LCD Soundsystem

(of last night's first-show-back i should say)

I suppose I am glad to have them back, but I was a bit bummed their setlists have been pretty much song for song identical since reuniting, including last night at one of the Lollapalooza-related club after shows. I enjoyed it fine, but don't say you're getting the band back together because you have more to say or your work isn't finished or whatever and then hit the clubs and festivals with a set in stone setlist that pretty much feels like an exact continuation of what you were doing for but with less spontaneity. Also, the world weary shtick doesn't quite play as well after you've prematurely reunited. If you want to be back you've got to try a little harder to make it look like it was something you missed, imo. Murphy was good and sounded good, but he sounded most enthusiastic telling everyone that Derrick Carter was DJing downstairs if they really wanted to dance.

I listened to "Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up" this morning. They should start closing their sets with that instead of "NY I Love You"

Two new songs out today

http://www.factmag.com/2017/05/04/lcd-soundsystems-call-police-american-dream-stream/

If I had to play spot the reference (with a band that all but demands it), I'd say that "Police" song sounds a bit like the Psychedelic Furs (and would sound better with Butler singing).

a friend pointed out "Call the Police" sounds a bit like this '80s Fleetwood Mac number, which seems like the sort of thing Murphy would quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70FTf_OHuR0

"Call the Police" sounds like LCD meets Bowie's "Heroes" to me - there's even a Berlin reference in it. Love it so far although I wish the ending was a little crazier.

Still need to listen to "American Dream" some more.

he sounds like Wayne Coyne but i like it.

To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.

https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-call-the-police-lyrics

"Well, there's a full-blown rebellion but you're easy to confuse
By triggered kids and fakers and some questionable views
Oh, call the cops, call the preachers!
Before they let us and they lose"

i'm reaaally hoping that i'm misreading the 'triggered kids' line because that's a pretty meh move for him politically

the song is good imo but whew if he's not gonna get a bit of backlash for that

actually, changed my mind: talked to a friend and he pointed out that it's more likely the same lyrical shtick as All My Friends and Dance Yrself Clean, which is the whole "unreliable narrator relating to/critiquing an old guy complaining about the youngsters thing". i guess the ambiguity could still be read as kinda sus, but i'll pull back on getting on some high horse

Read the entire lyrics. I'm going to avoid any think piece on this for the rest of my life.

In 2017 it's ehhh.

does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?

lyrics are not great

the more earnest murphy's lyrics are, the more hit-or-miss they become

I like "American Dream" but boy is "Call the Police" tedious

To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.

― paulhw, Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday)

check this:
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?

He does.

I dislike this person, and the music he makes, greatly.

I find him very sympathetic, if you're interested in changing your mind perhaps this interview will be of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380

but I mean also just the guy who wrote Someone Great has to be a nice person

Call The Police sounds a bit like Oasis or Kasabian by the time it gets to the outro.

I've generally been happy with most LCD stuff but let's all acknowledge for a moment that the pre album 12"s, culminating with the besthingever "Yeah", is the real shit.

top 3 tracks are pretty easily Beat Connection/Thrills/Yeah, nothing else he did in the Beat Connection/Yeah sort of mode later really came close

I like the synth tone in Call the Police that's really evocative of YMO's Cue, but unlike when he's done this style in the past, it's not more than the sum of its New Order + "Heroes" parts - this time sounding a ton like Procession

the biggest change in either of these tracks is the way the drums are produced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC7SEkQX9U

Obviously going to be scorching thing to experience live.

call the police really grew on me—i think i've settled on really liking how it goes back and forth from romantic to punky, since the bass motorik is always there to keep you grounded

Yeah, that was great. Alas, I saw them on one of last year or so's reunion/club shows, and man, the crowd was so gross I don't think I can handle it again. That's my problem, totally, they were fine otherwise. Maybe the influx of new songs will change the dynamic.

what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?

I'm really enjoying Call The Police after that performance. I'm getting massive Ultravox vibes from it, especially the keyboards in the "and we don't waste time with love" part.

Who's the synth dude bopping away in the back?

Gavin Russom:
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

lol jed!

if you're going to tell us about it then do so. if you're not you may as well just post "i've got this records and you've not bitches!". whatever, i'm looking forward to this being released. i like these guys.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:24 PM (eleven years ago)

Ha!What a wideo.

I suspected that was GR but he's unrecognisable these days. I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in a baseball cap and t-shirt.

It looked like more of an ethnic fez or something to me....?

what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?

Essentially. Just total bro-dudes, light up sunglasses and baseball caps, collared preppy shirts, double fisting beers. Just ... gross.

I really was into LCD Soundsystem at the beginning when it was Murphy screwing around and liked that the project evolved into a live band and was good live, but it's one of those situations where I enjoy the music but feel like it's a consensus pick. As in, I wouldn't turn down seeing them live and appreciate new music, but I'm not clamoring for it?

Having a really broad, annoying crowd is one of the problems with consensus favorites. In closing, LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening

mh tell us more about your other favorite band, the dave matthews band

never got into those dudes, people seem to love them

I was there ... when Dave Matthews convinced his really good drummer to join his shitty band over drinks at Miller's Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia.

I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in an ethnic fez and t-shirt.

baldness

Watched that clip again, that truly is a ton of analog synth gear for like literally six or so notes. They should give Gavin maracas or something, like Bez.

Bez in a fez.

xp lmao i thought the same thing, i wonder how much of it they just did for prop value

LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening

lol this really sums up how i feel about this band anymore

I'm fine with bands being a consensus thing, just kind of weird that I became a mainstreamer

Love the band but especially the early 12"s.

Who's with me that "Shame On You" is one of the greatest things he's ever recorded and it's been criminally relegated to the shoes EP (and the middle of the live thing)...

https://j.gifs.com/1jlmYo.gif

Everything DFA/LCD/Murphy related has got worse the longer it's got since the departure of Tim Goldsworthy.

"Call The Police" sounds really busy and unfocused, how you gonna retire to run your wine bar for four years and come back with some half-assed bullshit

the interesting thing about the band to me was how they sounded like being in your 30s - music is so much about the teens and early 20s, the weariness of becoming an adult in dance/rock guise felt unique