haha you just shifted the focus expertly
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
ah jeez that charlatan is broadening his taint
kegel abuse
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
you're mad that a musican/label owner announced a new project in an interview?
― s1ocki, Monday, October 20, 2008 2:56 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
MAAAAAAAAD
lol, no it's just silly that of all people, james murphy had to announce a "classic rock" album. Just DO IT, dude.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
LESS TALK MORE ROCK
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
classic rock: eno, bowie, talking heads
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
john cale
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
OH SHIT
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
You wouldn't be caught off guard by the new LCD album sounding like The Band?
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
LAST WALTZUH
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
they'll need a better rhythm section before they can sound like the band. and better guitar players. and better songs. and better singers. but other than that i wouldn't be too surprised.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Map of Africa did it, why can't they?
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i wouldn't be suprised if james murphy decided to go the band/fleetwood mac route. that's why i think it's dumb they even have to "announce" it. i mean look at the new hippy balearic thread, jaxon's west coast thread, etc, this stuff has been on people's radar now for a while now, it's not surprising james would grab the ball and decide to run with it.
― oscar, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised it hasn't happened more
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
yup
― oscar, Monday, 20 October 2008 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
warning unwarranted and perhaps meaninglessly broad generalization ahead:
cali beach hippie balearic as the carefree flipside of disco?
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?
Murphy, who will both produce and play bass on the disc...
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
...which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"..which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything."
Don't think so.
Tracklisting:Get Innocuous! (7:11)Drums, Vocals, Programmed By, Piano, Synthesizer - James MurphyGuitar - Tyler PopeVocals - Nancy Whang Time To Get Away (4:11)Drums - Patrick MahoneyVocals, Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy North American Scum (5:25)Bass - Tyler PopeDrums, Vocals, Organ, Programmed By, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps], Guitar, Bass James MurphyHandclaps [Claps] - Eric Broucek , Marcus Lambkin Someone Great (6:25)Synthesizer, Programmed By, Vocals, Glockenspiel - James Murphy All My Friends (7:37)Drums, Vocals, Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Electronic] - James Murphy
Us V Them (8:29)Bass, Guitar, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - Tyler PopeDrums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Patrick MahoneyVocals - Eric Broucek , Nancy WhangVocals, Percussion, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - James Murphy Watch The Tapes (3:55)Drums, Bass, Guitar, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer [Casio] - James MurphyVocals - Patrick Mahoney Sound Of Silver (7:07)Drums, Vocals, Bass, Kalimba, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Synthesizer, Programmed By, Piano - James Murphy New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (5:35)Bass, Guitar - Tyler PopeCello - Jane ScarpantoniDrums, Percussion - Patrick MahoneyGuitar - Justin Chearno*Piano - Morgan WileyViola - David Gold (2)Violin - Amy Kimball , Lorenza PonceVocals, Guitar, Synthesizer - James Murphy
― oscar, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
not much of a refutation
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
in looking at his first album artist credits, looks like he had a wide array of players on there as well but with SOS he definitely moved more in the direction of a proper "band".
― oscar, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
just saying he is not the lone wolf in a studio with no help that that post made it out to be
Performer [Fun Machine]
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
thing with knobs
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
what on earth is a 'fun machine'
What isn't it? It is GLORIOUS. You will bow down before Fun Machine.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.antisleep.com/archives/images/blog/2005-05-09_fun_machine.jpg
― Bimble, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway i'd say one song out of that lot is anything approaching a 'proper band', but whatever.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
To whatever degree Murphy works in the studio, it's safer to say LCD Soundsystem are a band than a solo project. They are definitely James Murphy's band, but a band they are.
We could get into the "what exactly IS a band" argument if you want!
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
oh we really don't! seriously, this sounds like "LCD soundsystem frontman and drummer act as rhythm section for some other dudes"; it's a bit of a leap to "why didn't LCD just go classic rock already??" when he appears to be just, you know, playing bass rather than writing the songs and playing the majority of the music.
