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

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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

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/

ketchup scam (useless chamber), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Sam Lipsyte, who collaborated with Murphy before turning to fiction

i did not know this

just sayin, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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?

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link

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

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link

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

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link

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

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

this is a really great moment imo

GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link

this album's sequencing is so, so good

iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link

hahaha "Drunk Girls" being "North American Scum Part 2" is even more blatant in context

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link

actually more like "North American Scum and It's Time To Get Away had a baby and named Daft Plunk Is Playing At My House its godfather"

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:29 (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.

want to hear this.

both of the previous lcd soundsystem albums have been v patchy for me - 2 or 3 songs that i love, the rest forgettable. this, on the other hand, is awesome. i'm having trouble restricting myself to 3 listens a day.

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

absolutely - might be my favourite thing on the whole record. it brought an absolutely huge grin to my face on my first listen.

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

this is me listening to "One Touch":

O_O

^_^

\^_^/

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link

like seriously, I am listening to the song and this is all that's going through my brain:

http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dance3.gif

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link

upthread when you were wondering if you would like it or not I was gonna say "well, regardless, you'll like 'one touch'"

iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link

"All I Want" is kind of annoying. This is the one that had the most "All My Friends" comparisons, right?

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link

You can't go wrong when Nancy Whang starts shouting. It's like only the best DFA tracks are deemed Whang-worthy.

gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link

lcd slash-system

kind of bummed that "I Can Change" isn't a cover of the song from the South Park movie

woah wait dude sounds great on this, like better than I've ever heard him sing

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link

falsetto!

GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link

I love that "You Wanted A Hit" sounds like LCD Soundsystem pastiche

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link

POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW

http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dance3.gif

oh lol this is the "we have a black President" song, hahahaha

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link

omg, loving this so far

thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link

"Somebody's Calling Me" is a big pile of nonsense, huh

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

i've never liked them outside of the singles before but that first track is like: fucking hell

how many songs is 'one touch' quoting then

thomp, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

I was going to say: "Wait till you hear the one that sounds like `Nightclubbing.'"

xpost

Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

oh I am so so glad that he realized ending the album with the downtempo half-baked joke of a song idea from Sound of Silver was a terrob;e idea

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link


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