck before bowie
― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also was about to say it reminded me of Low onwards Bowie, later period Roxy Music and suited-and-booted New Pop.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
and his death inspired bowie's nazi period
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
can't believe LCD is inspired by Beck
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
the vocal harmonies are great, definitely a lodger thing going on
but yeah i'm put off that the shout is "drunk girls" but that probably doesn't matter
― goole, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
the thing is, a certain proportion of girls at any given time are in fact drunk, so ... it's not offensive
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
how many photos will be subjected to tilted chiaroscuro shops with 'corporate buzztitle' annotations in the coming months
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
zero
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
damn
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
no ILM meme potential sorry
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
TVOTR release new album 'Everyone Together' ft. b/w Tunde reclining on bed of blank CDs
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:22 PM
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
which buzztitle is the most corporate:
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
also pretty sure Tunde is just b
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
smells like teen spirit, by Beethoven
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
smells like a corporate buzztitle
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was thinking of making this joke, but then I didn't
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
dude missed out on the prized l0u1s jagg3r demographic by not calling his album "ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is This It is such a look-what-a-hip-hyped-new-band-we-are-and-this-album-will-be-huge title. Don't know about corporate buzzkill though.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
"ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"
holy fucking lol
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's surely something offensively platitudinous about 'This Is Happening', isn't there? any album-title you could conscionably add 'yeah' on the end of in regular speech isn't worth adopting imo
oh ok i am lolling
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
LOLias of Sunhillow
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
any album-title you could conscionably add 'yeah' on the end of in regular speech isn't worth adopting imo
your mind works in such bizarre ways
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah?
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
The problem with that proscription is that you can add "yeah" on the end of anything.
xp: dammit max I was about to post that
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's surely something offensively platitudinous about 'This Is Happening', isn't there?
no not really
― goole, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
guys I'm not sure but I think there might be a song called "yeah"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost Come on it's Jams Murphy - he subject to different criteria. Every gesture he makes is filtered through this jokey/sincerity dichotomy. I'd agree if like Sufjan or Lady Gaga called their hotly-anticipated album 'This is Happening'.
Although i kind of see yr point.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
the title is fairly crap but i don't think it's worth getting offended over
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is hoppening
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
jam smurphy
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
I can't wait until this album leaks. This thread will be bananas.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
im boycotting the album on the grounds of it being too corporate
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Mashed Bananas and Jams
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just remembered that the words 'this is happening' form part of the title of my favourite self-penned poem - I retreat in shame anew
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
That frog is swollen with immanence
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
good title yeah xp
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Every gesture he makes is filtered through this jokey/sincerity dichotomy. I'd agree if like Sufjan or Lady Gaga
nothing says sincerity like...lady gaga???
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
fwiw nakh I got the 'DIOYY?' reference
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
dfa site has gone down due to the shitness of the title
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
corporate buzzsite dfa taken down by incensed franz ferdinand fans
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay Lady Gaga is a difficult example...Jay-Z better?
Also look at this:http://www.robertlongo.com/work/gallery/1118
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
can a mode change the title to "the still untitled third album "this is happening: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah" by lcd soundsystem"
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
by lcd soundsystem feat. louis lord jagger
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Please do.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this happening?
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Joanna Newsom should call her next album "This is Harpening."
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
n/a on fire today
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
too right
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
him and his corporate buzzdisplayname
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I retreat in shame anew
Nononononononononono. Post the fucking poem.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
DO NOT POST THE FUCKING POEM (in this thread, start a new one)
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's fucking 16 sides of A4 long and there are bits where it's oddly formatted
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
please post
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
GIS for A4 long turns this up:
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
That looks like more than a 4 to me.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:40 AM Bookmark
does oxymandias have labia?
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Merriam-Webster says:
Main Entry: happeningFunction: nounDate: 15511 : something that happens : occurrence2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli3 : something (as an event) that is particularly interesting, entertaining, or important
1 : something that happens : occurrence2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli3 : something (as an event) that is particularly interesting, entertaining, or important
Thinking the second and/or third definitions are most relevant to this album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure it's also going to be something that happens though.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
an "occurrence" if you will
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
kinda wish he'd titled it This is Sparta
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
fails the 'yeah' test
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is Sparta, Yeah?
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
the last words of a lost athenian warrior
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This has been killing me for the last couple hours. Bruce Springsteen's The River is almost it, but not quite.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
it reminds you of franz ferdinand, and corporations
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
No! I don't even understand that! Isn't Franz Ferdinand's aesthetic like Eastern Bloc propaganda or something?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Man, Franz Ferdinand. Missing 2004 right now.
― ksh, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Take...Me Out!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Goddamnit Franz were such poseurs
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Riiiiiicola!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Does it offend you?
― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
looool
― ksh, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
considering recording music as Does It Offend You, LOL
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Cover reminds me of:
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
embarrassing.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/909-the-ascension.jpg
― Moka, Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:42 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
maybe it reminds you of that because that's a painting by Robert Longo and the DFA announcement specifically referenced Robert Longo
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know, right? when are you guys gonna get on that
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
'Dance yourself clean' could have been a great title imo.
Kinda looks half arsed how James appears to be just leaning on a wall in the photo. Font and Colour of the font seem like a joke, argh...
― micarl, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
"we have a female prime minister -- so shut up"
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Font and color directly ref some 80s album that's been on the tip of my tongue all afternoon. So yes, probably part of a joke.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
love how that line is already bothering british people
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's a gd embarrassing line!
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's the irish who're really feelin' it imo
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
I want to say something on Rykodisc.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Position Position, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
this album is probably gonna be pretty good, i dont really know i mean. yallr gonna hear it like crazy over the next 3-6 months anyway so like feels a bit weird to speculate so much abt it?
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
this album killed music
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
At least we still have blogs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah but Joanne Newstrom killed those.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
"i heard you sold all your baggy pants and tshirts and are wearing suits now"
― jaxon, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
― corporal buzztitle (cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:54 (3 hours ago)
Oh I didn't know that. Davek upthread was mentioning it reminded him of and 80's album and thought that must be it. Just saw the cover for the "drunk girls" single and the reference is more obvious in there:
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Would have been a much better cover with a cartoon James Murphy than a photograph tho.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ah perfect! Good spot.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
the distention
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
haaaaaaaaaaa
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
i mean sorry that's bigoted but fuck it haaaaaaaaaaaa
who do you mean? my country is on its second female president. the first was in 1990. you assuming i'm british is a pretty good indication of why you don't find that line embarrassing and why even if it's a joke it's a stupid one.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^this, even if Jams is being ' 'ironic' '
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
We have a black president. We don't need irony.
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
BITCHES! BRITS!
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
If the line had been "We have a black president, so shut up" then I wouldn't have a problem with it tbh Not gonna turn this thread into the annual LJ-fails-to-understand-race clusterfuck, will duly shut up
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
my prime minister is brownmy pack of cheese & onion is blueand i be goddamned if the salt & vinegar aint too
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is beat happening
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
will never understand salt & vinegar being in a blue packet.
can't wait for this, that track-by-track made it sound promising once you got past the shitty writing.
― *makeitplop* (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
i was going to listen to this, but now between the corporate buzztitle and the black president-touting lyrics i think im going to send james murphy anthrax
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't you think jams already has a few anthrax albums?
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
all he has is a franz ferdinand mp3
― *makeitplop* (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's not a joke, it's an attempt to troll british people like you
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 02:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
and it seems to be working pretty well, considering that the album hasn't even come out yet
i thought lcd was british?
― jaxon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Naw, but they're from the east coast, which is close enuff
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^ have you guys ever heard of a song which is titled "north american scum" u might find it quite illuminating xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
man what happened itt
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
britishes happened to it, by the looks
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
wonder what britain said to jams murphy to make him lash out like that
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
i hate how all the action on ilm threads for big new releases happens well before the actual release
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh the lolz...if jams wants to be hipster fred durst then great for him
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
wonder what britaintim goldsworthy said to jams murphy to make him lash out like that
― jabba hands, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:11 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
prolly s.thing liek "produce your own music you fat self-aggrandizing cunt"
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
what, salt & vinegar in a blue packet is the one that makes sense - why would you put cheese & onion in a blue packet
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^ ▀█▀ █▬█ █ ▄█▀
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Salt & Vinegar is purple here. Cheese and onion is a mustardy colour. Chicken is green. Original is blue.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
seems a bit early to get upset about a lyric without, you know, knowing the rest of the lines, but then perhaps james murphy is considered this generation's henry james in terms of his wry cultural politicking of the transatlantic divide so people have high expectations?
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
If ILX were a band it would be LCD Soundsystem, such is it's insane/playful/angst ridden/funny multiple layers of irony and detatchment.
I don't think anyone is, y'know, supposed to take that line at face value.
― Doran, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 10:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
say what you like about the british isles, but we sure are easy to troll.
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
what are original crisps?
― corporal buzztitle (cozen), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
the blue ones afaik
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
potatos
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Salt & vinegar = blueCheese & onion = green
Walkers are disgusting savages.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Good in Ireland but nearly always stale when they get to the UK.
Best used to be Quentin's Crisps.
― Doran, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
do you think we can get a workable standard for chip packets drafted by the time this album leaks or what
― 'salt & vinegar in purple packets ONLY' advocate (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rule 1 - don't call them chips.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
we call them crisps, and you do not - so shut up about chips
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Obama's been in power for a whole year and he hasn't even fixed that one yet. No wonder people are already calling his presidency a failure.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
hey guys you spelled potato wrong - it's not 'tayto'
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
po' dyao
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't be so po-faced
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
denial is a river in italy
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
corporate buzzchips
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
think you mean 'buzzcrisps' there
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
crispy buzzfishnchips
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
corporate buzzblackpresident
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
whoever our new prime minister is, i hope s/he has a bloggable skin colour
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
lolol
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
i saw a black crisp packet recently
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
SO THERE
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
I didn't see a black crisp packet
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
so I'll shut up
c&o in red = acceptable imo
c&o in mustard = can see the logic but somehow revolting
s&v in purple = bit forceful but ok -- worcestershire sauce is correct colour astringency however
chicken in green = ew wtf gross
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:20 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
so true
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
or even the leak in this case
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
walkers black packet = lol tribute to american democracy BBQ RIB flavour fyi
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
chicken is really the problem one i feel, especially if you factor lime & cracked pepper in there
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
fall back jonathan crisp, no one is factoring in poncey flavour variations here
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
jonathan crisp talk belongs on the spoon thread
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
we have bbq potato chips and you do not - so shut up
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
My mistake earlier. He turns forty this year.
― van smack, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
30th birthday = 30 lines of coke off a Roxy Music record.
40th birthday = ???
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
40 franz ferdinand songs in a row
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
40 beach chairs
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
40 packets of patriotic BBQ crisps
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
40 acres of land... ah fuck it
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is the year he buys a red miata convertable
― van smack, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Glad a crisp discussion has emerged...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
no need to get chippy
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Calling chips "crisps" is the first step toward socialism.
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
fucking leak already
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
take that filth to ILTMI, buddy
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
we can just start a new thread when the record comes out, change the title on this one again, to "Crisps? (DO NOT READ)", and ban LJ from the new thread.
― one of the jones boys (sic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 22:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
that could work, although some of the content may be so disturbing that deeply regressed ilxors will only be able to express themselves in crisp metaphors
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
if you strike me down, this thread will become more unspeakably grotesque than you could possibly imagine
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol its funny because the fat man from the dfa likes chips because he is fat
― all the pure blonde you could drink (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
LJ you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you?
― one of the jones boys (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns. All I can think of is Disco Infiltrator and Wotsits The Tapes.
Which are both shit.
― Doran, Friday, 2 April 2010 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
The least satisfying thing about this album is not Drunk Girls but the pervasive air of new wave on some of the songs. I mean The Cars are alright and everything but I'd sooner have had more disco punk or another Yeah, tbh.
― Doran, Saturday, 3 April 2010 07:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
All My Frazzles
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
All My French Fries?
― Doran, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
nope - lemme guess it'd redefine my perception of jams
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns.
heyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 3 April 2010 13:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
Lays-ing My Wedge
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 3 April 2010 14:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Disco Infiltayto
― mdskltr (blueski), Saturday, 3 April 2010 20:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
a-
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 3 April 2010 20:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
This (band) Is Happening to play at Music Hall of Wburg tonight. Does anyone have a ticket I can buy? Please?
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone see the show? Hear the new songs?
― bmus, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
apparently the only new songs were 'drunk girls' and 'I can change'
― iatee, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/09/lcd-soundsystem-rock-the-drunk-girls-at-surprise-brooklyn-gig/
― mark e, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
OH MY GOD, someone sold me a ticket at face value (!!!!!!!!!!) and I got to see LCD Soundsystem at a venue that legally holds 498. And was undersold. They only played two new songs and most all of their singles including LOSING MY FUCKING EDGE. Was dancing so hard during "Yeah" I thought I was going to pass out. The opener (Light Asylum) was really good too. Accurately described as a "gothy Yaz" fronted by Grace Jones. Easily one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen in m'life.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
great stuff stevie!
― jed_, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
its a good album but people who disliked the more obvious homages in the past are gonna be hatin.and yeah don't worry as with the last album, the single is by far the worst thing on it.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think "Hit" is the worst thing on it. The way to not-write-a-hit is to write a good album track, not to write an altogether shit song.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
But see, "North American Scum" was the *best* thing on the last one...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
ugh son
― goons 'n' roses (The Reverend), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just beautiful.
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 09:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm losing my mind.
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 09:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Everyone keeps on talking about it/But nobody's nailgunning tramps.
haha!
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
heh.
― Blue Sky Whine (SeekAltRoute), Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
so who's *heard* the album? i scrolled down through this thread and sudenly everyone's banging on about crisp packets!
― piscesx, Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm listening to it now. It's better than the first, not as good as the last. It's like a trendier version of the last album with a lot more vintage equipment and a couple of New Wave, Cars-esque tracks that plod slightly. A lot of synth porn. The Bowie/Eno/Fripp homage/pastiche All I Want will annoy some people with its e-bowed guitars... But other than that it's ace. The opening track is a jam. It fucking explodes from Kermit the frog mope indie into some kind of monster Moog rave. One Touch is killer, acid-y Juan McLean style fare, I Can Change is Units/Devo style synth pop with more emotional Tyrell Corporation, New Order as done by Jams vocals and Joy Div Atmosphere style flourishes, the we-don't-write-hits of You Wanted A Hit is a bit awkward and sounds like Yellow Magic Orchestra that suddenly goes a bit New Wave/disco after a while and is a bit VICE mag, Pow Pow is a drum jam, heavily phased with lots of call and response like Yr City's A Sucker but takes too long to build despite having a nice punk funk bass line, Somebody's Calling Me sounds like The Normal or early Human League and Home is really deeply pleasant afro electro with a cocktails in a hammock listening to Martin Denny on valium vibe. There's a lot more of that tight harmony,
And Drunk Girls is one of the less good songs but isn't that bad...
Some other things it sounds like Dinosaur Sex by Family Fodder and Brainwash by Telex. In fact a lot of his vocal work has *always* sounded like Telex...
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 12:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
the major homage/rip other than the White Light and Heroes Fripp guitar ones is the track near the end that is basically Nightclubbing
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 10 April 2010 13:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
amazed by how much that telex song sounds like lcd
― NI, Saturday, 10 April 2010 14:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Guys you are making me so fucking eager and excited about this. I wonder if I can call DFA and tell them I'm a Very Important Person and ask to come in for a preview.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
How To Lose A Guy Become A Respected Music Journalist In 10 Days
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hi, Jams? Ur, I mean, James? Well-regarded ILXOR Stevie D here...
― andrew m., Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
"You don't understand, it's a HIGHLY-esteemed message board and, well--no, no, I've been OTM'd dozens of times! People know who I am!!"
Cannot stop listening to this:
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
clip from the actual version
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 02:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
entirety of the actual version.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like it. Dance Yourself Clean is out there now as well.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 11 April 2010 11:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Where where where???
