LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

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New album, due March 20th according to Billboard.com. Tracklist:

"Get Innocuous"
"Time to Get Away"
"North American Scum"
"Someone Great"
"All My Friends"
"Us v. Them"
"Watch the Tapes"
"Sound of Silver"
"New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

Link to story:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003409598

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

"All My Friends"

Pavement cover???!

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

But will any of it be as good as 45'33?

― Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

"New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

laying it on a bit thick there arent we james?

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like it better if the stuff on each end of that "But" was flipped

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

will be 45'33 added as extra disc goodness i wonder ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

but will any of it be as big of a letdown compared to their recent singles as their last album?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

1000 posts by March 20th.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

1000 cowbells auditioned

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

3 bad lcd soundsystem attack comics posted

― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

OMG OMG OMG FUCK FUCK FUCK! This is fantastic news! And I'm not even drunk yet.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Okay can anyone estimate approximately when this will leak?

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm saying January.

― Dan Barramouss (jimnaseum), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

digital promos are available today. i imagine by early december it'll be everywhere.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

thanksgiving

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday.

All my troubles seem so far away...

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

The last record was in my top ten of 05, but I can't imagine enjoying a second album unless he develops somehow. Figure he won't, since sticking to the disco re-edit formula is kind of his thing.

But fuck it, I'll download the leak when it hits.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for doing your part

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Look, there's only so much a person can do when a piece of music can't be bought for any price.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

i can''t understand any of that:

if the last record was a top five for you why would you doubt that the next one may be good?

"the disco re-edit formula" doesn't descrie any LCD soundstystem record i've heard, certainly not the first album or any of the singles.

also LCD soundsystem are a band not a "he". i appreciate your magnanimity in agreeing to download it "when it hits" though.

xxp

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

it seems like he is the last producer on earth who hasn't done a disco re-edit

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

well, 'give me every little thing' leans pretty heavily on skyy's let's turn it out, but that's it

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

yes, lcd's styles is played, hopefully it will all be grindy midrangey acid house / french house throwbacks with lots of "glitch effects" and anthemic choruses

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

i will not give this man another red cent!!

the $132.40 and roughly ~500 hours i spent buying and listening to the two DFA comps, two remix comps, delia + gavin album and single, juan maclean album and three black dice albums and two black dice singles was a total waste of my money.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

if only i had downloaded all that, i could be buying a rhino funk box set and two soul jazz comps tomorrow.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, i forgot the $12.48 i spent on "original run" and "wrong galaxy / triumph", worst bang:buck ratio ever! i didn't even get a jewel case!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

do you really keep such close track of money spent or did you have to call jaymc before you posted?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

simple mathemagic, my friend.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah well I'm ashamed to say I bought the DFA Remixes Chapter 2 and that was a mistake. Wanna buy my copy anyone?

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

i will paypal you 5 bucks for it.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

i keep forgetting you are a teacher with level 9 math power

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Colon,

I'll download it for the test drive, obv. I always buy what I download-and-subsequently-dig.

LCD Soundsystem are a band where James Murphy writes the songs, does the vocals, and controls the publicity. He's the only personality in the group. I think using the pronoun is not unjustified.

You're right, though, "disco re-edit" was the wrong term to use. The disco punkfunk motions he goes through are what I was referring to, and "disco re-edit" is its own sound with its own tradition. My drop.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

seriously vahid...are you being sarcastic or serious here?

I forget if soul jazz is bad or good!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

remove the "seriously" from the above post, to take it more seriously. "seriously".

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Soul Jazz does a great service in compiling the stuff it does.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

tell me more!

― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

i am being sarcastic. srsly.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to dance to all of 45:33 but eventually I did run out of breath. Oh well, there's always tomorrow...

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

colon?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

just fuckin about

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

but still, for better or worse, with the first album they were already covering bases outside of what you describe - "Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up" and "The Great Release" being the most obvious examples.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

IMHO, they didn't read like LCD (if you like) branching out, but like the band imitating sources (Bends-era Radiohead, Eno respectively) beyond the mutant disco set.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

But that's just me, and to quote the homie bo janglin,

who the hell are you?
-- bo janglin (wt...), November 17th, 2006.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

promo arrived via possibly armed courier today:

my first thoughts, for what they're worth...

― kicking_k (kicking_k), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

promo arrived via possibly armed courier today:

my first thoughts, for what they're worth...

― kicking_k (kicking_k), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

hmph. and second thoughts, it seems. magazine server currently bugging out. shd be back up and readable soon...

― karen karpenter (kicking_k), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/harry2.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I really can't think of a reason why they'd be sending out promos five months before the release date. Two months, for the monthly magazines that need to be ready in time, okay, but five?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i can't understand why they would wait 4 months but put the review copies out now. to me that seems like madness.

haha xpost

it's 4 months not 5 but still.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, March. Yeah, 4 then. Makes you wonder whether the whole leak/buzz thing is part of the strategy.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

ysi?

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

OMG! It leaked already!

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

shockah

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sheltalmy.com/kinks1.jpg

x-post

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

nick from !!! must've dropped by the compound to co-write some of these song titles with james.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

This has something of a made-over Joy Division feel to it - perhaps very early New Order before they went Technicolor widescreen..?

get the fuck in!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

just listening to my heavily armed-delivered copy. quite nice. disco-y, this first track.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

"New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

laying it on a bit thick there arent we james?

he muttered this over the top of a track when he was on beats in space. must've been on his mind for a while!

― the gangsta Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (H2-H4), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

this sounds better than the last album.

[/wishful thinking]

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

new york i love you but i've chosen darkness

― boom! i fucked your hard-drive (don), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, ya got me!

― Only The Stones Remain (Bimble...), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Really, really feeling 'Someone Great'. A great break-up track.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Except it's about somebody dying, innit?

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

does that matter?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, like you can't break-up with someone AND kill them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

EXACTLY

i really love this song too.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the lyrics go, "You're smaller than my wife imagined"... so I guess he killed his gf and his wife is helping him get rid of the body. That's hott.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

I like hank slocki's 'pet theory' that "Someone Great" is about a miscarriage (on ILM sandbox).

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

ah!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

of course.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

that one line about arguing in the basement kinda disproves it but i still like the theory!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Boy "North American Scum" sounds--er--fucking exactly like Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, it does.

Ho mo sapi en too
North a meri can scum

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

i liked all the songs on first few plays, but "someone great" is def. the standout.

he said in a pitchfork interview something about being bummed that the album versions off the last one didnt get played out (or something along the lines of "people will play anything on a 12") so each 12" from this record is going to have a remix by him on it.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

slocki, i don't think the line about arguing in the basement refutes your theory at all - some of the lines are directed at the unborn child and some directed at his wife/girlfriend. arguing can be reassuring for a couple, after all.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

reaching.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Lyrics to "Someone Great":

I wish that we could talk about it
but there, that's the problem
with someone new I couldn't start it
too late for beginnings
the little things that made me nervous
are gone in a moment
I miss the way we used to argue
locked in the basement

I wake up and the phone is ringing
surprised, as it's early
and that should be a perfect warning
that something's a problem
to tell the truth I saw it coming
the way you were breathing
but nothing can prepare you for it
the voice on the other end

the worst is all the lovely weather
i'm stunned it's not raining
the coffee isn't even bitter
because what's the difference
there's all the work that needs to be done
it's late for revision
there's all the time and all the planning
and songs to be finished

and it keeps coming and it keeps coming and it keeps coming
til the day it stops

I wish that we could talk about it
but there, that's the problem
with someone new I couldn't start it
too late for beginnings
you're smaller than my wife imagined
surprised you were ??
there shouldn't be this reign of silence
but what are the options

when someone great is gone
when someone great is gone
when someone great is gone

we're saved for the moment
we're saved for the moment

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

you're smaller than my wife imagined
surprised you were human

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, yeah, "someone great" is my favourite part from that Nike thing and as a real song it's just great. love the synth swiggle that sounds like a fingernail on nylon. and glockenspiel!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

too man of the songs make me cringe. North American Scum and New york I love you? jesus.. come on. they are just a bit much

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

you're smaller than my wife imagined
surprised you were human

-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), January 9th, 2007 10:39 PM. (jed) (later)

yeah that's exactly where the theory comes from.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

That is the weirdest pronunciation of "human" I've ever heard. Maybe James Murphy will return to ILM to clear this up for us.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

"surprised you were human" could refer to any death though, not necessarily that of an unborn child

i'd figured it was about the death of a father or someone like that, but maybe i'm just projecting. never caught that line about "smaller than my wife imagined" though. my grandfather just passed away last week and, morbid as it may be, my dad said in his last moments he was shrivelled beyond recognition. dunno if it could be a reference to something like that though

― lukeROCK (lukeROCK), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really, really enjoying this. "North American Scum" may be "a bit much" but it's great fun - I've only played "New York I Love You" once though, but that's because I rarely seem to get past "Someone Great" and "All My Friends", which I think are the two best things LCD have done. I favour the latter over the former though. The first time I got through to the title track was after about five listens to "All My Friends" and the lyrics to the title track, cheesy as they may be, totally described how "All My Friends" made me feel, which was very, very odd. After a week or so I prefer this to the debut, but we'll see.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Any seen the album art to this yet?

― Justin Baum (prosume), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.soundofsilver.org/cutenews/data/upimages/100_5215.JPG

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

My mom just heard me playing "New York, I Love You" and asked if it was Kermit.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

'get innocuous' is amazing!

the rest of it is very much not.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like 'Get Innocuous', 'Someone Great' (favourite) and the title track.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

'someone great' seems to try a bit too hard to be a classic big heart-tugging ballad.

oh i like 'us v them' when it finally breaks into the voal chant, too. i also think i'll probably love 'all my friends' on drugs but currently it's a bit too killersesque for me.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

really not feeling james murphy's vocals in general though.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, I was about to say that Get Innocuous is tremendous. Something about James Murphy's voice continues to put me off LCD Soundsystem as a whole. Still sounding like Wimpy from Popeye after all these years. Such a frustratingly inconsistent band.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

they are a consistently great singles band and a consistently awful albums band!

murphy's voice never used to put me off on 'losing my edge', 'beat connection', 'yeah' et al, but it just tiresome and overdone now.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

'someone great' seems to try a bit too hard to be a classic big heart-tugging ballad.

'ballads' at a sexy house tempo with ominous throbbing synths are good by me. i already loved it from '45:33' tho.

i wanted this to be more electronic/dancey generally.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it is a heart-tugging ballad. whether it's trying hard to be one or not is moot.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

"get innocuous" is great because its literally impossible for a song to be bad if it has loud scary robot-sounding vocals in it, as in: "WHEN ONCE YOU HAVE HAVE BELIEVED IT: NOW YOU SEE IT'S SUCKING YOU IN." i think its in the constitution or something.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Disappointed in this, too cheesy, esp. the vocals (he can't really sing can he). Although I didn't really care for the last album -- why doesn't he just stick to shit-hot singles? Still pumped for upcoming remixes/re-edits, but they better melt my face off!

― Gavin (Gavin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

After a few listens this album is exactly as good as its predecessor: marvelous tunes ("Someone Great," "Get Innocuous," "All My Friends") and embarrassing vocals ("Time to Get Away") and one weird Phil Oakey imitation (the title track).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

On first listen I thought All My Friends sounded too much like U2, but I've kind of got used to it now.

I like Someone Great & Get Innocuous, and Us v Them is OK, but the rest of it I don't really need to hear again.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000M3452Y.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V45190135_.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 4 February 2007 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

i like this record! it is much better than the first, which i enjoyed as well.

― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Sunday, 4 February 2007 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is one of those albums that sags in the middle. Starts out great, gets boring, picks up again. Their debut had more variety. Here, they threaten to become merely formulaic.

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

liking both the 'north american scum' remixes.

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

what horrible lyrics

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sometimes it almost becomes self parody, like he's just playing to whatever he expects his audience wants to hear. He ought to stick his neck out a bit more, I think.

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

upon first listen, the kris menace remix is ok, the onastic dub is better. gonna try out that st. laurent south philly scum mix soon.

was initially mildly bored with bits of the album, but now liking pretty much all of it.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

that album cover is as shitty as the shitty songs on this shitty album

― siobh (siobh), Monday, 5 February 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I like shitty stuff then.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 5 February 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

What is on that cover anyway? Some kind of plane reactor covered in foil, no?

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think it's a jet engine covered in aluminum foil.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Someone Great is easily the standout track. Great song on a pretty good album. Although, as much as I really do like this record, it's a little hard to make an entire album of this sort of pop music and NOT have it sound at least a bit repetitive.

So, the faults I can find with this record are more or less just faults with the chosen genre. Other than that, I think it's great.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

DANCE MUSIC??? REPETITIVE?!?! SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!

