LCD Soundsystem

a classic rock band

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146644-lcd-soundsystem-folks-help-form-classic-rock-band

Ok then

LCD Springfield

LC/DC
(well, not quite, but couldn't resist)

Does this mean we'll be hearing James Murphy aping Stephen Stills getting "sexy" on "Bluebird" type tracks?

oh. oh. oh. oh.

oh.

I'm a big LCD Soundsystem fan, but man this sounds like a bad idea even to annouce. Didn't LCD prove they could be a kick ass classic rock band with their "Jump Into The Fire" cover? Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?

/waaay bummed bro

"Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?"

i think this would've been more on point

Artists whose first album was pretty good, but then the second one was awesome, and then the third was just OK but really more of the same, and by the fourth one you weren't even paying attention

the end begins!

Yeah, I agree with Mackro, this is quite puzzling. I felt LCD Soundsystem were offering something rather unique, whereas...how much more "classic rock" do we need in the world?

woah that's what sprangers and wells are doing...crazy. have been wondering what they were gonna do after HN broke up.

the hockey night breakup was some real fucking bullshit, like old school 60s rock n' roll type shit.

How much more "classic rock" do we need in the world?

Do you really think this is going to sound like every other wanna be classic rock band?

yeah I wasn't clear in my original post, but it's not the classic rock thing itself that bothers me about the article, nor do I think this album will be bad, but that James and Pat felt they had to make a special statement about it.

hockey night basically was pavement with allman bros. guitar jams, i bet it sounds like hockey night

yeah I wasn't clear in my original post, but it's not the classic rock thing itself that bothers me about the article, nor do I think this album will be bad, but that James and Pat felt they had to make a special statement about it.

― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, October 20, 2008 9:47 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're mad that a musican/label owner announced a new project in an interview?

ah jeez that charlatan is broadening his taint

fortunately if he's doing something pointlessly and self-statedly reactionary as "classic rock" i can probably avoid

aint nothin pointless about mansun

haha you just shifted the focus expertly

ah jeez that charlatan is broadening his taint

kegel abuse

you're mad that a musican/label owner announced a new project in an interview?

― s1ocki, Monday, October 20, 2008 2:56 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

MAAAAAAAAD

lol, no it's just silly that of all people, james murphy had to announce a "classic rock" album. Just DO IT, dude.

LESS TALK MORE ROCK

classic rock: eno, bowie, talking heads

john cale

OH SHIT

You wouldn't be caught off guard by the new LCD album sounding like The Band?

LAST WALTZUH

they'll need a better rhythm section before they can sound like the band. and better guitar players. and better songs. and better singers. but other than that i wouldn't be too surprised.

Map of Africa did it, why can't they?

yeah i wouldn't be suprised if james murphy decided to go the band/fleetwood mac route. that's why i think it's dumb they even have to "announce" it. i mean look at the new hippy balearic thread, jaxon's west coast thread, etc, this stuff has been on people's radar now for a while now, it's not surprising james would grab the ball and decide to run with it.

surprised it hasn't happened more

yup

warning unwarranted and perhaps meaninglessly broad generalization ahead:

cali beach hippie balearic as the carefree flipside of disco?

Why don't they just release the next album like this and not say a word?

Murphy, who will both produce and play bass on the disc...

...which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything.

"..which is a bit different to the LCD records where he does practically everything."

Don't think so.

Tracklisting:
Get Innocuous! (7:11)
Drums, Vocals, Programmed By, Piano, Synthesizer - James Murphy
Guitar - Tyler Pope
Vocals - Nancy Whang

Time To Get Away (4:11)
Drums - Patrick Mahoney
Vocals, Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy

North American Scum (5:25)
Bass - Tyler Pope
Drums, Vocals, Organ, Programmed By, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps], Guitar, Bass
James Murphy
Handclaps [Claps] - Eric Broucek , Marcus Lambkin

Someone Great (6:25)
Synthesizer, Programmed By, Vocals, Glockenspiel - James Murphy

All My Friends (7:37)
Drums, Vocals, Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Electronic] - James Murphy

Us V Them (8:29)
Bass, Guitar, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - Tyler Pope
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Patrick Mahoney
Vocals - Eric Broucek , Nancy Whang
Vocals, Percussion, Performer [Fun Machine], Handclaps [Claps] - James Murphy

Watch The Tapes (3:55)
Drums, Bass, Guitar, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer [Casio] - James Murphy
Vocals - Patrick Mahoney

Sound Of Silver (7:07)
Drums, Vocals, Bass, Kalimba, Handclaps [Claps], Percussion, Synthesizer, Programmed By, Piano - James Murphy

New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (5:35)
Bass, Guitar - Tyler Pope
Cello - Jane Scarpantoni
Drums, Percussion - Patrick Mahoney
Guitar - Justin Chearno*
Piano - Morgan Wiley
Viola - David Gold (2)
Violin - Amy Kimball , Lorenza Ponce
Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer - James Murphy

not much of a refutation

in looking at his first album artist credits, looks like he had a wide array of players on there as well but with SOS he definitely moved more in the direction of a proper "band".

just saying he is not the lone wolf in a studio with no help that that post made it out to be

Performer [Fun Machine]

thing with knobs

what on earth is a 'fun machine'

What isn't it? It is GLORIOUS. You will bow down before Fun Machine.

http://www.antisleep.com/archives/images/blog/2005-05-09_fun_machine.jpg

anyway i'd say one song out of that lot is anything approaching a 'proper band', but whatever.

To whatever degree Murphy works in the studio, it's safer to say LCD Soundsystem are a band than a solo project. They are definitely James Murphy's band, but a band they are.