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Sunday, 11 April 2010 14:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
not liking the shape of this new record
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 11 April 2010 15:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Circular?
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 11 April 2010 15:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Spherical? Babylon Zoo style?
― Doran, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/cestlenoir/playlists.php
dance yourself clean
pretty great
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
starts at about 33:10
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Way worse than Drunk Girls IMO...
― skip, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty much love this song. bet it'll kill live...wonder why he didn't play it at that last show.
― iatee, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
both new songs are totally amazing
― deejus, get off the whiney weingarten penis, before i sb and bust (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
ALL I WANT is just.. sensational. It's the b side of Drunk Girls and i thought 'well they're mad to have left THIS off the album'... but no it's on the damn thing as Doran points out.
― piscesx, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dance Yourself Clean is so good. I've liked all three of the songs that are out there so far, really excited to hear the whole thing.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
One of those sounds like "Love is a Stranger" by Eurythmics.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
LCD Soundysystem (Feat. Bono) - "I Can Change"
― Touch of Death, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyone know the track used on clip 4?<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rb-PDzTDhsI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&";></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rb-PDzTDhsI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
― micarl, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
By the way I absolutely love that Telex song earlier in this thread. I downloaded the first three albums and they are just fantastic!
I love this place
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
clip 5 even
― micarl, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost to Kitchen Person :)
Check out Family Fodder too
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 19:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not crazy about these first three tracks though..prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode. He should've dropped this 'emotionally resonant' stuff and made another 45:33!
God I hope I'm not sounding like some change-contrarian, I just don't think he does these melodically-driven tunes so well. (See also, the Greenberg soundtrack).
Also, I Can Change lovers - look at how the tracklist structure mirrors Sound of Silver's successes (for its supporters). Longish dance-oriented song with a shifting arrangement to start (Dance Yourself is much more melodic though, Fever Ray comparison was right), into the snappier, accessible single. Track 5 seems to be shaping up as an emotional core/centerpiece for all his albums (Never Tired fits this I too, I would argue). Although he may be writing the wrongs of Sound of Silver's arguably less essential second side by putting Pow Pow at 7 (looking like an 'event' track, note Liverpool Echo preview and initial single release) and an upbeat tune at 9. The point is though, does I Can Change really measure up as this vital moment in the same position as All My Friends? Although we all heard All My Friends for the first time within the context of the whole thing leaking at once, so maybe Change will seem more impacting once we've heard the whole thing properly in full quality.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode.
one of these is arguably his best dancefloor-banger to date!
― iatee, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hmm, I get that people are loving that one in particular but it seems more head-nod to me than anything.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.weallwantsomeone.org/2010/04/11/hear-2-new-lcd-soundsystem-songs/
first song is a rip of the Pool's "Jamaica Running"
― jaxon, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
This thing leaking or what?
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Looks like it must have just, actually...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yep it's on what, although my ratio watch runs out in three hours. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that's where I'm seeing it. Maybe since I'm hopping on it so early I'll get some ratio boost for once. That freeleech helped a ton, though.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was out of the country with my computer turned off for the freeleech :(
This thread is going to get good..
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
what's the size of the file on what
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
161.65 MB for 2556 VBR AAC. Seems about right...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
..er, 256 VBR.
"Hear 2 New LCD Soundsystem Songs: Dance Yrself Clean & I Can Change"
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
word, alright
zeno, you should try reading the thread or something
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Where abouts has this leaked? I'm not seeing it in all the usual places?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's for those who don't use torrents
still not via slsk
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Heheheh nice to see a what contingent on ILM. Only fishy thing is that I thought the last track was 'What You Need' and it's called 'Home' on the file.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah, good ol "ETA ∞"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well, maybe home IS what you need...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
I found an apparent file hosting site link for a similar size, but I can't post that here right?
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
no
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
No but you can AIM me, cough cough. IGNafterburn.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
i found one on google blog search that's 148 mb
does not knowing how to steal music anymore mean i'm old now?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
yep
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is a nice surprise, though, after I just attended the last class of my undergraduate degree!
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'll listen to this before I go grab a few pints with friends. Good fucking afternoon.
:/
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Good fucking afternoon to you to sir.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
rennavate I just sent you a PM with the http. Did you get that all right? Also, what was your degree, if that's not too weird!
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Someone has put up a link to the album on LCD's last fm page, it works!
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
you mean: this is happening?
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm still kind of an ILX noob; how do I check PMs?
My degree is in English literature with a minor in creative writing. I enjoyed it but I'm sick of analyzing Victorian poetry.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Zeno, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
How has it taken this long for someone to say that?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost Woo I'm doing English too, I start my last term of the first year in a couple of weeks.
I'm not starting this critical commentary until I've got a good listen in to LCD heheh
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
xp check the last.fm page, it hasn't
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
James Murphy is crying on his dirty white jeans right now and most likely eating ice cream directly from the container.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Poor Jams. If the music thing didn't work out, he'd definitely be an ILXOR.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
"All I want" is incredible.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Got your link, Davek, but it was already killed. I'm in no rush, though, so this torrent will do.
But yeah, that's cool you're doing an English degree too. If I ever go back to do a masters, it would be in journalism, I think. Which would mean I would have to move to Vancouver to go to UBC, as my school doesn't have a journalism program, but that's fine. I am quite enamoured with that city.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Downloaded it now...can;t wait to be slightly underwhelmed.
― Dwight Yorke, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
neither can we
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 22:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wicked. I'm at UCL in London. This place is pretty inspiring to read sometimes as an English undergrad right, with all the OTMs being dropped.
I'll pm you a fresh link fwiw
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Dwight Yorke, Monday, April 12, 2010 10:21 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark
I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wow, wow, wow so pumped for this, thanks ILM for pointing me in the right direction.
― Bee OK, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
In the meantime, I'm listening to this new Herbert. Pretty chill.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
i was on ilm when the third lcd soundsystem album leaked. i was there.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
God my predictions/analysis up thread are going to look so stupid :(
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've heard 4 songs and they all suck. Hope one or two of the remaining 5 are decent.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
James has already turned 40.
― van smack, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
ilm i love u
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
but you're bringing me down
I'd like to see production credits on this because i'm starting to think that the real genius of LCD was Tim Goldsworthy. He's had his little bear paws in so many honey pots that his fur is permanently sticky. David Holmes' Let's Get Killed, Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours, Hercules and Love Affair, all the best UNKLE shit, Major Force, oodles of DFA gems.
After the first pass, the only song I really like is You Wanted A Hit, can tolerate Pow Pow and Home, don't care to hear the rest of it again.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
he's prolly not the 'real genius' but it seems like JM needed him
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Monday, 12 April 2010 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver,
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is is just me or are all the vocals pretty low in the mix?
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
they arethis seems actually rly rly nice
― nakhchivan, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
They're all right on "I Can Change" (which is pretty awesome), but on others they're really stuffed behind things. Probably his intention, I know, but still.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
did tim goldsworthy have anything to do with 45:33?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
TIH sounds like the minimalistic (the production is thin and boring) ,mellow version of Sound Of Silver. the energy is gone.
disappointing.
"i don't think that we would be pleased with this, we have waited for a long time" (One Touch)
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
last 4 songs are bangers
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've read Gavin Russom had a heap to do with this record. Looking forward to hearing it, even if it isn't SOS v2.0
― micarl, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
EMI is pulling these videos down real quick.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
45:33 production credits to The DFA = Tim and James.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay I'm hoping its just the low quality stream linked from Pfork, but the vocals sound AWFUL on "Dance Yrself Clean". Doesn't even really sound like him to me.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
no it's him
as to what's lost with tim goldworthy, maybe some of the production chops, judicious editing, someone he'd trust with 'are you sure you want to do this?' etc - gavin russom presence wd explain oldtime synth workouts
this certainly doesn't seem like a major dissapointment though....
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Slowly catching up on this thread and can't believe this wasn't posted earlier (unless it was and disappeared already), ljs favorite band name EVER:
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I know its him, it just sounds so different in that stream.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Feels So Good is about a billion times better than anything on This Is Happening. Juan + Nancy are crushing James and uh...Gavin, I guess.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
After first listen... not too bad at all!
― rennavate, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Somebody's Calling - WTF is this song?
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
cant believe you guys are downloading this corporate buzzleak
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is so great
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
If someone could PM me a link I would be very grateful.
― The Emperor's Son, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
can a mod just delete all the hundreds of posts of people asking for illegal stolen versions of someone's hard work and expense, and let the thread stay quiet until people can actually listen to the album?
― but i'm also listening to all the songs on the fame monster, not just the (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
welcome to ilx!
x-post otm
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
People are listening to the album right now.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
"this is happening" without your permission!!!!1
― from the unhip (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol jabba hands weren't you the one loling @ the idea of someone squatting on whiney's website?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
and people who download leaks buy more albums than your average anyway, so chill
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
― jabba handsSensing this was directed at me. Sorry. I found a link anyway. I plan to continue posting here and I have lurked here before, I just wanted to download this album and I couldn't find it.
― The Emperor's Son, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is crappening
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
― bnw, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Emperor's Son....ysi?
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Welcome The Emperor's Son, this place can be a lot of fun if you hang around...
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, not arsed about people who've heard it talking about it rly, but fuck off the pleading threadclutter. andrew nf rip(addington)
― it's all abt groups, like i was saying in the jerk thread a few days ago (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
yall are gonna bitch about the thread being cluttered with 20 posts of people trying to find a leak and not the 200 posts about potato chips?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
what's wrong with the potato chip posts?
― from the unhip (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost
i liked about half the album on first listen. too many songs sound like something they have done in the past though.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
str8 up stunning album imo
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
better than sound of silver
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
"pow pow" is fucking hilarious btw
not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's no "all my friends" or (or "someone great" but i personally never loved that song) but there's also no "watch the tapes" -- every song on this is rad as fuck, even digging "drunk girls" more
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Simon H., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:32 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
if you're gonna ask this you might as well ask why the whole band exists
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
I feel like 'home' is the 'all my friends'
also surprised no review has yet mentioned how penguin cafe orchestra-y it is
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
and "pow pow" is more like "losing my edge" than "yeah" -- i think jams knew he couldn't try and spin a big payoff out of "pow pow" because then it actually would prob be a lame "yeah" redux
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
damn i guess i gotta download thsi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:34 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
they've got lots of great distinctive tunes. this is the first record where we get whole-hog retreads IMO, plus some of the departures (IE Somebody's Calling Me) are pretty weak.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Really enjoying Dance Yrself Clean on first exposure.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Drunk Girls is a Blur homage?!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Drunk girls who like drunk boys who like drunk boys who like drunk girls
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can someone explain to me what he's going on about on most of these songs? If he allowed someone else to write lyrics and sing I would love this album, might even buy it.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Who gives a fuck what he's singing about. Bar maybe 3 & 1/2 tunes I do not come to LCD Soundsystem for words.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure in the past he's said he just sort of comes up w/ shit on the spot iirc
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
y/n?
nick otm
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
would listen to Stars Of The Lid much more if their lyrics weren't total freshman poetry seminar bullshit
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
But His lyrics have always been upfront, I mean structurally these are pop songs.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just because they're upfront, and these are pop songs, doesn't mean the lyrics mean anything. And besides, Barthes would say that they mean whatever YOU want them to (I seem to bring this up at least once a year on here), so who gives a fig about Murphy.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also dude don't capitalise the h in his like Murphy's God, even by accident!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:07 (3 hours ago) Bookmark
For Tribulations he's quoted as saying this is what he did. I'm sure a little more thought goes into most of his lyrics.
― micarl, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think murphy is a pretty terrific lyricist for what its worth
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwriter he writes v well
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwritercorporate buzzbot he writes v well
― max, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i mean hes no franz ferdinand
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
actually the lyrics are meaningless, haven't you read Barthes? god.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
The lyrics to Losing My Edge are probably close to best of that decade. Even with Yeah coming as the next single there was a lot of thought went into it. I.e. to disabuse people of the notion that they were this really wordy bunch of ultra-ironists by releasing something very straight forward and simple. He doesn't strike me as someone who just pulls stuff out of his arse, no matter what he says.
― Doran, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Drunk Girls sounded terrible last night. I was not feelin it at all. the other new songs were also pretty lame but i dont remember how many they played
the show was pretty stellar otherwise.
is it jsut me or does Gavin Russom look exactly like a young Brian Eno???? dude is definitely channeling him with the 'doo
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^is russom in the band? or am i misunderstanding? he's definitely channeling eno yes, but he's not feminine enough i think :)
― willem, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
he's co-producer which could mean anything. i dare say he plays a lot on it but he's not in the band.
i really like this. it's much more full on than SoS and the production makes it sound really fresh. Tim Goldsworthy had nothing to do with SoS but i liked the way that record sounded too. Jams is a greatly talented producer in his own right. "Home" sounds most like LCD started out sounding (w/ the cowbell etc) but Russom has made it a bit more fruity.
there have always been a few (very few) duff lines on LCD records but he's a great lyricist who sometimes fails because he tries to connect very directly with the listener with a mix of humour and pathos and when you get that even slightly wrong its very conspicuous. i usually grow to love those missteps though.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah he's in the band
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
1st track is cringe-inducing imho. considering the next song is "drunk girls," i just turned it off.
― akaky akakievich, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
if anyone could assist me in hearing this, i wouldn't hate it. i'm gonna buy it when it comes out anyway.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
whoever upthread said there was an "All My Friends" on this record: i hope you're right
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
if there is - i didnt find it.(yet?)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's no "all my friends" or (or "someone great" but i personally never loved that song) but there's also no "watch the tapes" -- every song on this is rad as fuck, even digging "drunk girls" more― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:33 AM (9 hours ago)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:33 AM (9 hours ago)
I feel like 'home' is the 'all my friends'also surprised no review has yet mentioned how penguin cafe orchestra-y it is― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:34 AM (9 hours ago)
― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:34 AM (9 hours ago)
\(O_o)/
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm just amazed how Gavin can have the longest fucking hair and still be bald. It's a talent. And yeah, Drunk Girls was completely blah last night. "I'm losing my edge to all the kids who know this song better than me"
― BleepBot, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
HAH! How was last nights show?? I wonder how it stacked up to the Brooklyn gig?
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
UGH third night Terminal 5 tickets are on sale now and I don't know whether or not to buy them!! As much as I would love to see them again I'm worried 2x in 2 months would sort of ruin the magic or something.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
life is short: go
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
i actually think that iatee is right re: "home" btw
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, Home is similar in vibe to All My Friends, but miles away in quality.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Home" doesn't have the ridiculously sappy sentimentalism of "All My Friends" either. Best track on the album by far.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
After further review, i've decided the LCD album rates a 6*
*i'm using the Bristol Stool Scale for measurments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
GOOD ONE
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
The show last night was nice, and sounds like it was less sloppy than the W'berg one the other night. Murphy just kept fiddling with every knob and screw he could find to keep himself busy.
I also realized that "All My Friends" has now become a straight up Schlager song - not sure if this is Murphy's fault, or just everyone else stomping and chanting along with it.
― BleepBot, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
here's a demo of a song that didn't make the album: http://stereogum.com/338311/lcd-soundsystem-love-in-l-a-demo/top-stories/lead-story/
― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
very good
― caek, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
'i can change' has a 'all my friends' vibe
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I keep hearing "All I Want" as the "All My Friends" track here--same melancholy, same sort of simple, propulsive structure.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
you guys are doing a very good job of making me think this album is not for me
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
what songs do you like the most on the last album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty much if you don't like "dance yrself clean" or "i can change" then the album might not be for you
I thought we all agreed Ezra Koenig offered everything we wanted in an indie pop hero.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Someone Great", "Get Innocuous!", "Us vs Them", "North American Scum" (in roughly that order)
I really hate "All My Friends" and having so many different songs being described in terms of it is making me... not nervous, but wary.
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I emailed you broheems
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
dan i think you'll like it -- there are more songs like "someone great" (i.e. "i can change" at least sonically speaking) than "all my friends"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
1) This album is not the same as last album--stop clawing in the dark for track-by-track identicalities!
