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

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

that's not an official video is it?

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

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.

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

Pow Pow video.

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

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

that's sold it to me

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

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

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

Anybody heard the London Sessions or the Alexandra Palace thing?

London Sessions is alright. Nice version of Get Innocuous.

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.

Whole album's his tribute to the Berlin records.

What do you think, Ned?

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 :)

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

like us

and not them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bLRk35_0-Y

over & over again xpost

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

think yr kinda on yr own there

it's a position I'm used to

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

and also awesome

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

it's a position I'm used to

good Prince title imo

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).

think yr kinda on yr own there

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

HE ISN'T

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

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

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

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

djp, otoh, uh, is, v much.

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

I loved the second one but I never, ever want to play it whereas this one gets constant rotation. It's a victory lap record like Graduation: "Drunk Girls" is a better "North American Scum," "Home" a superior "All My Friends," and "Dance Yrself Clean" just breathtaking on its own merits.

yeah i haven't listened to this in a minute, but i still totally love it. alfred otm re all those tracks

the quick lil in studio live thing they put out a few weeks ago is really great imo -- nothing jaw dropping of course but it's cool to hear them tweak songs around a bit + recording is hi-fi

it has this super funky take on "daft punk" that is pretty much the only recording of the song that i can stomach atm

http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/lcd-soundsystem-london-sessions.jpg

ooh

I'm still trying to understand why I recoiled from their performance at the Fillmore two months ago.