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HERE GOES.....

Dance Yrself Clean

Movement

Get Innocuous!

Daft Punk Is Playing at My House

Us Vs Them

Losing my Edge

Sound of Silver

Tribulations

North American Scum

All My Friends

45.33 Pt 1

Someone Great

Home

Yeah

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

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On 28/01/2016 at 11:37 PM, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

That's a bit like saying Pearl Jam sound like The Monkees, old son. At least come in here with valid criticism, if you really must be that guy (pun intended). 

hey i cant qoute all you lot BUT i listened to then [ i dont know there stuff may be i should give them a little more of a listen ] BUT i did listen to them and unfortunately old son that who they reminded me off ...now you cant say that PJ sound like the Monkees if you had said some band that was even in the same genre then id except your point BUT you didnt so i dont lol .........if as niel says there a likely act i have taken a better listen but like everyone some like this some like that and LCD is not my marmite ...

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1 hour ago, guypjfreak said:

hey i cant qoute all you lot BUT i listened to then [ i dont know there stuff may be i should give them a little more of a listen ] BUT i did listen to them and unfortunately old son that who they reminded me off ...now you cant say that PJ sound like the Monkees if you had said some band that was even in the same genre then id except your point BUT you didnt so i dont lol .........if as niel says there a likely act i have taken a better listen but like everyone some like this some like that and LCD is not my marmite ...

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd > Ten

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So if they play, what's the info that they would do Friday Other Stage? Because that is what it says on the rumour page...

At the moment that info seems to be worryingly pointing towards a potential Radiohead/LCD Soundsystem clash.


(Edit: Of course they could also be saving us from Muse)

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19 minutes ago, Memory Man said:

james & co will come up with the right setlist when tasked to do so, I have no doubt. i think people should just accept whatever they come up with and not necessarily request all the old ones!

In the present absence of any new ones, that may prove somewhat difficult ;) 

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2 hours ago, strummer77 said:

So if they play, what's the info that they would do Friday Other Stage? Because that is what it says on the rumour page...

At the moment that info seems to be worryingly pointing towards a potential Radiohead/LCD Soundsystem clash.


(Edit: Of course they could also be saving us from Muse)

somebody came on here a while back saying that they had info that LCD and New Order would be two of the Other headliners. New Order are now seemingly confirmed so would make sense that the other bit of info was correct too, plus Other headliner just seems like the best fit for them. hoping that they're actually headlining the Other on the Sunday vs Coldplay, leaving Radiohead clash-free

 

be interesting to see how many new songs (if any) they play in their Coachella set as the album undoubtedly won't be out by then. it'll be nice to see some new stuff added to the set as they've already toured the hell out of their old stuff, but christ will it be tough to see some songs get cut

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10 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

somebody came on here a while back saying that they had info that LCD and New Order would be two of the Other headliners. New Order are now seemingly confirmed so would make sense that the other bit of info was correct too, plus Other headliner just seems like the best fit for them. hoping that they're actually headlining the Other on the Sunday vs Coldplay, leaving Radiohead clash-free

Yep. Makes sense. Cheers

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11 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

That passed me by. Some fan I am, eh? If I ever see decent WiFi ever again, I may even listen to it. 

Yeah, apparently the reason they're back is because James has written loads more stuff:

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

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i write songs all the time. sometimes they’re just weird songs i sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that i sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about christmas, or new york. sometimes these songs live in my head for years and have verses upon verses added to them, almost infinitely. sometimes they’re just ghosts of ideas, and sometimes they’re fully-formed things which float in front of me, seeming like they’d be easy to make flesh, only to fight furiously as soon as i try to pin them down in any way. some of them i make with friends in a room with instrument things. only a tiny fraction of these ever become songs; get recorded, feel like something that should be shared. those ones, i write the title or some lyrics of down on a page in a little book i carry around. or i sing a bit of them into a tape recorder (or now a phone, i guess). i’ve been doing this since i was a kid.

