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

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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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

& 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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

it's LCD Soundsystem's final gift to a fucked-up world

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they came
back but it was so boring that I didn't notice? I think breaking up the sets like that was NAGL.

i'm kind of amazed someone who imagined 2 half-hour DJ sets in a show that featured no DJ sets would still be offering their opinion on the show's quality.

da croupier, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

like, sorry you didn't enjoy the show you weren't watching!

da croupier, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

not to mention that if you were "plotting your escape" before they played "I Can Change" you were plotting said escape before the third song in the setlist

da croupier, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ah, sorry guys, I really didn't realize that they had come back! No offence. It was really hard to see once I decamped from my original position.

Virginia Plain, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Who was the long haired dude behind the keyboards/playing drums maybe at one point/etc? It doesn't look like Gavin Russom but maybe it is?

ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 4 April 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Gukbe, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

Not Russom - he looks like this now:

http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/index.php?/archive-2011/270211-w-gavin-russom/

toby, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.gavinrussom.com/photos.html
top photo is the new 'white' look for Russom

du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Ha yeah I keep trying to find YouTube clips to show ppl and stuff and I just keep thinking "it wasn't like this at ALL"

ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 4 April 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Can someone please list all the musicians who were playing with LCD on the last show even if they just played on one or two songs?

Thanks in advance.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

- james murphy

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

listening back and the crowd react on the bass drop in 'us v them' is so fuckin rad

Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

crowd reaction during the hits (less so for the B-sides, though people were grooving) was great throughout.

Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

"i was there in jamaica during the great soundclashes--yah mon"

"i'm losing my edge to better looking people with better ideas, and more time, like, seriously, i mean they have a really good web plan, and some SCHA"

^^^ lolz

Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

some what?

ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

its a pretty untranslatable 'ok drop in now, guys' yelp

Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

the quality of this recording is pretty incredible

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone

despite not doin a tweet for five weeks (sic), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

works a bit better live but is still boring in live recordings

HG! remix is p dope tbh

despite not doin a tweet for five weeks (sic), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 05:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/54979628523208704

markers, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 07:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

...is that aziz?

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah it is

Clay, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

alright i was hoping i wasn't on some shit

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

he apparently fucked his ankles up and got in trouble with security and shit!

Clay, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wait... Nancy's last name is pronounced "Wong", not "Wang"? This really shakes up everything I knew about the universe.

banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

I know. That sort of blew my mind too. Maybe that's what the 'h' does. Thanks for the full list of musicians xxxxpost.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

you're all wong

Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone

- edwin butler
- william butler
- régine chassagne

despite not doin a tweet for five weeks (sic), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Can
I
get
some
time
alone...

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

that was the twin peaks theme before new york i love you, right?

caek, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yes.

ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Any word/news on the DVD of the final show? I want to re-experience the "Dance Yrself Clean" drop over and over again

Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 August 2011 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

All the youtube footage I've gone through doesn't quite live up to my memory of that drop.

Gukbe, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

in the meantime, there's always this.

Gukbe, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I spent some time with this album today and it hit me pretty hard. Even the stuff I'd been keen to skip ("Drunk Girls", "Somebody's Calling Me") resonated especially deep after giving this album some distance. Definitely my favorite of the three.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 2 October 2011 05:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'll credit the band for recognizing that altering (or in this case, halting) its momentum allows you to take a break and appreciate its albums all over again, minus the distractions of tours, news, interviews, hype, upcoming releases, etc.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 October 2011 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

hell fire!

piscesx, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

LIKE

jed_, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

looking good

piscesx, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

You know, for a dude who ostensibly broke up the band to lower his visibility and take some time off, James Murphy has been surprisingly busy and visible. Movies, making movies, still doin' interviews ...

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

iirc the whole point of him "breaking up" the band was so that he'd have time to work on all the other stuff he wanted to work on

the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

He broke up LCD so that he'd have time to reform them and break them up again.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

tbh I am kind of cross w/ Tyler Pope for not reforming Out Hud since I mean he's prob got a lot more free time than Jams

the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

I really wish the DFA DJ Rotary Mixer was actually happening. No news for a year seems to indicate it's never happening

du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

Wait... Nancy's last name is pronounced "Wong", not "Wang"? This really shakes up everything I knew about the universe.

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:23 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

reductio ad burzum (flopson), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:16 (9 months ago) Permalink

oh HELLO

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/lcdsoundsystem

From October the 8th you can own the documentary and the entire 4 hour concert film (sound mixed by James Murphy) on DVD and Blu-ray. The concert film is exclusive to the DVD and Blu-ray release – you cannot buy it separately. As well as the documentary and full concert the DVD and Blu-ray also comes filled with extras.

piscesx, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

Loved listening to the boot of the show, but for the life of me can't imagine who would sit down and watch the four hour concert at home.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

i did just that already once! looking forward to doing it again.

piscesx, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:27 (8 months ago) Permalink


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