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

single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTTErVkqq0&feature=player_embedded

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!

yeah, a mod can just change the title when they announce the name

god this album sucked

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?

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

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.

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

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)

Dear God this is awful. Sounds like fucking Weezer or some shit. Worst LCD single BY FAR.

Okay this has actually grown on me after a few more listens, talk about jumping the gun. It's nifty.

The track-by-track article is encouraging. Doran on another thread also repped the first track in particular.

james murphy, eat your heart and also elton motello out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI

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."

that was the best line

xpost don't really see the resemblance actually. The Plastic Bertrand version is better anyhow.

i just realized that this album & the new dream album are being released on the same day

http://i44.tinypic.com/2zeh6w2.jpg

song sounds like Brian Eno's True Wheel meets Magazine or something

this isn't very good

it's almost like he made like an indie rock record or something amirite

dave, they're very similar imo - JBJG sprang into my head pretty much instantly

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.

Eno meets The Jam..

this is OK and expect it to grow on me over time.

this sounds rather closer to the strokes +- blur than stereolab or eno or anything dignified like that which in some aspect it may resemble

pretty psyched for this

'we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.'

die antwoord need to fucking answer that back tbh

I don't think that line was directed at africa

oh ok it was directed at france then

a country that has a president

'we have herman van rompuy'

bad song

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

critical consensus will have this album of the year dude

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!

ks you'll have to forgive him he's british

All that's missing from Murphy's critbound project is a Daryl Hall cameo.

hahahaha LJ

this is a v fun song and u mad

u being anyone who thinks this is wack

good song

that single is so so bad :o

i dont understand why its earning so much dislike

cuz it sounds like lumpen britpop with beered-up football chanting? completely completely sucks, even the so-called groove is tedious

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.

this is kinda obnoxious

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

Well, I don't actually *like* LCD Soundsystem to start with so it's no surprise I don't like it, Max!

it sounds pretty far removed from the lcd songs i've loved - "yeah", "losing my edge", "tribulations", "beat connection", "get innocuous", 45:33...

mm ok that makes more sense i guess

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.

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgYMuAzESA

we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.

Is this a lyric or an ILE post?

It's the ILE board description now, anyway.

And what's Murphy doing glomming onto Fela into 2010? He should be all about Mulatu Astatke by now.

Nas: Hipper Than LCD Soundsystem

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

Yeah this song is horrible. A 40 something old man singing about drunk girls, give me a break. Terrible song.

the "girls" are all the guys in the band living in the house in LA according to pitchfork

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

ok

i like this song.

p.s. stoked for lj's insight once the album comes out.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/8c1a7e53.jpg

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!

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

the basslines, man! also the lyrical content and the vibe. add a load of bright n bouncy synths to the motello and bam

i am sure your opinion of this album will be very interesting, whether positive or negative.

LCD Zingsystem

I like this song.

this song is gone ;_;

can you post mediafire links here

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.

can you post mediafire links here

No.

Its here though: http://www.nme.com/news/lcd-soundsystem/50393

This song is great, you are all mad.

This is clearly the joke track that appears 2/3rds of the way through the album though.

this is the lead single though unfortunately

which means 0 in 2010

could mean that there is more of this stuff

studio clips may or may not reveal what the rest of the record sounds like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpqdxqoe2F4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UrWdIQXvI

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

via their youtube channel

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

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.

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.

"Drunk Girls" sounds tossed-off, formulaic LCD by numbers...He's done this style before as others have pointed out

cue nme 'rock is back' lcd cover story. music is bullshit

jams murphy is in the gutter

i remember it were all beats around here

Anyone would think they'd turned into Cold Chisel or Rose Tattoo.

i thought about "it were all the field around here" but eh

It were all Fields of the Nephelim round here...

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

is this gonna leak before he comes up with a name? considering how many people seem to have heard it...

This is Happening.

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?

haha what a terrible corporate buzztitle and lame franz-ferdinand-inspired cover art

what a disaster for lcd

could they be any more corporate

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

corporate buzztitle

oh good, there's enough zinging going on here to cover me too

good looking out, guys! ^_^

looks like "this" isnt happening at all, unless "this" is "a corporate buzztitle"

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!

