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

(Toby, I am the ilxor formerly known as Mary. How is America treating you?)

The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they came
back but it was so boring that I didn't notice? I think breaking up the sets like that was NAGL.

As, dmr, you should have gone in my place! Unless you are jealous of my drinking endless vodka sodas while cursing my circumstances.

(Hi Mary! America is treating me very well, although we are moving back to London in six months, in fact.)

I think you had a very different experience of the show than I did - admittedly a different night, but on Thursday they were off stage for under 5 mins before coming back for 45:33 (which admittedly is more instrumental, but hardly a DJ set...). I think they were offstage for under 10 minutes in 3+1/4 hours, in fact. But I found it pretty much the opposite of boring.

The band didn't break for over a half hour after the first set? Maybe they came
back but it was so boring that I didn't notice? I think breaking up the sets like that was NAGL.

i'm kind of amazed someone who imagined 2 half-hour DJ sets in a show that featured no DJ sets would still be offering their opinion on the show's quality.

like, sorry you didn't enjoy the show you weren't watching!

not to mention that if you were "plotting your escape" before they played "I Can Change" you were plotting said escape before the third song in the setlist

Ah, sorry guys, I really didn't realize that they had come back! No offence. It was really hard to see once I decamped from my original position.

Who was the long haired dude behind the keyboards/playing drums maybe at one point/etc? It doesn't look like Gavin Russom but maybe it is?

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Not Russom - he looks like this now:

http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/index.php?/archive-2011/270211-w-gavin-russom/

http://www.gavinrussom.com/photos.html
top photo is the new 'white' look for Russom

That video doesn't relay just how AWESOME the big moment in Dance Yrself Clean was. I was up on the side and could see the whole arena. Explosions of glo-sticks and an anticipatory yells from the audience. I was feeling really ill and was sure I shouldn't have gone until that moment. So worth it.

Ha yeah I keep trying to find YouTube clips to show ppl and stuff and I just keep thinking "it wasn't like this at ALL"

Can someone please list all the musicians who were playing with LCD on the last show even if they just played on one or two songs?

Thanks in advance.

- james murphy

listening back and the crowd react on the bass drop in 'us v them' is so fuckin rad

crowd reaction during the hits (less so for the B-sides, though people were grooving) was great throughout.

"i was there in jamaica during the great soundclashes--yah mon"

"i'm losing my edge to better looking people with better ideas, and more time, like, seriously, i mean they have a really good web plan, and some SCHA"

^^^ lolz

some what?

its a pretty untranslatable 'ok drop in now, guys' yelp

the quality of this recording is pretty incredible

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone

"drunk girls" still sucks tho

works a bit better live but is still boring in live recordings

HG! remix is p dope tbh

http://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/54979628523208704

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5589439270_da74c68284_b.jpg

...is that aziz?

yeah it is

alright i was hoping i wasn't on some http://www.thehomeplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ThatsRacist.gif shit

he apparently fucked his ankles up and got in trouble with security and shit!

Wait... Nancy's last name is pronounced "Wong", not "Wang"? This really shakes up everything I knew about the universe.

I know. That sort of blew my mind too. Maybe that's what the 'h' does. Thanks for the full list of musicians xxxxpost.

you're all wong

- james murphy
- phil mossman
- nancy whang
- john maclean
- patrick mahoney
- tyler pope
- marcus lambkin
- reginald watts
- al doyle
- gavin russom
- david scott stone
- edwin butler
- william butler
- régine chassagne

Can
I
get
some
time
alone...

that was the twin peaks theme before new york i love you, right?

Yes.

Any word/news on the DVD of the final show? I want to re-experience the "Dance Yrself Clean" drop over and over again

All the youtube footage I've gone through doesn't quite live up to my memory of that drop.

in the meantime, there's always this.

I spent some time with this album today and it hit me pretty hard. Even the stuff I'd been keen to skip ("Drunk Girls", "Somebody's Calling Me") resonated especially deep after giving this album some distance. Definitely my favorite of the three.

I'll credit the band for recognizing that altering (or in this case, halting) its momentum allows you to take a break and appreciate its albums all over again, minus the distractions of tours, news, interviews, hype, upcoming releases, etc.

hell fire!

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

LIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUecSR_kCQs&feature=player_embedded

looking good

You know, for a dude who ostensibly broke up the band to lower his visibility and take some time off, James Murphy has been surprisingly busy and visible. Movies, making movies, still doin' interviews ...

iirc the whole point of him "breaking up" the band was so that he'd have time to work on all the other stuff he wanted to work on

He broke up LCD so that he'd have time to reform them and break them up again.

tbh I am kind of cross w/ Tyler Pope for not reforming Out Hud since I mean he's prob got a lot more free time than Jams

I really wish the DFA DJ Rotary Mixer was actually happening. No news for a year seems to indicate it's never happening

Wait... Nancy's last name is pronounced "Wong", not "Wang"? This really shakes up everything I knew about the universe.

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:23 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

oh HELLO

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/lcdsoundsystem

From October the 8th you can own the documentary and the entire 4 hour concert film (sound mixed by James Murphy) on DVD and Blu-ray. The concert film is exclusive to the DVD and Blu-ray release – you cannot buy it separately. As well as the documentary and full concert the DVD and Blu-ray also comes filled with extras.