early in 2015, i realized i had more of those than i’d ever had in my life. more of them than when i went in to make any lcd record, or when i recorded tapes upon tapes of terrible things in high school. just loads of them, and i found myself a little perplexed. if i record them, what do i do with them? maybe i shouldn’t record them at all? i considered that, which was in a way the easiest option, but it also seemed like a weird and arbitrary (and sort of cowardly) cop-out. but to record them—well then, suddenly i have, what—a record?

so i asked pat and nancy to come over to my apartment for coffee and told them: “i’m going to record some music. should i make up a band name, or make a “james murphy” record, or should it be lcd?” we all thought a good amount about it. we have had lives for the past 5 years, which has been nice, and those guys have made amazing music with museum of love, the juan maclean, and all sorts of other things. i’d managed to do a bunch of fun, dumb stuff which mostly annoyed people who were into the band because, well, subway turnstiles and a coffee aren’t lcd, basically.

at any rate, they both said “let’s make an lcd record”. you see, if they didn’t want to, which i’d half assumed, then there’s no such thing as lcd. imagine this: me making a record, calling it lcd, and then you go to the show and there’s just some guy playing drums over there, or some other person playing keyboards. horrifying. then imagine this: i make a “james murphy” record, or, i don’t know, an “everteen” record, or whatever made-up name i come up with, and there’s pat playing drums, and nancy. maybe al isn’t too busy with hot chip so he comes to play. what the fuck is that? here were our choices: 1. make music with your friends and call it something else, which seems hilarious (everteen) or egomaniacal to the point of sociopathic (james murphy solo record). 2. make music, but willfully exclude your friends because of the horrors in option 1. 3. make an lcd record with your friends, who want to make said record, and deal with whatever fall-out together. 4. don’t make music, to avoid the horrors of all of the above. 5. make music and, like, hide it somewhere.
we decided, clearly, on option 3, and i was fully prepared for a certain amount of “oh fuck that guy” over-it stuff—in fact welcomed it. it’s strangely energizing to have people who don’t make music themselves take potshots at you from the internet. and there’s always been a current of o.f.t.g. with me (i’m saying me and not us because, let’s be honest… no one hates anyone else in lcd, partially because they’re unhateable, and also because they have the wisdom to not shoot their mouths off nearly as much), and that’s just fine. i’m pretty used to it, and find it relatively funny.

but in my naiveté i hadn’t seen one thing coming:
there are people who don’t hate us at all, in fact who feel very attached to the band, and have put a lot of themselves into their care of us, who feel betrayed by us coming back and playing. who had traveled for or tried to go to the msg show, and who found it to be an important moment for them, which now to them feels cheapened. i just hadn’t considered that. i know—ridiculous on my part. i saw some comments online a few days ago from people who felt that way, and it blindsided me, and made me incredibly sad. i saw some other people replying with stuff like “if that’s what you cared about, and you don’t want them to play anymore, maybe you liked the band for pretty weird reasons”, and it made me think. the truth is, while i get what the replier is saying, i kind of side with the original complaint: if you cared a lot about our band, and you put a lot of yourself into that moment (or anything about us you chose), and you feel betrayed now, then i completely understand that. it’s your right to define what you love about a band, and it’s your right to decry their actions and words as you see fit, because it’s you, frankly, who have done much of the work to sustain that relationship, not the band. i was so clearly expecting the cynical cries of foul, that i hadn’t seen the heartfelt complaint coming. we’ve always talked about how we’d never betray anyone who cares about us, but here we are now. given the chance again to make new music with the people i care about, and who have given a big part of their lives to doing this weird thing together, and who wanted to do it again, i took it. and in doing so, i betrayed whoever feels betrayed by that action. i by no means think that everyone who liked our band feels bad right now. a lot of people who liked our band are very happy, and we’ve been pretty blown away by the almost overwhelmingly positive response. last night i sat with al and nancy in a weird italian bar and we talked about how fucking awesome it was that so many people were happy to have us back. but that doesn’t take away from those who feel hurt. to you i have to say: i’m seriously sorry. the only thing we can do now is get back into the studio and finish this record, and make it as fucking good as we can possibly make it. it needs to be better than anything we’ve done before, in my mind, because it won’t have the help of being the first time. and we have to play better than we’ve ever played, frankly. every show has to be better than the best show we’ve played before for anyone to even say “well, that was good. i mean, not as good as they used to be. but, you know. it was good.” we know all that. which is healthy for us, because it means we go back to war, like in the beginning. for us it was always war, but now it’s really with ourselves. maybe we have a chance to make it right.

