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

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it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

I was kind of horrified at the start but it won me over.

^^^

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

can you post mediafire links here

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

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 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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

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


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