single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTTErVkqq0&feature=player_embedded
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, a mod can just change the title when they announce the name
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
god this album sucked
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
james murphy, eat your heart and also elton motello out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
that was the best line
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost don't really see the resemblance actually. The Plastic Bertrand version is better anyhow.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i just realized that this album & the new dream album are being released on the same day
http://i44.tinypic.com/2zeh6w2.jpg
― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
song sounds like Brian Eno's True Wheel meets Magazine or something
― Zeno, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this isn't very good
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it's almost like he made like an indie rock record or something amirite
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
dave, they're very similar imo - JBJG sprang into my head pretty much instantly
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Eno meets The Jam..
― Zeno, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
this is OK and expect it to grow on me over time.
― Bee OK, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty psyched for this
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
'we have a black president, and you do not - so shut up.'
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
die antwoord need to fucking answer that back tbh
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think that line was directed at africa
― iatee, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh ok it was directed at france then
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
a country that has a president
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
'we have herman van rompuy'
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
bad song
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
critical consensus will have this album of the year dude
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ks you'll have to forgive him he's british
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha LJ
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a v fun song and u mad
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
u being anyone who thinks this is wack
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link
good song
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
that single is so so bad :o
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont understand why its earning so much dislike
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kinda obnoxious
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
mm ok that makes more sense i guess
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Doran, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
It's the ILE board description now, anyway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Nas: Hipper Than LCD Soundsystem
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I was kind of horrified at the start but it won me over.
― skip, Friday, 26 March 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
ok
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i like this song.
p.s. stoked for lj's insight once the album comes out.
― caek, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/8c1a7e53.jpg
― max, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
i am sure your opinion of this album will be very interesting, whether positive or negative.
― caek, Friday, 26 March 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
LCD Zingsystem
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this song.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
this song is gone ;_;
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 26 March 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
can you post mediafire links here
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
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 (fourteen years ago) link
No.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the lead single though unfortunately
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
which means 0 in 2010
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
could mean that there is more of this stuff
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jaime, Friday, 26 March 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 (fourteen years ago) link
cue nme 'rock is back' lcd cover story. music is bullshit
― teresa banks (r1o natsume), Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
jams murphy is in the gutter
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember it were all beats around here
Anyone would think they'd turned into Cold Chisel or Rose Tattoo.
― Doran, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought about "it were all the field around here" but eh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It were all Fields of the Nephelim round here...
― Doran, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
This is Happening.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
haha what a terrible corporate buzztitle and lame franz-ferdinand-inspired cover art
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for lcd
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
could they be any more corporate
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
corporate buzztitle
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
oh good, there's enough zinging going on here to cover me too
good looking out, guys! ^_^
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like "this" isnt happening at all, unless "this" is "a corporate buzztitle"
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the cover
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i would love it, if it werent inspired by franz ferdinand
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^remembers when indie wasn't dead
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
reminds me a lot of lodger : david bowie.
― mark e, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe that was inspired by franz ferdinand as well
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha at Bowie travelling forward in time and being inspired by Franz.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
franz ferdinand was born way the fuck before bowie
― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Also was about to say it reminded me of Low onwards Bowie, later period Roxy Music and suited-and-booted New Pop.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
and his death inspired bowie's nazi period
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe LCD is inspired by Beck
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/juliamaynard/2005/03/12/onefootinthegrave.jpg
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is, a certain proportion of girls at any given time are in fact drunk, so ... it's not offensive
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
how many photos will be subjected to tilted chiaroscuro shops with 'corporate buzztitle' annotations in the coming months
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
zero
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
damn
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
no ILM meme potential sorry
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
TVOTR release new album 'Everyone Together' ft. b/w Tunde reclining on bed of blank CDs
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:22 PM
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
which buzztitle is the most corporate:
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
also pretty sure Tunde is just b
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
smells like teen spirit, by Beethoven
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
smells like a corporate buzztitle
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I was thinking of making this joke, but then I didn't
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
dude missed out on the prized l0u1s jagg3r demographic by not calling his album "ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore"
holy fucking lol
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
LOLias of Sunhillow
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ozymandias' labia pt. I: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah?
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
there's surely something offensively platitudinous about 'This Is Happening', isn't there?
no not really
― goole, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
guys I'm not sure but I think there might be a song called "yeah"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the title is fairly crap but i don't think it's worth getting offended over
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/975/35005094.JPG
this is hoppening
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
jam smurphy
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't wait until this album leaks. This thread will be bananas.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
im boycotting the album on the grounds of it being too corporate
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Mashed Bananas and Jams
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Just remembered that the words 'this is happening' form part of the title of my favourite self-penned poem - I retreat in shame anew
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
That frog is swollen with immanence
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
good title yeah xp
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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???
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw nakh I got the 'DIOYY?' reference
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
dfa site has gone down due to the shitness of the title
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
corporate buzzsite dfa taken down by incensed franz ferdinand fans
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay Lady Gaga is a difficult example...Jay-Z better?
Also look at this:http://www.robertlongo.com/work/gallery/1118
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
can a mode change the title to "the still untitled third album "this is happening: the cum-drops of evermore, yeah" by lcd soundsystem"
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
by lcd soundsystem feat. louis lord jagger
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Please do.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
is this happening?
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom should call her next album "This is Harpening."
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
n/a on fire today
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
too right
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
him and his corporate buzzdisplayname
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I retreat in shame anew
Nononononononononono. Post the fucking poem.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
DO NOT POST THE FUCKING POEM (in this thread, start a new one)
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it's fucking 16 sides of A4 long and there are bits where it's oddly formatted
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
please post
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
GIS for A4 long turns this up:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/MrClivver/vinyl%20pics/SH105861m.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
That looks like more than a 4 to me.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:40 AM Bookmark
does oxymandias have labia?
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Merriam-Webster says:
Main Entry: happeningFunction: nounDate: 15511 : something that happens : occurrence2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli3 : something (as an event) that is particularly interesting, entertaining, or important
1 : something that happens : occurrence2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli3 : 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 just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it's also going to be something that happens though.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
an "occurrence" if you will
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda wish he'd titled it This is Sparta
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
fails the 'yeah' test
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
This is Sparta, Yeah?
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the last words of a lost athenian warrior
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/oasis---be-here-now.jpg
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OU4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
it reminds you of franz ferdinand, and corporations
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
No! I don't even understand that! Isn't Franz Ferdinand's aesthetic like Eastern Bloc propaganda or something?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, Franz Ferdinand. Missing 2004 right now.
― ksh, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://andrikyrychok.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/20060819-pioneer.jpgTake...Me Out!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Goddamnit Franz were such poseurs
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/franz.jpg
Riiiiiicola!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Does it offend you?
― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
looool
― ksh, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
considering recording music as Does It Offend You, LOL
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Cover reminds me of:
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/909-the-ascension.jpg
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
embarrassing.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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 (fourteen years ago) link
I know, right? when are you guys gonna get on that
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
'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...
― micarl, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://991.com/newgallery/The-Smiths-The-Queen-Is-Dead-254445.jpg
"we have a female prime minister -- so shut up"
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
love how that line is already bothering british people
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a gd embarrassing line!
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the irish who're really feelin' it imo
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to say something on Rykodisc.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JS4B0H35L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Position Position, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
this album killed music
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
At least we still have blogs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but Joanne Newstrom killed those.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"i heard you sold all your baggy pants and tshirts and are wearing suits now"
― jaxon, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i46.tinypic.com/2dwiadc.jpg
― corporal buzztitle (cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah perfect! Good spot.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the distention
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
haaaaaaaaaaa
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean sorry that's bigoted but fuck it haaaaaaaaaaaa
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.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^this, even if Jams is being ' 'ironic' '
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
We have a black president. We don't need irony.
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sABRosdNg
BITCHES! BRITS!
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
my prime minister is brownmy pack of cheese & onion is blueand i be goddamned if the salt & vinegar aint too
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
this is beat happening
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― *makeitplop* (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
don't you think jams already has a few anthrax albums?
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
all he has is a franz ferdinand mp3
― *makeitplop* (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not a joke, it's an attempt to troll british people like you
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
and it seems to be working pretty well, considering that the album hasn't even come out yet
i thought lcd was british?
― jaxon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Naw, but they're from the east coast, which is close enuff
― juan the intern (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ have you guys ever heard of a song which is titled "north american scum" u might find it quite illuminating xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
man what happened itt
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
britishes happened to it, by the looks
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder what britain said to jams murphy to make him lash out like that
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate how all the action on ilm threads for big new releases happens well before the actual release
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh the lolz...if jams wants to be hipster fred durst then great for him
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
what, salt & vinegar in a blue packet is the one that makes sense - why would you put cheese & onion in a blue packet
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ ▀█▀ █▬█ █ ▄█▀
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Salt & Vinegar is purple here. Cheese and onion is a mustardy colour. Chicken is green. Original is blue.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Doran, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
say what you like about the british isles, but we sure are easy to troll.
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what are original crisps?
― corporal buzztitle (cozen), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the blue ones afaik
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
potatos
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gifhttp://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gifhttp://www.forumsextreme.com/images/aLR_Potatoes.gif
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Salt & vinegar = blueCheese & onion = green
Walkers are disgusting savages.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.emeraldisleproduce.com/logon/uploads/TaytoSVcopy.jpg
http://www.ricecollegewestport.ie/business/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/taytoorgcopy_1.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Good in Ireland but nearly always stale when they get to the UK.
Best used to be Quentin's Crisps.
― Doran, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
do you think we can get a workable standard for chip packets drafted by the time this album leaks or what
― 'salt & vinegar in purple packets ONLY' advocate (haitch), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Rule 1 - don't call them chips.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
we call them crisps, and you do not - so shut up about chips
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hey guys you spelled potato wrong - it's not 'tayto'
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
po' dyao
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
don't be so po-faced
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
denial is a river in italy
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
corporate buzzchips
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
think you mean 'buzzcrisps' there
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
crispy buzzfishnchips
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
corporate buzzblackpresident
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
whoever our new prime minister is, i hope s/he has a bloggable skin colour
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lolol
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw a black crisp packet recently
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
SO THERE
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't see a black crisp packet
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:20 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
so true
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
or even the leak in this case
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
walkers black packet = lol tribute to american democracy BBQ RIB flavour fyi
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
chicken is really the problem one i feel, especially if you factor lime & cracked pepper in there
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
fall back jonathan crisp, no one is factoring in poncey flavour variations here
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
jonathan crisp talk belongs on the spoon thread
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
we have bbq potato chips and you do not - so shut up
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
My mistake earlier. He turns forty this year.
― van smack, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
30th birthday = 30 lines of coke off a Roxy Music record.
40th birthday = ???
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
40 franz ferdinand songs in a row
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
40 beach chairs
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
40 packets of patriotic BBQ crisps
― haitch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
40 acres of land... ah fuck it
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the year he buys a red miata convertable
― van smack, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad a crisp discussion has emerged...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
no need to get chippy
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://theskinnyplate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/popchips.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Calling chips "crisps" is the first step toward socialism.
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking leak already
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
take that filth to ILTMI, buddy
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― one of the jones boys (sic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
if you strike me down, this thread will become more unspeakably grotesque than you could possibly imagine
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lol its funny because the fat man from the dfa likes chips because he is fat
― all the pure blonde you could drink (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you?
― one of the jones boys (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns. All I can think of is Disco Infiltrator and Wotsits The Tapes.
Which are both shit.
― Doran, Friday, 2 April 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Doran, Saturday, 3 April 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
All My Frazzles
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
All My French Fries?
― Doran, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
nope - lemme guess it'd redefine my perception of jams
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 3 April 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
LCD don't lend themselves to crisp puns.
heyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 3 April 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Lays-ing My Wedge
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 3 April 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Disco Infiltayto
― mdskltr (blueski), Saturday, 3 April 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
a-
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 3 April 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
This (band) Is Happening to play at Music Hall of Wburg tonight. Does anyone have a ticket I can buy? Please?
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone see the show? Hear the new songs?
― bmus, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently the only new songs were 'drunk girls' and 'I can change'
― iatee, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/09/lcd-soundsystem-rock-the-drunk-girls-at-surprise-brooklyn-gig/
― mark e, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
great stuff stevie!
― jed_, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
But see, "North American Scum" was the *best* thing on the last one...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh son
― goons 'n' roses (The Reverend), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4506624028_48e8b873c7_o.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Just beautiful.
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm losing my mind.
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Everyone keeps on talking about it/But nobody's nailgunning tramps.
haha!
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
heh.
― Blue Sky Whine (SeekAltRoute), Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
so who's *heard* the album? i scrolled down through this thread and sudenly everyone's banging on about crisp packets!
― piscesx, Saturday, 10 April 2010 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Doran, Saturday, 10 April 2010 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
the major homage/rip other than the White Light and Heroes Fripp guitar ones is the track near the end that is basically Nightclubbing
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 10 April 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
amazed by how much that telex song sounds like lcd
― NI, Saturday, 10 April 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
How To Lose A Guy Become A Respected Music Journalist In 10 Days
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi, Jams? Ur, I mean, James? Well-regarded ILXOR Stevie D here...
― andrew m., Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Saturday, 10 April 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXUup1bHRI
clip from the actual version
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wBLnA4Gg4
entirety of the actual version.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I like it. Dance Yourself Clean is out there now as well.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 11 April 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Where where where???
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Sunday, 11 April 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
not liking the shape of this new record
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 11 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Circular?
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 11 April 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Spherical? Babylon Zoo style?
― Doran, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/cestlenoir/playlists.php
dance yourself clean
pretty great
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
starts at about 33:10
― iatee, Sunday, 11 April 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Way worse than Drunk Girls IMO...
― skip, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much love this song. bet it'll kill live...wonder why he didn't play it at that last show.
― iatee, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
both new songs are totally amazing
― deejus, get off the whiney weingarten penis, before i sb and bust (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
One of those sounds like "Love is a Stranger" by Eurythmics.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
LCD Soundysystem (Feat. Bono) - "I Can Change"
― Touch of Death, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone know the track used on clip 4?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-PDzTDhsI<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rb-PDzTDhsI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rb-PDzTDhsI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
― micarl, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
clip 5 even
― micarl, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to Kitchen Person :)
Check out Family Fodder too
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode.
one of these is arguably his best dancefloor-banger to date!
― iatee, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, I get that people are loving that one in particular but it seems more head-nod to me than anything.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This thing leaking or what?
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like it must have just, actually...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep it's on what, although my ratio watch runs out in three hours. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I was out of the country with my computer turned off for the freeleech :(
This thread is going to get good..
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the size of the file on what
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
161.65 MB for 2556 VBR AAC. Seems about right...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
..er, 256 VBR.
"Hear 2 New LCD Soundsystem Songs: Dance Yrself Clean & I Can Change"
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
word, alright
zeno, you should try reading the thread or something
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Where abouts has this leaked? I'm not seeing it in all the usual places?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
it's for those who don't use torrents
still not via slsk
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, good ol "ETA ∞"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, maybe home IS what you need...
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I found an apparent file hosting site link for a similar size, but I can't post that here right?
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
No but you can AIM me, cough cough. IGNafterburn.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i found one on google blog search that's 148 mb
does not knowing how to steal music anymore mean i'm old now?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yep
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a nice surprise, though, after I just attended the last class of my undergraduate degree!
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll listen to this before I go grab a few pints with friends. Good fucking afternoon.
:/
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Good fucking afternoon to you to sir.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone has put up a link to the album on LCD's last fm page, it works!
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean: this is happening?
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― Zeno, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
How has it taken this long for someone to say that?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
xp check the last.fm page, it hasn't
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
James Murphy is crying on his dirty white jeans right now and most likely eating ice cream directly from the container.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Poor Jams. If the music thing didn't work out, he'd definitely be an ILXOR.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"All I want" is incredible.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Downloaded it now...can;t wait to be slightly underwhelmed.
― Dwight Yorke, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
neither can we
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, wow, wow so pumped for this, thanks ILM for pointing me in the right direction.
― Bee OK, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
In the meantime, I'm listening to this new Herbert. Pretty chill.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i was on ilm when the third lcd soundsystem album leaked. i was there.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
God my predictions/analysis up thread are going to look so stupid :(
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I've heard 4 songs and they all suck. Hope one or two of the remaining 5 are decent.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
James has already turned 40.
― van smack, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ilm i love u
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
he's prolly not the 'real genius' but it seems like JM needed him
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Monday, 12 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver,
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Is is just me or are all the vocals pretty low in the mix?
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
they arethis seems actually rly rly nice
― nakhchivan, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― rennavate, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
did tim goldsworthy have anything to do with 45:33?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
last 4 songs are bangers
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 April 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― micarl, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
EMI is pulling these videos down real quick.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
45:33 production credits to The DFA = Tim and James.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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....
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I know its him, it just sounds so different in that stream.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
After first listen... not too bad at all!
― rennavate, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody's Calling - WTF is this song?
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
cant believe you guys are downloading this corporate buzzleak
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this is so great
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
If someone could PM me a link I would be very grateful.