We could get into the "what exactly IS a band" argument if you want!

oh we really don't! seriously, this sounds like "LCD soundsystem frontman and drummer act as rhythm section for some other dudes"; it's a bit of a leap to "why didn't LCD just go classic rock already??" when he appears to be just, you know, playing bass rather than writing the songs and playing the majority of the music.

yep

though fwiw murphy doing americana would be unbelievable

dudes i think you are confused...hockey night had signed to DFA as a band...then there was some backstabbing and in-fighting and shit and the band broke up...but the two main songwriters stayed on as hockey night and still signed to DFA...they just dismissed the rest of the members...

so basically this is going to be the hockey night project with session dudes and murphey filling in for the ex-members of hockey night....if you wanna speculate one what it's going to sound like check out hockey night. this is wells and sprangers project not murphys'

Thank you M@tt! I wish you had posted the original news and not PFM.

it's not like they held a press conference or anything, they just talked about it in an interview!! what a weird thing to disapprove of

CAPTAIN SAVE A MURPHY

lol kidding, slocki, had M@tt posted this before I read the PFM story, I wouldn't have bothered reviving. Sorry guys

The rampant speculation in this revive is cute! And all basically over Hockey Night!! I listened to them in college one time; I thought they had a good name.

the LCDSS-goes-balearic dudes are in tears.

shasta u behind, balearicos moved onto classic rock 9-10 months ago

i'm so behind the times that i still don't fully understand what balearic even is. my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.

my idea is that a lot of ppl wish that dire straits had been a disco band.

bingy

i mean bingo, oops

blingee

Guitar - Justin Chearno*

;-D

Bump.

aw smoochblende

I just noticed that if you go back to the original Pfork link above, they've put a correction in it now that states Murphy isn't even a member of the band, he's just producing and mixing the record! So I guess that settles that.

lol, so ridic.

wooooooooooooooooooow

hockey night just sounds like pavement. i guess that's classic rock nowadays?

We were thinking of doing something where we find a lot of the old disco singers in New York that might still be around from the 70s, and get them in as guest vocalists with LCD as a backing band, and tour around as a disco heroes style show.

yes it is

Hell yeah.

!

i'm down

Have they got a wah wah pedal, though?

they've certainly got a fun machine.

who would you dudes want to see singing on such a project? i wonder whose vocal prowess is still up to scratch.

i want people i have never heard of in my life to blow my mind and make me want to buy all their records

Hoos OTM.

does anyone know who the guy is that sang vocals on 45:33?

who would you dudes want to see singing on such a project?

lola!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=47473063

xp: I just assumed it was James Murphy!

that "hey, your love away from me. shame on me. you can't hide" part? do you think he just changed the pitch of his voice?

that's what i always assumed?

While we're here...

Here's a thread for (re)mixes of LCD Soundsystem

Does anyone know when the 45:33 remixes are coming out? And what they are going to be?

the prins thomas one (of part 3) has been around since last year; it was on his RA podcast. no idea when any of it's due out, though.

lola would be good!

aha

'LCD Soundsystem haven't disbanded'

cool

"LCD Soundsystem is James Murphy

funny i made this point on the Sound of Silver threrad and got called out for it

you were more right than whoever did the calling-out. tight live band, but creatively not a 'band' and never have been.

Hot Chip bro has lotsa splainin to do to the Murphia

Get Innocuous

make me

great track. never listen to them anymore, but when tracks come up on the random i mostly enjoy

Agreed.

this is the "classic rock" think (ex hockey night)

http://www.myspace.com/freeenergymusic

I had some trouble playing the tracks there, but what I was able to hear didn't seem impressive at all.

new greenberg soundtrack looks promising

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/Greenberg-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack-FREE-DELIVERY/384773-01/

nite jewel and steve miller band on there too!

ooo soundclips

james murphy channelling timmy thomas. pretty awesome

wow, just finished all the clips. is there anything that man can't do? folk, funk, flamenco. sounds amazing

i want to go that fillmore show but i can't find a link to the sale anywhere. it was up and then taken down. anyone know any info on this ?

so dude announced next lcd record will be the last

btw

You wouldn't be caught off guard by the new LCD album sounding like The Band?

― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, October 20, 2008 11:07 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LAST WALTZUH

― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, October 20, 2008 11:14 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lmao how did i never see this

so dude announced next lcd record will be the last

i heard jay-z is retiring

soundtrack leaked and its rad.

'photographs', 'people' and 'please don't follow me' are great

'sleepy baby' is a lost 'another green world' track

i heard jay-z is retiring

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, March 19, 2010 2:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

ehhh i mean dude has spent most of his limelight time talking about how much he appreciates it, how it feels like a second act and that he wanted to bow out when he was at a peak, so it doesn't surprise me and doesn't seem as disingenuous as hov's mic drop. and i hardly read this announcement as "i am retiring" w/ or w/o a wink, just "this will be the last lcd record" which is a much diff thing imo

he's also said he has to tell himself that every time to make sure he puts in the best effort he can, like Robert Smith announcing every Cure record for fifteen years would be the last

James Murphy sounds exactly like Kermit The Frog on the opening track of the new album. Fact.

he didn't on "New York I Love You"?

I thought he sounded more like Bernard Manning on that.

As Jaxon states above, the Timmy Thomas-channeling "People" is great.

Been loving the clip-clop/turn-indicator mumbly/choral Carol Kaye/Beach Boys thing on "Plenty Of Time", too.

Album out May according to twitter. @lcdsoundsystem: fyi: record out may 17th and 18th, i think. we're planning fun tour stuff. info here: http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/clip3/index.html

doran, aside from your comment, what do you think of the album as a whole ?

"people" is crazy good

I really like it - I'll post some kind of capsule review here in a few days. It's split the vote amongst colleagues of mine though.

LCoffeeD Brewsystem

anyone seen "shut up and play the hits"?

it had one screening here, in a raked opera theatre, for sthng like $50 a ticket

so no

i think it gets a one-night-only us release this month. if anyone is in munich it is screening here tonight

for sthng like $50 a ticket

btw I guess this was not appealing enough to move many, by the week of they were adding a Q&A with Pat afterwards, and then getting to go to a party he would be at

whoa

it works as a standalone film even for non-fans, but the main thing is he picked good songs, it looks good and it sounds amazing (except maybe all my friends). audio mix had so much stuff in it you can't hear on the bootleg. definitely see it in a cinema with if you get the chance (americans: http://oscilloscope.net/lcdtheaters/)

LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge".
― Joe aka PappaWheelie, Saturday, September 14, 2002 2:31 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, some real 'remember when' there. supertempted to see the movie, scared by the klosterman - how heavy a presence?

an interview with him and murphy is used as a framing device, so he shows up with a question between about 2/3 of the songs. some of the questions are quite long.

