But LCD? A band so linked to electronics and sequencing and arrangements, it's unlikely the set will or even can differ I saw LCD three times and they were playing live as far as I could tell, able to vary on cues from Murphy, or adapt to additional non-touring players coming onstage for odd songs at a festival It'd be pretty wasteful to have a 7-10 piece of distinct multi-instrumentalists on the road but be playing to tracks I don't begrudge them, if you can book 10 nights at a 1,800 cap venue more power to you, it's just confusing.Shows in 18,000 capacity venues suck total ballbag, shows in 1800-cap rooms are a great experience if you actually like live music
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
I've seen LCD maybe ... 7? 8 times? More? Enough times that I've lost count. In small clubs and in big places. They've always been pretty good to great, but strictly live/real time or no - and I have no reason to believe they're not playing "live" - I've never heard them do any particular song two different ways, or at least not with any significant differences. I'm sure there is sequencing/ triggering and stuff going on - there has to be, at least to keep the tempos consistent or the patches queued up or whatever. But, for point of comparison, I've never seen them as loose as I've seen, say, New Order, which ultimately doesn't say much, save that New Order can be pretty sloppy. And even on that front nu-New Order is pretty much as locked down as LCD is.
It's not a problem with LCD, I should stress. They're pretty good at what they do, and it's not like the aforementioned National or Arcade Fire go off script live much, either. But they do seem to have a tad more latitude/flexibility when it comes to shaking up 10 night stands, imo. Every time I've seen LCD Soundsystem live they've been, like I said, good to great, but always the same, more or less.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
both sic and jic otm, LCD is a very "live" band but outside of a funkier version of "Daft Punk" and a hyperextended "Yeah" they really don't sound a whole lot different than they do in the studio - the band is often better live, even if Murphy's vocals are usually worse. I think having a 4th album of material to draw from will serve them well.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
there's a notable degree of projection happening itt
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
9 shows, sure. but ten shows? really? fuck you.
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
I found the new album underwhelming, but the songs were much more enjoyable live.
― Josh (phantompenguin), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
Maybe because the new stuff feels like a proper group effort, and not songs written by James Murphy as performed by 10 James Murphys.
― Josh (phantompenguin), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
9 James Murphys, sure
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
irl giggle
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
hang on isn't the reason they're doing 10 shows, simply so they can play to the number of people who want to go without having to do an arena show? i mean i'm not sure quite where the raging and swearing about this is coming from. popular NY band does 10 NY shows shocker. they could probably easily done the same 10 years or more ago or near as dammit.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
xpost They're clearly massively popular, or at least on par with Arcade Fire, the National, a few others. LCD irks me the most (well, Arcade Fire is pretty bad) about doing Big Popular Band things while at the same time complaining about having to do Big Popular Band things. "Oh, sad us, we wish we didn't have to play MSG, or all these festivals, but that's just the way it is, and we're barely breaking even once you take out our expenses of burning massive piles of money." "We had no idea we'd sell out this modest club in our hip hometown, but it's OK, we'll just play 10 shows, because that way everyone will get to see us, because there's no way we'll ever sell out 10 nights at a tiny venue." Etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:22 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this post is really weird esp since they don't seem very complaining as a band, at all. i guess some people can never win, what exactly do you want them to do?
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
We've talked about it already, but there have been plenty of James Murphy Agonistes articles and interviews. Personally, I'm fine with LCD, but I'm still going to make fun of them and complain, which has come easier to me since the "reunion."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
Tur He Can
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
not that i had much hope, but i gave this a shot tonight. terrible record. couldn't finish.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
x-post: Yeah, their lyrics can be pretty bad and unwindy.― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:26 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:26 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
far from being bad or unwindy [sic]/not (sic)
they are actually searing on Tonite. I don't think I've read pop lyrics this clever for a long time
tonite
LCD Soundsystem
Everybody's singing the same songIt goes "tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight"I never realized these artists thought so much about dyingBut truth be told we all have the same endCould make you cry, cry, cry, cry, cryBut I'm telling youThis is the best news you're getting all week
Oh sure it's ruling the airwavesWhat remains of the airwavesAnd we're frankly thankful for the market psychology you're hipping us to
And all the hits are saying the same thingThere's only tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonightThen life is finiteBut shit, it feels like foreverIt feels like forever
Oh is everybody feeling the same stuff?We're all wildExcept for youAnd you know who you areThis is a love song
And you're getting olderI promise you this; you're getting olderAnd there's improvements unlessYou're such a winnerThat the future's a nightmareAnd there's nothing I can doNothing anyone can do about this
And oh, I'm offering you a chance to get evenBut oh, you know very well the dialect of negationSure enemies haunt you with spit and derisionBut friends are the ones who can put you in an exileBut that's not right
And you're too sharp to be usedOr you're too shocked from being usedBy these bullying children of the fabulousRaffling off limited edition shoes
And what's it you do again?Oh I'm a reminderThe hobbled veteran of the disk shop inquisitionSet to parry the cocksure of men's sick filthWith my own late era middle-aged ramblings
Every lover favors the same thingsIt's all "touch me, touch me, touch me, touch me tonight"We maybe realize what it is we need before we die
And luck is always better than skill at thingsWe're flying blindOh good graciousI sound like my mom
But out of the little rooms and onto the streetsYou've lost your internet and we've lost our memoryWe had a paper trail that led to our secretsBut embarrassing pictures have now all been deletedBy versions of selves that we thought were the best ones'Till versions of versions of others repeatingCome laughing at everything we thought was importantWhile still making mistakes that you thought you had learned fromAnd reasonable people know better than youThat cost in the long run but they don't know the short gameAnd terrible people know better than youThey're used and abused of the once so dear listenerSo you will be badgered and taunted until deathYou're missing a party that you'll never get overYou hate the idea that you're wasting your youthThat you stood in the background oh until you got olderBut that's all liesThat's all liesIt's gonna have to be good enough, I can't do this anymore, my brain won't work
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
But out of the little rooms and onto the streetsYou've lost your internet and we've lost our memoryWe had a paper trail that led to our secretsBut embarrassing pictures have now all been deletedBy versions of selves that we thought were the best ones'Till versions of versions of others repeatingCome laughing at everything we thought was importantWhile still making mistakes that you thought you had learned from
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
yeah those are shockingly great actually
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
maybe that’s why the later stuff hasn’t hit for me, I like my depressed introspection buried under a layer of yeahs
― mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
the lyrics might be good! the delivery is....not.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
i think that
Oh I'm a reminderThe hobbled veteran of the disk shop inquisitionSet to parry the cocksure of men's sick filthWith my own late era middle-aged ramblings"
is a lift from
Just like I told yaPrefers karaokaCheap shit half-dollar manThe sky calendarBar, homeSpeculates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOmAnhh6xk
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
or maybe another part. whut.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
quite drink
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 7 December 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
The Rian Johnson directed video for "oh baby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIhrPGyu6U
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 21 October 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pWaLlrhdgM
they sound completely out of ideas
― ufo, Friday, 30 September 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Starts like a bad Le Tigre song
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 30 September 2022 04:49 (one year ago) link
It looks like James Murphy is going to appear for the Q&A at tonight's NYFF premiere of White Noise.
I guess it's possible whatever he made for the film will work well within the context of the film. I always thought Dylan's score for Pat Garrett was actually good but close to useless as standalone listening (with "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" being a lone exception).
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 September 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
starts like a B52s song.
― stirmonster, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link