so, are we going to act like the LCD Soundsystem album didn't leak?

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Because it did. Almost four months before the release date. (Who the hell sends out/needs review copies this early?)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

um, print media dawg.

― blackmailismylife (blackmailismylife), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

4 months? Wasn't it always like, 6-8 weeks?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

as I recall, the promo was download only -- but isn't that even easier to leak than a CD copy?

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not posting to this thread in case the DFA lawyers hunt me down and KILL me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I only read about it on the DFA forum.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM GOING TO SUE YOU ALL IN THE POOP CHUTE

― GALKIN (DomPassantino), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

monkey butt

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hey i hope one day that britney track comes out because, as far as i or anyone else on ilm knows (or ever knew) that, uh, never has been heard anywhere, yeah.

― sterl clover (s_clover), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Was it called Monkey Butt?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I found a download link and it's great! It has like 5 long tracks with strings and a woman singing in a very high voice and a harp or something but it rules!

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the album any good then? Bearing in mind that I disliked the first album but liked the Nike thing. Don't want to waste ratio on it.

― jim (jim), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The people who've heard it over here seem to think it is, but then they are the fans, of course:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=2

(wtf "boring gear question" ? What's he doing there?)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt DC 1979

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i figured it would leak by thanksgiving, guess i was off

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

If I downloaded it, it would be better than their first one.

― OJ_M (StanM), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oh my. the first track is very bowie-tastic.

― ChristoC (Christo C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't want to waste ratio on it.

Reason #4947 that BT sux-a-lot. It discourages idle curiosity or anything that might have a negative impact on "ratio".

SLSK-4-EVAH.

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Tuesday, 5 December 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the twinkly glockenspiel section of the nike track is one of the tracks, with some additional singing over the top.

― jim mcbim (jim mcbim), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00001SVNH.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1116154483_.jpg I swear to god this is like the greatest thing evar for acid house

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ok I totally posted that in the wrong thread.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

who's to say you're not right though

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Bearing in mind that I disliked the first album but liked the Nike thing

same, and i am so far liking this. "someone great" makes a whole song out of one of the 45:33 sections

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

New York I Love You would be the best musical emo track i'd ever heard had i actually downloaded this illegally before it came out

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

track list, timings and song by song annotation please?

― pisces (pisces), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

James' reaction:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2080&start=22

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f209/sirdeaddude/waahmbulance.jpg

― jim (jim), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.kansai.com/kdc/2103/bfiKEdow.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

He also replied on the "James!!! How DO you feel man???" thread:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2087&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

If I had downloaded it, I wouldn't share it.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't get over how good "someone great" is. I'm really surprised.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, that DFA forum thread:

i know what you mean. i was pretty bummed when i found out that it leaked SO EARLY. when my friend texted me, my jaw kind of dropped, but i just couldn't resist downloading it and i'm in love.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 7 December 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"Someone Great" doesn't do it for me - I just don't dig the vocal at all, don't think it adds anything to the track. "All My Friends" on the other hand is great, a totally unexpected slice of alt rock/indie schmindie really, with guitars 'n' everything.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 7 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

He also replied on the "James!!! How DO you feel man???" thread:
http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2087&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
If I had downloaded it, I wouldn't share it.

-- StanM

I have no problem with artists getting bummed out at this kind of thing... I'm just surprised they aren't more aware that ONCE IT'S OUT, IT'S *OUT* though. It's not unusual for records to leak instantly anymore. Too much faith in human nature I guess.

I keep seeing the thread title as "so, are we going to act like the LCD Soundsystem album didn't suck?" which probably says something about me, or ILM. But I'll stop snarking (I haven't downloaded btw).

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

this is some kind of record though isn't it?

YSI ? (only joking)

― pisces (pisces), Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, in the "Orchestra Of Bubbles" thread that leaked before some people's review copies even arrived by post(!) so no, it's not a record, which is to say you can't get any faster once stuff begins to leak AS SOON as it's sent out.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

haha! i hadn't heard that *although* that reminds me -
HAIL TO THE THIEF was recorded then leaked before being mixed and mastered. the early unfinished versions are better than the finished product in some cases.

