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Toby says he's heard 'Great Release'. I haven't.

Is it still called ECLECTIC WARRIOR?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 08:40 (twenty years ago)

oh God I hope it is, that is the best worst name ever!

― haitch haitch haitch (or any three repetitive sounds) (haitch), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)

the album is called 'lcd soundsystem'. 'great release' is gorgeous - you'd never know it was them if you didn't know.

― stirmonster, Monday, 22 November 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Last time I looked their French label listed it as self-titled, I'm sorry to report.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Did you just say the UK version is called Niggamortis?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago)

are all the obvious singles on the album? or is it all new stuff?

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago)

'movement' is the only single on the lp but the cd (at least the promo) comes with a second cd with all the singles.

― stirmonster, Monday, 22 November 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Are the likes of 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House' and 'Where Is Love?' still included?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago)

hope not, the former is rub

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

I think it's called "LCD Soundsystem Is Blowing It", but it's entirely possibly that I just don't really care...

― Nancy Boy (Nancy Boy), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

You're blowing something.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I heard 'Daft Punk...' is going to be the next single.

― Jason J, Monday, 22 November 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm not buying it unless its called Eclectic Warrior.

Unless its called Eclectic Avenue or something even worse.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Eclectic Ladyland would be good too

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

It's called 'LCD Soundsystem'. There are 9 tracks on the first CD and then 6 on the second.

I find it to be near unlistenable. If anyone wants to buy a promo copy of it off me then please post up here.

― Pikmin, Monday, 22 November 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago)

"Prophet-5's, Seers and Sages, the Angels of the Ages"

― briania (briania), Monday, 22 November 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago)

'My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair But Now They're
Content To Wear Trucker Hats On Their Heads'

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago)

'Shut Up Already! DAMN!'

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I'll give you £40 for the LCD album. Email me.

― Lazza, Monday, 22 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)

when is this coming out?

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

January was the target date

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Did Murphy cut the vocals for "Movement" when he had a cold?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I'll give you £40 for the LCD album.

Don't be ridiculous. If Pikmin got her/his copy for free, (s)he should send it to you for postage only.

Plus I wanted to say Eclectic Youth.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

I'll beat £40 if it's a proper promo. Hit up my email.

― Alexises, Monday, 22 November 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

People, people!

when is this coming out?

24 January (in Europe, anyway).

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Seeing Ip addresses is fun.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago)

31.3.3.7 D00D

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago)

i became deaf at an lcd soundsystem show.

― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:47 (twenty years ago)

are there mp3s around?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:47 (twenty years ago)

great release is fantastic - it's the lcd eno ballad! as far as I know, it's nine tracks: daft punk... / too much love / tribulations / movement / never as tired... / on repeat / thrills / disco infiltrator / great release.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad 'Tribulations' is on it.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:32 (twenty years ago)

anybody sharing it on slsk?

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's the tracklisting, scott. aside "too much love" (though the last part of that is good) it's great. "never as tired" might be my favorite beatles homage since "shake some action."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

well i wrote a five-minute review of it for the blog. here it is.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i want to hear disco infiltrator NOW.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

As ever, props to Yanc3.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Could you touch on the Turing Machine record too perchance?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

check the links to the right for my review, gygax

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

great write up, Yanc3y. Can't wait.
So will the actual release come with the 2nd disc, or just the promo??

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

just to weigh in on the yanc3y-maligned "too much love"...it's fucking awesome!!! the band knows its B-part is hooker-hot, but they just build up to it until the first part's (brilliant) static melody just implodes. "never as tired" is gorgeous, and i like all the songs for very specific reasons, but "too much love" is the one our children will put on their girfriends' mixtapes (or the tiny microchip-brain-implant ipods apple is currently developing).

― Nick Sylvester, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

nick you are bonkers

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

well. cos of all this ILM love i plumped up the hard earned for the DFA comp that Nick also gives the big thumbs up on. and you know what. i think i love you guys. was digging in the archive last week due to lack of new sounds that inspired and now i have found a new groove based passion. so i guess this LCD album is top of my wish list.
is this going to EMI distributed as well ? (makes life easier ..)

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

emi & capitol!

― Nick Sylvester, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Wow, "The Great Release" is the most Eno-sounding non-Eno thing that I've ever heard.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

You can't imagine ever not loving it? ;)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I hate you all.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Paul will probably be annoyed, but he's got "The Great Release" on the Rub.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm not annoyed. That's why I put them up on my isp space... unlimited transfer!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

btw, that's the only new song (aside from the ones that have been widely available all year) that I've been able to track down.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I misunderstood you then.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago)

great release sounds like Taking Tiger Mountain/Another Green World Eno for sure and it feature my favorite juxtoposition of sounds, that of old-school drum machine with live drums on top.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't know Eno very well. It sounds like John Cale to me!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago)

i heard one track i was sort of keen on and one other i was very not keen on!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago)

It's clearly A MIXED BAG.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago)

it's a better title than Eclectic Warrior! I think i just want them to sound like LCD Soundsystem, is that too much to ask? the one i wasn't keen on at all is Yancey's favourite track on the record so there you go.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago)

I have a live mp3 just called 'Tired', which is a heavy, shouty very punk-funk bassy thing about 3 mins long, with him screaming "COS I'M TIRRRRRRED!" very loudly and some other lyrics I can't make out. Is that 'Never Been Tired'?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago)

no that's "Tired" which was the b side of "give it up"

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago)

and it's better than that other thing.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago)

at the moment, the great release sounds like it does want to be eno, for a while, but it is a bit too boring.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)

I feel too Euro-centric these days to bother with this. I should just get over myself and listen but it's annoying me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I have a song called 'Give It Up'. Shit, again.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago)

That's an old single.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago)

How does that make a difference?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago)

A difference to what?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago)

"On Repeat" is great too but not as good as "thrills" and "too much love" (neither of which Yanc3y liked!). Thrills is the best thing on it i think.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago)

jed, are you in possession of the album? are you on slsk?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Ally - I thought you thought it was a new track, from the album or something, and you were saying they hadn't improved.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

i'm not cutty - but i have heard it a couple of times now and the person who has it wont let me steal it :(

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago)

No, I was saying I stole their song title, without realising it. You forget I know next to nothing about la Soundsystem.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)

AH I SEE. I misunderstood your 'have', badly. I had the idea that you didn't like them.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I have grown fond of '...edge' after hearimg it 3 billion times. Other than that, I like some things but don't know what they're called. I am going to bed.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Best "Give It Up" is by Badfinger btw

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Best "Live It Up" is by Mental As Anything.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Best 'Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)' Is by Level 42

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago)

anyone having more luck browsing user lsd25 than i am?!