"Some might even try to draw a parallel between "Losing My Edge" and Van Halen's single, "Running With the Devil". I remember being 18, sitting on the couch while the familiar chords blared, wondering if something like "Losing My Edge" would, in fact, ever, come along. We threw cheap beer cans on the floor and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes. Some might draw a parallel there, but I wouldn't. I've really never thought about it, and I don't have an opinion on it."

klosterman says something like "i don't know if you'll take this as an insult, but i think losing my edge is your best song"

and then "well, I guess I don't really know what your best song is. but maybe, I can see how people would argue that it's Losing My Edge"

all of the possible interviewers and they got Klosterman ? :(

just watched the trailer, all the smiley crowd shots made it look like a car/beer ad. maybe when lcd do their 'big festival reunion to play that one classic album all the way through' in a few years they can document that fascinating story as well.

lol

I hope to read your commentary on not seeing that movie as well. ;)

assuming murphy's imminent heart attack hasn't hit by then ; D

just watched the trailer, all the smiley crowd shots made it look like a car/beer ad. maybe when lcd do their 'big festival reunion to play that one classic album all the way through' in a few years they can document that fascinating story as well.

― am0n, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 11:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

qft

i guess there is an unavoidable slightly self-congratulatory thing, but the crowd shots are actually great. none of that glastonbury picking out the assholes with the wales/cornwall flag bullshit. some of the crowd stuff is looking toward the stage from floor level, which is, uh, immersive. there are also some quite bored looking guys in the crowd too which is honest i suppose. it is a pretty film.

is Aziz crowdsurfing in the movie?

bought tix to this. LCD was the best new live band I saw in the last 10 years. Wondering where this will rank on a scale of 101 - Rattle and Hum.

xp yes

:D

The songs in this movie are beautiful and enthralling, but the Klosterman parts are embarrassing. I think there's probably more footage of his grandstanding and repetition of his his 'theories' than there is of Murphy's answers. Similarly, the concert looked excellent, whereas the morning after footage was about 70% watching camera operators struggle to find focus.

I'm hoping when the DVD/Bluray comes out it'll have a music-only edit, because that'll be one of the finer concert films I can imagine.

i just hope they captured the glow sticks flying when the beat drops in "Dance Yrself Clean"

the original live stream was easily the best live 'event' ive ever experienced on the net so yeah a polished version of the whole show would be flat out sensational i think.

who's Klosterman btw or do i.. not want to know?

I'm hoping when the DVD/Bluray comes out it'll have a music-only edit, because that'll be one of the finer concert films I can imagine.

iirc the whole final show will be on a second disc

think there's probably more footage of his grandstanding and repetition of his his 'theories' than there is of Murphy's answers

this is exactly what I was afraid of; Klostermann is okay in small doses but I can totally see how he could basically ruin a movie like this

who's Klosterman btw or do i.. not want to know?

I'm sure someone else could describe him better than me but he's basically a long-time stoner journalist who writes half-baked theories at length before ultimately concluding that he thinks they're worthless or that he really doesn't have an opinion, priding himself on how underdeveloped his own thoughts are. Y'know, the guy who writes a five-page essay on a band he's never heard that ultimately turns into stories about listening to Van Halen records while hung over 25 years ago. He does occassionally write some brilliant stuff, but you really have to dig for it.

while...hung?

i'd never heard of him going in. he seemed kind of an idiot, but he's not in it enough for me to have formed a proper opinion. i guess this means he's not in it enough for it to be a serious problem, unless you go in knowing his thing and ready to bristle every time he comes on screen.

i actually didn't mind klosterman as much as I usually do. his theorizing fits lcd/murphy better then most his interviews imo.

but yeah, basically the movie comes down if you want to see concert footage of lcd and are a fan, see it. not much doing otherwise.

(see when it comes out on dvd, to be sold during the reunion tour, obv)

This is the last thing I expected to write: I got weary of the music fast while wanted more of Klosterman's interview. He started gaseous but in the last bits he asked a couple of sharp questions which Murphy couldn't wriggle out of. As for the music, it reminded me of my mixed reaction to an otherwise spectacular show I saw in fall '10: Murphy has no business singing live.

also: dog shots? really??

does he take him to task for making a big deal out of "splitting up" what is really a one-man band?

yeah i think that's fair alfred. the questions he asks are themselves good. he clearly has his own answer in mind when he's asking them, which is not so good/interesting, but it is a good interview to watch i think.

klosterman is the man who taught his asshole to talk, iirc

FUCK, I thought the "worldwide release" would include more US shows and I am realizing just now that I will never see this in a theater and it makes me super sad

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTUFpXw_qG6VpGkJKyM_heRkuxvcBCe0X8Y3ctsrCV7vUgHk_zdqQ

time to get away

does he take him to task for making a big deal out of "splitting up" what is really a one-man band?

― frogbs, Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:08 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha if an ilx music journo ever interviews murphy please please ask this question

the live band was about nine people plus crew on the last tour, and he said he was "splitting up" the band inasmuch as they were going to stop making albums and touring, but would probably still record a bit and maybe play shows in NYC. hardly a disconnect.

ya but the 'splitting up' narrative requires multiple people who you care about and want to see together

I demand you acknowledge the importance of Nancy Whang.

oh yeah, I mean the live band is great, but it's not as though say Murphy plus the entirety of Hot Chip and other random labelmates wouldn't be basically as good. Still, Murphy is one of the most self-aware musicians we've ever had and kind of an idealist to boot so I can see how this is really a big deal for him, "it has to end this way, otherwise LCD's legacy isn't going to be what I want it to be"

did he say 'splitting up' or 'retiring'?

Oh man I just saw SUAPTH and it was really tender and awesome

Is the Blu-Ray for SUAPTH already OOP? I haven't had any luck finding it in stores and it's only coming up on Amazon through secondary sellers. Weird.

http://store.dfarecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/suapth

anyone get the live show vinyl box set? i'm wondering how it sounds compared to the 5.1 on the Blu Ray.

I'm not going to hate, I can't hate, and I probably never will hate: listening to this band is like listening to many of my favorite things all at once. Aging well.

One of the best live acts I've ever seen

^^^^ x3

Glad he broke them up to make a record with IBM and design speakers.

listening to this band is like listening to many of my favorite things all at once

OTM

This is nice http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/james-murphy-premieres-new-song-we-used-to-dance-listen/

why are there 20 lcd soundsystem threads?

anyway, listening to All I Want, just realize it's maybe even more of a John Cale song than All My Friends

realized*

Say...remember when you LOST your EDGE?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/lcd-soundsystem-will-reunite-in-2016/

sooner than i expected.

(was bound to happen at some point though !)