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
yep
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
though fwiw murphy doing americana would be unbelievable
dudes i think you are confused...hockey night had signed to DFA as a band...then there was some backstabbing and in-fighting and shit and the band broke up...but the two main songwriters stayed on as hockey night and still signed to DFA...they just dismissed the rest of the members...
so basically this is going to be the hockey night project with session dudes and murphey filling in for the ex-members of hockey night....if you wanna speculate one what it's going to sound like check out hockey night. this is wells and sprangers project not murphys'
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you M@tt! I wish you had posted the original news and not PFM.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it's not like they held a press conference or anything, they just talked about it in an interview!! what a weird thing to disapprove of
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
CAPTAIN SAVE A MURPHY
lol kidding, slocki, had M@tt posted this before I read the PFM story, I wouldn't have bothered reviving. Sorry guys
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The rampant speculation in this revive is cute! And all basically over Hockey Night!! I listened to them in college one time; I thought they had a good name.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
the LCDSS-goes-balearic dudes are in tears.
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
shasta u behind, balearicos moved onto classic rock 9-10 months ago
― max, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm so behind the times that i still don't fully understand what balearic even is. my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.
bingy
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean bingo, oops
blingee
― santa fe springs eternal (get bent), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Guitar - Justin Chearno*
;-D
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Bump.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
aw smoochblende
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I just noticed that if you go back to the original Pfork link above, they've put a correction in it now that states Murphy isn't even a member of the band, he's just producing and mixing the record! So I guess that settles that.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, so ridic.
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
wooooooooooooooooooow
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
hockey night just sounds like pavement. i guess that's classic rock nowadays?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
We were thinking of doing something where we find a lot of the old disco singers in New York that might still be around from the 70s, and get them in as guest vocalists with LCD as a backing band, and tour around as a disco heroes style show.
― fela cooties (haitch), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yes it is
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Sampling is already cheeky! Sampling is post-modern. Cribbing is not cheeky. I get as bothered on this topic about Schnittke Symphony 1 as I do about “Drunk Girls”
― in an aeroplane under the sea (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:42 (two months ago) link
Xp lol otm
early singles and first album are still great and fun. after that... i really love "someone great." that's it unfortunately― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:20 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkjuan maclean, however, nothing but excellence― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:21 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:20 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
juan maclean, however, nothing but excellence
― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:21 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Agree with both of these posts.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:48 (two months ago) link
Still think "Yeah" is one of the best tracks of the 00s, so I still consider myself a fan of this band
― silverfish, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:52 (two months ago) link
Has he ever talked about ripping off bands in interviews? Like, does he go up to his bandmates and say this one is like David Bowie, or this one is like talking heads?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:05 (two months ago) link
Writing a new song over a replay of an old song felt more interesting before every big pop song was doing this (or at least including blatant references to big hits of the past). Looking at it charitably, it's not that different from Jamaican "versions" and sometimes results in great songs (sometimes not).
The Dance Yrself Clean / Jamaica Running thing was pretty sus if they didn't credit the songwriters/publishers right off.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:21 (two months ago) link
Always thought the most effective aspect of LCD was the sense of time and place - the 2000s stuff captures the feel of being ~32. Not music to be played while partying until sunrise but while drinking a couple of beers or glasses of wine and remembering when you were partying until sunrise (and the bands that moved you when you were 22).
Everything I've heard post-reunion (which is not a ton tbf, it's been so bad I'm not going to search out more) has been very going through the motions.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I file them along with Sleater-Kinney, or maybe the Pixies. Really liked phase one at the time, no interest in the reunion.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
I don't know if the s/t is considered an album, but it's my favorite of theirs. "Daft Punk," "Tribulations," "Beat Connection," "Give It Up," "Losing My Edge," and "Yeah" are all classics. There's a raw energy to those early recordings that captures the magic of their live performances better than the future studio albums.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:15 (two months ago) link
Not sure what tainted their legacy more: the tedious "last tour/show/residency ever" (which they've done twice or 3x?) or more recently the late-stage crypto/NFT cashgrabs.
All that said, "Beat Connection" is the song I'm always surprised I still like when it comes on shuffle.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
I actually just keep getting more into LCD Soundsystem. I enjoyed the first two albums when they were fresh, and I like them even more now.
