LCD Soundsystem

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

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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.

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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??

bathing

NFT Soundsystem

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just listened again for the first time in several years ... didn't get it back then, didn't get it when they were brand new and don't get it now.

what am i missing?

best thing i can come up with is i was born too early ('76) for this to hit right.

Nah, I was born in 1975 and it's fine. Think of it as an extended post-modern remix of all your favorite post-punk and art-pop or what have you all at once.

They have a greatest-hits collection worth of classic songs. Like the Cars, say. (Ducks before the Cars stans start throwing things.)

They just announced some shows in Chicago - I saw them in November and it was awesome, more than made up for the last time I saw them when their equipment malfunctioned and they kept stopping the show in mid-song.

they're reasonably good at synthesising all their hip 70s/80s post-punk/art rock influences into something distinct and compelling (if derivative, sometimes far too blatantly). they're at their best when the exact mix of reference points isn't so obvious though

I dunno, I think they're often pretty good when they're obvious. Like on "Home" or "All I Want."

I tend to conflate them with the whole DFA stable. Those DFA compilations were crucial listening for me at the time.

Those comps were super cool, not least the LCD tracks. I guess what set LCD apart is that they actually managed a few solid full-lengths as well.

Yeah, and their sensibility shaped the whole label.

This prompted me to put on the 2nd DFA comp, which I'm enjoying. So many good tracks.

DFA drum sound is all time. Hi-hat

DFA also responsible for one of my favorite-ever ilm threads: What the hell, let's all SING "House of jealous lovers"

what set LCD apart is that they actually managed a few solid full-lengths as well.

Juan has about 20 solid full-lengths, EPs, and EP-length 12”s

I remember when that DFA comp came out and there’s the remastered/re-recorded version of “Optimo” on it and I thought “this is all I want is for Tim G to produce new Liquid Liquid music”

"Bellhead"!

https://i.imgur.com/xr8iix4.jpeg

I still like and listen to LCD Soundsystem, but wow, Losing my Edge hits differently at 44 than it did at 22.

My mistake I just woke up!!

LCD Soundsystem is such a time/place thing for me, like I discovered that first record when I got into college, Sound of Silver around when I hit legal drinking age, and This is Happening when I was really going out a lot, so all three of those records bring back a lot of (mostly good) memories. But I haven't really been interested in relistening to them.

“Losing My Edge” remains one of my favourite recordings of all time

The later songs that were upthread described as “post-modern remixes of your favourite songs” in fact have all the appeal of the Counting Crows cover of “Big Yellow Taxi” or that recent cover of “Fast Car” or that awful New Radicals cover; yet somehow worse than all of these because people seem to like them? They make me feel something profound, not sadness or anger or boredom but a lack of emotion, like a vacuum of feeling, an overwhelming null

I like “Yeah” tho, too. I listened to the Nike album while working out and it was nice, I liked the instrumental version of “Someone Great”. I never liked “Daft Punk” but I heard it again a month ago and it was better than I remembered.