― max (maxreax), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

"someone great" is so utterly, uh, great it hurts.

it's the only song from the album i've heard.

i really hope i haven't fucked this up by listening to the standout track first and giving myself unrealistically high expectations.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

kris menace mix? eh ...

it's the same kris menace as always. vulture friendly.

but at least he took out the vocal track. yuck. given that it was the one track that stood out as ... "HUH?!!!" ... i figured that indie kids would be in line waiting for remixes.

anyway. the rest of this record is good, so i can't complain ...

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGPdYeDuYg

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I agree about Someone Great. It's such a cool song. North American Scum reminds me of Funky Cold Medina too much. Or is that the point?

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

the 'onastic' dub of the single is my fave DFA thing for a good while. really does sound like a post-punky take on 'dump truck' by cobblestone jazz. (yes i know, just go with it.)

― haitch, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Picked it up and heard it for the first time yesterday.

"Someone Great" WOULD be the best song without that fucking grating typical-indie-rock xylophone sounding thing mimicing the vocal lines. That ruins the song for me.

I REALLY love "Get Innocuous," "All My Friends," and "Sound of Silver." Great tracks. Rest of album is good to so-so. Much of it has a late-70s Bowie vibe to me .

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

xylophone sounding thing mimicing the vocal lines

I think it's the other way round, the version on that Nike thing was just the xylophone, he sang over it for the album.

― StanM, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

So you know for sure it's so-so after one listen? You rule.

(I had no opinion either way for my first two listens and absolutely loved it after five.)

― StanM, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Regardless, it would be a much better song without it. The very reason I can't get into Arcade Fire and so many of those other new indie bands is that whole xylophone "tinkle-y" sound, if you know what I mean. I don't know how to better describe it. But I never said I only listened to it one time. I've been listening to it pretty regularly since I picked it up yesterday (along with the new Big Business, which completely rules).

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

StanM OTM. This has only gotten better as I listen to it more. I nearly dismissed it completely after my first listen, now I'm very glad I didn't.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

You're right though, that metallic tinkle-y sound took some getting used to on that Nike track as well.
(xpost)

― StanM, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Picked it up and heard it for the first time yesterday.

Zuh?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

still haven't heard this...lots of strong praise for it.

having said that every time I read some indie saying "just got lcd soundsystem, unusual for me to buy a dance record, but this is great!" a small part of me dies inside and I think I probably won't allow myself to enjoy this...

― Ronan, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Can't get into it. I think it's his voice.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's my non-dance-music-oriented ears, but I can't get into most of this. Maybe it's the vocals - the disjunct between the Gabriel croon on "Get Innocuous" vs., uh, the rest - maybe it's the lyrics, maybe it's the music, I'm just not sure. I do know that I liked the last one better,

― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

ditto to ronan
marcello otm

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

it's a rock record you chuckleheads

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's also wonderful

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like this loads more than first one, pretty much every track is great except Watch The Tapes. It seems to work better as a dance record than most indie-dance records because unlike most indie-dance types James Murphy realises it's about build rather than just repeating the good bit again and again.

I've got over the vocals thing now. All My Friends is fantastic - so New Order!

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

"a rock record"...dare I listen to it???

― Ronan, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also the production is fantastic, really shiny and chunky and hard and smooth all at the same time. If that makes sense.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like this loads more than first one

this being quite the backhanded compliment!

why would a band who make so many terrific dance singles even want to make a "rock record"?

(i do like 'get innocuous' a lot)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone think the intro and I guess bassline, in "North American Scum" sounds a little like 2Unlimited's "No Limits".

― Ronan, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'd like it a lot better if it did

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'll second Matt DC on the production - fabulously well-mixed and mastered too, proper use of space and dynamic movement. Gets better and better and better as you turn the volume up.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

A rock record, like "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's No Limits plus My Sharona ;)

Actually his rockier tracks are kind of interesting in that unlike most rock bands these days there's no real attempt to make them sound live in the slightest. They sound so obviously layered and constructed in the same way as Get Innocuous et al.

(Lex I'm surprised you don't like the title track, or do you?)

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this is great, pretty much

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I saw LCD at Cargo in London a couple of weeks ago and they were amazing. Totally do the record justice.

And their cover of Paperclip People's Throw is insane.

― What is wrong with your face?, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

(Lex I'm surprised you don't like the title track, or do you?)

haven't listened to any of it apart from 'get innocuous' since the first disappointing run-through. the only other one which didn't make me curl my lip in disdain was 'someone great' i think, though i don't particularly like that even, it tries ever so hard to tug on the heartstrings and consequently doesn't manage to

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Love the title track and 'Get Innocuous'. 'Someone Great' is ok, but it had much more impact on 45:33. 'New York I love you..' gave me severe Grandaddy flashbacks.

I'm a bit dissapointed that there isn't more 45:33 material on the album. I'd kill for a full version of the track that immediately precedes 'Someone Great'.

― jng, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

for me it's like this

Someone Great >>> All My Friends >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> most of the rest of it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> North American Scum >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NY I Love You (usually turn it off before this comes on)

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

replace "n.a.s." with "sound of silver" for me in that equation

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

also "new york i love" sounds like murphy is singing as zach braff in character from scrubs

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I can't not CRINGE at a bunch of the lyrics, despite my own comedic lengths to try to justify them on his behalf. The 'mimes' thing will haunt this album for me.

Interesting call on the Grandaddy... he breaks into some kind of Kermit the Frog thing on that song a couple of times. It's pretty weird.

I think I'll go back to 45'33" more often than this.

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

it tries ever so hard to tug on the heartstrings and consequently doesn't manage to

Dude it manages that with the bass synth alone.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

my ambivalence to n.a.scum is mainly because of the lyrics, it definitely rocks pretty hard

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

matt dc otm

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

i like north american scum even MORE after reading this thread

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

in fact i think it might be my anthem

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

It isn't called North American Bald Fat Scum.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

zing!

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

my identification with james murphy really isn't so shocking

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

"pudgy cranks hate foreigners, think the majority of human endeavor sucks"

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

north american scum sounds exactly like a rip off of "homosapien" by pete shelley

― tornup_andhurt, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Which rip off of "Homosapien"?

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/news/lcd-soundsystem/27186

― pisces, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

north american scum sounds exactly like a rip off of "homosapien" by pete shelley

I dunno about "rip-off" but before I read your post I was about to replace "My Sharona" with "Homosapian" in Matt DC's equation.

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

north american scum sounds exactly like a rip off of "homosapien" by pete shelley

i guess it gets away with it by dint of being about 100X better.

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

whaaaat

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone seen that "I like to live on the edge-uh" commercial? Is that a really inept attempt at copying LCD Soundsystem?

― Dominique, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

i guess it gets away with it by dint of being about 100X better.

er, no it's not!

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had a chance to listen to this properly yet but instantly Someone Great and All My Friends jump out at me. They're both fantastic.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

"I like to live on the edge-uh"

http://i11.tinypic.com/29glc9w.jpg

?

― StanM, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh, but it is!

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2006/02/02/edge-u2.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

i like 'north american scum' but it is a bit of a novelty song that wears off after repeated listens, wheras i've been listening to (and enjoying) 'homosapien' for 25+ years.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bought this today...

Sounds like James Murphy is "single handedly spearheading the Heaven 17 revival".

― Sum Fitch, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

homosapien wins. landslide.

north american song is easily the weakest track on that LCD record.

― Cameron Octigan, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that Ford Edge commercial is either copying Bodyrocker - "I Like the Way You Move" or they used another song by them or even hired them to create it - it's terrible.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bodyrocker should be plural I guess

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

My friend described this as a dance record which I don't understand at all (i.e. ditto to Ronan), it just seems like endless rockish grooves with non-committal "cool" rambling on top. The whole thing sounds very uptight. I like "All My Friends" though, it's pretty.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

sitmonster OTM.

unofficial SOS remix project

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i havent listened to any of this yet, but hope to tonight. i'm a little weary.

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

loving this. 'sound of silver' the track is fantastic.

it's a rock record with good grooves! ronan you should give it a listen i reckon.

― haitch, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

one of my favorite albums of '07 thus far

― stephen, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

save me from the remixes, official or otherwise.

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I really like Hippie Priest Bum-Out, the b-side to the 7".

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

the "Us Vs. Them" remix in that thing is good but I haven't and won't bother w/the rest of it. the album itself is wonderful. "UVT" is actually my favorite track.

― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

that whole middle section ('someone great' > 'all my friends' > 'us v them') is ace. whereas the first record went a bit saggy in the middle after a good start.

― haitch, Thursday, 22 March 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

"North American Scum" sounds too much like an LCD Soundsystem single to be a good LCD Soundsystem single, and "NYILYBYBMD" is a bit extra, but beyond that, pretty good.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think "North American Scum"sounds a bit like "Funky Cold Medina". Which makes me sad.

― Drooone, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Someone Great" is better than I remember from first listening.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Watch the Tapes" yet. Except for the lyrics, that's my favorite song on here (I love "Someone Great" but vastly prefer the instrumental version).

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm ready and waiting for James and co. to roll out the LCD Unlimited Orchestra version of this record. He could call it "Dubs of Gold". The Onastic Dub of North American Scum hits the sweet spot for me, I hope more of the official remixes explore this sort of territory.

― JefferyMac, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Best album of 2007 so far, I'm saying, even if 'North American Scum' does sound like 'Funky Cold Medina'. Or because.

'All My Friends' rocks my world, but gently.

― Matthew H, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

A few songs feel like he's trying desperately to write "another 'Losing My Edge'"

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

this is really good

― am0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Watch the Tapes is such a Fall song
although I guess m.e.s. would never go "a-woo-hoo"

― dmr, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i really really don't get it. between this and the battles and the marnie stern i think i have to officially resign from the hivemind.

― jergincito, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

battles are hivemind now? oh god.

i tried listening to this again at lunchtime. title track is so boring, the words to 'someone great' are terrible and more pertinently really clunky, feelings expressed heavy-handedly and out of sync with the music, which isn't good enough to overlook them anyway. 'us v them' is unspeakably bad - A few songs feel like he's trying desperately to write "another 'Losing My Edge'"
otm. god it's all so UNEXCITING apart from 'get innocuous' which is genuinely solid gold.

i also really really like 'new york i love you'! until it explodes and turns into a lesser aimee mann effort.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Battles album is marvellous as well. The first half at any rate.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hivemind needs an '07 census, I feel well out of sync, especially in the dahnce department...

― fandango, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Battles album is marvellous as well. The first half at any rate.

et tu brutus

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Marnie Stern record > Battles record > Panda Bear record > LCDS record

LCDS record isn't bad. Actually, none of these are bad, tho arguably none are great either. I think MS and Battles stand the best chance of me pulling them out in a year, and are certainly the most exciting for me to hear now.

― Dominique, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually going to give that Panda Bear thing a try, never really 'got' Animal Collective, the vocals and the lyrics (which make me CRINGE, even more that Devandra/Newsom forced-feeling weirdness) are such a powerful turn-off for me... but I'm hearing PP may be more accessible like that...

― fandango, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Re: 'Someone Great', feelings expressed heavy-handedly and out of sync with the music

IMO, the heavy-handedness and dissonance suit the idea of the singer not being able to express grief adequately, and... erm...

Ok, it's clunky. Quite pretty, though.

― Matthew H, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

There's a "Someone Great" instrumental? I think this whole record would be far better without vocals, and remixed by maybe Bizarre Inc.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Someone Great beat is on 45:33

― dmr, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hands off "North American Scum", greatest track here.

― zeus, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

"All My Friends," I realized, = "Ceremony" more or less--see especially the little percussion flourish at the end...

― Douglas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

the piano on "all my friends" always makes me think of 'us millie' by theoretical girls.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

ha i agree with spencer!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

'all my friends' is the next single.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

i wish more songs were like "get innocuous" I much prefer his vocals in this styling rather this his ironic musings...which really wear thin after a few listens.

I never really cared if daft punk was playing in his basement but I liked the beat.

― tornup_andhurt, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

ok "get innocuos" is the only thing worth listening to on that unnofficial remix project. the rest is godawful.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

LOL. Nice ILM style backlash. You know this album will be on a lot of top 10s.

Here's my contribution:
I agree--I don't get Panda Bear either (or Animal Collective). I'd rather listen to Pet Sounds.

― DeeDee, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

I forget sometimes that people see ILM as this bastion of snarky contrarianism.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it seems like most people here like the album, their just pointing out flaws in one or two songs.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

"they're", rather.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

i fucking love this album. it is wonderful. if i have to quibble - hey, everyone else is doing it - i don't like "new york ..." as much as everything else and therefore it doesn't end the album (for me) on a high, but ... hey, subjectivity.

i don't hear "ceremony" in "all my friends", but i hear a lot more eno-ism in the entire thing. it's funny and warm and uptight, and i love that. in a year where there's been a LOT of grimly-friendly music thus far, this is a standout.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

All My Friends = Kein Trink Wasser + Temptation

― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

you're spot on!