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

ha, ok, "no files shared".

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Now, definitely proliferating on Soulseek. Yay!

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Thursday, 2 December 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago)


t/f?

― bakers (thoia), Thursday, 2 December 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago)

who linked the rip to this thread? as if we haven't got anough geeks who like lcd soundsystem on here

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Hang on - what is this 'Where Is Love' track (5:57) that I have? Is is just a leaked track that's not going to be on the album?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

yes - i dunno why its not on the album.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

maybe just cos it got leaked so early.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

not that i would know anyway :-S

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Well, 'Tribulations' has been around so long I assumed it had been released, and that's on the album.

I'm not sure 'Where Is Love' is very good - maybe that's why it's not on there. I guess it's OK.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago)

it's better than "daft punk is playing at my house" though.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I still only have a live version of that, but I think I like it. We'll see.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I mean it's just a riff and a cute line, but that's maybe OK.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago)

'daft punk...' has really grown on me. sounds great hyper loud.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I think colin just doesn't like it because he doesn't like the idea of Daft Punk playing at his house.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

i can't listen to it without thinking of the bush tetras song "too many creeps."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Please DESTROY 82% of the guitar leads on this album, they are awful.

ESP!!!! Tribulations (terrible Guitar sound) and Never as Tired...(hitting the WRONG NOTES!!)

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

but there are only like 20% guitar parts on the album!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

YES!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

cutty do u like it?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

yes, i pretty much like it all. no hate here.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

like i said on the noise board, it seems like JM is having so much fun. toying with any genre he wants to fuck with. like a kid in a candy store full of drum machines, keyboards, and analog tape.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

What is it you don't like about the guitar on 'Tribulations', ddb?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I might download it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

it reminds me of the rapture record...in that the more i play it the more i can see myself getting pretty sick of it.

that daft punk song can only be played once.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

alba...it just sounds out of place...and its a pretty weak lead.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

where did you talk about it on the noize bored? i didn't see that.

ronan, stop being so post-everything, pls!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

solo rather

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

ddb you might be right -- i'll have to go back and listen -- but the criticism strikes me as kinda hilarious. "bruckenheimer movies have the worst dialogue!" "that prostitute really didn't seem that into it!" etc

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

the most surprising thing is how catchy the fucking record is.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

HA! Yeah yancy, totally.

Do you know who the guitar player is? He/she BLOWS.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

why is that suprising cutty...thats like their thing.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago)

on several songs it's tyler pope -- "daft punk is playing" sounds exactly like his out hud stuff. i like his playing a lot, but the uber-clean/precise thing can get boring (why the out hud record sounds awesome when you hear individual songs but why it sucks as a whole)(why !!! have and will always suck). but i think everything else is james.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

the guitar player is tyler pope from !!!/outhud.

it's surprising because JM is a producer. he has never shown himself to be a songwriter. and here he has combined the slick DFA production with a keen songwriting sensibility.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

also, how much better/worse would lcd be if dudeman changed his name to jams murphy? i say 44% better.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

WORD. I AM NOT AN OUTHUD FAN...SO IT ALL MAKES SENSE, I GUESS.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ID BUY ANYTHING BY SOMEBODY NAMED, JAMS MORPHEUS.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

i wanna know who the hottie tottie asianista is in the band.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

How much Nancy Whang vocal is there on the album?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

haha sorry I am usually all about everything!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

(everything like this anyway)

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

that daft punk song can only be played once.

'Never as tired as when I'm waking up' too, because it's utter shit.

Ah yes, ye olde we-built-em-up-knock-em-down syndrome. :)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)

omar do you not like filter? that's what "never as tired" reminds me of. that filter song "paint a picture" or whatever it was called. i liked that song.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

(apparently i am scott seward)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

ha!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

The live version I have of 'Daft Punk...' is so much better than the recorded version, it's really quite sad

― Jason J, Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Yanc3y, never heard Filter. Maybe your write-up didn't help. ;)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I misread that as "omar do you not like filler?" and thought - "Hmm.., interesting line of argument".

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

haha alba - you got it

35 xposts

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I've listened to it a couple times now. I'm pretty impressed. "Disco Infiltrator" is a lot like "What She Wants" from the Felix da Housecat album. I was surprised to realize that all those vocals are JM.

I like each song individually, but I'm so used to listening to LCD Soundsystem tracks individually, that I'm not sure they work in a sequenced album... He breaks the flow up a lot, which is great, but I think I like the songs out of context better than as a set.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

"Never As Tired" = lost outtake from Meddle! SO GOOD.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago)

I like Where is Love? the best of any song by them yet.
But I don't care if it's on the album, personally. It just seems that it has a lot of potential appeal.

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

How old is 'Where Is Love?' though? I'm sure I remember hearing it very loud in a club during the summer/autumn of 2002 and being told it was the b-side to 'Losing My Edge', then buying 'Losing My Edge' a couple of months later and finding out that it wasn't.

Though 'Tribulations' is from around about the time 'Give It Up' came out, so I dunno what went on there.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago)

just popping up to say...poo

― upsetter, Friday, 3 December 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. I never heard Where is Love until last month or so when I first dled all the album stuff.

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0006U4UAU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Audioscrobbler seems to think that I'm the person who's played this album the most in the world. Somebody please tell me that I'm not.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)

GREAT COVER

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago)

ah fuck all the most recent posts got deleted. At least I won't get in trouble that way.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

plz post that big ass titties link again

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago)

This one?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

always staying on message, that blount!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

that's the one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

if by 'staying' you mean 'c'ing' and 'message' you mean 'them bigass t's' s1ocki otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

james murphy got some big ass titties!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago)

can you draw a diagram?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Quick everyone, seize this opportunity to say you liked the album all along!

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 07:01 (twenty years ago)

damn, those vocals are irritating. people are actually enjoying this-uh?

― contribute, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago)

the album is nice, but certainly not as good as losing my edge and yeah. i like On Repeat, but Never As Tired... sounds like an uninspirated coverversion of Primal Scream's I'm Gonna Cry Myself Blind...

― herman nijhuis (herman), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago)

NOBODY MENTION PRIMAL SCREAM

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Words to live by but WHAT DO THEY MEAN

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

'Never as tired as when I'm waking up' too, because it's utter shit.