― The Emperor's Son, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― but i'm also listening to all the songs on the fame monster, not just the (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
welcome to ilx!
x-post otm
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
People are listening to the album right now.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"this is happening" without your permission!!!!1
― from the unhip (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lol jabba hands weren't you the one loling @ the idea of someone squatting on whiney's website?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
and people who download leaks buy more albums than your average anyway, so chill
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
― jabba handsSensing 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.
― The Emperor's Son, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this is crappening
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/rQQ6I.gif
― bnw, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Emperor's Son....ysi?
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Welcome The Emperor's Son, this place can be a lot of fun if you hang around...
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, not arsed about people who've heard it talking about it rly, but fuck off the pleading threadclutter. andrew nf rip(addington)
― it's all abt groups, like i was saying in the jerk thread a few days ago (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
what's wrong with the potato chip posts?
― from the unhip (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
i liked about half the album on first listen. too many songs sound like something they have done in the past though.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
str8 up stunning album imo
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
better than sound of silver
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"pow pow" is fucking hilarious btw
not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 13 April 2010 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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, 13 April 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 13 April 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
damn i guess i gotta download thsi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Really enjoying Dance Yrself Clean on first exposure.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Drunk Girls is a Blur homage?!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Drunk girls who like drunk boys who like drunk boys who like drunk girls
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Who gives a fuck what he's singing about. Bar maybe 3 & 1/2 tunes I do not come to LCD Soundsystem for words.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
y/n?
nick otm
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
would listen to Stars Of The Lid much more if their lyrics weren't total freshman poetry seminar bullshit
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:18 (fourteen years ago) link
But His lyrics have always been upfront, I mean structurally these are pop songs.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Also dude don't capitalise the h in his like Murphy's God, even by accident!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― micarl, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i think murphy is a pretty terrific lyricist for what its worth
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwriter he writes v well
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i mean hes no franz ferdinand
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
actually the lyrics are meaningless, haven't you read Barthes? god.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Doran, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
^^is russom in the band? or am i misunderstanding? he's definitely channeling eno yes, but he's not feminine enough i think :)
― willem, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah he's in the band
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
1st track is cringe-inducing imho. considering the next song is "drunk girls," i just turned it off.
― akaky akakievich, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 13 April 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
whoever upthread said there was an "All My Friends" on this record: i hope you're right
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
if there is - i didnt find it.(yet?)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― 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)
― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:34 AM (9 hours ago)
\(O_o)/
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― BleepBot, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
HAH! How was last nights show?? I wonder how it stacked up to the Brooklyn gig?
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
life is short: go
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually think that iatee is right re: "home" btw
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Home is similar in vibe to All My Friends, but miles away in quality.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Home" doesn't have the ridiculously sappy sentimentalism of "All My Friends" either. Best track on the album by far.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
GOOD ONE
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― BleepBot, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.biznotic.com/images/thishappened.jpg
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
very good
― caek, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
'i can change' has a 'all my friends' vibe
― max, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep hearing "All I Want" as the "All My Friends" track here--same melancholy, same sort of simple, propulsive structure.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys are doing a very good job of making me think this album is not for me
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
what songs do you like the most on the last album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I emailed you broheems
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
love love love 'all my friends'
psssst n/a help a brother out
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
;)
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this is fucking awesome.
― rennavate, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
thx n/a!
yeah i like this so far
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i guess hit is slightly longer. but still.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
this is another v good point
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys are really into berlin-era bowie
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
this is way less bowie and way more eno
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
― iatee
― J0rdan S.
I think it's cause he's usually writing so many pop songs w/ a dance structure - they don't feel like they 'start' until 4 minutes in. 'change' feels like the longest song to me, despite being the second shortest, prolly cause it's a pretty traditional new wave pop song and the chorus kicks in so fast.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
walking up to me expecting, walking up to me expecting words...it happens all the time
is the opening line of the record.
― jed_, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
is it the bitrate thing? Or too much expectation? Or 'dude, it's just LCD Soundsystem'. I'm not feeling this record at all
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/lcdsoundsystem/webster/53.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
has the guy on the left lost his mommy?
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems like there are some weird pops & clicks on this version? i listened to the first couple songs on headphones yesterday and it didn't sound quite right. if it's not a good rip then i want to wait for the real thing.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
man, "Drunk Girls" is like exactly like "Loretta" by the Nervous Eaters
http://1000secretsongs.blogspot.com/2010/04/no630-nervous-eaters-loretta.html
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"Drunk Girls" reminds me of QOTSA's "Monster In The Parasol" with touches of Neu!'s "Hallogallo"
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, in comparison to the tracks on the official site, the leaked ones i had sound fucked up and shitty.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the stream on the website sounds dooope
― just sayin, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.
"Take me hooooome"
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche? the last album had some traces of bowie, talking heads, etc... this new one seems to be a bit more brazen about it with its cars sound-alike and its straight up ripoff of nightclubbing
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, guys, but this album is endless.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
After three listens the guitars and tempos are uninteresting and the vocals listless.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds he works with are often very pastiche but on the songwriting level he's always had his own thing going. if you look at 'losing my edge' / 'all my friends' / 'home' on the sonic level, you can pick out 100 musical references, but if you look at them as songs, pastiche is def not the right word. pretty clear and distinctive songwriting voice.
xp
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
cold war kids
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― Davek (dave
I agree I love that bit, it's odd hearing him really go for it like that but he totally pulls it off. It's my favourite song on the album at the moment.
I am really enjoying the album after a few days, it's a great follow up to Sound Of Silver. There aren't any songs that get to me quite as much as Someone Great and All My Friends did but I really like every song, even Drunk Girls.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
More obvious than North American Scums's chorus ripping off Homosapien by Pete Shelly?
I don't agree with people saying they use more pastiches on this record. Great Release sounds just like Brian Eno and his vocals in Get Innocuous! are very like David Byrnes.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wrong david
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
per jaxon above, "jamaica runnin" by pool. Kinda sux, because I was loving this until I read that. hope it's credited in the liner notes
― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
so I just listened to that, and yeah, no doubt he straight up takes those drums, just like he did in 'losing your edge'. but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's replayed, at least?
btw i had never heard of (the?) pool, but "jamaica running" is dope.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.
otm
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
That's some "Songs written by Bob Dylan"-level stuff if it's not credited.
― skip, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
All I Want sounds like a Strokes song that "would have been" with Nigel Godrich at the helm. Not a bad thing imo.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
the vocals are mixed super low on most tracks, huh?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― oscar, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^^^was thinking the same thing
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
well, re the strokes. hadn't figured in the godrich thing
guitars are more here come the warm jets than strokes
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
(imo)
At least on "Dance Yrself Clean," yeah. I made a comment about this the day it leaked... dunno what I think about it.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ha it does sound like the strokes -- it has that same guitar-as-keyboard thing that they did on room on fire
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Advantages to both!!
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:24 (2 days ago) Bookmark
First listen left me pleasantly whelmed.
― Dwight Yorke, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah its eno circa hctwj all the way on the guitar but i was referring to the soaring vocal style and emotional tone that julian was trying to pull off on later strokes material. also drum patterns.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp. totally ! this song just made me think of what the strokes might have sounded like if nigel had been kept on board.
― oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm I can see that
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm on my second listen and gotta say i'm pretty underwhelmed
― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
people need to talk about 'one touch' more
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
I lol'd.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"you wanted a hit" is so dope
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone want to explain why this is better than SOS?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The success of that album convinced him that what didn't work deserved to be extended and attenuated.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, I think this is pretty spectacular. Better than SOS? Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to tell, personally.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's equally as good -- but they're different albums
i think it will be easier to appreciate this album for some people once they get comfortable with the fact that there's no "yeah" style crazy wig out joint or an Epic Career Standard like "all my friends" -- & that was obviously a conscious decision by jams, cuz there are songs like "pow pow" and "you wanted a hit" where you're just waiting for the 3 min instrumental climax, and it never comes -- then i think it's easier to appreciate the songs "on their own terms" or w/e -- i feel like that about "you wanted a hit" esp -- that song has some great melodies & ideas packed in it and it now doesn't bother me that it just chugs along without the big payoff
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the template for this album is v much "someone great"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think i'll ever like this more than SOS (or even close), but i am digging it more every time i hear it.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
it's also got a very cohesive sound as a record, which, i don't know...the other lcd records hang together too, but have much broader palettes of sounds & feels imo.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
When I listen to LCD Soundsystem it's for the punk-y numbers like "Tribulations," "North American Scum," and "Daft Punk...," not "Yeah," tbh.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this. this is funnier and it just feels like it has more life to it.
'one touch' is 'get innocuous' with a bite, 'home' is 'all my friends' w/ more subtlety.
I dunno, I love SOS and maybe will change my mind in half a year when I've played these songs to death too.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this.
i had this thought too
to me it definitely seems like jams dialed back the ambition and adventure but wrote great "songs" in a rockist sense
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure they are songs
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Like he's sold his turntables and bought guitars.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a 15 minute instrumental version of "dance yourself clean" titled "in the pool (no bass)" that jams made for a fashion show or something.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― Dominique, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^this. It's easily my favorite on the new album. For me it harkens to the glory days when every other DFA remix was hot snot on a silver platter. Can't wait to hear it in a dance setting.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much digging this except for somebody's calling me, which is a bona fide dirge.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm...I wrote this off after the first listen. I'll try again.
― seandalai, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record (nor the Liverpool Echo breaking news on it, for that matter)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/04/15/alex-abramovich/already-happened/
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record
ehh it's kind of *exactly* the kind of record they'd cover!
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Sam Lipsyte, who collaborated with Murphy before turning to fiction
i did not know this
― just sayin, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason the stream on the website just isn't playing this morning. I hit 'Play' and the first track gets higlighted but nothing ever plays and I can't' click on any of the other songs. Just me?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome
ya, thank you LCD Soundsystem for not wholesale abandoning the things that made me change my mind about you in the first place
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, apparently it just doesn't work in Firefox, working fine with Chrome.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I've become one of those people who will uncritically love any song that flaunts sinewave synths
xp: if you're playing it off the LCD Soundsystem website, I'm playing it right now via Firefox
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I was on the official website, just never seemed to start. Oh well, got it going in Chrome now.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a really great moment imo
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
this album's sequencing is so, so good
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha "Drunk Girls" being "North American Scum Part 2" is even more blatant in context
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
actually more like "North American Scum and It's Time To Get Away had a baby and named Daft Plunk Is Playing At My House its godfather"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
want to hear this.
both of the previous lcd soundsystem albums have been v patchy for me - 2 or 3 songs that i love, the rest forgettable. this, on the other hand, is awesome. i'm having trouble restricting myself to 3 listens a day.
absolutely - might be my favourite thing on the whole record. it brought an absolutely huge grin to my face on my first listen.
― toby, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this is me listening to "One Touch":
O_O
^_^
\^_^/
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
like seriously, I am listening to the song and this is all that's going through my brain:
http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dance3.gif
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
upthread when you were wondering if you would like it or not I was gonna say "well, regardless, you'll like 'one touch'"
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"All I Want" is kind of annoying. This is the one that had the most "All My Friends" comparisons, right?
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
You can't go wrong when Nancy Whang starts shouting. It's like only the best DFA tracks are deemed Whang-worthy.
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lcd slash-system
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of bummed that "I Can Change" isn't a cover of the song from the South Park movie
woah wait dude sounds great on this, like better than I've ever heard him sing
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
falsetto!
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that "You Wanted A Hit" sounds like LCD Soundsystem pastiche
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW
oh lol this is the "we have a black President" song, hahahaha
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
omg, loving this so far
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Somebody's Calling Me" is a big pile of nonsense, huh
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never liked them outside of the singles before but that first track is like: fucking hell
how many songs is 'one touch' quoting then
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to say: "Wait till you hear the one that sounds like `Nightclubbing.'"
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
oh I am so so glad that he realized ending the album with the downtempo half-baked joke of a song idea from Sound of Silver was a terrob;e idea
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
when i get to the end of this album i am going to try very hard to like this track just out of contrarianism
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
have fun with that
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
hey shut up, i am busy pre-emptively convincing myself it is great here
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
somewhat agnostic re his vocal stylings on 'one touch'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
not feeling 'you wanted a hit' so much
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ok redeemed by near-skronk guitar break
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ok 'somebody's calling me' is starting
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
... maybe it's a grower
― thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
no. it's just bad (the track)
― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love it but I'm the unabashed fanboy w/r/t this album. the drugged out synths are awesome.
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The line about Michael Musto in Pow Pow is awful. We should poll the most ridiculous lyrics on this album but i'm not sure if the polling system allows that many options.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure he thinks this, considering "NY I <3 U" is an LCD concert staple and fan favorite.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"somebody's calling me" is pretty worthless
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I got as far as All I Want and stopped listening - not really feeling this at all and I loved Sound of Silver. It feels a bit like he's forgotten how to construct a good groove. It took me until halfway through the first track to work out whether or not I was listening to a fake leak.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Petition to J. Murphy to change song title to "Somebody's Calling Me Out"?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
more like "Somebody's Skipping Me"
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
daaaaaaaaaamn dance yrself clean
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
debate over, buying this on release day
ok drunk girls is really dumb but i don't care because his shit still sounds better than anyone else's shit
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I got one of my coworkers to stream this.
He hated "Drunk Girls" but likes a lot of the rest of it (he's up to "I Can Change"). The comment that made me go O_o was "this is pretty good for the most part, kind of Lightning Seeds-ish"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
do u think james murphys hair looks like that naturally, or does he use product?
― A piping hot bowl of shits (A piping hot bowl of grits), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
he uses a piping hot bowl of grits iirc
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
word?
― A piping hot bowl of shits (A piping hot bowl of grits), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
you wanted a hit sounds like....aeroplane?
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm kinda wondering what the last song to be added was (jams tweeted that it was done, and then a couple days later that they were doing one more song)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
'all I want' or 'somebody's calling me' are the only ones I could imagine being written that quickly
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
did Jerry drum on this because the live drums on One Touch are among the best LCD drums (saying a lot, big fan here)?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
or Pat?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem's Anti-Piracy Plea to Fans Goes Unheeded
http://www.fastcompany.com/1616914/lcd-soundsystem-piracy-album-this-is-happening-torrent-peer-to-peer-sharing-music-mp3
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone please seed this thread
― van smack, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
The comment that made me go O_o was "this is pretty good for the most part, kind of Lightning Seeds-ish"
this and the nineties thread amaze me with america's capacity for absorbing the uk's forgotten popkult shite
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that is an amazing comment!
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album over the LCD debut and This Is Happening.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
srsssly xp? cos it kinda is
i don't know anything about the lightning seeds, if i ever i did, except that they were english and they were once extant
can't imagine they sounded anything like 'dance yrself clean' tho
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah nah it's just kind of hilar
lightning seeds never been much of a hipster reference point iirc
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
That link made me feel guilty abt downloading it and now I sort of want to delete it and wait til May 17 :( I mean, there's no chance I'm NOT going to buy this.
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to this now via the inhouse PA of Easy Street Records -- it's definitely a perfect dance record for browsing and crate-digging (an honest compliment!)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
That's funny, I heard the MGMT album in the same context/setting yesterday and it sounded alright!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Music stores, making everything sound good.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Easy Street fucked up the Reggae section when they reorganized. BTW, Ned, if you like Thomas Fehlmann, the LP has a copy of the CD inside and is priced nicely at 14.99 at the back of the store.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The Lightning Seeds have reformed, presumably to make a boatload of money in a World Cup year. Jams Murphy is doing the David Baddiel bit on Three Lions 2010.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
that was them? cultural death of england easily mapped to the six yrs between new order / john barnes and that volkisch shite
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I geeked out on a youtube clip with Ian Broudie, Terry Hall and Craig Gannon strumming acoustic guitars recently. Wish I had seen the tour with Gannon.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Really digging this album as a whole, but holy shit, "Somebody's Calling Me". It's less a track and more a "Nightclubbing" remix. Makes you look about that whole "sued into submission" line from "All My Friends" in a new light. Let's hope Iggy has no idea this band exists.
― OffensiveBeard, Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yes -- otm
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I am embarrassed by "Drunk Girls" and by the fact that Pitchfork not only selected it as one of the "best new tracks" but actually failed to mention that the song is basically "White Light/White Heat" watered down one million times.
― Now, Friday, 16 April 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"Somebody's Calling Me" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPPi45NTQA
"Drunk Girls" = "King's Lead Hat" + "Boys Keep Swinging"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/LsykK.jpgmy 1st listen review
― bnw, Friday, 16 April 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"Heroes" + "Here Come the Warm Jets" = "All I Want" (Despite half the album being blatant pastiche, I'm still enjoying it. Par the course for Murphy at the very least.)
― OffensiveBeard, Friday, 16 April 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Agreed with some of the comments upthread, that intro before the groove kicks in on the first track lasts way way too long and is fairly offputting. It smokes once it kicks in, but I keep feeling like its not worth the wait.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 April 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't disagree, but still, i'm loving the album. i forgot what a sharp lyricist he is (lots of namedropping and "inside-baseball" type talk, but that's what gives his work such style).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 April 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder if this'll be one of the letters in this year's equivalent of GAPDY
― ksh, Friday, 16 April 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche?