in other, more pedantic news: we’re not just playing coachella. we’re playing all over. we’re not just having some reunion tour. we’re releasing a record (sometime this year—still working on it, actually), so this isn’t a victory lap or anything, which wouldn’t be of much interest to us. this is just the bus full of substitute teachers back from their coffee break with new music and the same weird gear—or as much of it as we still have (it’s very interesting to re-buy the same gear, and in some cases buy gear back from people you sold it to), and rambling around trying to be louder than everyone else. thank fuck we were never skinny and young. or at least i wasn’t. that always happens with bands… they aren’t fat when they come back, typically, just, i don’t know, thicker. i was lucky to start this band kind of fat and old, so there’s no, like “look how young they were!” shit to even find on the internet. i mean, we were younger and everything, but we weren’t young, if you know what i mean.

one last note: thank you to everyone who has been absurdly kind to us over the past 14 (!) years. if you have moved on and don’t like us anymore, that’s obviously ok, too. but please, if we ever gave you any joy, just find something new and good that blows you away, and post it on our facebook page or something with, like, “hey fuck you guys! this is the real shit!” so we can hear new good stuff. that would be the best for all of us.

 

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Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Yeah, apparently the reason they're back is because James has written loads more stuff:

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

 

Yeah I was aware of that, but until we hear it (unless that too has escaped me) then we can't really include it in our collective speculative set lists. 

 

13 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Sunday night would be ace, New York I Love You as one of the last things you hear this festival? Sounds great to me.

How regularly was that ever played?  I only saw them twice but I've never heard it. 

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8 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

pretty regularly! was used as the set closer for most of the shows on the final tour. not sure we'd get it at a festival though 

 

9 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

It's cropped up a few times. Reckon it'll be their standard closer on this tour.

Ah ok. I saw them on the Hot Chip double header and we got Home as the closer, which I was more than happy with cos they didn't play that at Glastonbury. 

Btw, there was an unofficial remix /cover album of SoS at the time called Sound Like Silver that was born of the old GYBO forum that had a decent version of New York I Love You on it, if memory serves. I think, like with All My Friends, the cover came out before the original. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

It's all gone a bit quiet here (I had to bump the thread from page 5)...

Getting a bit nervous about this one. With hopes of Radiohead headlining fading these guys playing takes on increased importance.

Is the poster who said LCD and New Order for the Other on Friday/Saturday still around?

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Just now, eFestivals said:

so despite everyone saying how popular LCD is you're not expecting Lovebox to sell out before the end of June....? :P

I love them to bits, but I never understood how they headlined Wireless (I went, not many other people did) and I don't know how they're headlining Coachella, Lovebox etc now.

Lovebox doesn't normally sell out in advance does it?

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Just now, DJ Cull said:

I love them to bits, but I never understood how they headlined Wireless (I went, not many other people did) and I don't know how they're headlining Coachella, Lovebox etc now.

Lovebox doesn't normally sell out in advance does it?

take a look for yourself at some past listings. If it doesn't say sold out in the 'cost' line in the info box and doesn't within the listing, then it didn't sell out as far as we're aware.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/lovebox

 

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