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
― 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
― 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
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
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.
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
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
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