2) THIS ALBUM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A MUSHY STOOL
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
love love love 'all my friends'
psssst n/a help a brother out
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
;)
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
uh I emailed you but just to save time for anyone else looking for it, the link on All Everyone United was working for me earlier today
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think this is fucking awesome.
― rennavate, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
thx n/a!
yeah i like this so far
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
i was actually just thinking about how dance yrself clean is the longest song on the album at nine minutes, yet doesn't feel at all demanding compared to the rest of the album.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh i guess hit is slightly longer. but still.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
this is another v good point
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
these guys are really into berlin-era bowie
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is way less bowie and way more eno
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee
― J0rdan S.
I think it's cause he's usually writing so many pop songs w/ a dance structure - they don't feel like they 'start' until 4 minutes in. 'change' feels like the longest song to me, despite being the second shortest, prolly cause it's a pretty traditional new wave pop song and the chorus kicks in so fast.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
walking up to me expecting, walking up to me expecting words...it happens all the time
is the opening line of the record.
― jed_, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
is it the bitrate thing? Or too much expectation? Or 'dude, it's just LCD Soundsystem'. I'm not feeling this record at all
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
has the guy on the left lost his mommy?
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
it seems like there are some weird pops & clicks on this version? i listened to the first couple songs on headphones yesterday and it didn't sound quite right. if it's not a good rip then i want to wait for the real thing.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
man, "Drunk Girls" is like exactly like "Loretta" by the Nervous Eaters
http://1000secretsongs.blogspot.com/2010/04/no630-nervous-eaters-loretta.html
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Drunk Girls" reminds me of QOTSA's "Monster In The Parasol" with touches of Neu!'s "Hallogallo"
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, in comparison to the tracks on the official site, the leaked ones i had sound fucked up and shitty.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
the stream on the website sounds dooope
― just sayin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.
"Take me hooooome"
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche? the last album had some traces of bowie, talking heads, etc... this new one seems to be a bit more brazen about it with its cars sound-alike and its straight up ripoff of nightclubbing
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
sorry, guys, but this album is endless.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
After three listens the guitars and tempos are uninteresting and the vocals listless.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
sounds he works with are often very pastiche but on the songwriting level he's always had his own thing going. if you look at 'losing my edge' / 'all my friends' / 'home' on the sonic level, you can pick out 100 musical references, but if you look at them as songs, pastiche is def not the right word. pretty clear and distinctive songwriting voice.
xp
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
cold war kids
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Davek (dave
I agree I love that bit, it's odd hearing him really go for it like that but he totally pulls it off. It's my favourite song on the album at the moment.
I am really enjoying the album after a few days, it's a great follow up to Sound Of Silver. There aren't any songs that get to me quite as much as Someone Great and All My Friends did but I really like every song, even Drunk Girls.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
More obvious than North American Scums's chorus ripping off Homosapien by Pete Shelly?
I don't agree with people saying they use more pastiches on this record. Great Release sounds just like Brian Eno and his vocals in Get Innocuous! are very like David Byrnes.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
wrong david
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
per jaxon above, "jamaica runnin" by pool. Kinda sux, because I was loving this until I read that. hope it's credited in the liner notes
― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
so I just listened to that, and yeah, no doubt he straight up takes those drums, just like he did in 'losing your edge'. but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think it's replayed, at least?
btw i had never heard of (the?) pool, but "jamaica running" is dope.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.
otm
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's some "Songs written by Bob Dylan"-level stuff if it's not credited.
― skip, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
All I Want sounds like a Strokes song that "would have been" with Nigel Godrich at the helm. Not a bad thing imo.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
the vocals are mixed super low on most tracks, huh?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
― oscar, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^^^was thinking the same thing
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
well, re the strokes. hadn't figured in the godrich thing
guitars are more here come the warm jets than strokes
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
(imo)
At least on "Dance Yrself Clean," yeah. I made a comment about this the day it leaked... dunno what I think about it.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
ha it does sound like the strokes -- it has that same guitar-as-keyboard thing that they did on room on fire
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Advantages to both!!
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:24 (2 days ago) Bookmark
First listen left me pleasantly whelmed.
― Dwight Yorke, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah its eno circa hctwj all the way on the guitar but i was referring to the soaring vocal style and emotional tone that julian was trying to pull off on later strokes material. also drum patterns.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxxp. totally ! this song just made me think of what the strokes might have sounded like if nigel had been kept on board.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
hmmm I can see that
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm on my second listen and gotta say i'm pretty underwhelmed
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
people need to talk about 'one touch' more
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
I lol'd.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
"you wanted a hit" is so dope
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone want to explain why this is better than SOS?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
The success of that album convinced him that what didn't work deserved to be extended and attenuated.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't know, I think this is pretty spectacular. Better than SOS? Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to tell, personally.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think it's equally as good -- but they're different albums
i think it will be easier to appreciate this album for some people once they get comfortable with the fact that there's no "yeah" style crazy wig out joint or an Epic Career Standard like "all my friends" -- & that was obviously a conscious decision by jams, cuz there are songs like "pow pow" and "you wanted a hit" where you're just waiting for the 3 min instrumental climax, and it never comes -- then i think it's easier to appreciate the songs "on their own terms" or w/e -- i feel like that about "you wanted a hit" esp -- that song has some great melodies & ideas packed in it and it now doesn't bother me that it just chugs along without the big payoff
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
the template for this album is v much "someone great"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't think i'll ever like this more than SOS (or even close), but i am digging it more every time i hear it.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's also got a very cohesive sound as a record, which, i don't know...the other lcd records hang together too, but have much broader palettes of sounds & feels imo.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
When I listen to LCD Soundsystem it's for the punk-y numbers like "Tribulations," "North American Scum," and "Daft Punk...," not "Yeah," tbh.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this. this is funnier and it just feels like it has more life to it.
'one touch' is 'get innocuous' with a bite, 'home' is 'all my friends' w/ more subtlety.
I dunno, I love SOS and maybe will change my mind in half a year when I've played these songs to death too.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this.
i had this thought too
to me it definitely seems like jams dialed back the ambition and adventure but wrote great "songs" in a rockist sense
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure they are songs
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Like he's sold his turntables and bought guitars.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's a 15 minute instrumental version of "dance yourself clean" titled "in the pool (no bass)" that jams made for a fashion show or something.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Dominique, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^this. It's easily my favorite on the new album. For me it harkens to the glory days when every other DFA remix was hot snot on a silver platter. Can't wait to hear it in a dance setting.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty much digging this except for somebody's calling me, which is a bona fide dirge.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hmm...I wrote this off after the first listen. I'll try again.
― seandalai, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record (nor the Liverpool Echo breaking news on it, for that matter)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/04/15/alex-abramovich/already-happened/
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record
ehh it's kind of *exactly* the kind of record they'd cover!
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sam Lipsyte, who collaborated with Murphy before turning to fiction
i did not know this
― just sayin, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
For some reason the stream on the website just isn't playing this morning. I hit 'Play' and the first track gets higlighted but nothing ever plays and I can't' click on any of the other songs. Just me?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome
ya, thank you LCD Soundsystem for not wholesale abandoning the things that made me change my mind about you in the first place
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay, apparently it just doesn't work in Firefox, working fine with Chrome.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think I've become one of those people who will uncritically love any song that flaunts sinewave synths
xp: if you're playing it off the LCD Soundsystem website, I'm playing it right now via Firefox
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I was on the official website, just never seemed to start. Oh well, got it going in Chrome now.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is a really great moment imo
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
this album's sequencing is so, so good
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha "Drunk Girls" being "North American Scum Part 2" is even more blatant in context
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
actually more like "North American Scum and It's Time To Get Away had a baby and named Daft Plunk Is Playing At My House its godfather"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
want to hear this.
both of the previous lcd soundsystem albums have been v patchy for me - 2 or 3 songs that i love, the rest forgettable. this, on the other hand, is awesome. i'm having trouble restricting myself to 3 listens a day.
absolutely - might be my favourite thing on the whole record. it brought an absolutely huge grin to my face on my first listen.
― toby, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is me listening to "One Touch":
O_O
^_^
\^_^/
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
like seriously, I am listening to the song and this is all that's going through my brain:
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
upthread when you were wondering if you would like it or not I was gonna say "well, regardless, you'll like 'one touch'"
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
"All I Want" is kind of annoying. This is the one that had the most "All My Friends" comparisons, right?
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
You can't go wrong when Nancy Whang starts shouting. It's like only the best DFA tracks are deemed Whang-worthy.
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
lcd slash-system
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
kind of bummed that "I Can Change" isn't a cover of the song from the South Park movie
woah wait dude sounds great on this, like better than I've ever heard him sing
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
falsetto!
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love that "You Wanted A Hit" sounds like LCD Soundsystem pastiche
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW
oh lol this is the "we have a black President" song, hahahaha
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
omg, loving this so far
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Somebody's Calling Me" is a big pile of nonsense, huh
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
i've never liked them outside of the singles before but that first track is like: fucking hell
how many songs is 'one touch' quoting then
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was going to say: "Wait till you hear the one that sounds like `Nightclubbing.'"
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh I am so so glad that he realized ending the album with the downtempo half-baked joke of a song idea from Sound of Silver was a terrob;e idea
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
when i get to the end of this album i am going to try very hard to like this track just out of contrarianism
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
have fun with that
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
hey shut up, i am busy pre-emptively convincing myself it is great here
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
somewhat agnostic re his vocal stylings on 'one touch'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
not feeling 'you wanted a hit' so much
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok redeemed by near-skronk guitar break
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok 'somebody's calling me' is starting
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
... maybe it's a grower
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
no. it's just bad (the track)
― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love it but I'm the unabashed fanboy w/r/t this album. the drugged out synths are awesome.
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
The line about Michael Musto in Pow Pow is awful. We should poll the most ridiculous lyrics on this album but i'm not sure if the polling system allows that many options.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not sure he thinks this, considering "NY I <3 U" is an LCD concert staple and fan favorite.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
"somebody's calling me" is pretty worthless
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I got as far as All I Want and stopped listening - not really feeling this at all and I loved Sound of Silver. It feels a bit like he's forgotten how to construct a good groove. It took me until halfway through the first track to work out whether or not I was listening to a fake leak.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Petition to J. Murphy to change song title to "Somebody's Calling Me Out"?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
more like "Somebody's Skipping Me"
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
daaaaaaaaaamn dance yrself clean
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
debate over, buying this on release day
ok drunk girls is really dumb but i don't care because his shit still sounds better than anyone else's shit
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
I got one of my coworkers to stream this.
He hated "Drunk Girls" but likes a lot of the rest of it (he's up to "I Can Change"). The comment that made me go O_o was "this is pretty good for the most part, kind of Lightning Seeds-ish"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
do u think james murphys hair looks like that naturally, or does he use product?
― A piping hot bowl of shits (A piping hot bowl of grits), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
he uses a piping hot bowl of grits iirc
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
word?
― A piping hot bowl of shits (A piping hot bowl of grits), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
you wanted a hit sounds like....aeroplane?
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm kinda wondering what the last song to be added was (jams tweeted that it was done, and then a couple days later that they were doing one more song)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
'all I want' or 'somebody's calling me' are the only ones I could imagine being written that quickly
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
did Jerry drum on this because the live drums on One Touch are among the best LCD drums (saying a lot, big fan here)?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
or Pat?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
LCD Soundsystem's Anti-Piracy Plea to Fans Goes Unheeded
http://www.fastcompany.com/1616914/lcd-soundsystem-piracy-album-this-is-happening-torrent-peer-to-peer-sharing-music-mp3
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Someone please seed this thread
― van smack, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
The comment that made me go O_o was "this is pretty good for the most part, kind of Lightning Seeds-ish"
this and the nineties thread amaze me with america's capacity for absorbing the uk's forgotten popkult shite
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
that is an amazing comment!
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album over the LCD debut and This Is Happening.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
srsssly xp? cos it kinda is
i don't know anything about the lightning seeds, if i ever i did, except that they were english and they were once extant
can't imagine they sounded anything like 'dance yrself clean' tho
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah nah it's just kind of hilar
lightning seeds never been much of a hipster reference point iirc
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
That link made me feel guilty abt downloading it and now I sort of want to delete it and wait til May 17 :( I mean, there's no chance I'm NOT going to buy this.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Listening to this now via the inhouse PA of Easy Street Records -- it's definitely a perfect dance record for browsing and crate-digging (an honest compliment!)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's funny, I heard the MGMT album in the same context/setting yesterday and it sounded alright!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Music stores, making everything sound good.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Easy Street fucked up the Reggae section when they reorganized. BTW, Ned, if you like Thomas Fehlmann, the LP has a copy of the CD inside and is priced nicely at 14.99 at the back of the store.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Lightning Seeds have reformed, presumably to make a boatload of money in a World Cup year. Jams Murphy is doing the David Baddiel bit on Three Lions 2010.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
that was them? cultural death of england easily mapped to the six yrs between new order / john barnes and that volkisch shite
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
I geeked out on a youtube clip with Ian Broudie, Terry Hall and Craig Gannon strumming acoustic guitars recently. Wish I had seen the tour with Gannon.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Really digging this album as a whole, but holy shit, "Somebody's Calling Me". It's less a track and more a "Nightclubbing" remix. Makes you look about that whole "sued into submission" line from "All My Friends" in a new light. Let's hope Iggy has no idea this band exists.
― OffensiveBeard, Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes -- otm
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
I am embarrassed by "Drunk Girls" and by the fact that Pitchfork not only selected it as one of the "best new tracks" but actually failed to mention that the song is basically "White Light/White Heat" watered down one million times.
― Now, Friday, 16 April 2010 00:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Somebody's Calling Me" =
"Drunk Girls" = "King's Lead Hat" + "Boys Keep Swinging"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2010 01:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
my 1st listen review
― bnw, Friday, 16 April 2010 01:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Heroes" + "Here Come the Warm Jets" = "All I Want" (Despite half the album being blatant pastiche, I'm still enjoying it. Par the course for Murphy at the very least.)
― OffensiveBeard, Friday, 16 April 2010 02:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Agreed with some of the comments upthread, that intro before the groove kicks in on the first track lasts way way too long and is fairly offputting. It smokes once it kicks in, but I keep feeling like its not worth the wait.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 April 2010 02:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't disagree, but still, i'm loving the album. i forgot what a sharp lyricist he is (lots of namedropping and "inside-baseball" type talk, but that's what gives his work such style).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 April 2010 03:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
wonder if this'll be one of the letters in this year's equivalent of GAPDY
― ksh, Friday, 16 April 2010 03:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche?
It was scientifically proven on the "Match a band with an auteur director" thread that LCD Soundsystem is the Paul Thomas Anderson of music, and the way they like appealing to critics and buffs with sly use of homage was one of the reasons for the match-up.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
"This scene is straight out of Days of Heaven/Goodfellas, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
"This guitar riff and chorus is from Brian Eno/Pete Shelley, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
no way Paul Thomas Anderson is way too corny, u mad.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 April 2010 06:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't doubt the science of that classic, stoner-friendly thread.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Fall of Rome shit right here.
― Doran, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
nah the intro is fantastic, the resignation of 'it happens all the time'....
― nakhchivan, Friday, 16 April 2010 10:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Btw, that same coworker later said "wait, do I mean The Lightning Seeds or The Beautiful South?"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
welp, either way, ilx was there first:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=79&threadid=65077
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
like One Touch - like one of the better tracks on the last Juan Maclean album but with a bit more raucous urgency (not sure this is something JM necessarily needs in his own stuff tho...just makes it more annoying how ppl ignored that LP compared to LCD)
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Going slightly off top here for a second, great to see that OMD footage earlier in the thread. I've seen it loads of times and it always makes me laugh. What the hell is going on with his moves? How can anyone's legs move like that?
Still loving the new album. I guess Somebody's calling me is the weakest track but I still like it more than Sound Of Silver which was my least favourite on the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 16 April 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
So the really low vocals on "Dance Yrself Clean" (amazing song, regardless) and songs like "All I Want"... intentional or just a shitty mixing job? I mean, none of Jams' other albums have had that problem and he KNOWS how to mix vocals, so I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice. Still, I don't really like it. Ah well.
