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

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.

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

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.

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

pretty sure they are songs

Like he's sold his turntables and bought guitars.

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.

people need to talk about 'one touch' more

^^^^^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.

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

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

Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record (nor the Liverpool Echo breaking news on it, for that matter)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/04/15/alex-abramovich/already-happened/

Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record

ehh it's kind of *exactly* the kind of record they'd cover!

Sam Lipsyte, who collaborated with Murphy before turning to fiction

i did not know this

For some reason the stream on the website just isn't playing this morning. I hit 'Play' and the first track gets higlighted but nothing ever plays and I can't' click on any of the other songs. Just me?

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

ya, thank you LCD Soundsystem for not wholesale abandoning the things that made me change my mind about you in the first place

Okay, apparently it just doesn't work in Firefox, working fine with Chrome.

I think I've become one of those people who will uncritically love any song that flaunts sinewave synths

xp: if you're playing it off the LCD Soundsystem website, I'm playing it right now via Firefox

Yeah I was on the official website, just never seemed to start. Oh well, got it going in Chrome now.

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

this is a really great moment imo