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

hahahaha LJ

this is a v fun song and u mad

u being anyone who thinks this is wack

good song

that single is so so bad :o

i dont understand why its earning so much dislike

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

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

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

this is kinda obnoxious

RIP Soundsystem

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

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

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

mm ok that makes more sense i guess

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

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

Love Family Fodder!

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

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

Is this a lyric or an ILE post?

It's the ILE board description now, anyway.

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

Nas: Hipper Than LCD Soundsystem

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

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

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

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

ok

i like this song.

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

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

lol

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

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

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

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

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

LCD Zingsystem

I like this song.

this song is gone ;_;

can you post mediafire links here

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

^^^

well, maybe not horrified, but it didn't have the wow factor of hearing anything off sound of silver for the first time. seems pretty clear that this is going to be an outlier though, still looking forward to the whole record.

can you post mediafire links here

No.

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

This song is great, you are all mad.

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

this is the lead single though unfortunately

which means 0 in 2010

could mean that there is more of this stuff

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

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

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

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

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

via their youtube channel

i have to imagine that they'll play at least a few (if not a bunch) of new songs at coachella in a few weeks

This is sorta the same way I felt about the first single from the last lp - "North American Scum" to me was horrible, and I thought 'what the F is this crap' for a first single. Then heard the album and thought it was great. But still didn't care too much for that song though.

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 12:42 (Yesterday)

agree with this after hearing drunk girls and that AWFUL pow pow song. horrible macho shouting with some background sneering. hope the rest of the album isn't like this.

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

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

jams murphy is in the gutter

i remember it were all beats around here

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