Think what you like. This is going to be LCD's Wonderwall, their Song of the Year Grammy nomination, their mainstream BREAKTHROUGH. Oh yes.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

boo

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

does anyone have the cached version of this thread? Lots of great discussion...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

The LCD Soundsystem album sounded really fantastic when I was shovelling snow at 2 am the other night. Possibly the best snow shovelling album EVER.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

For those who missed it (and the subsequent discussion) while ILX was playing up, here is the unedited transcript of James Murphy's interview in the Wire.

― haitch™ (haitch), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago)

NOBODY MENTION TURING MACHINE

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago)

damn where did the thread go? :(

i looked for a cached copy on my hd to no avail, spencer.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh well, it's probably for the best. I went out on a limb a bit, and was perhaps too controversial (there's a condensed discussion on the Daft Punk thread).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago)

I hope Alba reposts his modified cover art.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:21 (twenty years ago)

did you respond to my "early disco is american, macho, and indie" post?

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

For anyone who hasn't already heard the album...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

xpost
I didn't, could you expand - it sounds kinda wrong.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Did the cover art change? The mirrorball used to be centered in a black cover.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 23 December 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

yes and it was much better.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Hm, I actually like this better.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 23 December 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago)

spencer--on the other thread you'd said that in the wire interview james had come off as more american, indie, and macho than is your style.

tricky later commented that early disco was also american, indie, and macho.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

i think he was referring to the djs, producers, and musicians as opposed to the dudes in the dolphin shorts.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Right, and I suppose it could be technically correct on a strict terminological level - however, I hardly think where LCD Soundsystem is coming from is comparable to the production of early disco at all.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Also, I suppose my use of those words would be almost hyphenated. I'm not speaking about them individually.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

The Soulwax remix of 'Daft Punk Is Plaing At My House' is fantastic, though that could be the booze talking.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 23 December 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Can I hear this anywhere?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 23 December 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah hmm?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 24 December 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Here's a link to buy it on 12" - with added mp3 clip.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago)

i can't make my mind up about that one - i dont think i like it much.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago)

'Never as tired as when I'm waking up' too, because it's utter shit.
Think what you like. This is going to be LCD's Wonderwall, their Song of the Year Grammy nomination, their mainstream BREAKTHROUGH. Oh yes.

it's funny, cos it's true. LCD will be hitting mainstream in no time ;)!

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

sorry i asked the question and then disappeared from the thread.

i think the use of the word american is obvious. we could even go as far as to say nyc.

wrt macho, there are differences, but i was referring to the “macho gay clone” of the 70s. murphy is a different stereotype of macho but he seems to be well aware of that. they are both stereotypes nonetheless.

maybe indie is the most contentious word to be using. i think it’s fair to say that early disco started off as independent in the “true” sense of the word – outside of the mainstream. it’s well documented in “love saves the day”. lcd soundsystem come from a very different indie but it’s one that murphy acknowledges has a fair share of problems and he seems to want to get away from the 90s/00s indie cultural vacuum. sort of indie indie i guess.

anyway, the context is completely different so it's just fun with words after all.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

interesting, tricky - when i saw them play in são paulo, i think they were playing some song whose chorus said something about "downtown" (or really, "downtown-uh," in good mark e. smith style), and i thought to myself, "my god, this is the most new york band in the world right now." i couldn't really say why, but it made sense.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

it makes sense to me too. that song is on the album, but i can't remember the name right now.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm not questioning your input on how disco affected LCD SS but it seems to me that postpunk was Murphy's main influence. He sounds like a complete disco'd up The Fall at times

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

It's only because fuckin murphy puts MES' trademark "-uh" at the end of every line. Get your own bag, chief.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago)

He steals it with pride, in all his seriousness about recording the only thing that sticks out is his absolute ironic take on everything.

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

which i enjoy a lot btw

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

"Well don't make a career out of it"

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

the only thing that sticks out is his absolute ironic take on everything

This is why it's ironic that he namechecks Daft Punk. They approach the ironic without irony resulting in pure unmediated bliss. They have an unironic embrace of that which became cliche to the point of irony being the obvious reaction. In a way, some indie's inability to make music on those terms is its inherent limitation. Doesn't mean it's not good, but I feel like it could sublime.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

I think it's very hard to make the ironic actually sound good. And yeah it's best when it's unintentional but I doubt Daft Punk are that serious about their music.

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

You're kidding, right?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Obv, anime is Guy and Bangalter's preferred medium for creative expression going forward

― jsk baby (jsk baby), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure they're very serious about their anime.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe that I'm saying this but the album is pretty disappointing.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago)

give it a couple more spins

― Rizz (Rizz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)

There are dozens of Fall records to get through instead.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for reminding me, I still need to do that too

― Rizz (Rizz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Ehh, it's kind of a dud as an album. The songs are nice but sound too forced when played in this order.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe that I'm saying this but the album is pretty disappointing.

-- I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (power.strik...) (webmail), December 29th, 2004 5:37 PM. (deangulberry) (link)

give it a couple more spins

-- Rizz (joris...) (webmail), December 29th, 2004 6:02 PM. (Rizz) (link)

There are dozens of Fall records to get through instead.

-- LSTD (answer) (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.com) (webmail), December 29th, 2004 6:08 PM. (sexyDancer) (link)

ILM, ladies and gentlemen!

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago)

(PS: I like this album. Sorry folks.)

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Those of you who aren't into it should really try listening to it while shoveling snow. I'm not kidding!

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

What if you live in an apartment? In California? And are a relentless cynic?

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Shovel some Fall records.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago)

whatever yall don't get shit. you like me when you can be in on what you think is the joke ("i was there" you'll tell yr small-tittied gal when yr old and even lamer) but once we decide to make something that ain't just winks and giggles yall come back swinging. i was fucking ready for this shit. you think these songs are ironic? the only irony you hear is yr brain trying to make you like something that yr heart aint into cuz yr a fucking amateur. amateurs are welcome at any party of mine -- it's just me, vito and brain from a.r.e. -- but if yr gonna start in on this irony shit-uh (you like that?) then go back to yr flaming lips and wilco shows you fucking oldster.

i think this album is good, but it's not neccessarily the statement i wanna make. what i really wanna do is make a straight-up disco/glam record, but when i was sequencing this thing i just wasn't feeling it, so i landed somewhere in between. by the time you get to phoenix (or venus, hello juan!) to see us play we won't even be playing a lot of these songs anymore. gotta keep trucking before the kids get on my case, right?

as for whoever is calling me mentioning daft punk irony or saying dp don't care about their records, really, just shut the fuck up. thanks!