It was scientifically proven on the "Match a band with an auteur director" thread that LCD Soundsystem is the Paul Thomas Anderson of music, and the way they like appealing to critics and buffs with sly use of homage was one of the reasons for the match-up.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"This scene is straight out of Days of Heaven/Goodfellas, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
"This guitar riff and chorus is from Brian Eno/Pete Shelley, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
no way Paul Thomas Anderson is way too corny, u mad.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 April 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
don't doubt the science of that classic, stoner-friendly thread.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Fall of Rome shit right here.
― Doran, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
nah the intro is fantastic, the resignation of 'it happens all the time'....
― nakhchivan, Friday, 16 April 2010 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Btw, that same coworker later said "wait, do I mean The Lightning Seeds or The Beautiful South?"
― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
welp, either way, ilx was there first:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=79&threadid=65077
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
like One Touch - like one of the better tracks on the last Juan Maclean album but with a bit more raucous urgency (not sure this is something JM necessarily needs in his own stuff tho...just makes it more annoying how ppl ignored that LP compared to LCD)
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Going slightly off top here for a second, great to see that OMD footage earlier in the thread. I've seen it loads of times and it always makes me laugh. What the hell is going on with his moves? How can anyone's legs move like that?
Still loving the new album. I guess Somebody's calling me is the weakest track but I still like it more than Sound Of Silver which was my least favourite on the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 16 April 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
So the really low vocals on "Dance Yrself Clean" (amazing song, regardless) and songs like "All I Want"... intentional or just a shitty mixing job? I mean, none of Jams' other albums have had that problem and he KNOWS how to mix vocals, so I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice. Still, I don't really like it. Ah well.
― rennavate, Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Was supposed to be seeing these guys on Tuesday but it's been cancelled cos of the volcano. Could be a bleak summer for the gig-goers of Europe.
― Number None, Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice
I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud
or something
― dmr, Monday, 19 April 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like this song at all, but the video is kind of fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I wanted to think it was an artistic choice and I wanted to like it, but I've come to the conclusion that there are simply poor mixing choices affecting at least 1/3 of the tracks. They def. sound more erratic on headphones than on the stereo, but they're kind of a mess either way.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 April 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the production on this is well ropey.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah... and I don't get it because he knows very well how to mix vocals, and that's what pisses me off. I kind of understand the "I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud" explanation, but that's kind of bullshit too. The only songs I have a problem with the mixing are "Dance Yrself Clean" and "All I Want," and maybe because it's just two songs you can chalk it up to artistic choice... but fuck.
― rennavate, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that video is so amazing ^
― jaxon, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
video is so fantastic!
― sandwich-american (Clay), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like every couple years he does a video where he gets physically pwned ("losing my edge", "all my friends", this).
wondering if those are the jackass guys in the panda suits?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG that video. I have such a crush on Pat Mahoney :(
― they taste fresh (Stevie D), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Check out @lcdsoundsystem's video for drunk girls by spike jonze.we're the tall violent pandas at the beginning: http://tumblr.com/xkq8tqi7tabout 11 hours ago via web
HolyGhostNYCAlex Holy Ghost!
http://twitter.com/HolyGhostNYC/status/12470203651
― jaxon, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
awes, but wish they'd spend less time in videos, more time making more music.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol wait theyve got a single coming out in a week
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
way late to this party but this is great so far...ive repeated "all i want" about 5 times now and get past it. just a stunning track
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
d-_-b
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"all i want" makes me wanna walk around like a little kid pretending to be an airplane
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
if that makes sense, lol
this is me http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2396557558_4400aae2ef.jpg
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
rly rly love the way the synth slowly evolves into a menace
― iatee, Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol kev
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"I Can Change" is my fave so far
― dmr, Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I Can Change totally reminds me of an Echo & The Bunnymen song from 83-84 that I can't quite place.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Home is my jam fwiw
wait i got it.... I Can Change = Bring On The Dancing Horses
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, this leaked?
― z-vo (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lol where u been
― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
not paying attention to this thread
― z-vo (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
streaming on the website Rev.
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
after few listens the only tracks i like are the first, the last and I Can Change.
All I Want could be good as well, if the vocals were not ruined by the terrible mix.
― Zeno, Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
'You wanted a hit' is so good! The way it starts is kinda After Dark inspired bliss..
― micarl, Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
not really hearing that, sounds more like a Gary Numan song to me
― dmr, Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i do not get how people dislike the vocal mix in "all i want", seems perfect to me
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand any of the vocal complaints either, my copy of the album sounds perfect from start to finish. Must've been two different versions leaked?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 22 April 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
or ppl are just complaining about aesthetic choices
― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 April 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oma gawd, they KILLED at coachella. granted i had taken a few pills it was fantastic. off the new album they played "drunk girls" "i can change" and "pow pow" and tbh, i like all three live. i mean i love the latter two but drunk girls is growing on me?
also pow pow works live just as well as "us v them", the dude has truly mastered the building/layering of different elements to create a giant fucking crescendo out of a song. loooooooved it, go see them live!
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
btw anyone know if there's any validity to them calling this the "last tour" as LCD?
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, it's valid until the point they announce the next one!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Everyone agrees that the money is in playing live now, right? Jams complains about downloads taking his money (masked as 'i want to control when it comes out'), yet announces an end the what he's best at and what makes the most money. How does that make sense? If he doesn't care about the money angle, fair enough. LCD Soundsystem are fantastic live, probably my favorite live band right now, and most everyone who's seen them praises their show, so i'm not sure why he'd want to quit touring. He could quit recording in the studio and keep touring and make shit tons of money. Who wouldn't pay to see LCD play an entire set of covers. Imagine the possibilities. They've done Carl Craig and Joy Division. Not touring as LCD Soundsystem is a mistake. Where's the DFA tour? Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD. I'd go.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
He said in an interview a few months ago (that I can't find right now) that this would be the last LCD Soundsystem album, so maybe he's talking about the whole band ceasing?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, finally listened to this and i like it. /incisivemusiccritdamnthehypem
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Jams complains about downloads taking his money"
I thought he was complaining more that it was taking away the build up/surprise for everyone. There must be hundreds of thousands waiting for the release of this on vinyl now though, which is bound to make some money.
I think if you're already touring an album and people are paying to see you, they should be able to get in to the album prior to the gig.
Hopefully this tour lasts a couple of legs around the world.
― micarl, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There must be hundreds of thousands waiting for the release of this on vinyl now though, which is bound to make some money.
hahahahaha
― caek, Friday, 23 April 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hundreds of thousands
― just sayin, Friday, 23 April 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, so maybe not all on Vinyl...
Should still sell well though. It's a great album and personally can't wait to get it on vinyl.
Anyone have any ball park as to how many Sound of Silver sold? I think this will sell more if enough are printed.
― micarl, Friday, 23 April 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
On what are you basing these facts?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it true that Gavin Russom is part of LCD's live band now? That could make a massive difference.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 April 2010 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD.
This kinda happened for LCD's tour behind their first album -- LCD, Juan and Shit Robot.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 April 2010 12:37 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah he's part of it according to his facebook page
― just sayin, Friday, 23 April 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, what does leaking early have to do with making or losing money? Everyone knows it's going to surface online at SOME point. And I think most everyone has already made up their mind that they're either going to A) download it only, with no intention of ever actually spending money on it in the first place or B) have every intention of buying it and simply want to hear what it sounds like early. Even if you're going to download the album to gauge your interest and inform your purchase, you're going to do that anyway regardless of when it leaks (the only people who are going to buy it the OMG DAY IT COMES OUT are the people who are mostly eager enough to buy it no matter what)
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. i actually thought it was cool that it just streamed on their website - i wouldn't have bothered listening to it otherwise but am only a casual fan/know that i'm gonna dislike at least half the stuff they do.
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 23 April 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
curled lip chicken head bobbing dance once does synths on 'dance yourself clean' kick in
― Michael B, Friday, 23 April 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Where's the DFA tour? Juan MacLean, Holy Ghost and LCD. I'd go.
Holy Ghost ARE the support on this tour (for yanks and euros anyway, we won't be getting them :( :( )
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll be there.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
UK has Yacht, not Holy Ghost, right?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. although i did not see them.
the dude has truly mastered the building/layering of different elements to create a giant fucking crescendo out of a song
reeeeeeeaaallly did not get this, sounded to me like almost every song had the same intensity all the way through, and the same as almost every other song. Even 'All My Friends' didn't sound any less driven or intense, or any more poignant - and I couldn't hear the fucking piano, wtf! And 'Someone Great' was just dreadful, seriously it was the harshest buzzkiller i think i've ever heard at a gig. James sang like his monitors were broken and the whole thing just didn't fit together at all.
On the other hand 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' and the closing 'New York I Love You' were both epic.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, all northern hemisphere continents look the same to me
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Saturday, 24 April 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to see them last night and Jams was leathered. All My Friends Was Immense.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
could you hear the piano?
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
(i was at the same show)
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I couldn't hear the piano on All My Friends on Friday night, and Jams's vocals were flat throughout, and I could never work out a word he was saying inbetween songs, but I thought it was great pretty much. Only complaint was not enough new songs, seeing as I'd been listening to the new one a lot, compared to Caribou on Tuesday night who pretty much only played new stuff. Still, great week with those two and Broadcast.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I could tell something was up with the sound during Us Vs Them and I generally hate it when bands re-do a song. If you fluff something just move on. (That said, it did sound loads better the second time right?)
I really enjoyed it despite the drunkenly slow pace of the show and the bickering about sound.
It was a really punchy crowd. Two seperate people tried to start fights with me.
Loved the way they ended on a 'Rock and Roll Suicide' level immense 'New York I Love You But You're Getting Me Down' and then the house lights came up while I'm Not In Love by 10CC was playing and everyone was singing it on the way out.
I couldn't understand a word he was saying but, y'know, this is nearly always the case in Brixton. The PA is fucking shit in there.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone mentioned the holy ghost rmx of drunk girls?
― plax (ico), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta say drunk girls was initially repellant to me and is now....pretty good?
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
seeing it live the past two nights has really turned me around on it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 30 April 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm seeing them Sunday - can't wait! Love this new album.
― nate woolls, Friday, 30 April 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy Ghost ARE the support on this tour (for yanks and euros anyway, we won't be getting them :( :(
We do get Hot Chip and The Swiss though, so I'm not crying too hard.
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
(if only it wasn't a Monday night and there could be an afterparty with James/Pat and the Chip DJing...)
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
really enjoyed Yacht, but I'm a fan. girl kind of annoying and guy doing his best David Byrne, but loud and good tunes. also they changed their set around from the first night on the second night, which was kind of surprised me.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
james, pat AND gavin russom xpost
russom could dj the recovery.
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Friday, 30 April 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
They were magnificent in Glasgow last night. James said that the Barrowland is his favourite place to play. The crowd just go's nuts when LCD are in town. Immense. All of the criticisms I've heard of the London gigs were totally absent.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 30 April 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
It not being Brixton Academy will have that effect tbh.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Friday, 30 April 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
just now from twitter :
"@lcdsoundsystem ok: clique @ mint lounge oldham st. some cheap door price. thanks for all the suggestions! come boogie!!"
umm isn't that piscesboy set up (pretty sure it is]? if so, he's going to be in fer a good night !
― mark e, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
If you're looking for something to do in Gunchester after the LCD gig go to Clique. It is an awesome night out. And not full of knuckle draggers in parkas waddling round like they've shat a bowling ball, pouring lager everywhere going 'I'm 'avin' it.'
Having what? HAVING WHAT YOU FUCKING COCK JUGGLING THUNDER CUNT? Not a fucking epiphany by the look of it.
Great pop/dance music at Clique.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course, if this was last night the point still remains: go to Clique.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
^ Clique, of course, being an (erstwhile?) ILX0r's creation. Still never fucking been. Must head back to the north-west at some point for an old-skool MCR weekend.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
PiscesX aka Pisces Boy and as far as I know he still posts here...
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah -- I was thinking of Ian/Affectian!
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, he's the other half of the club as it were.
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Well bugger me. I never realised that. I do not pay enough attention.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Unbelievable in Manchester tonight. Yeah was a dry ice/green laser frenzy. Only four new songs as well - he explained that he wanted to wait until the album was out before he played more. Which was nice of him.
Drunk Girls gets better and better - dodgy on record, fantastic in the video, thrilling live.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah myself and NI/Affectian/Ian had LCD dj for us at the last minute on Friday; the entire band (minus Nancy) for 2 hours. James played Deee-Lite, Fox The Fox and all manner of 80s disco-pop treats. We hardly had time to really hype it as we didn't know it was actually happening until almost midnight, but it was just a nice surprise for the regulars! James was nice enough to thank anyone who'd been there onstage tonight too bless him. A genuine gentleman amongst gentlemen.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 May 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, it was awesome - they were all so upbeat and friendly about it, a real old school atittude to just turn up and do it for the love of djing without all the bullshit of contracts and agents getting in the way. apparently they were all sat having a meal in manchester on the friday and decided they wanted to go out and play some records and party, so they came to us! they played all vinyl all night, some really amazing vocal disco stuff that i'll sadly never find out the details about. 'precious little diamond' is one of my alltime favourite songs so that was a major highlight for me.
― NI, Sunday, 2 May 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
<img src=http://clubclique.co.uk/gallery/current/pics/3.JPG>
more pics <a href=http://clubclique.co.uk/latest.html>here</a>
― NI, Sunday, 2 May 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
doh, i'll try again:
http://clubclique.co.uk/gallery/current/pics/3.JPG;
more pics here
Oh, right: NI, you're Ian? Fucking hell, I didn't know that either :)
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like an old man wandering about with his pants at half-mast. Don't worry, I'll wander off again soon.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Mega lols at the back and forth arguments on the LCD last.fm artist page about whether or not this will get a 10.0 from Pitchfork. Massive mega lols.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
whenever i read this thread title i think of surm's "so....happened" thread title
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
MacLean has a different theory about the split: "Tim was not quiet about expressing his dislikes. He thought James and I were dumb and crass, trying to appeal to a not so discerning crowd, as opposed to making something that was meant for guys with beards. He didn't say goodbye and unfriended us all on Facebook."
― johnny crunch, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
so mature!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
goldsworthy should go kick it with whiney
At the end of it all, Goldsworthy will have a better discography than both James and Juan.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
He didn't say goodbye and unfriended us all on Facebook.
RIP
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"He thought James and I were dumb and crass, trying to appeal to a not so discerning crowd"
truthbomb
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
says the guy who produced the fucking cut copy record
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the Cut Copy album is better than This Is Happening by miles.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'll go w/ that, could use more low end tho imo
― plax (ico), Monday, 3 May 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the cut copy album!! but, if you wanna talk about appealing to a "not so discerning crowd"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like a more "sophisticated" album anyway
― plax (ico), Monday, 3 May 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
def. more subtle
I like the cut copy album, but it's pretty same-y when compared to TIH. cut copy are really good at what they do but jams has 100x the range.
― iatee, Monday, 3 May 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This album is bullshit, I always thought Tim Goldsworthy was 90% of the talent in the DFA James M. looks like he wets the bed every time he gets drunk peace I'm OUT
― Dan I., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
later!
― max, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
damn Dan I. was in here and then he split JUST LIKE THAT
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
have a feeling Dan I.'s gonna unfriend me on Facebook if I like this O_O
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
what if Dan I. *is* Tim Goldsworthy
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
well his name is Dan so idk
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah mine is kshighway
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The falls outs dudes seem to have with James seem to suggest Jame's pretty arrogant about being right, but he probably is.. The Rapture should have stuck with him, likewise Tim.
― micarl, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy >>>> lcd
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
high quality challop
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not really the point anyway
thats not a challop its the truth in the booth
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy have a classic album... but they've still got a long way to top the whole of jams' career as LCD
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
deej, taking down indie sacred cows left and right... who will be next?!
― max, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
didnt know this was such a big deal. imo that cut copy album is better than any of the lcd ones oh well
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
back from the past to OTM a post, namely that one ^^^
― Dan I., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy sux
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i should listen to this eventually
did not realize cut copy had an album that was such a bfd; wld rather just keep listening to mouse on mars tbh.
― Francis Scott Key 7th Path (Stevie D), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
its a HUGE deal
― max, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― Francis Scott Key 7th Path (Stevie D), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:21 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
dont get this post
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
will challops never cease:
'hearts on fire' >>> any lcd song
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that's arguably the most sensible thing you've said
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to like "Hearts on Fire" but it does absolutely nothing for me :/
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i played out the cut copy album today while driving around -- so perfect
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy album better than any lcd album but they have done nothing near as good as the early lcd singles
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Absolutely amazing last week on the second of two nights @ Barrowlands. 90+ minutes of joy, dancing & wonder...
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v7/p559376692-3.jpg
― krakow, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy suxI want to like "Hearts on Fire" but it does absolutely nothing for me :/
^^^^^
One of the few times you'll see the Rev and I agree, tbh.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
why do you want to like it if it does nothing for you? the c/c record was shit in spite of tim g who is amazing and john maclean always seems like such a prick tbh.
