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

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).

I don't think any moment at any show ever has my heart pounded with so much anticipation as it did during the last "aaaahhh" before the drop in DYC. The song's p dear to me to begin with and live it was just unreal.

i like LCD fine but i don't rly get all the "OMFG WE ARE SEEING THIS BAND IN THEIR PRIME RIGHT FUCKING NOW OMGGGG" hyperbole -- i've seen 'em i think four times over the years, and the best was the first time: they played a 2,500 person venue for some reason, tour for first album, and were only vaguely popular so MAYBE 400-500 people showed up, the emptiest i've ever seen that venue. i think the juan maclean and shit robot opened (both fantastic) and LCD killed it, but were certainly way less polished, more loose & shambolic than their touring machine is bound to be now. i guess the first show was 2003, 04 era. saw 'em a couple times on the sound of silver tour (once at a festival) and it was obvious they were picking up steam as a "legendary" live act, and the shows were fun but much more thought out, like a mini-arena show. and when i saw them late 2010 for the "final" tour (until the reunion in 5 years, amirite) it just seemed so stale and rote; i enjoyed a look back at "yr city's a sucker" and a couple other cuts, but seeing them plod through "someone great" "all my friends" "us and them" and horrid new cuts like "drunk girls" (so terrible on record AND LIVE), it seems like it really is time for them to call it quits.

tl;dr obviously, so i guess my point is that based on my experiences, they've been getting less exciting as a touring act over the years. much preferred when murphy got up there wasted and just fuckin went for it, nothing planned out so carefully. and now they are a well-oiled machine. and i'm not trying to be all "FIRSTIES!!!" or w/e, but it's probably much more thrilling if you didn't see LCD back in the first album era, right?

that's not to mention the first album + early singles is their best work BY FAR, and as their material has gotten less exciting i suppose their setlist has devolved as well. nowadays they'll pull out "daft punk" "tribulations" "movement" "yeah" and SOMETIMES "losing my edge" but those setlists w/ mostly everything from the first album + all early singles & B-sides were killer.

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So you're saying that you were there before everyone else got hip to them and the old stuff is better.

Well I think most people would probably disagree with you. "Yeah" and "Losing my Edge" are total classic. "Daft Punk" is kind of...okay. Decent single fodder and it works well live because he re-did the groove of it somewhat. "Movement" is incredible live. Otherwise...the SoS and TiH stuff just strikes me as a lot better. "All My Friends", "Home", "Dance Yrself Clean", and "Us v. Them" just kill it.

it's not a matter of "i was there first!!" (for bragging rights)

more like "i have seen this band several times in the past 7 or so years, and they used to be MUCH more entertaining live than they are now... why is everyone losing their shit all of a sudden?"

xp

Because they're breaking up. Did you miss that?

I like the new songs fine (and my fave non-hits are easily on Sound Of Silver) and enjoyed the concert, but the vibe was definitely pretty planned out and looking back, not a Right Here Right Now This Glorious moment thing - usually you don't have a giant wad of papers atop some drums for that. Of course, they were in the middle of a four concert run at one venue, too.

"the vibe was definitely pretty planned out"

i think this is what kinda kills the 2010-11 era LCD live show, for me

If the Talking Heads broke up around Stop Making Sense, I could understand if someone was like "honestly, I'm more glad that I caught them at CBGBS/Remain In Light Tour than that I caught this," but it shouldn't be a shock that people would want to see and be glad they saw Stop Making Sense.

Yeah but otoh the Blonde Ambition tour was probably pretty planned out but also probably pretty awesome to be at.

imo.

like I don't think that "planned out" negates any of the crazy energy/awesome musicians/great songs/etc.

it probably does negate the "crazy energy" if you saw them in a more spontaneous time