LCD Soundsystem

you're mad that a musican/label owner announced a new project in an interview?

― s1ocki, Monday, October 20, 2008 2:56 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

MAAAAAAAAD

lol, no it's just silly that of all people, james murphy had to announce a "classic rock" album. Just DO IT, dude.

LESS TALK MORE ROCK

classic rock: eno, bowie, talking heads

john cale

OH SHIT

You wouldn't be caught off guard by the new LCD album sounding like The Band?

LAST WALTZUH

they'll need a better rhythm section before they can sound like the band. and better guitar players. and better songs. and better singers. but other than that i wouldn't be too surprised.

Map of Africa did it, why can't they?

yeah i wouldn't be suprised if james murphy decided to go the band/fleetwood mac route. that's why i think it's dumb they even have to "announce" it. i mean look at the new hippy balearic thread, jaxon's west coast thread, etc, this stuff has been on people's radar now for a while now, it's not surprising james would grab the ball and decide to run with it.

surprised it hasn't happened more

yup

warning unwarranted and perhaps meaninglessly broad generalization ahead:

cali beach hippie balearic as the carefree flipside of disco?

Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?

Murphy, who will both produce and play bass on the disc...

...which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything.

"..which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything."

Don't think so.

Tracklisting:
Get Innocuous! (7:11)
Drums, Vocals, Programmed By, Piano, Synthesizer - James Murphy
Guitar - Tyler Pope
Vocals - Nancy Whang

Time To Get Away (4:11)
Drums - Patrick Mahoney
Vocals, Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy

North American Scum (5:25)
Bass - Tyler Pope
Drums, Vocals, Organ, Programmed By, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps], Guitar, Bass
James Murphy
Handclaps [Claps] - Eric Broucek , Marcus Lambkin

Someone Great (6:25)
Synthesizer, Programmed By, Vocals, Glockenspiel - James Murphy

All My Friends (7:37)
Drums, Vocals, Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Electronic] - James Murphy

Us V Them (8:29)
Bass, Guitar, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - Tyler Pope
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Patrick Mahoney
Vocals - Eric Broucek , Nancy Whang
Vocals, Percussion, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - James Murphy

Watch The Tapes (3:55)
Drums, Bass, Guitar, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy
Vocals - Patrick Mahoney

Sound Of Silver (7:07)
Drums, Vocals, Bass, Kalimba, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Synthesizer, Programmed By, Piano - James Murphy

New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (5:35)
Bass, Guitar - Tyler Pope
Cello - Jane Scarpantoni
Drums, Percussion - Patrick Mahoney
Guitar - Justin Chearno*
Piano - Morgan Wiley
Viola - David Gold (2)
Violin - Amy Kimball , Lorenza Ponce
Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer - James Murphy

not much of a refutation

in looking at his first album artist credits, looks like he had a wide array of players on there as well but with SOS he definitely moved more in the direction of a proper "band".

just saying he is not the lone wolf in a studio with no help that that post made it out to be

Performer [Fun Machine]

thing with knobs

what on earth is a 'fun machine'

What isn't it? It is GLORIOUS. You will bow down before Fun Machine.

http://www.antisleep.com/archives/images/blog/2005-05-09_fun_machine.jpg

anyway i'd say one song out of that lot is anything approaching a 'proper band', but whatever.

To whatever degree Murphy works in the studio, it's safer to say LCD Soundsystem are a band than a solo project. They are definitely James Murphy's band, but a band they are.

We could get into the "what exactly IS a band" argument if you want!

oh we really don't! seriously, this sounds like "LCD soundsystem frontman and drummer act as rhythm section for some other dudes"; it's a bit of a leap to "why didn't LCD just go classic rock already??" when he appears to be just, you know, playing bass rather than writing the songs and playing the majority of the music.

yep

though fwiw murphy doing americana would be unbelievable

dudes i think you are confused...hockey night had signed to DFA as a band...then there was some backstabbing and in-fighting and shit and the band broke up...but the two main songwriters stayed on as hockey night and still signed to DFA...they just dismissed the rest of the members...

so basically this is going to be the hockey night project with session dudes and murphey filling in for the ex-members of hockey night....if you wanna speculate one what it's going to sound like check out hockey night. this is wells and sprangers project not murphys'

Thank you M@tt! I wish you had posted the original news and not PFM.

it's not like they held a press conference or anything, they just talked about it in an interview!! what a weird thing to disapprove of