I like the cover

i would love it, if it werent inspired by franz ferdinand

^^^remembers when indie wasn't dead

reminds me a lot of lodger : david bowie.

i believe that was inspired by franz ferdinand as well

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?

hahaha at Bowie travelling forward in time and being inspired by Franz.

franz ferdinand was born way the fuck before bowie

Also was about to say it reminded me of Low onwards Bowie, later period Roxy Music and suited-and-booted New Pop.

and his death inspired bowie's nazi period

can't believe LCD is inspired by Beck

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/juliamaynard/2005/03/12/onefootinthegrave.jpg

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

the thing is, a certain proportion of girls at any given time are in fact drunk, so ... it's not offensive

how many photos will be subjected to tilted chiaroscuro shops with 'corporate buzztitle' annotations in the coming months

zero

damn

no ILM meme potential sorry

TVOTR release new album 'Everyone Together' ft. b/w Tunde reclining on bed of blank CDs

no ILM meme potential sorry

― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:22 PM

which buzztitle is the most corporate:

• this is happening, by lcd soundsystem
• is this it, by the strokes
• franz ferdinand, by the franz ferdinand
• smells like teen spirit, by nirvana
• meet the beatles, by the beatles
• the fifth symphony, by beethoven

also pretty sure Tunde is just b

smells like teen spirit, by Beethoven

smells like a corporate buzztitle

also pretty sure Tunde is just b

I was thinking of making this joke, but then I didn't

dude missed out on the prized l0u1s jagg3r demographic by not calling his album "ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"

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.

"ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"

holy fucking lol

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

LOLias of Sunhillow

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

ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah?

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

there's surely something offensively platitudinous about 'This Is Happening', isn't there?

no not really

guys I'm not sure but I think there might be a song called "yeah"

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.

the title is fairly crap but i don't think it's worth getting offended over

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/975/35005094.JPG

this is hoppening

lol

jam smurphy

I can't wait until this album leaks. This thread will be bananas.

im boycotting the album on the grounds of it being too corporate

Mashed Bananas and Jams

Just remembered that the words 'this is happening' form part of the title of my favourite self-penned poem - I retreat in shame anew

That frog is swollen with immanence

good title yeah xp

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???

fwiw nakh I got the 'DIOYY?' reference

dfa site has gone down due to the shitness of the title

corporate buzzsite dfa taken down by incensed franz ferdinand fans

Okay Lady Gaga is a difficult example...Jay-Z better?

Also look at this:
http://www.robertlongo.com/work/gallery/1118

can a mode change the title to "the still untitled third album "this is happening: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah" by lcd soundsystem"

by lcd soundsystem feat. louis lord jagger

Please do.

is this happening?

Joanna Newsom should call her next album "This is Harpening."

n/a on fire today

too right

him and his corporate buzzdisplayname

I retreat in shame anew

Nononononononononono. Post the fucking poem.

DO NOT POST THE FUCKING POEM (in this thread, start a new one)

it's fucking 16 sides of A4 long and there are bits where it's oddly formatted

please post

GIS for A4 long turns this up:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/MrClivver/vinyl%20pics/SH105861m.jpg

That looks like more than a 4 to me.

is this happening?

― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:40 AM Bookmark

does oxymandias have labia?

Merriam-Webster says:

Main Entry: happening
Function: noun
Date: 1551

1 : something that happens : occurrence
2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli
3 : 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'm pretty sure it's also going to be something that happens though.

an "occurrence" if you will

kinda wish he'd titled it This is Sparta

fails the 'yeah' test

This is Sparta, Yeah?

the last words of a lost athenian warrior

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/oasis---be-here-now.jpg

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OU4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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, 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.

it reminds you of franz ferdinand, and corporations

No! I don't even understand that! Isn't Franz Ferdinand's aesthetic like Eastern Bloc propaganda or something?

Man, Franz Ferdinand. Missing 2004 right now.

http://andrikyrychok.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/20060819-pioneer.jpg
Take...Me Out!

