Oh, glad to hear about the reissue!
― peace, man, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Haha, same! I missed out on the first one, so I was happy to see another chance.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
this makes their comeback even more bizarre. like did they even tour?
they recorded and released an album, and played 151 shows in 24 countries, visiting some of them in three consecutive years
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Wasn’t he saying they’re always on hiatus when not touring and just fire up when he makes an album? If he just finished building his personal studio I assume that might be on the horizon.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
Every act is essentially on hiatus between recording and touring. And there's no such thing as a legally binding breakup, though sometimes I wish there was.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
Supreme Court case #666: The People vs Motley Crue
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
I mean, maybe I'm just cynical enough to never take these retirements or hiatuses or break-ups as anything more than marketing in the first place, but it just seems weird to get particularly mad about any band doing this. People change their minds all the time, or they get in a better mental space to deal with the strain of touring and being in the public eye. I mean, yeah, LCD went to 11 with the drama and hype around that last show, for sure, but... I don't know. I just expect every band or artist who retires/quits/splits up while still relatively young to come back in some form or another.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
I mean it was understandable when you had people spending $1000+ for flight/hotel/tickets to see them at MSG knowing this would be "the last ever show" and then they wound up getting back together 6 years later and apparently playing a ton of shows afterwards. maybe *those* particular people had the right to be upset. idgi from anyone else though.
for me it was the fact that their sound was so ephemeral that made the reunion seem kind of weird. like they spearheaded a movement yes but by This is Happening it was all winding down and nearly all the DFA bands had broken up, it was loads of fun and maybe could've went another couple years but the entire message of LCD's music was "live in the moment because you know it can't last". Every interview with Murphy he'd talk about how he was getting too old for this shit. so yeah something just felt off about the comeback - yeah the album itself was quite good but there were a bunch of "we really doing this again?" moments
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
the very first LCD song was about getting too old for this shit
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
the context of him saying they're on a "full hiatus" is just he's not working on a new album at the moment & he doesn't have any intention of touring without new music
― ufo, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
My apologies for the poor context.
― yeah but how, Thursday, 15 July 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link
Pretty much agree, but even with my reservations, I had no objections to a reunion. As with most reunions, it's not going to be the same and it's probably driven by nostalgia, even it's been less than a decade. But I also think it's asking too much for groups or artists etc to permanently stop - if they really want to make music again or tour again, it's not always driven by money or greed, and that's fine. I went to one of the reunion shows, and it wasn't great partly because they had a shitload of technical problems, but by the end it was still fun. And even though they were harassed by some drunken douchebag, I'm sure the parents next to me were happy their daughter got to see them. (It was her first concert ever and she didn't know their music until it was supposedly too late to ever see them - she asked her parents if they wanted to go, not the other way around.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 15 July 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
Live Christmas special on prime and twitch right now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
Oh, this kicks ass. Thanks for the heads up!
― peace, man, Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
great timing
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 December 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
i was only able to catch a few minutes. anyone know if there's gonna be a replay?
― DT, Friday, 24 December 2021 07:40 (two years ago) link
i think it's on demand on prime
― ufo, Friday, 24 December 2021 10:15 (two years ago) link
The comeback album songs were actually really good on that!? I’m tempted to go back and reevaluate
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Saturday, 25 December 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
I don't remember the comeback album being bad at all. It just felt unnecessary. Three albums of LCD Soundsystem seemed to wrap things up just fine.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 December 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
it was decent but didn't really hold together as well as what came before, & a lot of it was just re-treading well-worn ground for them. some cool remain in light imitations though
― ufo, Sunday, 26 December 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link
It's a pretty good album. just kind of strange cuz I always thought of This is Happening as the "our time is up, we don't really have any new ideas, so let's just do what we do best one more time" album, so to hear them basically do it again is like...yeah, unnecessary. I never really wanted to listen to it.