CAPTAIN SAVE A MURPHY

lol kidding, slocki, had M@tt posted this before I read the PFM story, I wouldn't have bothered reviving. Sorry guys

The rampant speculation in this revive is cute! And all basically over Hockey Night!! I listened to them in college one time; I thought they had a good name.

the LCDSS-goes-balearic dudes are in tears.

shasta u behind, balearicos moved onto classic rock 9-10 months ago

i'm so behind the times that i still don't fully understand what balearic even is. my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.

my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.

bingy

i mean bingo, oops

blingee

Guitar - Justin Chearno*

;-D

Bump.

aw smoochblende

I just noticed that if you go back to the original Pfork link above, they've put a correction in it now that states Murphy isn't even a member of the band, he's just producing and mixing the record! So I guess that settles that.

lol, so ridic.

wooooooooooooooooooow

hockey night just sounds like pavement. i guess that's classic rock nowadays?

We were thinking of doing something where we find a lot of the old disco singers in New York that might still be around from the 70s, and get them in as guest vocalists with LCD as a backing band, and tour around as a disco heroes style show.

yes it is

Hell yeah.

!

Not sure what human statue Noel Gallagher's doing on the sidelines there while everyone else enjoys it.

That felt a bit weird, didn't it? "I'm motivated enough to go and watch from the side of the stage but I don't want to be seen as liking it."

It’s been pointed out that Murphy was wearing a Beaver t-shirt (the Toronto bar/restaurant/venue co-founded by the late Will Munro), which is inexplicable and wonderful

"x-ray eyes" is really bad

maybe because its the first song he's written that didn't directly crib something from his record collection :)

saw them yesterday. they're still very fun. although to put it nicely you can tell they do everything live :)

a couple new songs it seems, including X-ray eyes. idk, still don't like the song, but it makes more sense live. they're kind of one marathon banger after another so its fine to have something simpler and shorter to bring it down a bit. the other new stuff seemed fine. I dunno if they really need to write any new songs at this point. even at 2 1/2 hours it felt like there were a number of tunes I still wanted to hear. Murphy's obsession with playing New York at every single show is getting kinda weird though.

saw them yesterday. they're still very fun. although to put it nicely you can tell they do everything live :)

Yup. I've seen them three times, and the second one was disastrous due to equipment malfunction - they had to stop the show many times. Murphy felt so bad about it that he told us during one such break that he would be giving us their newly-released album for free (albeit as a download).

there was a 5 minute break at one point this show too, pretty unclear what happened but Murphy was off the stage so I assumed he had to pee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLaOBMn4EA

^ that (the pool – jamaica running) + this chorus (alceu valença - anunciação) makes dance yrself clean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKyn9wrM_uM
(around 1:17)

The Pool rip feels blatant even for James Murphy. He might as well have sampled it.

yeah its his "Robot Rock", that said the song is all about that massive drop which is still unlike anything I've ever experienced live

They did *all* of the 45 33 album at a recent Brixton Sunday show. They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm. SO wish i'd seen that one.

Ideal time and length for a show.

5 minutes for a pee, relatable

I guess being old men now these shorter shows suit them otherwise I'd feel more justified in calling them the electroclash Phish

recently listened to pete shelley's homosapien album for the first time and was reminded that these guys are somewhat of a early 80s alt-electro tribute band

For sure

They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm

Wish this was every concert

They did *all* of the 45 33 album at a recent Brixton Sunday show. They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm. SO wish i'd seen that one.

Just checked setlist.fm and didn't expect to see that they played eight nights in total at Brixton Academy over ten days in June. Weird.

Just curious if anybody’s at the Toronto show tonight

Anyway if you are and you see a person of undeclared gender in a very cheap black dress and N95 by the right corner of the stage say hey

I never got the hype for them. Bowie and Talking Heads for the 00's?

I am cursed with this knowledge and now so must you be:

https://www.lsdclownsystem.com/

If you don't wanna click-through, it's the homepage for "AMERICA’S PREMIER CLOWN-THEMED LCD SOUNDSYSTEM COVER BAND".

I was at the Gathering of the Juggalos in '08 where they pelted Andrew W.K. with bottles of piss

Hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2FT_Si-d4

They are playing a winery tonight about 90 mins away to people they probably despise more than the crypto convention they played at.

"As a compromised, aggregate person
I'm amazed at my decision to play"

probably the same awful cobrasnake people, just older