-jams

― jams murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago)

oh, and shoveling snow? that's what fucking groupies are for. how about you shovel my shit instead?

-jams

― jams murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago)

james at yancey's house?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

crikey...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

hi james! good work!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago)

whatEVER it takes.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago)

oh i so wish that'd been true :-(

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago)

The eagle has landed.

http://www.lynedoch.plus.com/images/lcdbettercover.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Awesome song. Bad song. Great song. Okay song. Bad song. Great song. Terrible song. Awesome song. Awesome song.

Good album!

Am I the only one that's noticed that "Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up" is a complete ripoff of both "Country Song" by Pink Floyd and "Ten Years Gone" by Led Zeppelin?

Great to see Jam(e)s Murphy posted here.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah great to see an artist bitching out his fans for not understanding his album!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

After some more spins there is a passable, but still slightly dissapointing E.P. to be found in the album. I think I'll call it the Small tittied gal E.P. which sorta sums up the thinness of the sound.

A1 Too much love
A2 Tribulations
B1 Movement
B2 On repeat

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

-- jams murphy (whateve...), December 30th, 2004 7:47 AM. (ystrickler) (link)

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

What a square.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I think reference to my love for 'Thrills' has been lost in the great ILM blackout. I love 'Thrills'.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Ehh, it's still pretty weak. Shoveling shit, indeed.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

i don't get jam(e)s post...
and i like the album! no irony!

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

This disrespect to irony has got be through.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

from the Wire interview:

"...but I try to take seriously my duty and not be like, 'Hey man, this is what I do.' Which is kind of hard because the band was designed to be a band that people didn't like."

so what is he complaining about then?

― contribute, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I must confess my skepticism has melted away about this album. I am a convert. Not perfect, but I've heard enough to be speechless.

― Bimble..., Sunday, 2 January 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

The only complaint I have about the album is the song "Movement" which just seems to rip off Mark E. Smith a little too much. For "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" he manages to turn it into an asset and the music carries it well beyond M.E.S. but for "Movement" it's just a little too much. I don't think J.M. should feel as if he has to borrow from M.E.S. as he proves himself elsewhere on the album on his own with flying colors. "Movement" is the only song I would remove from the album, though. This album is without a doubt the best NEW music I've heard in a long, long, long time aside from the Pixeltan & J.O.Y. 12"es.

― Bimble..., Monday, 3 January 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Wow, "The Great Release" is the most Eno-sounding non-Eno thing that I've ever heard.

-- Matthew Perpetua (fluxequalsra...), November 24th, 2004.

"Great Release" is indeed the best non-Eno track that sounds like Eno that I've ever heard. I don't know where Mr. Perpetua is today, but without this post I likely never would have checked out the album at all. Thank you.

― Bimble..., Monday, 3 January 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

It seems weird to me to refer to this album as the "best NEW music" when he seems to be very consciously repeating himself and others.

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Monday, 3 January 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'll concede the overwhelming Zeppelinish of "Never As Tired..." is too distracting for me. But again, overall, I think this is a fabulous album.

― Bimble..., Monday, 3 January 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

"best NEW music"

i doubt anybody said that

― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

This album is without a doubt the best NEW music I've heard in a long, long, long time

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

The 20 Jazz Funk Greats blog has the full mp3 of the Soulwax remix of 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I hope no one read too much into my use of the word "new". I did not mean to say that the album represented some genuinely new form of music, I merely meant that most things that come out today leave me nonplussed, and I was quite thrilled that in this case that wasn't so.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

You don't like to be bewildered?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

If I had said most new music leaves me scratching my head, what would be the difference? I can't see why you think this is an issue worth picking a fight over. I like the album, you obviously don't. The fact that you don't doesn't bother me at all, so why does the fact that I do bother you?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Thursday, 6 January 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

This album is awesome.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 6 January 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

I like the album quite a lot - Sorry! My post had nothing to do with LCD Sooundsystem at all. It was just about the word nonplussed. I wasn't getting at you. I thought it meant 'unimpressed' myself until a couple of years ago - it's just one of those weird things.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 January 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I see. Yeah, for me that word called to mind those made-up words used in George Orwell's 1984, you know when they say things are "doubleplusungood" etc.? I see now I didn't have it quite right either.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

The Guardian gives it three out of five stars. They also provide an LCD Soundsystem Pop Quiz, but I can't get the link to work.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 7 January 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Appropriately enough, I got three out of five on the quiz.

The review doesn't even mention 'Thrills'- c'mon Maddy.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

i think this is the "clerks" of music.

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 7 January 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

TS: "It's a fat guy in a t-shirt doin' all the singin'" vs. "Try not to suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot"

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha! I hope you weren't offended what I said on the other thread, Nate, I was just feeling goofy and kidding around. I don't think saying "fuck John Peel" is a sin, either. Just like Alex was commended for admitting not liking Motown, and Alba admitted not hearing certain Joy Division records etc. I think it's good people speak their minds about musical matters such as these, and it makes being here more interesting.

i think this is the "clerks" of music.

That is one great analogy! One thing I really like about the album is simply the way it's produced. Not too brittle, not too flat, and lots of open space...I wish more things were like that these days, but then I think I've said enough about current music! But even "Tribulations" - just listen to the way the vocals sound - if anyone else had done that today, it would have been that same old flat "down the telephone" quality which I hate. Not here.

As for the quiz, I got 4 out of 5, but I was only guessing at the answers. Just luck I suppose. I did like "Losing My Edge" a lot, but the songs I'd heard since then didn't seem very interesting, so I haven't paid much attention to such details until now.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

CAPITOL RECORDS
2 CDs
FEBRUARY 15, 2005

(according to Pause & Play)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

this got linked to in the daft punk homework/discovery thread, but in case anyone missed it - a friend and i did an email interview with james murphy for freewilliamsburg.com. you can also read it on our blog here.

― rm265, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

From Guardian review: "a hilarious attack on the meaninglessness of a life that revolves around music." (....) "Murphy tells you music shouldn't matter that much"

??

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

"I think Henry Rollins is pretty funny."

-James Murphy

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

i hear this was a bust.