― rennavate, Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Was supposed to be seeing these guys on Tuesday but it's been cancelled cos of the volcano. Could be a bleak summer for the gig-goers of Europe.
― Number None, Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice
I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud
or something
― dmr, Monday, 19 April 2010 02:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't like this song at all, but the video is kind of fun:
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I wanted to think it was an artistic choice and I wanted to like it, but I've come to the conclusion that there are simply poor mixing choices affecting at least 1/3 of the tracks. They def. sound more erratic on headphones than on the stereo, but they're kind of a mess either way.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 April 2010 12:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah the production on this is well ropey.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah... and I don't get it because he knows very well how to mix vocals, and that's what pisses me off. I kind of understand the "I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud" explanation, but that's kind of bullshit too. The only songs I have a problem with the mixing are "Dance Yrself Clean" and "All I Want," and maybe because it's just two songs you can chalk it up to artistic choice... but fuck.
― rennavate, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
that video is so amazing ^
― jaxon, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
video is so fantastic!
― sandwich-american (Clay), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
seems like every couple years he does a video where he gets physically pwned ("losing my edge", "all my friends", this).
wondering if those are the jackass guys in the panda suits?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG that video. I have such a crush on Pat Mahoney :(
― they taste fresh (Stevie D), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Check out @lcdsoundsystem's video for drunk girls by spike jonze.we're the tall violent pandas at the beginning: http://tumblr.com/xkq8tqi7tabout 11 hours ago via web
HolyGhostNYCAlex Holy Ghost!
http://twitter.com/HolyGhostNYC/status/12470203651
― jaxon, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 05:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
awes, but wish they'd spend less time in videos, more time making more music.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol wait theyve got a single coming out in a week
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
way late to this party but this is great so far...ive repeated "all i want" about 5 times now and get past it. just a stunning track
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
d-_-b
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
"all i want" makes me wanna walk around like a little kid pretending to be an airplane
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
if that makes sense, lol
this is me
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
rly rly love the way the synth slowly evolves into a menace
― iatee, Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol kev
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I Can Change" is my fave so far
― dmr, Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I Can Change totally reminds me of an Echo & The Bunnymen song from 83-84 that I can't quite place.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Home is my jam fwiw
wait i got it.... I Can Change = Bring On The Dancing Horses
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh, this leaked?
― z-vo (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol where u been
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
not paying attention to this thread
― z-vo (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
streaming on the website Rev.
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
after few listens the only tracks i like are the first, the last and I Can Change.
All I Want could be good as well, if the vocals were not ruined by the terrible mix.
― Zeno, Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
'You wanted a hit' is so good! The way it starts is kinda After Dark inspired bliss..
― micarl, Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
not really hearing that, sounds more like a Gary Numan song to me
― dmr, Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
i do not get how people dislike the vocal mix in "all i want", seems perfect to me
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't understand any of the vocal complaints either, my copy of the album sounds perfect from start to finish. Must've been two different versions leaked?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 22 April 2010 14:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
or ppl are just complaining about aesthetic choices
― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 April 2010 14:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
oma gawd, they KILLED at coachella. granted i had taken a few pills it was fantastic. off the new album they played "drunk girls" "i can change" and "pow pow" and tbh, i like all three live. i mean i love the latter two but drunk girls is growing on me?
also pow pow works live just as well as "us v them", the dude has truly mastered the building/layering of different elements to create a giant fucking crescendo out of a song. loooooooved it, go see them live!
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
btw anyone know if there's any validity to them calling this the "last tour" as LCD?
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well, it's valid until the point they announce the next one!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Everyone agrees that the money is in playing live now, right? Jams complains about downloads taking his money (masked as 'i want to control when it comes out'), yet announces an end the what he's best at and what makes the most money. How does that make sense? If he doesn't care about the money angle, fair enough. LCD Soundsystem are fantastic live, probably my favorite live band right now, and most everyone who's seen them praises their show, so i'm not sure why he'd want to quit touring. He could quit recording in the studio and keep touring and make shit tons of money. Who wouldn't pay to see LCD play an entire set of covers. Imagine the possibilities. They've done Carl Craig and Joy Division. Not touring as LCD Soundsystem is a mistake. Where's the DFA tour? Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD. I'd go.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
He said in an interview a few months ago (that I can't find right now) that this would be the last LCD Soundsystem album, so maybe he's talking about the whole band ceasing?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah, finally listened to this and i like it. /incisivemusiccritdamnthehypem
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Jams complains about downloads taking his money"
I thought he was complaining more that it was taking away the build up/surprise for everyone. There must be hundreds of thousands waiting for the release of this on vinyl now though, which is bound to make some money.
I think if you're already touring an album and people are paying to see you, they should be able to get in to the album prior to the gig.
Hopefully this tour lasts a couple of legs around the world.
― micarl, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
There must be hundreds of thousands waiting for the release of this on vinyl now though, which is bound to make some money.
hahahahaha
― caek, Friday, 23 April 2010 08:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
hundreds of thousands
― just sayin, Friday, 23 April 2010 09:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ok, so maybe not all on Vinyl...
Should still sell well though. It's a great album and personally can't wait to get it on vinyl.
Anyone have any ball park as to how many Sound of Silver sold? I think this will sell more if enough are printed.
― micarl, Friday, 23 April 2010 09:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
On what are you basing these facts?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 11:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Is it true that Gavin Russom is part of LCD's live band now? That could make a massive difference.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 April 2010 11:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD.
This kinda happened for LCD's tour behind their first album -- LCD, Juan and Shit Robot.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 April 2010 12:37 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah he's part of it according to his facebook page
― just sayin, Friday, 23 April 2010 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
Seriously, what does leaking early have to do with making or losing money? Everyone knows it's going to surface online at SOME point. And I think most everyone has already made up their mind that they're either going to A) download it only, with no intention of ever actually spending money on it in the first place or B) have every intention of buying it and simply want to hear what it sounds like early. Even if you're going to download the album to gauge your interest and inform your purchase, you're going to do that anyway regardless of when it leaks (the only people who are going to buy it the OMG DAY IT COMES OUT are the people who are mostly eager enough to buy it no matter what)
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes. i actually thought it was cool that it just streamed on their website - i wouldn't have bothered listening to it otherwise but am only a casual fan/know that i'm gonna dislike at least half the stuff they do.
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
curled lip chicken head bobbing dance once does synths on 'dance yourself clean' kick in
― Michael B, Friday, 23 April 2010 14:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Where's the DFA tour? Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD. I'd go.
Holy Ghost ARE the support on this tour (for yanks and euros anyway, we won't be getting them :( :( )
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'll be there.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
UK has Yacht, not Holy Ghost, right?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes. although i did not see them.
the dude has truly mastered the building/layering of different elements to create a giant fucking crescendo out of a song
reeeeeeeaaallly did not get this, sounded to me like almost every song had the same intensity all the way through, and the same as almost every other song. Even 'All My Friends' didn't sound any less driven or intense, or any more poignant - and I couldn't hear the fucking piano, wtf! And 'Someone Great' was just dreadful, seriously it was the harshest buzzkiller i think i've ever heard at a gig. James sang like his monitors were broken and the whole thing just didn't fit together at all.
On the other hand 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' and the closing 'New York I Love You' were both epic.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
sorry, all northern hemisphere continents look the same to me
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Saturday, 24 April 2010 00:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
I went to see them last night and Jams was leathered. All My Friends Was Immense.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
could you hear the piano?
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
(i was at the same show)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
I couldn't hear the piano on All My Friends on Friday night, and Jams's vocals were flat throughout, and I could never work out a word he was saying inbetween songs, but I thought it was great pretty much. Only complaint was not enough new songs, seeing as I'd been listening to the new one a lot, compared to Caribou on Tuesday night who pretty much only played new stuff. Still, great week with those two and Broadcast.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
I could tell something was up with the sound during Us Vs Them and I generally hate it when bands re-do a song. If you fluff something just move on. (That said, it did sound loads better the second time right?)
I really enjoyed it despite the drunkenly slow pace of the show and the bickering about sound.
It was a really punchy crowd. Two seperate people tried to start fights with me.
Loved the way they ended on a 'Rock and Roll Suicide' level immense 'New York I Love You But You're Getting Me Down' and then the house lights came up while I'm Not In Love by 10CC was playing and everyone was singing it on the way out.
I couldn't understand a word he was saying but, y'know, this is nearly always the case in Brixton. The PA is fucking shit in there.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
has anyone mentioned the holy ghost rmx of drunk girls?
― plax (ico), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
gotta say drunk girls was initially repellant to me and is now....pretty good?
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
seeing it live the past two nights has really turned me around on it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm seeing them Sunday - can't wait! Love this new album.
― nate woolls, Friday, 30 April 2010 13:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Holy Ghost ARE the support on this tour (for yanks and euros anyway, we won't be getting them :( :(
We do get Hot Chip and The Swiss though, so I'm not crying too hard.
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
(if only it wasn't a Monday night and there could be an afterparty with James/Pat and the Chip DJing...)
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
really enjoyed Yacht, but I'm a fan. girl kind of annoying and guy doing his best David Byrne, but loud and good tunes. also they changed their set around from the first night on the second night, which was kind of surprised me.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
james, pat AND gavin russom xpost
russom could dj the recovery.
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
They were magnificent in Glasgow last night. James said that the Barrowland is his favourite place to play. The crowd just go's nuts when LCD are in town. Immense. All of the criticisms I've heard of the London gigs were totally absent.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 30 April 2010 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
It not being Brixton Academy will have that effect tbh.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Friday, 30 April 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
just now from twitter :
"@lcdsoundsystem ok: clique @ mint lounge oldham st. some cheap door price. thanks for all the suggestions! come boogie!!"
umm isn't that piscesboy set up (pretty sure it is]? if so, he's going to be in fer a good night !
― mark e, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you're looking for something to do in Gunchester after the LCD gig go to Clique. It is an awesome night out. And not full of knuckle draggers in parkas waddling round like they've shat a bowling ball, pouring lager everywhere going 'I'm 'avin' it.'
Having what? HAVING WHAT YOU FUCKING COCK JUGGLING THUNDER CUNT? Not a fucking epiphany by the look of it.
Great pop/dance music at Clique.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Of course, if this was last night the point still remains: go to Clique.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ Clique, of course, being an (erstwhile?) ILX0r's creation. Still never fucking been. Must head back to the north-west at some point for an old-skool MCR weekend.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
PiscesX aka Pisces Boy and as far as I know he still posts here...
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ah -- I was thinking of Ian/Affectian!
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, he's the other half of the club as it were.
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well bugger me. I never realised that. I do not pay enough attention.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 16:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Unbelievable in Manchester tonight. Yeah was a dry ice/green laser frenzy. Only four new songs as well - he explained that he wanted to wait until the album was out before he played more. Which was nice of him.
Drunk Girls gets better and better - dodgy on record, fantastic in the video, thrilling live.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah myself and NI/Affectian/Ian had LCD dj for us at the last minute on Friday; the entire band (minus Nancy) for 2 hours. James played Deee-Lite, Fox The Fox and all manner of 80s disco-pop treats. We hardly had time to really hype it as we didn't know it was actually happening until almost midnight, but it was just a nice surprise for the regulars! James was nice enough to thank anyone who'd been there onstage tonight too bless him. A genuine gentleman amongst gentlemen.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 May 2010 04:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
yep, it was awesome - they were all so upbeat and friendly about it, a real old school atittude to just turn up and do it for the love of djing without all the bullshit of contracts and agents getting in the way. apparently they were all sat having a meal in manchester on the friday and decided they wanted to go out and play some records and party, so they came to us! they played all vinyl all night, some really amazing vocal disco stuff that i'll sadly never find out the details about. 'precious little diamond' is one of my alltime favourite songs so that was a major highlight for me.
― NI, Sunday, 2 May 2010 15:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
<img src=http://clubclique.co.uk/gallery/current/pics/3.JPG>;
more pics <a href=http://clubclique.co.uk/latest.html>;here</a>
― NI, Sunday, 2 May 2010 22:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
doh, i'll try again:
;
more pics here
Oh, right: NI, you're Ian? Fucking hell, I didn't know that either :)
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I feel like an old man wandering about with his pants at half-mast. Don't worry, I'll wander off again soon.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Mega lols at the back and forth arguments on the LCD last.fm artist page about whether or not this will get a 10.0 from Pitchfork. Massive mega lols.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
whenever i read this thread title i think of surm's "so....happened" thread title
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
MacLean has a different theory about the split: "Tim was not quiet about expressing his dislikes. He thought James and I were dumb and crass, trying to appeal to a not so discerning crowd, as opposed to making something that was meant for guys with beards. He didn't say goodbye and unfriended us all on Facebook."
― johnny crunch, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
so mature!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
goldsworthy should go kick it with whiney
At the end of it all, Goldsworthy will have a better discography than both James and Juan.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
He didn't say goodbye and unfriended us all on Facebook.
RIP
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
"He thought James and I were dumb and crass, trying to appeal to a not so discerning crowd"
truthbomb
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
says the guy who produced the fucking cut copy record
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
the Cut Copy album is better than This Is Happening by miles.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i'll go w/ that, could use more low end tho imo
― plax (ico), Monday, 3 May 2010 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
i love the cut copy album!! but, if you wanna talk about appealing to a "not so discerning crowd"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
sounds like a more "sophisticated" album anyway
― plax (ico), Monday, 3 May 2010 18:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
def. more subtle
I like the cut copy album, but it's pretty same-y when compared to TIH. cut copy are really good at what they do but jams has 100x the range.
― iatee, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
This album is bullshit, I always thought Tim Goldsworthy was 90% of the talent in the DFA James M. looks like he wets the bed every time he gets drunk peace I'm OUT
― Dan I., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
later!
― max, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
damn Dan I. was in here and then he split JUST LIKE THAT
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
have a feeling Dan I.'s gonna unfriend me on Facebook if I like this O_O
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
what if Dan I. *is* Tim Goldsworthy
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
well his name is Dan so idk
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah mine is kshighway
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
The falls outs dudes seem to have with James seem to suggest Jame's pretty arrogant about being right, but he probably is.. The Rapture should have stuck with him, likewise Tim.
― micarl, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
cut copy >>>> lcd
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
high quality challop
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
that's not really the point anyway
thats not a challop its the truth in the booth
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
cut copy have a classic album... but they've still got a long way to top the whole of jams' career as LCD
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
deej, taking down indie sacred cows left and right... who will be next?!
― max, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 04:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
didnt know this was such a big deal. imo that cut copy album is better than any of the lcd ones oh well
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 04:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
back from the past to OTM a post, namely that one ^^^
― Dan I., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 05:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
cut copy sux
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
i should listen to this eventually
did not realize cut copy had an album that was such a bfd; wld rather just keep listening to mouse on mars tbh.
― Francis Scott Key 7th Path (Stevie D), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
its a HUGE deal
― max, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Francis Scott Key 7th Path (Stevie D), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:21 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
dont get this post
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
will challops never cease:
'hearts on fire' >>> any lcd song
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
that's arguably the most sensible thing you've said
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
I want to like "Hearts on Fire" but it does absolutely nothing for me :/
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
i played out the cut copy album today while driving around -- so perfect
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
cut copy album better than any lcd album but they have done nothing near as good as the early lcd singles
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 09:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Absolutely amazing last week on the second of two nights @ Barrowlands. 90+ minutes of joy, dancing & wonder...
― krakow, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 10:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
cut copy suxI want to like "Hearts on Fire" but it does absolutely nothing for me :/
^^^^^
One of the few times you'll see the Rev and I agree, tbh.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
why do you want to like it if it does nothing for you? the c/c record was shit in spite of tim g who is amazing and john maclean always seems like such a prick tbh.
― jed_, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
"So Haunted" > "Hearts on Fire."
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
All My Friends >>>>>> So Haunted
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like that song going nowhere off their first album the most.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
"All My Friends" is a piece of shit.
