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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?
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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
mh tell us more about your other favorite band, the dave matthews band
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
never got into those dudes, people seem to love them
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:15 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Bez in a fez.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:01 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
https://j.gifs.com/1jlmYo.gif
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:19 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
and boring
― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, 11 May 2017 08:39 (six years ago) link
fittingly
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:19 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
pretty much every track over 8 minutes is great
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:53 (six 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 (six years ago) link
WAIT Murphy and Goldsworthy worked on XTRMNTR?!?!
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:04 (six 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 (six years ago) link
xp just one or two songs
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
what are the direct influences on XTRMNTR /PRML SCRM
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
ha, i'd forgotten about that.
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:03 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
iirc the implication is the work by "david holmes" is him getting writer/producer credit for his engineers, who were tim/james?
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
v hazy but iirc it's production on blood money, think that's tru re: credits but i heard they were on it way back when
― schlump, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
Seeing the Two Tims DJ back in 2006-2009 was something else.
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 May 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
I wonder what happened to that lawsuit James took out on Tim and I still wonder what the reasons were behind the split?
― mickcsmith (micarl), Friday, 12 May 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Press release from Steve Martin at Nasty Little Man
RHINO TO SOMEHOW RELEASE "VINYL REISSUES" OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM TITLES ALREADY AVAILABLE THROUGH DFA
https://store.dfarecords.com/collections/albums
Despite being in print for years and ready available at https://store.dfarecords.com/collections/albums, Rhino has announced that they are releasing vinyl reissues of LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled debut album, 45:33, This Is Happening and London Sessions—which was news to the band who issued the following statement:
“LCD Soundsystem certainly aren’t announcing shit, as they had no idea that these were even coming out. Just buy the records from DFA, like you have been able to for years.”
The Rhino press release also describes LCD Soundsystem as "one of the freshest sounds on the London underground scene in the early 2000s” so that shows how seriously anyone should take it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 12 June 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
My guess is that someone at Rhino had tix for the MSG show and subsequently felt pathologically aggrieved ever since the bogus reunion was announced.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/lcdsoundsystem/posts/10158891654125444
hi there again…i really just wanted to say something about these new shows in brooklyn.last time we played Brooklyn Steel, we did 5 nights, and the tickets sold out quickly. everyone got very mad, and we in the band got all upset, and there were cries of bots, etc.. so we dug in, worked with the promoter to delete a bunch of questionable transactions, tried to control tickets the best we could, and discovered that it was actually very few pro scalpers and bots. (fact is, scalpers were announcing tickets for sale to our show before they were even available at all, with the idea that they could put out crazy prices in the beginning, and if anyone bit, they’d scramble to try to find a ticket, or, well, i guess sell a fake one). the fact was that there were many more people who wanted to see us than we had tickets for, which is awesome and a bummer at the same time.outside of all that, the shows were very fun for us. we were close to home and the crowd was fucking great. we got the idea that we should do it again as soon as possible in hopes that more people who wanted to see us but missed us could come see us then. and this is the first time when both we and the venue had a block of dates available in a row, so here we are. 7 nights. with the 5 before it's like, more than a big venue, which we hope will be just fine.i had a lot of back and forth about these shows with our very wonderful, concerned, thoughtful and on it managers and agents, and the professional consensus was that playing them was, frankly, a bad idea. to explain: we just did this in april, so they might seem “less special” now. for reasons i can’t seem to quantify, the earlier gigs were considered special, so they were in higher demand and sold out very quickly. but the undermining of some of the specialness is precisely what we’d love to accomplish with these gigs. they’re just some gigs. they’re in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they’re no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we’re going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they’re certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion. it’s NOT a finite resource. it is certainly 100% not worth paying some crazy amount over face value for them. we’re playing in other places this year, a lot, and that’s likely close to wherever it is you live (unless you live far from things, which i’m sorry about—but it still wouldn’t be worth flying to these.)playing more seems to be the best antidote. unless we play big places, which are ok sometimes, but not our favorite things all the time. or, if i read some blogs correctly, we should charge way, way more for the tickets. this isn’t interesting for us mainly because people with a lot of extra money aren’t the only people we want to play to. (don't get me wrong: we’re aware that if the tickets are, like, $15, they just get resold for a lot more, and we sit there like morons wondering how we’re going to pay our crew, but, you know…) the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york, which makes me pretty bonkers.so, that’s where we are. here are some shows which we’re really excited to play, and we think are worth maybe precisely what the tickets cost. and maybe if no one buys a scalped ticket for more than the face value, the room will feel a little empty, but at least we’ll be done with this crap once and for all, as scalpers aren’t in it to troll music fans—they’re in it to make money, and if no one feeds them, the natural consequence is that they’ll just thin way the fuck out.thank you guys for reading.jamesps. i really didn’t want to make any more announcements of any kind until we had a release date for the LP, but these shows are this week, and we’re still getting the artwork finalized so they can make covers, which we need to solidify the date, so that’s still happening. watch this space. and by “this space”, i mean the internet.pps. hearts
i really just wanted to say something about these new shows in brooklyn.
