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)

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)

ew

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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