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
All your friends are pieces of shit?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Cut Copy album is all about Far Away for me, such an amazing chorus.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
xp: you really, REALLY need to stop trying so hard
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Didn't know I was "trying so hard" when my post took about 2 seconds to think up, another 2 to type out, and a fifth second to click "Submit Post"...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^ (xp)
One of the few times you'll see the DERE and I agree, tbh.
― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
LOL U R FUNNEH
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyone know anything about the cover of Throw? Is it being released on iTunes?
― micarl, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
DFA forums say it's on the iTunes version.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
right, only iTunes by the look - can preview it through the iTunes store.http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/
― micarl, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 03:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
finally listening to this now. so far the songs on this that aren't "Drunk Girls" are awesome and even that one is ok
― you might be a goon but what's a goon to a viking? (The Reverend), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 05:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
agreed, this is my 10th time thru it right now and it's really their best long player. i kinda like how he treats 12"s, eps and albums as three absolutely distinct entities.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 05:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
so haunted is the one that sounds like an off-key, off-kilter elo? great chorus on that song -- and yeah, it's better than hearts on fire.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 May 2010 10:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
awesome
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure that "Pow Pow" contains elements of one of the middle sections of 45'33"... having trouble isolating which parts. Gonna A-B when I get a chance...
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
think this is it:
Pow Pow (6:45 - 7:48) = 45'33" part IV (6:25 - 7:33)*
*"You're out in space/You feel so good... nananananana"
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
maybe everyone with a boner for cut copy can go to the cut copy thread and we can continue talking about how awesome this album is.
funny thing tho about gavin russom playing with them now... i'd like to know the "custom synth rigs" he built for them. he has an interview and new mix up on FACT.
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
the interview feels a little cliche to me, the whole "i did LSD at a party and it opened my mind to all the different types of music that i could play together..." i mean like, cmon
that said the crystal ark is RAD
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
I sorta burned myself out on this album due to the fact that it was the only thing on my work computer
but it's still 100% awesome
― iatee, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol burnt out on an unreleased album
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
i had the range of emotions w/r/t this album. hated it, tolerated it, enjoyed it, loved it, don't care to hear anything off it again. will now sit in the balcony with my buddy waldorf and discuss it.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
I played this once through at work, it was decent. Really liked some songs, really didn't like a few others... it's a mixed bag. One listen's enough for now, though. Waiting for the album release so I can crank dat in the car.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
my buddy waldorf
whoa
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
live footage here - nicked off the DFA forums
http://www.abconcerts.be/nl/abtv/p/detail/lcd-soundsystem
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Could someone work some source code magic and post a direct link to 00532_h264_m.mp4?
― amadeus bag (Stevie D), Monday, 10 May 2010 04:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
*attempts magic*
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
*admits defeat*
*defers to 1337 hax0rz*
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
plug-ins are the key
4 Mac: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/4 Windows: http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/rtmp.html
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
...those seem to be plugins for watching the stream, not for saving the mp4 source file?
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Monday, 10 May 2010 06:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ IANAM
jeez guys, you can lead a horse to water...
"As of 2.1 there are two additional server programs, rtmpsrv and rtmpsuck.
rtmpsrv is a stub for a server; it logs the connect and play parameters from a regular client that connects to it. It then invokes rtmpdump with those parameters to retrieve the stream.
rtmpsuck is a transparent proxy; it intercepts connections from a client and then makes an outbound connection to the real server. After all handshaking is complete and encryption keys with both sides are negotiated, it records the cleartext stream data into files while relaying the data from the server to the client. "
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 06:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ text doesn't exist on the Windows page fyi
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Monday, 10 May 2010 07:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Jesus, they're terrible on this tour. The first 4 or 5 songs on this live show are awful, especially Daft Punk Is Playing..
Looks like they're saving it with Tribulations, but damn, what an awful start to a show. It's time they just did an album for Nancy.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Where did you see them?
I'm hopeful once the album is actually released they'll start playing a few more songs from it, going from that live footage.
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm watchign the vid linked above. The crowd started getting into after Tribulations and Yeah, but if this is any indication, i'm gonna pass on this tour.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
this clip gets awesome about 40 seconds in :)
― stirmonster, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, the glasgow shows were pretty great. but maybe i'm a stan.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
dissmissing them based on a video without seeing them live is a bit naff.
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
True. Have you watched the video? What did you think of the opening 4 tracks?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
thought they'd be better live
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Though I was disappointed with that live video linked above, I absolutely loved the 3 shows i've seen them perform with the exception of the NY I Love You finale which was super boring.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do they usually close with that one? I'd be kinda disappointed if they did. Haven't seen them live since the first album.
― Number None, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
NYI<3U finale was the best moment of the London show.
― I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
.. but i'd been kinda brought down by the rest of the show up till that moment and maybe i wasn't in the mood for dancing from the beginning, so ymmv.
― I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
the problem with seeing bands like LCD in London is everyone is their biggest fan so there's always a lot of pushing and agro, which just annoyed me. I got pretty over seeing bands in London..
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
the first 20 minutes of that video are mad zzzz
― oscar, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
bugger. didn't notice that when i posted it.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have seen them live twice, both they did NYI<3U finale, but both times were actually in New York so it was really cute.
― (Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
that song is a bag of vomit, why are they ruining people's lives by playing it
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
first night in glasgow they ended with NYI<3U, second night they ended with All My Friends.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
both times he then he dedicated the night to HI DERE
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
he then he = he then
hahaha I was just thinking "aaaaaaaaaargh no"
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
that doesn't quite have the energy they have live. i dunno man maybe it was all the drugs i took at coachella but it SOUNDED like a 100x better, not like they were performing in a garage or something. certainly there is an atmosphere to the show you can't capture on vid, but also the camera crew at Coachella was really good and with tens of thousands of people going apeshit it was certainly the best show i've seen in a long time
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
also the ny i love you finish was a little lackluster but their set got cut short a track or two so maybe it would have had a different lead in?
*that = that link above (watching now)
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh, come on. That full concert linked above is totally the awkward, super-clean direct soundboard mix, or maybe the onstage monitor mix. If it's mixed at all. Totally not indicative of how this or any other band sounds live.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
i gotta give credit to james for hanging it up as lcd after this album. he knew it was going to be diminishing returns after this.
― oscar, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 23:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
is he actually going to do that?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
ksh wins.
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
pff he predicted 9.0
― micarl, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Was anyone closer? I was assuming he was the closest.
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
loooool
micarl is correct, i said 9.0: http://pitchforkreviewspreviews.tumblr.com/post/598115992/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know thats what you said! You were closest take the prize, dammit!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)
― micarl, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
This very important to me!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
is!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)― micarl, Monday, May 17, 2010 12:24 AM (1 minute ago)
― micarl, Monday, May 17, 2010 12:24 AM (1 minute ago)
irl lol
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, very surprised about this rating (Pitchfork loves James Murphy). this album is great however and will buy it next week.
― Bee OK, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
or i guess that means this week.
― Bee OK, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Have this on preorder from Amazon for $7.99, no tax or shipping costs. Not bad?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 17 May 2010 11:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
release date purchase !first time in a long long time i have done that.and unlike others here, i have not heard any of it, except the live later version of drunk girls, so hoping for a quiet afternoon @ work so i can just soak it all up.
― mark e, Monday, 17 May 2010 12:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
9.2:
This is also by far the bloodiest LCD Soundsystem album-- a series of bare, lacerating manifestos about distance between people, set to the fizzing art/dance-rock greatest hits inside Murphy's skull. "Love is a murderer," he sings on "I Can Change". He's not kidding.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
He's not kidding.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2010 13:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
After all, Murphy has done what all other music fiends only dream about-- he's flipped the system and become the embodiment of coolness. This is a phenomenal coup.
― da croupier, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know critics are supposed to analyze words and all that shit, but COME ON.
― skip, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait a sec, *I* am an *actual* jerk? thanks pitchfork!
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 17 May 2010 17:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Listening to this album again for the first time since it leaked. Totally did not realize how much I loved these snappy synths in "Dance Yourself Clean"
― (Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Monday, 17 May 2010 17:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I stopped by the record release party at Smart Bar since it's a block away and picked up the CD for a discount. Everyone looked about 22 years old. It's cool that a pudgy 40 year-old can still attract that audience. I should have bought tickets when they went on sale even though I don't plan to go, because they're now selling for $75 and up. Metro and other places have begun overselling shows again, and I'm sick of it. I hope it doesn't take more people dying in a fire to bring places back to code.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 17 May 2010 18:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Finally listened to this proper. Really loving it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
like the first 2 tracks lots but this is kind of a bust
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
DRUNK GIRLS
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
you can't front on that
they/he still hasn't quite got the songwriting right
45:33 and the pre-first-album 12"s are still his best longer tracks
would rather hear actual hit attempts than 'you wanted a hit' (10 fuckin' minutes?)
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh man, just picked this up at the rekkid store. no joke, "Dance Yrself Clean" is great
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
It's a great opening track, unfortunately the album goes like this afterward:
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
One Touch and I Can Change are the only tracks I really like
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only track I didn't like was the one whose title I can't remember but was the track on the album most sonically similar to "All My Friends".
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Drunk Girls" totally works as the second track -- i didn't like it in isolation, but right now it sounds awesome
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
ksh be livebloggin
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Don't really love or hate this album, but that "nightclubbing" track is probably the worst.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxxxxp how do you know that skier doesn't totally nail the landing?
― I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha I just looked at that picture and was like "... after the first track it goes totally fucking awesome, and that's unfortunate?"
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hah, I figured someone would bring that up.
Image was a search result for "falls off a cliff" or something similar...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think you really need to be at the right place to "get" drunk girls.. for me it was in radio shack
WHITE HEAT
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
On "You Wanted A Hit" & liking this record a lot </liveblog>
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
also "dancing" or at least "moving in the chair" fwiw
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
.. for me it was in radio shack
Pls explain?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
let's all post some more pictures that are representative of how much this album sucks
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
but that "nightclubbing" track is probably the worst.
this
― micarl, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
iatee: A+
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
All I Want sounded great coming over the HMV p.a. in central Manc on Sunday. Just perfect.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
what the
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
.. for me it was in radio shackPls explain?
i was there to get a capacitor for a busted dvd player and it came on the instore radio and it sounded GOOD
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Holy moly that last photo...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dude looks like fucking Aphex Twin on the hot seat.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think that picture is going to completely derail this thread
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Amazing thing, this Google image search engine.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
this album is great
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 23:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes, yes it is
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 03:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
curious as to what your search was, alfred?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 04:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
"retard toliet"?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 04:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Kid pooping"
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
It would be really, really awesome if "One Touch" crossed over to mainstream radio.
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
I went to pick this album up at Best Buy the day it came out, but it was sold out.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is ridiculously good.
― ksh, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Picked it up for $6.99 new at Newbury Comics. A+
Was also really tempted to tell the ppl behind the counter that they were going to sell tons of these.
I'm sure they would never have thought it without your tip!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
the bonus track on itunes "oh you" is an interesting ...homage to pink floyd
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Friday, 21 May 2010 02:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Throw is pretty relentless but so good!!
― micarl, Friday, 21 May 2010 05:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dudes, I JAMMMMMMED this in the car on a 5 hour road trip at pretty intense levels and it was really insane sounding. By far the best LCDSS LP to date.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 May 2010 06:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like the self-referentiality in "Home" when he sings "Yeah, do it right/ And head again into space!" A nice nod to "All My Friends," another type of home.
― rennavate, Friday, 21 May 2010 06:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
KSH is my new favourite music critic. That picture of the two middle managers underneath all those outdoor types filled my heart with a warmth that would otherwise have taken heroin.
What is so fearsome about this kid's shitting that he needs to be strapped to the khazi?
― Duran (Doran), Friday, 21 May 2010 06:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
KSH is my new favourite music critic.
COSIGN.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 21 May 2010 13:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
are you talking about ilx poster ksh
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
wrong thread, but a flat party at 2am was blaring "All My Friends" as I walked by and it was great.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes! xp
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 23 May 2010 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
so where did it end up in the hot 200?
just fell short of the top 10 in sunny oz
― poutrock (electricsound), Monday, 24 May 2010 06:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
we dunno yet -- it will prob be in the in the 6-10 range -- hits daily double is projecting that it will sell less than band of horses tho
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 May 2010 07:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I bought it on Saturday, was going to wait til it hits $10 in JB but they were giving away a satchel with THIS IS HAPPENING stencilled on it, how could I resist? If it goes top ten in week 2 galkin can paypal me his thanks.
― the standing cat (sic), Monday, 24 May 2010 10:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
looooool, thanks Doran & ilxor
we dunno yet -- it will prob be in the in the 6-10 range -- hits daily double is projecting that it will sell less than band of horses tho― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:03 AM (5 hours ago)
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:03 AM (5 hours ago)
u_u
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^the exact post i was going to make
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 May 2010 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Doesn't surprise me. I heard the new Band of Horses single on the local AAA station the other day.
― jaymc, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
i heard "Laredo" on the radio too
but it's, like, alright, here's a solid Band of Horses review: "i can sleep, i can sleeeeeeeeeeeep"
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bridwell wasn't even playing an instrument in the last video i saw of 'em -- maybe it was Letterman
they should seriously just call up Jim James and have him sing over the phone and the session dudes can play whatever and then we can all go home
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
as long as we're not all too tired to drive
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
incidentally i listened to the first BOH album last night and it's still beautiful
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
never really listened to anything very much beyond "The Funeral" or whatever, but man i played the shit out of that song. one of those permanently tied to a time in my life kind of deals. so, thanks to BB for that one
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 00:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
"st. augustine" was my personal favorite, but yeah that's pretty close to a classic album
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
loooooooool
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
What the hell, what is that? (No, I will not say 'who is that')
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
iirc that is cap't beardo from band of horses.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
The aliens are among us.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wanna join the fleet foxes
dare to dream.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
great thread
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually i like this disc a lot. do people here find the slow build on the first track overlong? i think it works very well, because it lulls you to sleep and then pops.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry -- it doesn't lull me to sleep. just a figure of speech. it leads me to believe there's no big payoff coming, and then delivers a big payoff.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
First track is the worst, actually. Listening to my CD copy in the car, I thought, "Oh, I don't remember this going on so uninterestingly."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe you're wrong, and maybe i'm right
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol irl
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
the build-and-pop in the first song is the best thing on the record, if the end of the track didn't go into the next one I would listen to it over and over
― my own cuteness (sic), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^yes
― upper mississippi sh@key mo (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I disagree with this so much
the brittle, wearied lyrics with all of the little micro flourishes that pop in and out bookended by those ahs... it just fantastic (then again, I also love lyrical repetition)
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't mind repetition, period, but after the first four or five minutes, when it restarts, I just tune out.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
the song is an exercise in groove dissection and, as someone who likes to view music as aural Tinkertoys, it's really beautiful
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
one of my favorite tracks of the year, no doubt
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
great news, Bridwell didn't make it into The Fleet Foxes, but some Vedder dude apparently snapped him up
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
credit to dan m for posting that first, over on 77
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Really liking this album.
― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/glee-stops-the-show-at-no-1-stones-come-1004094028.story
Band of Horses and LCD Soundsystem also arrive high -- entering at Nos. 7 and 10, respectively, with their latest efforts. Band of Horses' Infinite Arms starts with 45,000 while LCD's This Is Happening opens with 31,000. They are the highest charting albums -- and best sales weeks -- for both acts.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 27 May 2010 07:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
God I didn't realize people like Band of Horses so fucking much. I thought we already had one My Morning Jacket who are *much* better, if you're into that sort of thing?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
God I didn't realize people like Band of Horses so fucking much.
i don't think i knew how popular they were, either. but . . .
After the Stones, the next highest entry is the Black Keys with "Brothers" starting at No. 3 with 73,000.
is serious O_O
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
'home' is my favourite on this album by miles
― NI, Thursday, 27 May 2010 12:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Black Keys not too surprising. They've always had the potential to cross over to "mainstream" blues/garage rock fans... looks like all that relentless touring has paid off in album sales.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also, the Black Keys are good at what they do. I definitely see the appeal.
