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

apparently the only new songs were 'drunk girls' and 'I can change'

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/09/lcd-soundsystem-rock-the-drunk-girls-at-surprise-brooklyn-gig/

OH MY GOD, someone sold me a ticket at face value (!!!!!!!!!!) and I got to see LCD Soundsystem at a venue that legally holds 498. And was undersold. They only played two new songs and most all of their singles including LOSING MY FUCKING EDGE. Was dancing so hard during "Yeah" I thought I was going to pass out. The opener (Light Asylum) was really good too. Accurately described as a "gothy Yaz" fronted by Grace Jones. Easily one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen in m'life.

great stuff stevie!

its a good album but people who disliked the more obvious homages in the past are gonna be hatin.
and yeah don't worry as with the last album, the single is by far the worst thing on it.

I think "Hit" is the worst thing on it. The way to not-write-a-hit is to write a good album track, not to write an altogether shit song.

But see, "North American Scum" was the *best* thing on the last one...

ugh son

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4506624028_48e8b873c7_o.jpg

Just beautiful.

I'm losing my mind.

Everyone keeps on talking about it/
But nobody's nailgunning tramps.

haha!

heh.

so who's *heard* the album? i scrolled down through this thread and sudenly everyone's banging on about crisp packets!

I'm listening to it now. It's better than the first, not as good as the last. It's like a trendier version of the last album with a lot more vintage equipment and a couple of New Wave, Cars-esque tracks that plod slightly. A lot of synth porn. The Bowie/Eno/Fripp homage/pastiche All I Want will annoy some people with its e-bowed guitars... But other than that it's ace. The opening track is a jam. It fucking explodes from Kermit the frog mope indie into some kind of monster Moog rave. One Touch is killer, acid-y Juan McLean style fare, I Can Change is Units/Devo style synth pop with more emotional Tyrell Corporation, New Order as done by Jams vocals and Joy Div Atmosphere style flourishes, the we-don't-write-hits of You Wanted A Hit is a bit awkward and sounds like Yellow Magic Orchestra that suddenly goes a bit New Wave/disco after a while and is a bit VICE mag, Pow Pow is a drum jam, heavily phased with lots of call and response like Yr City's A Sucker but takes too long to build despite having a nice punk funk bass line, Somebody's Calling Me sounds like The Normal or early Human League and Home is really deeply pleasant afro electro with a cocktails in a hammock listening to Martin Denny on valium vibe. There's a lot more of that tight harmony,

And Drunk Girls is one of the less good songs but isn't that bad...

Some other things it sounds like Dinosaur Sex by Family Fodder and Brainwash by Telex. In fact a lot of his vocal work has *always* sounded like Telex...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3a3Rc-0i2Q

the major homage/rip other than the White Light and Heroes Fripp guitar ones is the track near the end that is basically Nightclubbing

amazed by how much that telex song sounds like lcd

Guys you are making me so fucking eager and excited about this. I wonder if I can call DFA and tell them I'm a Very Important Person and ask to come in for a preview.

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Cannot stop listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc39KhINboI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXUup1bHRI

clip from the actual version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wBLnA4Gg4

entirety of the actual version.

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

Where where where???

not liking the shape of this new record

Circular?

Spherical? Babylon Zoo style?

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

dance yourself clean

pretty great

starts at about 33:10

Way worse than Drunk Girls IMO...

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

both new songs are totally amazing

ALL I WANT is just.. sensational. It's the b side of Drunk Girls and i thought 'well they're mad to have left THIS off the album'... but no it's on the damn thing as Doran points out.

Dance Yourself Clean is so good. I've liked all three of the songs that are out there so far, really excited to hear the whole thing.

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

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

anyone know the track used on clip 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-PDzTDhsI
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By the way I absolutely love that Telex song earlier in this thread. I downloaded the first three albums and they are just fantastic!

I love this place

clip 5 even

xpost to Kitchen Person :)

Check out Family Fodder too

Not crazy about these first three tracks though..prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode. He should've dropped this 'emotionally resonant' stuff and made another 45:33!

God I hope I'm not sounding like some change-contrarian, I just don't think he does these melodically-driven tunes so well. (See also, the Greenberg soundtrack).

Also, I Can Change lovers - look at how the tracklist structure mirrors Sound of Silver's successes (for its supporters). Longish dance-oriented song with a shifting arrangement to start (Dance Yourself is much more melodic though, Fever Ray comparison was right), into the snappier, accessible single. Track 5 seems to be shaping up as an emotional core/centerpiece for all his albums (Never Tired fits this I too, I would argue). Although he may be writing the wrongs of Sound of Silver's arguably less essential second side by putting Pow Pow at 7 (looking like an 'event' track, note Liverpool Echo preview and initial single release) and an upbeat tune at 9. The point is though, does I Can Change really measure up as this vital moment in the same position as All My Friends? Although we all heard All My Friends for the first time within the context of the whole thing leaking at once, so maybe Change will seem more impacting once we've heard the whole thing properly in full quality.

prefer LCD in dancefloor-banger mode.

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

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

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

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

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

This thing leaking or what?

Looks like it must have just, actually...

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

Yeah that's where I'm seeing it. Maybe since I'm hopping on it so early I'll get some ratio boost for once. That freeleech helped a ton, though.