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

ilxor, i think your account upthread is off. shit robot didn't exist when LCDSS's first tour took place. Also I don't think they'd book a place that large on their first tour considering we got them in a 400 person capacity club... where do you live again?

i had to really dig on Google for this, but found gig details

October 26, 2005 - Austin, TX

show preview: http://austinist.com/2005/10/26/tonight_lcd_soundsystem_at_stubbs.php

of note, sounds like it was 45 degress that night (v. chilly for Austin) which probably thinned the crowd out a good bit

also, it was DJ Shit Robot supporting, looks like ;)

i guess the first show was 2003, 04 era.

it was 2005, clearly i was wrong. always seems like that debut came out earlier than 2005 dang it

LCD Soundsystem with The Juan Maclean and Shit Robot
Wednesday, October 26
Stubb's

^ Shit Robot at the show; DJ Shit Robot at the after-party (sorry)

Oh... well, the 2005 shows were good, almost as good as the first two tours before that.

oh i'm sure!

tried to see LCD at SXSW 2004 i think, but small club/ltd. capacity pretty much meant that was a no-go

didn't play austin again til Oct 2005

Just think of the 110k people who saw them at Coachella a year and a half before you saw them.

lol alright alright, now yr just clowning me dude

I don't think any moment at any show ever has my heart pounded with so much anticipation as it did during the last "aaaahhh" before the drop in DYC. The song's p dear to me to begin with and live it was just unreal.

Cosign.

Listening to the live at Alexandria Palace album from last year now, and it just doesn't quite work; I suspect any bootleg from the final show will be disappointing. Something missing in the mix/the dynamics, I guess?

the mastering on that live album pretty much sucked

Was it one of those ones that's released a few minutes after the show? I guess that might explain it.

also my copy won't play all the way through and they won't send me a new one :(

I was at that Alexandra Palace gig ("I waaaas theeeeeeeereeeeee..." and I can confirm that they dropped the beat like a muthafucka on DYC and the place went nuts. I'll have to search the recording out to do a compare/contrast.

Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'. My friend asked me if the song that sounded all 80s was my favorite and I was like "I can change"? yeah I like that song and she said she'd think of me fondly when they played it, cause I was already plotting my escape from the front of the crowd.

Is that Toby, originally from London? If so, hi!

Yeah, this is Toby originally from London, but I'm afraid I don't know who you are...

In what sense did they stop twice for a half-hour DJ set?!

jealous of virginia plain

Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'.

no dj sets at the terminal 5 shows

Is the stream of the MSG show supposed to be on PFork's main page? I can't find it.

oh, I guess Safari AdBlocker was killing it

Do we have any clues/guesses as to what the final song will be?

they've closed like every concert since SoS with new york i love you, so probably that?

It's a lot easier to hate, but watching this live stream the band is on par with "Stop Making Sense" Heads. For lots of obvious reasons, sure, but I can't think of many acts operating at this level.

reminiscent, maybe. "on par"? see Stop Making Sense again.

Still think the most recent album was a letdown, but I'm having a blast watching this/saying goodbye to 'em.

The band is amazing. James Murphy just seems to be inconsequential ringleader.

yeah this is a total just unbelievable blast

Nancy Whang is on about her fourth wardrobe change now.

Besides David Byrne being a better/more iconic singer/frontman and the songs being a bit better, and a 25 year head start, sure, I'll still say more or less on par. "Stop Making Sense" is a much better movie than this stream, but band for band? Sure.

how long as arcade fire been playing w/ them

i assume there will be a v high quality bootleg of this online tomorrow

The AFers just came out for "North American Scum."

how many ppl are even on stage i mean

I missed the first half hour of this, so I hope I haven't missed "Yeah." (And if they don't play "Yeah," well then...poor choice.)

Besides David Byrne being a better/more iconic singer/frontman and the songs being a bit better, and a 25 year head start, sure, I'll still say more or less on par.

so aside from the talking heads having a better singer and better songs, they're on par, i can deal with that

they haven't played "yeah" yet, jonny.

I mean, Talking Heads are my favorite band on many days. But I can at least recognize that this band is exceptionally great, too.

I can too, see upthread. I just think saying these guys are on par with Stop Making Sense is crack talk.

I said on par with the band c. "Stop Making Sense." Which was of course much more than the core Talking Heads. And also not peak Talking Heads, mind.

Come to think of it, on that "Stop Making Sense" tour, how big were the places the Heads were playing? Not arenas, right?

relax, i've conceded that if you ignore the disparity re: singer, songs, and stage act, this is on par with the band c SMS. Definitely a lot of people on this stage.

haven't watched the whole stream, aside from the alan vega cover and the arcade fire, has there been much difference from the Terminal 5 shows, setlist or stage show wise?

they added a cover i didn't recognize at the end of the first set.

He looks so exhausted up there.

also I wouldn't say LCD are playing arenas so much as an arena

Fair enough.

Also, I'm sure if the Talking Heads played a farewell show in NYC in 1983 it would have been in an impressively sized joint

Central Park, no doubt!

I keep thinking that keyboard dude in the hat is Sam Rockwell

YEAH!

Is Gavin Russom not on stage tonight? Or is he hidden somewhere in the back?

murphy introduced him earlier so he's probably crawling around back there somewhere

Pretty sure he's on stage right now, wearing a white hat.