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Thing it reminds me most of, in the vocals and some of the themes of the record, is The Modern Lovers album.Very specifically in a couple of places.

I think I prefer 45.33.

― bidfurd, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

"someone great" is the best and great track here - the main beat-hook and the serious "new order" style singing is fatastic. i like it better than his mark e .smith ironic style singing.
still,only started listening to it couple of days ago

― Zeno, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

for me lcd soundsystem without thr funk and fall influence are the best.but i guess im on the minority here.

― Zeno, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's the sort of record almost everyone can find at least one good track to match his taste.
rare.
the fall - tracks 3,7
funk - 2,6
the walkmen - 5
new order - 4
tv on the radio - 8
singer/songwriter balld - 9
chemical brothers and daft punk - all over.

― Zeno, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

just read his village voice piece. definitely made me like him less. and the writer seemed to love/jizz over ever cocky comment he made. ending with a "sold out as fuck" comment in regards to his 2 evenings at bowery. Cock waving is fun.

― tornup_andhurt, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah, it's definitely best to avoid any and all interviews with Murphy - especially in the press tour for this album. From the ridiculous soundbites (Ready to get your mind blown, poseur? "I used to take ecstasy and listen to The Stooges..."; "Ugh, Pony was just another unnecessary band...") to the disingenuous claims that Sound of Silver is really a "pop" album, which is ridiculous.

― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

he claimed he was the best live band out there. I sort of had this nice image of him just being a humble shlub with a cute dog who was excited about being where he was instead of a cocky asshole. Oh well.

― tornup_andhurt, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

i would imagine he'd be pretty good live tho

― Mr. Que, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

also, it also says in the article, he spent many years struggling with music so i think his bravado is well earned.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

earned or not, it's not attractive, but that's aside the point. he's good at what he does, it's true

― tornup_andhurt, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

"attractive"

i like my musicians to have well earned confidence

― Mr. Que, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

he seems to be pretty genuinely excited to be where he is.

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

also why do people care if musicians come across cocky in interviews? as if that means anything.

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, am I not allowed to think it's lame

not endearing
like I said I still like the music, but it holds up a small barrier
doesn't make me want to be a "big" fan as opposed to a casual fan

― tornup_andhurt, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them live in Brussels last weekend, they were FAN-TAS-TIC. It was great, the drummer looks like he belongs at a Grateful Dead concert and the whole thing has this weirdly hippy groove-tastic vibe that was really unexpected. The chick is great as well, especially during North American Scum, and Movement was brilliant. As soon as it started I got really excited and when it goes it Fucking Goes. And that cowbell on Yeah! Oh Man....

― I know, right?, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, i saw them at a triptych gig in glasgow a couple of years back and they were MIND-FUCKING-BLOWING; awesome live band, probably in my top 10. i couldn't make the show a week ago and i'm bust about that.

i find murphy's shtick amusing. i'm surprised nobody's made more of the comments he made in the guardian about 45:33 being a total con and how he's never been running in his life ... he's a funny guy who obviously cares deeply about what people think, so tries to mask his insecurity with a slightly geeky bravado, which only makes him seem more insecure.

and his music is fuckin' great.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

grim speaks the truth.
i caught them at glastonbury. my body ached and was fed up by time they came on (late sunday) and i have never been so 'woken up' by a band.
i love the whole placing the drums at the forefront of the stage layout.
brilliant live act.

― mark e, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

i love the whole placing the drums at the forefront of the stage layout.

yes - that and the fact that if any one band member isn't otherwise occupied, they busy themselves with some kind of percussion.

GOD DAMN I WISH I'D GONE TO SEE THEM LAST WEEK. or two weeks ago, come to think of it. however, it was not to be. fuckery.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

this is a great album

― latebloomer, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

it was good but i wouldn't be too concerned about missing it, it was just a good gig, when i saw them at optimo that WAS something really special. i guess i was never going to be blown away the way i was on that night in that small sweaty glasgow basement.

― jed_, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

it IS a great album isn't it? i thought the first album ("movement" aside) was totally meh.

― jed_, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

did they do the joy division cover ("no love lost", i think) stan mentioned somewhere? if not, i'll just about be able to live with having missed it :)

seeing them at optimo would have been awesome, yes. perfect symbiosis.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

roll on ILX 2.1 with added xposts.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

yes - that and the fact that if any one band member isn't otherwise occupied, they busy themselves with some kind of percussion.

Neu HORDE

― Andy K, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't do "no love lost" but they did do their cover of paperclip people's "throw".

actually the kids went wild at the gig and the people i was with loved it, i just felt locked out of it for some reason. everyone sang along with every word in spite of the fact the album wasn't even out yet - i wonder how that could have happened...

― jed_, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

...and i guess that has something to do with the fact the album debuted at number 20-something in the UK charts. it should have been a shoo in for the top ten.

― jed_, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

i held off and bought it! i did d/l "someone great" but waited patiently for the real thing to come out, then bought it the second it appeared.

i like buying music, i've decided :)

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Neu HORDE

Beautiful.

To my mind there's an amusing parallel between LCD and Mr. Timberlake, in that both are, I think, vehicles for a lot of critical ink (well, bytes maybe) employed in the service of defending/drawing up/justifying a modern kind of 'perfect pop' while at the same time both artists are extremely self-consciously aware of this particular position they have and employ/play with it in various ways [quite obviously the latter has a much higher public profile to do so but Jams M has made some intriguing inroads]. Whether or not this kind of geeky bravado works is up to the beholder.

As I was muttering to friends elsewhere one of these days I'll investigate LCD beyond the singles (which I enjoy v. much) and also catch them live -- they did play at ArthurFest in 2005 but frankly the weather was too goddamn hot to see them on the main stage so I hung around comfortably in the one stage area where they had a/c. Obviously not the band's fault but if they get everyone going that well then I don't want to have to run the risk of passing out in the heat as well (I've been there and it ain't pretty).

It's kinda interesting that the one band I can think of in my experience seeing shows who got a crowd going perfectly throughout were the New Fast Automatic Daffodils, who really do seem more and more to be the lost link between early eighties days and what LCD do in part if not in the whole. I'll always treasure the one New FADs show I saw -- only time ever in LA where the whole crowd was dancing start to stop.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

LCD/the new FADS?! hmm. yes, i hear ya, ned.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

It all goes back to Quango Quango. Or does it?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! The New FADs moment of critical acceptance had to be around the corner.

I saw them at the Astoria the other night as well, and it was fantastic, much better than when I saw them at Egg (in 2003, maybe), at about 4 in the morning when they only had five songs and the crowd were too cool to dance (very Beat Connection, that! "And nobody's coming undone Everybody here is afraid of fun")

I found his references to the kids, to having parties till the cops busted them up and your parents got mad and so on deeply weird for a 36-year-old man until i heard Sound of Silver, which kind of explains everything.

Generally, the influences are perhaps worn too much on their sleeve, which is good and bad, as the lesser tracks are always enjoyable as pastiche, but it'sonly the few where the songwriting is good enough that they transcend those influences. It always SOUNDS great, anyway.

So will they release Somone Great as a single, with the instrumental? We need it!

And will they do anything else with the bits of 45:33?

― Jamie T Smith, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

It all goes back to Quango Quango. Or does it?

if it does, it goes back and then does it all over again in a less irritating way :)

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! The New FADs moment of critical acceptance had to be around the corner.

I've always flown the flag, dammit! Can't help it if it took the rest of the world time to catch up with me!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

if it does, it goes back and then does it all over again in a less irritating way :)

Now this I won't argue against. We are all ACR now.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I read an interview with the DFA where they said were supposed to work with Britney Spears (in a kind of half-assed, she arrived at the studio in a Limo and they didn't really know what to do with her because apparently working with them is a very organic process yadda yadda yadda). Don't know how exactly but this seems kind of relevant to what you were saying Ned about Justin/LCD. But also, HOW COOL WOULD IT HAVE BEEN! I read this around the time of her greatest hits I think so it probably was an idea for that or In Da Zone (it's a bit hazey in my memory) but God. I would pay for the studio time just to hear this.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

...let's just say that there was a very interesting thread about that very recording here in ILM.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

its on slsk and other places this ere britney dfa thing. its almost exactly what you'd expect.

― pisces, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Those FUCKERS, They claimed that nothing ever actually materialized. Why was I not informed that this thing is incredibly easy to find. I never even looked. Can't find the ILM thread though.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Unless this isn't it? Gah.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

That cowbell is very familiar.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Something Great" reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOhMFug3Jw

― Steve Shasta, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, the best bits of this album:

1) The last minute of 'Get Innocuous'
2) The oscillating synth-pulse in 'Someone Great'. It achieves the perfect, slightly out-of-tune, wide-as-the-sky tone to underlay this bolt of electronic melancholia.
3) 'All My Friends', which does the 7-minute build better than anyone, and is still a bit too short when it finishes.
4) Some bits of the title-track are kinda neat.
5) I really like the guitar in 'New York...'!

― unfished business, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh! Take me off your mailing list..."

I like that bit. In fact I quite the track as a whole but I wish people would cease and desist from ending upbeat albums with downbeat tracks.

― ledge, Sunday, 25 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I was just recently noticing the awesomeness of the guitar in "New York".

― The Reverend, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

The best bit is obviously the first five seconds of Watch the Tapes. And then the rest of Watch the tapes. That chick is brilliant.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this interview on Pitchfork was particularly interesting:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/41173-guest-list-lcd-soundsystem

I was delighted to hear him mention hearing Fleetwood Mac's Sara for the first time since he was a kid, I did the same thing in like 2001 and was equally astounded at the brilliance, even production-wise. Fantastic song.

He also mentioned the first Modern English album "Mesh & Lace" - a long time fave of mine, and one I found myself pulling out every year despite never being able to remember how the songs went afterward. He was right to say that it was scarier than Joy Division, though, I think that's accurate.

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway I'm playing Sound of Silver right now and I'm drunk and I just don't care. The bad songs haven't come up yet, it's only the good ones so far. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

NORTH AMERICAN SCUM RULEZ

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Us Vs. Them" makes me feel like someone kicked me and I found I was on the floor because John Travolta kicked me to the floor where the disco lights flash on and off in the Saturday Night Fever and I was on the floor with the lights flashing but I couldn't get up. My disco arse had been canned.

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

And John Travolta kept doing those dance moves over and over faster and faster but I couldn't get up.

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

SOUND OF SILVER TALK TO ME MAKES YOU WANT TO FEEL LIKE A TEENAGER
UNTIL YOU REMEMBER THE FEELINGS OF
A REAL LIFE EMOTIONAL TEENAGER
THEN YOU THINK AGAIN SOUND OF SILVER TALK TO ME, MAKES YOU WANT TO FEEL LIKE A TEENAGER...

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Bimble, Max. Max, Bimble.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 April 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know! I have a brother!

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

he claimed he was the best live band out there. I sort of had this nice image of him just being a humble shlub with a cute dog who was excited about being where he was instead of a cocky asshole. Oh well.

-- tornup_andhurt, Friday, March 23, 2007 8:04 AM (1 week ago)

having read the whole transcript of j murphy's village voice interview, and taking his comment about "best live band out there" in the context of the entire interview, i think it's pretty clear that murphy's not saying his show is totally mind-blowing in any sense or fashion...just that 95 percent of live bands today don't really BRING THE NOIZE in the sense of getting up there on stage and attempting to work the entire fucking crowd into a single creature that moves, grooves, sweats, dances, grinds, cheers, and enjoys the show TOGETHER...and personally, having seen murphy/lcdsst on tour supporting his first record twice in 2004 (if i recall correctly), i have to agree with the man -- the touring "version" of lcdsst is certainly not the tightest live act out there, but that's beside the point because both times i saw them, j murphy et al. gave absolutely 110 percent on stage in trying their damndest to ensure that every fucking person there at the show was dancing and having a fucking BLAST -- and in that sense, the whole idea that these fucking "hipsters" at "shows" ought to uncross their skinny arms, stop socializing and drinkin their pabst, and rip a seam in their goddamn cigarette leg jeans while dancing their ASSES off at a live show...........i think murphy is absolutely correct that *IN THAT SENSE*, lcd is probably at least *one* of the best live acts around today

personally, i think this is true for the rapture as well...the best two shows i saw in 2004 in the sense of simply letting loose, drinking, dancing, and having fucking FUN were lcd soundsystem and the rapture..........daaaaammn :)

― stephen, Sunday, 1 April 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

bimble otm

― max, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahah you know it bro

I might even go and see LCD Soundsystem again when they come here. I wasn't going to go cause I was so disappointed last time, but what the hell.