― jed_, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"So Haunted" > "Hearts on Fire."
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
All My Friends >>>>>> So Haunted
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that song going nowhere off their first album the most.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"All My Friends" is a piece of shit.
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
All your friends are pieces of shit?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cut Copy album is all about Far Away for me, such an amazing chorus.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: you really, REALLY need to stop trying so hard
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't know I was "trying so hard" when my post took about 2 seconds to think up, another 2 to type out, and a fifth second to click "Submit Post"...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ (xp)
One of the few times you'll see the DERE and I agree, tbh.
― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL U R FUNNEH
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone know anything about the cover of Throw? Is it being released on iTunes?
― micarl, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
DFA forums say it's on the iTunes version.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
right, only iTunes by the look - can preview it through the iTunes store.http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/
― micarl, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
finally listening to this now. so far the songs on this that aren't "Drunk Girls" are awesome and even that one is ok
― you might be a goon but what's a goon to a viking? (The Reverend), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed, this is my 10th time thru it right now and it's really their best long player. i kinda like how he treats 12"s, eps and albums as three absolutely distinct entities.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
so haunted is the one that sounds like an off-key, off-kilter elo? great chorus on that song -- and yeah, it's better than hearts on fire.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 May 2010 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KURPrLpVxKI
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that "Pow Pow" contains elements of one of the middle sections of 45'33"... having trouble isolating which parts. Gonna A-B when I get a chance...
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
think this is it:
Pow Pow (6:45 - 7:48) = 45'33" part IV (6:25 - 7:33)*
*"You're out in space/You feel so good... nananananana"
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe everyone with a boner for cut copy can go to the cut copy thread and we can continue talking about how awesome this album is.
funny thing tho about gavin russom playing with them now... i'd like to know the "custom synth rigs" he built for them. he has an interview and new mix up on FACT.
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
the interview feels a little cliche to me, the whole "i did LSD at a party and it opened my mind to all the different types of music that i could play together..." i mean like, cmon
that said the crystal ark is RAD
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I sorta burned myself out on this album due to the fact that it was the only thing on my work computer
but it's still 100% awesome
― iatee, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol burnt out on an unreleased album
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i had the range of emotions w/r/t this album. hated it, tolerated it, enjoyed it, loved it, don't care to hear anything off it again. will now sit in the balcony with my buddy waldorf and discuss it.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I played this once through at work, it was decent. Really liked some songs, really didn't like a few others... it's a mixed bag. One listen's enough for now, though. Waiting for the album release so I can crank dat in the car.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
my buddy waldorf
whoa
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
live footage here - nicked off the DFA forums
http://www.abconcerts.be/nl/abtv/p/detail/lcd-soundsystem
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Could someone work some source code magic and post a direct link to 00532_h264_m.mp4?
― amadeus bag (Stevie D), Monday, 10 May 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
*attempts magic*
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
*admits defeat*
*defers to 1337 hax0rz*
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
plug-ins are the key
4 Mac: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/4 Windows: http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/rtmp.html
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
...those seem to be plugins for watching the stream, not for saving the mp4 source file?
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Monday, 10 May 2010 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
^ IANAM
jeez guys, you can lead a horse to water...
"As of 2.1 there are two additional server programs, rtmpsrv and rtmpsuck.
rtmpsrv is a stub for a server; it logs the connect and play parameters from a regular client that connects to it. It then invokes rtmpdump with those parameters to retrieve the stream.
rtmpsuck is a transparent proxy; it intercepts connections from a client and then makes an outbound connection to the real server. After all handshaking is complete and encryption keys with both sides are negotiated, it records the cleartext stream data into files while relaying the data from the server to the client. "
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 May 2010 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
^ text doesn't exist on the Windows page fyi
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Monday, 10 May 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus, they're terrible on this tour. The first 4 or 5 songs on this live show are awful, especially Daft Punk Is Playing..
Looks like they're saving it with Tribulations, but damn, what an awful start to a show. It's time they just did an album for Nancy.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Where did you see them?
I'm hopeful once the album is actually released they'll start playing a few more songs from it, going from that live footage.
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm watchign the vid linked above. The crowd started getting into after Tribulations and Yeah, but if this is any indication, i'm gonna pass on this tour.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
this clip gets awesome about 40 seconds in :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fn2Pl9mdw
― stirmonster, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the glasgow shows were pretty great. but maybe i'm a stan.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dissmissing them based on a video without seeing them live is a bit naff.
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
True. Have you watched the video? What did you think of the opening 4 tracks?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
thought they'd be better live
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Though I was disappointed with that live video linked above, I absolutely loved the 3 shows i've seen them perform with the exception of the NY I Love You finale which was super boring.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Do they usually close with that one? I'd be kinda disappointed if they did. Haven't seen them live since the first album.
― Number None, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
NYI<3U finale was the best moment of the London show.
― I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
.. but i'd been kinda brought down by the rest of the show up till that moment and maybe i wasn't in the mood for dancing from the beginning, so ymmv.
― I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
the problem with seeing bands like LCD in London is everyone is their biggest fan so there's always a lot of pushing and agro, which just annoyed me. I got pretty over seeing bands in London..
― micarl, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the first 20 minutes of that video are mad zzzz
― oscar, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
bugger. didn't notice that when i posted it.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I have seen them live twice, both they did NYI<3U finale, but both times were actually in New York so it was really cute.
― (Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that song is a bag of vomit, why are they ruining people's lives by playing it
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
first night in glasgow they ended with NYI<3U, second night they ended with All My Friends.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
both times he then he dedicated the night to HI DERE
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
he then he = he then
hahaha I was just thinking "aaaaaaaaaargh no"
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
that doesn't quite have the energy they have live. i dunno man maybe it was all the drugs i took at coachella but it SOUNDED like a 100x better, not like they were performing in a garage or something. certainly there is an atmosphere to the show you can't capture on vid, but also the camera crew at Coachella was really good and with tens of thousands of people going apeshit it was certainly the best show i've seen in a long time
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
also the ny i love you finish was a little lackluster but their set got cut short a track or two so maybe it would have had a different lead in?
*that = that link above (watching now)
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, come on. That full concert linked above is totally the awkward, super-clean direct soundboard mix, or maybe the onstage monitor mix. If it's mixed at all. Totally not indicative of how this or any other band sounds live.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i gotta give credit to james for hanging it up as lcd after this album. he knew it was going to be diminishing returns after this.
― oscar, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
is he actually going to do that?
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ksh wins.
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
pff he predicted 9.0
― micarl, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Was anyone closer? I was assuming he was the closest.
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
loooool
micarl is correct, i said 9.0: http://pitchforkreviewspreviews.tumblr.com/post/598115992/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I know thats what you said! You were closest take the prize, dammit!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)
― micarl, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
This very important to me!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is!
― Evan, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)― micarl, Monday, May 17, 2010 12:24 AM (1 minute ago)
― micarl, Monday, May 17, 2010 12:24 AM (1 minute ago)
irl lol
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, very surprised about this rating (Pitchfork loves James Murphy). this album is great however and will buy it next week.
― Bee OK, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
or i guess that means this week.
― Bee OK, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Have this on preorder from Amazon for $7.99, no tax or shipping costs. Not bad?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 17 May 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
release date purchase !first time in a long long time i have done that.and unlike others here, i have not heard any of it, except the live later version of drunk girls, so hoping for a quiet afternoon @ work so i can just soak it all up.
― mark e, Monday, 17 May 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
9.2:
This is also by far the bloodiest LCD Soundsystem album-- a series of bare, lacerating manifestos about distance between people, set to the fizzing art/dance-rock greatest hits inside Murphy's skull. "Love is a murderer," he sings on "I Can Change". He's not kidding.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
He's not kidding.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
After all, Murphy has done what all other music fiends only dream about-- he's flipped the system and become the embodiment of coolness. This is a phenomenal coup.
― da croupier, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I know critics are supposed to analyze words and all that shit, but COME ON.
― skip, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wait a sec, *I* am an *actual* jerk? thanks pitchfork!
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 17 May 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to this album again for the first time since it leaked. Totally did not realize how much I loved these snappy synths in "Dance Yourself Clean"
― (Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Monday, 17 May 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I stopped by the record release party at Smart Bar since it's a block away and picked up the CD for a discount. Everyone looked about 22 years old. It's cool that a pudgy 40 year-old can still attract that audience. I should have bought tickets when they went on sale even though I don't plan to go, because they're now selling for $75 and up. Metro and other places have begun overselling shows again, and I'm sick of it. I hope it doesn't take more people dying in a fire to bring places back to code.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 17 May 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally listened to this proper. Really loving it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
like the first 2 tracks lots but this is kind of a bust
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
DRUNK GIRLS
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
you can't front on that
they/he still hasn't quite got the songwriting right
45:33 and the pre-first-album 12"s are still his best longer tracks
would rather hear actual hit attempts than 'you wanted a hit' (10 fuckin' minutes?)
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, just picked this up at the rekkid store. no joke, "Dance Yrself Clean" is great
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a great opening track, unfortunately the album goes like this afterward:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ofst0025/architecture/downhill-skiing-1.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
One Touch and I Can Change are the only tracks I really like
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The only track I didn't like was the one whose title I can't remember but was the track on the album most sonically similar to "All My Friends".
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"Drunk Girls" totally works as the second track -- i didn't like it in isolation, but right now it sounds awesome
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ksh be livebloggin
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't really love or hate this album, but that "nightclubbing" track is probably the worst.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxxxp how do you know that skier doesn't totally nail the landing?
― I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha I just looked at that picture and was like "... after the first track it goes totally fucking awesome, and that's unfortunate?"
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah, I figured someone would bring that up.
Image was a search result for "falls off a cliff" or something similar...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i think you really need to be at the right place to "get" drunk girls.. for me it was in radio shack
WHITE HEAT
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
On "You Wanted A Hit" & liking this record a lot </liveblog>
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
also "dancing" or at least "moving in the chair" fwiw
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
.. for me it was in radio shack
Pls explain?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
let's all post some more pictures that are representative of how much this album sucks
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.whistleroutfitters.com/wallpapers/snowboard/1280x960-jump-snowboard-wallpaper.jpg
http://rockclimbingshoesandgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/rock-climbing-picture1.jpg
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/base-jump-400.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/hawaii_surfing_nut.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://diamondcreative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/excited2.jpg
― ksh, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
but that "nightclubbing" track is probably the worst.
this
― micarl, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
iatee: A+
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://it-is-law.com/dump/Bear%20Buying%20Honey.jpg
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
All I Want sounded great coming over the HMV p.a. in central Manc on Sunday. Just perfect.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/images/skiing2.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/253785/420071.jpg
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
what the
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
.. for me it was in radio shackPls explain?
i was there to get a capacitor for a busted dvd player and it came on the instore radio and it sounded GOOD
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy moly that last photo...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude looks like fucking Aphex Twin on the hot seat.
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/aphex-twin/album-i-care-because-you-do.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that picture is going to completely derail this thread
― ashra williams (san frandisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazing thing, this Google image search engine.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is great
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, yes it is
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
curious as to what your search was, alfred?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"retard toliet"?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Kid pooping"
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be really, really awesome if "One Touch" crossed over to mainstream radio.
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to pick this album up at Best Buy the day it came out, but it was sold out.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
This is ridiculously good.
― ksh, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Picked it up for $6.99 new at Newbury Comics. A+
Was also really tempted to tell the ppl behind the counter that they were going to sell tons of these.
I'm sure they would never have thought it without your tip!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the bonus track on itunes "oh you" is an interesting ...homage to pink floyd
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Friday, 21 May 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Throw is pretty relentless but so good!!
― micarl, Friday, 21 May 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Dudes, I JAMMMMMMED this in the car on a 5 hour road trip at pretty intense levels and it was really insane sounding. By far the best LCDSS LP to date.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 May 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the self-referentiality in "Home" when he sings "Yeah, do it right/ And head again into space!" A nice nod to "All My Friends," another type of home.
― rennavate, Friday, 21 May 2010 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
KSH is my new favourite music critic. That picture of the two middle managers underneath all those outdoor types filled my heart with a warmth that would otherwise have taken heroin.
What is so fearsome about this kid's shitting that he needs to be strapped to the khazi?
― Duran (Doran), Friday, 21 May 2010 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
KSH is my new favourite music critic.
COSIGN.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 21 May 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
are you talking about ilx poster ksh
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wrong thread, but a flat party at 2am was blaring "All My Friends" as I walked by and it was great.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes! xp
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 23 May 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so where did it end up in the hot 200?
just fell short of the top 10 in sunny oz
― poutrock (electricsound), Monday, 24 May 2010 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
we dunno yet -- it will prob be in the in the 6-10 range -- hits daily double is projecting that it will sell less than band of horses tho
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 May 2010 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought it on Saturday, was going to wait til it hits $10 in JB but they were giving away a satchel with THIS IS HAPPENING stencilled on it, how could I resist? If it goes top ten in week 2 galkin can paypal me his thanks.
― the standing cat (sic), Monday, 24 May 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
looooool, thanks Doran & ilxor
we dunno yet -- it will prob be in the in the 6-10 range -- hits daily double is projecting that it will sell less than band of horses tho― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:03 AM (5 hours ago)
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:03 AM (5 hours ago)
u_u
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^the exact post i was going to make
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 May 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Doesn't surprise me. I heard the new Band of Horses single on the local AAA station the other day.
― jaymc, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i heard "Laredo" on the radio too
but it's, like, alright, here's a solid Band of Horses review: "i can sleep, i can sleeeeeeeeeeeep"
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Bridwell wasn't even playing an instrument in the last video i saw of 'em -- maybe it was Letterman
they should seriously just call up Jim James and have him sing over the phone and the session dudes can play whatever and then we can all go home
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
as long as we're not all too tired to drive
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
incidentally i listened to the first BOH album last night and it's still beautiful
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
never really listened to anything very much beyond "The Funeral" or whatever, but man i played the shit out of that song. one of those permanently tied to a time in my life kind of deals. so, thanks to BB for that one
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"st. augustine" was my personal favorite, but yeah that's pretty close to a classic album
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7555/ff2cl.jpg
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooool
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
What the hell, what is that? (No, I will not say 'who is that')
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc that is cap't beardo from band of horses.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The aliens are among us.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://all4women.co.za/files/Alian-Allan.gif
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i wanna join the fleet foxes
dare to dream.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
great thread
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
actually i like this disc a lot. do people here find the slow build on the first track overlong? i think it works very well, because it lulls you to sleep and then pops.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry -- it doesn't lull me to sleep. just a figure of speech. it leads me to believe there's no big payoff coming, and then delivers a big payoff.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
First track is the worst, actually. Listening to my CD copy in the car, I thought, "Oh, I don't remember this going on so uninterestingly."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe you're wrong, and maybe i'm right
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
lol irl
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the build-and-pop in the first song is the best thing on the record, if the end of the track didn't go into the next one I would listen to it over and over
― my own cuteness (sic), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
^^yes
― upper mississippi sh@key mo (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I disagree with this so much
the brittle, wearied lyrics with all of the little micro flourishes that pop in and out bookended by those ahs... it just fantastic (then again, I also love lyrical repetition)
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind repetition, period, but after the first four or five minutes, when it restarts, I just tune out.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the song is an exercise in groove dissection and, as someone who likes to view music as aural Tinkertoys, it's really beautiful
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my favorite tracks of the year, no doubt
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUiTCmR1I9E
great news, Bridwell didn't make it into The Fleet Foxes, but some Vedder dude apparently snapped him up
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
credit to dan m for posting that first, over on 77
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Really liking this album.
― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/glee-stops-the-show-at-no-1-stones-come-1004094028.story
Band of Horses and LCD Soundsystem also arrive high -- entering at Nos. 7 and 10, respectively, with their latest efforts. Band of Horses' Infinite Arms starts with 45,000 while LCD's This Is Happening opens with 31,000. They are the highest charting albums -- and best sales weeks -- for both acts.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 27 May 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
God I didn't realize people like Band of Horses so fucking much. I thought we already had one My Morning Jacket who are *much* better, if you're into that sort of thing?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
God I didn't realize people like Band of Horses so fucking much.
i don't think i knew how popular they were, either. but . . .
After the Stones, the next highest entry is the Black Keys with "Brothers" starting at No. 3 with 73,000.
is serious O_O
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
'home' is my favourite on this album by miles
― NI, Thursday, 27 May 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The Black Keys not too surprising. They've always had the potential to cross over to "mainstream" blues/garage rock fans... looks like all that relentless touring has paid off in album sales.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, the Black Keys are good at what they do. I definitely see the appeal.