Mind you, denials already flying:

https://twitter.com/krisdfa/status/652194317491118080

aaaand now he's protected his tweets

screenshot?

basic gist:

There's no way in hell that LCD Soundsystem are getting back together in 2016! Don't you have anything better to do in between Frank Ocean and Grimes releases than printing rumors from message boards?

they made a fucking film about how they were fucking off and never playing a note of their fucking music ever again, fucksake

yr going to have to up your sweary resentful rube shtick after that turrer de force in the 1975 thread

just such utter crumpetcunts

And now there's Billboard in on this

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6722636/lcd-soundsystem-reunion-2016-james-murphy

WHO KNOWS

Reunion? I didn't even know they broke up!

wine bar not working out eh

it's OK here's pitch4k to ruin everyone's fun

http://pitchfork.com/news/60997-lcd-soundsystem-not-reuniting-despite-reports/

Update – 4:00 p.m.: DFA Records, the label co-owned by Murphy, has issued a statement denying the band’s plans to reunite. Despite this, our sources stress the band intends to reunite next year, and we stand behind our original report.

Ha. Don't stop believing CoS.

"it's OK here's pitch4k to ruin everyone's fun"

more like make nice to their label friends when the PR hits the fan

it's happening

it wd be v lame if it happened so soon

like the whole final show thing was remotely believable in the first place

also if it were happening it'd be p rude for DFA dude to be so insulting abt it!
i'm sure it'll happen at SOME point but after only 4 years?

they made a fucking film about how they were fucking off and never playing a note of their fucking music ever again, fucksake

Murphy said at the time it was the end of them as a make-an-album, tour-the-album band, that he would probably do stuff under the name in the future, and released music as LCD Soundsystem the following year iirc.

Cool maybe this time I will hear something that makes me understand why they were so big in the first place

this is different than whatever it's advertising in that commercial of him playing music in the subway right?

New song for Christmas??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kPH2MJzlg

"Christmas I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down", way boring

It's the worst type of song they do. So dull.

Outside of New York how many songs like that have they done? Agree it is pretty dull

last album had a few

ah maybe not actually, i was thinking of dance yrself clean and "somebody's calling me" but i guess something kinda happens on those

so... the reunion is happening after all? coachella one off?

Outside of New York how many songs like that have they done? Agree it is pretty dull

'Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up'?

ahhh, but I dig that one!

I mean it's hardly a highlight of the album but IMO way better than this one

yeah i like the token ballads on the albums.

oh god a reunion would be so corny

Thanks for bumping this thread, because even though I don't care about the new song or any reunion, I'm listening to "Yeah" right now and it's just as great as I remembered.

http://www.spin.com/2015/12/lcd-soundsystem-coachella-2016-indio/

One of my fave bands in recent memory, but why can't groups just stay broken up anymore? LCD took less time to reunite than many acts take between albums.

It does cheapen the whole Madison Square Garden thing, which now looks more like a cash grab than the emotional ending it was constantly billed as. It will be interesting to see how Murphy justifies it all.

yeah this stinks tbh. if it's true which it might not be?

come on it's just one dude, every day he decides to jam on his keyboard at home, 'lcd soundsystem is back together'

Nah, he reunited everyone for that single. This isn't NIN or GNR.

well he's nice enough to use the same people but if 'reunited' without and given band member, nobody would care.

well he's nice enough to use the same people but if 'reunited' without and given band member, nobody would care.

it'll probably be ok if they treat it similarly to how NIN did 'we took a break from touring like we said we would after our big farewell shows and now we're going to continue making music from where we left off' etc but if there's no plans beyond the festival circuit cashgrab and that dull christmas song it'll come across pretty sad especially after only 5 years.

err 'if he reunited'

and 'without any given'

LCD could not successfully reunite Nancy or Pat

it'll come across pretty sad especially after only 5 years.

They only existed for nine years

oh noes the sublime artistic integrity of lcd soundsystem has been cheapened

anyway when they split he said they'd play & record again, but he didn't expect to make albums and tour the same songs for 18 months again

yeah it would be cool if they just became a studio band from here on out, I thought it was the touring that really wore Murphy out

There's no "if" about the reunion. They're playing a whole bunch of festivals and perhaps other dates in the US and Europe this Spring and Summer, starting with Coachella and running until at least July. Coachella isn't even the only one they're doing in Southern California.

Not that any statement was necessary given how obviously premature and therefore faux was the purported breakup, but anyone who thought it wouldn't happen (or who invested any sort of significance in that MSG show) missed Murphy telling you at the time that it probably would. When he decided he wanted to soundtrack the NYC subway and realized that he needed a lot of money to do it (and a lot of money he's getting), it became a no-brainer.

Not to suggest that there's nothing silly about investing any significance in a TNG Talking Heads knockoff with a more bearish, less bright frontman in the first place

So this whole thing is to help fund his subway project?

TNG?

it's a hairdressing term

Oh, star trek The Next Generation

gabbers has a point, tbf

So this whole thing is to help fund his subway project?

― Position Position, Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does the fact that it might help fund a fairly-unlikely art project make you feel better about the idea that they're willing to be paid millions of dollars? I'm led to believe it was part of the impetus, or removal of indifference.

They were so sad when we broke up
But now they're mad
That we're not

he goes on a bit like but fair dos

http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/793

wow, really did not expect a new record to be part of this (or the motivation for it).

He should set that post to music.

Great footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8FjbOtwFA

(of last night's first-show-back i should say)

I suppose I am glad to have them back, but I was a bit bummed their setlists have been pretty much song for song identical since reuniting, including last night at one of the Lollapalooza-related club after shows. I enjoyed it fine, but don't say you're getting the band back together because you have more to say or your work isn't finished or whatever and then hit the clubs and festivals with a set in stone setlist that pretty much feels like an exact continuation of what you were doing for but with less spontaneity. Also, the world weary shtick doesn't quite play as well after you've prematurely reunited. If you want to be back you've got to try a little harder to make it look like it was something you missed, imo. Murphy was good and sounded good, but he sounded most enthusiastic telling everyone that Derrick Carter was DJing downstairs if they really wanted to dance.

I listened to "Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up" this morning. They should start closing their sets with that instead of "NY I Love You"

Two new songs out today

http://www.factmag.com/2017/05/04/lcd-soundsystems-call-police-american-dream-stream/

If I had to play spot the reference (with a band that all but demands it), I'd say that "Police" song sounds a bit like the Psychedelic Furs (and would sound better with Butler singing).

a friend pointed out "Call the Police" sounds a bit like this '80s Fleetwood Mac number, which seems like the sort of thing Murphy would quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70FTf_OHuR0

"Call the Police" sounds like LCD meets Bowie's "Heroes" to me - there's even a Berlin reference in it. Love it so far although I wish the ending was a little crazier.