― sarah foley, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

This just in from Amazon.co.uk :

9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

Oh. My. God., December 20, 2004
Reviewer: Nick Southall from Dawlish, Devon England
People in the know have been waiting for this album for two years or so now, and in January 2005 it finally drops. The DFA, alongside Xenomania , Timbaland and The Neptunes, have soundtracked the 00s like no one else, but LCD Soundsystem's debut album if the first time they've really pulled it together for a long player. Sod The Rapture, sod !!!, sod Radio 4, sod every other two-bit chancer - this is the sound of funky, dirty, underground hipper-than-hipsters-know rockfunkdancepunkdisco, and it is glorious. Discopunk is dead; long live disco, punk!


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Was it, punk?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

yes

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Actually, yes.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

THE RAPTURE WILL NOT BE SODDED ON MY WATCH, PALLY

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

"Also, the bonus disc has an embedded proprietary player that must be installed on your pc prior to playing, which is frustrating but whatever."

What does this mean?

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

It means it's copy protected so that you can't rip it to your computer - (in theory anyway).

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

New site and video for "Daft Punk is Playing at my House":

http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com

― ana (ana), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

great video - makes me like the song more,

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

"Never As Tired" reminds me of Zeppelin mixed with "Fake Plastic Trees" for some reason.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Fun album, but I'm thinking the song worthiest of single release would be "Tribulations". The other uptempo tracks are more just grooves (decent grooves at that, but there's no real song there).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

did anyone else go in a shop and buy this today or would that just be me?

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

You guys seem to be forgetting something: 9/11.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

"Never As Tired..." reminds me of "I'm Only Sleeping" or "I'm So Tired". Especially that fake-out fade near the end. It's the best John Lennon goof / homage ever. (I have science to back that claim up, too!) (Somewhere!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
I don't get it. Is that a dig against my comment on the Simon Reynolds thread?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm still waiting for some enterprising / short-minded person to record "9/11 Is a Joke".

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost
I mean, I saw that you posted that same thing on the thread itself and then hstencil commented on it. I thought I explained it my theory pretty well.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

It's a meme, Spencer.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Is it a meme in reference to my comments on the SR thread?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

No, it's a meme which originated when Miccio said that on a thread about Chris Burden's change in ideals, inferring that art is no longer art post-9/11, that irony is "DEAD", etc etc etc.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Ah, ok. I was being paranoid.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

It's ok. No one wants to forget 9/11.

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I am a slow child at play.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

http://bodytemple.net/store/images/neverforget.jpg

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

(you can buy that t-shirt if you need help remembering)

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

haha, I watched that new video and thought to myself "Wow, this is totally ripping off that.." then realized that I am, in fact, not so bright.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

I like how the video pays tribute in a number of ways to the video for "Around the World".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

i only saw the still from the video on the site & i thought the same thing! WITHOUT EVEN MAKING THE CONNECTION THAT THE SONG IS CALLED DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE! i'm dumb

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

also it's sweet how the bonhommes follow the color-rhythm of the console-thing

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

were the interiors of the video shot at union pool? any brooklyn people know? only been there once, but it sure looked familiar.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

LCD Soundsystem to play a free gig on February 15 in Manchester.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

i spotted two Optimo shirts in the video... hehe.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

my friend is a skeleton in that video, i can ask him.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

No way.

― danh (danh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONITE

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

the more i listen to this album the less i like it. Movement is still their finest moment though.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

and the more i listen to dfa comp2 the more i like it.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

I concur. Also, I get more excited about Juan Maclean.

― deej., Friday, 28 January 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm underwhelmed :(

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Juan MacLean are my fav DFA band.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

I like it after 1/2 listen.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

...and now I like it more.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

The videos (for "Daft Punk..." & "Movement") are fantastic. They're available @ http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com (linked above, but redundancy is A-OK). I especially like the Simon (as in hand-held color-flashing memory game) motif in "Movement".

The US release is coming w/ the bonus disc, too, right? Yes? Please?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

that's what my promo copy says

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm slipping you some sugar, baby. Whoop!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

You can now stream the album here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I think I wanted Disco Infiltrator to sound more disco.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

i tried to rip a promo on my computer and there were these horrible piercing noises every 5 or 10 seconds on the mp3s. fucking copy controlled cds. i dunno if i want to buy a copy anymore.

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

DFA copy protect their promos but not their retail copies.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

my promo wasn't protected

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah well, I don't know. My local record shop inadvertently sold me a promo copy of the DFA#2 comp. It was copy-protected and I took it back and exchanged it for a regular onw.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Haha, guys, you'll get a kick out of this:

I'm listening to the album for the first time now, and once "Disco Infiltrator" comes on, I'm like, "haha, James Murphy sounds like the guy who sings 'What She Wants' on the Felix da Housecat album" ... so I go look up who that guy is, and it's, uh, James Murphy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONITE

holy fucking O to the T to the M.

― disco don weiner, Friday, 28 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Disco Infiltrator is I'm too Sexy for my Shirt for hipsters

― righty ho, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Good listen on the first run, betcha i'll like this more fully on every subsequent listen onwards more, like a fine french film, aging appropriately with gleaned experinece. Especially if said film has nastily filmed disco scenes. My pal Craig mentions track um 4 or 5 if redolent of Meddle era Pink Floyd - y'all feeling this?

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Crap album

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I wish "Where Is Love?" was in it.

― ana (ana), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Crap album indeed, but great singles.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

The version of "Yr City's A Sucker" they've put on the bonus disc is about four minutes longer than the one used as the b-side for "Movement". I like the album but I think this is my favourite.

― haitch, man? (haitch), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

a little dissapointed by this...it's not a bomb, but the new songs (while varied) are lacking the high points of Yeah, Losing My Edge, and Beat Connection...for LCD to work in the album format, there needs to be better sequencing, some sort of build-up (as on Villalobos albums, for instance)...this album doesn't seem to ever hit a stride or lock into a groove

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

haitch, man OTM - Yr city's a sucker is twice as good at twice the length. it's the grooviest thing on here, i love it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

i wish they had brought the vocals back in at the end though even just to repeat the "what we want? sex with TV stars ..." section.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Good album. The best dance record since... uh, dunno.
But I like it, except On Repeat. That song is toooooo long.

― zeus, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

massive, massive, massive disappointment.

The singles disc is so much better than the album proper, so SO much better.

There are too many guitars and rub vocals, and not enough disco/stuff you can dance to.

