LCD Soundsystem

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!

great timing

i was only able to catch a few minutes. anyone know if there's gonna be a replay?

i think it's on demand on prime

The comeback album songs were actually really good on that!? I’m tempted to go back and reevaluate

I don't remember the comeback album being bad at all. It just felt unnecessary. Three albums of LCD Soundsystem seemed to wrap things up just fine.

it was decent but didn't really hold together as well as what came before, & a lot of it was just re-treading well-worn ground for them. some cool remain in light imitations though

It's a pretty good album. just kind of strange cuz I always thought of This is Happening as the "our time is up, we don't really have any new ideas, so let's just do what we do best one more time" album, so to hear them basically do it again is like...yeah, unnecessary. I never really wanted to listen to it.

Have at it, at your leisure

https://uproxx.com/indie/lcd-soundsystem-shut-up-and-play-the-hits-10th-anniversary/

Sound of Silver is still the shit.

Again: He had the right to bring back his band! But LCD Soundsystem’s subsequent “reunion” (if we should still even classify it that way as this point) has transformed Shut Up And Play The Hits into a completely different film.

Not if you've completely ignored the reunion!

Somehow this author has written an embarrassing cri de coeur about how he is embarrassed by yet drawing attention to his earlier cri de coeur, becoming exponentially wack

funny that people seem to be realizing just now that LCD's audience was primarily made out of guys like James Murphy. I agree that the band's hangup with being cool and doing things "the right way" was obnoxious; Murphy treated his music career like a 12 year old imagining himself in the NFL. everything he does is so calculated and self-aware.

otoh they made a ton of great music, I'm listening to This is Happening now and it's still great. dare I say the best "we're out of ideas" album since Orbital's Middle of Nowhere? had he removed tracks 6-8 it would've been such an amazingly tight single LP.

now I just picture him goofy doing Clorox ads with Eric Wareheim. There's advantages to bleach! Advantages!!

I guess the upshot of seeing that malfunctioning show was seeing Murphy and the band NOT so calculated or self-aware. It was a bunch of guys really struggling and trying to get their equipment working, knowing full well they were letting everyone down. Like he seemed pretty damn humble offering the new album for free as a way of making amends.

At apefest vibing to lcd soundsystem pic.twitter.com/FcNVAekglz

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Lmao

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At least that performance seemed marginally more energetic than when the did SNL

Lmfao at both these charlatans and HAIM having their threads bumped for playing an NFT festival. They were always fuckin grifters and you critics were the mark

Forgive my glee

"Band playing a gig for money" is not what grifter means.

Given the number of shows LCD probably played for audiences that were 90% coked-up trustafarians and finance bros circa 2005-8, playing a NFT festival is VMIC IMO.

Same energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otc8CboPT2s

Where are your apes tonight??