Still need to listen to "American Dream" some more.

he sounds like Wayne Coyne but i like it.

To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.

https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-call-the-police-lyrics

"Well, there's a full-blown rebellion but you're easy to confuse
By triggered kids and fakers and some questionable views
Oh, call the cops, call the preachers!
Before they let us and they lose"

i'm reaaally hoping that i'm misreading the 'triggered kids' line because that's a pretty meh move for him politically

the song is good imo but whew if he's not gonna get a bit of backlash for that

actually, changed my mind: talked to a friend and he pointed out that it's more likely the same lyrical shtick as All My Friends and Dance Yrself Clean, which is the whole "unreliable narrator relating to/critiquing an old guy complaining about the youngsters thing". i guess the ambiguity could still be read as kinda sus, but i'll pull back on getting on some high horse

Read the entire lyrics. I'm going to avoid any think piece on this for the rest of my life.

In 2017 it's ehhh.

does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?

lyrics are not great

the more earnest murphy's lyrics are, the more hit-or-miss they become

I like "American Dream" but boy is "Call the Police" tedious

To my ears, it sounds like a band that has doubled down on its legacy sound (All My Friends / Heroes / Someone Great). In 2017 it's ehhh.

― paulhw, Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday)

check this:
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

does he sound a bit like bono on the police track?

He does.

I dislike this person, and the music he makes, greatly.

I find him very sympathetic, if you're interested in changing your mind perhaps this interview will be of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380

but I mean also just the guy who wrote Someone Great has to be a nice person

Call The Police sounds a bit like Oasis or Kasabian by the time it gets to the outro.

I've generally been happy with most LCD stuff but let's all acknowledge for a moment that the pre album 12"s, culminating with the besthingever "Yeah", is the real shit.

top 3 tracks are pretty easily Beat Connection/Thrills/Yeah, nothing else he did in the Beat Connection/Yeah sort of mode later really came close

I like the synth tone in Call the Police that's really evocative of YMO's Cue, but unlike when he's done this style in the past, it's not more than the sum of its New Order + "Heroes" parts - this time sounding a ton like Procession

the biggest change in either of these tracks is the way the drums are produced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC7SEkQX9U

Obviously going to be scorching thing to experience live.

call the police really grew on me—i think i've settled on really liking how it goes back and forth from romantic to punky, since the bass motorik is always there to keep you grounded

Yeah, that was great. Alas, I saw them on one of last year or so's reunion/club shows, and man, the crowd was so gross I don't think I can handle it again. That's my problem, totally, they were fine otherwise. Maybe the influx of new songs will change the dynamic.

what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?

I'm really enjoying Call The Police after that performance. I'm getting massive Ultravox vibes from it, especially the keyboards in the "and we don't waste time with love" part.

Who's the synth dude bopping away in the back?

Gavin Russom:
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

lol jed!

if you're going to tell us about it then do so. if you're not you may as well just post "i've got this records and you've not bitches!". whatever, i'm looking forward to this being released. i like these guys.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:24 PM (eleven years ago)

Ha!What a wideo.

I suspected that was GR but he's unrecognisable these days. I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in a baseball cap and t-shirt.

It looked like more of an ethnic fez or something to me....?

what was gross about the crowd? were they wearing TEVAs?

Essentially. Just total bro-dudes, light up sunglasses and baseball caps, collared preppy shirts, double fisting beers. Just ... gross.

I really was into LCD Soundsystem at the beginning when it was Murphy screwing around and liked that the project evolved into a live band and was good live, but it's one of those situations where I enjoy the music but feel like it's a consensus pick. As in, I wouldn't turn down seeing them live and appreciate new music, but I'm not clamoring for it?

Having a really broad, annoying crowd is one of the problems with consensus favorites. In closing, LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening

mh tell us more about your other favorite band, the dave matthews band

never got into those dudes, people seem to love them

I was there ... when Dave Matthews convinced his really good drummer to join his shitty band over drinks at Miller's Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia.

I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in an ethnic fez and t-shirt.

baldness

Watched that clip again, that truly is a ton of analog synth gear for like literally six or so notes. They should give Gavin maracas or something, like Bez.

Bez in a fez.

xp lmao i thought the same thing, i wonder how much of it they just did for prop value

LCD Soundsystem is the 00s brooklyn party version of dave matthews band. thanks for listening

lol this really sums up how i feel about this band anymore

I'm fine with bands being a consensus thing, just kind of weird that I became a mainstreamer

Love the band but especially the early 12"s.

Who's with me that "Shame On You" is one of the greatest things he's ever recorded and it's been criminally relegated to the shoes EP (and the middle of the live thing)...

https://j.gifs.com/1jlmYo.gif

Everything DFA/LCD/Murphy related has got worse the longer it's got since the departure of Tim Goldsworthy.

"Call The Police" sounds really busy and unfocused, how you gonna retire to run your wine bar for four years and come back with some half-assed bullshit

the interesting thing about the band to me was how they sounded like being in your 30s - music is so much about the teens and early 20s, the weariness of becoming an adult in dance/rock guise felt unique

and boring

fittingly

wait what is "the shoes EP (and the middle of the live thing)"?

those are 45:33 and The Long Goodbye

Shame On You is one of his best yeah

ah ok, I didn't realize they split the tracks up on The Long Goodbye

I also think "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is in his top 5 best ever

pretty much every track over 8 minutes is great

Everything DFA/LCD/Murphy related has got worse the longer it's got since the departure of Tim Goldsworthy.

― mickcsmith (micarl), Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:56 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning after nostalgically putting on Primal Scream's XTRMNTR, which I think was where Murphy and Goldsworthy first worked together

Goldsworthy was definitely the production/dance tracks guy and his work really shines on all the early DFA releases but once LCD started to break as a band, I feel like the perception of DFA became less about a label/dudes doing cool dance 12" releases and production work and more "that label with LCD Soundsystem and friends"

kind of borne out by LCD turning into this live act that's incorporated people making it seem like it's the label that coalesced into a band

WAIT Murphy and Goldsworthy worked on XTRMNTR?!?!

Goldsworthy's influence on Hercules and Love Affair LP was probably the high water mark really.
https://www.discogs.com/Hercules-And-Love-Affair-Hercules-And-Love-Affair/release/1272757

xp just one or two songs

what are the direct influences on XTRMNTR /PRML SCRM

ha, i'd forgotten about that.