Whereas Band of Horses are shit.
i sort of just toss Black Keys into that group of shitty modern rock bands that get radio airplay and are moderately successful when there are other, better bands who could probably be just as popular but aren't
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"shitty modern rock bands that get radio airplay and are moderately successful" meaning junk like Silversun Pickups
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I literally don't know any Silversun Pickups besides "Lazy Eye" and "Panic Switch" but I srsly love those songs.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Not a Black Keys fan myself, but to describe them as "modern rock" is really really missing the point, and also RONG.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I still get Black Keys confused with Black Lips.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I was surprised to read that The Black Keys are being supported by The Walkmen in Glasgow, but based on the sales I guess it's justified.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
use whatever term you want, ilxor -- i was just using "modern rock" as a descriptor for the place where that kind of stuff seems to fit in in the landscape of mainstream music, not as something to describe the sound
― ksh, Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Made even better with the Official Steve Shasta Seal of Approval.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really no much about them and i'm kinda stabbing in the dark here, but Black Keys basically = White Stripes minus good pop tunes?? I can see how that would find a certain audience if not blow up huge
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Alternatively, Black Keys = White Stripes minus brother/sister gimmickry, color coordination, annoying Jack White God complex, etc.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Also minus Jack White's charisma and stage presence.
― The Men Who Stare At Goatse (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, did you pull the wool off my eyes, ilxor!
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Rev, I'm not really a fan of either of 'em... just playing devil's advocate.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the guy from black keys has a good voice for radio
― plax (ico), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
love all the synths strewn through this record - seems more deeply textured than a lot of the older stuff.
― erotic geometry (haitch), Monday, 31 May 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/james-murphy-of-lcd-soundsystem,41691/
good interview
― iatee, Thursday, 3 June 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm enjoying this album!
but, on "you wanted a hit" and "pow pow" james murphy sounds really pissed. what's up with that? calling out michael musto, who are you, axl all of a sudden? idgi
this has probably been discussed on this very thread.
thx!
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
he talks about it at the end of that interview
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! shoulda known not to take is seriously
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this album sounds like the soundtrack to the lion king at many points
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a dream Jams was an ILXor and me and morbs and him and some others were all hanging out, and we were drinking this weird "video soda" product that played an Aeon Flux-like cartoon of someone else drinking a soda in front of your eyes every time you took a sip
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the way James describes styles of music in terms of the face you pull when you're performing it. Like this line about Pow Pow: "To me it’s “the talking guy with his talking face.” You know, “Talking Heads’ talking face doing his talking.”
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, too often (i know we've been over this) critics think of the dreaded I-word in terms of an artist "looking back" on other artists, rather than "looking forward" at an audience that they're trying to find a way to say something to.
― goole, Friday, 4 June 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nancy Whang? She's in the Juan Maclean, too.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 June 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
o rly! <3 juan maclean obv but i was kind of hoping she would be in an x ray specs cover band or something.
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:25 PM (36 minutes ago)
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:25 PM (36 minutes ago)
NW has been on every LCDSS album fwiw, even the first single: b-side "beat connection".
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Dear DFA,
Everybody wants a Nancy Whang solo album.
Love,
Everybody
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
word
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
also plz to include a cover of "o bondage up yours"
i dunno dudes, i dig her on the maclean/lcd stuff but uh, what?
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Saturday, 5 June 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
find her kind of annoying tbh
― jed_, Saturday, 5 June 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
This is great, can't believe how good his vocals sound livehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-G1NltxNqE
― More more more ass we are all addicted to ass (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 5 June 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
so awesome seeing russom playing w/ them
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
makes me wanna see them for him alone
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band. i guess i didn't think they'd all be on tour but it is worth your money people! i'm not even that stoked on the new album but it was among the best live shows i've seen in years
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i saw them after sound of silver and i swear i really only love those songs in the moment of hearing them live
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
parts of this album remind me of semisonic
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if that's ~entirely~ accurate but who am i to disagree with your subjective impressions
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.
can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6A0MdXvDM
― ksh, Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:24 PM (18 minutes ago)
when were they not in LCD?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
(that was his point)
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oicnow
the real dfa allstar band was black leotard front.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 6 June 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
they're not new to the band but i didn't see either of them the last time i saw lcd on tour
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
they probably changed that on the sound of silver tour or something tho, haven't seen them in a while
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!
I thought before Pat Mahoney was in LCD he was in Les Savy Fav. What am i missing him working on in the DFA camp other than LCD?
― micarl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, June 6, 2010 3:02 AM (7 hours ago)
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
love their 2nd single
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
o wait
still tho
Just picked up a hard copy of this yesterday and blasted it in my friend's Philly apt and we danced around and talked about how nice it was!
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I'm glad to say the lyrics are in the booklet; always a nice touch.
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
he did a couple dj tours with james murphy and others as 'special disco version' and the two of them released that fabriclive mix a few years back (which is still seriously amazing)
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
does anyone here besides me love "all I want" the best?
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
totally dude
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is kinda disappointing imo
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't have an opinion on the album yet - it was kinda all over the place and i havent been willing to sit through the whole thing more than like twice, but i've listened to "all i want" like 40 times
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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looked at the liner notes yesterday (a friend actually bought the physical cd, whoa) and was surprised to see that james played drums on almost all of the tracks, and pat mahoney only played on one of them (can't remember which but i think it was "pow pow").
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing on this makes me want to listen to it again, really
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
what's that one they do live where james suddenly joins in on the drumkit?
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, but that was after he was already in LCD...
Saying he's part of this DFA super group seems neither here nor there when he's only done work with LCD and DJ'ed with James Murphy.
― micarl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
alls i'm saying is i didn't know all of them went on tour together. because, as i said before, the last time i saw them it was basically a murphy + laptop affair.
and yeh, the fact that in the past few years the members' side projects have led to their profiles being exponentially higher makes it feel a little more special. especially since james plays a LOT of what's on the record so i wasn't necessarily expecting as much
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Whang has been in LCD since their very first gig - not sure if Mahoney goes quite that far back, but he's been playing live with them since 2002
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Monday, 7 June 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29nbwH6JZoQ
― micarl, Monday, 7 June 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
just watch a snippet -- need to watch the whole thing later -- but man i love that dude
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
*watched
such a cutie
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Monday, 7 June 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ahh, I condemned this way too quick! JM prob doesn't pee the bed that often
― Dan I., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
♥ Home ♥
― Dan I., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Dis guy is so earnest/real, want to be his good bud.
― Tori, I must seem greatly intriguing (Stevie D), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Video for Drunk Girls Holy Ghost! remix
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 28 June 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Monday, 28 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Crusty hipster jackass? Nice remix though.
― Duran (Doran), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I know one of those bike jousters! she used to live in pvd
― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
falsetto "smells like human poooooooo!" as the intro to "all my friends" as glastonbury
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/artists/lcdsoundsystem/
― caek, Friday, 2 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lcd-soundsystem-i-can-change-tiga-remix-590x590-400x400.jpg
1. I Can Change 5:552. You Wanted A Hit (Soulwax Remix) 7:373. I Can Change (Tiga Remix) 7:454. I Can Change (Stereogamous Remix) 8:335. I Can Change (Stereogamous Inlovestrumental) 7:32
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 July 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I9Q_djC52M
Stereogamous
who
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Monday, 26 July 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
well it is a better mix than the one i post first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4otzOK9rgzo
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 July 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the tiga mix sounds like it's going to break into 'washing up' any momemnt now
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Monday, 26 July 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
moley's sometime partner and his best pal s3ym0ur butz
― Has admitted to being awesome in order to have sex (sic), Monday, 26 July 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what is this shit
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 July 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
bee ok you are like if forkcast was integrated into ilm threads
quality control, my man
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 July 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
1st part of "Dance Yrself Clean" is a total C4TPA homage.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^glad someone else thought this - not surprised it was you tbh lol
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
wouldn't have made that link because I only know 1 C4TPA song but yeah I can totally see that
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. Spot on, and then some.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
What's C4PTA?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 July 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what is your favorite song by casiotone for the painfully alone?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 July 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
another Los Angeles based project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53yEyj0mjfo
― Bee OK, Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like Houston to me but is that official (i hope not cuz it's awful)?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know what it is, the colour grading, or how everything is framed, or something, but it looks like a bank commercial.
― Popture, Saturday, 25 September 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
generally do not advocate audience recorded youtube videos (and in truth this one is as bad as most of them) but they debuted (afaik) Dance Yrself Clean last week and it looks like it was awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfxffFt3VEU&feature=player_embedded#!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 26 September 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm avoiding listening to anything from this album again for a quite a while after seeing that video for Home.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 27 September 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
― Popture, Saturday, 25 September 2010 05:20 (2 days ago)
so true. this video makes me feel uncomfortable and 'marketed' at. shame it had to happen to my fave song on the album
― NI, Monday, 27 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
They were just okay last night. Murphy shouts too often.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean
it's a terrible video but how is it ruining the record for anyone
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't see what's so terrible about it
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not an official video is it?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
what's with all the nu-yuppies in that video?
― 2+2 is 4 (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 8 October 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Not so much the video for me just reminded me i haven't listened to the album for quite a while and didn't inspire me to do so.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 8 October 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
so far behind on this album, butdid anybody else say that 'drunk girls' sounds like a bastardized cover of 'boys keep swingin' yet?
― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 October 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Pow Pow video.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
SORRY, WE'RE UNABLE TO OFFER THIS VIDEO TO USERS IN YOUR REGION.
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/40613-video-lcd-soundsystem-pow-pow/
― piscesx, Friday, 5 November 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that's sold it to me
― Owner of a Homely Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i have no idea why but i really like that video. "pow pow" was one of my favorite songs on the record, maybe that has something to do with it
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 5 November 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody heard the London Sessions or the Alexandra Palace thing?
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
London Sessions is alright. Nice version of Get Innocuous.
― Number None, Sunday, 14 November 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
this is $1.99 on amazon mp3 right now
i never heard an lcd soundsystem record before
it's pretty good, he likes david bowie i think.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Whole album's his tribute to the Berlin records.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
What do you think, Ned?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ah yeah, "riding on the metro" totally :)
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
overall this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
like us
― lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
and not them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bLRk35_0-Y
― "smokin' hot" albeit in a "Nickelback on iPod" sort of way (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
over & over again xpost
― markers, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't felt the urge to play anything on this album since a few weeks after it leaked. Complete dud, imo. Sound of Silver covered all the ground this one covered but better every step of the way.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
it's held up for me, and a lot of the songs have really grown...i think the only thing holding it back is the sound of the record. the tones of most of the instruments (drums especially, i guess) are on the generic side, not as huge as on the s/t or as raw & vintage-y as on SoS.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Opening track, I Can Change, and closing track are as good as anything he's done, and Drunk Girls is great fun. Everything else here is good. It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I play way more songs off of this than I do off of SoS, which I edited down to an amazing 4 track EP
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:49 PM
I completely agree with this. I still get a lot of This Is Happening, it will be very high in my albums of the year list.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll have to get sound of silver, i dig this so far.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
S0S has four songs that are way better than this and a bunch of ignorable shit on it
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
or it's wall-to-wall awesome. only one way to find out!
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
DJP, is your 4 track SOS EP: Get Innocuous, Someone Great, All My Friends and Us V. Them?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Get Innocuous, North American Scum, Someone Great, Us V Them
I really, really really REALLY hate "All My Friends"
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
think yr kinda on yr own there
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a position I'm used to
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, North American Scum is a gimmicky bullshit track just like Drunk Girls. They're both pointless and annoying.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
and also awesome
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
North American Scum is the fun parts of Daft Punk Is Playing At My House with the irritating sections removed and a fun "NORTH AMERICAN!" chant thrown in
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
good Prince title imo
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Walking around Greektown and the UIC campus in Chicago last month on a crazy windy day while listening to this really opened up the album to me. I like it better than the debut (I gather we're not including the second disk of singles there) & yeah, I think I'd put it on before Sound of Silver at this point. also lol @ "this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music" & that was pretty much exactly what I thought on that day in Chicago (& naturally felt kinda self-congratulat-y which is a good feeling to afford yourself once in a while, delusionally or not).
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (8 minutes ago)
HE ISN'T
― rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
but don't you hate everything they've ever done?
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
some of their songs are ok...Yeah, Get Innocuous and Someone Great really have good things about them...but All My Friends, just no.
would complain about this being the sound of mediocrity winning but it ain't worth the argument now, they're gone, and the million copyists will have to be fought instead
― rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lj/djp bitter hatred of that song is inexplicable to the point of lol
i can understand the cale cover, the hua hsu (iirc) exegesis and other tributes seeming excessive, and the central piano motif will irritate some people
and yet ppl hate it worse than cancer & hitler
― lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hey lj i don't think yr old enough to appreciate the sentiment of all my friends, tbh
djp, otoh, uh, is, v much.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
forgetting the lyrics entirely, it has a keening preening manipulative tweeness and a strict, stupefying adherence to the melodic/narrative tenets of new order that drive me to dislike exceptionally quickly - it's big and cloying and inevitable
― gospodin sim gishel (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved the second one but I never, ever want to play it whereas this one gets constant rotation. It's a victory lap record like Graduation: "Drunk Girls" is a better "North American Scum," "Home" a superior "All My Friends," and "Dance Yrself Clean" just breathtaking on its own merits.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i haven't listened to this in a minute, but i still totally love it. alfred otm re all those tracks
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the quick lil in studio live thing they put out a few weeks ago is really great imo -- nothing jaw dropping of course but it's cool to hear them tweak songs around a bit + recording is hi-fi
it has this super funky take on "daft punk" that is pretty much the only recording of the song that i can stomach atm
http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/lcd-soundsystem-london-sessions.jpg
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still trying to understand why I recoiled from their performance at the Fillmore two months ago.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz you're crazy?
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
best live band i've ever seen personally
i would probably say they're the best live band i've ever seen too.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
No complaints about the band; like I said many xposts ago, I couldn't shake how awkwardly Murphy embraced his front man status, and not in a cool way.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Too many times he was out of breath shouting in the microphone -- just another pudgy guy in a T-shirt.
you should've closed your eyes
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
His flop sweat kept sprinkling me.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
lj you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
waitaminit - you were in San Francisco!?
― a big influence on me in a non-stabbing non-killing way (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
We got one in Miami Beach.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't worry: I wouldn't dream of visiting SF without conferring with my transportation secretary.
'dance yrself clean' and 'home' are the two best lcd soundsystem songs imo
― iatee, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Louis Louis Louis.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:01 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem was the first thing my gf and I argued about fwiw
shit I still have half my bleedin' essay to do *scarpers*
― gospodin sim gishel (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
'dance yrself clean' is one of their best ever tracks but mostly this blows
i don't like all my friends
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Version of All I Want on London Sessions is very good - better than the album version.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that London Sessions album, but the version of I Can Change sounds far too slow to me.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's a dud and I can't fathom why they wouldn't include Yeah, which was the highlight of all three shows I've seen on this tour.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"dance yrself clean" is sublime, "i can change" is horrific, everything else kinda falls in between. this is my least fav lcd album.
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
this song "Home" which i am listening to right now is totes Tom Tom Club
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
try as i might SOS never really clicked with me, whereas i can barely keep from playing this one over and over again.
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not tom tom club it's penguin cafe orchestra!
― iatee, Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Farewell show announced for April 2nd. Hopefully the backlash will have reached a point that getting tickets will be a breeze.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
That's putting a positive spin on it!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Damnit, damnit! I've already seen them twice and don't want to ruin the magic, but shit. Seriously, two of the best shows I've ever seen.
― Mrs. Doubtfife (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Seen them 9 times. Want to make it an even 10. Fuck the haters, I love this band and they mean a lot to me.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh great, I never saw them live and I probably never will. :( I thought he was not serious about it being the last album and all because that's what everyone says.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was hoping that was just typical balderdash. I think he still said they'd continue making singles?
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Also what was the backlash against them? I don't read up on the latest indie/indie dance hatred on the internet.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
A few people (including me) didn't think This Is Happening was so great, but I certainly don't despise them/him or anything.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh...that's all. I thought it was ok for what it was. The second album is the best in my opinion. If they were going for a trilogy kind of thing the third one is always the weakest.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
you should have read the 2010 ALBUMS and TRACKS polls. whoof there be some haters.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I was under the impression people loved it. This is why I'll never understand indie/indie dance music scene (or maybe it is just the internet scene). Do people want musicians to survive pass two albums or do they just want to cut to the chase of hating them because that's the cool thing to do?
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The only reasons I had for not liking the last album fall squarely into the "he's done this before, and better" school of thought. Half the people bitch if you keep doing the same thing, the other half bitch if you change it up. It's hard to win, really.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i was being a bit facetious with the backlash comment. certain groups of internet people will hate on anything that pitchfork-reading white indie boys who "don't understand dance" like, especially if they see a band like LCD Soundsystem as wannabe stuff.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess that's why you have people who are hardcore fans (or "stans" in some music circle say) and embrace the same aesthetic touches in a musician's/band's music. I wasn't a hardcore fan of LCD, but I liked their aesthetic and accepeted it for what it was. I wasn't surprised that he didn't stray from it on the third album.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha thanks for the clarification. I'm a black hip hop/r&b loving boy who think LCD Soundsystem are great!!! I wonder what the haters would say about me.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. I would love to see that show. Even though I didn't love This is Happening, they are probably the best live band i've ever seen.
also, this was pointed out to me recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Bae3R49ew
kind of rotten for them not to credit that on the album.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
well if they had to be honest about everything on that lp that wasn't very original it would be fairly awkward yeah?