I think I'll take it back to the shop tomorrow.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

sorry, no, i'm loving this whole thing. i like the guitars, i like the vocals, i like the style. and (x-post) i love on repeat. it reminds me in part of soft cell and in part of the normal.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

this album is seriously crap, for me. it's like 8 "give it ups" and not one "losing my edge". if you didn't get the bonus disc with the cd I'd actually tell customers not to buy this, out of shame.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

These days Ronan is so OTM, he can swim in, Scrooge McDuck style.

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

you know. i bought the album on day of release (a very very rare Event for me these days) ripped it onto my machine @ work and there it has sat since .. though tthe odd dip in that i have done from time to time does impress and make me think one day i will really Love this album.
though that day has yet to come. i do like Tribulations though. lots.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I dunno - from my vantage point, Ronan's shaking his tailfeathers in some out of circulation shit. (Not to single him out, of course - EVERYONE that's pooing on the album is in the same money pit.) But, then, I'm coming from my own vantage point, & had different expectations for the album, & & &.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I...WISH I COULD COMPLAIN...MORE ABOUT THE RICH...BUT THEN...

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Haters, don't you remember when I brilliantly said this album is one big "Yeah"?! whole>sum of parts, and a massive Y, LME, or BC would have thrown off the record's balance.

Raposa OTM-- i feel like a lot of people were expecting the album to be like Disc 2, a singles compilation (but with new singles obv). It's something much bigger than that though, more nuanced, more finely detailed.

people keep pointing out all the rips, pastiche, etc. one thing I haven't seen anyone answer is WHY jmurphy does them. what does that say about eno mysticism when it is so expertly replicated, what does it mean to reappropriate AC/DC into the context of robot dance music (though some say ac/dc IS dance...), why does thrills sound exactly like warm leatherette, etc. i don't profess to know the answers to any of these, but all this is to say: there's a lot more to discuss here than a lot of you seem to think. which is to the album's immense credit-- these sorts of mini-commentaries hide under dance music, in the moment, rock out cock out, etc.

― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

ON YOUR RADIO! ON YOUR RADIO!

People who say "On Repeat" is too long of a song do NOT get the subtle art of slowly building a repetitive groove up to a fabulous climax by making small changes along the way. It's one of the most wonderful techniques in music, and I pity the poor soul who claims to be a music lover and has never tasted its joys.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

It's something much bigger than that though, more nuanced, more finely detailed.

actually nick
I would argue that it's more
like something smaller

that that is what
murphy wanted to do here.
probably because

he knew that he could
never win the battle of
FAN EXPECTATION

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Sourpuss is reading my mind (via Nick).

Also, for the trifecta - "vantage point".

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Never As Tired sounds like The Lilys

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

wild possibly off-mark prediction:
Fischerspooner's new record will wipe its ass with this one.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Glad to see everyone agreeing with me! This album = YAWNER

― Site Admistrator (deangulberry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

This album's ok. 6.5-7/10

I do like dfa#2 much much more.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
It's really, really grown on me. Even 'Too Much Love' which I was sure was mediocre at first.

People who have said it's badly sequenced are correct, and it has less of an overall 'feel' to it than a lot of the albums that have wowed me (and I suspect ILM) over the last few years. So you kind of have to learn to love the songs one by one.

It's very good for walking/taking public transport around London. 'On Repeat' is great travel music.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

"Disco Infiltrator" ROXOR you bastards.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know if this will ever come out on vinyl in the U.S.? I was so disappointed to find it unavailable on vinyl unless I sprang for the pricey import by mail. I waited for domestic vinyl to arrive at the local shop, got tired of waiting and finally bought the CD today, but I still want it on vinyl. When I bought the CD it came with this cool green mirror ball keychain, though.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

disco infiltrator nicks that part from 'the great curve' to great effect! (the 'bear in miiiiind' part)

― jake b. (cerybut), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

this album gets better & better as I get older.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

That's the thing man, he nicks and he nicks. Sometimes it backfires on him, don't get me wrong - "Yeah" is too, too Stooges rip-off for me to take, for example. But the surprising thing is that he gets away with nicking most of the time. I don't really understand how it all works, but most of the time it just does.

xpost

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

my dad wears my clothes better than I would ever wear them.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

That's the spirit, mate!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

You know, somehow I knew I had that wrong - it wasn't "Yeah" that was the Stooges rip off it's "Tired".

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

and along with nicking MES' vox, murphy also sounds a hell of a lot like david byrne on certain tracks, 'yeah' for example

― jake b. (cerybut), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

What I love is when the guitar comes on in "Tribulations" and it is just soooooo New Orderish and yet there's one thing lacking - Hooky's bass! Just love it, though.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Also I don't think there's anything in the world better to dance to than "Too Much Love" unless it's New Order or Orbital.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

On a side note, how would you guys sequence the album if you had your way?


I absolutely love the album (despite my indifference at first), so I want to see if it's even better with a "perfect sequencing". I don't think the sequencing is particulary bad, but I guess it could be improved on (although it's one of those things I would never notice if it wasn't pointed out).

― Michael Copeland, Friday, 18 March 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Maybe something like this? It's not *wildly* different, and this is assuming we don't stick 'Yeah' on there (as the penultimate track, if we did)...

Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Movement
Tribulations
Disco Infiltrator
Thrills
Too Move Love
Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up
On Repeat
Great Release

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know if this will ever come out on vinyl in the U.S.?

Tentative release date of March 28 sez their distributor.

― Vic Funk, Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

What I'm keeping from the 2CD and a tenative track listing (always fun to remodel)

Yeah (Crass Version)
Tribulations
Beat Connection
Too Much Love
Yr City's A Sucker
Losing My Edge
Disco Infiltrator
Give It Up
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

I don't like the undanceable toss-offs, the undanceable homages and the two really cranky numbers (very 'physician, heal thyself'). the rest is ace.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

and I prefer (pretentious version) in the context of the DFA Comp #2

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

'Disco Infiltrator' is the next single, which I don't understand. Though hopefully 'Tribulations' will get picked next, so it doesn't matter.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Those would be my top 2 picks, so yay!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, James Murphy is posting in the forum on the LCD Soundsystem website slagging off EMI for the album's artwork and the copyright control on the CD.

this is a fucking serious shit issue, the copy control, which i found out about when making the cover art and suddenly getting art to approve with this fucking horrible logo on it. i fought it then, and lost, and i'm fighting it now. as far as i'm concerned it's fucking retarded. if you buy the cd and it doesn't play, that's absurd. if that's the case, can you just rip it off the internet? i'm sorry about this, but i don't know how it works in europe. here in the us it's pretty easy to download stuff.

