they are playing a THREE HOUR set now, can they really not find time for anything from the back half of the debut album ("never as tired" "on repeat" "thrills" "disco infiltrator" "great release") or "beat connection" "give it up" "tired" "yr citys a sucker" i mean come onnnnn
"give it up" is a fuckin monster live, instead we get to sing along to "i can change" and "ny i love you but..."? god please spare me
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just kidding around b/c ilxor's one post read a little like an early LCD song itself.
― Mark, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
and they've gone from quite awesome early cover songs (siouxsie "slowdive"!!!) to doing a mash-up of "ny i love you" + jay-z "empire state of mind" loooool. like, people think this is a good thing?
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
but i was there
i was there when LCD Soundsystem played Siouxsie and the Banshees covers and early B-sides in 2005
:(
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
brotherlovesdub lol yes
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/lcd_soundsystem_40.html
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
okay im done being a negative nancy, you guys enjoy
honestly i'd probably buy a Terminal 5 ticket if i lived in NY, anyway, so fuck knows what im saying
NANCY WHANG SOLO LP NOW PLZ.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that mashup sucks, but besides that what? "Throw" was awesome. The thing is that the back half of their debut album is not really considered by many people to be as good as their later stuff. Just saying. "I Can Change" is a lot better than most the songs you mentioned
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They sucked when I saw them open for Daft Punk at Wireless Festival 2007. Like, a really bad performance. And I'll never get to see them again, ever.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay you realize they have FIVE album-length releases worth of material, right (first album, second disc of singles, sound of silver, 45:33, this is happening)?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"i can change" is among the worst songs LCD has ever recorded, a hugely cloying attempt at being nostalgic and touching, rivaled only by "drunk girls" as its parent album's worst track. quite honestly LCD goes downhill the more their songs skew toward trying to dance less, emote more. kinda pushed the boundaries of that with "someone great" -- which works (but barely), murphy is at his worst when he's trying to be an old softy
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
:O
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how you say "a hugely cloying attempt at being nostalgic" as if "Losing My Edge" like never existed or something.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
best possible MSG scenario would be murphy downing a 6-pack pre-show, another during; crumbling up the setlist after opening with "dance yrself clean" then ripping through every song they haven't rehearsed and played to death the past two years of touring
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought you were done being a negative nancy.
thankfully they skipped the "empire" medley
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
um those two songs couldn't be more different; "losing my edge" is murphy being lol-witty, "i can change" is murphy doing a lovelorn ballad
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
a "ballad" that is faster than "losing my edge"
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, LCD didn't rehearse or have a setlist for the first tour?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I do agree that "I Can Change" strikes me as a little insecure. But it's a great tune. Its kind of like some of the best stuff that OMD ever did. I mean not all his songs have to be epic dance rave-ups. He's got enough of those. Sometimes music is about more than getting sloppy drunk and tearing through a bunch of songs, you know?
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, i think your account upthread is off. shit robot didn't exist when LCDSS's first tour took place. Also I don't think they'd book a place that large on their first tour considering we got them in a 400 person capacity club... where do you live again?
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i had to really dig on Google for this, but found gig details
October 26, 2005 - Austin, TX
show preview: http://austinist.com/2005/10/26/tonight_lcd_soundsystem_at_stubbs.php
of note, sounds like it was 45 degress that night (v. chilly for Austin) which probably thinned the crowd out a good bit
also, it was DJ Shit Robot supporting, looks like ;)
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess the first show was 2003, 04 era.
it was 2005, clearly i was wrong. always seems like that debut came out earlier than 2005 dang it
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem with The Juan Maclean and Shit RobotWednesday, October 26Stubb's
^ Shit Robot at the show; DJ Shit Robot at the after-party (sorry)
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh... well, the 2005 shows were good, almost as good as the first two tours before that.
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i'm sure!
tried to see LCD at SXSW 2004 i think, but small club/ltd. capacity pretty much meant that was a no-go
didn't play austin again til Oct 2005
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Just think of the 110k people who saw them at Coachella a year and a half before you saw them.
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol alright alright, now yr just clowning me dude
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
Cosign.
Listening to the live at Alexandria Palace album from last year now, and it just doesn't quite work; I suspect any bootleg from the final show will be disappointing. Something missing in the mix/the dynamics, I guess?
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the mastering on that live album pretty much sucked
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Was it one of those ones that's released a few minutes after the show? I guess that might explain it.
― toby, Friday, 1 April 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also my copy won't play all the way through and they won't send me a new one :(
― Neo Tony (sic), Friday, 1 April 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I was at that Alexandra Palace gig ("I waaaas theeeeeeeereeeeee..." and I can confirm that they dropped the beat like a muthafucka on DYC and the place went nuts. I'll have to search the recording out to do a compare/contrast.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Saturday, 2 April 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'. My friend asked me if the song that sounded all 80s was my favorite and I was like "I can change"? yeah I like that song and she said she'd think of me fondly when they played it, cause I was already plotting my escape from the front of the crowd.
Is that Toby, originally from London? If so, hi!
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 2 April 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is Toby originally from London, but I'm afraid I don't know who you are...
In what sense did they stop twice for a half-hour DJ set?!
― toby, Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
jealous of virginia plain
― dmr, Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, it's not really a 3-hour set if the band stops twice for an over half-hour dj set, just sayin'.
no dj sets at the terminal 5 shows
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the stream of the MSG show supposed to be on PFork's main page? I can't find it.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, I guess Safari AdBlocker was killing it
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Do we have any clues/guesses as to what the final song will be?
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
they've closed like every concert since SoS with new york i love you, so probably that?
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a lot easier to hate, but watching this live stream the band is on par with "Stop Making Sense" Heads. For lots of obvious reasons, sure, but I can't think of many acts operating at this level.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
reminiscent, maybe. "on par"? see Stop Making Sense again.
― da croupier, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Still think the most recent album was a letdown, but I'm having a blast watching this/saying goodbye to 'em.
The band is amazing. James Murphy just seems to be inconsequential ringleader.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is a total just unbelievable blast
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Nancy Whang is on about her fourth wardrobe change now.
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Besides David Byrne being a better/more iconic singer/frontman and the songs being a bit better, and a 25 year head start, sure, I'll still say more or less on par. "Stop Making Sense" is a much better movie than this stream, but band for band? Sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
how long as arcade fire been playing w/ them
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume there will be a v high quality bootleg of this online tomorrow
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
The AFers just came out for "North American Scum."
― Uteruses Before Duderuses (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
how many ppl are even on stage i mean
― Clay, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link