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

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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

dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link

sorry, guys, but this album is endless.

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link

cold war kids

dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

wrong david

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Dominique, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link

i think it's replayed, at least?

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

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link

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

otm

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

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

skip, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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, 14 April 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link

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

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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

GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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

GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link

guitars are more here come the warm jets than strokes

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

(imo)

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

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

rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Advantages to both!!

Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Dwight Yorke, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

oscar, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

hmmm I can see that

xp

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

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

dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link

people need to talk about 'one touch' more

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^^ more evidence this is an awesome album

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

I lol'd.

rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link

"you wanted a hit" is so dope

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Anyone want to explain why this is better than SOS?

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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

rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

When I listen to LCD Soundsystem it's for the punk-y numbers like "Tribulations," "North American Scum," and "Daft Punk...," not "Yeah," tbh.

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link

imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this. this is funnier and it just feels like it has more life to it.

'one touch' is 'get innocuous' with a bite, 'home' is 'all my friends' w/ more subtlety.

I dunno, I love SOS and maybe will change my mind in half a year when I've played these songs to death too.

iatee, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link

imo sound of silver sounds sorta drab compared to this.

i had this thought too

to me it definitely seems like jams dialed back the ambition and adventure but wrote great "songs" in a rockist sense

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link

pretty sure they are songs

emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Like he's sold his turntables and bought guitars.

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link

there's a 15 minute instrumental version of "dance yourself clean" titled "in the pool (no bass)" that jams made for a fashion show or something.

jed_, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link

people need to talk about 'one touch' more

Dominique, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^^^this. It's easily my favorite on the new album. For me it harkens to the glory days when every other DFA remix was hot snot on a silver platter. Can't wait to hear it in a dance setting.

Fetchboy, Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link

pretty much digging this except for somebody's calling me, which is a bona fide dirge.

the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Hmm...I wrote this off after the first listen. I'll try again.

seandalai, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link


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