Whereas Band of Horses are shit.
i sort of just toss Black Keys into that group of shitty modern rock bands that get radio airplay and are moderately successful when there are other, better bands who could probably be just as popular but aren't
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
"shitty modern rock bands that get radio airplay and are moderately successful" meaning junk like Silversun Pickups
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
I literally don't know any Silversun Pickups besides "Lazy Eye" and "Panic Switch" but I srsly love those songs.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not a Black Keys fan myself, but to describe them as "modern rock" is really really missing the point, and also RONG.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I still get Black Keys confused with Black Lips.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was surprised to read that The Black Keys are being supported by The Walkmen in Glasgow, but based on the sales I guess it's justified.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
use whatever term you want, ilxor -- i was just using "modern rock" as a descriptor for the place where that kind of stuff seems to fit in in the landscape of mainstream music, not as something to describe the sound
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Made even better with the Official Steve Shasta Seal of Approval.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't really no much about them and i'm kinda stabbing in the dark here, but Black Keys basically = White Stripes minus good pop tunes?? I can see how that would find a certain audience if not blow up huge
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Alternatively, Black Keys = White Stripes minus brother/sister gimmickry, color coordination, annoying Jack White God complex, etc.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also minus Jack White's charisma and stage presence.
― The Men Who Stare At Goatse (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
damn, did you pull the wool off my eyes, ilxor!
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rev, I'm not really a fan of either of 'em... just playing devil's advocate.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
the guy from black keys has a good voice for radio
― plax (ico), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
love all the synths strewn through this record - seems more deeply textured than a lot of the older stuff.
― erotic geometry (haitch), Monday, 31 May 2010 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.avclub.com/articles/james-murphy-of-lcd-soundsystem,41691/
good interview
― iatee, Thursday, 3 June 2010 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm enjoying this album!
but, on "you wanted a hit" and "pow pow" james murphy sounds really pissed. what's up with that? calling out michael musto, who are you, axl all of a sudden? idgi
this has probably been discussed on this very thread.
thx!
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
he talks about it at the end of that interview
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha! shoulda known not to take is seriously
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
this album sounds like the soundtrack to the lion king at many points
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had a dream Jams was an ILXor and me and morbs and him and some others were all hanging out, and we were drinking this weird "video soda" product that played an Aeon Flux-like cartoon of someone else drinking a soda in front of your eyes every time you took a sip
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love the way James describes styles of music in terms of the face you pull when you're performing it. Like this line about Pow Pow: "To me it’s “the talking guy with his talking face.” You know, “Talking Heads’ talking face doing his talking.”
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, too often (i know we've been over this) critics think of the dreaded I-word in terms of an artist "looking back" on other artists, rather than "looking forward" at an audience that they're trying to find a way to say something to.
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nancy Whang? She's in the Juan Maclean, too.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 June 2010 22:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
o rly! <3 juan maclean obv but i was kind of hoping she would be in an x ray specs cover band or something.
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:25 PM (36 minutes ago)
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:25 PM (36 minutes ago)
NW has been on every LCDSS album fwiw, even the first single: b-side "beat connection".
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dear DFA,
Everybody wants a Nancy Whang solo album.
Love,
Everybody
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
word
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
also plz to include a cover of "o bondage up yours"
i dunno dudes, i dig her on the maclean/lcd stuff but uh, what?
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Saturday, 5 June 2010 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
find her kind of annoying tbh
― jed_, Saturday, 5 June 2010 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is great, can't believe how good his vocals sound live
― More more more ass we are all addicted to ass (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 5 June 2010 06:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
so awesome seeing russom playing w/ them
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
makes me wanna see them for him alone
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band. i guess i didn't think they'd all be on tour but it is worth your money people! i'm not even that stoked on the new album but it was among the best live shows i've seen in years
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i saw them after sound of silver and i swear i really only love those songs in the moment of hearing them live
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
parts of this album remind me of semisonic
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
not sure if that's ~entirely~ accurate but who am i to disagree with your subjective impressions
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.
can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:24 PM (18 minutes ago)
when were they not in LCD?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
(that was his point)
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
oicnow
the real dfa allstar band was black leotard front.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 6 June 2010 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
they're not new to the band but i didn't see either of them the last time i saw lcd on tour
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 07:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
they probably changed that on the sound of silver tour or something tho, haven't seen them in a while
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 07:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!
I thought before Pat Mahoney was in LCD he was in Les Savy Fav. What am i missing him working on in the DFA camp other than LCD?
― micarl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
love their 2nd single
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
o wait
still tho
Just picked up a hard copy of this yesterday and blasted it in my friend's Philly apt and we danced around and talked about how nice it was!
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also I'm glad to say the lyrics are in the booklet; always a nice touch.
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
he did a couple dj tours with james murphy and others as 'special disco version' and the two of them released that fabriclive mix a few years back (which is still seriously amazing)
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
does anyone here besides me love "all I want" the best?
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
totally dude
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
this album is kinda disappointing imo
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't have an opinion on the album yet - it was kinda all over the place and i havent been willing to sit through the whole thing more than like twice, but i've listened to "all i want" like 40 times
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
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looked at the liner notes yesterday (a friend actually bought the physical cd, whoa) and was surprised to see that james played drums on almost all of the tracks, and pat mahoney only played on one of them (can't remember which but i think it was "pow pow").
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
nothing on this makes me want to listen to it again, really
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
what's that one they do live where james suddenly joins in on the drumkit?
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes, but that was after he was already in LCD...
Saying he's part of this DFA super group seems neither here nor there when he's only done work with LCD and DJ'ed with James Murphy.
― micarl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
alls i'm saying is i didn't know all of them went on tour together. because, as i said before, the last time i saw them it was basically a murphy + laptop affair.
and yeh, the fact that in the past few years the members' side projects have led to their profiles being exponentially higher makes it feel a little more special. especially since james plays a LOT of what's on the record so i wasn't necessarily expecting as much
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whang has been in LCD since their very first gig - not sure if Mahoney goes quite that far back, but he's been playing live with them since 2002
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Monday, 7 June 2010 00:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
― micarl, Monday, 7 June 2010 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
just watch a snippet -- need to watch the whole thing later -- but man i love that dude
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 01:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
*watched
such a cutie
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Monday, 7 June 2010 01:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
ahh, I condemned this way too quick! JM prob doesn't pee the bed that often
― Dan I., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
♥ Home ♥
― Dan I., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dis guy is so earnest/real, want to be his good bud.
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Video for Drunk Girls Holy Ghost! remix
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 28 June 2010 23:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Monday, 28 June 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Crusty hipster jackass? Nice remix though.
― Duran (Doran), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 09:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know one of those bike jousters! she used to live in pvd
― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
falsetto "smells like human poooooooo!" as the intro to "all my friends" as glastonbury
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/artists/lcdsoundsystem/
― caek, Friday, 2 July 2010 13:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. I Can Change 5:552. You Wanted A Hit (Soulwax Remix) 7:373. I Can Change (Tiga Remix) 7:454. I Can Change (Stereogamous Remix) 8:335. I Can Change (Stereogamous Inlovestrumental) 7:32
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 July 2010 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stereogamous
who
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Monday, 26 July 2010 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
well it is a better mix than the one i post first:
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 July 2010 06:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
the tiga mix sounds like it's going to break into 'washing up' any momemnt now
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Monday, 26 July 2010 06:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
moley's sometime partner and his best pal s3ym0ur butz
― Has admitted to being awesome in order to have sex (sic), Monday, 26 July 2010 06:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is this shit
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 July 2010 06:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
bee ok you are like if forkcast was integrated into ilm threads
quality control, my man
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 July 2010 06:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
1st part of "Dance Yrself Clean" is a total C4TPA homage.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^glad someone else thought this - not surprised it was you tbh lol
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
wouldn't have made that link because I only know 1 C4TPA song but yeah I can totally see that
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow. Spot on, and then some.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's C4PTA?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 July 2010 06:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is your favorite song by casiotone for the painfully alone?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 July 2010 06:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
another Los Angeles based project:
― Bee OK, Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
looks like Houston to me but is that official (i hope not cuz it's awful)?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know what it is, the colour grading, or how everything is framed, or something, but it looks like a bank commercial.
― Popture, Saturday, 25 September 2010 04:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
generally do not advocate audience recorded youtube videos (and in truth this one is as bad as most of them) but they debuted (afaik) Dance Yrself Clean last week and it looks like it was awesome.
#!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 26 September 2010 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm avoiding listening to anything from this album again for a quite a while after seeing that video for Home.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 27 September 2010 07:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Popture, Saturday, 25 September 2010 05:20 (2 days ago)
so true. this video makes me feel uncomfortable and 'marketed' at. shame it had to happen to my fave song on the album
― NI, Monday, 27 September 2010 12:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
They were just okay last night. Murphy shouts too often.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean
it's a terrible video but how is it ruining the record for anyone
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't see what's so terrible about it
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's not an official video is it?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
what's with all the nu-yuppies in that video?
― 2+2 is 4 (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 8 October 2010 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not so much the video for me just reminded me i haven't listened to the album for quite a while and didn't inspire me to do so.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 8 October 2010 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
so far behind on this album, butdid anybody else say that 'drunk girls' sounds like a bastardized cover of 'boys keep swingin' yet?
― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 October 2010 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pow Pow video.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
SORRY, WE'RE UNABLE TO OFFER THIS VIDEO TO USERS IN YOUR REGION.
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/news/40613-video-lcd-soundsystem-pow-pow/
― piscesx, Friday, 5 November 2010 01:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's sold it to me
― Owner of a Homely Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea i have no idea why but i really like that video. "pow pow" was one of my favorite songs on the record, maybe that has something to do with it
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 5 November 2010 05:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Anybody heard the London Sessions or the Alexandra Palace thing?
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
London Sessions is alright. Nice version of Get Innocuous.
― Number None, Sunday, 14 November 2010 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is $1.99 on amazon mp3 right now
i never heard an lcd soundsystem record before
it's pretty good, he likes david bowie i think.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whole album's his tribute to the Berlin records.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
What do you think, Ned?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ah yeah, "riding on the metro" totally :)
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
overall this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
like us
― lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
and not them
― "smokin' hot" albeit in a "Nickelback on iPod" sort of way (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
over & over again xpost
― markers, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't felt the urge to play anything on this album since a few weeks after it leaked. Complete dud, imo. Sound of Silver covered all the ground this one covered but better every step of the way.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's held up for me, and a lot of the songs have really grown...i think the only thing holding it back is the sound of the record. the tones of most of the instruments (drums especially, i guess) are on the generic side, not as huge as on the s/t or as raw & vintage-y as on SoS.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Opening track, I Can Change, and closing track are as good as anything he's done, and Drunk Girls is great fun. Everything else here is good. It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
I play way more songs off of this than I do off of SoS, which I edited down to an amazing 4 track EP
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:49 PM
I completely agree with this. I still get a lot of This Is Happening, it will be very high in my albums of the year list.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll have to get sound of silver, i dig this so far.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
S0S has four songs that are way better than this and a bunch of ignorable shit on it
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
or it's wall-to-wall awesome. only one way to find out!
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
DJP, is your 4 track SOS EP: Get Innocuous, Someone Great, All My Friends and Us V. Them?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Get Innocuous, North American Scum, Someone Great, Us V Them
I really, really really REALLY hate "All My Friends"
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
think yr kinda on yr own there
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a position I'm used to
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, North American Scum is a gimmicky bullshit track just like Drunk Girls. They're both pointless and annoying.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
and also awesome
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
North American Scum is the fun parts of Daft Punk Is Playing At My House with the irritating sections removed and a fun "NORTH AMERICAN!" chant thrown in
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
good Prince title imo
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Walking around Greektown and the UIC campus in Chicago last month on a crazy windy day while listening to this really opened up the album to me. I like it better than the debut (I gather we're not including the second disk of singles there) & yeah, I think I'd put it on before Sound of Silver at this point. also lol @ "this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music" & that was pretty much exactly what I thought on that day in Chicago (& naturally felt kinda self-congratulat-y which is a good feeling to afford yourself once in a while, delusionally or not).
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (8 minutes ago)
HE ISN'T
― rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
but don't you hate everything they've ever done?
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
some of their songs are ok...Yeah, Get Innocuous and Someone Great really have good things about them...but All My Friends, just no.
would complain about this being the sound of mediocrity winning but it ain't worth the argument now, they're gone, and the million copyists will have to be fought instead
― rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
lj/djp bitter hatred of that song is inexplicable to the point of lol
i can understand the cale cover, the hua hsu (iirc) exegesis and other tributes seeming excessive, and the central piano motif will irritate some people
and yet ppl hate it worse than cancer & hitler
― lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey lj i don't think yr old enough to appreciate the sentiment of all my friends, tbh
djp, otoh, uh, is, v much.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
forgetting the lyrics entirely, it has a keening preening manipulative tweeness and a strict, stupefying adherence to the melodic/narrative tenets of new order that drive me to dislike exceptionally quickly - it's big and cloying and inevitable
― gospodin sim gishel (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I loved the second one but I never, ever want to play it whereas this one gets constant rotation. It's a victory lap record like Graduation: "Drunk Girls" is a better "North American Scum," "Home" a superior "All My Friends," and "Dance Yrself Clean" just breathtaking on its own merits.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i haven't listened to this in a minute, but i still totally love it. alfred otm re all those tracks
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
the quick lil in studio live thing they put out a few weeks ago is really great imo -- nothing jaw dropping of course but it's cool to hear them tweak songs around a bit + recording is hi-fi
it has this super funky take on "daft punk" that is pretty much the only recording of the song that i can stomach atm
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
ooh
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm still trying to understand why I recoiled from their performance at the Fillmore two months ago.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
cuz you're crazy?
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
best live band i've ever seen personally
i would probably say they're the best live band i've ever seen too.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
No complaints about the band; like I said many xposts ago, I couldn't shake how awkwardly Murphy embraced his front man status, and not in a cool way.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Too many times he was out of breath shouting in the microphone -- just another pudgy guy in a T-shirt.
you should've closed your eyes
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
His flop sweat kept sprinkling me.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
lj you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
waitaminit - you were in San Francisco!?
― a big influence on me in a non-stabbing non-killing way (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
We got one in Miami Beach.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Don't worry: I wouldn't dream of visiting SF without conferring with my transportation secretary.
'dance yrself clean' and 'home' are the two best lcd soundsystem songs imo
― iatee, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Louis Louis Louis.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
LCD Soundsystem was the first thing my gf and I argued about fwiw
shit I still have half my bleedin' essay to do *scarpers*
― gospodin sim gishel (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
'dance yrself clean' is one of their best ever tracks but mostly this blows
i don't like all my friends
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 09:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Version of All I Want on London Sessions is very good - better than the album version.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love that London Sessions album, but the version of I Can Change sounds far too slow to me.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that's a dud and I can't fathom why they wouldn't include Yeah, which was the highlight of all three shows I've seen on this tour.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
"dance yrself clean" is sublime, "i can change" is horrific, everything else kinda falls in between. this is my least fav lcd album.
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 14:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song "Home" which i am listening to right now is totes Tom Tom Club
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
try as i might SOS never really clicked with me, whereas i can barely keep from playing this one over and over again.
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's not tom tom club it's penguin cafe orchestra!
― iatee, Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Farewell show announced for April 2nd. Hopefully the backlash will have reached a point that getting tickets will be a breeze.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's putting a positive spin on it!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Damnit, damnit! I've already seen them twice and don't want to ruin the magic, but shit. Seriously, two of the best shows I've ever seen.
― Mrs. Doubtfife (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Seen them 9 times. Want to make it an even 10. Fuck the haters, I love this band and they mean a lot to me.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh great, I never saw them live and I probably never will. :( I thought he was not serious about it being the last album and all because that's what everyone says.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was hoping that was just typical balderdash. I think he still said they'd continue making singles?
