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

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generally do not advocate audience recorded youtube videos (and in truth this one is as bad as most of them) but they debuted (afaik) Dance Yrself Clean last week and it looks like it was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfxffFt3VEU&feature=player_embedded#!

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 26 September 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm avoiding listening to anything from this album again for a quite a while after seeing that video for Home.

du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 27 September 2010 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't know what it is, the colour grading, or how everything is framed, or something, but it looks like a bank commercial.

― Popture, Saturday, 25 September 2010 05:20 (2 days ago)

so true. this video makes me feel uncomfortable and 'marketed' at. shame it had to happen to my fave song on the album

NI, Monday, 27 September 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link

They were just okay last night. Murphy shouts too often.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean

it's a terrible video but how is it ruining the record for anyone

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't see what's so terrible about it

crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link

that's not an official video is it?

Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link

what's with all the nu-yuppies in that video?

2+2 is 4 (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 8 October 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Not so much the video for me just reminded me i haven't listened to the album for quite a while and didn't inspire me to do so.

du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 8 October 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link

so far behind on this album, but
did anybody else say that 'drunk girls' sounds like a bastardized cover of 'boys keep swingin' yet?

social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 October 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Pow Pow video.

Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link

SORRY, WE'RE UNABLE TO OFFER THIS VIDEO TO USERS IN YOUR REGION.

Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

http://pitchfork.com/news/40613-video-lcd-soundsystem-pow-pow/

piscesx, Friday, 5 November 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link

that's sold it to me

Owner of a Homely Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link

http://pitchfork.com/news/40613-video-lcd-soundsystem-pow-pow/

SORRY, WE'RE UNABLE TO OFFER THIS VIDEO TO USERS IN YOUR REGION.

Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link

yea i have no idea why but i really like that video. "pow pow" was one of my favorite songs on the record, maybe that has something to do with it

a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 5 November 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Anybody heard the London Sessions or the Alexandra Palace thing?

Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link

London Sessions is alright. Nice version of Get Innocuous.

Number None, Sunday, 14 November 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this is $1.99 on amazon mp3 right now

i never heard an lcd soundsystem record before

it's pretty good, he likes david bowie i think.

kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Whole album's his tribute to the Berlin records.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link

What do you think, Ned?

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Whole album's his tribute to the Berlin records.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah yeah, "riding on the metro" totally :)

kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link

overall this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music

kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link

like us

lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link

and not them

lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link

over & over again xpost

markers, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link

I haven't felt the urge to play anything on this album since a few weeks after it leaked. Complete dud, imo. Sound of Silver covered all the ground this one covered but better every step of the way.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link

it's held up for me, and a lot of the songs have really grown...i think the only thing holding it back is the sound of the record. the tones of most of the instruments (drums especially, i guess) are on the generic side, not as huge as on the s/t or as raw & vintage-y as on SoS.

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link

Opening track, I Can Change, and closing track are as good as anything he's done, and Drunk Girls is great fun. Everything else here is good. It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.

Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

I play way more songs off of this than I do off of SoS, which I edited down to an amazing 4 track EP

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link

It's better than the debut for me, but not quite as outstanding as SOS.

― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:49 PM

I completely agree with this. I still get a lot of This Is Happening, it will be very high in my albums of the year list.

Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link

i'll have to get sound of silver, i dig this so far.

kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link

S0S has four songs that are way better than this and a bunch of ignorable shit on it

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

or it's wall-to-wall awesome. only one way to find out!

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link

DJP, is your 4 track SOS EP: Get Innocuous, Someone Great, All My Friends and Us V. Them?

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Get Innocuous, North American Scum, Someone Great, Us V Them

I really, really really REALLY hate "All My Friends"

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link

think yr kinda on yr own there

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link

it's a position I'm used to

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, North American Scum is a gimmicky bullshit track just like Drunk Girls. They're both pointless and annoying.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link

and also awesome

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link

North American Scum is the fun parts of Daft Punk Is Playing At My House with the irritating sections removed and a fun "NORTH AMERICAN!" chant thrown in

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link

it's a position I'm used to

good Prince title imo

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Walking around Greektown and the UIC campus in Chicago last month on a crazy windy day while listening to this really opened up the album to me. I like it better than the debut (I gather we're not including the second disk of singles there) & yeah, I think I'd put it on before Sound of Silver at this point. also lol @ "this is like a record that is for people with Good Taste In Music" & that was pretty much exactly what I thought on that day in Chicago (& naturally felt kinda self-congratulat-y which is a good feeling to afford yourself once in a while, delusionally or not).

Euler, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link

think yr kinda on yr own there

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:46 (8 minutes ago)

HE ISN'T

rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link

but don't you hate everything they've ever done?

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link

no

some of their songs are ok...Yeah, Get Innocuous and Someone Great really have good things about them...but All My Friends, just no.

would complain about this being the sound of mediocrity winning but it ain't worth the argument now, they're gone, and the million copyists will have to be fought instead

rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

lj/djp bitter hatred of that song is inexplicable to the point of lol

i can understand the cale cover, the hua hsu (iirc) exegesis and other tributes seeming excessive, and the central piano motif will irritate some people

and yet ppl hate it worse than cancer & hitler

lex eduction horror (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link

hey lj i don't think yr old enough to appreciate the sentiment of all my friends, tbh

djp, otoh, uh, is, v much.

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

forgetting the lyrics entirely, it has a keening preening manipulative tweeness and a strict, stupefying adherence to the melodic/narrative tenets of new order that drive me to dislike exceptionally quickly - it's big and cloying and inevitable

gospodin sim gishel (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link


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