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

Murphy's first credit, even.

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

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

v hazy but iirc it's production on blood money, think that's tru re: credits but i heard they were on it way back when

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

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

Press release from Steve Martin at Nasty Little Man

RHINO TO SOMEHOW RELEASE "VINYL REISSUES" OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM TITLES ALREADY AVAILABLE THROUGH DFA

https://store.dfarecords.com/collections/albums

Despite being in print for years and ready available at https://store.dfarecords.com/collections/albums, Rhino has announced that they are releasing vinyl reissues of LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled debut album, 45:33, This Is Happening and London Sessions—which was news to the band who issued the following statement:

“LCD Soundsystem certainly aren’t announcing shit, as they had no idea that these were even coming out. Just buy the records from DFA, like you have been able to for years.”

The Rhino press release also describes LCD Soundsystem as "one of the freshest sounds on the London underground scene in the early 2000s” so that shows how seriously anyone should take it.

My guess is that someone at Rhino had tix for the MSG show and subsequently felt pathologically aggrieved ever since the bogus reunion was announced.

https://www.facebook.com/lcdsoundsystem/posts/10158891654125444

hi there again…

i really just wanted to say something about these new shows in brooklyn.

last time we played Brooklyn Steel, we did 5 nights, and the tickets sold out quickly. everyone got very mad, and we in the band got all upset, and there were cries of bots, etc.. so we dug in, worked with the promoter to delete a bunch of questionable transactions, tried to control tickets the best we could, and discovered that it was actually very few pro scalpers and bots. (fact is, scalpers were announcing tickets for sale to our show before they were even available at all, with the idea that they could put out crazy prices in the beginning, and if anyone bit, they’d scramble to try to find a ticket, or, well, i guess sell a fake one). the fact was that there were many more people who wanted to see us than we had tickets for, which is awesome and a bummer at the same time.

outside of all that, the shows were very fun for us. we were close to home and the crowd was fucking great. we got the idea that we should do it again as soon as possible in hopes that more people who wanted to see us but missed us could come see us then. and this is the first time when both we and the venue had a block of dates available in a row, so here we are. 7 nights. with the 5 before it's like, more than a big venue, which we hope will be just fine.

i had a lot of back and forth about these shows with our very wonderful, concerned, thoughtful and on it managers and agents, and the professional consensus was that playing them was, frankly, a bad idea. to explain: we just did this in april, so they might seem “less special” now. for reasons i can’t seem to quantify, the earlier gigs were considered special, so they were in higher demand and sold out very quickly. but the undermining of some of the specialness is precisely what we’d love to accomplish with these gigs. they’re just some gigs. they’re in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they’re no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we’re going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they’re certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion. it’s NOT a finite resource. it is certainly 100% not worth paying some crazy amount over face value for them. we’re playing in other places this year, a lot, and that’s likely close to wherever it is you live (unless you live far from things, which i’m sorry about—but it still wouldn’t be worth flying to these.)

playing more seems to be the best antidote. unless we play big places, which are ok sometimes, but not our favorite things all the time. or, if i read some blogs correctly, we should charge way, way more for the tickets. this isn’t interesting for us mainly because people with a lot of extra money aren’t the only people we want to play to. (don't get me wrong: we’re aware that if the tickets are, like, $15, they just get resold for a lot more, and we sit there like morons wondering how we’re going to pay our crew, but, you know…) the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york, which makes me pretty bonkers.
so, that’s where we are. here are some shows which we’re really excited to play, and we think are worth maybe precisely what the tickets cost. and maybe if no one buys a scalped ticket for more than the face value, the room will feel a little empty, but at least we’ll be done with this crap once and for all, as scalpers aren’t in it to troll music fans—they’re in it to make money, and if no one feeds them, the natural consequence is that they’ll just thin way the fuck out.

thank you guys for reading.

james

ps. i really didn’t want to make any more announcements of any kind until we had a release date for the LP, but these shows are this week, and we’re still getting the artwork finalized so they can make covers, which we need to solidify the date, so that’s still happening. watch this space. and by “this space”, i mean the internet.

pps. hearts

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

the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york

Ever since the ticket chaos surrounding The Cure at Irving Plaza (1000 capacity club) in NYC in '97 I've wondered why that method wasn't used by bands who professed to care about scalping. Had no idea it was illegal.

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

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

this america, man

lol I did a quick Google search to see if I could find a reference to the law and the first thing I found was this Reddit post from a disgruntled Louis CK fan:

Thanks a lot ticketmaster for taking the wind out of my sails, wrapping your cocks with them, and dick slapping the smile right of my stupid naive face.

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

oops my bad.

let's see if this works

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

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

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

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

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

Yr welcome, It's grreat!

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

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

― brotherlovesdub

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

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

That Heaven 17 cover is amazingly bad.

MSG show was ten years ago tonight. Ten!?

that's how it starts...

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

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

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

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

$$$$$

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

Oh, glad to hear about the reissue!

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

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court case #666: The People vs Motley Crue

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

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

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

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

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

My apologies for the poor context.

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

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

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

Live Christmas special on prime and twitch right now

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

great timing

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

i think it's on demand on prime

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

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

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

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

Have at it, at your leisure

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

Sound of Silver is still the shit.

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

Not if you've completely ignored the reunion!

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

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

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

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

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

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

— jpegZoidberg (@BitcoinZoidberg) June 20, 2022

the coins...are coming up from behind

Gotta pay the bills aintcha?

Lmao

when we needed him most pic.twitter.com/kSeu8vUeOb

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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

https://zh-cn.facebook.com/TommySiegel/photos/a.814196891929314/2873115809370735/?type=3

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.

what songs in particular you referring to?