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh do, it's all a million times better with a sweaty fat guy doin' all the singin'. And I say that with total sincerity!!!

― I know, right?, Sunday, 1 April 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well my problem in the past wasn't that he was a sweaty fat guy but that he was so drunk as to make the whole thing...he was drunker than he should have been to do a show, I think. Just my opinion. But I have bought a ticket now. So I hope you're all happy.

― Bimble, Sunday, 1 April 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

ned OTM about NewFADS! been rediscovering them over the past year and a half, at first digging out what little bits and pieces i had and then tracking down the rest. Filed in the clearance section. :)

as for JT, check the DFA mix of "My Love" for a glimpse of what might have been. Might be their best ever remix, to me.

― BATTAGS, Monday, 2 April 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

He's kinda cute in that Voice picture. I'd make out with him.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like Daniel Bedingfield.

― danzig, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

New FADS were pretty cool in their own way...

― Bimble, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not the best quality, but this is a short bit of that Joy Division cover at the Bowery Ballroom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gje6z9Wdnv0

― StanM, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

The best thing about "Get Innocuous" is that it is essentially "Losing My Edge" until it gets that little riff that sounds like "The Robots" and you're all SHIT SON THIS IS NEWWWWWW HOLLA!!!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I read AIM too.

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

But what if you start thinking you're ACTUALLY hearing David Bowie when "Get Innoculous" is playing? What happenz then?

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Time To Get Away" kicks me in the arse, in the best way. Yeah, is that my fave track on this damn thing after all?

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mark E. Fuckin' Smith would be proud of the last part of that song. I feel confident in this.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually my least fave. Murphy kind of makes a nuisance of himself with the vocals and the groove ain't really that tight.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

But really, that's just quibbling. This album is fucking epic.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

really?

― lfam, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Err, I guess "epic" could be taken in multiple ways. I meant as it the "milestone" sense, rather than in the "long" sense or the "cinematic" sense.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

It sure beats the crap out of all the other shite I keep reading on this board is supposed to be so good this year: Panda Bear, Battles, Andrew Bird, Deerhoof, Patrick Wolf, The Field, Field Music, Arcade Fire...I'm freaking fed up with all of this kind of crap. No it isn't BAD music, it's just so mediocre it wastes my time. Is it just that I'm too old now in my thirties? And people say this is the "hip" music to listen to now. Give me a break. It's just people acting like no music happened before the 90's. So blissful in their ignorance! It's either "look at me! I'm the greatest newest thing to happen to rock and roll ever and you're going to love me as a foregone conclusion" or it's sappy ass halfhearted indie wimpie emo garbage that thinks it's actually meaningful.

I heard The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" on the radio the other day and wondered what the hell went wrong to new music, and how and where.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

End of rant.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

I heard Miami Sound Machine on the radio tonight and wondered what the hell went wrong to new music, and how and where.

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

To my mind there's an amusing parallel between LCD and Mr. Timberlake

As interesting as LCD Soundsystem is, Jams Murphy is no JT. Really.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but he's the next best thing.

Actually, Ned's probably onto something.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

arcade fire mediocre?

fuck off mate

― wesley useche, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, mediocre is way too fucking kind!

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

It sure beats the crap out of all the other shite I keep reading on this board is supposed to be so good this year: Panda Bear, Battles, Andrew Bird, Deerhoof, Patrick Wolf, The Field, Field Music, Arcade Fire...I'm freaking fed up with all of this kind of crap. No it isn't BAD music, it's just so mediocre it wastes my time.

haha i completely agree but it's not cos you're old it's cos ilm hivemind has shit taste these days. lots of that is actively awful, not even mediocre! and i've actually bothered to check out all of those acts except andrew bird (who he? no don't bother telling me) and each time it's been like :oooooo (except the field who are good but the album is not)

funny thing is i'd put sound of silver right in there with them.

2007 is still an amazing year for music so far though...just not any of that shit.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

I thoroughly disagree.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 14 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bimble, have a listen to the Marnie Stern album

p.s. I kind of sympathise

p.p.s "these days" lol

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I tried a couple Marnie Stern tracks too, to no avail. But at least I'm not giving up, I've got a whole list of new music here I've made for myself to try and I'm just going to keep going.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think (unlike others) the Marnie Stern works better over an album... then again "Grapefruit" is pretty concise and I'd guess if there's nothing there, yeah maybe move on (though the album is bit more complex & involved than that, not 'just' a rock-out).

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

give "The Drift" another go! ;-)

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

fandango it's so lovely and sunny outside, you can't suggest the drift to anyone!

i couldn't get into marnie stern either :(

― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

you know she's a girl right?

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

lex, what music do you think is good lol

― JW, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://ragrap.com/celebrities/paris-hilton-drunk-driving.jpg

― am0n, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/

― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Panda Bear, Battles, Andrew Bird, Deerhoof, Patrick Wolf, The Field, Field Music, Arcade Fire...

for the most part I agree there's not much exciting there. but deerhoof...?! how can sentient beings not love deerhoof? the new album is just so joyous and visceral and beguiling and packed with ideas. and now that summer has arrived early it's making even more sense.

― m the g, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

That Panda Bear record is the most singularly annoying thing I've ever heard in my life.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

All the similar artists I have with the lex are girls, or have a girl in them

― o-ess, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

dj harvey has remixed 'all my friends' for the upcoming single release.

― haitch, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose when I said "epic", I meant "epochal". Yeah.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

You damn well know this is one of if not the best albums of the year.

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Which is grammatically incorrect, but still...

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

NORTH AMERICAN SCUM

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

But when the vocal goes real falsetto in that, there's someone else that it's always reminded me of but I've never figured out who it is he reminds me of. That really bugs me.

Anyone know who I mean? Let me think about it some more...

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

New York's the greatest if you get someone to pay the rent/ wahoo! /north america/it's the furthest you can live from the government/

that's it, what other artist does the first part of that phrase as sung by him remind me of? Curtis Mayfield? Or someone else?

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's a lazy guess. It's not Mayfield, it's something else. Let me think about it for awhile.

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

jesus let the man think!

― glen burnie, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

and all the kids all the kids that want to make the scene
here in north america
when our young kids get to read it in your magazines
(we don't have those)
so where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love tonight?
but there's no love man there's no love and the kids are uptight
so throw a party till the cops come in and bust it up
let's go north americans!!!!!!!!!!!!

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex is like some new sock puppet that someone made because Geir got boring.

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4719/compatmr9.gif

― badg, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is it too much of a long shot to compare the "time has come" intro on us vs them to beds are burning by midnight oil?

― badg, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

what's us vs them?

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

A song on the new LCD soundsystem album "Sound of Silver"

― badg, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

smiley-face wink

― badg, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

dj harvey has remixed 'all my friends' for the upcoming single release.
-- haitch, Saturday, April 14, 2007 7:48 PM (Yesterday)

rub'n'tug's mix of "too much love" = my #1 track from last year, i think

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that was great.

― haitch, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks JW! Man I love you guys. ILX rules.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to Get Innocuous on headphones, it will really f**k with your head. You'll think you're hearing noises from outside and shit. But really it just means you're a disco mama.

And something in me keeps wanting to spell it "innoculous"

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I still say Watch The Tapes is major weak link of this whole album, though.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

LCD Soundsystem Performing "North American Scum" on David Letterman 4/11/07:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG5oyPLLkkM

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

God, if they do that Joy Division cover "No Love Lost" when I see them, I will probably have an aneurysm. I think that might just be my fave JD song ever.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Re "Watch The Tapes": No no no, WRONG! 10 reasons:

1. Call

2. Response

3. The drums under the call and response

4. It makes me want to dance around and clap my hands (Actually, most of the album does that, so "Watch The Tapes" should consider itself special in that regard)

5. "We're all high high-high high high on lemon sips"

6. The "ah-OOOOOOOO" wolf-howls. Wolf-howls, dude.

7. "It's not getting better, no it's not getting better, it's just getting old"

8. The "a-WOO-HOO" which makes me think of "Don't Bring Me Down" and therefore incredibly happy

9. The bridge that tricks me into thinking we've quickly segued into another song until the vocals come back in and remind me that no we haven't

10. "We're all high high-high high high on WIIIIIGLLLLIIIIN' HIIIPS"

― The Reverend, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

so "Watch The Tapes" shouldn't consider itself special

― The Reverend, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

fixing my mistake and now I've confused the whole message

Blah.

― The Reverend, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Okay well I do like the "lemon sips" lyric, I'll give you that

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

This thread makes Sick Mouthy sad.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 16 April 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I just figured it out, what that falsetto part in North American Scum reminds me of. Black Francis' vocals with The Pixies, something on the first EP by the Pixies. I feel so much better now that I figured that out.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Go outside dude.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Reverend OTM re: #7 and #9. It's still my least favourite track on the album by some distance.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have pegged you as the sort to make rude comments here, Mouthy.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to Get Innocuous on headphones, it will really f**k with your head. You'll think you're hearing noises from outside and shit. But really it just means you're a disco mama.

It does! I thought somebody was stuck in the lift.

― o-ess, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not being rude, dude, you're just sounding a little intense!

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

That could totally be an LCD Soundsystem lyric.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha

bimble i think you need a blog.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mis/313594825.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah. SO Classic, catsup!

I just bought the CD single of North American Scum and was surprised to find that directly on the CD itself is a sticker saying "Made In England". This scores major bonus points for me since a good 80% of my record collection pre-1993 featured similar stickers. I feel right at home.

― Bimble, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not kidding! It's the same shape as those old stickers and everything. It's just the same. And upside down. But who cares.

― Bimble, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Where the DJ gigs on his phone"

― Bimble, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

You may remember us alerting you to the fact that the single release of LCD Soundsystem's 'All My Friends' would be backed with a remix by disco kingpin DJ Harvey. Well, that's not all there is - James Murphy and EMI seem to have got all their friends on board to have a go. In addition to Harvey's wonky edit, there's a cover (a fucking cover) of 'All My Friends' by former Velvet Undergrounder John Cale, another cover by (get this) Franz Ferdinand (produced by Erol Alkan), and an LCD cover of Joy Division's 'No Love Lost', not to mention new "club track" 'Freak Out'. Think that just about covers the bases, eh? Oh wait, Charlotte Church and Richard X also provide a poppy dub, with additional vocals from the London Community Gospel Choir - download-only, of course.

Excuse my French, but: holy Jesus fuck. I'm...kind of a little excited here. THEM is some B-SIDES.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'd buy that for a dollar.

download-only, of course

From where?

― ledge, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Probably either itunes or Recordstore.co.uk's download section.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

So "All My Friends" is next up?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I love Richard X!

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

co-signed re: richard x, and i'll raise you a dj harvey...

― BleepBot, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

John Cale covering All My Friends could well the best thing ever.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Or the worst - it's really a toss up.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I heard part of this in a record store; what I heard was awesome. Still haven't picked it up but I plan to.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Have I read this wrong or something? The Charlotte Church / Rich X thing is a joke, right? When is this out?

― NI, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Tracklistings from the LCD Soundsystem mailout:

7" Part One (with free poster)
All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand Version)
No Love Lost (cover of Joy Division)

7" Part Two
All My Friends (John Cale Version)
All My Friends (album version)

Enhanced CD
All My Friends (Edit)
All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand Version)
Freak Out/Starry Eyes
All My Friends (video)

Monday May 28th sees the release of the 12". Like this:

12"
All My Friends (album version)
All My Friends (Harvey Mix)
Freak Out/Starry Eyes

All tracks will also be available to download.

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

What a convoluted mess. And I suppose, just like "North American Scum", none of this will be available domestically in the US? Can't we at least get a 12" like we used to? I don't get it.

― matt2, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

This very thread, BTW, was cited in an EMP presentation over the weekend.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Link?

― matt2, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere

― Dominique, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement cover???!

this record is quite pavementlike in places

― get bent, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to the Franz cover of All My Friends on the LCD Soundsystem myspace page. For some reason, after the intro, I was expecting (hoping?) an early 80s Bernard Sumner would start singing.

― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

so dominique, how does this thread hold up against other message boards, eh? are there notes from yr presentation you can put online? pleeeease?

― BleepBot, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

This very thread, BTW, was cited in an EMP presentation over the weekend.

Hooray! Do we get paid?

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

what on earth was said?!

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

"The Lex is like some new sock puppet that someone made because Geir got boring."

― StanM, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh, all I did was compare this board's reaction to the record to two other boards, as far as the number of posts, when they happened, the general focus of the board (ie, ILM being mostly very knowledgable music fans and critics, vs some other board being, say, general audience, vs some other board being, say, overtly LCDS sympathetic). no posters named, no posts quoted. it was dry dry dry

― Dominique, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

original "all my friends" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cale "all my friends" >>>>> FF "all my friends"

― max, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dominique, is your paper somewhere on the Internets? I missed it (as well as you). Sounds interesting.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a minute. This is annoying. We North Americans are being discriminated against, here. We have to buy the 7" and 12" of the same damn single just to get our jollies properly. Not fair.

