LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Pavement cover???!

laying it on a bit thick there arent we james?

All my troubles seem so far away...

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

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

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.

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.

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

haha xpost

it's 4 months not 5 but still.

generally comfortable disagreeing with bimble tbh

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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...

it's big on the circuit of web sites and magazines music geeks read is what he means

cant pretty much every really, really popular record (or like 99% of them) be described as "catchy-if-not-particularly-adventurous"

no
catchy seems to have become a rarified quality among "really, really popular records" imo

Stephen King definitely likes this record. It has a nice-sized role in the beginning of his new 1000+ epic, Under The Dome.

I actually am curious to read that, is it worth it y/n?

Are 600 pages of that just pop culture drops? Anderson Cooper was ribbed about how much he and Wolf Blitzer appear in that book.

"LCD Soundsystem will end your life!"

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.

ew

hahahah that's perfect

what sort of first name is "The"?

I'd assumed that was a parody but perhaps not.

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.

yeah I mean the rest is filler anyway

ha now THAT is a Stephen King scene

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.

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.

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"...

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

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.

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.

I've although thought "Drunk and Hot Girls" is incredible and one of the best tracks on Graduation

yay! someone finally agrees with me!

stop posting itt

the still untitled third album by LCD Soundsystem

YOU STOP POSTING IN THIS THREAD, JORDAN.

"Someone Great" has cemented itself in my personal musical canon. That song is untouchable.

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..

45:33 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Someone Great

DJP, I agree 100000% I'm not the hugest of LCD ss fans but someone great is perfect to me

got nothing in the least against someone grebt, but (sorry djp/lj) c'mon, all my friends

doesn't do much 4 me, tbh

[cries]

I think it only appeals to people who have friends

"sound of silver" vocals sounded really good mixed in Tim Sweeney's RA mix

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

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?

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

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/

Just listened to them last weekend for the first time UN a while. It was very refreshing. Still holds up great for me.

Scik Mouthy, how would you compare TIS to SOS?

TIS?

This Is Somethinging?

woops, TIH!

TIH is good, very good, but it's like a xerox of SOS in many ways.

Did anyone at the time ever point out that the title track is essentially the Beta Band