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

walking up to me expecting,
walking up to me expecting words...
it happens all the time

is the opening line of the record.

is it the bitrate thing? Or too much expectation? Or 'dude, it's just LCD Soundsystem'. I'm not feeling this record at all

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/lcdsoundsystem/webster/53.jpg

has the guy on the left lost his mommy?

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.

man, "Drunk Girls" is like exactly like "Loretta" by the Nervous Eaters

http://1000secretsongs.blogspot.com/2010/04/no630-nervous-eaters-loretta.html

"Drunk Girls" reminds me of QOTSA's "Monster In The Parasol" with touches of Neu!'s "Hallogallo"

yeah, in comparison to the tracks on the official site, the leaked ones i had sound fucked up and shitty.

the stream on the website sounds dooope

All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.

"Take me hooooome"

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

sorry, guys, but this album is endless.

After three listens the guitars and tempos are uninteresting and the vocals listless.

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

i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.

what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?

cold war kids

All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.

"Take me hooooome"

― 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.

i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.

― 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.

wrong david

what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?

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

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.

i think it's replayed, at least?

btw i had never heard of (the?) pool, but "jamaica running" is dope.

but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.

otm

That's some "Songs written by Bob Dylan"-level stuff if it's not credited.

All I Want sounds like a Strokes song that "would have been" with Nigel Godrich at the helm. Not a bad thing imo.

the vocals are mixed super low on most tracks, huh?

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, April 14, 2010 3:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^^was thinking the same thing

well, re the strokes. hadn't figured in the godrich thing

guitars are more here come the warm jets than strokes

(imo)

At least on "Dance Yrself Clean," yeah. I made a comment about this the day it leaked... dunno what I think about it.

ha it does sound like the strokes -- it has that same guitar-as-keyboard thing that they did on room on fire

Advantages to both!!

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 (2 days ago) Bookmark

First listen left me pleasantly whelmed.

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.

xxxp. totally ! this song just made me think of what the strokes might have sounded like if nigel had been kept on board.

hmmm I can see that

xp

i'm on my second listen and gotta say i'm pretty underwhelmed

^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album

people need to talk about 'one touch' more

^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album

― iatee, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

I lol'd.

"you wanted a hit" is so dope

Anyone want to explain why this is better than SOS?

The success of that album convinced him that what didn't work deserved to be extended and attenuated.

I don't know, I think this is pretty spectacular. Better than SOS? Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to tell, personally.

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

the template for this album is v much "someone great"

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.

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.