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

this album sounds like the soundtrack to the lion king at many points

I had a dream Jams was an ILXor and me and morbs and him and some others were all hanging out, and we were drinking this weird "video soda" product that played an Aeon Flux-like cartoon of someone else drinking a soda in front of your eyes every time you took a sip

I love the way James describes styles of music in terms of the face you pull when you're performing it. Like this line about Pow Pow: "To me it’s “the talking guy with his talking face.” You know, “Talking Heads’ talking face doing his talking.”

yeah, too often (i know we've been over this) critics think of the dreaded I-word in terms of an artist "looking back" on other artists, rather than "looking forward" at an audience that they're trying to find a way to say something to.

i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band

Nancy Whang? She's in the Juan Maclean, too.

o rly! <3 juan maclean obv but i was kind of hoping she would be in an x ray specs cover band or something.

i would love to hear the girl who shouts on this album's band

― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:25 PM (36 minutes ago)

NW has been on every LCDSS album fwiw, even the first single: b-side "beat connection".

Dear DFA,

Everybody wants a Nancy Whang solo album.

Love,

Everybody

word

also plz to include a cover of "o bondage up yours"

i dunno dudes, i dig her on the maclean/lcd stuff but uh, what?

find her kind of annoying tbh

This is great, can't believe how good his vocals sound live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-G1NltxNqE

so awesome seeing russom playing w/ them

makes me wanna see them for him alone

yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band. i guess i didn't think they'd all be on tour but it is worth your money people! i'm not even that stoked on the new album but it was among the best live shows i've seen in years

yeah, i saw them after sound of silver and i swear i really only love those songs in the moment of hearing them live

parts of this album remind me of semisonic

haha

not sure if that's ~entirely~ accurate but who am i to disagree with your subjective impressions

yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.

can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6A0MdXvDM

can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!

― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:24 PM (18 minutes ago)

when were they not in LCD?

(that was his point)

oicnow

the real dfa allstar band was black leotard front.

they're not new to the band but i didn't see either of them the last time i saw lcd on tour

they probably changed that on the sound of silver tour or something tho, haven't seen them in a while

yea i forgot that lcd was sort of a dfa-allstars type thing now with russom, whang, mahoney, and murphy all in the band.

can't believe nancy whang and pat mahoney have joined LCD now!

I thought before Pat Mahoney was in LCD he was in Les Savy Fav. What am i missing him working on in the DFA camp other than LCD?

the real dfa allstar band was black leotard front.

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love their 2nd single

o wait

still tho

Just picked up a hard copy of this yesterday and blasted it in my friend's Philly apt and we danced around and talked about how nice it was!

Also I'm glad to say the lyrics are in the booklet; always a nice touch.

I thought before Pat Mahoney was in LCD he was in Les Savy Fav. What am i missing him working on in the DFA camp other than LCD?

he did a couple dj tours with james murphy and others as 'special disco version' and the two of them released that fabriclive mix a few years back (which is still seriously amazing)

does anyone here besides me love "all I want" the best?

totally dude

this album is kinda disappointing imo

i don't have an opinion on the album yet - it was kinda all over the place and i havent been willing to sit through the whole thing more than like twice, but i've listened to "all i want" like 40 times

did Jerry drum on this because the live drums on One Touch are among the best LCD drums (saying a lot, big fan here)?

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looked at the liner notes yesterday (a friend actually bought the physical cd, whoa) and was surprised to see that james played drums on almost all of the tracks, and pat mahoney only played on one of them (can't remember which but i think it was "pow pow").

nothing on this makes me want to listen to it again, really

what's that one they do live where james suddenly joins in on the drumkit?

he did a couple dj tours with james murphy and others as 'special disco version' and the two of them released that fabriclive mix a few years back (which is still seriously amazing)

Yes, but that was after he was already in LCD...

Saying he's part of this DFA super group seems neither here nor there when he's only done work with LCD and DJ'ed with James Murphy.

alls i'm saying is i didn't know all of them went on tour together. because, as i said before, the last time i saw them it was basically a murphy + laptop affair.

and yeh, the fact that in the past few years the members' side projects have led to their profiles being exponentially higher makes it feel a little more special. especially since james plays a LOT of what's on the record so i wasn't necessarily expecting as much

Whang has been in LCD since their very first gig - not sure if Mahoney goes quite that far back, but he's been playing live with them since 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29nbwH6JZoQ

just watch a snippet -- need to watch the whole thing later -- but man i love that dude

*watched

such a cutie