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

^^^^ 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

this album's sequencing is so, so good

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

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"

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.

this is me listening to "One Touch":

O_O

^_^

\^_^/

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

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

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

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

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

falsetto!

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

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

omg, loving this so far

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

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

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

xpost

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

when i get to the end of this album i am going to try very hard to like this track just out of contrarianism

have fun with that

hey shut up, i am busy pre-emptively convincing myself it is great here