― Joe aka PappaWheelie, Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
― ron (ron), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:44 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Joe aka PappaWheelie (Joe aka PappaWheelie), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:47 (10 years ago) Permalink
― ron (ron), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
a classic rock band
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146644-lcd-soundsystem-folks-help-form-classic-rock-band
Ok then
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
LCD Springfield
LC/DC(well, not quite, but couldn't resist)
― willem, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
Does this mean we'll be hearing James Murphy aping Stephen Stills getting "sexy" on "Bluebird" type tracks?
oh. oh. oh. oh.
oh.
I'm a big LCD Soundsystem fan, but man this sounds like a bad idea even to annouce. Didn't LCD prove they could be a kick ass classic rock band with their "Jump Into The Fire" cover? Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?
/waaay bummed bro
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?"
i think this would've been more on point
― oscar, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
Artists whose first album was pretty good, but then the second one was awesome, and then the third was just OK but really more of the same, and by the fourth one you weren't even paying attention
the end begins!
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I agree with Mackro, this is quite puzzling. I felt LCD Soundsystem were offering something rather unique, whereas...how much more "classic rock" do we need in the world?
― Bimble, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
woah that's what sprangers and wells are doing...crazy. have been wondering what they were gonna do after HN broke up.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
the hockey night breakup was some real fucking bullshit, like old school 60s rock n' roll type shit.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
How much more "classic rock" do we need in the world?
Do you really think this is going to sound like every other wanna be classic rock band?
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah I wasn't clear in my original post, but it's not the classic rock thing itself that bothers me about the article, nor do I think this album will be bad, but that James and Pat felt they had to make a special statement about it.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
hockey night basically was pavement with allman bros. guitar jams, i bet it sounds like hockey night
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, October 20, 2008 9:47 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you're mad that a musican/label owner announced a new project in an interview?
― s1ocki, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
ah jeez that charlatan is broadening his taint
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
fortunately if he's doing something pointlessly and self-statedly reactionary as "classic rock" i can probably avoid
aint nothin pointless about mansun
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 22:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha you just shifted the focus expertly
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
kegel abuse
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki, Monday, October 20, 2008 2:56 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
MAAAAAAAAD
lol, no it's just silly that of all people, james murphy had to announce a "classic rock" album. Just DO IT, dude.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
LESS TALK MORE ROCK
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 22:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
classic rock: eno, bowie, talking heads
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
john cale
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
OH SHIT
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
You wouldn't be caught off guard by the new LCD album sounding like The Band?
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
LAST WALTZUH
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
they'll need a better rhythm section before they can sound like the band. and better guitar players. and better songs. and better singers. but other than that i wouldn't be too surprised.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
Map of Africa did it, why can't they?
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah i wouldn't be suprised if james murphy decided to go the band/fleetwood mac route. that's why i think it's dumb they even have to "announce" it. i mean look at the new hippy balearic thread, jaxon's west coast thread, etc, this stuff has been on people's radar now for a while now, it's not surprising james would grab the ball and decide to run with it.
― oscar, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
surprised it hasn't happened more
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
yup
― oscar, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
warning unwarranted and perhaps meaninglessly broad generalization ahead:
cali beach hippie balearic as the carefree flipside of disco?
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?
Murphy, who will both produce and play bass on the disc...
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
...which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
"..which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything."
Don't think so.
Tracklisting:Get Innocuous! (7:11)Drums, Vocals, Programmed By, Piano, Synthesizer - James MurphyGuitar - Tyler PopeVocals - Nancy Whang Time To Get Away (4:11)Drums - Patrick MahoneyVocals, Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy North American Scum (5:25)Bass - Tyler PopeDrums, Vocals, Organ, Programmed By, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps], Guitar, Bass James MurphyHandclaps [Claps] - Eric Broucek , Marcus Lambkin Someone Great (6:25)Synthesizer, Programmed By, Vocals, Glockenspiel - James Murphy All My Friends (7:37)Drums, Vocals, Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Electronic] - James Murphy
Us V Them (8:29)Bass, Guitar, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - Tyler PopeDrums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Patrick MahoneyVocals - Eric Broucek , Nancy WhangVocals, Percussion, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - James Murphy Watch The Tapes (3:55)Drums, Bass, Guitar, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer [Casio] - James MurphyVocals - Patrick Mahoney Sound Of Silver (7:07)Drums, Vocals, Bass, Kalimba, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Synthesizer, Programmed By, Piano - James Murphy New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (5:35)Bass, Guitar - Tyler PopeCello - Jane ScarpantoniDrums, Percussion - Patrick MahoneyGuitar - Justin Chearno*Piano - Morgan WileyViola - David Gold (2)Violin - Amy Kimball , Lorenza PonceVocals, Guitar, Synthesizer - James Murphy
― oscar, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
not much of a refutation
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
in looking at his first album artist credits, looks like he had a wide array of players on there as well but with SOS he definitely moved more in the direction of a proper "band".
