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

Okay I've completely turned myself around on this song. Even more concise and loveable than North American Scum. As for influence-spotting musical references, I hear early 80s Belew-Fripp in the solo and as the song crescendos I'm immediately reminded of one of my favourite bands, Stereolab - the juddering two note bassline, analogue synth drone, vocal harmonies. I'm going to listen to it again.

Eno meets The Jam..

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

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

pretty psyched for this

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

die antwoord need to fucking answer that back tbh

I don't think that line was directed at africa

oh ok it was directed at france then

a country that has a president

'we have herman van rompuy'

bad song

i really love "All My Friends," "Something Great," and "Get Innocuous," from Sound of Silver, and a bunch of the other tracks are solid, so i'm still going to check this out probably, unless the critical consensus is that it's awful

critical consensus will have this album of the year dude

it's LCD Soundsystem ffs

it's LCD Soundsystem's final gift to a fucked-up world

a world where nothing is certain except JAMES MURPHY and his uncanny ability to fuse rock and dance music into universal art that packs a real groove!

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

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

hahahaha LJ

this is a v fun song and u mad

u being anyone who thinks this is wack

good song

that single is so so bad :o

i dont understand why its earning so much dislike

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

This is actually worse than I was expecting. :-/

It's like he aims for The Cars but just lands short like a yodeller with laryngitis.

this is kinda obnoxious

RIP Soundsystem

maybe i am deaf but this doesnt sound so far removed from anything else theyve done that itd be received with so much derision

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

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

mm ok that makes more sense i guess

i dont think this is great but ive only listened to it a couple times--seems pretty fun/in-keeping with stuff they do. i can hear the britpop but i dont hate britpop so it doesnt bother me.

I get what Lex is saying but it's far too effete to be called any serious kind of beer boy anthem. It's quite similar to White Light/White Heat' as done by Lodger Bowie at demo stage or live. Got hints of glam Eno, Wire AND Family Fodder! (And, yeah, it reminds me a bit how I felt about tracks like... Tapes and North American Scum when I first heard them.)

Love Family Fodder!

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

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

Is this a lyric or an ILE post?

It's the ILE board description now, anyway.

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

Nas: Hipper Than LCD Soundsystem

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

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

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

I do get that this is a logical extension of his aesthetic/fits within the oeuvre but that's not a reason to like the song imo

ok

i like this song.

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

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

lol

caek you'll notice I didn't trash the song - I merely said it reminded me of an Elton Motello classic

but yeah you are right to be stoked - I might even like it this time!

the fact that you think this song sounds anything like the elton motello song makes me think that you have some bizarro sound filter in your head when it comes to lcd soundsystem

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

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

Yes.

Any word/news on the DVD of the final show? I want to re-experience the "Dance Yrself Clean" drop over and over again

All the youtube footage I've gone through doesn't quite live up to my memory of that drop.

in the meantime, there's always this.

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.

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.

hell fire!

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

LIKE

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

looking good

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 ...

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

He broke up LCD so that he'd have time to reform them and break them up again.

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

I really wish the DFA DJ Rotary Mixer was actually happening. No news for a year seems to indicate it's never happening

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 08:23 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

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.

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.

i did just that already once! looking forward to doing it again.

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

Like there is 5 minutes of him shaving while talking about being pretentious

shaving? he always seemed so stubbly to me

It's on Netflix now.

Started watching it last night. Didn't finish. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I got the Blu ray for the gig

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 (six years ago)

he musta heard you Josh..

Their best album imo

Yeah, you wanted the time but maybe I can't do time
Oh, we both know that's an awful line but it doesn't make it wrong