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

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

march 38 very rare leap year

Did they announce openers for T5?

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

T5 TIX ON SALE

Liquid Liquid opening first two shows
Shit Robot opening 3rd and 4th shows

Are these still on sale? I got tickets for the first night (Monday)

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.

Saw them last weekend. Great show

:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9Sv1JpmPs

Bloody Brighton.

This is cute

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/37eda2ce.jpg

Regret never managing to see these guys live.

so fucking good

really wish i'd seen them on this last tour

The best live band I ever saw, without doubt. Just incredible.

Thanks all.

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.

You Can't Hide (Shame On You)

AAARGH FUCK NO WHY CAN'T I BE IN AMERICA

Nah, the show got over around 12-12:15. Just go get in line for coat check halfway thru the encore song and you should be fine.

It was totally amazing btw except that Liquid Liquid was surprisingly/disappointingly sloppy for a band whose whole "thing" is super, super tight grooves. But seriously, LCD played for three fucking hours omg

Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41?

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.

Wow this set looks amazing...always wanted to hear the 45:33 stuff live, and "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is such a great tune. I really really hope someone records one of these shows.

Also IIRC isn't it at 1:41? Yeah, I think you're right - but I think the previous train is 2 hours earlier, which would mean leaving around 11:15.

Amazing looking setlist, anyway.

I really really hope someone records one of these shows.

Pitchfork are streaming live the final show, but not archiving - hopefully someone captures it (if the limiting of cameras to enable more tickets means they're not going for a DVD-worthy version)

Looks like it changed at some point; last train's at 1:22. You'll still be fine leaving at 12/12:30 though

Cool. Would just be nice if there was a train halfway between 11:52 and 1:22 (and if that last one connected through to Princeton and I didn't have to take a cab from Princeton J). n.b. I do not live in Princeton, I'm just here for a couple of weeks, so apologies for clogging up this thread with NJ Transit discussions.

I'm sure that unless the Pitchfork stream craps out, many people will capture it. I'd be surprised if people aren't taping the T5 shows, too.

penn station is not an awful place to spend the night if you bring a book

Stevie, what time did LCD Soundsystem go on? My friend wants me to get there to line up at 7? :(

Doors are at 6:30, LL at 8, LCD at 9. Went pretty on-time too

penn station is not an awful place to spend the night if you bring a book

yup, and the first train's at what, 5 a.m.? That's a good plan as long as you don't sleep through the PJX stop. Sunrise at Hamilton is no fun...not that I have ever done something like that before...

That was so fucking good. I thought it would have to sag at some point - maybe during 45:33 - but no, they really do have three hours of awesome material. Also sounded so much better than I'd imagined from the couple of bootlegs I'd heard. Amazing.

ugh man I hope to christ there's a really awesome DVD of this being planned out.

where is Lance Bangs?

i'm happy that i got to see them once esp while i was living in missouri of all places but am still bitter that i didn't get to see them on their last tour -- best live band i've ever seen easy

for fucking real

titus is the only band that rivals them for holy-fuck-how-can-they-be-this-good-wow-they're-in-their-prime-RIGHT-NOW-and-i'm-seeing-them-play awe

On the one hand I'm like so pissed I never got to see then play "Jump Into The Fire" live but otoh I have gotten to see them 3x, once at a sorta-secret show last year at a stupid tiny venue, once with Liquid Liquid, once with Light Asylum, all three times with "Yeah" in the setlist, once w/ "Dance Yrself Clean"; I mean I am p content

yeah i saw them right as the wave was starting to break for 'sound of silver' where they were playing a small stage at the festival but the crowd way outstripped the sidestage size and i was right in front with my jaw just chillin on my shoes

It's nifty bcz I feel like in 20 years being able to say "I saw LCD Soundsystem live" is gonna be like whoa

[doesn't say it]

/braggin2031

#futurebrags might be a good thread maybe maybe not I dunno

Saw the Tuesday show - lots of fun, though after Reggie Watts joined him the "you can't hide - shame on you" part of the running mix, I kept hoping Aziz Ansari would show up to do a Morris Day/Jerome "hold up the mirror and then dance in unison" bit with Murphy during an extended instrumental section. Even if the big fun is planned for MSG, just watching them tear through for 3 hours was awesome enough. 'sucks' (on a very relative scale) that they didn't add the "jump in the fire" cover to the setlist until Wednesday, though.

Yeah now I'm just really really hoping we get at least a good bootleg of the last show.

I saw them 3 times and I too got that feeling of getting to see a great band in their prime. First time there was a 20-minute "Yeah" that just blew my mind. It was so good that it was like...we drove 3 hours to see them and it was worth it just for that. Second time they segued "Yeah" into "Throw" which I had never heard before. Awesome. Third time there was nothing too crazy but they did play "Dance Yrself Clean" and "Home". It's ridiculous how popular they've gotten. Starting the show with "Dance Yrself Clean" was so great because everyone knew the song, everyone knew it was going to explode at some point (like three minutes in), so there was such an incredible tension in the audience (who had been waiting a while for them to come out anyway).