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

History hit number 8 in the charts after they split, but they really weren't big.; that was their only hit I think Dickie just acted as if they should be.

Similar talk of author-as-narrator-(or-not) in the PJ thread.

I think it's touching, the belief that people wit fame and money don't feel angry and isolated, especially someone with a personality as toxic as Morrissey.

Optimistic:

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-TIXs-4-2-LCD-Soundsystem-132-MSG-/290525489357?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item43a4ab28cd

I prefer instrumentals to vocal tracks. That's the bottom line here.

lol i clicked on this thread trying to figure out why there's so many new posts when this record's like a year old and everyone's talking about "Bittersweet Symphony"?

Dickie Ashcroft a millionaire? In 1997?! Most of Verve were probably on the dole when BSS was being written in 96. They'd had a low selling album 2 years prior to BSS charting then split up almost as soon as it was released. Their position on the 1995 Glastonbury bill the summer they split was 4th between Veruca Salt and The Charlatans. On the small stage.

did they end up with anything after the lawsuits?

they didn't get shit from BSS. every single penny went to Allen Klein/Jagger/Richards

The credit inside the sleeve is to Jagger Richards. They thought about not even putting the song on the album at first. Can't blame them really.

Jagger/Richards also forced them to sell the song to Nike for a superbowl commercial. Ashcroft gave away their paltry share of the proceeds to charity.

then he banged some groupies and did another line

I guess they still got album sale $?

yep

the funny thing to me is that the verve song the oldham song sound a lot like each other, and the jagger/richards song and the staple singers song sound a lot like each other, but the oldham song and the jagger/richards song, the two that have the same title and the same writers, hardly sound alike at all. if he had just released it as an andrew loog oldham song with a different title and kept the songwriting to himself, i can't see how mick and keef would even have had a clue that their song was somewhere in there.

yeah I agree - I sure don't hear it!

'jamaca running' beat is a lot looser/clankier than 'dance yrself clean' if you compare them directly. if the pool were going to sue, then it would all have to hang on those two chord stabs and if they're distinctive enough as a composition; sorry, but nobody can say they 'own' two chord stabs.

lol i clicked on this thread trying to figure out why there's so many new posts when this record's like a year old and everyone's talking about "Bittersweet Symphony"?

yeah no shit

first song is a rip of the Pool's "Jamaica Running"

― jaxon, Monday, April 12, 2010 4:57 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

It also has a massive Casiotone For The Painfully Alone debt (vox, lyrics, casio solos) which is not as obscure but I feel it much more.

1st part of "Dance Yrself Clean" is a total C4TPA homage.

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k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing available

what the fuck is going on

seriously. lame.

I mean, there is 0 possible way it could have actually sold out in the approx 5 seconds btwn going live and me clicking "Find tickets"

http://twitter.com/#!/lcdsoundsystem/status/36096706370080769

glad to know StubHub has like 900 tickets starting at $115 though

kermit the frog homage

xp

horribly annoying and gutting. of course i feel like a dick because i managed to get one during the presale, but it's in the mezzanine and i want to be on the floor plus my friends can't get tix so i'll be on my own.

this was an even bigger joke than the presale.

otm

^^^

one fucking pissed-off Stevie tbh

http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem/status/36102603230294016

k seriously i have been refreshing the ticketmaster page since 10:55 and I tried to buy ONE ticket at any price in any section etc the instant the page went up, and it says there's nothing available

what the fuck is going on

lol guys this is honestly some ticketmaster 101 shit, if a show does NOT "sell out" instantly it's a surprise

this entire thing is a total joke, of course they're going to reform, but I still wanted tickets. Not sure why they can't have a second (or third) MSG show.

ok this is happening:
Fuck You Scalpers, Terminal 5 Shows Added:
http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/647

totally superb post from the man.

Just finished reading that. James Murphy is awesome. His band is awesome. After these shows, can they please work on Nancy's solo album?

great post, james murphy seems like a quality guy

I don't know. I agree with the sentiment of course, but this "OMG! Scalpers!" stuff just seems weird to me. I can't believe that he's so naive that he wouldn't expect scalpers to be buying tickets. He says in that post that he thought the show might sell out in 10 days. Surely he must have expected scalpers to buy up a generous amount of the tickets if that was the case? Of course it sucks, but I feel like this faux naive we-had-no-idea-this-would-happen-honestly-guys stuff is covering up for a complete shitfest of a presale that should have had more thought put into it.

I think the problem is that nobody BUT scalpers got tickets.

right -- and i got the impression that there were accusations that ticketmaster was colluding w/ stubhub + other scalpers which wouldn't be remotely surprising tho it does seem illegal

last night i went to an nhl game & taylor swift is playing two shows at the arena in a few months, and they had signs at the box office saying that "IF tickets for either show are still available after the 10 AM presale (which was today), we will be selling them on monday" and i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect

wait you went to a panthers game? wow

i did!

well, my dad is from buffalo & the sabres are playing also they're like a minor league baseball game w/ promotions so my ticket was free

he's a great writer, not surprising from the guy who wrote "losing my edge" (though possibly surprising from the guy who wrote "pow pow").

i thought "that's kind of presumptive, to think that both shows for a 18k seat arena would sell out in one day, but hey taylor swift is super popular" but this fiasco has kinda shed some light on that thought process in retrospect

arena shows have been selling out in less than a day since long before there stubhub, even before there was an internet. hello bruce springsteen. what's different in this case is that it's lcd soundsystem. and that it didn't sell out in a day or an hour; it sold out in less than 60 seconds. and that, lastly and sadly, there is now a stubhub. i'd remove that "sadly" if there was even a slight chance that the big venues and ticket agencies weren't colluding with them.

i thought james murphy's post was great.

So uh did anyone get tickets for the Terminal 5 shows? The May 20 show seems to be sold out already and I can't find any other dates :(

Checked out Stubhub just out of curiosity and though they start at $120 each someone's got 50 pit tickets that he's trying to sell at $350,000 each. I don't really understand the business model there.

http://www.stubhub.com/lcd-soundsystem-tickets/lcd-soundsystem-new-york-4-2-2011-1051789/?ticket_id=281524648

I'm not surprised they sold out so fast...there was a show in Chicago that I went to where I had to scalp a ticket, it too sold out in like 10 minutes. I'm just wondering how the hell they became so popular. You don't really hear their music on the radio do you? I mean they've always been kind of "underground" as far as I know. Or is Pitchfork really that influential? Not complaining...its awesome how big they are, but when did this start??

Stating the obvious but I think what we're witnessing is just how corrupt the LiveNation/Ticketmaster system is at the stadium venue scale... a band that has sold an incredibly modest amount of records and had trouble selling out far more cozier venues on more than a few occasions, is now selling at a rate of the most hyped and popular acts in the world. It is fishy.

where is pearl jam when we need them

So uh did anyone get tickets for the Terminal 5 shows? The May 20 show seems to be sold out already and I can't find any other dates :(

not on sale yet

the May 20 thing you're seeing is their show at Terminal 5 last May

new dates are march 38-31

not sure if I'm gonna bother trying tbh