I have thankfully scrubbed them, but “the song that sounds like “Heroes”” and “the song that sounds like “Needle In The Camel’s Eye”” and others. They were legacy-souring to me, turned me off the band like piss in the soup

which is the one that is a "needle in the camel's eye" pastiche

those could both be "All I Want"

think for that one he at least adds enough new stuff that it stands on its own, also I guess the fact that he was able to ape one of the best songs ever is pretty impressive. the ones that bother me are the two on American Dream which sound like Remain in Light outtakes, particularly since one imitates Belew's very distinct "Born Under Punches" solo. like the one big strike against this band is they copy Talking Heads too much, idk why they decided to do that, especially on an album that's too long as it is

Ya, it was “White Light, White Heat” (aka Drunk Girls)

All I Want is “Heroes” with the guitar part from “Here Come The Warm Jets”

I hate it

I started to hear other covers in other songs that may or may not have been there. That song “Home” sounds like a David Byrne cover to my ears. (Is it? It sounds so much like something). “All My Friends” idk I got it in my head that he was trying to do a synth cover of “Where The Streets Have No Name” and I couldn’t un-U2ify my ears afterward

It’s like when somebody gets disgraced for plagiarism and then you just assume everything they’ve ever written is a lift, I guess

i attempted a discog run with these guys last year. early singles and first album are still great and fun. after that... i really love "someone great." that's it unfortunately

juan maclean, however, nothing but excellence

"home" is definitely inspired by "this must be the place" but it's not blatant enough to annoy me, i like it

the reference points of "all my friends" are pretty obviously new order (specifically "temptation") + eno but that synthesis works very well, it isn't blatantly ripping any one thing

It's been really entertaining the whiplash of sentiment turn on Murphy so completely. Short of someone staining their legacy through non-musical things (Morrissey, dude from Arcade Fire), I can't think of many artists since 2000 that have been turned on like this.

My opinion remains pretty much the same since the start - some incredible stuff and some really turgid stuff.

ugh, "watching the whiplash"

I find it amusing he actually covered "Jump Into the Fire" by Nilsson because when I first heard that song my thought was "ah, that's where LCD got it from"

dunno if "Home" cribs a Byrne song, but I like it better than any solo Byrne I've heard, for what that's worth. there is probably a site out there dedicated to compiling all the LCD references out there, similar to how they do for Daft Punk and Stereolab. the one that surprised me was "Dance Yrself Clean" being mostly cribbed from a very obscure 12 inch someone found, idk why but something about that bothered me. like maybe he thought he could get away with that one. Daft Punk did that a lot too.

ivy., I did the exact same and felt the exact same

I can’t decide if I like or dislike his MES impressions on “Edge” and “Daft Punk”, I think in the end I like it

I need to listen to Juan Mclean, it seems

This 2003 Fader article about the Rapture is interesting because it's kind of right on the cusp, when "House of Jealous Lovers" broke through. DFA here is only discussed as a record label — albeit one with a tremendous amount of input into its artists' releases. Lots of discussion of Murphy and Goldsworthy, but not even a mention of LCD Soundsystem. "The Rapture is DFA's flagship band," lol sure.

https://www.thefader.com/2015/09/17/cover-story-the-rapture-issue-15

idk i still really like the first album + early singles, sound of silver is pretty good, and even this is happening has its moments, just he gets more blatant/less creative with his inspirations as things go on and everything suffers for it

I think of the references and ripoffs sort of like cheeky sampling.

would you like to hear an old iggy pop song with worse vocals and lyrics

Sampling is already cheeky! Sampling is post-modern. Cribbing is not cheeky. I get as bothered on this topic about Schnittke Symphony 1 as I do about “Drunk Girls”

Xp lol otm

early singles and first album are still great and fun. after that... i really love "someone great." that's it unfortunately

― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:20 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

juan maclean, however, nothing but excellence

― ivy., Tuesday, January 30, 2024 10:21 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Agree with both of these posts.

Still think "Yeah" is one of the best tracks of the 00s, so I still consider myself a fan of this band

Has he ever talked about ripping off bands in interviews? Like, does he go up to his bandmates and say this one is like David Bowie, or this one is like talking heads?

Writing a new song over a replay of an old song felt more interesting before every big pop song was doing this (or at least including blatant references to big hits of the past). Looking at it charitably, it's not that different from Jamaican "versions" and sometimes results in great songs (sometimes not).

The Dance Yrself Clean / Jamaica Running thing was pretty sus if they didn't credit the songwriters/publishers right off.

Always thought the most effective aspect of LCD was the sense of time and place - the 2000s stuff captures the feel of being ~32. Not music to be played while partying until sunrise but while drinking a couple of beers or glasses of wine and remembering when you were partying until sunrise (and the bands that moved you when you were 22).

Everything I've heard post-reunion (which is not a ton tbf, it's been so bad I'm not going to search out more) has been very going through the motions.

Yeah, I file them along with Sleater-Kinney, or maybe the Pixies. Really liked phase one at the time, no interest in the reunion.

I don't know if the s/t is considered an album, but it's my favorite of theirs. "Daft Punk," "Tribulations," "Beat Connection," "Give It Up," "Losing My Edge," and "Yeah" are all classics. There's a raw energy to those early recordings that captures the magic of their live performances better than the future studio albums.

Not sure what tainted their legacy more: the tedious "last tour/show/residency ever" (which they've done twice or 3x?) or more recently the late-stage crypto/NFT cashgrabs.

All that said, "Beat Connection" is the song I'm always surprised I still like when it comes on shuffle.

I actually just keep getting more into LCD Soundsystem. I enjoyed the first two albums when they were fresh, and I like them even more now.

It definitely helps that I don't have a huge vocabulary with his influences. I don't even WANT to know all the artists he lists in Losing My Edge, etc. Sometimes they're really obvious to me and sometimes they're not. Agree that the one that sounds like Heroes is probably too on the nose and it was a little disappointing when I realized just how hard he was leaning on other artists. However, there are a few where I definitely felt LCD's version was an improvement on the source material; I'm not going to listen to Kraftwerk's Robots, but I love Get Innocuous. Disintegration is one of my favorite Cure songs and Tonite is one of my favorite LCD Soundsystem songs and the similarities don't bother me at all.

The records I listen to most are The Long Goodbye and Electric Lady Sessions. Definitely a band that benefits from the looseness of live performance.

first time I saw them they ended with a 20 minute version of "Yeah", nothing they did the next two times I saw them was anywhere close to that

I made this playlist a few years ago based on a reddit (I think) post that matched up all the This Is Happening songs against the originals. It's pretty interesting hearing them side by side like this

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=e29f861113514b6d

It makes its point, since a few of those are absolutely blatant, but imo a couple of those are stretches as direct analogs, ironically because the LCD songs are ripping off several songs at once. For example, "Drunk Girls" reminds me of "Boys Keep Swinging" by Bowie as much as "White Light/White Heat." I don't think "Pow" sounds particularly like "Born Under Punches," and I don't think "Home" sounds like "This Must Be the Place," but both sure as heck sound like the Talking Heads. And so on. I'm surprised he's never been sued, regardless - other acts have for sure been sued for far less - which makes me think he maybe worked something out with various estates and/or friends?