Goddamnit Franz were such poseurs

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/franz.jpg

Riiiiiicola!

any album-title you could conscionably add 'yeah' on the end of in regular speech isn't worth adopting imo

Does it offend you?

looool

considering recording music as Does It Offend You, LOL

Cover reminds me of:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/909-the-ascension.jpg

we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.

embarrassing.

Cover reminds me of:

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

we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.

embarrassing.

I know, right? when are you guys gonna get on that

'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...

http://991.com/newgallery/The-Smiths-The-Queen-Is-Dead-254445.jpg

"we have a female prime minister -- so shut up"

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.

love how that line is already bothering british people

it's a gd embarrassing line!

it's the irish who're really feelin' it imo

I want to say something on Rykodisc.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JS4B0H35L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

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?

this album killed music

At least we still have blogs.

Yeah but Joanne Newstrom killed those.

"i heard you sold all your baggy pants and tshirts and are wearing suits now"

http://i46.tinypic.com/2dwiadc.jpg

Cover reminds me of:

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 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:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lcdrunkgirls-200.jpghttp://recensioni.altervista.org/lesson1.jpg

Would have been a much better cover with a cartoon James Murphy than a photograph tho.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lcdthis452.jpghttp://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/909-the-ascension.jpg

Ah perfect! Good spot.

the distention

haaaaaaaaaaa

i mean sorry that's bigoted but fuck it haaaaaaaaaaaa

I know, right? when are you guys gonna get on that

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.

^^^this, even if Jams is being ' 'ironic' '

We have a black president. We don't need irony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sABRosdNg

BITCHES! BRITS!

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

my prime minister is brown
my pack of cheese & onion is blue
and i be goddamned if the salt & vinegar aint too

this is beat happening

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.

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

don't you think jams already has a few anthrax albums?

all he has is a franz ferdinand mp3

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.

it's not a joke, it's an attempt to troll british people like you

and it seems to be working pretty well, considering that the album hasn't even come out yet

i thought lcd was british?

Naw, but they're from the east coast, which is close enuff

^^ have you guys ever heard of a song which is titled "north american scum" u might find it quite illuminating xxp

man what happened itt

britishes happened to it, by the looks

wonder what britain said to jams murphy to make him lash out like that

i hate how all the action on ilm threads for big new releases happens well before the actual release

Oh the lolz...if jams wants to be hipster fred durst then great for him

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"

will never understand salt & vinegar being in a blue packet.

what, salt & vinegar in a blue packet is the one that makes sense - why would you put cheese & onion in a blue packet

^^ ▀█▀ █▬█ █ ▄█▀

Salt & Vinegar is purple here. Cheese and onion is a mustardy colour. Chicken is green. Original is blue.

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?

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.

say what you like about the british isles, but we sure are easy to troll.

what are original crisps?

the blue ones afaik

potatos

http://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gifhttp://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gifhttp://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gif

Salt & vinegar = blue
Cheese & onion = green

Walkers are disgusting savages.

http://www.emeraldisleproduce.com/logon/uploads/TaytoSVcopy.jpg

http://www.ricecollegewestport.ie/business/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/taytoorgcopy_1.jpg

Good in Ireland but nearly always stale when they get to the UK.

Best used to be Quentin's Crisps.

do you think we can get a workable standard for chip packets drafted by the time this album leaks or what

Rule 1 - don't call them chips.

we call them crisps, and you do not - so shut up about chips

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.

hey guys you spelled potato wrong - it's not 'tayto'

po' dyao

don't be so po-faced

denial is a river in italy

corporate buzzchips

think you mean 'buzzcrisps' there

crispy buzzfishnchips

corporate buzzblackpresident

whoever our new prime minister is, i hope s/he has a bloggable skin colour

lolol

i saw a black crisp packet recently

SO THERE

I didn't see a black crisp packet

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

i hate how all the action on ilm threads for big new releases happens well before the actual release

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:20 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

so true

or even the leak in this case

walkers black packet = lol tribute to american democracy BBQ RIB flavour fyi

chicken is really the problem one i feel, especially if you factor lime & cracked pepper in there

fall back jonathan crisp, no one is factoring in poncey flavour variations here

jonathan crisp talk belongs on the spoon thread

we have bbq potato chips and you do not - so shut up

My mistake earlier. He turns forty this year.