last time we played Brooklyn Steel, we did 5 nights, and the tickets sold out quickly. everyone got very mad, and we in the band got all upset, and there were cries of bots, etc.. so we dug in, worked with the promoter to delete a bunch of questionable transactions, tried to control tickets the best we could, and discovered that it was actually very few pro scalpers and bots. (fact is, scalpers were announcing tickets for sale to our show before they were even available at all, with the idea that they could put out crazy prices in the beginning, and if anyone bit, they’d scramble to try to find a ticket, or, well, i guess sell a fake one). the fact was that there were many more people who wanted to see us than we had tickets for, which is awesome and a bummer at the same time.
outside of all that, the shows were very fun for us. we were close to home and the crowd was fucking great. we got the idea that we should do it again as soon as possible in hopes that more people who wanted to see us but missed us could come see us then. and this is the first time when both we and the venue had a block of dates available in a row, so here we are. 7 nights. with the 5 before it's like, more than a big venue, which we hope will be just fine.
i had a lot of back and forth about these shows with our very wonderful, concerned, thoughtful and on it managers and agents, and the professional consensus was that playing them was, frankly, a bad idea. to explain: we just did this in april, so they might seem “less special” now. for reasons i can’t seem to quantify, the earlier gigs were considered special, so they were in higher demand and sold out very quickly. but the undermining of some of the specialness is precisely what we’d love to accomplish with these gigs. they’re just some gigs. they’re in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they’re no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we’re going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they’re certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion. it’s NOT a finite resource. it is certainly 100% not worth paying some crazy amount over face value for them. we’re playing in other places this year, a lot, and that’s likely close to wherever it is you live (unless you live far from things, which i’m sorry about—but it still wouldn’t be worth flying to these.)
playing more seems to be the best antidote. unless we play big places, which are ok sometimes, but not our favorite things all the time. or, if i read some blogs correctly, we should charge way, way more for the tickets. this isn’t interesting for us mainly because people with a lot of extra money aren’t the only people we want to play to. (don't get me wrong: we’re aware that if the tickets are, like, $15, they just get resold for a lot more, and we sit there like morons wondering how we’re going to pay our crew, but, you know…) the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york, which makes me pretty bonkers.so, that’s where we are. here are some shows which we’re really excited to play, and we think are worth maybe precisely what the tickets cost. and maybe if no one buys a scalped ticket for more than the face value, the room will feel a little empty, but at least we’ll be done with this crap once and for all, as scalpers aren’t in it to troll music fans—they’re in it to make money, and if no one feeds them, the natural consequence is that they’ll just thin way the fuck out.
thank you guys for reading.
james
ps. i really didn’t want to make any more announcements of any kind until we had a release date for the LP, but these shows are this week, and we’re still getting the artwork finalized so they can make covers, which we need to solidify the date, so that’s still happening. watch this space. and by “this space”, i mean the internet.
pps. hearts
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
What a man of the people. This is the flip side of "why are people mad we reunited?" post.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york
Ever since the ticket chaos surrounding The Cure at Irving Plaza (1000 capacity club) in NYC in '97 I've wondered why that method wasn't used by bands who professed to care about scalping. Had no idea it was illegal.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
That seems implausible, if not impossible. They really do nothing for stuff like Hamilton? Not even a matching ID or credit card?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
why u guys wanna crush the entrepreneurial spirit of hard-workin touts
this america, man
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
lol I did a quick Google search to see if I could find a reference to the law and the first thing I found was this Reddit post from a disgruntled Louis CK fan:
Thanks a lot ticketmaster for taking the wind out of my sails, wrapping your cocks with them, and dick slapping the smile right of my stupid naive face.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtsnXt-H80&feature=player_embedded
― piscesx, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
oops my bad.
let's see if this works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtsnXt-H80
― piscesx, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
huh. granted i had this on low computer-speaker volume, but this feels pretty slight.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
The medley with Home/I Want Your Love is pretty great. They acknowledge Moodymann too. Need to see them do that live.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
the last 30 seconds of Home/IWYL turns is into Barbarism Begins at Home by The Smiths.
― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 2 November 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link