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there other examples of direct rips like that? I mean, they just played that song almost note for note and added some vocals. I'm not sure if there are other songs on the album that are copies and not just 'inspired' by.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa...I mean I love LCD's version of this but holy cow that is a pretty direct rip
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 February 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really no worse than the "Homosapien" and "Nighclubbing" rips.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Sunday, 6 February 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind the "Nightclubbing" one so much because I don't really like the LCD version, while "Dance Yrself Clean" is one of my favorite songs of theirs, I know it doesn't really make sense but that's why it bothers me. Also it sounds like this one is a real obscurity so it just seems that much more shady; I don't think the Iggy Pop rip was supposed to get by anybody.
BTW which song did they rip off "Homosapien" for??? It does sound a bit like "North American Scum" but it's not obvious to me..
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 February 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
it sounds a LOT like North American Scum
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 7 February 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
this album did away entirely with what i liked best about them: on the first two albums, not only did they have a cool, edgy indie aesthetic with interesting vox and lyrics, but they combined that with beats that were genuinely danceable, or at least made you want to move/bounce around. "this is happening" loses almost all the funkyness of the previous albums and singles - therefore, i dislike it. if you liked lcd soundsystem for reasons other than mine, you might like this album more than i do, i can't really knock it, it's got some cool vocals and arrangements and stuff, but for me, they've lost their edge.
that said, the lack of danceable grooves may very well be why they've suddenly gotten popular with all my anti-dance-music, indie-rock-or-nothin friends; for all i know mr. murphy has made this stylistic change on purpose. but still.
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 7 February 2011 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Pow Pow?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
but for me, they've lost their edge.
i guess the bright side of the break-up will be never reading the above zinger again. "as for me, i've got lcd soundsystem's beats ON REPEAT."
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
can anyone confirm if the sessions cd a limited release ?
― mark e, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure where you are, but I've seen it all over the place. Even my local Best Buy (which has reduced its music section to virtually nothing) has multiple copies.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
uk.its about here and there, but nowhere near as much presence as previous LCD releases.and given EMIs ongoing chaos, was wondering if this is one of those buy now, or regret later releases as various corners of the catalogue gets deleted.
― mark e, Monday, 7 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that fear is why I grabbed it as soon as I saw it, but since then I've seen it all over the place.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lcd soundsystem are playing madison square garden on april 2nd, and it will be our last show ever. we are retiring from the game. gettin’ out. movin’on. but for just one more night, we will be playing with friends and family for nearly 3 hours–playing stuff we’ve never played before and going out with a bang. and we’d like you to be there.
if you would, we’d love it if people all came in white. or black. or black and white. and come ready to have fun, please. and come early, as the festivities will be opened by our favorites, liquid liquid. yes: liquidliquid.
if it’s a funeral, let’s have the best funeral ever!!!
GENERAL ONSALE FEBRUARY 11TH
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lcd's doing colbert on valentine's day, apparently.
― Clay, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― mark e
I've seen no sign that this is a limited release. I just ordered it from Play last night it's 7.99 on there and Amazon. You can get it from actual sellers for a bit cheaper but they all seem to be American, it must be much more available there.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually I kind of agree that this one was "less danceable" than the previous two, but it doesn't make it worse or anything. Like SoS there's like 4-5 killer tracks and some other decent material/filler, but overall it's one of the best of the year. Ripped or not "Dance Yrself Clean" is incredible.
― frogbs, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
By the way while we're on the subject of ripoffs the track "Thrills" is so much a rewrite of "Warm Leatherette" that I'm surprised they didn't get slagged more for it..."Losing My Edge" is mostly taken from a Killing Joke song, "Daft Punk.." is basically "TNT" and Murphy imitates Mark E. Smith for the entire first album. And yet they get off scot-free while Scooter gets slammed for doing the same thing??
― frogbs, Monday, 7 February 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
murphy said at the time that 'thrills' was basically 'warm leatherette' + 'get ur freak on'
― scraping Doritos off the wheel (haitch), Monday, 7 February 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Never got to see them, but assuming I can get online before tickets sell out (and my boss doesn't have me working that Saturday) I may actually make it to this show! Excited, but sad.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 7 February 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought the beat on Losing My Edge was from A Certain Ratio?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnqN-rGM3J8
Not as obvious as Dance Yrself Clean but it's more obvious than Leaving On A Jet Plane / Run.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"get innocuous" = kraftwerk "robots"
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
THIS JUST IN: MUSIC OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM CAUGHT "REFERENCING" OTHER MUSICS
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
like, come on ppl. This is part of their whole shtick.
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
At least make an interesting thread like the Stereolab references one that Milton did.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes I wonder if certain people only like bands whose references they don't get/recognize
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
List The Direct References of Stereolab
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Shakey OTM. I'm so glad that when I first heard the Jesus & Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 I didn't know much about older bands so I wasn't ticking off the references. It's an increasingly hard thing to remember when reviewing records as you get older - you don't want to become the old killjoy going, "That song you like? Well it's taken from this." Sample-based music is different though, and I see LCD's lifts as almost live (and uncredited) samples so it's more like a hip hop record, where finding out the sources doesn't detract from my enjoyment, and in fact enhances it because of what's been done to those sources.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
When I interviewed James Murphy for this record he talked about this French journalist who was trying to catch him out, going [I quote his impression]. "So, zis song All I Want, perhaps you 'ave been listening to David Bowie's Heroes, non?" And he replied, "Well yes. Obviously. That was the idea."
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno how hearing the jamaica running song would ruin 'dance yrself clean'...like, yeah, clearly he ripped the drums from a sorta boring song as part of the intro to his much more inneresting song. if the jamaica running song suddenly broke out in the crazy fuzz synth riff I might be disappointed.
― iatee, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
they do a lot of great covers so it's easy to see their "originals" as barely disguised covers. doesn't bother me at all.
going to try to get tickets to that MSG show, saw them at Bowery Ballroom on the tour for the first record and it was great.
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the pool >>> dance yrself clean though
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that's a good point but I would never say the song was ever 'ruined' for me, I mean Datarock do this all the time too and they're one of my favorite bands. I think it's more of a disappointment in realizing that this band is something you define as say, the sound of the 00's or whatever in your eyes, only to realize that it's just the same as the 80's but with a facelift.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
someone very reliable once told me that the original All My Friends was so much like a certain 80s New Order track (i forget which) that they'd have got sued if it'd have come out that way. so they had to go back and fiddle with it to make it sound.. a lot less so.
how come say Elastica had to give co-writing credits for the Wire/ Sranglers steals on Connection and Waking Up and Blur for the much less obvious Bowie/ Eno steals on M.O.R. but not LCD for theirs? i love LCD so i'm not out to diss em, just.. wondering why some bands get away with it and some don't.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
that's just a casio preset, isn't it?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The Killing Joke song is called "Change" and it's a B-Side. IIRC the beat is played with a bass guitar or something. The KJ version is obviously a lot heavier but it's very similar.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Big difference between lifting a melody and lifting a beat. People don't cry plagiarism when someone uses the Be My Baby beat.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
how come say Elastica had to give co-writing credits for the Wire/ Sranglers steals on Connection and Waking Up and Blur for the much less obvious Bowie/ Eno steals on M.O.R. but not LCD for theirs?
probably because back when Blur and Elastica were making those records they were actually making tons of money off hit singles and associated CD sales. This is not the case with LCD Soundsystem.
Rule No. 1 of Litigation: Don't sue poor people
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Tell that to the RIAA.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
RIAA not really a model of successful litigators imho
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly I've been thinking about this a lot lately. insofar as the collapse of the music industry has kinda made it not worth it to sue people for sample violations, for the first time in quite awhile it's now more or less possible to sample with impunity
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
real talk: anyone a) know if there's an online presale b) want to be a pal/front me $50/get me a GA ticket at the presale at the merc lounge box office tomorrow
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
so annoyed about that presale. got to prepare myself for Friday morning.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
How do shoes at MSG work? I will be pissy if I don't get a GA ticket/have to stand in front of a fucking seat.
― crème neppa venette (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
probably because back when Blur and Elastica were making those records they were actually making tons of money off hit singles and associated CD sales. This is not the case with LCD Soundsystem.Rule No. 1 of Litigation: Don't sue poor people― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:44 AM (1 hour ago)
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:44 AM (1 hour ago)
lol, tell me more about how poor James and LCD are.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
compared to Blur?
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean lol if you think James Murphy is living off songwriting royalties, which is what a sample-based lawsuit would be entitled to go after
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
there's no way Elastica's one big selling album made them significantly richer in that 18 months they were sucessful, than James Murphy over a decade of production and writing. i mean.. wha..?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you guys noticed what Murphy wears? Dude spends no money.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Shakey Mo switched his stance from "James Murphy is poor" to "James Murphy isn't making money off songwriting royalties".
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know James Murphy so I can't ask him but my guess would be that his income is from a) live shows/DJ gigs and b) maybe some income from the label. And it's not like LCDs commanding Rolling Stones'-level touring budgets.
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I kinda lol at anybody that thinks any musician is rich, especially someone with as low a profile as James Murphy. He's not Jay-Z for fuck's sake.
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
like I dunno if you guys talk to musicians at all but everybody is fucking broke
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
What about Damon Alborn (?) and Justine Frischmann (?)
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
James Murphy is not broke, he is loaded btw.
Albarn was at the top of the industry when the industry was at it's peak so duh. Frischmann got advertising money iirc - that Wire ripoff was everywhere. (If LCD's licensed any tunes to commercials I haven't noticed - highest profile think I noticed them in was Step Brothers lol)
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
were you hanging out on his yacht last weekend or what shasta
i'm sure murphy's doing fine, he must make $$$ on dj gigs. the "interview" from this thread did make me wonder though: BEST JAMES MURPHY ANSWER FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
4. Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?I've lived here on WAY less for more than a decade, so sure. If you don't want to, there are plenty of suburbs to wait for death in.
BILLIONAIRE
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
someone very reliable once told me that the original All My Friends was so much like a certain 80s New Order track (i forget which) that they'd have got sued if it'd have come out that way. so they had to go back and fiddle with it to make it sound.. a lot less so.Without any inside knowledge, I'm 95% sure its "Ceremony."
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be suspicious of any English musician claiming they're weathy, what with their tax rates.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that is not how it works.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Elastica were fucking coining it in during the 18 months they were successful... on airplay royalties
Also note that it was *in* those 18 months that they got sued by Wire and Stranglers
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
by all means, feel free to elaborate
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
(1) revenue is not limited to songwriting royalties, e.g. live performance, mechanicals, publishing rights, etc. (2) damages are not limited to the revenue accrued directly from the violation, e.g. you may be forced to pay damages for an infringing sample on a track you gave away.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
how are damages calculated?
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
they're _unlikely_ to be more than the defendant can afford (but lol RIAA showboating). apart from that, it depends entirely on the nature/scale of infringement, jurisdiction, etc. and only very weakly on direct revenue.
note i know uk law better than us law, but the principle that you can be sued even if you give the infringing work away is true everywhere afaik.
also if you could only be sued for revenue, then there would be no punitive deterrent. i.e. just sample whatever, if you get caught then no biggie, just pay the man his money.
gonna sue james soundsystem now.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
let me know how much of his <$35k salary you manage to garnish
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
real talk: anyone a) know if there's an online presale
there is, tomorrow at 10 am, via pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/news/41507-lcd-soundsystem-presale-tickets-on-sale-today/
― dmr, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
presale was a joke. pretty much sold out within 2 minutes.
― Creeztophair, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
All those people waiting in line at Mercury Lounge in 10 degrees this morning was a joke.
― juicebox, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
brrrrrr
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"This 10 Degree Weather Is Happening": waiting in line to see the final concert for the third by LCD Soundsystem
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/the-original-bits-arent-good/
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
smh. do you people really only enjoy the first two minutes of this song? it's just the build up for the good part.
also horribly wrong about bittersweet symphony
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
My appreciation of Dance Yrself Clean isn't ruined by The Pool. I think it would be nicer if the bands LCD are stealing from were credited but lots of things would make this world nicer. Not a big deal.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that all at me? Because I definitely don't only enjoy the first two minutes of DYC, nor meant to express that anywhere; it's my favourite off TIH, and one of my favourite LCD tracks fullstop.
Horribly wrong about BSS in what regard? I don't think I expressed an opinion regarding its quality...
xpost.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
What would be excellent is if just after the farewell show JM released a compilation of all the tracks that he'd homaged/lifted so that obscure folk like The Pool could get some recognition and $$$, LCD fans would discover some good stuff, and the whole obvious-referencing side of LCD could be taken to its logical (and most candid) conclusion.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd certainly buy a copy of that mythical compilation.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: Nick's blog, I remember a sampling special on Radio 1 where somebody (Jo Whiley maybe?) told the whole story of the lawsuit and said the Verve had been outrageously swindled and that the song BSS sounded nothing like it really. Then she played The Last Time and for a few seconds I assumed it was BSS. It was so blatant, and so demolished the DJ's argument, that I actually laughed out loud.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That compilation idea is great.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think the orchestral version of the stones song is particularly interesting. Don't think that were it released on a 90s stones album it would end up being one of the biggest hits of the decade. the verve made something out of not much - and while bss might fall apart without the sample it's far from the only thing the song is built on. it's got nothing to do with the vocal melody. xp
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Bitter Sweet Symphony doesn't really HAVE a vocal melody.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
If you stripped the vocals off BSS and mixed/mastered it in a 60s rather than 90s fashion, you'd have the start of the instrumental version of The Last Time, looped.
Just because you play the same drumbeat rather than outright sampling it doesn't mean it's not still the same drumbeat. Even Mccabe's guitar doesn't add much in terms of melody / layering / structure / texture / etc. I love BSS, think it does something amazing, but it's totally and utterly built on that sample / steal.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
violins add a lot!
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
And the main violin hook is from The Last Time, as I recall, as are the main violin chords.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
But then I remember hearing the orchestral version of The Rolling Stones’ The Last Time for the first time, the Andrew Loog Oldham version that Bittersweet Symphony sampled. I’d read something which suggested that all The Verve had borrowed was a chord sequence played by the string section, that the drum pattern and main string hook, the two most vital identifying parts of the song, were their own work, Ashcroft’s own work, and the sample was buried and barely audible, and that it was pure avarice that made Loog Oldham seize songwriting credits for himself, Jagger and Richards.
Rubbish. That whole sweeping string hook, the double-thwack rhythm of the drums, the stately pace, the swell and poise of Bittersweet Symphony all came directly from The Last Time.
Sorry dude but this is just factually incorrect, I just listened to the Loog Oldham track again and the most obvious memorable and distinctive hook in BSS (the violins over the top) aren't there. The drum beat is different as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
(We shouldn't be having this discussion, or even the "what is musical theft?" discussion in 2011, but that's by the bye).
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
(Probably not, no.)
Just listening to it again on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Y9qQnIPdk), and 48 seconds in the drumbeat, after wandering around a bit, falls into the same double-thwack pattern. The main string sequence is there but not the actual riff, to be fair. The bells, though, are totally ripped off both by McCabe's guitar line and, in the extended version, by the bell-laden middle section. The bassline's the same too. The piano line at about 1:40 is ripped off too.
Which is all to say that they steal more than just a tiny inconsequential bit that you'd never notice.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
had this argument a million times but one thing no one ever seems to remember is that tge Stones ripped the Last Time off from the Staples Singers btw.
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
uncredited too!
Haha, I didn't know that!
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1jGF-6bFpI
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(early gospel Staple Singers some of the best music ever btw)
I like to think JM would be amused at this thread devolving into a general discussion of plagiarism.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
never knew that about the last time, that adds a hilarious dimension to this
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure Allen Klein knew about it fwiw
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Oldham Orchestra track is about 1 million times better than the Verve rip. Primarily because there's not idiot sputtering about how hard life is when you're a millionaire.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
In fairness, he wasn't actually a millionaire when that song was recorded, far from it probably.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
again with the all musicians are millionaires thing
I'm pretty sure that prior to BSS Richard Ashcroft was not particularly rich
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh come on, don't you remember those press photos circa A Storm In Heaven with the band gathered in Sir Ashcroft's drawing room? He wore a fine top hat and monocle back in those days.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the rest of that andrew loog oldham orchestra album any good?
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Regardless of whether he had a million dollars in the bank at that point or not, his tale of woe over a stolen track rings hollow.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
why?
― just sayin, Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"tale of woe"? what song are you listening to?
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
surely the "slave to money" line is made even MORE ironic given the background/history of the song
Millionaires are only allowed to sing about how happy they are being millionaires. That's pop law.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This is derailing the discussion further, but ok, i'll explain. BTW, I realize this is a personal hang-up and not a universal argument, so I don't expect you to agree. It's the same problem I have with Trent Reznor and Morrissey. In the early days I could buy their anger and isolation but once they got huge, that type of lyric just didn't make sense. I greatly prefer instrumental music to vocal tracks as well, so there's that too. But in BSS I translate the chorus 'it's a bittersweet symphony, this life' to 'it sucks to be a rockstar doing tons of coke and banging groupies'.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but you can't find a good melody for that sort of lyric
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
look at Kanye now.