30th birthday = 30 lines of coke off a Roxy Music record.

40th birthday = ???

40 franz ferdinand songs in a row

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.

How To Lose A Guy Become A Respected Music Journalist In 10 Days

Hi, Jams? Ur, I mean, James? Well-regarded ILXOR Stevie D here...

"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:
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.

I like it. Dance Yourself Clean is out there now as well.

Where where where???

not liking the shape of this new record

Circular?

Spherical? Babylon Zoo style?

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/cestlenoir/playlists.php

dance yourself clean

pretty great

starts at about 33:10

Way worse than Drunk Girls IMO...

pretty much love this song. bet it'll kill live...wonder why he didn't play it at that last show.

both new songs are totally amazing

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.

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.

One of those sounds like "Love is a Stranger" by Eurythmics.

LCD Soundysystem (Feat. Bono) - "I Can Change"

anyone know the track used on clip 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-PDzTDhsI
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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

clip 5 even

xpost to Kitchen Person :)

Check out Family Fodder too

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.

prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode.

one of these is arguably his best dancefloor-banger to date!

Hmm, I get that people are loving that one in particular but it seems more head-nod to me than anything.

http://www.weallwantsomeone.org/2010/04/11/hear-2-new-lcd-soundsystem-songs/

first song is a rip of the Pool's "Jamaica Running"

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

This thing leaking or what?

Looks like it must have just, actually...

Yep it's on what, although my ratio watch runs out in three hours. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!

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.

I was out of the country with my computer turned off for the freeleech :(

This thread is going to get good..

what's the size of the file on what

161.65 MB for 2556 VBR AAC. Seems about right...

..er, 256 VBR.

"Hear 2 New LCD Soundsystem Songs: Dance Yrself Clean & I Can Change"

http://www.weallwantsomeone.org/2010/04/11/hear-2-new-lcd-soundsystem-songs/

word, alright

zeno, you should try reading the thread or something

Where abouts has this leaked? I'm not seeing it in all the usual places?

it's for those who don't use torrents

still not via slsk

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.

ah, good ol "ETA ∞"

Well, maybe home IS what you need...

I found an apparent file hosting site link for a similar size, but I can't post that here right?

no

No but you can AIM me, cough cough. IGNafterburn.

i found one on google blog search that's 148 mb

does not knowing how to steal music anymore mean i'm old now?

yep

This is a nice surprise, though, after I just attended the last class of my undergraduate degree!

I'll listen to this before I go grab a few pints with friends. Good fucking afternoon.

:/

Good fucking afternoon to you to sir.

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!

Someone has put up a link to the album on LCD's last fm page, it works!

you mean: this is happening?

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.

you mean: this is happening?

― Zeno, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

How has it taken this long for someone to say that?

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

xp check the last.fm page, it hasn't

James Murphy is crying on his dirty white jeans right now and most likely eating ice cream directly from the container.

Poor Jams. If the music thing didn't work out, he'd definitely be an ILXOR.

"All I want" is incredible.

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.

Downloaded it now...can;t wait to be slightly underwhelmed.

neither can we

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

Downloaded it now...can;t wait to be slightly underwhelmed.

― 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?

Wow, wow, wow so pumped for this, thanks ILM for pointing me in the right direction.

In the meantime, I'm listening to this new Herbert. Pretty chill.

i was on ilm when the third lcd soundsystem album leaked. i was there.

God my predictions/analysis up thread are going to look so stupid :(

I've heard 4 songs and they all suck. Hope one or two of the remaining 5 are decent.

^^^^^^^

James has already turned 40.

ilm i love u

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.

he's prolly not the 'real genius' but it seems like JM needed him

ilm i love u

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver,

but you're bringing me down

Is is just me or are all the vocals pretty low in the mix?

they are
this seems actually rly rly nice

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.

did tim goldsworthy have anything to do with 45:33?