anyway, at some point the corporate stucture at EMI has to get a sense that it loses them sales so that they will change their policy, so if you want to boycott my record, please feel free to.

if you want to treat me like your enemy and be a spoiled brat about it, well, people are their own punishment. live it up. i won't "be surprised" if someone comes and talks to me about it at a fucking show. jesus. are you that ignorant about how the world works? do you really think i'm sitting on some rock throne bending my will to screw over certainparts of the world with copy-controlled cd's? if wou want to open your parent-fed mouths and say something (especially in a forum that reaches me) you might want to do a little research and read one of the 8-million interviews i've done (widely available on the web) where i've said i thin kthe copy control is retarded and feel that people should just rip the music that their cd players won't play.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I dunno if I'm totally sick of the "oh no! our synthesizer is gone mad! oh NO!!" moments or if one can't get sick of such moments. They're feeling increasingly like too much the *point* of LCD stuff tho.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 20 March 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

[note: this already hit print for my local gig so yes I'm allowed to post this - enjoy!]

DK: What up g-thang?

LCDS: krrshhhrshhkkhrshh – Sorry man, I think you just called me when I was in the 7-11. How’s it going?

Awesome. What are you listening to today?

Today? I was listening to the BLACK DEVIL DISCO COMP on my headphones in the store.

I don’t know that, but it sounds hot. Now be honest, do you like the new Daft Punk?

Daft Punk? I actually haven’t listened to the album.

[Lil’ Jon voice] WHAAAT!? But you wrote a goddam song abou--
Well, NOT until last night. Robot Rock is alright – I have a feeling it all might grow on me – I didn’t like Discovery when it came out, but I do now.


Would you agree that LCD and DFA have reached that rare zone of critical near-unassailability, kind of like Daft Punk for awhile? Was there ever any calculation, or did things just end up so good by being at the right place, right time, with the right sound?

I dunno, I don’t think we’re unassailable. I think we’re WALKING TARGETS essentially – it’s just a matter of time before the press comes out with a well-thought out backlash. As for calculation … it’s in my nature, and it’s in Tim [Goldsworthy]’s nature to constantly be checking ourselves, and you know, be attacking each other mercilessly to make this record. Tim and I have both been in situations where we’re surrounded by a lot of hype – like with Unkle and Mo’Wax. You start to realize that it’s a pretty empty, silly endeavor, and that it’s more important that we’re making music we like. It allows us to minimize all the stupid, predictable shit one would do to try and ‘manage’ the hype machine.

Have you ever knocked someone out because they shouted “MORE COWBELL” at you?
[laughs] Uhh, not to this day.

Okay, let’s talk album. How come you didn’t put WHERE IS LOVE on the album? That was hot!
[laughs] Oh man, I HATE that song!

What? It’s hot!
Aw, well it can exist as an internet thing or whatever – I don’t like it, it has no relevance to my life! It’s old, and it sounds too much like Peaches….

ROFFLES! Hey, just to clear something up, is there an Eno influence on “Great Release?”
YES. Eno’s an influence on everything we do.

Speaking of influence: how much do you guys, or the planet while we’re at it, owe to ESG?
I loved ESG because they sounded – and still sound – so incredibly fresh to me. I just like how simple and completely free of macho bullshit they were. I think a lot of people try to take from them, but they fail so miserably – so I don’t know how much the world owes them. [laughs]

In my best songs of 2004 list, there was Usher’s YEAH, and your YEAH. Who do YOU think won?
I think we won – on UNDERDOG POWER.

Speaking of YEAH, I notice that all the indie clubs that play it never play the awesome acid freakout coda! That’s some sorry shit. Do you think that indie kids still have a ways to go before fully embracing pure dance sounds?
Well I think that if you go to a place where people AREN’T DANCING, it won’t make much sense. That’s funny, because when I DJ, I ONLY play the end. I START with the SYNTHS.

That’s RUGGED. So when do you think one of your tracks is going to end up on the O.C.? Haha.
I think…..May?

For real? Do you like the O.C.?
Oh, I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch much T.V.

Well I don’t watch O.C. either. Those FUCKING haircuts!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Amazing how the LCD Soundsystem album sounds so much better when you're listening to it in the company of others.]

I suspect this may hold for many of the records which I have slagged off in recent times.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I had already heard almost all of this album when I got it (like everybody else I guess) for $15.99 at Best Buy (woah)..."Great Release" however, I hadn't heard. That song is the one that REALLY blew my mind.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to register my annoyance at Best Buy and their screwed-up regional stocking. I think a total of zero copies of this album appeared at their local stores! I kept doing that "Store availability check" thing on their website, too. Hooray for local music stores, I guess.

Although saying "this album is really good!" when I checkout befuddles me when this is the first DFA release I've seen in their store (well, outside of The Rapture).

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's that bad at all...it's still growing on me. I have a feeling that if they make another one they'll trump this.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, check it out:

http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/ae/2a/4a_1_b.JPG

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43424&item=4367160305&rd=1

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I think this needed to come out halfway through last year, then it would've been hot. Now it's just meh, unless you've been stuck in a bedroom crying and masturbating to Belle and Sebastian covers for the last decade.

― Hat0r (Jacob), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
The Metrodome PA played "Daft Punk is playing at my house" shortly before the Twins game last night. I nearly lost my shit. (Then the Rangers beat them in extra innings; Joe Nathan HAD to fuck up in the first game I got to see him pitch.)

I am mad at missing out on that eBay disco ball auction. $10.49 is a fucking steal.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I wish the song was truly prophetic in that context. Meaning, Daft Punk would be playing at the stadium after the show.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 14 May 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Daft Punk would come across great in the Metrodome, actually -- they'd bring out the charm in that concrete-and-blue-plastic cryptostadium.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...
So I decided to finally listen to this. I spent most of last year in backlash mode against post-punk/new wave revivalism. It kicked into high gear with The Rapture's "Echoes" and it boiled over with the rise of The Killers, Bloc Party, The Bravery, etc.

So instead of being all Rockist about everything, I decided to open my ears and check a whole pile of stuff out, first on the list being LCD Soundsystem.

Bet it's good live. Fun to hear in a bar. They are a singles band, much like The Rapture. You sure can hear how The Rapture became a DFA guinea pig after listening to this LCD album.
The constant referencing, the hipster canon shone through Murphy's prism. It's entirely good fun, but I really can't give it much more credit than that.

