I like "American Dream" but boy is "Call the Police" tedious
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.― paulhw, Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday)
To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.
― paulhw, Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday)
check this:delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?
He does.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
I dislike this person, and the music he makes, greatly.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
I find him very sympathetic, if you're interested in changing your mind perhaps this interview will be of interest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380
but I mean also just the guy who wrote Someone Great has to be a nice person
― niels, Saturday, 6 May 2017 08:13 (seven years ago) link
Call The Police sounds a bit like Oasis or Kasabian by the time it gets to the outro.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 6 May 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
I've generally been happy with most LCD stuff but let's all acknowledge for a moment that the pre album 12"s, culminating with the besthingever "Yeah", is the real shit.
― yesca, Saturday, 6 May 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
top 3 tracks are pretty easily Beat Connection/Thrills/Yeah, nothing else he did in the Beat Connection/Yeah sort of mode later really came close
I like the synth tone in Call the Police that's really evocative of YMO's Cue, but unlike when he's done this style in the past, it's not more than the sum of its New Order + "Heroes" parts - this time sounding a ton like Procession
― ufo, Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
the biggest change in either of these tracks is the way the drums are produced
― ufo, Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC7SEkQX9U
Obviously going to be scorching thing to experience live.
― yesca, Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
call the police really grew on me—i think i've settled on really liking how it goes back and forth from romantic to punky, since the bass motorik is always there to keep you grounded
― austinb, Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that was great. Alas, I saw them on one of last year or so's reunion/club shows, and man, the crowd was so gross I don't think I can handle it again. That's my problem, totally, they were fine otherwise. Maybe the influx of new songs will change the dynamic.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?
― akm, Sunday, 7 May 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm really enjoying Call The Police after that performance. I'm getting massive Ultravox vibes from it, especially the keyboards in the "and we don't waste time with love" part.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 7 May 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
Who's the synth dude bopping away in the back?
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Gavin Russom:delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
lol jed!
if you're going to tell us about it then do so. if you're not you may as well just post "i've got this records and you've not bitches!". whatever, i'm looking forward to this being released. i like these guys.― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:24 PM (eleven years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:24 PM (eleven years ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
Ha!What a wideo.
I suspected that was GR but he's unrecognisable these days. I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in a baseball cap and t-shirt.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
It looked like more of an ethnic fez or something to me....?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 00:48 (seven years ago) link
Essentially. Just total bro-dudes, light up sunglasses and baseball caps, collared preppy shirts, double fisting beers. Just ... gross.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
I really was into LCD Soundsystem at the beginning when it was Murphy screwing around and liked that the project evolved into a live band and was good live, but it's one of those situations where I enjoy the music but feel like it's a consensus pick. As in, I wouldn't turn down seeing them live and appreciate new music, but I'm not clamoring for it?
Having a really broad, annoying crowd is one of the problems with consensus favorites. In closing, LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
mh tell us more about your other favorite band, the dave matthews band
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
never got into those dudes, people seem to love them
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
I was there ... when Dave Matthews convinced his really good drummer to join his shitty band over drinks at Miller's Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in an ethnic fez and t-shirt.
baldness
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Watched that clip again, that truly is a ton of analog synth gear for like literally six or so notes. They should give Gavin maracas or something, like Bez.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
Bez in a fez.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
xp lmao i thought the same thing, i wonder how much of it they just did for prop value
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening
lol this really sums up how i feel about this band anymore
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
I'm fine with bands being a consensus thing, just kind of weird that I became a mainstreamer
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Love the band but especially the early 12"s.
Who's with me that "Shame On You" is one of the greatest things he's ever recorded and it's been criminally relegated to the shoes EP (and the middle of the live thing)...
― yesca, Thursday, 11 May 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link
https://j.gifs.com/1jlmYo.gif
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:19 (seven years ago) link
Everything DFA/LCD/Murphy related has got worse the longer it's got since the departure of Tim Goldsworthy.
― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:56 (seven years ago) link
"Call The Police" sounds really busy and unfocused, how you gonna retire to run your wine bar for four years and come back with some half-assed bullshit
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 11 May 2017 07:56 (seven years ago) link
the interesting thing about the band to me was how they sounded like being in your 30s - music is so much about the teens and early 20s, the weariness of becoming an adult in dance/rock guise felt unique
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 11 May 2017 07:58 (seven years ago) link
and boring
― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, 11 May 2017 08:39 (seven years ago) link
fittingly
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
wait what is "the shoes EP (and the middle of the live thing)"?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
those are 45:33 and The Long Goodbye
Shame On You is one of his best yeah
― ufo, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
ah ok, I didn't realize they split the tracks up on The Long Goodbye
I also think "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is in his top 5 best ever
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
pretty much every track over 8 minutes is great
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:56 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning after nostalgically putting on Primal Scream's XTRMNTR, which I think was where Murphy and Goldsworthy first worked together
Goldsworthy was definitely the production/dance tracks guy and his work really shines on all the early DFA releases but once LCD started to break as a band, I feel like the perception of DFA became less about a label/dudes doing cool dance 12" releases and production work and more "that label with LCD Soundsystem and friends"
kind of borne out by LCD turning into this live act that's incorporated people making it seem like it's the label that coalesced into a band
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
WAIT Murphy and Goldsworthy worked on XTRMNTR?!?!
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Goldsworthy's influence on Hercules and Love Affair LP was probably the high water mark really.https://www.discogs.com/Hercules-And-Love-Affair-Hercules-And-Love-Affair/release/1272757
― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
xp just one or two songs
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
what are the direct influences on XTRMNTR /PRML SCRM
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
ha, i'd forgotten about that.
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
I thought David Holmes's 'Bow Down To The Exit Sign' was Murphy's credit but XTRMNTR would make sense in that context.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Murphy's first credit, even.
afaik Murphy is not credited on XTRMNTR, only Goldsworthy (of the two)
― nashwan, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link