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also what was the backlash against them? I don't read up on the latest indie/indie dance hatred on the internet.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
A few people (including me) didn't think This Is Happening was so great, but I certainly don't despise them/him or anything.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh...that's all. I thought it was ok for what it was. The second album is the best in my opinion. If they were going for a trilogy kind of thing the third one is always the weakest.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
you should have read the 2010 ALBUMS and TRACKS polls. whoof there be some haters.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was under the impression people loved it. This is why I'll never understand indie/indie dance music scene (or maybe it is just the internet scene). Do people want musicians to survive pass two albums or do they just want to cut to the chase of hating them because that's the cool thing to do?
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
The only reasons I had for not liking the last album fall squarely into the "he's done this before, and better" school of thought. Half the people bitch if you keep doing the same thing, the other half bitch if you change it up. It's hard to win, really.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i was being a bit facetious with the backlash comment. certain groups of internet people will hate on anything that pitchfork-reading white indie boys who "don't understand dance" like, especially if they see a band like LCD Soundsystem as wannabe stuff.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I guess that's why you have people who are hardcore fans (or "stans" in some music circle say) and embrace the same aesthetic touches in a musician's/band's music. I wasn't a hardcore fan of LCD, but I liked their aesthetic and accepeted it for what it was. I wasn't surprised that he didn't stray from it on the third album.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha thanks for the clarification. I'm a black hip hop/r&b loving boy who think LCD Soundsystem are great!!! I wonder what the haters would say about me.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow. I would love to see that show. Even though I didn't love This is Happening, they are probably the best live band i've ever seen.
also, this was pointed out to me recently.
kind of rotten for them not to credit that on the album.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
well if they had to be honest about everything on that lp that wasn't very original it would be fairly awkward yeah?
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Are there other examples of direct rips like that? I mean, they just played that song almost note for note and added some vocals. I'm not sure if there are other songs on the album that are copies and not just 'inspired' by.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
whoa...I mean I love LCD's version of this but holy cow that is a pretty direct rip
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 February 2011 00:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's really no worse than the "Homosapien" and "Nighclubbing" rips.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Sunday, 6 February 2011 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't mind the "Nightclubbing" one so much because I don't really like the LCD version, while "Dance Yrself Clean" is one of my favorite songs of theirs, I know it doesn't really make sense but that's why it bothers me. Also it sounds like this one is a real obscurity so it just seems that much more shady; I don't think the Iggy Pop rip was supposed to get by anybody.
BTW which song did they rip off "Homosapien" for??? It does sound a bit like "North American Scum" but it's not obvious to me..
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 February 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
it sounds a LOT like North American Scum
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 7 February 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
this album did away entirely with what i liked best about them: on the first two albums, not only did they have a cool, edgy indie aesthetic with interesting vox and lyrics, but they combined that with beats that were genuinely danceable, or at least made you want to move/bounce around. "this is happening" loses almost all the funkyness of the previous albums and singles - therefore, i dislike it. if you liked lcd soundsystem for reasons other than mine, you might like this album more than i do, i can't really knock it, it's got some cool vocals and arrangements and stuff, but for me, they've lost their edge.
that said, the lack of danceable grooves may very well be why they've suddenly gotten popular with all my anti-dance-music, indie-rock-or-nothin friends; for all i know mr. murphy has made this stylistic change on purpose. but still.
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 7 February 2011 06:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pow Pow?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
but for me, they've lost their edge.
i guess the bright side of the break-up will be never reading the above zinger again. "as for me, i've got lcd soundsystem's beats ON REPEAT."
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
can anyone confirm if the sessions cd a limited release ?
― mark e, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not sure where you are, but I've seen it all over the place. Even my local Best Buy (which has reduced its music section to virtually nothing) has multiple copies.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
uk.its about here and there, but nowhere near as much presence as previous LCD releases.and given EMIs ongoing chaos, was wondering if this is one of those buy now, or regret later releases as various corners of the catalogue gets deleted.
― mark e, Monday, 7 February 2011 19:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that fear is why I grabbed it as soon as I saw it, but since then I've seen it all over the place.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
lcd soundsystem are playing madison square garden on april 2nd, and it will be our last show ever. we are retiring from the game. gettin’ out. movin’on. but for just one more night, we will be playing with friends and family for nearly 3 hours–playing stuff we’ve never played before and going out with a bang. and we’d like you to be there.
if you would, we’d love it if people all came in white. or black. or black and white. and come ready to have fun, please. and come early, as the festivities will be opened by our favorites, liquid liquid. yes: liquidliquid.
if it’s a funeral, let’s have the best funeral ever!!!
GENERAL ONSALE FEBRUARY 11TH
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 February 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
lcd's doing colbert on valentine's day, apparently.
― Clay, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
― mark e
I've seen no sign that this is a limited release. I just ordered it from Play last night it's 7.99 on there and Amazon. You can get it from actual sellers for a bit cheaper but they all seem to be American, it must be much more available there.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Actually I kind of agree that this one was "less danceable" than the previous two, but it doesn't make it worse or anything. Like SoS there's like 4-5 killer tracks and some other decent material/filler, but overall it's one of the best of the year. Ripped or not "Dance Yrself Clean" is incredible.
― frogbs, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
By the way while we're on the subject of ripoffs the track "Thrills" is so much a rewrite of "Warm Leatherette" that I'm surprised they didn't get slagged more for it..."Losing My Edge" is mostly taken from a Killing Joke song, "Daft Punk.." is basically "TNT" and Murphy imitates Mark E. Smith for the entire first album. And yet they get off scot-free while Scooter gets slammed for doing the same thing??
― frogbs, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
murphy said at the time that 'thrills' was basically 'warm leatherette' + 'get ur freak on'
― scraping Doritos off the wheel (haitch), Monday, 7 February 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Never got to see them, but assuming I can get online before tickets sell out (and my boss doesn't have me working that Saturday) I may actually make it to this show! Excited, but sad.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 7 February 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought the beat on Losing My Edge was from A Certain Ratio?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not as obvious as Dance Yrself Clean but it's more obvious than Leaving On A Jet Plane / Run.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
"get innocuous" = kraftwerk "robots"
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
THIS JUST IN: MUSIC OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM CAUGHT "REFERENCING" OTHER MUSICS
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
like, come on ppl. This is part of their whole shtick.
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
At least make an interesting thread like the Stereolab references one that Milton did.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
sometimes I wonder if certain people only like bands whose references they don't get/recognize
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
List The Direct References of Stereolab
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shakey OTM. I'm so glad that when I first heard the Jesus & Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 I didn't know much about older bands so I wasn't ticking off the references. It's an increasingly hard thing to remember when reviewing records as you get older - you don't want to become the old killjoy going, "That song you like? Well it's taken from this." Sample-based music is different though, and I see LCD's lifts as almost live (and uncredited) samples so it's more like a hip hop record, where finding out the sources doesn't detract from my enjoyment, and in fact enhances it because of what's been done to those sources.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
When I interviewed James Murphy for this record he talked about this French journalist who was trying to catch him out, going [I quote his impression]. "So, zis song All I Want, perhaps you 'ave been listening to David Bowie's Heroes, non?" And he replied, "Well yes. Obviously. That was the idea."
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
dunno how hearing the jamaica running song would ruin 'dance yrself clean'...like, yeah, clearly he ripped the drums from a sorta boring song as part of the intro to his much more inneresting song. if the jamaica running song suddenly broke out in the crazy fuzz synth riff I might be disappointed.
― iatee, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
they do a lot of great covers so it's easy to see their "originals" as barely disguised covers. doesn't bother me at all.
going to try to get tickets to that MSG show, saw them at Bowery Ballroom on the tour for the first record and it was great.
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
the pool >>> dance yrself clean though
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that's a good point but I would never say the song was ever 'ruined' for me, I mean Datarock do this all the time too and they're one of my favorite bands. I think it's more of a disappointment in realizing that this band is something you define as say, the sound of the 00's or whatever in your eyes, only to realize that it's just the same as the 80's but with a facelift.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 06:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone very reliable once told me that the original All My Friends was so much like a certain 80s New Order track (i forget which) that they'd have got sued if it'd have come out that way. so they had to go back and fiddle with it to make it sound.. a lot less so.
how come say Elastica had to give co-writing credits for the Wire/ Sranglers steals on Connection and Waking Up and Blur for the much less obvious Bowie/ Eno steals on M.O.R. but not LCD for theirs? i love LCD so i'm not out to diss em, just.. wondering why some bands get away with it and some don't.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 06:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's just a casio preset, isn't it?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Killing Joke song is called "Change" and it's a B-Side. IIRC the beat is played with a bass guitar or something. The KJ version is obviously a lot heavier but it's very similar.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Big difference between lifting a melody and lifting a beat. People don't cry plagiarism when someone uses the Be My Baby beat.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
how come say Elastica had to give co-writing credits for the Wire/ Sranglers steals on Connection and Waking Up and Blur for the much less obvious Bowie/ Eno steals on M.O.R. but not LCD for theirs?
probably because back when Blur and Elastica were making those records they were actually making tons of money off hit singles and associated CD sales. This is not the case with LCD Soundsystem.
Rule No. 1 of Litigation: Don't sue poor people
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tell that to the RIAA.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
RIAA not really a model of successful litigators imho
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
honestly I've been thinking about this a lot lately. insofar as the collapse of the music industry has kinda made it not worth it to sue people for sample violations, for the first time in quite awhile it's now more or less possible to sample with impunity
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
real talk: anyone a) know if there's an online presale b) want to be a pal/front me $50/get me a GA ticket at the presale at the merc lounge box office tomorrow
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
so annoyed about that presale. got to prepare myself for Friday morning.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
How do shoes at MSG work? I will be pissy if I don't get a GA ticket/have to stand in front of a fucking seat.
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
probably because back when Blur and Elastica were making those records they were actually making tons of money off hit singles and associated CD sales. This is not the case with LCD Soundsystem.Rule No. 1 of Litigation: Don't sue poor people― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:44 AM (1 hour ago)
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:44 AM (1 hour ago)
lol, tell me more about how poor James and LCD are.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
compared to Blur?
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean lol if you think James Murphy is living off songwriting royalties, which is what a sample-based lawsuit would be entitled to go after
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's no way Elastica's one big selling album made them significantly richer in that 18 months they were sucessful, than James Murphy over a decade of production and writing. i mean.. wha..?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have you guys noticed what Murphy wears? Dude spends no money.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shakey Mo switched his stance from "James Murphy is poor" to "James Murphy isn't making money off songwriting royalties".
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know James Murphy so I can't ask him but my guess would be that his income is from a) live shows/DJ gigs and b) maybe some income from the label. And it's not like LCDs commanding Rolling Stones'-level touring budgets.
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kinda lol at anybody that thinks any musician is rich, especially someone with as low a profile as James Murphy. He's not Jay-Z for fuck's sake.
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
like I dunno if you guys talk to musicians at all but everybody is fucking broke
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
What about Damon Alborn (?) and Justine Frischmann (?)
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
James Murphy is not broke, he is loaded btw.
Albarn was at the top of the industry when the industry was at it's peak so duh. Frischmann got advertising money iirc - that Wire ripoff was everywhere. (If LCD's licensed any tunes to commercials I haven't noticed - highest profile think I noticed them in was Step Brothers lol)
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
were you hanging out on his yacht last weekend or what shasta
i'm sure murphy's doing fine, he must make $$$ on dj gigs. the "interview" from this thread did make me wonder though: BEST JAMES MURPHY ANSWER FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
4. Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?I've lived here on WAY less for more than a decade, so sure. If you don't want to, there are plenty of suburbs to wait for death in.
BILLIONAIRE
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone very reliable once told me that the original All My Friends was so much like a certain 80s New Order track (i forget which) that they'd have got sued if it'd have come out that way. so they had to go back and fiddle with it to make it sound.. a lot less so.Without any inside knowledge, I'm 95% sure its "Ceremony."
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd be suspicious of any English musician claiming they're weathy, what with their tax rates.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that is not how it works.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Elastica were fucking coining it in during the 18 months they were successful... on airplay royalties
Also note that it was *in* those 18 months that they got sued by Wire and Stranglers
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
by all means, feel free to elaborate
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
(1) revenue is not limited to songwriting royalties, e.g. live performance, mechanicals, publishing rights, etc. (2) damages are not limited to the revenue accrued directly from the violation, e.g. you may be forced to pay damages for an infringing sample on a track you gave away.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
how are damages calculated?
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 22:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
they're _unlikely_ to be more than the defendant can afford (but lol RIAA showboating). apart from that, it depends entirely on the nature/scale of infringement, jurisdiction, etc. and only very weakly on direct revenue.
note i know uk law better than us law, but the principle that you can be sued even if you give the infringing work away is true everywhere afaik.
also if you could only be sued for revenue, then there would be no punitive deterrent. i.e. just sample whatever, if you get caught then no biggie, just pay the man his money.
gonna sue james soundsystem now.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
let me know how much of his <$35k salary you manage to garnish
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
real talk: anyone a) know if there's an online presale
there is, tomorrow at 10 am, via pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/news/41507-lcd-soundsystem-presale-tickets-on-sale-today/
― dmr, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
presale was a joke. pretty much sold out within 2 minutes.
― Creeztophair, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
All those people waiting in line at Mercury Lounge in 10 degrees this morning was a joke.
― juicebox, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
brrrrrr
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
"This 10 Degree Weather Is Happening": waiting in line to see the final concert for the third by LCD Soundsystem
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/the-original-bits-arent-good/
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 11:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
smh. do you people really only enjoy the first two minutes of this song? it's just the build up for the good part.
also horribly wrong about bittersweet symphony
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
My appreciation of Dance Yrself Clean isn't ruined by The Pool. I think it would be nicer if the bands LCD are stealing from were credited but lots of things would make this world nicer. Not a big deal.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that all at me? Because I definitely don't only enjoy the first two minutes of DYC, nor meant to express that anywhere; it's my favourite off TIH, and one of my favourite LCD tracks fullstop.
Horribly wrong about BSS in what regard? I don't think I expressed an opinion regarding its quality...
xpost.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
What would be excellent is if just after the farewell show JM released a compilation of all the tracks that he'd homaged/lifted so that obscure folk like The Pool could get some recognition and $$$, LCD fans would discover some good stuff, and the whole obvious-referencing side of LCD could be taken to its logical (and most candid) conclusion.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd certainly buy a copy of that mythical compilation.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Re: Nick's blog, I remember a sampling special on Radio 1 where somebody (Jo Whiley maybe?) told the whole story of the lawsuit and said the Verve had been outrageously swindled and that the song BSS sounded nothing like it really. Then she played The Last Time and for a few seconds I assumed it was BSS. It was so blatant, and so demolished the DJ's argument, that I actually laughed out loud.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
That compilation idea is great.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think the orchestral version of the stones song is particularly interesting. Don't think that were it released on a 90s stones album it would end up being one of the biggest hits of the decade. the verve made something out of not much - and while bss might fall apart without the sample it's far from the only thing the song is built on. it's got nothing to do with the vocal melody. xp
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bitter Sweet Symphony doesn't really HAVE a vocal melody.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you stripped the vocals off BSS and mixed/mastered it in a 60s rather than 90s fashion, you'd have the start of the instrumental version of The Last Time, looped.
Just because you play the same drumbeat rather than outright sampling it doesn't mean it's not still the same drumbeat. Even Mccabe's guitar doesn't add much in terms of melody / layering / structure / texture / etc. I love BSS, think it does something amazing, but it's totally and utterly built on that sample / steal.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
violins add a lot!
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
And the main violin hook is from The Last Time, as I recall, as are the main violin chords.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
But then I remember hearing the orchestral version of The Rolling Stones’ The Last Time for the first time, the Andrew Loog Oldham version that Bittersweet Symphony sampled. I’d read something which suggested that all The Verve had borrowed was a chord sequence played by the string section, that the drum pattern and main string hook, the two most vital identifying parts of the song, were their own work, Ashcroft’s own work, and the sample was buried and barely audible, and that it was pure avarice that made Loog Oldham seize songwriting credits for himself, Jagger and Richards.
Rubbish. That whole sweeping string hook, the double-thwack rhythm of the drums, the stately pace, the swell and poise of Bittersweet Symphony all came directly from The Last Time.