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

or wait for the cd compilation of dfa singles

― JW, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

original "all my friends" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cale "all my friends" >>>>> FF "all my friends"

OTM, except ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>" and ">>>>>" are backwards.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 April 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2V_ZT-nyOs

soooooo great

― Tape Store, Thursday, 3 May 2007 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

wow that was really good. even better than the von strumpetface (or whatever it's called) video.

― funny farm, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

juan maclean's beatsinspace set starts with un-/(not yet?)released "freak out/starry night". which is fun.

― willem, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Going to see them on Sunday, May 6. How are they live? I'm too lazy to youtube.

― valoss, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

last night in Seattle they were really good, a lot of fun, Murphy very likeable. I'm also an admirer of how he has the most recognizable stubble since George Michael.

― Matos W.K., Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

are they still covering "Jump Into The Fire"?

― henry s, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them in SF on Monday and it was really fun. I thought it was a better show than when I saw them in Montreal 2 years ago.

― dfkl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

juan maclean's beatsinspace set starts with un-/(not yet?)released "freak out/starry night". which is fun.

this rules. the 'starry eyes' bit goes a bit italo with the synths!

i really like a lot of what james murphy does with his voice with the eno-ish multitracking and that type of thing. (the "shame on you" segment from 45:33 might be the most radical example of this.) he's got much wider range than "annoying mark e smith clone" which some people seem to have him pegged as, there's not much of that persona on this record anyway. (definitely there on 'time to get away', though.)

― haitch, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had been able to go.

― The Reverend, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely, Haitch. The MES impression was fun for a bit, but I'm glad he put it away this time around. I'm pretty sure at this point that I prefer to hear him actually sing.

― The Reverend, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought he sounded that much like Mark E. If anything he sounds more like Jonathan Richman to me.

― I know, right?, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

MES disses him pretty hard in the new wire (would you expect anything else?)

the "all my friends" video is GREAT

― tricky, Friday, 4 May 2007 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty good, which is an improvement on most LCD videos.

― The Reverend, Friday, 4 May 2007 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

i just really like how it is full of artifice, but slyly dodges it just like the song does.

― tricky, Friday, 4 May 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Someone Great" is AMAZING.

― HI DERE, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

God, it sure is.

The title track features perhaps the best Phil Oakey impersonation by an American ever recorded.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

MES disses him pretty hard in the new wire (would you expect anything else?)

heh. what does he say?

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Someone Great I kinda heard then forgot about, but recently I started humming this awesome, powerful groove to myself and when I cross-checked its origin I found it to be that very song.

― Just got offed, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

from another thread about Prinzhorn Dance School...

Their visa application was rejected, according to the DFA peeps. YAY HOMELAND SECURITYS

So, if this is true, who is opening for LCD now???

― peepee, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

oh....I just found out its something monikered Yacht.
What's they about???

― peepee, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.teamyacht.com/info/
(crossover to tussle-thread - he's remixed them ;-)

― willem, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yacht is Jona out of The Blow. Good schtuff.

― Mister Craig, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yacht was super-positive. He can do the Molly Ringwald better than she can.

― valoss, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

MES sez [re "losing my edge"]: [i]"What a ripoff that is!" he spits. "I'm very insulted. I went into my loacl shop a few weeks ago, where I go for groceries. There's an Irish bloke in there, very nice, and he was playing this ["Losing My Edge"]. I said, 'This sounds exactly like me, are you trying to take the piss?' At which point, the bloke's getting a bit paranoid, because he's obviously no idea who I am. He says, 'It's just a record I like, that's all.' I mean this bloke [James Murphy], I've met him, he doesn't even talk like that, he's New York, New Jersey, or whatever. Just some New York arsehole. And it's the same rhythm I was using with Mouse on Mars, the same one we laid down..."

― tricky, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. I kinda wanted to know what he said too. :)

― Bimble, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

Great show in Deeeetroit tonight. Really. Better than tour #1.
But I wish they would have played a different cover that Throw.
We get it. Its a Deeetroit song. Like it was the last tour.

― peepee, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

MES hated pavement too for "copying" him, as he think

― Zeno, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

much as i love the fall, MES really is becoming a caricature of a twat.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yacht is good people.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think they've been covering "Throw" at many of their shows if that makes it any better peepee.

― matt2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

the dialogue/bickering at the start of juan maclean's beatsinspace set is pretty funny. at least to me.

― jermainetwo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Don't get me wrong. It was a good version, this time morphing outta "yeah".

― peepee, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound quite nice.

― matt2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone heard the B-side to the North American Scum 7"? It is an instrumental called Hippie Priest Bum-Out. I made the mistake of playing it at 33 instead of 45 (the intended speed) and I think I like the slower version better. Nice song, but I wouldn't recommend buying the 7" just for the song unless you are a LCDS completist.

― tinnitus, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was at the Toronto show last night, which, towards the end, was marred by some technical difficulties. I think Murphy cut the show short, but after a roughly five-minute gap, the band returned and played "No Love Lost."

― Binjominia, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

All My Friends ep has "No Love Lost" on it.

― van smack, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

My god, "Freak Out" is just awesome and great and all that stuff. 12 1/2 minutes of total bliss. Love the horns

― van smack, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Just saw them last night in Boston.

Must say I wasn't high on the album, but the show was DAMNED entertaining.

I judge concerts on whether I feel like I want to stay for the encore. You couldn't drag me away from this concert.

― MaGoGo, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

harvey mix is nice, but gosh, wouldn't it be nice if it had something to do with the original?

― jermainetwo, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i've gotta get the "all my friends" EP. so much stuff i've gotta get, actually.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

the franz version of all my friends is so lame.

― funny farm, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

the show in brooklyn last night was absolutely amazing.

― sleep, Sunday, 13 May 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

The DC Sunday night show was sold out by the time I thought about going.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Are they still finishing each gig with NYILYBYBMD? Recipe for anti-climax

― o-ess, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

they were really, really fucking good last night in DC. still closing w/NYILY. no "no love lost" or "someone great" :-/

they played everything really fast, which i don't think suited the pop stuff so well - "daft punk" and "na scum" were no great shakes. but shit like "tribulations" and "get innocuous" and ESPECIALLY "yeah" ruled the universe

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

reason why the brooklyn show wasn't amazing - the anti-climax was actually loved by all the drunk jersey kids wanting to pretend they lived in ny. ugh.

― BleepBot, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah" ruled in Boston, as I'm sure it does at all of their shows...man, how cathartic must it be to be James Murphy?...if there's a kernel of validity to primal scream therapy, that guy can't have a problem in the world...

― henry s, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've been thinking a lot about the lyrics for this album and I find it amusing that they never really seem to be saying anything in particular, they just give this illusion that they are. I mean I can see how North American Scum has a certain meaning, but other than that it's really strange the way these profound meanings are hinted at that aren't really there, esp. on All My Friends.

― Bimble, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

see also: New Order

it's the songs about "nothing" that seem to hold the most meaning, imo...

― henry s, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I wasn't trying to say that it was bad or good...I don't know what I think about it, really, except that it's strange. Sometimes even just the turn of melody seems to say "this line is really important", but there's nothing behind the smokescreen to grab hold of.

Here's a few examples:

"And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up and I still don't want to stagger home/then it's the memory of our betters/that are keeping us on our feet" (???)

"We set controls for the heart of the sun/One of the ways that we show our age" (???)

It's just kindof funny how the music seems to say he's making some deep statement, but there isn't one. It's kindof like when Tim Ellison or somebody was talking about how they felt Killers lyrics were vacuous as well.

Anyway, Grimly, don't worry about getting the dang All My Friends EP because it ain't even out yet! Why do I know this? Because I went to the record store today thinking it was the only damn thing I wanted, only to find that stuff isn't out til May 28 (and the 12" on June 4, though I probably won't get that). I can't wait to hear the John Cale version, even if it sucks. I've been reading a lot about John Cale in my Nico book lately. I'm sure the Joy Division cover will be lackluster compared to the original (as was the live version on You Tube) but that's almost not the point. Just that they did it is what counts. Just that someone somewhere paid tribute to that song (and especially LCD) is enough for me.

― Bimble, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

We set controls for the heart of the sun/One of the ways that we show our age

b-b-but this is GENIUS. and funny. and genius.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

John Cale version is really good.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah isnt that line about the youthful tendancy to set sights on a goal that is so high it can only lead to your destruction?????

i love that line.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

We set controls for the heart of the sun/One of the ways that we show our age

I think this is a reference to Pink Floyd so he's showing his age by referencing it.

― ksg, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

"And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up and I still don't want to stagger home/then it's the memory of our betters/that are keeping us on our feet"

How often have your friends withstood an evening's carousing better than you?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Bimble:

http://www.ward404.net/clients/dfa/lcd/

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

How often have your friends withstood an evening's carousing better than you?

Well not bloody often, but then I don't have the right kind of friends, either. Regardless, what bothers me is what the fuck does he mean by "betters"? I never thought of it as meaning his other friends, but I guess that's another theory.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but this is GENIUS. and funny. and genius.

But why? I mean, what do *you* think he means by that? Ksg says a reference to Pink Floyd...okay, fine I know very little about Floyd, so that's an idea.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, this John Cale version does it for me. Listen to that nice melody line "Where are your friends tonight?" Love it.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

God I can't wait until I can blare that out of my stereo instead of my stupid laptop.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Franz Ferdinand version: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.........

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

Why do the lyrics have to mean anything?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

They don't...but since they seem to pretend to...it just fucks with my head. It's not meant to be a criticism, even.

This Freak Out/Starry Eyes is cool. It starts out like Parliament or Funkadelic or something and then when it goes into this sortof drum solo it makes me feel like I'm in the 60's and then Starry Eyes is a bleepity bleepy Kraftwerk thing.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Why do the lyrics have to mean anything?

FRIEND.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, show at Studio B went really well. I guess it's no surprise, but they really nailed their live show. Very tight, VERY high energy, etc. Great venue to see them in, too. I was too warn out from their show to stick around for the DJs.

Was Yacht as bad as I remember? I mean, the coordinated dance moves? We kinda felt bad for him up there.

reason why the brooklyn show wasn't amazing - the anti-climax was actually loved by all the drunk jersey kids wanting to pretend they lived in ny. ugh.

Strange crowd there. Studio B isn't some beautiful heterogeneous wonderland on a normal night, but the crowd for the LCD S'system show wasn't what I'd expected. There was definitely a masculine, fist-pumping mood, and you don't really get shoved around like that on the dance floor normally.

Regardless, really impressive show. Was it longer than their usual live show?

― Jamesy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

I think the genius of the lyrics on this album is that they hint at profundity by referring to very, very specific observances and events rather than sweeping gestures; decipherable in-jokes, perhaps, that reveal an awful lot.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, this John Cale version does it for me

Excuse me?! Point me in the right direction.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

dfa myspace

― willem, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Regardless, really impressive show. Was it longer than their usual live show?

Same set as their Bowery show a couple months ago...

― BleepBot, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Freak Out is aces, and the parliament reference above is spot on. Nice!

I do think that LCD are turning into primal scream, though. They already occupied the same social space (ie indie for dance fans), have harvey, lindstrom, tiga &c instead of weatherall, chemical bros, sherwood, the automator &c on remix duties, do cool cover versions (96 tears, a love supreme vs throw, no love lost) and generally wear hip but extensive influences on their sleeve.

This actually sounds like screamadelica (the song, off dixie-narco), though. Something about the beat ...

This worries me.

― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

i can't wait to hear this. but i have A PILE OF OTHER TOP STUFF to get through first. hurrah.

I mean, what do *you* think he means by that?

"we set controls for the heart of the sun": we get ready for a full-on night of total party oblivion, channelling the spirits and altered states of pink floyd and everyone else since ...

"one of the ways that we show our age": we're old enough to remember pink floyd. we know that nobody talks like that any more. we are ageing hipsters, we're totally aware of it, and we don't care. (well, okay. we do a bit. but we're not going to let it spoil our night.)

that's my reading, anyway.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jesus H.?? What happened to the thread about the damn 45:33 thing? There was a whole thread about that and I can't find it now. Anyway, I just realized upon playing that again that the last part flipped my wig and here's why: it has this total ambient feel, but in the background there's this pounding drumbeat, and it makes you think that someone somewhere is blasting dance music far away, this one drumbeat...like someone just down the block is having a major party right? And then it sloooooows down, this drumbeat. I never noticed this before. I thought that was way cool.