And of course North American Scum =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI

the reference points of "all my friends" are pretty obviously new order (specifically "temptation") + eno but that synthesis works very well, it isn't blatantly ripping any one thing

otm, with a Pink Floyd reference thrown in.

I think that's why I always appreciated the band. It's a synthesis. Like, when I listen to, say, bands like the P. Furs, I hear a synthesis of Bowie, VU, Roxy Music and the Pistols. When I hear the JAMC, I hear the Ramones, Phil Spector, Beach Boys, Stooges, etc. I'm not suggesting LCD is on par with either of those acts, or as novel in its synthesizing, but like those others there's more than enough personality that I would never confuse it for its source material. (See also: Zeppelin.)

Also, they were a real gateway drug into dance and electronic music for me, in that there was so much live instrumentation and I could understand what was going on more (this was when I was starting to mess around with making music on a computer but really had no idea what I was doing or how things were made).

I feel like the interpolations are similar - they're never going to sample a record, they don't work like that, they're going to do it with their chosen toolbox. I like that even though it sometimes veers into ripoff territory. It's great when it works.

I made this playlist a few years ago based on a reddit (I think) post that matched up all the This Is Happening songs against the originals. It's pretty interesting hearing them side by side like this

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58KqaKB2yPO1vJqEzzP83g?si=e29f861113514b6d

― nate woolls, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:44 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks for this. "The Bus" is a banger.

I don't think "Pow" sounds particularly like "Born Under Punches,"

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 2:50 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is it just the little electric guitar riff every 8 beats?

Nothing much to add except Someone Great is my favourite song of all time. Just rooted itself in me instantly with that hook and all that sadness. Can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard it. Have so many associations with those first two albums (and yeah I do consider the self titled to be one). Ex of mine actually introduced me to them by putting Never as Tired As When I’m Waking Up on a mix CD for me which, in retrospect? Not that representative of their style!

s/t is totally an album; i thought the singles were collected as a "bonus disk" but the first disc was a "proper" album

"Someone Great" will always remind me of Bumble and I dedicate that song to him.

M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

*Bimble

Spell check strikes again

I saw James Murphy creeping around The Four Horseman, the restaurant he owns in Brooklyn, when I met a buddy for brunch. He did look as if he'd lost his edge.

I didn't mean to bookmark, so; M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

Yeah Someone Great is an incredible tune, floored me the first time I heard it. Even if everything else sucked he’s classic for that alone. And it’s more or less an original isn’t it?

He ripped off 45:33 for it

Lol

Poor Nike

Second half of their Glastonbury set has been A+

it was fantastic.
loved the whole, fuck it, lets enjoy this and drink expensive champers ..
had no idea that one of their songs, Dance Yrself Clean, had become so big.
mk2 looked it up, and yeah, over 120M streams.

oooh, and loved the very brief Yazoo drop.

Is this an "on telly" thing?

watched it live via the bbc,
but hopefully it will be on the iplayer.
was weird seeing them have such a similar set up to the 2005 set i saw at Glastonbury in the smaller John Peel tent.
i.e. the whole stage is full of kit (to the point you just fear for someone to trip up over a cable and cut out everything),
with pat on drums being at the centre of everything.

James looks healthier than I remember, Nancy is the coolest. Have quite enjoyed that there are *glasses of wine* on stage.

The 2016 Glastonbury set is the best I’ve ever seen them just.. extraordinary but this was a close second. It seemed such a different vibe for them, a sunny evening in the open air with people in flower crowns and dayglo paint singing along. Great to hear Oh Baby too. How fabulous!

Not sure what human statue Noel Gallagher's doing on the sidelines there while everyone else enjoys it.

That felt a bit weird, didn't it? "I'm motivated enough to go and watch from the side of the stage but I don't want to be seen as liking it."

It’s been pointed out that Murphy was wearing a Beaver t-shirt (the Toronto bar/restaurant/venue co-founded by the late Will Munro), which is inexplicable and wonderful

"x-ray eyes" is really bad

maybe because its the first song he's written that didn't directly crib something from his record collection :)

saw them yesterday. they're still very fun. although to put it nicely you can tell they do everything live :)

a couple new songs it seems, including X-ray eyes. idk, still don't like the song, but it makes more sense live. they're kind of one marathon banger after another so its fine to have something simpler and shorter to bring it down a bit. the other new stuff seemed fine. I dunno if they really need to write any new songs at this point. even at 2 1/2 hours it felt like there were a number of tunes I still wanted to hear. Murphy's obsession with playing New York at every single show is getting kinda weird though.

saw them yesterday. they're still very fun. although to put it nicely you can tell they do everything live :)

Yup. I've seen them three times, and the second one was disastrous due to equipment malfunction - they had to stop the show many times. Murphy felt so bad about it that he told us during one such break that he would be giving us their newly-released album for free (albeit as a download).

there was a 5 minute break at one point this show too, pretty unclear what happened but Murphy was off the stage so I assumed he had to pee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLaOBMn4EA

^ that (the pool – jamaica running) + this chorus (alceu valença - anunciação) makes dance yrself clean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKyn9wrM_uM
(around 1:17)

The Pool rip feels blatant even for James Murphy. He might as well have sampled it.

yeah its his "Robot Rock", that said the song is all about that massive drop which is still unlike anything I've ever experienced live

They did *all* of the 45 33 album at a recent Brixton Sunday show. They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm. SO wish i'd seen that one.

Ideal time and length for a show.

5 minutes for a pee, relatable

I guess being old men now these shorter shows suit them otherwise I'd feel more justified in calling them the electroclash Phish

recently listened to pete shelley's homosapien album for the first time and was reminded that these guys are somewhat of a early 80s alt-electro tribute band

For sure

They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm

Wish this was every concert

They did *all* of the 45 33 album at a recent Brixton Sunday show. They deliberately began early too and finished by 9pm. SO wish i'd seen that one.

Just checked setlist.fm and didn't expect to see that they played eight nights in total at Brixton Academy over ten days in June. Weird.

Just curious if anybody’s at the Toronto show tonight

Anyway if you are and you see a person of undeclared gender in a very cheap black dress and N95 by the right corner of the stage say hey

I never got the hype for them. Bowie and Talking Heads for the 00's?