To be fair, BSS was the song that made Ashcroft a massive coke-snorting groupie-banging rock star (if he ever banged groupies). (As opposed to banging the girlfriends of guys in bands he was touring with / ripping off.) They really weren't huge before that song.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah thats why i dont understand brotherlovesdubs comments
― just sayin, Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It makes more sense if BLD is an American; the impact of that song was such that I assumed they'd been massive in the UK for a while and I was just now noticing them.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I dunno this image of Ashcroft is totally wrong/made up sorry
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
also just seems odd to me to assume that all lyrics (esp by someone like MORRISSEY wtf) are somehow first-person narratives
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
History hit number 8 in the charts after they split, but they really weren't big.; that was their only hit I think Dickie just acted as if they should be.
Similar talk of author-as-narrator-(or-not) in the PJ thread.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's touching, the belief that people wit fame and money don't feel angry and isolated, especially someone with a personality as toxic as Morrissey.
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Optimistic:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-TIXs-4-2-LCD-Soundsystem-132-MSG-/290525489357?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43a4ab28cd
― DL, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I prefer instrumentals to vocal tracks. That's the bottom line here.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i clicked on this thread trying to figure out why there's so many new posts when this record's like a year old and everyone's talking about "Bittersweet Symphony"?
― R. L. Steen's HOOSbumps (some dude), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Dickie Ashcroft a millionaire? In 1997?! Most of Verve were probably on the dole when BSS was being written in 96. They'd had a low selling album 2 years prior to BSS charting then split up almost as soon as it was released. Their position on the 1995 Glastonbury bill the summer they split was 4th between Veruca Salt and The Charlatans. On the small stage.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
did they end up with anything after the lawsuits?
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
they didn't get shit from BSS. every single penny went to Allen Klein/Jagger/Richards
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The credit inside the sleeve is to Jagger Richards. They thought about not even putting the song on the album at first. Can't blame them really.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Jagger/Richards also forced them to sell the song to Nike for a superbowl commercial. Ashcroft gave away their paltry share of the proceeds to charity.
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
then he banged some groupies and did another line
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess they still got album sale $?
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the funny thing to me is that the verve song the oldham song sound a lot like each other, and the jagger/richards song and the staple singers song sound a lot like each other, but the oldham song and the jagger/richards song, the two that have the same title and the same writers, hardly sound alike at all. if he had just released it as an andrew loog oldham song with a different title and kept the songwriting to himself, i can't see how mick and keef would even have had a clue that their song was somewhere in there.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I agree - I sure don't hear it!
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
'jamaca running' beat is a lot looser/clankier than 'dance yrself clean' if you compare them directly. if the pool were going to sue, then it would all have to hang on those two chord stabs and if they're distinctive enough as a composition; sorry, but nobody can say they 'own' two chord stabs.
― scraping Doritos off the wheel (haitch), Friday, 11 February 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no shit
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― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
It also has a massive Casiotone For The Painfully Alone debt (vox, lyrics, casio solos) which is not as obscure but I feel it much more.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing available
what the fuck is going on
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously. lame.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, there is 0 possible way it could have actually sold out in the approx 5 seconds btwn going live and me clicking "Find tickets"
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/lcdsoundsystem/status/36096706370080769
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
glad to know StubHub has like 900 tickets starting at $115 though
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kermit the frog homage
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
horribly annoying and gutting. of course i feel like a dick because i managed to get one during the presale, but it's in the mezzanine and i want to be on the floor plus my friends can't get tix so i'll be on my own.
― Gukbe, Friday, 11 February 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
this was an even bigger joke than the presale.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
one fucking pissed-off Stevie tbh
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem/status/36102603230294016
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing availablewhat the fuck is going on
lol guys this is honestly some ticketmaster 101 shit, if a show does NOT "sell out" instantly it's a surprise
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
this entire thing is a total joke, of course they're going to reform, but I still wanted tickets. Not sure why they can't have a second (or third) MSG show.
― skip, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this is happening:Fuck You Scalpers, Terminal 5 Shows Added:http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/647
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
totally superb post from the man.
― jed_, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Just finished reading that. James Murphy is awesome. His band is awesome. After these shows, can they please work on Nancy's solo album?
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
great post, james murphy seems like a quality guy
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know. I agree with the sentiment of course, but this "OMG! Scalpers!" stuff just seems weird to me. I can't believe that he's so naive that he wouldn't expect scalpers to be buying tickets. He says in that post that he thought the show might sell out in 10 days. Surely he must have expected scalpers to buy up a generous amount of the tickets if that was the case? Of course it sucks, but I feel like this faux naive we-had-no-idea-this-would-happen-honestly-guys stuff is covering up for a complete shitfest of a presale that should have had more thought put into it.
― Position Position, Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the problem is that nobody BUT scalpers got tickets.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
right -- and i got the impression that there were accusations that ticketmaster was colluding w/ stubhub + other scalpers which wouldn't be remotely surprising tho it does seem illegal
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
last night i went to an nhl game & taylor swift is playing two shows at the arena in a few months, and they had signs at the box office saying that "IF tickets for either show are still available after the 10 AM presale (which was today), we will be selling them on monday" and i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
wait you went to a panthers game? wow
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i did!
well, my dad is from buffalo & the sabres are playing also they're like a minor league baseball game w/ promotions so my ticket was free
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a great writer, not surprising from the guy who wrote "losing my edge" (though possibly surprising from the guy who wrote "pow pow").
― skip, Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect
arena shows have been selling out in less than a day since long before there stubhub, even before there was an internet. hello bruce springsteen. what's different in this case is that it's lcd soundsystem. and that it didn't sell out in a day or an hour; it sold out in less than 60 seconds. and that, lastly and sadly, there is now a stubhub. i'd remove that "sadly" if there was even a slight chance that the big venues and ticket agencies weren't colluding with them.
i thought james murphy's post was great.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
So uh did anyone get tickets for the Terminal 5 shows? The May 20 show seems to be sold out already and I can't find any other dates :(
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Checked out Stubhub just out of curiosity and though they start at $120 each someone's got 50 pit tickets that he's trying to sell at $350,000 each. I don't really understand the business model there.
http://www.stubhub.com/lcd-soundsystem-tickets/lcd-soundsystem-new-york-4-2-2011-1051789/?ticket_id=281524648
― DL, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not surprised they sold out so fast...there was a show in Chicago that I went to where I had to scalp a ticket, it too sold out in like 10 minutes. I'm just wondering how the hell they became so popular. You don't really hear their music on the radio do you? I mean they've always been kind of "underground" as far as I know. Or is Pitchfork really that influential? Not complaining...its awesome how big they are, but when did this start??
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Stating the obvious but I think what we're witnessing is just how corrupt the LiveNation/Ticketmaster system is at the stadium venue scale... a band that has sold an incredibly modest amount of records and had trouble selling out far more cozier venues on more than a few occasions, is now selling at a rate of the most hyped and popular acts in the world. It is fishy.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
where is pearl jam when we need them
― max, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
not on sale yet
the May 20 thing you're seeing is their show at Terminal 5 last May
new dates are march 38-31
not sure if I'm gonna bother trying tbh
― dmr, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
march 38 very rare leap year
Did they announce openers for T5?
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
he ripped the drums from a sorta boring song as part of the intro to his much more inneresting song.
so true, he got a bit from a crap song and made something that works amazingly. to suggest a slightly-interesting drumbeat IS the song is mentalness. same goes for bittersweet symph but to a slightly lesser degree
― NI, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
T5 TIX ON SALE
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Liquid Liquid opening first two showsShit Robot opening 3rd and 4th shows
Are these still on sale? I got tickets for the first night (Monday)
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of Springsteen, Springsteen really revealed the depth of Ticketmaster duplicity when, a few years ago, tickets for his shows started showing up at inflated prices, mere seconds after they went on sale, on secondary websites owned by Ticketmaster.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw them last weekend. Great show
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9Sv1JpmPs
― jed_, Friday, 4 March 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Bloody Brighton.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Friday, 4 March 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
This is cute
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/37eda2ce.jpg
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Regret never managing to see these guys live.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
so fucking good
really wish i'd seen them on this last tour
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The best live band I ever saw, without doubt. Just incredible.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks all.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Setlist from last night:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-2bd25426.html
Going to see them on Thursday night - have to get the train back to Princeton afterwards, and not sure I can face getting the 1:15am one, so might have to leave after 2 hours. Might be hard to make myself do that given that setlist, though.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
You Can't Hide (Shame On You)
AAARGH FUCK NO WHY CAN'T I BE IN AMERICA
― Neo Tony (sic), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, the show got over around 12-12:15. Just go get in line for coat check halfway thru the encore song and you should be fine.
It was totally amazing btw except that Liquid Liquid was surprisingly/disappointingly sloppy for a band whose whole "thing" is super, super tight grooves. But seriously, LCD played for three fucking hours omg
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41?
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Setlist from last night:http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-2bd25426.htmlGoing to see them on Thursday night - have to get the train back to Princeton afterwards, and not sure I can face getting the 1:15am one, so might have to leave after 2 hours. Might be hard to make myself do that given that setlist, though.
Wow this set looks amazing...always wanted to hear the 45:33 stuff live, and "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is such a great tune. I really really hope someone records one of these shows.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41? Yeah, I think you're right - but I think the previous train is 2 hours earlier, which would mean leaving around 11:15.
Amazing looking setlist, anyway.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I really really hope someone records one of these shows.
Pitchfork are streaming live the final show, but not archiving - hopefully someone captures it (if the limiting of cameras to enable more tickets means they're not going for a DVD-worthy version)
― Neo Tony (sic), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like it changed at some point; last train's at 1:22. You'll still be fine leaving at 12/12:30 though
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool. Would just be nice if there was a train halfway between 11:52 and 1:22 (and if that last one connected through to Princeton and I didn't have to take a cab from Princeton J). n.b. I do not live in Princeton, I'm just here for a couple of weeks, so apologies for clogging up this thread with NJ Transit discussions.
I'm sure that unless the Pitchfork stream craps out, many people will capture it. I'd be surprised if people aren't taping the T5 shows, too.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
penn station is not an awful place to spend the night if you bring a book
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Stevie, what time did LCD Soundsystem go on? My friend wants me to get there to line up at 7? :(
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Doors are at 6:30, LL at 8, LCD at 9. Went pretty on-time too
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yup, and the first train's at what, 5 a.m.? That's a good plan as long as you don't sleep through the PJX stop. Sunrise at Hamilton is no fun...not that I have ever done something like that before...
― skip, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
That was so fucking good. I thought it would have to sag at some point - maybe during 45:33 - but no, they really do have three hours of awesome material. Also sounded so much better than I'd imagined from the couple of bootlegs I'd heard. Amazing.
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh man I hope to christ there's a really awesome DVD of this being planned out.
― Clay, Friday, 1 April 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
where is Lance Bangs?
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm happy that i got to see them once esp while i was living in missouri of all places but am still bitter that i didn't get to see them on their last tour -- best live band i've ever seen easy
― J0rdan S., Friday, 1 April 2011 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
for fucking real
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
titus is the only band that rivals them for holy-fuck-how-can-they-be-this-good-wow-they're-in-their-prime-RIGHT-NOW-and-i'm-seeing-them-play awe
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
On the one hand I'm like so pissed I never got to see then play "Jump Into The Fire" live but otoh I have gotten to see them 3x, once at a sorta-secret show last year at a stupid tiny venue, once with Liquid Liquid, once with Light Asylum, all three times with "Yeah" in the setlist, once w/ "Dance Yrself Clean"; I mean I am p content
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i saw them right as the wave was starting to break for 'sound of silver' where they were playing a small stage at the festival but the crowd way outstripped the sidestage size and i was right in front with my jaw just chillin on my shoes
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's nifty bcz I feel like in 20 years being able to say "I saw LCD Soundsystem live" is gonna be like whoa
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
[doesn't say it]
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
/braggin2031
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
#futurebrags might be a good thread maybe maybe not I dunno
― Clay, Friday, 1 April 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw the Tuesday show - lots of fun, though after Reggie Watts joined him the "you can't hide - shame on you" part of the running mix, I kept hoping Aziz Ansari would show up to do a Morris Day/Jerome "hold up the mirror and then dance in unison" bit with Murphy during an extended instrumental section. Even if the big fun is planned for MSG, just watching them tear through for 3 hours was awesome enough. 'sucks' (on a very relative scale) that they didn't add the "jump in the fire" cover to the setlist until Wednesday, though.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah now I'm just really really hoping we get at least a good bootleg of the last show.
I saw them 3 times and I too got that feeling of getting to see a great band in their prime. First time there was a 20-minute "Yeah" that just blew my mind. It was so good that it was like...we drove 3 hours to see them and it was worth it just for that. Second time they segued "Yeah" into "Throw" which I had never heard before. Awesome. Third time there was nothing too crazy but they did play "Dance Yrself Clean" and "Home". It's ridiculous how popular they've gotten. Starting the show with "Dance Yrself Clean" was so great because everyone knew the song, everyone knew it was going to explode at some point (like three minutes in), so there was such an incredible tension in the audience (who had been waiting a while for them to come out anyway).
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think any moment at any show ever has my heart pounded with so much anticipation as it did during the last "aaaahhh" before the drop in DYC. The song's p dear to me to begin with and live it was just unreal.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i like LCD fine but i don't rly get all the "OMFG WE ARE SEEING THIS BAND IN THEIR PRIME RIGHT FUCKING NOW OMGGGG" hyperbole -- i've seen 'em i think four times over the years, and the best was the first time: they played a 2,500 person venue for some reason, tour for first album, and were only vaguely popular so MAYBE 400-500 people showed up, the emptiest i've ever seen that venue. i think the juan maclean and shit robot opened (both fantastic) and LCD killed it, but were certainly way less polished, more loose & shambolic than their touring machine is bound to be now. i guess the first show was 2003, 04 era. saw 'em a couple times on the sound of silver tour (once at a festival) and it was obvious they were picking up steam as a "legendary" live act, and the shows were fun but much more thought out, like a mini-arena show. and when i saw them late 2010 for the "final" tour (until the reunion in 5 years, amirite) it just seemed so stale and rote; i enjoyed a look back at "yr city's a sucker" and a couple other cuts, but seeing them plod through "someone great" "all my friends" "us and them" and horrid new cuts like "drunk girls" (so terrible on record AND LIVE), it seems like it really is time for them to call it quits.
tl;dr obviously, so i guess my point is that based on my experiences, they've been getting less exciting as a touring act over the years. much preferred when murphy got up there wasted and just fuckin went for it, nothing planned out so carefully. and now they are a well-oiled machine. and i'm not trying to be all "FIRSTIES!!!" or w/e, but it's probably much more thrilling if you didn't see LCD back in the first album era, right?
that's not to mention the first album + early singles is their best work BY FAR, and as their material has gotten less exciting i suppose their setlist has devolved as well. nowadays they'll pull out "daft punk" "tribulations" "movement" "yeah" and SOMETIMES "losing my edge" but those setlists w/ mostly everything from the first album + all early singles & B-sides were killer.
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― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
So you're saying that you were there before everyone else got hip to them and the old stuff is better.
― Mark, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Well I think most people would probably disagree with you. "Yeah" and "Losing my Edge" are total classic. "Daft Punk" is kind of...okay. Decent single fodder and it works well live because he re-did the groove of it somewhat. "Movement" is incredible live. Otherwise...the SoS and TiH stuff just strikes me as a lot better. "All My Friends", "Home", "Dance Yrself Clean", and "Us v. Them" just kill it.
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not a matter of "i was there first!!" (for bragging rights)
more like "i have seen this band several times in the past 7 or so years, and they used to be MUCH more entertaining live than they are now... why is everyone losing their shit all of a sudden?"
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Because they're breaking up. Did you miss that?
I like the new songs fine (and my fave non-hits are easily on Sound Of Silver) and enjoyed the concert, but the vibe was definitely pretty planned out and looking back, not a Right Here Right Now This Glorious moment thing - usually you don't have a giant wad of papers atop some drums for that. Of course, they were in the middle of a four concert run at one venue, too.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"the vibe was definitely pretty planned out"
i think this is what kinda kills the 2010-11 era LCD live show, for me
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
If the Talking Heads broke up around Stop Making Sense, I could understand if someone was like "honestly, I'm more glad that I caught them at CBGBS/Remain In Light Tour than that I caught this," but it shouldn't be a shock that people would want to see and be glad they saw Stop Making Sense.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah but otoh the Blonde Ambition tour was probably pretty planned out but also probably pretty awesome to be at.
imo.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
like I don't think that "planned out" negates any of the crazy energy/awesome musicians/great songs/etc.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
it probably does negate the "crazy energy" if you saw them in a more spontaneous time
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
serious question: ILXors of NY, did you guys actually see any of these shows? and if you've also seen the 2010-11 LCD farewell tour, which did you find "better" and why? i mean i can't imagine the MSG show will be any better than these!
