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

and people who download leaks buy more albums than your average anyway, so chill

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

― jabba hands
Sensing this was directed at me. Sorry. I found a link anyway. I plan to continue posting here and I have lurked here before, I just wanted to download this album and I couldn't find it.

this is crappening

http://imgur.com/rQQ6I.gif

Emperor's Son....ysi?

Welcome The Emperor's Son, this place can be a lot of fun if you hang around...

it's really ppl asking for the album with their 1st post to ilx i was objecting to...

yeah, not arsed about people who've heard it talking about it rly, but fuck off the pleading threadclutter. andrew nf rip(addington)

yall are gonna bitch about the thread being cluttered with 20 posts of people trying to find a leak and not the 200 posts about potato chips?

what's wrong with the potato chip posts?

lol

xpost

i liked about half the album on first listen. too many songs sound like something they have done in the past though.

this is so great

― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

str8 up stunning album imo

better than sound of silver

yes

"pow pow" is fucking hilarious btw

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

there's no "all my friends" or (or "someone great" but i personally never loved that song) but there's also no "watch the tapes" -- every song on this is rad as fuck, even digging "drunk girls" more

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

― Simon H., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:32 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

if you're gonna ask this you might as well ask why the whole band exists

I feel like 'home' is the 'all my friends'

also surprised no review has yet mentioned how penguin cafe orchestra-y it is

and "pow pow" is more like "losing my edge" than "yeah" -- i think jams knew he couldn't try and spin a big payoff out of "pow pow" because then it actually would prob be a lame "yeah" redux

damn i guess i gotta download thsi

not really feeling this tbh, why does "pow pow" exist when we already have "yeah"?

― Simon H., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:32 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

if you're gonna ask this you might as well ask why the whole band exists

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:34 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

they've got lots of great distinctive tunes. this is the first record where we get whole-hog retreads IMO, plus some of the departures (IE Somebody's Calling Me) are pretty weak.

Really enjoying Dance Yrself Clean on first exposure.

Drunk Girls is a Blur homage?!

Drunk girls who like drunk boys who like drunk boys who like drunk girls

Can someone explain to me what he's going on about on most of these songs? If he allowed someone else to write lyrics and sing I would love this album, might even buy it.

Who gives a fuck what he's singing about. Bar maybe 3 & 1/2 tunes I do not come to LCD Soundsystem for words.

pretty sure in the past he's said he just sort of comes up w/ shit on the spot iirc

y/n?

nick otm

would listen to Stars Of The Lid much more if their lyrics weren't total freshman poetry seminar bullshit

But His lyrics have always been upfront, I mean structurally these are pop songs.

Just because they're upfront, and these are pop songs, doesn't mean the lyrics mean anything. And besides, Barthes would say that they mean whatever YOU want them to (I seem to bring this up at least once a year on here), so who gives a fig about Murphy.

Also dude don't capitalise the h in his like Murphy's God, even by accident!

pretty sure in the past he's said he just sort of comes up w/ shit on the spot iirc

― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 07:07 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

For Tribulations he's quoted as saying this is what he did. I'm sure a little more thought goes into most of his lyrics.

i think murphy is a pretty terrific lyricist for what its worth

havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwriter he writes v well

havent heard the lyrics to this album but for a pop/rock songwritercorporate buzzbot he writes v well

― max, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i mean hes no franz ferdinand

actually the lyrics are meaningless, haven't you read Barthes? god.

The lyrics to Losing My Edge are probably close to best of that decade. Even with Yeah coming as the next single there was a lot of thought went into it. I.e. to disabuse people of the notion that they were this really wordy bunch of ultra-ironists by releasing something very straight forward and simple. He doesn't strike me as someone who just pulls stuff out of his arse, no matter what he says.

Drunk Girls sounded terrible last night. I was not feelin it at all. the other new songs were also pretty lame but i dont remember how many they played

the show was pretty stellar otherwise.

is it jsut me or does Gavin Russom look exactly like a young Brian Eno???? dude is definitely channeling him with the 'doo

^^is russom in the band? or am i misunderstanding? he's definitely channeling eno yes, but he's not feminine enough i think :)

he's co-producer which could mean anything. i dare say he plays a lot on it but he's not in the band.

i really like this. it's much more full on than SoS and the production makes it sound really fresh. Tim Goldsworthy had nothing to do with SoS but i liked the way that record sounded too. Jams is a greatly talented producer in his own right. "Home" sounds most like LCD started out sounding (w/ the cowbell etc) but Russom has made it a bit more fruity.

there have always been a few (very few) duff lines on LCD records but he's a great lyricist who sometimes fails because he tries to connect very directly with the listener with a mix of humour and pathos and when you get that even slightly wrong its very conspicuous. i usually grow to love those missteps though.

yeah he's in the band

1st track is cringe-inducing imho. considering the next song is "drunk girls," i just turned it off.

if anyone could assist me in hearing this, i wouldn't hate it. i'm gonna buy it when it comes out anyway.

whoever upthread said there was an "All My Friends" on this record: i hope you're right