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 December 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link
Have at it, at your leisure
https://uproxx.com/indie/lcd-soundsystem-shut-up-and-play-the-hits-10th-anniversary/
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
Sound of Silver is still the shit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
Again: He had the right to bring back his band! But LCD Soundsystem’s subsequent “reunion” (if we should still even classify it that way as this point) has transformed Shut Up And Play The Hits into a completely different film.
Not if you've completely ignored the reunion!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Somehow this author has written an embarrassing cri de coeur about how he is embarrassed by yet drawing attention to his earlier cri de coeur, becoming exponentially wack
― Freeze Instr., Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
funny that people seem to be realizing just now that LCD's audience was primarily made out of guys like James Murphy. I agree that the band's hangup with being cool and doing things "the right way" was obnoxious; Murphy treated his music career like a 12 year old imagining himself in the NFL. everything he does is so calculated and self-aware.
otoh they made a ton of great music, I'm listening to This is Happening now and it's still great. dare I say the best "we're out of ideas" album since Orbital's Middle of Nowhere? had he removed tracks 6-8 it would've been such an amazingly tight single LP.
― frogbs, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
now I just picture him goofy doing Clorox ads with Eric Wareheim. There's advantages to bleach! Advantages!!
― frogbs, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
I guess the upshot of seeing that malfunctioning show was seeing Murphy and the band NOT so calculated or self-aware. It was a bunch of guys really struggling and trying to get their equipment working, knowing full well they were letting everyone down. Like he seemed pretty damn humble offering the new album for free as a way of making amends.
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
At apefest vibing to lcd soundsystem pic.twitter.com/FcNVAekglz— jpegZoidberg (@BitcoinZoidberg) June 20, 2022
― Clay, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
the coins...are coming up from behind
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
Gotta pay the bills aintcha?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Lmao
when we needed him most pic.twitter.com/kSeu8vUeOb— LGBTQIA2S+ Enjoyer (@MyDudeDingdong) June 21, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
At least that performance seemed marginally more energetic than when the did SNL
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
Lmfao at both these charlatans and HAIM having their threads bumped for playing an NFT festival. They were always fuckin grifters and you critics were the mark
― imago, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:11 (one year ago) link
Forgive my glee
― imago, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:12 (one year ago) link
"Band playing a gig for money" is not what grifter means.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:15 (one year ago) link
Given the number of shows LCD probably played for audiences that were 90% coked-up trustafarians and finance bros circa 2005-8, playing a NFT festival is VMIC IMO.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
Same energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otc8CboPT2s
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
Where are your apes tonight??
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
bathing
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
NFT Soundsystem
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
https://zh-cn.facebook.com/TommySiegel/photos/a.814196891929314/2873115809370735/?type=3
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
just listened again for the first time in several years ... didn't get it back then, didn't get it when they were brand new and don't get it now.
what am i missing?
best thing i can come up with is i was born too early ('76) for this to hit right.
― alpine static, Monday, 29 January 2024 23:45 (three months ago) link
Nah, I was born in 1975 and it's fine. Think of it as an extended post-modern remix of all your favorite post-punk and art-pop or what have you all at once.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 23:50 (three months ago) link
They have a greatest-hits collection worth of classic songs. Like the Cars, say. (Ducks before the Cars stans start throwing things.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:24 (three months ago) link
They just announced some shows in Chicago - I saw them in November and it was awesome, more than made up for the last time I saw them when their equipment malfunctioned and they kept stopping the show in mid-song.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 02:26 (three months ago) link
they're reasonably good at synthesising all their hip 70s/80s post-punk/art rock influences into something distinct and compelling (if derivative, sometimes far too blatantly). they're at their best when the exact mix of reference points isn't so obvious though
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 02:43 (three months ago) link
I dunno, I think they're often pretty good when they're obvious. Like on "Home" or "All I Want."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 03:46 (three months ago) link
I tend to conflate them with the whole DFA stable. Those DFA compilations were crucial listening for me at the time.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 03:54 (three months ago) link
Those comps were super cool, not least the LCD tracks. I guess what set LCD apart is that they actually managed a few solid full-lengths as well.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 03:57 (three months ago) link