― Bimble, Saturday, 2 June 2007 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, that's a mighty fine reading, Grimly. It's been far too long since I ventured to listen to the All My Friends single tracks. I guess it's all out now, too. Whoops, there goes my money.

― Bimble, Saturday, 2 June 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

i've just got hold of the AMF single now. i'm a little pissed off that there are four (four!) versions of it on iTunes, none of which had both the tracks i really wanted (ie "freak out/starry eyes" and "all my friends").

anyway. business as usual in LCD S world, ie tip-top stuff all round. yay. will need to listen to FO/SE a little more 'cos there's waaay too much going on there for me to appreciate in one or two passes.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm telling you the North American Scum mixes will fry your hair (Kris Menace mix).

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I apologize, I claim temporary insanity. I should have been talking about the new tracks from the All My Friends singles. But I was drunk and lazy instead.

"If we do it again, I'm gonna freak out..." is more like it.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Starry Eyes...dut dit"

Yeah, this is the shit.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Give it a rest, Bimble.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Why? You don't like that song?

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've only heard it once and don't have an opinion on it either way, but please take some time to consider some music other than LCD Soundsystem.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 10 June 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

it has this total ambient feel, but in the background there's this pounding drumbeat

― kenan, Sunday, 10 June 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

So my crime is being too obsessed with LCD Soundsystem? Christ, I don't get it. I've been listening to TONS of other music besides them. Haven't you noticed my zillion posts on the Live Aid thread this weekend? Or my posts on other threads as well? Seriously I've played LCD even less this weekend than I have been in the past/normally. What *are* you talking about?

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

John Cale does a version of an LCD song and you say I'm paying too much attention? What the hell is wrong with you?

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

LCD do a cover of my favourite Joy Division song ever and I'm supposed to ignore it?

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think the point is more "stop posting five million messages in a row to every thread you come across" than anything else.

― HI DERE, Sunday, 10 June 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

And I think you and everyone who would think that is an outright asshole.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe we should change the name of this board to "I Love to Insult People" since no one's actually interested in talking about the music.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

It took you six minutes to come up with that?

― HI DERE, Sunday, 10 June 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sure did, what, you timing me? Hahahahah. Stopwatch ILM. I love it!

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dude's got a point Bimble.

― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 10 June 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Aww...too much Bimble for the idiots to absorb. I'm so sympathetic. Poor you. Go watch your beloved BORING corporate TV shows. Your minds are too small for much else.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

When was the last time you played the Stooges I wonder?

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

You ever heard of the Velvet Underground? Go to hell.

― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow dude.

― Clay, Sunday, 10 June 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's what I say, John Cale did a fucking LCD song and you guys are picking pigshit triviality. Get with it.

― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

No I sort of mean like "wow you are acting super crazy."

― Clay, Monday, 11 June 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

When I made my comment earlier, I just thought that you were a bit annoying, but now I think you are a complete and utter asshat. Congratulations.

― The Reverend, Monday, 11 June 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://mud.mm-a6.yimg.com/image/3550106112

― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.norcal-ls1.com/multimedia/data/500/3728asshat.jpg

― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Okay, you redeemed yourself right there.

― The Reverend, Monday, 11 June 2007 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's great that LCD have covered Joy Division's "No Love Lost". That song needed someone to pay tribute, and they have.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea, not so wild 'bout the execution. Expected a lot more *umpf*

― willem, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Can't find the 45:33 thread, sorry.

45:33 out on LP & CD in October!
http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/index2.html

― StanM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

sweet.

― funny farm, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

decent set of remixers for the upcoming single: carl craig ('sound of silver'), gucci soundsystem ('time to get away'), soulwax ('get innocuous'), windsurf ('us vs them').

― haitch, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

soulwax ('get innocuous')

eeh, enough already

― blueski, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

carl craig ('sound of silver')

That should be good!

Why no instrumental of Someone Great, though? I know it's on 45:33, but it deserves its own side of a 12".

― Jamie T Smith, Monday, 10 September 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

the harvey mix of all my friends is terrific

― max, Monday, 10 September 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Why no instrumental of Someone Great, though? I know it's on 45:33, but it deserves its own side of a 12".

Personally, if something from 45:33's getting singled out, I'd much much MUCH much much rather it be the piano-y thing that opens the whole piece

― jamescobo, Monday, 10 September 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

the soulwax mix is excellent. none of their recent glo-sticks in the air / pogo-noise histrionics. they stay very faithful to the original but beef it up, strip it down and rearrange it so it works better on the floor. really good. the carl craig is not one of his best

― stirmonster, Monday, 10 September 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

ALL THESE SONGS ARE AMAZING LIVE ESPECIALLY NORTH AMERICAN SCUM. THAT IS ALL.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

i was kinda hoping for henrik schwarz to do 'sound of silver'. ;_____;

― haitch, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

have gucci soundsystem ever had a decent release? or done anything besides be given random gigs by beer companies?

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

45:33 has been delayed a little bit:

September 11, 2007 - LCD Soundsystem will unlease 45:33 via DFA Records on November 13th, 2007...The bonus tracks on the CD release include the 12-and-a-half-minute "Freak Out / Starry Eyes," "North American Scum (Onastic Dub Remix)," which is a collaboration between Murphy and DFA Studio Engineer Eric Broucek, and finally there is "Hippie Priest Bum-Out," previously available only as a 7" b-side.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

Still awes that it's happening at all though.

I will be seeing them at ACL Fest this weekend. It will be great.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

I assume that I already have the first 45 minutes and 33 seconds of this release, which is pretty great, so I can wait. I'll still download the extra tracks, though. :)

― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

Freak Out/Starry Eyes was a b-side too, on the All My Friends CD

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

I love Starry Eyes (like, more than anything by LCDS in a long time)

― Dominique, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

I will be seeing them at ACL Fest this weekend. It will be great.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

hey me too!

― stephen, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

I streamed (as in, produced the stream) a live set by Kalabrese & his Rumpelorchestra last nite and it was well spotty but towards the end there were parts reminiscent of the better LCD-type stuff. you decide.

― blunt, Friday, 14 September 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

LCD Soundsystem covers Joy Division's "No Love Lost":

http://thebeebblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-arcade-fire-lcd-soundsystem-split-7.html

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

7" Part One (with free poster)
All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand Version)
No Love Lost (cover of Joy Division)
-- Telephone thing, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:33 AM (5 months ago)

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO0h2QhkZA&feature=user

I'm in awe of the New Order guitar part they added for this. I like thinking they did it specifically for Manchester, but I'm guessing it's just part of the standard live performance.

― turkey, Friday, 23 November 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Haha you're right.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure if this got posted anywhere, but here's the video for "Someone Great."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYsczkWti0&feature=related

― turkey, Friday, 23 November 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

The comments on there keep speculating whether that song is about an abortion. I can't hear it.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

"You're smaller than my wife imagined / surprised you were human".

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Y'see I think that fits the John Peel reading much better, it's just the kind of thing one might say after meeting a celeb in the flesh - especially a radio celeb whom one might never have seen.

Not that I think one can or should pin the song down to one particular reading, but I don't buy the abortion one at all.

― ledge, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

okay, i think the speculation started off at miscarriage and has moved on to abortion for predictable reasons.

― jed_, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Lots of speculation but no answers here:

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858643073

― turkey, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

The piano player on "All My Friends" should be getting hazard pay or something. That can't be good for you.

― turkey, Friday, 23 November 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

for predictable reasons?

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

"I missed the way we used to argue" is clearly about a fetus.

It's probably about the late psychiatrist the album is dedicated to, YA THINK? people are fucking stupid.

and I hate the "video edit" of the song, why the fuck would you truncate a great song to jingle status when the video is only gonna be played twice on MTV subterranean anyway.

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

"with someone new i couldn't start it
too late for beginnings"

I really hope this is about his therapist

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

The psychiatrist George Kamen (1942– ) was still living in Bulgaria when he pioneered the idea of group therapy in the late 1960s. The revolutionary new treatment brought him both professional acclaim and political troubles. Because Kamen worked with groups of patients who discussed with each other their deepest thoughts and emotions, he inevitably attracted official scrutiny. Kamen soon became the target of a campaign of harassment, and decided to flee Bulgaria. After several unsuccessful attempts, he escaped to Vienna, and from there, to political asylum in West Germany. Kamen and his wife Katia, also Bulgarian, arrived in the United States in 1980. Today he has a private practice in New York City.

died in 06.

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why would you hate on the "video edit" when the video is only gonna be played twice on MTV subterranean anyway?

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

because there's a chance that my favorite song of the year just might break through, and thanks to this, if it does it will be in a shitty edited form.

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

and I think it would have a BETTER chance if they didn't cut it into something a lot less effective.

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

The whole of 45:33 is streaming on last.fm

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

cute!

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I told my wife how much I was enjoying this album, and told her to give it a listen. I get a text the next day while in work: "Where's the LCD Soundsystem album?" "In my car," I reply, "but it's on the iPod, plug that into the stereo if you want to listen to it." This was at 1.30. I get home from work at 6, she's working at the computer and Sound Of Silver (the song) is playing. The song ends, then starts again. I pick the iPod up, and she's been playing that one song, on repeat, for 4 and a half hours, without realising. When I plugged the iPod into the computer, the playcount for that sound goes up by 48. When I asked her how come she didn't notice, she says "I just thought it was a bit samey".

― nate woolls, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

*song, not sound

― nate woolls, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

unless you were just announcing that rather than wryly noting that someone great was once an instrumental section of a longer song. i apologize if you weren't trying to be cute.

x-post i'd be worried

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

i'm impressed.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 23 November 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Err... no, just informing people who might wanna listen to it at work...

― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

I always figured "Someone Great" was about going to the funeral of someone he thought to be amazing but his wife never had the opportunity to meet. You know, someone described as larger than life, more than human, but still mortal.

― mh, Friday, 23 November 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Err... no, just informing people who might wanna listen to it at work...

yeah, sorry, I got defensive.

― da croupier, Friday, 23 November 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Okay, the best bits of this album:

1) The last minute of 'Get Innocuous'
2) The oscillating synth-pulse in 'Someone Great'. It achieves the perfect, slightly out-of-tune, wide-as-the-sky tone to underlay this bolt of electronic melancholia.
3) 'All My Friends', which does the 7-minute build better than anyone, and is still a bit too short when it finishes.
4) Some bits of the title-track are kinda neat.
5) I really like the guitar in 'New York...'!

-- unfished business, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:35 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

what the fuck was i talking about, fuck this album, mediocre overhyped fucking waste of blogspace, for those that think that this is as exciting and interesting as 2007 music got, you're fucking deluded

― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

i think it would be pretty neat if he ditched his vocals.

but then there are people like cosmo vitelli and metro area who do this sort of thing with much more flair anyway.

― pc user, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

See I was just thinking of this album yesterday. Must pull it out.

― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

-- Just got offed, Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i could give two fucks about lcd sound system but man i would love to hear what louis jagger thought was exciting in 2007

― and what, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahaha

― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

dude we are from two different worlds taste-wise, of course there's gonna be a disparity. for what it's worth,

oceansize's album, cardiacs' new single, the song 'medusa' by ulrich schnauss, the 2CD WFANFC comp, the new Cornelius record, 65DOS, 6x7, the song 'indoor swimming at the space station' by eluvium, lots of metal (deathspell omega, alcest, dodheimsgard, caina, dillinger escape plan, ulver (not really metal tbh) etc), the young gods, okkervil river, studio, strategy, the fiery furnaces, deerhoof, battles, porn sword tobacco, twelve and MUCH MUCH MORE were all far more exciting than this drudgery.

i can see you staring at my list and going 'UH', except for 'the fiery furnaces, deerhoof, battles', at which point you will be going 'WTF'. too bad.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.search.co.tt/trinidad/backlash/backlash.jpg

― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

Err...

http://www.search.co.tt/trinidad/backlash/backlash.jpg

― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

2007 was the year Louis Jagger stopped listening to Sound Of Silver and became a man.

― da croupier, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Still love this record.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tsk Tsk. You guys kill me. I'm seriously going to pull out this record now. Do you really think it's better than the first one though? Can we have a poll?

― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

this is way better than the actual first album, maybe not better than the second disc of singles but who knows

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, way better than the first album proper. The early singles disc is as good. 45'33" is almost as good.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, this record's great.

― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone else have the CD (re)release of 45:33 like i do? it's fuckin sweet, sounds a *lot* better on CD quality audio, on my nifty home-stereo thingy.

― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed it does; the extra tracks tacked on at the end are wicked, too (Freakout / Starry Eyes being the winner).

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, this is off topic, but hey Scik Mouthy - guess what i ordered the other day??

http://www.theperfectpad.co.uk/acatalog/AZCD-PACKthumb.gif

yuuuup! thnks for the suggestion, looking forward to em. now i just need a new cd rack cause this one's out of room. argh.

― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I really hope Nick doesn't think of me as some kind of formalist Geir! The reason I don't like this record so much is the hype it's gotten as compared to my own not-particularly-excited experience of the record, which is a bit of a fallacy but surely an understandable one.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was kind of crummy when I first heard it too, but it keeps opening up to me as the year goes on and now it's one of my faves! I even played it for my mom! Keep listening to it.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

^^^
('xcept I haven't played it for my mom. Maybe I should when I visit my parents in the new year :)

― willem, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

What does your mom think of LCD Soundsystem, Whiney?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, this is off topic, but hey Scik Mouthy - guess what i ordered the other day??
yuuuup! thnks for the suggestion, looking forward to em. now i just need a new cd rack cause this one's out of room. argh.

Haha, excellent! They rock.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://stereogum.com/archives/new-lcd-soundsystem-big-ideas-stereogum-premiere_008203.html

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2008/02/01/pc_fc_n_gn/darusimu04.jpg

― The Reverend, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Louis is still wrong. Hating because of hype = bad.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

they've just been dropped by EMI apparently.

― jed_, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, so I heard. Is it a full severing of the DFA tie, though? I can imagine Murphy wanting out as much as if not more than EMI wanting rid. I don't imagine LCD records cost EMI that much, so while they're never gonna be million-sellers I'm sure they're not a burden. Of course, Mr Hands may just not appreciate the value of having such a highly-acclaimed artist as LCD on his roster... Who knows.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone had this fact actually confirmed yet ?
my emi contact aint around today ..
cant see them severing ties with LCD but keeping the DFA distribution though - thats not going to be a workable option surely ?
i suspected this was on the cards when i saw that the DFA reissue of that Nylon album was not released via EMI in the UK.
all copies that i saw were imports.
guess EMI had already started the process of cutting back when this was released.

― mark e, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

having said that, i am not overly happy as the EMI dist. deal has meant I've been able to buy some decent records during my boring lunch hours given that in the last few years DFA product has been readily available to all - even those of us without access to decent record shops.
wonder what this means for the Hercules album as the single was released today.
suspect with all the press/hype behind it, EMI will have to release the album contractually ?

― mark e, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

am i missing the link to listen to said soundtrack song on that stereogum page?

― jaxon, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

never realized how much Murphy looks like George Steinbrenner wearing Danial Boone's hat...

― henry s, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Worse, he looks like Hank Steinbrenner.

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

...wearing Daniel Boone's coonskin cap...

― henry s, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yowsa.

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

jaxon there's a stream right under murphy's photo.

― jed_, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

ha, oops.

― jaxon, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

wait, it only loads occasionally and i can't get it right now. weird.

― jaxon, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

You can get mp3 here: www.butterteam.com

― Bill E, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

this band don't know how is music mix all i like for me, lcd are so passioned by the music that the pleasure we have is amazing.
Posted by: gabriel at February 25, 2008 8:49 PM

― deej, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

I like that new tune! But then LCD usually get it right.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

gabriel international

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 March 2008 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

this band don't know how is music mix all i like for me, lcd are so passioned by the music that the pleasure we have is amazing.
Posted by: gabriel at February 25, 2008 8:49 PM

almost luriquesqe

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

someones been listening to studio!!

― max, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

i like this until the singing

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 March 2008 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

this sounds about as much like studio as lcd have ever sounded. not at all.

― jed_, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I dunno, there's something about the bassline that's a little Studio-ish, and the synth that comes in at 1:20.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

i really like this, i've decided (and yes, often it takes me a while to discern between hype and my genuine take on something, though certainly not always)

this record has a lot of restraint that gives a number of the songs a nice sort of tense energy. can also play it over and over again and let the songs gently slip into your subconsciousness. infectious in a subtle kind of way. i don't really like the 'new york' song though. fairly generic indie, that is. everything else: ace.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

'hippy priest burn out' is better than most stuff on the album

― blueski, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I can totally hear the Studio thing

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Soooooo... what was that about their EMI distro deal? Not true?

― StanM, Friday, 14 March 2008 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Several months on, I would condense this album into an incredibly kick-ass awesome EP:

"Get Innocuous"
"North American Scum"
"Someone Great"
"Sound of Silver"

Nothing else on the album is as essential to me as these for songs except possibly "Us v. Them"; to this day, I still don't get why people connect with "All My Friends", which still comes across to me as a subpar New Order pastiche with fucking horrible piano slapped on top of it.

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

first three tracks are my favorites

― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

those 4 are pretty much the only tracks from this i ever listen to as well

― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

I love both albums and all the singles, but a single neutron album of awesomeness could be constructed from both LCD Soundsystem, Sound Of Silver, and the early singles.

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

OK, it would be a 2xLP but

Side A:
"Losing My Edge"
"North American Scum"
"Tribulations"

Side B:
"Disco Infiltrator"
"Yeah (Crass)"

Side C:
"Someone Great"
"Too Much Love"
"Sound of Silver"

Side D:
"All My Friends"
"Yr City's A Sucker"

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

no 'daft punk is playing at my house' ?

― 6335, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:37 (seventeen years ago)

you could fit it on the CD

― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

"Daft Punk..." is another one I think is overrated.

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

don't like the songs the guy recorded on the day he had a cold

― omar little, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

"Tribulations" is pretty fucking awesome, eh?

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

true

― omar little, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

I like "Daft Punk is playing..", but "North American Scum" is a more successful take on that same style, me thinks.

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

i like 'daft punk..' more but that's a pretty great list anyway. i could trade 'yr citys a sucker' for 'give it up' and 'time to get away' tho (roughly the same amount of time from the 2 to the 1)

anyone heard the siousxie and joy division covers? worth tracking down?

― 6335, Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

The Joy Division cover is pretty good, a nice tribute that's very true to the original.

― Chunk o' Funk (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Friday, 21 November 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

For the track “All My Friends,” Murphy developed a technique whereby he first recorded scratch drums and then went back and played bass over the top of the drum track. Then he went back again and replayed the drums listening only to the recorded bass, and then he again played the bass listening only to the recorded drums. He went back and forth with this pattern about five or six times, and together, they sounded like a band because each take responded to the next. “It was a really good experiment for me because it was nice to arrange a song without cutting and moving things. Even a song as linear as this moved the way it was supposed to move because it sounded right.”

hmmm

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

(from here

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

And the song still wound up the most boring, overrated pile of hopeless pseudo-art commercial wankshite of 2007!! Truly a special talent, that man.

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

He also somehow found the talent to trick thousands of seemingly smart and normal people into liking his pseudo-art. But not you. You knew better.

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

i've been on a big lcd/dfa kick over the last couple weeks

(btw that song is not close to my favorite on the album, though i do like it)

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

There's a very special annual continuum of particularly irritating releases: LCD -> TVOTR -> ???

What they do is satisfy the utterly tame expectations of the musically-aware majority, who assume that these thoroughly mediocre, uninteresting releases provide the most advanced, most exciting "new" leaps in sound possibly imaginable at this moment in time, and through their blind worship ensure that the same old shite will continually get recycled on the mainstream. Potentially talented artists SUCH AS LCD and TVOTR recede into complacent holding-patterns, betraying an ultimately crippled imagination, a complete lack of artistic independence, and the artists responsible for genuinely sublime, original ideas are marginalised by a far-reaching sense of denial and affirmation: TVOTR truly DID release the most forward-thinking rock record of 2008. La la la I can't hear you.

Something is rotten in the heart of ILM.

Either that, or I'm on some serious fun-hating tip.

"Someone Great" is OK I guess. Merely OK. Decent. Ditto "Get Innocuous" and "Sound Of Silver". Decent. OK.

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Either that, or I'm on some serious fun-hating tip.

^^^^
Judging by that belabored post, this.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

Why don't you go start a band and save us from this horrible situation? It sucks cause until you do that I will probably have to keep listening to LCD Soundsystem and TVOTR.

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

louis you are really irritating right now

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

They're not the only offenders by any means. For me, they act as annual figureheads for a trend in alt-music appreciation that is acting as a vicious circle between artists and listeners.

That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

Isn't there a parade line that can use another chanter of "The Internationale"? If you can't find one, stfu.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.
That band is gonna happen btw. And it'll be the best fucking band ever. No joke.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

these thoroughly mediocre, uninteresting releases provide the most advanced, most exciting "new" leaps in sound possibly imaginable at this moment in time

i don't think these musicians or most of their listeners care about this at all, just you.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

cannot a dude spill invective these days without catching it hard?

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

your youthful ambition is touching though, pls let us know when your band's album is done.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

no, you suck

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

i know you don't think people are rver going to agree with your bullshit, so don't act surprised

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

i think the most irritating part is that you're saying that not only do you not like this music, the people who do like it don't actually like it as much as they think they do, and if you could only introduce them to some wacky genre mashup bullshit then they would see the error of their ways.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

Genre doesn't come into it. Genre, or to expand it, convention is the problem. Sure, people do like it. Maybe some of the songs are enjoyable. But it's the way people EXPRESS their enjoyment for these exercises in genre, as if the Berlin Wall just fell in their cochleae.

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

walk away dude.

― Brohan Hari, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

(ain't worth it anyway but js.)

― Brohan Hari, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

the way your express your overwrought crit bullshit is the real problem

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

so it's the fact that people LIKE good music that's the problem?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

i can only imagine the truly terrible shit you listen to

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

haha

― admrl, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

yes

― admrl, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ this guy's facebook favorite music list is impeccable

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

What they do is satisfy the utterly tame expectations of the musically-aware majority, who assume that these thoroughly mediocre, uninteresting releases provide the most advanced, most exciting "new" leaps in sound possibly imaginable at this moment in time, and through their blind worship ensure that the same old shite will continually get recycled on the mainstream.
-- CM

I haven't been paying attention, but jesus fuck. PEOPLE LIKE THEM. How hard is that? All this other crap about, "the most advanced, most exciting 'new' leaps in sound possibly imaginable at this moment in time," is just some weird figment in your head. It's pop, it's clever and fun, and people enjoy it.

But it's the way people EXPRESS their enjoyment for these exercises in genre, as if the Berlin Wall just fell in their cochleae.
― CM

Again, WTF? Where are the unacceptable EXPRESSions of the "utterly tame majority"? And what, exactly, makes them so contemptible?

Fucking people...

― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

"^^^ this guy's facebook favorite music list is impeccable"

Truly the highest accolade to which one can aspire. ON THE INTERNET. May all your hard drives remain free of fragmentation for the rest of their days!

― admrl, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

People. Arguing about music. On the internet. On ILM. Wow.

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

favorites list plz xp

― "made smashable" (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

l0u1s jagg3r is not people

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

i hate you too, kevin keller

― cutty, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

could've sworn i just made a post to this thread. ah well never mind it was rubbish anyway who gives a shit what anyone else thinks.

All My Friends ftw!

― ledge, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

oh i get it there's another thread for the poll! hoho! rofl!

― ledge, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

yikes

― "made smashable" (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

What they do is satisfy the utterly tame expectations of the musically-aware majority, who assume that these thoroughly mediocre, uninteresting releases provide the most advanced, most exciting "new" leaps in sound possibly imaginable at this moment in time, and through their blind worship ensure that the same old shite will continually get recycled on the mainstream. Potentially talented artists SUCH AS LCD and TVOTR recede into complacent holding-patterns, betraying an ultimately crippled imagination, a complete lack of artistic independence, and the artists responsible for genuinely sublime, original ideas are marginalised by a far-reaching sense of denial and affirmation: TVOTR truly DID release the most forward-thinking rock record of 2008. La la la I can't hear you.

Good grief. There is not a single bit of information supporting your premise in this paragraph. How do you manage to take so long to say absolutely nothing? Have you considered doing a PhD in English?

And for the record, this album is great.

― caek, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

jesus christ ppl dnftt

― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

look ok i was getting my Marcello Carlin on, articulating vague feelings in a concrete, forthright manner. it's more an invective-heavy, fact-light attack on unquestioning mass appreciation than individual appreciation that boils down to "is THIS all you're all happy with?". what i do know is that both those albums have received blanket praise, adoration, best-of-year placing. that is what i am attacking, not whether you enjoyed the songs.

and now having sworn off this sort of naive brainstorm for 2009, i shall desist.

for now. ;-)

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

― caek, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

unquestioning mass appreciation

WTF?

both those albums have received blanket praise, adoration, best-of-year placing. that is ~~what i am attacking, not whether you~~ because people enjoyed the songs.

The only difference between you and this awful "majority" is that you didn't like the songs as much. You're not saying anything more complex than that.

― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

"is THIS all you're all happy with?"

i'll take 3 albums a year guy over your self righteous bs any day.