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2004/tribeca-grand-new-york-ny-1bd249e8.htmlhttp://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2005/bowery-ballroom-new-york-ny-bd249ee.htmlhttp://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2005/nokia-theatre-times-square-new-york-ny-bd249ea.html
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
IDK I saw them in 07 (festival-type gig w/ Arcade Fire), 10 (tiny venue/"first show in 3 years" or something), and 11 (planned out, ew!) and they seemed to have crazy energy each time.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, did you actually see one of the shows people are talking about now?
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Murphy's made no bones about wanting to move on (and while I like This Is Happening, it's pretty much More Songs About Eno-Rock And Murphy's General Angst), so the idea that they're less intense than they were previously should be no more surprising than that people are psyched to catch them why they still can.
what exactly is the draw for that? I mean I like the idea of a band going onstage and not knowing what songs they'll do, feeling the crowd out and all that, but LCD have like 40 songs, many of them quite similar. What's the appeal of them being "spontaneous"?
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean sure, the farewell shows are a grand statement/farewell/nostalgia fest/masturbatory & overlong setlist/"cementing the status of LCD at the top of the 2000s canon" gesture, but i can't imagine who caught the band in 2003-05 actually ENJOYING these shows more than one of those early, tossed-off sets when the band was hungry, urgent and far more unhinged
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"Better" is objective; it's spectacle vs. intimacy. I mean, I am glad I saw them when they were playing songs like "All My Friends" and "Dance Yrself Clean" and stuff. Also, there's a difference between seeing a band that's new and pretty good and being blown away vs. seeing a band you're really familiar with and adore and being blown away and I definitely, definitely savor the latter much more.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i have not seen any of the Terminal 5 shows, no
i did see LCD at their most recent stop in Austin on the current tour, late 2010 i think?
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp jesus are you really that incapable of grasping the idea that some people have different priorities and interest and desires than you?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the show i saw, July 2010. total snoozefest compared to LCD five years earlier. wasted my $$, wish i'd have stayed home, no challops.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2010/stubbs-bar-b-q-austin-tx-2bd42cea.html
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
no, not incapable. i see, clearly, that people have different interests and opinions. i am asking WHY this is the case. especially for ppl that caught LCD before the big farewell hoopla all got started.
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I will note that I might have been non-plussed if they'd played that setlist instead of the three-hour-plus discography-spanning monster they did at Terminal 5
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
xp because they have better songs now and play tighter as a band??
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
was there any 'last tour' specific merch? any I WAS THERE t-shirts?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
they are playing a THREE HOUR set now, can they really not find time for anything from the back half of the debut album ("never as tired" "on repeat" "thrills" "disco infiltrator" "great release") or "beat connection" "give it up" "tired" "yr citys a sucker" i mean come onnnnn
"give it up" is a fuckin monster live, instead we get to sing along to "i can change" and "ny i love you but..."? god please spare me
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just kidding around b/c ilxor's one post read a little like an early LCD song itself.
― Mark, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
and they've gone from quite awesome early cover songs (siouxsie "slowdive"!!!) to doing a mash-up of "ny i love you" + jay-z "empire state of mind" loooool. like, people think this is a good thing?
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
but i was there
i was there when LCD Soundsystem played Siouxsie and the Banshees covers and early B-sides in 2005
:(
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
brotherlovesdub lol yes
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/lcd_soundsystem_40.html
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
okay im done being a negative nancy, you guys enjoy
honestly i'd probably buy a Terminal 5 ticket if i lived in NY, anyway, so fuck knows what im saying
NANCY WHANG SOLO LP NOW PLZ.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that mashup sucks, but besides that what? "Throw" was awesome. The thing is that the back half of their debut album is not really considered by many people to be as good as their later stuff. Just saying. "I Can Change" is a lot better than most the songs you mentioned
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They sucked when I saw them open for Daft Punk at Wireless Festival 2007. Like, a really bad performance. And I'll never get to see them again, ever.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay you realize they have FIVE album-length releases worth of material, right (first album, second disc of singles, sound of silver, 45:33, this is happening)?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"i can change" is among the worst songs LCD has ever recorded, a hugely cloying attempt at being nostalgic and touching, rivaled only by "drunk girls" as its parent album's worst track. quite honestly LCD goes downhill the more their songs skew toward trying to dance less, emote more. kinda pushed the boundaries of that with "someone great" -- which works (but barely), murphy is at his worst when he's trying to be an old softy
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
:O
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how you say "a hugely cloying attempt at being nostalgic" as if "Losing My Edge" like never existed or something.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
best possible MSG scenario would be murphy downing a 6-pack pre-show, another during; crumbling up the setlist after opening with "dance yrself clean" then ripping through every song they haven't rehearsed and played to death the past two years of touring
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought you were done being a negative nancy.
thankfully they skipped the "empire" medley
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
um those two songs couldn't be more different; "losing my edge" is murphy being lol-witty, "i can change" is murphy doing a lovelorn ballad
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
a "ballad" that is faster than "losing my edge"
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, LCD didn't rehearse or have a setlist for the first tour?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I do agree that "I Can Change" strikes me as a little insecure. But it's a great tune. Its kind of like some of the best stuff that OMD ever did. I mean not all his songs have to be epic dance rave-ups. He's got enough of those. Sometimes music is about more than getting sloppy drunk and tearing through a bunch of songs, you know?
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, i think your account upthread is off. shit robot didn't exist when LCDSS's first tour took place. Also I don't think they'd book a place that large on their first tour considering we got them in a 400 person capacity club... where do you live again?
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i had to really dig on Google for this, but found gig details
October 26, 2005 - Austin, TX
show preview: http://austinist.com/2005/10/26/tonight_lcd_soundsystem_at_stubbs.php
of note, sounds like it was 45 degress that night (v. chilly for Austin) which probably thinned the crowd out a good bit
also, it was DJ Shit Robot supporting, looks like ;)
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess the first show was 2003, 04 era.
it was 2005, clearly i was wrong. always seems like that debut came out earlier than 2005 dang it
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem with The Juan Maclean and Shit RobotWednesday, October 26Stubb's
^ Shit Robot at the show; DJ Shit Robot at the after-party (sorry)
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh... well, the 2005 shows were good, almost as good as the first two tours before that.
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i'm sure!
tried to see LCD at SXSW 2004 i think, but small club/ltd. capacity pretty much meant that was a no-go
didn't play austin again til Oct 2005
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Just think of the 110k people who saw them at Coachella a year and a half before you saw them.
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol alright alright, now yr just clowning me dude
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Cosign.
Listening to the live at Alexandria Palace album from last year now, and it just doesn't quite work; I suspect any bootleg from the final show will be disappointing. Something missing in the mix/the dynamics, I guess?
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the mastering on that live album pretty much sucked
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Was it one of those ones that's released a few minutes after the show? I guess that might explain it.
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also my copy won't play all the way through and they won't send me a new one :(
― Neo Tony (sic), Friday, 1 April 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I was at that Alexandra Palace gig ("I waaaas theeeeeeeereeeeee..." and I can confirm that they dropped the beat like a muthafucka on DYC and the place went nuts. I'll have to search the recording out to do a compare/contrast.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Saturday, 2 April 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'. My friend asked me if the song that sounded all 80s was my favorite and I was like "I can change"? yeah I like that song and she said she'd think of me fondly when they played it, cause I was already plotting my escape from the front of the crowd.
Is that Toby, originally from London? If so, hi!
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 2 April 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is Toby originally from London, but I'm afraid I don't know who you are...
In what sense did they stop twice for a half-hour DJ set?!
― toby, Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
jealous of virginia plain
― dmr, Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'.
no dj sets at the terminal 5 shows
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the stream of the MSG show supposed to be on PFork's main page? I can't find it.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, I guess Safari AdBlocker was killing it
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Do we have any clues/guesses as to what the final song will be?
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
they've closed like every concert since SoS with new york i love you, so probably that?
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a lot easier to hate, but watching this live stream the band is on par with "Stop Making Sense" Heads. For lots of obvious reasons, sure, but I can't think of many acts operating at this level.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
reminiscent, maybe. "on par"? see Stop Making Sense again.
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Still think the most recent album was a letdown, but I'm having a blast watching this/saying goodbye to 'em.
The band is amazing. James Murphy just seems to be inconsequential ringleader.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is a total just unbelievable blast
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Nancy Whang is on about her fourth wardrobe change now.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Besides David Byrne being a better/more iconic singer/frontman and the songs being a bit better, and a 25 year head start, sure, I'll still say more or less on par. "Stop Making Sense" is a much better movie than this stream, but band for band? Sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
how long as arcade fire been playing w/ them
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume there will be a v high quality bootleg of this online tomorrow
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
The AFers just came out for "North American Scum."
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
how many ppl are even on stage i mean
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I missed the first half hour of this, so I hope I haven't missed "Yeah." (And if they don't play "Yeah," well then...poor choice.)
Besides David Byrne being a better/more iconic singer/frontman and the songs being a bit better, and a 25 year head start, sure, I'll still say more or less on par.
so aside from the talking heads having a better singer and better songs, they're on par, i can deal with that
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
they haven't played "yeah" yet, jonny.
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, Talking Heads are my favorite band on many days. But I can at least recognize that this band is exceptionally great, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I can too, see upthread. I just think saying these guys are on par with Stop Making Sense is crack talk.
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I said on par with the band c. "Stop Making Sense." Which was of course much more than the core Talking Heads. And also not peak Talking Heads, mind.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, on that "Stop Making Sense" tour, how big were the places the Heads were playing? Not arenas, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
relax, i've conceded that if you ignore the disparity re: singer, songs, and stage act, this is on par with the band c SMS. Definitely a lot of people on this stage.
haven't watched the whole stream, aside from the alan vega cover and the arcade fire, has there been much difference from the Terminal 5 shows, setlist or stage show wise?
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
they added a cover i didn't recognize at the end of the first set.
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
He looks so exhausted up there.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
also I wouldn't say LCD are playing arenas so much as an arena
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Fair enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, I'm sure if the Talking Heads played a farewell show in NYC in 1983 it would have been in an impressively sized joint
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Central Park, no doubt!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep thinking that keyboard dude in the hat is Sam Rockwell
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
YEAH!
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Gavin Russom not on stage tonight? Or is he hidden somewhere in the back?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
murphy introduced him earlier so he's probably crawling around back there somewhere
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure he's on stage right now, wearing a white hat.
― toby, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope no one with easily trigger epilepsy is in the audience.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Have seen better performances of "Yeah" btw. That wasn't bad, but it's a shame they didn't bring the house down with it tonight of all nights.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol yeah there were strobe warnings at T5, and then there was a complete visual assault of like 5 minutes of intense strobing at the end of one of the sets
Totally downloading the video rip tomorrow but srsly nothing can rly come close to the live experience
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude wasn't exactly doing high kicks tuesday, but his voice definitely seems wearier, surprised how little the back-up seems to differ from what I saw at T5 - I figured they'd really go (wah wah) Stop Making Sense with the backdrops or something, but it looks like the same lighting rig from the stream
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i did hear they crowdsourced some airplane window footage, dunno if that's been displayed yet
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally agree re: "Yeah", thought the same thing at the time.
But yeah, feeling the bass/seeing shapes in your eyes from the strobing/observing everyone else going just as apeshit as you/all of the above, omg Jesus lawd god baby Jesus god
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
James appears to be totally spent. Yeah and Tribulations both suffered because of his exhaustion but this band, even without James, is top tier.
Who is the guy grooving in the white gas station attendant suit next to Gavin Russom?
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yeah" and "Someone Great" are 2/3rds of my holy LCD trinity...if they roll out "Losing My Edge" next, I won't know what to do.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
dude jf they've basically just added some covers to the T5 setlist, stop acting like this is a mystery: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-13d24d59.html
fyi i'm not sticking around to bitch about it or anything - they didn't add "jump in the fire" to the setlist until wed or thurs, and I'd love to see it tonight
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen a lot of signs lately at shows warning of "extensive strobe lights," which has made me wonder: if you are epileptic, do you have to call the venue first to see if there are going to be extensive strobe lights? Or do you just show up that night, see the sign, shrug and go home?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
O HOLY SHIT xp
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
dude jf they've basically just added some covers to the T5 setlist, stop acting like this is a mystery:
Man, I didn't even care about this until about 10 seconds before I decided to watch it, so it's not like I've been keeping track of setlists.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I see: Russom shaved!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, or did he?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
This is very important stuff!
Do think Al Doyle adds a lot to the band, in terms of movement and activity. I've seen them both with and without him, and with him is always more energetic.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, "We could do this for another hour ... I paid for this so I should know ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
He just ended Losing My Edge by saying 'we can do this for another hour if we want, I'm game'
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
We heard it slightly different but the sentiment is the same.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Just read on the LCD forums that Spike Jones is filming for the DVD release.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if i've ever been as gassed as murphy seems right now
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
like i am almost worried about him
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha before just checking wikipedia now I didn't connect that this dude is the same dude from Hot Chip
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
and yeah, without him on stage this really would just be a bunch of folks behind drum sets and white walls of keyboards
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch..
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Too bad JM has spent the whole set fucking with his earpiece.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
That's pretty par for a LCD show.
Poor James Murphy. You know you don't have to break up, guy! Just go on hiatus. It's easy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
FYI they cut 8 songs from the MSG setlist for the Monday/28th show
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Expected the crowd to be 99% white. Didn't expect it to be 99% male (though I don't know why I wouldn't have).
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
omg are they playing the twin peaks theme???
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
NY I Love You is the worst LCD song ever. Shame they close with it all the time. Guess it's a good time to leave and beat the traffic.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
NYC is overrated too.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Does Al drag that Telecaster behind the bus from city to city?
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Plz go choke on a black bean burger
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
r.i.p.
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It was a fun time these past few years.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Ya Brian you were a good poster and all sry you died
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
:( he had actual tears there. poor James. nicest DJ we ever had play for us.
rip LCD!
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 April 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
can't even bust out some blink 182 for this tbh :(
― markers, Sunday, 3 April 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
second time I saw them (Jan 2008) they had 1-2 AF members on stage every second song, but that was bcz they were travelling with the same festival
I've seen them both with and without [Al Doyle], and with him is always more energetic.
yes - saw them twice with, and twice without, and the first "with" was waayyyyy above a "without"
(though the second without was a Hot Chip double-header where Al didn't play with them, but Joe Goddard had stayed in the northern hemisphere, so he'd already had to be #2 in one band already. they only played two cities, and apparently he was playing in the wings for LCD in Melbourne.)
― it's in my backpack (sic), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Gender mix was more like 60/40 at the T5 show I went to.
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't really scope out the footage from this show but it is worth remembering that tall dudes would stick out more in pans of heads mid-stream
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgoooO-3MPQ
grab and save before 'they' shut it down!
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 April 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
WAU
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 3 April 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Ahem: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H66GH4LT
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 3 April 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
^ wow, that is a really good recording. Well done, whoever taped that. Sounds amazing.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
download. unzip. head straight for final track.have a little cry.
― mark e, Monday, 4 April 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
(Toby, I am the ilxor formerly known as Mary. How is America treating you?)
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.
As, dmr, you should have gone in my place! Unless you are jealous of my drinking endless vodka sodas while cursing my circumstances.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
(Hi Mary! America is treating me very well, although we are moving back to London in six months, in fact.)
I think you had a very different experience of the show than I did - admittedly a different night, but on Thursday they were off stage for under 5 mins before coming back for 45:33 (which admittedly is more instrumental, but hardly a DJ set...). I think they were offstage for under 10 minutes in 3+1/4 hours, in fact. But I found it pretty much the opposite of boring.
― toby, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they cameback 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 (thirteen years ago) link
like, sorry you didn't enjoy the show you weren't watching!
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.gavinrussom.com/photos.htmltop photo is the new 'white' look for Russom
― du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
- james murphy
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
"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 (thirteen years ago) link
some what?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
the quality of this recording is pretty incredible
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"drunk girls" still sucks tho
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
- 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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/54979628523208704
― markers, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5589439270_da74c68284_b.jpg
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
...is that aziz?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it is
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
alright i was hoping i wasn't on some http://www.thehomeplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ThatsRacist.gif shit
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
he apparently fucked his ankles up and got in trouble with security and shit!
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
- 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 (thirteen years ago) link
CanI getsometimealone...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that was the twin peaks theme before new york i love you, right?
― caek, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
in the meantime, there's always this.
― Gukbe, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
hell fire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FAUyrFWDvw
― piscesx, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
LIKE
― jed_, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUecSR_kCQs&feature=player_embedded
looking good
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
i did just that already once! looking forward to doing it again.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
The parts of this movie that shows the band & him interacting are so boring and uncool it really hurts me & almost ruins the idea of bands for me
― hello :) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
Like there is 5 minutes of him shaving while talking about being pretentious
― hello :) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
shaving? he always seemed so stubbly to me
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
It's on Netflix now.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 3 August 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link
Started watching it last night. Didn't finish. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 3 August 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
I got the Blu ray for the gig
― Gukbe, Saturday, 3 August 2013 06:47 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 04:28 (six years ago)
he musta heard you Josh..
― piscesx, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
Their best album imo
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
Yeah, you wanted the time but maybe I can't do timeOh, we both know that's an awful line but it doesn't make it wrong
― frogbs, Friday, 4 September 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link