LCD Soundsystem

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

xp just one or two songs

what are the direct influences on XTRMNTR /PRML SCRM

ha, i'd forgotten about that.

I thought David Holmes's 'Bow Down To The Exit Sign' was Murphy's credit but XTRMNTR would make sense in that context.

Murphy's first credit, even.

afaik Murphy is not credited on XTRMNTR, only Goldsworthy (of the two)

iirc the implication is the work by "david holmes" is him getting writer/producer credit for his engineers, who were tim/james?

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

Seeing the Two Tims DJ back in 2006-2009 was something else.

I wonder what happened to that lawsuit James took out on Tim and I still wonder what the reasons were behind the split?

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.

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.

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.

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

What a man of the people. This is the flip side of "why are people mad we reunited?" post.

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.

That seems implausible, if not impossible. They really do nothing for stuff like Hamilton? Not even a matching ID or credit card?

why u guys wanna crush the entrepreneurial spirit of hard-workin touts

this america, man

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtsnXt-H80&feature=player_embedded

oops my bad.

let's see if this works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtsnXt-H80

huh. granted i had this on low computer-speaker volume, but this feels pretty slight.

The medley with Home/I Want Your Love is pretty great. They acknowledge Moodymann too. Need to see them do that live.

the last 30 seconds of Home/IWYL turns is into Barbarism Begins at Home by The Smiths.

shit, thank you for saying that. the bassline was totally familiar but I didn't associate it to the Smiths.

Yr welcome, It's grreat!

This was a terrific episode of “You’re the Worst.”

The medley with Home/I Want Your Love is pretty great. They acknowledge Moodymann too. Need to see them do that live.

― brotherlovesdub

Performed this in SF at the Bill Graham a year or two back

american dream will never be my favorite one of theirs but i’m starting to feel like it might be the best produced/engineered??

That Heaven 17 cover is amazingly bad.

MSG show was ten years ago tonight. Ten!?

that's how it starts...

I was there! And awkwardly it's the first time I was ever offered some coke.

James Murphy has a great interview on WTF with Maron, confirms LCD is on a "full hiatus."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fJxYzVJ8wtrjzUW0UDLhc?si=zOpNSwAuT-uWOBmp6GgcGg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

this makes their comeback even more bizarre. like did they even tour?

$$$$$

I get why people were annoyed by the whole "comeback" thing in the first place, but it's weird that people are also getting pissed off because they are reissuing a live album that's been out of print and stupid expensive for years now.

Oh, glad to hear about the reissue!

Haha, same! I missed out on the first one, so I was happy to see another chance.

this makes their comeback even more bizarre. like did they even tour?

they recorded and released an album, and played 151 shows in 24 countries, visiting some of them in three consecutive years

Wasn’t he saying they’re always on hiatus when not touring and just fire up when he makes an album? If he just finished building his personal studio I assume that might be on the horizon.

Every act is essentially on hiatus between recording and touring. And there's no such thing as a legally binding breakup, though sometimes I wish there was.

Supreme Court case #666: The People vs Motley Crue

I mean, maybe I'm just cynical enough to never take these retirements or hiatuses or break-ups as anything more than marketing in the first place, but it just seems weird to get particularly mad about any band doing this. People change their minds all the time, or they get in a better mental space to deal with the strain of touring and being in the public eye. I mean, yeah, LCD went to 11 with the drama and hype around that last show, for sure, but... I don't know. I just expect every band or artist who retires/quits/splits up while still relatively young to come back in some form or another.

I mean it was understandable when you had people spending $1000+ for flight/hotel/tickets to see them at MSG knowing this would be "the last ever show" and then they wound up getting back together 6 years later and apparently playing a ton of shows afterwards. maybe *those* particular people had the right to be upset. idgi from anyone else though.

for me it was the fact that their sound was so ephemeral that made the reunion seem kind of weird. like they spearheaded a movement yes but by This is Happening it was all winding down and nearly all the DFA bands had broken up, it was loads of fun and maybe could've went another couple years but the entire message of LCD's music was "live in the moment because you know it can't last". Every interview with Murphy he'd talk about how he was getting too old for this shit. so yeah something just felt off about the comeback - yeah the album itself was quite good but there were a bunch of "we really doing this again?" moments

the very first LCD song was about getting too old for this shit

the context of him saying they're on a "full hiatus" is just he's not working on a new album at the moment & he doesn't have any intention of touring without new music

My apologies for the poor context.

I mean it was understandable when you had people spending $1000+ for flight/hotel/tickets to see them at MSG knowing this would be "the last ever show" and then they wound up getting back together 6 years later and apparently playing a ton of shows afterwards. maybe *those* particular people had the right to be upset. idgi from anyone else though.

for me it was the fact that their sound was so ephemeral that made the reunion seem kind of weird. like they spearheaded a movement yes but by This is Happening it was all winding down and nearly all the DFA bands had broken up, it was loads of fun and maybe could've went another couple years but the entire message of LCD's music was "live in the moment because you know it can't last". Every interview with Murphy he'd talk about how he was getting too old for this shit. so yeah something just felt off about the comeback - yeah the album itself was quite good but there were a bunch of "we really doing this again?" moments

Pretty much agree, but even with my reservations, I had no objections to a reunion. As with most reunions, it's not going to be the same and it's probably driven by nostalgia, even it's been less than a decade. But I also think it's asking too much for groups or artists etc to permanently stop - if they really want to make music again or tour again, it's not always driven by money or greed, and that's fine. I went to one of the reunion shows, and it wasn't great partly because they had a shitload of technical problems, but by the end it was still fun. And even though they were harassed by some drunken douchebag, I'm sure the parents next to me were happy their daughter got to see them. (It was her first concert ever and she didn't know their music until it was supposedly too late to ever see them - she asked her parents if they wanted to go, not the other way around.)

Live Christmas special on prime and twitch right now

Oh, this kicks ass. Thanks for the heads up!