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
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
1st part of "Dance Yrself Clean" is a total C4TPA homage.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:07 AM (6 months ago)
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously. lame.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/lcdsoundsystem/status/36096706370080769
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
glad to know StubHub has like 900 tickets starting at $115 though
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kermit the frog homage
xp
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Friday, 11 February 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
this was an even bigger joke than the presale.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
one fucking pissed-off Stevie tbh
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem/status/36102603230294016
― dmr, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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 availablewhat 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
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― skip, Friday, 11 February 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this is happening:Fuck You Scalpers, Terminal 5 Shows Added:http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/647
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
totally superb post from the man.
― jed_, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Just finished reading that. James Murphy is awesome. His band is awesome. After these shows, can they please work on Nancy's solo album?
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
great post, james murphy seems like a quality guy
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Position Position, Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the problem is that nobody BUT scalpers got tickets.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
wait you went to a panthers game? wow
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― don't make me go plop the trunk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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").
― skip, Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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 :(
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― DL, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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??
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
where is pearl jam when we need them
― max, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dmr, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
march 38 very rare leap year
Did they announce openers for T5?
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
he ripped the drums from a sorta boring song as part of the intro to his much more inneresting song.
so true, he got a bit from a crap song and made something that works amazingly. to suggest a slightly-interesting drumbeat IS the song is mentalness. same goes for bittersweet symph but to a slightly lesser degree
― NI, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
T5 TIX ON SALE
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Liquid Liquid opening first two showsShit Robot opening 3rd and 4th shows
Are these still on sale? I got tickets for the first night (Monday)
― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of Springsteen, Springsteen really revealed the depth of Ticketmaster duplicity when, a few years ago, tickets for his shows started showing up at inflated prices, mere seconds after they went on sale, on secondary websites owned by Ticketmaster.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw them last weekend. Great show
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9Sv1JpmPs
― jed_, Friday, 4 March 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Bloody Brighton.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Friday, 4 March 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
This is cute
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/37eda2ce.jpg
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Regret never managing to see these guys live.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
so fucking good
really wish i'd seen them on this last tour
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The best live band I ever saw, without doubt. Just incredible.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks all.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Setlist from last night:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lcd-soundsystem/2011/terminal-5-new-york-ny-2bd25426.html
Going to see them on Thursday night - have to get the train back to Princeton afterwards, and not sure I can face getting the 1:15am one, so might have to leave after 2 hours. Might be hard to make myself do that given that setlist, though.
― toby, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
You Can't Hide (Shame On You)
AAARGH FUCK NO WHY CAN'T I BE IN AMERICA
― Neo Tony (sic), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link