― oscar, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
just saying he is not the lone wolf in a studio with no help that that post made it out to be
Performer [Fun Machine]
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
thing with knobs
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
what on earth is a 'fun machine'
What isn't it? It is GLORIOUS. You will bow down before Fun Machine.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Bimble, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
anyway i'd say one song out of that lot is anything approaching a 'proper band', but whatever.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
To whatever degree Murphy works in the studio, it's safer to say LCD Soundsystem are a band than a solo project. They are definitely James Murphy's band, but a band they are.
We could get into the "what exactly IS a band" argument if you want!
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh we really don't! seriously, this sounds like "LCD soundsystem frontman and drummer act as rhythm section for some other dudes"; it's a bit of a leap to "why didn't LCD just go classic rock already??" when he appears to be just, you know, playing bass rather than writing the songs and playing the majority of the music.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
yep
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
though fwiw murphy doing americana would be unbelievable
LCoffeeD Brewsystem
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone seen "shut up and play the hits"?
― caek, Monday, 2 July 2012 09:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
it had one screening here, in a raked opera theatre, for sthng like $50 a ticket
so no
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 2 July 2012 12:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think it gets a one-night-only us release this month. if anyone is in munich it is screening here tonight
― caek, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
for sthng like $50 a ticket
btw I guess this was not appealing enough to move many, by the week of they were adding a Q&A with Pat afterwards, and then getting to go to a party he would be at
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 2 July 2012 13:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
whoa
― caek, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
it works as a standalone film even for non-fans, but the main thing is he picked good songs, it looks good and it sounds amazing (except maybe all my friends). audio mix had so much stuff in it you can't hear on the bootleg. definitely see it in a cinema with if you get the chance (americans: http://oscilloscope.net/lcdtheaters/)
― caek, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge".― Joe aka PappaWheelie, Saturday, September 14, 2002 2:31 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 2 July 2012 20:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah, some real 'remember when' there. supertempted to see the movie, scared by the klosterman - how heavy a presence?
― balls, Monday, 2 July 2012 23:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
an interview with him and murphy is used as a framing device, so he shows up with a question between about 2/3 of the songs. some of the questions are quite long.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 08:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Some might even try to draw a parallel between "Losing My Edge" and Van Halen's single, "Running With the Devil". I remember being 18, sitting on the couch while the familiar chords blared, wondering if something like "Losing My Edge" would, in fact, ever, come along. We threw cheap beer cans on the floor and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes. Some might draw a parallel there, but I wouldn't. I've really never thought about it, and I don't have an opinion on it."
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
klosterman says something like "i don't know if you'll take this as an insult, but i think losing my edge is your best song"
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
and then "well, I guess I don't really know what your best song is. but maybe, I can see how people would argue that it's Losing My Edge"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
all of the possible interviewers and they got Klosterman ? :(
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
just watched the trailer, all the smiley crowd shots made it look like a car/beer ad. maybe when lcd do their 'big festival reunion to play that one classic album all the way through' in a few years they can document that fascinating story as well.
― am0n, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol
― some dude, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
I hope to read your commentary on not seeing that movie as well. ;)
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
assuming murphy's imminent heart attack hasn't hit by then ; D
― am0n, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 11:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
qft
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
i guess there is an unavoidable slightly self-congratulatory thing, but the crowd shots are actually great. none of that glastonbury picking out the assholes with the wales/cornwall flag bullshit. some of the crowd stuff is looking toward the stage from floor level, which is, uh, immersive. there are also some quite bored looking guys in the crowd too which is honest i suppose. it is a pretty film.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
is Aziz crowdsurfing in the movie?
