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

the interview feels a little cliche to me, the whole "i did LSD at a party and it opened my mind to all the different types of music that i could play together..." i mean like, cmon

that said the crystal ark is RAD

I sorta burned myself out on this album due to the fact that it was the only thing on my work computer

but it's still 100% awesome

lol burnt out on an unreleased album

i had the range of emotions w/r/t this album. hated it, tolerated it, enjoyed it, loved it, don't care to hear anything off it again. will now sit in the balcony with my buddy waldorf and discuss it.

I played this once through at work, it was decent. Really liked some songs, really didn't like a few others... it's a mixed bag. One listen's enough for now, though. Waiting for the album release so I can crank dat in the car.

my buddy waldorf

whoa

live footage here - nicked off the DFA forums

http://www.abconcerts.be/nl/abtv/p/detail/lcd-soundsystem

Could someone work some source code magic and post a direct link to 00532_h264_m.mp4?

*attempts magic*

*admits defeat*

*defers to 1337 hax0rz*

plug-ins are the key

4 Mac: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/
4 Windows: http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/rtmp.html

...those seem to be plugins for watching the stream, not for saving the mp4 source file?

^ IANAM

jeez guys, you can lead a horse to water...

"As of 2.1 there are two additional server programs, rtmpsrv and rtmpsuck.

rtmpsrv is a stub for a server; it logs the connect and play parameters from a regular client that connects to it. It then invokes rtmpdump with those parameters to retrieve the stream.

rtmpsuck is a transparent proxy; it intercepts connections from a client and then makes an outbound connection to the real server. After all handshaking is complete and encryption keys with both sides are negotiated, it records the cleartext stream data into files while relaying the data from the server to the client. "

^ text doesn't exist on the Windows page fyi

Jesus, they're terrible on this tour. The first 4 or 5 songs on this live show are awful, especially Daft Punk Is Playing..

Looks like they're saving it with Tribulations, but damn, what an awful start to a show. It's time they just did an album for Nancy.

Where did you see them?

I'm hopeful once the album is actually released they'll start playing a few more songs from it, going from that live footage.

i'm watchign the vid linked above. The crowd started getting into after Tribulations and Yeah, but if this is any indication, i'm gonna pass on this tour.

this clip gets awesome about 40 seconds in :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fn2Pl9mdw

yeah, the glasgow shows were pretty great. but maybe i'm a stan.

dissmissing them based on a video without seeing them live is a bit naff.

True. Have you watched the video? What did you think of the opening 4 tracks?

thought they'd be better live

Though I was disappointed with that live video linked above, I absolutely loved the 3 shows i've seen them perform with the exception of the NY I Love You finale which was super boring.

Do they usually close with that one? I'd be kinda disappointed if they did. Haven't seen them live since the first album.

NYI<3U finale was the best moment of the London show.

.. but i'd been kinda brought down by the rest of the show up till that moment and maybe i wasn't in the mood for dancing from the beginning, so ymmv.

the problem with seeing bands like LCD in London is everyone is their biggest fan so there's always a lot of pushing and agro, which just annoyed me. I got pretty over seeing bands in London..

aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal

the first 20 minutes of that video are mad zzzz

aw, the freezeframe ruins stirmonster's reveal

bugger. didn't notice that when i posted it.

I have seen them live twice, both they did NYI<3U finale, but both times were actually in New York so it was really cute.

that song is a bag of vomit, why are they ruining people's lives by playing it

first night in glasgow they ended with NYI<3U, second night they ended with All My Friends.

both times he then he dedicated the night to HI DERE

he then he = he then

hahaha I was just thinking "aaaaaaaaaargh no"

that doesn't quite have the energy they have live. i dunno man maybe it was all the drugs i took at coachella but it SOUNDED like a 100x better, not like they were performing in a garage or something. certainly there is an atmosphere to the show you can't capture on vid, but also the camera crew at Coachella was really good and with tens of thousands of people going apeshit it was certainly the best show i've seen in a long time

also the ny i love you finish was a little lackluster but their set got cut short a track or two so maybe it would have had a different lead in?

*that = that link above (watching now)

Oh, come on. That full concert linked above is totally the awkward, super-clean direct soundboard mix, or maybe the onstage monitor mix. If it's mixed at all. Totally not indicative of how this or any other band sounds live.

i gotta give credit to james for hanging it up as lcd after this album. he knew it was going to be diminishing returns after this.

is he actually going to do that?

ksh wins.

pff he predicted 9.0

Was anyone closer? I was assuming he was the closest.

loooool

micarl is correct, i said 9.0: http://pitchforkreviewspreviews.tumblr.com/post/598115992/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening

I know thats what you said! You were closest take the prize, dammit!

thumbs up. you beat the one other person lame enough to predict pitchfork score :)

This very important to me!