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

jeez guys, you can lead a horse to water...

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Jesus, they're terrible on this tour. The first 4 or 5 songs on this live show are awful, especially Daft Punk Is Playing..

Looks like they're saving it with Tribulations, but damn, what an awful start to a show. It's time they just did an album for Nancy.

Where did you see them?

I'm hopeful once the album is actually released they'll start playing a few more songs from it, going from that live footage.

i'm watchign the vid linked above. The crowd started getting into after Tribulations and Yeah, but if this is any indication, i'm gonna pass on this tour.

this clip gets awesome about 40 seconds in :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fn2Pl9mdw

yeah, the glasgow shows were pretty great. but maybe i'm a stan.

dissmissing them based on a video without seeing them live is a bit naff.

True. Have you watched the video? What did you think of the opening 4 tracks?

thought they'd be better live

Though I was disappointed with that live video linked above, I absolutely loved the 3 shows i've seen them perform with the exception of the NY I Love You finale which was super boring.

Do they usually close with that one? I'd be kinda disappointed if they did. Haven't seen them live since the first album.

NYI<3U finale was the best moment of the London show.

.. but i'd been kinda brought down by the rest of the show up till that moment and maybe i wasn't in the mood for dancing from the beginning, so ymmv.

the problem with seeing bands like LCD in London is everyone is their biggest fan so there's always a lot of pushing and agro, which just annoyed me. I got pretty over seeing bands in London..

aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal

the first 20 minutes of that video are mad zzzz

aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal

bugger. didn't notice that when i posted it.

I have seen them live twice, both they did NYI<3U finale, but both times were actually in New York so it was really cute.

that song is a bag of vomit, why are they ruining people's lives by playing it

first night in glasgow they ended with NYI<3U, second night they ended with All My Friends.

both times he then he dedicated the night to HI DERE

he then he = he then

hahaha I was just thinking "aaaaaaaaaargh no"

that doesn't quite have the energy they have live. i dunno man maybe it was all the drugs i took at coachella but it SOUNDED like a 100x better, not like they were performing in a garage or something. certainly there is an atmosphere to the show you can't capture on vid, but also the camera crew at Coachella was really good and with tens of thousands of people going apeshit it was certainly the best show i've seen in a long time

also the ny i love you finish was a little lackluster but their set got cut short a track or two so maybe it would have had a different lead in?

*that = that link above (watching now)

Oh, come on. That full concert linked above is totally the awkward, super-clean direct soundboard mix, or maybe the onstage monitor mix. If it's mixed at all. Totally not indicative of how this or any other band sounds live.

i gotta give credit to james for hanging it up as lcd after this album. he knew it was going to be diminishing returns after this.

is he actually going to do that?

ksh wins.

pff he predicted 9.0

Was anyone closer? I was assuming he was the closest.

loooool

micarl is correct, i said 9.0: http://pitchforkreviewspreviews.tumblr.com/post/598115992/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening

I know thats what you said! You were closest take the prize, dammit!

thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)

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thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)

― micarl, Monday, May 17, 2010 12:24 AM (1 minute ago)

irl lol

wow, very surprised about this rating (Pitchfork loves James Murphy). this album is great however and will buy it next week.

or i guess that means this week.

Have this on preorder from Amazon for $7.99, no tax or shipping costs. Not bad?

release date purchase !
first time in a long long time i have done that.
and unlike others here, i have not heard any of it, except the live later version of drunk girls, so hoping for a quiet afternoon @ work so i can just soak it all up.

9.2:

This is also by far the bloodiest LCD Soundsystem album-- a series of bare, lacerating manifestos about distance between people, set to the fizzing art/dance-rock greatest hits inside Murphy's skull. "Love is a murderer," he sings on "I Can Change". He's not kidding.

He's not kidding.

After all, Murphy has done what all other music fiends only dream about-- he's flipped the system and become the embodiment of coolness. This is a phenomenal coup.

This is also by far the bloodiest LCD Soundsystem album-- a series of bare, lacerating manifestos about distance between people, set to the fizzing art/dance-rock greatest hits inside Murphy's skull. "Love is a murderer," he sings on "I Can Change". He's not kidding.

I know critics are supposed to analyze words and all that shit, but COME ON.

wait a sec, *I* am an *actual* jerk? thanks pitchfork!

Listening to this album again for the first time since it leaked. Totally did not realize how much I loved these snappy synths in "Dance Yourself Clean"

I stopped by the record release party at Smart Bar since it's a block away and picked up the CD for a discount. Everyone looked about 22 years old. It's cool that a pudgy 40 year-old can still attract that audience. I should have bought tickets when they went on sale even though I don't plan to go, because they're now selling for $75 and up. Metro and other places have begun overselling shows again, and I'm sick of it. I hope it doesn't take more people dying in a fire to bring places back to code.