come on it's just one dude, every day he decides to jam on his keyboard at home, 'lcd soundsystem is back together'
― iatee, Thursday, 31 December 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Nah, he reunited everyone for that single. This isn't NIN or GNR.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 December 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
well he's nice enough to use the same people but if 'reunited' without and given band member, nobody would care.
― iatee, Thursday, 31 December 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
it'll probably be ok if they treat it similarly to how NIN did 'we took a break from touring like we said we would after our big farewell shows and now we're going to continue making music from where we left off' etc but if there's no plans beyond the festival circuit cashgrab and that dull christmas song it'll come across pretty sad especially after only 5 years.
― ufo, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
err 'if he reunited'
― iatee, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
and 'without any given'
― iatee, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
LCD could not successfully reunite Nancy or Pat
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
it'll come across pretty sad especially after only 5 years.
They only existed for nine years
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
oh noes the sublime artistic integrity of lcd soundsystem has been cheapened
― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
anyway when they split he said they'd play & record again, but he didn't expect to make albums and tour the same songs for 18 months again
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
yeah it would be cool if they just became a studio band from here on out, I thought it was the touring that really wore Murphy out
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
There's no "if" about the reunion. They're playing a whole bunch of festivals and perhaps other dates in the US and Europe this Spring and Summer, starting with Coachella and running until at least July. Coachella isn't even the only one they're doing in Southern California.
Not that any statement was necessary given how obviously premature and therefore faux was the purported breakup, but anyone who thought it wouldn't happen (or who invested any sort of significance in that MSG show) missed Murphy telling you at the time that it probably would. When he decided he wanted to soundtrack the NYC subway and realized that he needed a lot of money to do it (and a lot of money he's getting), it became a no-brainer.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Thursday, 31 December 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Not to suggest that there's nothing silly about investing any significance in a TNG Talking Heads knockoff with a more bearish, less bright frontman in the first place
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Thursday, 31 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
So this whole thing is to help fund his subway project?
― Position Position, Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
TNG?
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
it's a hairdressing term
― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh, star trek The Next Generation
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
gabbers has a point, tbf
― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
― Position Position, Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Does the fact that it might help fund a fairly-unlikely art project make you feel better about the idea that they're willing to be paid millions of dollars? I'm led to believe it was part of the impetus, or removal of indifference.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Thursday, 31 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
They were so sad when we broke upBut now they're mad That we're not
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Thursday, 31 December 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
he goes on a bit like but fair dos
http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/793
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
wow, really did not expect a new record to be part of this (or the motivation for it).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
He should set that post to music.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
Great footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8FjbOtwFA
― piscesx, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
(of last night's first-show-back i should say)
― piscesx, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 July 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
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"
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
Two new songs out today
http://www.factmag.com/2017/05/04/lcd-soundsystems-call-police-american-dream-stream/
― groovypanda, Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
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).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
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
― fits, Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
"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.
― yesca, Friday, 5 May 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
he sounds like Wayne Coyne but i like it.
― piscesx, Friday, 5 May 2017 02:24 (seven years ago) link
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, Friday, 5 May 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-call-the-police-lyrics
"Well, there's a full-blown rebellion but you're easy to confuseBy triggered kids and fakers and some questionable viewsOh, 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
― austinb, Friday, 5 May 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
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
― austinb, Friday, 5 May 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
Read the entire lyrics. I'm going to avoid any think piece on this for the rest of my life.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 5 May 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
In 2017 it's ehhh.
― yesca, Friday, 5 May 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?
lyrics are not great
― niels, Friday, 5 May 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
the more earnest murphy's lyrics are, the more hit-or-miss they become
― Josh (phantompenguin), Friday, 5 May 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I like "American Dream" but boy is "Call the Police" tedious
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
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)
― paulhw, Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday)
check this:delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
He does.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
I dislike this person, and the music he makes, greatly.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
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
― niels, Saturday, 6 May 2017 08:13 (seven years ago) link
Call The Police sounds a bit like Oasis or Kasabian by the time it gets to the outro.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 6 May 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― yesca, Saturday, 6 May 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
the biggest change in either of these tracks is the way the drums are produced
― ufo, Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC7SEkQX9U
Obviously going to be scorching thing to experience live.
― yesca, Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link