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

people need to talk about 'one touch' more

^^^^^this. It's easily my favorite on the new album. For me it harkens to the glory days when every other DFA remix was hot snot on a silver platter. Can't wait to hear it in a dance setting.

pretty much digging this except for somebody's calling me, which is a bona fide dirge.

Hmm...I wrote this off after the first listen. I'll try again.

Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record (nor the Liverpool Echo breaking news on it, for that matter)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/04/15/alex-abramovich/already-happened/

Didn't expect to see the LRB writing about this record

ehh it's kind of *exactly* the kind of record they'd cover!

Sam Lipsyte, who collaborated with Murphy before turning to fiction

i did not know this

For some reason the stream on the website just isn't playing this morning. I hit 'Play' and the first track gets higlighted but nothing ever plays and I can't' click on any of the other songs. Just me?

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

ya, thank you LCD Soundsystem for not wholesale abandoning the things that made me change my mind about you in the first place

Okay, apparently it just doesn't work in Firefox, working fine with Chrome.

I think I've become one of those people who will uncritically love any song that flaunts sinewave synths

xp: if you're playing it off the LCD Soundsystem website, I'm playing it right now via Firefox

Yeah I was on the official website, just never seemed to start. Oh well, got it going in Chrome now.

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

this is a really great moment imo

this album's sequencing is so, so good

hahaha "Drunk Girls" being "North American Scum Part 2" is even more blatant in context

actually more like "North American Scum and It's Time To Get Away had a baby and named Daft Plunk Is Playing At My House its godfather"

there's a 15 minute instrumental version of "dance yourself clean" titled "in the pool (no bass)" that jams made for a fashion show or something.

want to hear this.

both of the previous lcd soundsystem albums have been v patchy for me - 2 or 3 songs that i love, the rest forgettable. this, on the other hand, is awesome. i'm having trouble restricting myself to 3 listens a day.

okay the first track on this just blossomed into something awesome

absolutely - might be my favourite thing on the whole record. it brought an absolutely huge grin to my face on my first listen.

this is me listening to "One Touch":

O_O

^_^

\^_^/

like seriously, I am listening to the song and this is all that's going through my brain:

http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dance3.gif

upthread when you were wondering if you would like it or not I was gonna say "well, regardless, you'll like 'one touch'"

"All I Want" is kind of annoying. This is the one that had the most "All My Friends" comparisons, right?

You can't go wrong when Nancy Whang starts shouting. It's like only the best DFA tracks are deemed Whang-worthy.

lcd slash-system

kind of bummed that "I Can Change" isn't a cover of the song from the South Park movie

woah wait dude sounds great on this, like better than I've ever heard him sing

falsetto!

I love that "You Wanted A Hit" sounds like LCD Soundsystem pastiche

POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW

http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/dance3.gif

oh lol this is the "we have a black President" song, hahahaha

omg, loving this so far

"Somebody's Calling Me" is a big pile of nonsense, huh

i've never liked them outside of the singles before but that first track is like: fucking hell

how many songs is 'one touch' quoting then

I was going to say: "Wait till you hear the one that sounds like `Nightclubbing.'"

xpost

oh I am so so glad that he realized ending the album with the downtempo half-baked joke of a song idea from Sound of Silver was a terrob;e idea

when i get to the end of this album i am going to try very hard to like this track just out of contrarianism

have fun with that

hey shut up, i am busy pre-emptively convincing myself it is great here

somewhat agnostic re his vocal stylings on 'one touch'

not feeling 'you wanted a hit' so much

ok redeemed by near-skronk guitar break

ok 'somebody's calling me' is starting

... maybe it's a grower

no. it's just bad (the track)

lol

I love it but I'm the unabashed fanboy w/r/t this album. the drugged out synths are awesome.

The line about Michael Musto in Pow Pow is awful. We should poll the most ridiculous lyrics on this album but i'm not sure if the polling system allows that many options.

oh I am so so glad that he realized ending the album with the downtempo half-baked joke of a song idea from Sound of Silver was a terrob;e idea

Not sure he thinks this, considering "NY I <3 U" is an LCD concert staple and fan favorite.

"somebody's calling me" is pretty worthless

I got as far as All I Want and stopped listening - not really feeling this at all and I loved Sound of Silver. It feels a bit like he's forgotten how to construct a good groove. It took me until halfway through the first track to work out whether or not I was listening to a fake leak.

"somebody's calling me" is pretty worthless

Petition to J. Murphy to change song title to "Somebody's Calling Me Out"?

more like "Somebody's Skipping Me"

daaaaaaaaaamn dance yrself clean