I agree, but the last album is still better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
But they've never had an opener as good as Oh Baby,
better than 'Dance Yrself Clean'???
happy to see the turnaround in tenor itt. i'll listen to this at midnight, sounds good. never was super into LCD but i dig several songs here and there.
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
have loved all of the singles and cannot wait for this
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
'I used to' is really great
― iatee, Friday, 1 September 2017 05:38 (six years ago) link
Yes, I prefer Oh Baby to Dance Yrself Clean. Kitchen Person is right that it sounds very natural. DYC is very much an 'opener' and it feels a tiny bit forced. I still like it, but Oh Baby works better for me.
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 September 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
wow someone loves Remain in Light
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
Not as much as I love Oh Baby. Had it on repeat the last half hour. God, it's great.
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 September 2017 07:32 (six years ago) link
lol the cover art was for real
oh baby great opener (but dance yrself clean was genius)
― niels, Friday, 1 September 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
I was thinking that this was pretty good, prefer it to the last album, at least they didn't fuck it up, put it away and never listen again etc etc and then I got to Call The Police and realised it's actually fucking great.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 September 2017 08:14 (six years ago) link
The cover makes sense in light of the lyrics as well. Strange lack of Trump hot takes so far.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 September 2017 08:15 (six years ago) link
I've never really enjoyed their albums completely but this one is definitely the first one that feels like a complete effort.
"How Do You Sleep?" is my favorite so far.The descriptions I read of it before hearing it made it sounds like a long slough but instead every moment of it is engaging.The beginning of it almost sounds like if LCD started by trying to rip off "In a Lonely Place" by New Order and went somewhere else with the idea.
― yesca, Friday, 1 September 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
"Other Voices" really is a watered-down rewrite of "Born Under Punches," down to the Belew-like guitar squonk. But without the big, hooky chorus.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 1 September 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
This is boring me so far.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 September 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
I was talking about the album lol. there are 2 songs that straight rip Born Under Punches & The Great Curve
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
It's funny that there's a Cure ripoff on this album and it's not the song literally called "other voices"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
I Used To is the obvious Cure one but the vocals in Tonite from 3:50 really remind me of Disintegration
― ufo, Friday, 1 September 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
I think this is a much better final album than the last one. They should break up again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago,
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
Nah. This album at worst does nothing to advance the plot, but it does nothing to weaken the band's otherwise pretty solid catalog.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
I'd be cool with them breaking up again, though.
How Do You Sleep = Someone Not Great
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
This album and pretty much everything by LCD = something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
dull and bad as usual. maybe the second half will pick up?
we should have precovered this too
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
'i used to' slightly less dull and bad than most of their songs tbf
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
these posts still allow for them not usually being very dull and bad
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
he is almost the perfect hipster milquetoast. he's pathologically incapable of having an interesting idea. sometimes he executes an uninteresting idea well
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
idk, LCD definitely has tracks. Debuting your band with "Losing My Edge" was brilliant. "Someone Great" is a beautiful song. "Dance Yrself Clean" is great but overplayed for me.
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
all of those, especially someone great, are boring ideas executed well
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
what ideas are you talking about? the melodies, the arrangement, the voices used in the composition?
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
or whatever the song is an homage/pastiche of? bc that's one that I don't hear anything obvious in - feels very original
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
melody, arrangement, structure etc
someone great is especially well-done, is what I meant. and its bendy synth line is a really good boring idea
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Why is a bendy synth a boring idea? Please explain objectively.
― yesca, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
if a "boring idea" turns out to be a good song you might have to concede it was not in fact a bad idea
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
xxp we are too frequently satisfied having our pre-chorus before our chorus and it is booooooring
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
you know it's kind of strange that SoS's two best songs are nakedly earnest and autobiographical while the rest of the album is "It's TIME to get away-uhh"
― frogbs, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, September 1, 2017 8:17 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it wasn't a BAD idea! sometimes boring ideas are good ideas idk. it's a song i'm happy that exists, and i'm also happy to never hear ever
the bendy synth line in it is probably his best idea ever, but you'll have to convince me it's in any way interesting
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
i'm being harsh of course but every time i hear this band i just hear someone playing it almost aggressively safe, every time
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I think they play it safely LCD Soundsystem, but I can think of ways they could be "safer." Shorter songs, attempts to be funky rather than hypnotic ...
Personally, I would love to see/hear/read a piece where huge LCD fans hear the Talking Heads, Eno, Berlin Bowie or Joy Division for the first time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
vintage throwback lj here
He's never ever seemed interested in creating new sounds or genres, but in creating a world out of his favorite records/reference/vintage gear etc.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
that seems fair
― imago, Friday, 1 September 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
this record would be better if it wasn't an lcd soundsystem record
not because it matters what the band is called but because i think they would have made more interesting decisions about how to present these ideas if they were facing down the prospect of having to tour it without being able to lean on the old songs to make the shows good
the engine driving the old records was a dude who on paper was not supposed to be perceived as relevant daring to make relevant music
this is the inverse, it's someone who on paper is relevant by default daring to make a record that just absolutely isn't relevant
i'm sure there are good ideas here because he has had a lot of them and i doubt he stopped having them suddenly
i just don't enjoy listening to this enough to ever find them
― james brooks, Friday, 1 September 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
I think that's very fair and gets into what makes this "safe." You can see the wires attached in case something goes wrong and they fall.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
JM is the voltron of the killer record store nearby where he grew up
http://www.prex.com/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
other voices, as an evolution of pow pow with crosseyed and painless chorus grafted on, seems most guilty, but i still have time for it. so safe is a fair criticism of some tracks in so far as it's relative to their previous work. the album still feels like it has some new territory for them somehow. the increment is maybe smaller this time. breaking up and reuniting probably doesn't help my perception of that increment. i'm still enjoying this v much.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
call me stephensufjan stills
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
ok. third time through and maybe there's more TH on here than just one droopy crosseyed and painless chorus, lol
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
There's a 12 minute tribute to David Bowie on here, which goes completely instrumental for the last five minutes. The idea that this is 'safe' says more about how many things LCD has tried throughout their career than how little they try here.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
have not read this thread yet but played this album today. i think this is much better, on first listen, then the last record. i'm glad they came back and made more music.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 2 September 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
This is a really good album, much to my surprise and delight! I hadn't loved any tracks that were shared individually but everything makes sense, sonically, when you hear it as a whole.
Posts about the boringness of the ideas, or how boring ideas are manifested in this record on this thread seem like intellectual posturing, imo. I've seen an English person post about such and such being "milquetoast" - to use that phrase, I mean, come on, get over yourself/selves.
But I do think that there's something unsavoury about swooping in to a thread on an album that's a day old to tell everyone how boring it is - and the reason I know that is because I've do t it myself many years ago.
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Saturday, 2 September 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
(Apologies, phone post)
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Saturday, 2 September 2017 01:15 (six years ago) link