It definitely helps that I don't have a huge vocabulary with his influences. I don't even WANT to know all the artists he lists in Losing My Edge, etc. Sometimes they're really obvious to me and sometimes they're not. Agree that the one that sounds like Heroes is probably too on the nose and it was a little disappointing when I realized just how hard he was leaning on other artists. However, there are a few where I definitely felt LCD's version was an improvement on the source material; I'm not going to listen to Kraftwerk's Robots, but I love Get Innocuous. Disintegration is one of my favorite Cure songs and Tonite is one of my favorite LCD Soundsystem songs and the similarities don't bother me at all.
The records I listen to most are The Long Goodbye and Electric Lady Sessions. Definitely a band that benefits from the looseness of live performance.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:23 (two months ago) link
first time I saw them they ended with a 20 minute version of "Yeah", nothing they did the next two times I saw them was anywhere close to that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link
I made this playlist a few years ago based on a reddit (I think) post that matched up all the This Is Happening songs against the originals. It's pretty interesting hearing them side by side like this
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=e29f861113514b6d
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:44 (two months ago) link
It makes its point, since a few of those are absolutely blatant, but imo a couple of those are stretches as direct analogs, ironically because the LCD songs are ripping off several songs at once. For example, "Drunk Girls" reminds me of "Boys Keep Swinging" by Bowie as much as "White Light/White Heat." I don't think "Pow" sounds particularly like "Born Under Punches," and I don't think "Home" sounds like "This Must Be the Place," but both sure as heck sound like the Talking Heads. And so on. I'm surprised he's never been sued, regardless - other acts have for sure been sued for far less - which makes me think he maybe worked something out with various estates and/or friends?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
And of course North American Scum =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
the reference points of "all my friends" are pretty obviously new order (specifically "temptation") + eno but that synthesis works very well, it isn't blatantly ripping any one thing
otm, with a Pink Floyd reference thrown in.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:06 (two months ago) link
I think that's why I always appreciated the band. It's a synthesis. Like, when I listen to, say, bands like the P. Furs, I hear a synthesis of Bowie, VU, Roxy Music and the Pistols. When I hear the JAMC, I hear the Ramones, Phil Spector, Beach Boys, Stooges, etc. I'm not suggesting LCD is on par with either of those acts, or as novel in its synthesizing, but like those others there's more than enough personality that I would never confuse it for its source material. (See also: Zeppelin.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:12 (two months ago) link
Also, they were a real gateway drug into dance and electronic music for me, in that there was so much live instrumentation and I could understand what was going on more (this was when I was starting to mess around with making music on a computer but really had no idea what I was doing or how things were made).
I feel like the interpolations are similar - they're never going to sample a record, they don't work like that, they're going to do it with their chosen toolbox. I like that even though it sometimes veers into ripoff territory. It's great when it works.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:22 (two months ago) link
I made this playlist a few years ago based on a reddit (I think) post that matched up all the This Is Happening songs against the originals. It's pretty interesting hearing them side by side like thishttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=e29f861113514b6d― nate woolls, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:44 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nate woolls, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:44 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Thanks for this. "The Bus" is a banger.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:09 (two months ago) link
I don't think "Pow" sounds particularly like "Born Under Punches," ― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 2:50 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 2:50 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Is it just the little electric guitar riff every 8 beats?
― Indexed, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:19 (two months ago) link
Nothing much to add except Someone Great is my favourite song of all time. Just rooted itself in me instantly with that hook and all that sadness. Can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard it. Have so many associations with those first two albums (and yeah I do consider the self titled to be one). Ex of mine actually introduced me to them by putting Never as Tired As When I’m Waking Up on a mix CD for me which, in retrospect? Not that representative of their style!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:25 (two months ago) link
s/t is totally an album; i thought the singles were collected as a "bonus disk" but the first disc was a "proper" album
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
"Someone Great" will always remind me of Bumble and I dedicate that song to him.
M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:33 (two months ago) link
*Bimble
Spell check strikes again
I saw James Murphy creeping around The Four Horseman, the restaurant he owns in Brooklyn, when I met a buddy for brunch. He did look as if he'd lost his edge.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link
I didn't mean to bookmark, so; M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link
Yeah Someone Great is an incredible tune, floored me the first time I heard it. Even if everything else sucked he’s classic for that alone. And it’s more or less an original isn’t it?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:49 (two months ago) link
He ripped off 45:33 for it
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:06 (two months ago) link
Lol
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
Poor Nike
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:18 (two months ago) link