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)

last 4 songs are bangers

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

EMI is pulling these videos down real quick.

45:33 production credits to The DFA = Tim and James.

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.

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....

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:

http://www.musicomh.com/music/videos/does-it-offend-you-yeah.jpg

Yeah, I know its him, it just sounds so different in that stream.

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.

After first listen... not too bad at all!

Somebody's Calling - WTF is this song?

cant believe you guys are downloading this corporate buzzleak

this is so great

If someone could PM me a link I would be very grateful.

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?

welcome to ilx!

x-post otm

People are listening to the album right now.

"this is happening" without your permission!!!!1

lol jabba hands weren't you the one loling @ the idea of someone squatting on whiney's website?

and people who download leaks buy more albums than your average anyway, so chill

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

― jabba hands
Sensing 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.

this is crappening

http://imgur.com/rQQ6I.gif

Emperor's Son....ysi?

Welcome The Emperor's Son, this place can be a lot of fun if you hang around...

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

yeah, not arsed about people who've heard it talking about it rly, but fuck off the pleading threadclutter. andrew nf rip(addington)

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?

what's wrong with the potato chip posts?

lol

xpost

i liked about half the album on first listen. too many songs sound like something they have done in the past though.

this is so great

― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

str8 up stunning album imo

better than sound of silver

yes

"pow pow" is fucking hilarious btw

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

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

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

― 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

I feel like 'home' is the 'all my friends'

also surprised no review has yet mentioned how penguin cafe orchestra-y it is

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

damn i guess i gotta download thsi

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

― 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, 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.

Really enjoying Dance Yrself Clean on first exposure.

Drunk Girls is a Blur homage?!

Drunk girls who like drunk boys who like drunk boys who like drunk girls

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.

Who gives a fuck what he's singing about. Bar maybe 3 & 1/2 tunes I do not come to LCD Soundsystem for words.

pretty sure in the past he's said he just sort of comes up w/ shit on the spot iirc

y/n?

nick otm

would listen to Stars Of The Lid much more if their lyrics weren't total freshman poetry seminar bullshit

But His lyrics have always been upfront, I mean structurally these are pop songs.

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.

Also dude don't capitalise the h in his like Murphy's God, even by accident!

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 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.

i think murphy is a pretty terrific lyricist for what its worth

havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwriter he writes v well

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

yeah i mean hes no franz ferdinand

actually the lyrics are meaningless, haven't you read Barthes? god.

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.

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

^^is russom in the band? or am i misunderstanding? he's definitely channeling eno yes, but he's not feminine enough i think :)

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.

yeah he's in the band

1st track is cringe-inducing imho. considering the next song is "drunk girls," i just turned it off.

if anyone could assist me in hearing this, i wouldn't hate it. i'm gonna buy it when it comes out anyway.

whoever upthread said there was an "All My Friends" on this record: i hope you're right

if there is - i didnt find it.(yet?)

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)

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)

\(O_o)/

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"

HAH! How was last nights show?? I wonder how it stacked up to the Brooklyn gig?

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.

life is short: go

i actually think that iatee is right re: "home" btw

Yeah, Home is similar in vibe to All My Friends, but miles away in quality.

"Home" doesn't have the ridiculously sappy sentimentalism of "All My Friends" either. Best track on the album by far.

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

GOOD ONE

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.

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/

http://www.biznotic.com/images/thishappened.jpg

very good

'i can change' has a 'all my friends' vibe

I keep hearing "All I Want" as the "All My Friends" track here--same melancholy, same sort of simple, propulsive structure.

you guys are doing a very good job of making me think this album is not for me

what songs do you like the most on the last album

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.

what songs do you like the most on the last album

"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.

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, April 13, 2010 10:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I emailed you broheems

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"

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

love love love 'all my friends'

psssst n/a help a brother out

;)

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

I think this is fucking awesome.

thx n/a!

yeah i like this so far

none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are

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.

oh i guess hit is slightly longer. but still.

none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are