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

GOOD ONE

The show last night was nice, and sounds like it was less sloppy than the W'berg one the other night. Murphy just kept fiddling with every knob and screw he could find to keep himself busy.

I also realized that "All My Friends" has now become a straight up Schlager song - not sure if this is Murphy's fault, or just everyone else stomping and chanting along with it.

here's a demo of a song that didn't make the album: http://stereogum.com/338311/lcd-soundsystem-love-in-l-a-demo/top-stories/lead-story/

http://www.biznotic.com/images/thishappened.jpg

very good

'i can change' has a 'all my friends' vibe

I keep hearing "All I Want" as the "All My Friends" track here--same melancholy, same sort of simple, propulsive structure.

you guys are doing a very good job of making me think this album is not for me

what songs do you like the most on the last album

pretty much if you don't like "dance yrself clean" or "i can change" then the album might not be for you

I thought we all agreed Ezra Koenig offered everything we wanted in an indie pop hero.

what songs do you like the most on the last album

"Someone Great", "Get Innocuous!", "Us vs Them", "North American Scum" (in roughly that order)

I really hate "All My Friends" and having so many different songs being described in terms of it is making me... not nervous, but wary.

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

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I emailed you broheems

dan i think you'll like it -- there are more songs like "someone great" (i.e. "i can change" at least sonically speaking) than "all my friends"

1) This album is not the same as last album--stop clawing in the dark for track-by-track identicalities!

2) THIS ALBUM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A MUSHY STOOL

love love love 'all my friends'

psssst n/a help a brother out

;)

uh I emailed you but just to save time for anyone else looking for it, the link on All Everyone United was working for me earlier today

I think this is fucking awesome.

thx n/a!

yeah i like this so far

none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are

i was actually just thinking about how dance yrself clean is the longest song on the album at nine minutes, yet doesn't feel at all demanding compared to the rest of the album.

oh i guess hit is slightly longer. but still.

none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are

― iatee, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is another v good point

these guys are really into berlin-era bowie

this is way less bowie and way more eno

none of these songs feel half as long as they actually are

― iatee

this is another v good point

― J0rdan S.

I think it's cause he's usually writing so many pop songs w/ a dance structure - they don't feel like they 'start' until 4 minutes in. 'change' feels like the longest song to me, despite being the second shortest, prolly cause it's a pretty traditional new wave pop song and the chorus kicks in so fast.

walking up to me expecting,
walking up to me expecting words...
it happens all the time

is the opening line of the record.

is it the bitrate thing? Or too much expectation? Or 'dude, it's just LCD Soundsystem'. I'm not feeling this record at all

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/lcdsoundsystem/webster/53.jpg

has the guy on the left lost his mommy?

it seems like there are some weird pops & clicks on this version? i listened to the first couple songs on headphones yesterday and it didn't sound quite right. if it's not a good rip then i want to wait for the real thing.

man, "Drunk Girls" is like exactly like "Loretta" by the Nervous Eaters

http://1000secretsongs.blogspot.com/2010/04/no630-nervous-eaters-loretta.html

"Drunk Girls" reminds me of QOTSA's "Monster In The Parasol" with touches of Neu!'s "Hallogallo"

yeah, in comparison to the tracks on the official site, the leaked ones i had sound fucked up and shitty.

the stream on the website sounds dooope

All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.

"Take me hooooome"

has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche? the last album had some traces of bowie, talking heads, etc... this new one seems to be a bit more brazen about it with its cars sound-alike and its straight up ripoff of nightclubbing

sorry, guys, but this album is endless.

After three listens the guitars and tempos are uninteresting and the vocals listless.

sounds he works with are often very pastiche but on the songwriting level he's always had his own thing going. if you look at 'losing my edge' / 'all my friends' / 'home' on the sonic level, you can pick out 100 musical references, but if you look at them as songs, pastiche is def not the right word. pretty clear and distinctive songwriting voice.

xp

i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.

what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?

cold war kids

All I Want is just gorgeous...his singing towards the end even reminds me of Morrissey.

"Take me hooooome"

― Davek (dave

I agree I love that bit, it's odd hearing him really go for it like that but he totally pulls it off. It's my favourite song on the album at the moment.

I am really enjoying the album after a few days, it's a great follow up to Sound Of Silver. There aren't any songs that get to me quite as much as Someone Great and All My Friends did but I really like every song, even Drunk Girls.

i'd say that was true in the past but the steals are much more obvious this time.

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

More obvious than North American Scums's chorus ripping off Homosapien by Pete Shelly?

I don't agree with people saying they use more pastiches on this record. Great Release sounds just like Brian Eno and his vocals in Get Innocuous! are very like David Byrnes.

wrong david

what song is 'dance yrself clean' a steal of?

per jaxon above, "jamaica runnin" by pool. Kinda sux, because I was loving this until I read that. hope it's credited in the liner notes

so I just listened to that, and yeah, no doubt he straight up takes those drums, just like he did in 'losing your edge'. but that's still pastiche w/ the sounds not the songwriting.

i think it's replayed, at least?

btw i had never heard of (the?) pool, but "jamaica running" is dope.