"This Is Happening": the third album by LCD Soundsystem

40 beach chairs

40 packets of patriotic BBQ crisps

40 acres of land... ah fuck it

this is the year he buys a red miata convertable

Glad a crisp discussion has emerged...

no need to get chippy

http://theskinnyplate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/popchips.jpg

Calling chips "crisps" is the first step toward socialism.

fucking leak already

take that filth to ILTMI, buddy

or even the leak in this case

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.

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

if you strike me down, this thread will become more unspeakably grotesque than you could possibly imagine

lol its funny because the fat man from the dfa likes chips because he is fat

LJ you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you?

LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns. All I can think of is Disco Infiltrator and Wotsits The Tapes.

Which are both shit.

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.

All My Frazzles

All My French Fries?

LJ you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you?

nope - lemme guess it'd redefine my perception of jams

LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns.

heyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Lays-ing My Wedge

Disco Infiltayto

a-

This (band) Is Happening to play at Music Hall of Wburg tonight. Does anyone have a ticket I can buy? Please?

Anyone see the show? Hear the new songs?

apparently the only new songs were 'drunk girls' and 'I can change'

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/09/lcd-soundsystem-rock-the-drunk-girls-at-surprise-brooklyn-gig/

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.

great stuff stevie!

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.

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.

But see, "North American Scum" was the *best* thing on the last one...

ugh son

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4506624028_48e8b873c7_o.jpg

Just beautiful.

I'm losing my mind.

Everyone keeps on talking about it/
But nobody's nailgunning tramps.

haha!

heh.

so who's *heard* the album? i scrolled down through this thread and sudenly everyone's banging on about crisp packets!

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3a3Rc-0i2Q

the major homage/rip other than the White Light and Heroes Fripp guitar ones is the track near the end that is basically Nightclubbing

amazed by how much that telex song sounds like lcd

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.

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Cannot stop listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc39KhINboI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXUup1bHRI

clip from the actual version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wBLnA4Gg4

entirety of the actual version.