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

I'm still trying to understand why I recoiled from their performance at the Fillmore two months ago.

cuz you're crazy?

best live band i've ever seen personally

i would probably say they're the best live band i've ever seen too.

No complaints about the band; like I said many xposts ago, I couldn't shake how awkwardly Murphy embraced his front man status, and not in a cool way.

Too many times he was out of breath shouting in the microphone -- just another pudgy guy in a T-shirt.

you should've closed your eyes

His flop sweat kept sprinkling me.

lj you still haven't listened to 45:33 have you

I'm still trying to understand why I recoiled from their performance at the Fillmore two months ago.

waitaminit - you were in San Francisco!?

We got one in Miami Beach.

Don't worry: I wouldn't dream of visiting SF without conferring with my transportation secretary.

I loved the second one but I never, ever want to play it whereas this one gets constant rotation. It's a victory lap record like Graduation: "Drunk Girls" is a better "North American Scum," "Home" a superior "All My Friends," and "Dance Yrself Clean" just breathtaking on its own merits.

otm

'dance yrself clean' and 'home' are the two best lcd soundsystem songs imo

Louis Louis Louis.

LCD Soundsystem was the first thing my gf and I argued about fwiw

shit I still have half my bleedin' essay to do *scarpers*

'dance yrself clean' is one of their best ever tracks but mostly this blows

i don't like all my friends

Version of All I Want on London Sessions is very good - better than the album version.

I love that London Sessions album, but the version of I Can Change sounds far too slow to me.

Yeah, that's a dud and I can't fathom why they wouldn't include Yeah, which was the highlight of all three shows I've seen on this tour.

"dance yrself clean" is sublime, "i can change" is horrific, everything else kinda falls in between. this is my least fav lcd album.

this song "Home" which i am listening to right now is totes Tom Tom Club

try as i might SOS never really clicked with me, whereas i can barely keep from playing this one over and over again.

it's not tom tom club it's penguin cafe orchestra!

Farewell show announced for April 2nd. Hopefully the backlash will have reached a point that getting tickets will be a breeze.

That's putting a positive spin on it!

Damnit, damnit! I've already seen them twice and don't want to ruin the magic, but shit. Seriously, two of the best shows I've ever seen.

Seen them 9 times. Want to make it an even 10. Fuck the haters, I love this band and they mean a lot to me.

Oh great, I never saw them live and I probably never will. :( I thought he was not serious about it being the last album and all because that's what everyone says.

Yeah, I was hoping that was just typical balderdash. I think he still said they'd continue making singles?

Also what was the backlash against them? I don't read up on the latest indie/indie dance hatred on the internet.

A few people (including me) didn't think This Is Happening was so great, but I certainly don't despise them/him or anything.

Oh...that's all. I thought it was ok for what it was. The second album is the best in my opinion. If they were going for a trilogy kind of thing the third one is always the weakest.

you should have read the 2010 ALBUMS and TRACKS polls. whoof there be some haters.

I was under the impression people loved it. This is why I'll never understand indie/indie dance music scene (or maybe it is just the internet scene). Do people want musicians to survive pass two albums or do they just want to cut to the chase of hating them because that's the cool thing to do?

The only reasons I had for not liking the last album fall squarely into the "he's done this before, and better" school of thought. Half the people bitch if you keep doing the same thing, the other half bitch if you change it up. It's hard to win, really.

yeah, i was being a bit facetious with the backlash comment. certain groups of internet people will hate on anything that pitchfork-reading white indie boys who "don't understand dance" like, especially if they see a band like LCD Soundsystem as wannabe stuff.

I guess that's why you have people who are hardcore fans (or "stans" in some music circle say) and embrace the same aesthetic touches in a musician's/band's music. I wasn't a hardcore fan of LCD, but I liked their aesthetic and accepeted it for what it was. I wasn't surprised that he didn't stray from it on the third album.

yeah, i was being a bit facetious with the backlash comment. certain groups of internet people will hate on anything that pitchfork-reading white indie boys who "don't understand dance" like, especially if they see a band like LCD Soundsystem as wannabe stuff.

Haha thanks for the clarification. I'm a black hip hop/r&b loving boy who think LCD Soundsystem are great!!! I wonder what the haters would say about me.

Wow. I would love to see that show. Even though I didn't love This is Happening, they are probably the best live band i've ever seen.

also, this was pointed out to me recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Bae3R49ew

kind of rotten for them not to credit that on the album.

well if they had to be honest about everything on that lp that wasn't very original it would be fairly awkward yeah?

Are there other examples of direct rips like that? I mean, they just played that song almost note for note and added some vocals. I'm not sure if there are other songs on the album that are copies and not just 'inspired' by.

whoa...I mean I love LCD's version of this but holy cow that is a pretty direct rip

It's really no worse than the "Homosapien" and "Nighclubbing" rips.

I don't mind the "Nightclubbing" one so much because I don't really like the LCD version, while "Dance Yrself Clean" is one of my favorite songs of theirs, I know it doesn't really make sense but that's why it bothers me. Also it sounds like this one is a real obscurity so it just seems that much more shady; I don't think the Iggy Pop rip was supposed to get by anybody.

BTW which song did they rip off "Homosapien" for??? It does sound a bit like "North American Scum" but it's not obvious to me..

it sounds a LOT like North American Scum

this album did away entirely with what i liked best about them: on the first two albums, not only did they have a cool, edgy indie aesthetic with interesting vox and lyrics, but they combined that with beats that were genuinely danceable, or at least made you want to move/bounce around. "this is happening" loses almost all the funkyness of the previous albums and singles - therefore, i dislike it. if you liked lcd soundsystem for reasons other than mine, you might like this album more than i do, i can't really knock it, it's got some cool vocals and arrangements and stuff, but for me, they've lost their edge.

that said, the lack of danceable grooves may very well be why they've suddenly gotten popular with all my anti-dance-music, indie-rock-or-nothin friends; for all i know mr. murphy has made this stylistic change on purpose. but still.

Pow Pow?

but for me, they've lost their edge.

i guess the bright side of the break-up will be never reading the above zinger again. "as for me, i've got lcd soundsystem's beats ON REPEAT."

can anyone confirm if the sessions cd a limited release ?

Not sure where you are, but I've seen it all over the place. Even my local Best Buy (which has reduced its music section to virtually nothing) has multiple copies.