Sorry dude but this is just factually incorrect, I just listened to the Loog Oldham track again and the most obvious memorable and distinctive hook in BSS (the violins over the top) aren't there. The drum beat is different as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
(We shouldn't be having this discussion, or even the "what is musical theft?" discussion in 2011, but that's by the bye).
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Probably not, no.)
Just listening to it again on Youtube (), and 48 seconds in the drumbeat, after wandering around a bit, falls into the same double-thwack pattern. The main string sequence is there but not the actual riff, to be fair. The bells, though, are totally ripped off both by McCabe's guitar line and, in the extended version, by the bell-laden middle section. The bassline's the same too. The piano line at about 1:40 is ripped off too.
Which is all to say that they steal more than just a tiny inconsequential bit that you'd never notice.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
had this argument a million times but one thing no one ever seems to remember is that tge Stones ripped the Last Time off from the Staples Singers btw.
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
uncredited too!
Haha, I didn't know that!
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
(early gospel Staple Singers some of the best music ever btw)
I like to think JM would be amused at this thread devolving into a general discussion of plagiarism.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
never knew that about the last time, that adds a hilarious dimension to this
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure Allen Klein knew about it fwiw
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oldham Orchestra track is about 1 million times better than the Verve rip. Primarily because there's not idiot sputtering about how hard life is when you're a millionaire.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
In fairness, he wasn't actually a millionaire when that song was recorded, far from it probably.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
again with the all musicians are millionaires thing
I'm pretty sure that prior to BSS Richard Ashcroft was not particularly rich
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh come on, don't you remember those press photos circa A Storm In Heaven with the band gathered in Sir Ashcroft's drawing room? He wore a fine top hat and monocle back in those days.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is the rest of that andrew loog oldham orchestra album any good?
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Regardless of whether he had a million dollars in the bank at that point or not, his tale of woe over a stolen track rings hollow.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
why?
― just sayin, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
"tale of woe"? what song are you listening to?
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
surely the "slave to money" line is made even MORE ironic given the background/history of the song
Millionaires are only allowed to sing about how happy they are being millionaires. That's pop law.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is derailing the discussion further, but ok, i'll explain. BTW, I realize this is a personal hang-up and not a universal argument, so I don't expect you to agree. It's the same problem I have with Trent Reznor and Morrissey. In the early days I could buy their anger and isolation but once they got huge, that type of lyric just didn't make sense. I greatly prefer instrumental music to vocal tracks as well, so there's that too. But in BSS I translate the chorus 'it's a bittersweet symphony, this life' to 'it sucks to be a rockstar doing tons of coke and banging groupies'.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah but you can't find a good melody for that sort of lyric
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
look at Kanye now.
To be fair, BSS was the song that made Ashcroft a massive coke-snorting groupie-banging rock star (if he ever banged groupies). (As opposed to banging the girlfriends of guys in bands he was touring with / ripping off.) They really weren't huge before that song.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah thats why i dont understand brotherlovesdubs comments
― just sayin, Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
It makes more sense if BLD is an American; the impact of that song was such that I assumed they'd been massive in the UK for a while and I was just now noticing them.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah I dunno this image of Ashcroft is totally wrong/made up sorry
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
also just seems odd to me to assume that all lyrics (esp by someone like MORRISSEY wtf) are somehow first-person narratives
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
History hit number 8 in the charts after they split, but they really weren't big.; that was their only hit I think Dickie just acted as if they should be.
Similar talk of author-as-narrator-(or-not) in the PJ thread.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think it's touching, the belief that people wit fame and money don't feel angry and isolated, especially someone with a personality as toxic as Morrissey.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Optimistic:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-TIXs-4-2-LCD-Soundsystem-132-MSG-/290525489357?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43a4ab28cd
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I prefer instrumentals to vocal tracks. That's the bottom line here.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol i clicked on this thread trying to figure out why there's so many new posts when this record's like a year old and everyone's talking about "Bittersweet Symphony"?
― R. L. Steen's HOOSbumps (some dude), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dickie Ashcroft a millionaire? In 1997?! Most of Verve were probably on the dole when BSS was being written in 96. They'd had a low selling album 2 years prior to BSS charting then split up almost as soon as it was released. Their position on the 1995 Glastonbury bill the summer they split was 4th between Veruca Salt and The Charlatans. On the small stage.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
did they end up with anything after the lawsuits?
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
they didn't get shit from BSS. every single penny went to Allen Klein/Jagger/Richards
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
The credit inside the sleeve is to Jagger Richards. They thought about not even putting the song on the album at first. Can't blame them really.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jagger/Richards also forced them to sell the song to Nike for a superbowl commercial. Ashcroft gave away their paltry share of the proceeds to charity.
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
then he banged some groupies and did another line
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
I guess they still got album sale $?
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
the funny thing to me is that the verve song the oldham song sound a lot like each other, and the jagger/richards song and the staple singers song sound a lot like each other, but the oldham song and the jagger/richards song, the two that have the same title and the same writers, hardly sound alike at all. if he had just released it as an andrew loog oldham song with a different title and kept the songwriting to himself, i can't see how mick and keef would even have had a clue that their song was somewhere in there.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah I agree - I sure don't hear it!
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
'jamaca running' beat is a lot looser/clankier than 'dance yrself clean' if you compare them directly. if the pool were going to sue, then it would all have to hang on those two chord stabs and if they're distinctive enough as a composition; sorry, but nobody can say they 'own' two chord stabs.
― scraping Doritos off the wheel (haitch), Friday, 11 February 2011 00:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah no shit
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― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 02:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
It also has a massive Casiotone For The Painfully Alone debt (vox, lyrics, casio solos) which is not as obscure but I feel it much more.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing available
what the fuck is going on
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously. lame.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, there is 0 possible way it could have actually sold out in the approx 5 seconds btwn going live and me clicking "Find tickets"
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#!/lcdsoundsystem/status/36096706370080769
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
glad to know StubHub has like 900 tickets starting at $115 though
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
kermit the frog homage
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
horribly annoying and gutting. of course i feel like a dick because i managed to get one during the presale, but it's in the mezzanine and i want to be on the floor plus my friends can't get tix so i'll be on my own.
― Gukbe, Friday, 11 February 2011 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
this was an even bigger joke than the presale.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
one fucking pissed-off Stevie tbh
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem/status/36102603230294016
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing availablewhat the fuck is going on
lol guys this is honestly some ticketmaster 101 shit, if a show does NOT "sell out" instantly it's a surprise
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
this entire thing is a total joke, of course they're going to reform, but I still wanted tickets. Not sure why they can't have a second (or third) MSG show.
― skip, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok this is happening:Fuck You Scalpers, Terminal 5 Shows Added:http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/647
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
totally superb post from the man.
― jed_, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just finished reading that. James Murphy is awesome. His band is awesome. After these shows, can they please work on Nancy's solo album?
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
great post, james murphy seems like a quality guy
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know. I agree with the sentiment of course, but this "OMG! Scalpers!" stuff just seems weird to me. I can't believe that he's so naive that he wouldn't expect scalpers to be buying tickets. He says in that post that he thought the show might sell out in 10 days. Surely he must have expected scalpers to buy up a generous amount of the tickets if that was the case? Of course it sucks, but I feel like this faux naive we-had-no-idea-this-would-happen-honestly-guys stuff is covering up for a complete shitfest of a presale that should have had more thought put into it.
― Position Position, Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the problem is that nobody BUT scalpers got tickets.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
right -- and i got the impression that there were accusations that ticketmaster was colluding w/ stubhub + other scalpers which wouldn't be remotely surprising tho it does seem illegal
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
last night i went to an nhl game & taylor swift is playing two shows at the arena in a few months, and they had signs at the box office saying that "IF tickets for either show are still available after the 10 AM presale (which was today), we will be selling them on monday" and i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait you went to a panthers game? wow
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
i did!
well, my dad is from buffalo & the sabres are playing also they're like a minor league baseball game w/ promotions so my ticket was free
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's a great writer, not surprising from the guy who wrote "losing my edge" (though possibly surprising from the guy who wrote "pow pow").
― skip, Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect
arena shows have been selling out in less than a day since long before there stubhub, even before there was an internet. hello bruce springsteen. what's different in this case is that it's lcd soundsystem. and that it didn't sell out in a day or an hour; it sold out in less than 60 seconds. and that, lastly and sadly, there is now a stubhub. i'd remove that "sadly" if there was even a slight chance that the big venues and ticket agencies weren't colluding with them.
i thought james murphy's post was great.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
So uh did anyone get tickets for the Terminal 5 shows? The May 20 show seems to be sold out already and I can't find any other dates :(
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Checked out Stubhub just out of curiosity and though they start at $120 each someone's got 50 pit tickets that he's trying to sell at $350,000 each. I don't really understand the business model there.
http://www.stubhub.com/lcd-soundsystem-tickets/lcd-soundsystem-new-york-4-2-2011-1051789/?ticket_id=281524648
― DL, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm not surprised they sold out so fast...there was a show in Chicago that I went to where I had to scalp a ticket, it too sold out in like 10 minutes. I'm just wondering how the hell they became so popular. You don't really hear their music on the radio do you? I mean they've always been kind of "underground" as far as I know. Or is Pitchfork really that influential? Not complaining...its awesome how big they are, but when did this start??
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stating the obvious but I think what we're witnessing is just how corrupt the LiveNation/Ticketmaster system is at the stadium venue scale... a band that has sold an incredibly modest amount of records and had trouble selling out far more cozier venues on more than a few occasions, is now selling at a rate of the most hyped and popular acts in the world. It is fishy.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
where is pearl jam when we need them
― max, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
not on sale yet
the May 20 thing you're seeing is their show at Terminal 5 last May
new dates are march 38-31
not sure if I'm gonna bother trying tbh
― dmr, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
march 38 very rare leap year
Did they announce openers for T5?
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
he ripped the drums from a sorta boring song as part of the intro to his much more inneresting song.
so true, he got a bit from a crap song and made something that works amazingly. to suggest a slightly-interesting drumbeat IS the song is mentalness. same goes for bittersweet symph but to a slightly lesser degree
― NI, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
T5 TIX ON SALE
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Liquid Liquid opening first two showsShit Robot opening 3rd and 4th shows
Are these still on sale? I got tickets for the first night (Monday)
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of Springsteen, Springsteen really revealed the depth of Ticketmaster duplicity when, a few years ago, tickets for his shows started showing up at inflated prices, mere seconds after they went on sale, on secondary websites owned by Ticketmaster.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Saw them last weekend. Great show
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
:D
― jed_, Friday, 4 March 2011 00:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bloody Brighton.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Friday, 4 March 2011 09:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is cute
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Regret never managing to see these guys live.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
so fucking good
really wish i'd seen them on this last tour
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 06:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
The best live band I ever saw, without doubt. Just incredible.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanks all.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Setlist from last night:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-2bd25426.html
Going to see them on Thursday night - have to get the train back to Princeton afterwards, and not sure I can face getting the 1:15am one, so might have to leave after 2 hours. Might be hard to make myself do that given that setlist, though.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
You Can't Hide (Shame On You)
AAARGH FUCK NO WHY CAN'T I BE IN AMERICA
― Neo Tony (sic), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nah, the show got over around 12-12:15. Just go get in line for coat check halfway thru the encore song and you should be fine.
It was totally amazing btw except that Liquid Liquid was surprisingly/disappointingly sloppy for a band whose whole "thing" is super, super tight grooves. But seriously, LCD played for three fucking hours omg
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41?
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Setlist from last night:http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-2bd25426.htmlGoing to see them on Thursday night - have to get the train back to Princeton afterwards, and not sure I can face getting the 1:15am one, so might have to leave after 2 hours. Might be hard to make myself do that given that setlist, though.
Wow this set looks amazing...always wanted to hear the 45:33 stuff live, and "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is such a great tune. I really really hope someone records one of these shows.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41? Yeah, I think you're right - but I think the previous train is 2 hours earlier, which would mean leaving around 11:15.
Amazing looking setlist, anyway.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I really really hope someone records one of these shows.
Pitchfork are streaming live the final show, but not archiving - hopefully someone captures it (if the limiting of cameras to enable more tickets means they're not going for a DVD-worthy version)
― Neo Tony (sic), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Looks like it changed at some point; last train's at 1:22. You'll still be fine leaving at 12/12:30 though
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cool. Would just be nice if there was a train halfway between 11:52 and 1:22 (and if that last one connected through to Princeton and I didn't have to take a cab from Princeton J). n.b. I do not live in Princeton, I'm just here for a couple of weeks, so apologies for clogging up this thread with NJ Transit discussions.
I'm sure that unless the Pitchfork stream craps out, many people will capture it. I'd be surprised if people aren't taping the T5 shows, too.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
penn station is not an awful place to spend the night if you bring a book
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stevie, what time did LCD Soundsystem go on? My friend wants me to get there to line up at 7? :(
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Doors are at 6:30, LL at 8, LCD at 9. Went pretty on-time too
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
yup, and the first train's at what, 5 a.m.? That's a good plan as long as you don't sleep through the PJX stop. Sunrise at Hamilton is no fun...not that I have ever done something like that before...
― skip, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
That was so fucking good. I thought it would have to sag at some point - maybe during 45:33 - but no, they really do have three hours of awesome material. Also sounded so much better than I'd imagined from the couple of bootlegs I'd heard. Amazing.
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 05:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh man I hope to christ there's a really awesome DVD of this being planned out.
― Clay, Friday, 1 April 2011 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
where is Lance Bangs?
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm happy that i got to see them once esp while i was living in missouri of all places but am still bitter that i didn't get to see them on their last tour -- best live band i've ever seen easy
― J0rdan S., Friday, 1 April 2011 05:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
for fucking real
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
titus is the only band that rivals them for holy-fuck-how-can-they-be-this-good-wow-they're-in-their-prime-RIGHT-NOW-and-i'm-seeing-them-play awe
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
On the one hand I'm like so pissed I never got to see then play "Jump Into The Fire" live but otoh I have gotten to see them 3x, once at a sorta-secret show last year at a stupid tiny venue, once with Liquid Liquid, once with Light Asylum, all three times with "Yeah" in the setlist, once w/ "Dance Yrself Clean"; I mean I am p content
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i saw them right as the wave was starting to break for 'sound of silver' where they were playing a small stage at the festival but the crowd way outstripped the sidestage size and i was right in front with my jaw just chillin on my shoes
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's nifty bcz I feel like in 20 years being able to say "I saw LCD Soundsystem live" is gonna be like whoa
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
[doesn't say it]
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
/braggin2031
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
#futurebrags might be a good thread maybe maybe not I dunno
― Clay, Friday, 1 April 2011 06:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Saw the Tuesday show - lots of fun, though after Reggie Watts joined him the "you can't hide - shame on you" part of the running mix, I kept hoping Aziz Ansari would show up to do a Morris Day/Jerome "hold up the mirror and then dance in unison" bit with Murphy during an extended instrumental section. Even if the big fun is planned for MSG, just watching them tear through for 3 hours was awesome enough. 'sucks' (on a very relative scale) that they didn't add the "jump in the fire" cover to the setlist until Wednesday, though.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 10:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah now I'm just really really hoping we get at least a good bootleg of the last show.
I saw them 3 times and I too got that feeling of getting to see a great band in their prime. First time there was a 20-minute "Yeah" that just blew my mind. It was so good that it was like...we drove 3 hours to see them and it was worth it just for that. Second time they segued "Yeah" into "Throw" which I had never heard before. Awesome. Third time there was nothing too crazy but they did play "Dance Yrself Clean" and "Home". It's ridiculous how popular they've gotten. Starting the show with "Dance Yrself Clean" was so great because everyone knew the song, everyone knew it was going to explode at some point (like three minutes in), so there was such an incredible tension in the audience (who had been waiting a while for them to come out anyway).
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 13:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think any moment at any show ever has my heart pounded with so much anticipation as it did during the last "aaaahhh" before the drop in DYC. The song's p dear to me to begin with and live it