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

xp Plz go choke on a black bean burger

r.i.p.

It was a fun time these past few years.

Ya Brian you were a good poster and all sry you died

:( he had actual tears there. poor James. nicest DJ we ever had play for us.

rip LCD!

can't even bust out some blink 182 for this tbh :(

how long as arcade fire been playing w/ them

second time I saw them (Jan 2008) they had 1-2 AF members on stage every second song, but that was bcz they were travelling with the same festival

I've seen them both with and without [Al Doyle], and with him is always more energetic.

yes - saw them twice with, and twice without, and the first "with" was waayyyyy above a "without"

(though the second without was a Hot Chip double-header where Al didn't play with them, but Joe Goddard had stayed in the northern hemisphere, so he'd already had to be #2 in one band already. they only played two cities, and apparently he was playing in the wings for LCD in Melbourne.)

Expected the crowd to be 99% white. Didn't expect it to be 99% male (though I don't know why I wouldn't have).

Gender mix was more like 60/40 at the T5 show I went to.

I didn't really scope out the footage from this show but it is worth remembering that tall dudes would stick out more in pans of heads mid-stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgoooO-3MPQ

grab and save before 'they' shut it down!

WAU

Ahem: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H66GH4LT

^ wow, that is a really good recording. Well done, whoever taped that. Sounds amazing.

download. unzip. head straight for final track.
have a little cry.

(Toby, I am the ilxor formerly known as Mary. How is America treating you?)

The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they came
back but it was so boring that I didn't notice? I think breaking up the sets like that was NAGL.

As, dmr, you should have gone in my place! Unless you are jealous of my drinking endless vodka sodas while cursing my circumstances.

(Hi Mary! America is treating me very well, although we are moving back to London in six months, in fact.)

I think you had a very different experience of the show than I did - admittedly a different night, but on Thursday they were off stage for under 5 mins before coming back for 45:33 (which admittedly is more instrumental, but hardly a DJ set...). I think they were offstage for under 10 minutes in 3+1/4 hours, in fact. But I found it pretty much the opposite of boring.

The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they came
back but it was so boring that I didn't notice? I think breaking up the sets like that was NAGL.

i'm kind of amazed someone who imagined 2 half-hour DJ sets in a show that featured no DJ sets would still be offering their opinion on the show's quality.

like, sorry you didn't enjoy the show you weren't watching!

not to mention that if you were "plotting your escape" before they played "I Can Change" you were plotting said escape before the third song in the setlist

Ah, sorry guys, I really didn't realize that they had come back! No offence. It was really hard to see once I decamped from my original position.

Who was the long haired dude behind the keyboards/playing drums maybe at one point/etc? It doesn't look like Gavin Russom but maybe it is?

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Not Russom - he looks like this now:

http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/index.php?/archive-2011/270211-w-gavin-russom/

http://www.gavinrussom.com/photos.html
top photo is the new 'white' look for Russom

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Ha yeah I keep trying to find YouTube clips to show ppl and stuff and I just keep thinking "it wasn't like this at ALL"

Can someone please list all the musicians who were playing with LCD on the last show even if they just played on one or two songs?

Thanks in advance.

- james murphy

listening back and the crowd react on the bass drop in 'us v them' is so fuckin rad

crowd reaction during the hits (less so for the B-sides, though people were grooving) was great throughout.

"i was there in jamaica during the great soundclashes--yah mon"

"i'm losing my edge to better looking people with better ideas, and more time, like, seriously, i mean they have a really good web plan, and some SCHA"

^^^ lolz

some what?

its a pretty untranslatable 'ok drop in now, guys' yelp

the quality of this recording is pretty incredible

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

works a bit better live but is still boring in live recordings

HG! remix is p dope tbh

http://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/54979628523208704

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5589439270_da74c68284_b.jpg

...is that aziz?

yeah it is

alright i was hoping i wasn't on some http://www.thehomeplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ThatsRacist.gif shit

he apparently fucked his ankles up and got in trouble with security and shit!

Wait... Nancy's last name is pronounced "Wong", not "Wang"? This really shakes up everything I knew about the universe.

I know. That sort of blew my mind too. Maybe that's what the 'h' does. Thanks for the full list of musicians xxxxpost.

you're all wong

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone
- edwin butler
- william butler
- régine chassagne

Can
I
get
some
time
alone...

that was the twin peaks theme before new york i love you, right?

Yes.

Any word/news on the DVD of the final show? I want to re-experience the "Dance Yrself Clean" drop over and over again