LCD Soundsystem

time to get away

does he take him to task for making a big deal out of "splitting up" what is really a one-man band?

― frogbs, Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:08 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha if an ilx music journo ever interviews murphy please please ask this question

the live band was about nine people plus crew on the last tour, and he said he was "splitting up" the band inasmuch as they were going to stop making albums and touring, but would probably still record a bit and maybe play shows in NYC. hardly a disconnect.

ya but the 'splitting up' narrative requires multiple people who you care about and want to see together

I demand you acknowledge the importance of Nancy Whang.

oh yeah, I mean the live band is great, but it's not as though say Murphy plus the entirety of Hot Chip and other random labelmates wouldn't be basically as good. Still, Murphy is one of the most self-aware musicians we've ever had and kind of an idealist to boot so I can see how this is really a big deal for him, "it has to end this way, otherwise LCD's legacy isn't going to be what I want it to be"

did he say 'splitting up' or 'retiring'?

Oh man I just saw SUAPTH and it was really tender and awesome

Is the Blu-Ray for SUAPTH already OOP? I haven't had any luck finding it in stores and it's only coming up on Amazon through secondary sellers. Weird.

http://store.dfarecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/suapth

anyone get the live show vinyl box set? i'm wondering how it sounds compared to the 5.1 on the Blu Ray.

I'm not going to hate, I can't hate, and I probably never will hate: listening to this band is like listening to many of my favorite things all at once. Aging well.

One of the best live acts I've ever seen

^^^^ x3

Glad he broke them up to make a record with IBM and design speakers.

listening to this band is like listening to many of my favorite things all at once

OTM

This is nice http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/james-murphy-premieres-new-song-we-used-to-dance-listen/

why are there 20 lcd soundsystem threads?

anyway, listening to All I Want, just realize it's maybe even more of a John Cale song than All My Friends

realized*

Say...remember when you LOST your EDGE?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/lcd-soundsystem-will-reunite-in-2016/

sooner than i expected.

(was bound to happen at some point though !)

Mind you, denials already flying:

https://twitter.com/krisdfa/status/652194317491118080

aaaand now he's protected his tweets

screenshot?

basic gist:

There's no way in hell that LCD Soundsystem are getting back together in 2016! Don't you have anything better to do in between Frank Ocean and Grimes releases than printing rumors from message boards?

they made a fucking film about how they were fucking off and never playing a note of their fucking music ever again, fucksake

yr going to have to up your sweary resentful rube shtick after that turrer de force in the 1975 thread

just such utter crumpetcunts

And now there's Billboard in on this

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6722636/lcd-soundsystem-reunion-2016-james-murphy

WHO KNOWS

Reunion? I didn't even know they broke up!

wine bar not working out eh

it's OK here's pitch4k to ruin everyone's fun

http://pitchfork.com/news/60997-lcd-soundsystem-not-reuniting-despite-reports/

Update – 4:00 p.m.: DFA Records, the label co-owned by Murphy, has issued a statement denying the band’s plans to reunite. Despite this, our sources stress the band intends to reunite next year, and we stand behind our original report.

Ha. Don't stop believing CoS.

"it's OK here's pitch4k to ruin everyone's fun"

more like make nice to their label friends when the PR hits the fan

it's happening

it wd be v lame if it happened so soon

like the whole final show thing was remotely believable in the first place

also if it were happening it'd be p rude for DFA dude to be so insulting abt it!
i'm sure it'll happen at SOME point but after only 4 years?

they made a fucking film about how they were fucking off and never playing a note of their fucking music ever again, fucksake

Murphy said at the time it was the end of them as a make-an-album, tour-the-album band, that he would probably do stuff under the name in the future, and released music as LCD Soundsystem the following year iirc.

Cool maybe this time I will hear something that makes me understand why they were so big in the first place

this is different than whatever it's advertising in that commercial of him playing music in the subway right?

New song for Christmas??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kPH2MJzlg

"Christmas I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down", way boring

It's the worst type of song they do. So dull.

Outside of New York how many songs like that have they done? Agree it is pretty dull

last album had a few

ah maybe not actually, i was thinking of dance yrself clean and "somebody's calling me" but i guess something kinda happens on those

so... the reunion is happening after all? coachella one off?

Outside of New York how many songs like that have they done? Agree it is pretty dull

'Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up'?

ahhh, but I dig that one!