― jed_, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

if cm is a sockpuppet, kudos to you... that is some inspired shite.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

i mean for album of the year, fucks sake, you're entitled to like the music, i'm entitled to be completed fucking underwhelmed when magazines, ilm posters and whatnot line up to praise these records as forward-thinking year-topping masterpieces, something which has demonstrably happened

and besides this was all just a big stupid rant anyway, way to help my post-idiocy depression folks

why why why why did i ever say anything

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

dude the only person who seems to care about whether LCD is forward-thinking or not, whatever that means, is you.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

Please lock the door on your fucking self-pity party, please.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

I thought the whole point of LCD wasn't to sound forward-thinking at all, but maybe that's just me. Murphy pretty much wears his influences on his sleeve, fer chrissakes...

― Millsner, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

I think his problem is that he thinks the album/band of the year has a role of doing something new and turning the world of music upside down. But outside of say, The Beatles, how many times has the most acclaimed band of the year single-handedly changed the course of anything? Does that really happen?

― iatee, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

And when people do call something a "forward-thinking year-topping masterpiece" or whatever, they usually just mean "I REALLY like the songs." It's not that big a deal.

― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

Does that really happen?
― iatee

run away!

― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:29 (seventeen years ago)

I thought the whole point of LCD wasn't to sound forward-thinking at all, but maybe that's just me. Murphy pretty much wears his influences on his sleeve, fer chrissakes...

Yeah, actually this is way OTM.

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:39 (seventeen years ago)

The apotheosis of which is when "All My Friends" was written up as sounding like "John Cale fronting Franz Ferdinand" what does he do but have FF and JC perform cover versions that he released as b-sides to the single.... I mean, that is beyond genius.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

this might mean something if country matters wasnt a big fan of a lot of boring stuff too

― choom gangsta (deej), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

TS: LJ on this thread vs lex on the other thread

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

TS: being known for running a popular label and leading a reasonably popular band vs being known for getting a handjob and spouting cock-eyed crit theory

― prins tuomas (haitch), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)

oh don't you dare put country matters and "critical theory" in the same sentence he might lose it

― BIG HOOS is not a nacho purist fwiw (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

cm is definitely approaching this the wrong way, but i have to say that the success of these two groups (TVoTR & LCD) has always mystified me, and in a very similar way to each other, even though they sound pretty different. i am just tone deaf to them - their melodies seem flat and ugly to my ears, and both of their vocalists need, like, remedial singing lessons.

― fwiw (rockapads), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:27 (seventeen years ago)

ha, i think i should have replied to the other thread.

― fwiw (rockapads), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

who got a handjob, where? I never heard about that

I don't think I think music should be forward-thinking, on the whole. It should just be good at what it does.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

Let's not go there, seriously.

I like this record a lot, FWIW, but agree that TVOTR are over-rated. Don't understand why CM is getting his knickers in a twist though.

― Neil S, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

I always wonder what TVOTR and LCD must sound like to eighties babies who don't know Peter Gabriel and New Order very well. Like if you've just spent your time listening to AFI or something and then you hear this stuff.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

Also which of these groups will be the first to work with Eno and/or Lanois?

― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

the stupidest one

― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sympathetic to the idea that you'd rather the most hailed groups of the modern day didn't sound like a mushy derivative of 80s college/art rock. But then again if you know your 80s college/art rock by heart, that's what you get for listening to 00s college/art rock.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

that's a general "you," btw

― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

I love Louis but he's still way off on LCD. TVotR do suck, though, pretty much.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

― cutty, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

fyi a lot of us '80s babies' are pretty well familiar w/ gabriel and new order due to our parents listened to them all the time

― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

also theres a lot more going on than gabriel+new order+eno

― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

honestly TVoTR do seem kinda boring and trying-too-hard to me, and i don't really see the comparison with LCD (except that both get good reviews, whatever). but i've never heard a TVoTR album all the way through, just heard songs here and there that didn't catch me.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

This is a classic case of allowing the critical response to a record to pollute my own opinion of it. Witness what I said a while back:

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Okay, the best bits of this album:

― unfished business, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:35 (1 year ago) Bookmark

I *fucking loved* All My Friends, for a short time. Then it got old rly quickly. BUT, nonetheless, this demonstrates what can happen in my brain when a catchy-if-not-particularly-adventurous record suddenly becomes really, really popular.

TVotR are worse offenders, I guess, because their stuff went from pretty exciting to totally anaemic. With LCD, the issue isn't with people enjoying the music, it's with the sheer scale of adulation. I went a little overboard with the resultant trashing because of my fervour to see it knocked off its perch. Sorry if I've come across as a pompous dick, it can happen easily.

That'll do, I think.

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

if you get pissed off every time something good gets overrated, you're going to have a hard time surviving the 21st century

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^

i recommend gospel/spiritual 78s or perhaps some 17th Century classical music from the Ottoman Empire. Good luck tiger, you can be like every other obscurophile on the planet. How about some conrad schnitzler "air mixes" while you're at it too?

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

im a 80s baby, mastered reaganomics... new order everyone knows because they were a big band and have always been pretty cool -- obviously shit post-technique but wvs. peter gabriel was an embarrassing yuppie tool who did that one video until generation fuckwit decided otherwise, or so it seems to me: putting them together is :/ from this pov.

― Brohan Hari, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

peter gabriel was an embarrassing yuppie tool

hey thanks for your input..... not

― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

peter gabriel was an embarrassing yuppie tool

^^^Suggest Ban

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

haha xpost

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

I mean really if you only know Gabriel from one damn video you seriously need to educate yourself on that dude.

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

generally comfortable disagreeing with bimble tbh

― Brohan Hari, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/Genesis_PeterGabriel_Foxtrot_Paris_Januar1973.jpg

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

Holy shit, that's Peter Gabriel in 1973! LOL

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

<3 peter gabriel

― BIG HOOS is not a nacho purist fwiw (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

where Max and Geir Hongro collide

― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

this demonstrates what can happen in my brain when a catchy-if-not-particularly-adventurous record suddenly becomes really, really popular.

Why does it matter whether it's popular or not? And popular by what standard, anyway? Has the album even gone gold? I doubt it...

― ilxor, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

it's big on the circuit of web sites and magazines music geeks read is what he means

― HOOSytime steenman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

cant pretty much every really, really popular record (or like 99% of them) be described as "catchy-if-not-particularly-adventurous"

― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

no
catchy seems to have become a rarified quality among "really, really popular records" imo

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

Stephen King definitely likes this record. It has a nice-sized role in the beginning of his new 1000+ epic, Under The Dome.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 November 2009 05:14 (sixteen years ago)

I actually am curious to read that, is it worth it y/n?

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

Are 600 pages of that just pop culture drops? Anderson Cooper was ribbed about how much he and Wolf Blitzer appear in that book.

― Xiffy Pup (Eric H.), Monday, 23 November 2009 05:18 (sixteen years ago)

"LCD Soundsystem will end your life!"

― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Monday, 23 November 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

Rusty Hatfield had switched the radio on for company as he sat silently in his rusting 1988 Ranger. He was confronted by the last few howls of the man the dee-jay assured him was LCD Soundsystem (what kind of first name was that?) and flipped it off as quickly as he'd turned it on.

"Give me the Ramones any day," he muttered, and continued to think about killing his wife.

― Xiffy Pup (Eric H.), Monday, 23 November 2009 05:31 (sixteen years ago)

― samosa gibreel, Monday, 23 November 2009 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

hahahah that's perfect

― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

what sort of first name is "The"?

― BACH STARKER (sic), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:59 (sixteen years ago)

I'd assumed that was a parody but perhaps not.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 23 November 2009 11:05 (sixteen years ago)

I actually am curious to read that, is it worth it y/n?

I haven't read much he's done lately, but as a kid in the 80s I read them all. This one just sounded really interesting, and amazon was selling it for $9..... I'm only on page 50 or so, but so far so good. It's very gruesome, though. Moreso than his others, or at least how I remember them.

LOL on the Rusty Hatfield thing, but what actually happens is considerably more disturbing.

A woman is outside gardening when the dome comes down. Her arm is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and her hand is severed. She comes into the house where her husband is listening to Sound of Silver. He tries to stem the bleeding as North American Scum goes into Someone Great, into All My Friends. The husband wants to shut it off, but he can't let go of her arm. She bleeds out somewhere in the middle of side 2.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 November 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

yeah I mean the rest is filler anyway

― iatee, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

ha now THAT is a Stephen King scene

― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't read much he's done lately, but as a kid in the 80s I read them all.

This is where I stand pretty much, but the premise sounded decent so I wondered if it was worth it.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTTErVkqq0&feature=player_embedded#

Here's the new single, Drunk Girls. Not so sure on first listen, which is disappointing.

― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

Seems like the first album singles are usually my least favorite songs off his records but I like this better than "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" and "North American Scum"...

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:51 (sixteen years ago)

its not balls out but itll do. like "never as tired as when i'm taking up" in that it works but doesn't really do anything for me

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:09 (sixteen years ago)

a track by track review from of *all* things, Liverpool's Echo newspaper: http://www.peterguy.merseyblogs.co.uk/2010/03/lcd-soundsystem-third-track-by.html

That Drunk Girls track by the way is *bloody* awful.

― piscesx, Friday, 26 March 2010 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not sure what I think of "Drunk Girls," and I'm a HUGE LCD Soundsystem fan. Kanye's "Drunk and Hot Girls" > James Murphy's "Drunk Girls" (although I've although thought "Drunk and Hot Girls" is incredible and one of the best tracks on Graduation). "Pow Pow" sounds more promising, but I really like Murphy when he has more synths on a song than guitars.

― rennavate, Friday, 26 March 2010 07:23 (sixteen years ago)

I've although thought "Drunk and Hot Girls" is incredible and one of the best tracks on Graduation

yay! someone finally agrees with me!

― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 07:26 (sixteen years ago)

stop posting itt

the still untitled third album by LCD Soundsystem

― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 07:27 (sixteen years ago)

YOU STOP POSTING IN THIS THREAD, JORDAN.

― rennavate, Friday, 26 March 2010 07:49 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Someone Great" has cemented itself in my personal musical canon. That song is untouchable.

― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Monday, 25 July 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

I'm just sad LCD never quite managed to make the perfect album they might have made. Many moments have come close, but even SOS has points that lag..

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Monday, 25 July 2011 15:57 (fourteen years ago)

45:33 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Someone Great

― Booger T. Jones (sic), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

DJP, I agree 100000% I'm not the hugest of LCD ss fans but someone great is perfect to me

― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

got nothing in the least against someone grebt, but (sorry djp/lj) c'mon, all my friends

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

doesn't do much 4 me, tbh

― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

[cries]

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

I think it only appeals to people who have friends

― iatee, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:54 (fourteen years ago)

"sound of silver" vocals sounded really good mixed in Tim Sweeney's RA mix

― gardener by day, gatekeeper by night (blank), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 05:12 (fourteen years ago)

I'm just sad LCD never quite managed to make the perfect album they might have made. Many moments have come close, but even SOS has points that lag

I dunno, as great as the albums are, you can count the number of truly inspired strokes on one hand - most of his work is cribbed from other junk. I think LCD definitely fulfilled their potential

― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:20 (fourteen years ago)

People say this. To some extents it's true, but I think LCD's 80s new wave influence is often overemphasised. They were among the first to actively revive that post-punk sound, which is an original move in its own way. Plus they were a great dance-pop band who really knew their way around a tune when they needed to. When they hit those peaks, they really did - the driving synth/beats and clever lyrical device on 'Losing My Edge', that first song ('Shame On You'?) off 45'33, Yeah (Crass Version) and several moments on SoS - but there were so many bits that dragged or didn't quite hit the mark, and that third album was... well it was a difficult third album, wasn't it?

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

I do think he was able to rise above the reputation of "new wave revivalist" like say Cut Copy or similar acts. Murphy really did know how to get things done properly and did a great job not settling or pressing on when things looked to fizzle out. Still, I wonder how this band is going to be remembered in 20 years. Certainly "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" will still be played. "Yeah" and "Losing my Edge" too. I don't know if they'll be seen as some Dukes of Stratosphear-type gimmick or what. Bump this thread in 20 years, I guess

― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I may not get this out much these days, but god I love it so.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/03/19/lcd-soundsystem-sound-of-silver-2007/

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

Just listened to them last weekend for the first time UN a while. It was very refreshing. Still holds up great for me.

― how's life, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:24 (thirteen years ago)

Scik Mouthy, how would you compare TIS to SOS?

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:30 (thirteen years ago)

TIS?

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:38 (thirteen years ago)

This Is Somethinging?

― how's life, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

woops, TIH!

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:53 (thirteen years ago)

TIH is good, very good, but it's like a xerox of SOS in many ways.

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Did anyone at the time ever point out that the title track is essentially the Beta Band

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:05 (two years ago)

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