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
bought tix to this. LCD was the best new live band I saw in the last 10 years. Wondering where this will rank on a scale of 101 - Rattle and Hum.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
xp yes
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 07:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
:D
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 07:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
The songs in this movie are beautiful and enthralling, but the Klosterman parts are embarrassing. I think there's probably more footage of his grandstanding and repetition of his his 'theories' than there is of Murphy's answers. Similarly, the concert looked excellent, whereas the morning after footage was about 70% watching camera operators struggle to find focus.
I'm hoping when the DVD/Bluray comes out it'll have a music-only edit, because that'll be one of the finer concert films I can imagine.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 19 July 2012 06:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
i just hope they captured the glow sticks flying when the beat drops in "Dance Yrself Clean"
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 July 2012 06:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
the original live stream was easily the best live 'event' ive ever experienced on the net so yeah a polished version of the whole show would be flat out sensational i think.
who's Klosterman btw or do i.. not want to know?
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 July 2012 07:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
iirc the whole final show will be on a second disc
― shmamille shmaglia (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
think there's probably more footage of his grandstanding and repetition of his his 'theories' than there is of Murphy's answers
this is exactly what I was afraid of; Klostermann is okay in small doses but I can totally see how he could basically ruin a movie like this
I'm sure someone else could describe him better than me but he's basically a long-time stoner journalist who writes half-baked theories at length before ultimately concluding that he thinks they're worthless or that he really doesn't have an opinion, priding himself on how underdeveloped his own thoughts are. Y'know, the guy who writes a five-page essay on a band he's never heard that ultimately turns into stories about listening to Van Halen records while hung over 25 years ago. He does occassionally write some brilliant stuff, but you really have to dig for it.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
while...hung?
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'd never heard of him going in. he seemed kind of an idiot, but he's not in it enough for me to have formed a proper opinion. i guess this means he's not in it enough for it to be a serious problem, unless you go in knowing his thing and ready to bristle every time he comes on screen.
― caek, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
i actually didn't mind klosterman as much as I usually do. his theorizing fits lcd/murphy better then most his interviews imo.
but yeah, basically the movie comes down if you want to see concert footage of lcd and are a fan, see it. not much doing otherwise.
― bnw, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
(see when it comes out on dvd, to be sold during the reunion tour, obv)
― bnw, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is the last thing I expected to write: I got weary of the music fast while wanted more of Klosterman's interview. He started gaseous but in the last bits he asked a couple of sharp questions which Murphy couldn't wriggle out of. As for the music, it reminded me of my mixed reaction to an otherwise spectacular show I saw in fall '10: Murphy has no business singing live.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
also: dog shots? really??
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
does he take him to task for making a big deal out of "splitting up" what is really a one-man band?
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah i think that's fair alfred. the questions he asks are themselves good. he clearly has his own answer in mind when he's asking them, which is not so good/interesting, but it is a good interview to watch i think.
― caek, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
klosterman is the man who taught his asshole to talk, iirc
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
FUCK, I thought the "worldwide release" would include more US shows and I am realizing just now that I will never see this in a theater and it makes me super sad
― shmamille shmaglia (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 July 2012 16:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
time to get away
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
― frogbs, Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:08 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha if an ilx music journo ever interviews murphy please please ask this question
― iatee, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
the live band was about nine people plus crew on the last tour, and he said he was "splitting up" the band inasmuch as they were going to stop making albums and touring, but would probably still record a bit and maybe play shows in NYC. hardly a disconnect.
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Friday, 20 July 2012 02:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
ya but the 'splitting up' narrative requires multiple people who you care about and want to see together
― iatee, Friday, 20 July 2012 02:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
I demand you acknowledge the importance of Nancy Whang.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 20 July 2012 02:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh yeah, I mean the live band is great, but it's not as though say Murphy plus the entirety of Hot Chip and other random labelmates wouldn't be basically as good. Still, Murphy is one of the most self-aware musicians we've ever had and kind of an idealist to boot so I can see how this is really a big deal for him, "it has to end this way, otherwise LCD's legacy isn't going to be what I want it to be"
― frogbs, Friday, 20 July 2012 17:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
did he say 'splitting up' or 'retiring'?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 20 July 2012 17:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
Oh man I just saw SUAPTH and it was really tender and awesome
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 9 September 2012 06:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
Is the Blu-Ray for SUAPTH already OOP? I haven't had any luck finding it in stores and it's only coming up on Amazon through secondary sellers. Weird.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://store.dfarecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/suapth
― jed_, Thursday, 6 December 2012 11:46 (5 months ago) Permalink