I'd far rather listen to ESG, PIL, Can, Eno, Beatles, The Fall, than listen to this. Now if Murphy was able to go beyond his fandom and digest his influences, we might see something pretty tremendous. Right now, the LCD record gives me the same feeling "Echoes" did. I feel like I'm listening to some alternate universe K-Tel hipster mix. It's all too precious. Laid out for consumption by people who buy all the Pitchfork "Best New Music" picks and make sure you know about it.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

The trick is to only listen to the second disc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I'd definitely put this album in my top 10 of the decade so far.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm listening to some alternate universe K-Tel hipster mix. It's all too precious. Laid out for consumption by people who buy all the Pitchfork "Best New Music" picks and make sure you know about it.

It sounds like an album orchestrated by a man that likes too much music.

..which is essentially a nicer phrasing of what you just said. The differences are: a) you think Pitchfork has something to do with this, which I highly doubt, and b) you think there's something wrong with making an album blatantly showcasing the artists' love for other artists. I don't see what's wrong with that mechanism at all, even if obvious. I just care if it sounds good at the end or not. And I like it.

That said, LCD Soundsystem isn't *the* album of the year, so far, for me -- but I find it very pleasant, has some flow, although each track works EXCELLENTLY when disconnected from the album itself -- like when used on mix tapes or whatever. (Also, I think the live shows are a gazillion times better than the album, personally.)

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

"Tribulations" is, like, single of the year.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

The trick is to only listen to the second disc.

I actually haven't heard the second disc!

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Donut, you have several good points. Were I to hear some of the songs individually from the first disc, I would have been impressed. I don't think Pitchfork is responsible for DFA/LCD/Rapture success. The times warrant what DFA is doing - music in is ready for the hybrid that DFA is attempting to concoct.

I guess I'm waiting for someone to really add their own stamp to it? I think James Murphy is capable of it. Think of the music like a fabric - I expect a tighter weave in the future. I would hope I wouldn't be able to discern the individual strands so easily. Here's the Talking Heads part, Eno, Keith Levene guitar, MES vocalizing. I want to hear the James Murphy part.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Here's the Talking Heads part, Eno, Keith Levene guitar, MES vocalizing.

yeah but it's really fucking good

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Can't you break down almost any band that way, though, if you try hard enough?

(Were you here for all the Interpol dissections?)

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you probably can break down any band like that. Wilco most definitely. Jim O'Rourke.

It's REALLY easy with LCD!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah but it's so ballsy and obvious it's great

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Well to make the obvious point, the more you can do that the more the band has a problem, if you think a band ought to transcend its influences. Yeah, it's a banal point that is easily deconstructed, but I'm not above it...

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

And in the given case I like what he likes enough, and appreciate "tastefulness" enough, to find the album quite listenable. Interpol no.

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'm waiting for someone to really add their own stamp to it? I think James Murphy is capable of it. Think of the music like a fabric - I expect a tighter weave in the future. I would hope I wouldn't be able to discern the individual strands so easily. Here's the Talking Heads part, Eno, Keith Levene guitar, MES vocalizing. I want to hear the James Murphy part.

When you enjoy a banana split, do you think of it as an agglomeration of one scoop of vanilla ice cream, one scoop of strawberry ice cream, 5 fluid ounces of chocolate syrup, 2.5 seconds of whipped cream discharge, 1/2 teaspoon of chopped peanuts, and two mid-sized peeled bananas?

Or do you think of it as a banana split?

Or do you think of both a little, but decide to just dive in and enjoy it without thinking too hard about what you're consuming?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

That analogy doesn't work so well. If you presented me with a DONUT DEBONAIR DELIGHT, and I observed it was merely a BANANA SPLIT because they both share the same ingredients and taste the same, then it would work.

It's entirely obvious to me that LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, !!!, etc. are all about diving in and enjoying without thinking too hard. All three bands make music for DANCING. And people want to dance. I don't blame them after years of math rock and stiff indie pop.

I just honestly, truly, deeply believe that there's more room for innovation.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I guess my point is... music and food are a lot alike in that i think the term "innovation" is really just a facade for just a repackaging of older ingredients that catches on in a big way, just because... [of random factors that add up to being at the right time at the right place.]

I don't look for innovation in music (or food.) Innovation hits me over the head from behind. That's how it works.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

In the meantime, I'll enjoy what's around me.

LCD Soundssystem innovative to me? No.

Do I like it? Hell yeah.

Innovative to others? Definitely.

THEN, do those others like it? Not necessarily.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Good call. If you looked for innovation everywhere, you'd be one disappointed person.

But would I like to be hit over the head from behind by some RIGHT NOW.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Not gonna happen.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Spencer otm.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...
album of the decade!

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

never!

I must say despite thinking this record sucks, LCD Soundsystem live are incredible! Why did nobody mention that they cover "Throw" by Paperclip People?

but to reiterate the album is crap.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Baloney. I thought it was good but definately not worth the hype, until I saw them live. Sometimes seeing a band live is the golden ticket to accessing the album's greatness, and this was definately the case. The songs sounded samey and monotanous before, but now the whole album is a carefully orchestrated GROOVE MACHINE.

One of the best albums I've heard in a long time.

― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan OTM

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan - did you see them at Glastonbury then? Did I ask you that before? They were great, weren't they? I felt so proud of them. Wish I hadn't been on my own. What a stupid Glastonbury I had.

I still think I like the album, though I never think to put it on.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

i hear a full cut of the "daft punk" soulwax remix with actual daft punk sounds is up here: http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/riffraff/

― Riff Central, Friday, 1 July 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

well, the second disc of the record is brilliant.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

natch

do they ever play yr city's a sucker live? i think that's my 4th fav (after the big three: yeah (stupid), losing, beat conn, but above even daft punk -- the woohoos get me)

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
I was decidedly underwhelmed when I first picked this up. Been playing it a lot recently, and it's really grown on me. It's now one of my favourite albums of the year. Disc 2 is a tour de force and "Tribulations" still hasn't gotten tired in spite of my best efforts to play it to death.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

I still really like "too much love" (total DFA by numbers but I don't care) and the eno rip. and "yr city's a sucker" of course. anyone heard the tiga mix of "tribulations" yet?

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

yep, "out of the trance closet". it's pretty good but pales next to the Lindstrom mix. it's a pretty good rising high/secret life of trance style pastiche.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...
Rules.

― 4c3, Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Read them.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

vaulted up to #3 on my year-end list after not listening to it for a few months.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago)


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