― pisces (pisces), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I stand corrected! :D

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

parody thread titles are played out, but it's really hard to resist starting one called "so, are we going to act like the LCD Soundsystem album didn't suck?"

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost lol someone already said that, sorry

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"All My Friends" on the other hand is great, a totally unexpected slice of alt rock/indie schmindie really, with guitars 'n' everything

like, yeah, the killers but better, much better

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear a lot of New Order in that track.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i have no p2p right now and DFA has done a remarkable job at hitting every blog that leaked tracks in the last few days.

― grady (grady), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

fingers in the dike

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i am really loving this album.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 8 December 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Just like the first time, I think they should have just added half the bonus CD to the main album.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly- ysi?

― grady (grady), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

man, "New York I Love You" is so great and different for them. it starts off w/something from beach boys's 'friends' and then into a mix of berlin/transformer lou reed and maybe pavement and then ends w/some weirdo emo shit.

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i am really loving this album.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

why i stopped frequenting the DFA forum a while back

― grady (grady), Saturday, 9 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Apart from 'All My Friends' I really do not like this album. Disappointing as I loved 45:33.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i really like "sound of silver" and "get innoculous".

― grady (grady), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Given a few listens, there's not a dud on here.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

StanM said:

"Just like the first time, I think they should have just added half the bonus CD to the main album."

What's on the bonus cd?

― matt2 (matt2), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

gorillaz remixes?

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

33:45 maybe?

― grady (grady), Sunday, 10 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes I know I'm going to listen to it in a minute here, if only I didn't have such a Beatles fetish...

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just kidding about that bonus CD, by the way. I thought nobody was falling for it, but thanks for still doing so :-)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 10 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the new Station To Station voice on Get Innocuous. I get a bit tired of the standard nasal JM tones sometimes. I also love the "coming up" choir tones of the title track. Reminds me of the DFA remix of UNKLE's In A State. Not so fond of Time To Get Away and Us Vs Them.

I have half an idea New York I Love You might be a terrible idea, but it somehow manages to get me pretty bad.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

otm.

so which ones are getting the remix treatment? and by who?

― grady (grady), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

which ones are getting the remix treatment

is this what we've become? YES

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I find myself resolutely not wanting to admit how great this album is. Just don't want to admit it. He really is taking his vocals seriously now isn't he? God, why did I have to wait until Sunday night to play this damn thing? It makes me want to take off work tomorrow.

I love that shit about the Silver Teenager, you know man. That is the shit. And "All My Friends" is like the one track that calls New Order to mind for some reason, just like "Tribulations" was on the last one.

And if my friend in New York never hears "New York, I love you..." then I'll kick his arse, for the serious.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

He makes it seem too easy. Why aren't there other acts doing this? Where is everyone else's heads at? I need to have "North American Scum" in my life, man. I NEED that shit.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Also please tell me "Someone Great" is about John Peel. Thanks.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

We'll have to ask James, I guess. It could be about an old girlfriend, but it does sound like it could be about a dead friend, too. Anyone's guess.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And "All My Friends" is like the one track that calls New Order to mind for some reason

Reason is obvious. Drums, bass, with this loping rhythm guitar just for color. Kind of this Only-New-Order combination.

"We set controls for the heart of the sun / One of the ways that we show our age."

Love.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

my pet theory is that someone great is about a miscarriage

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

but i really kinda think it is about a dead friend.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Missing the arguments they had while locked in the basement? Yeah. The only kind of locked in the basement arguing is about records.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Reason is obvious. Drums, bass, with this loping rhythm guitar just for color. Kind of this Only-New-Order combination.

Hmm...I thought maybe it had the same notes as Ceremony or something like that, same notes as some other NO song. I'm not enough of a muso to figure that out, though. At least, not right now.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm no huge muso, but I know New Order when I hear it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish he wouldn't sing. it really ruins the music

― jergins (jergins), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

you are so incredibly wrong right now.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

is this about the condos or about us or about his voice?

― jergins (jergins), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

heh. it's not about the condos. And his "voice" is hardly the issue. No one is claiming the guy is Sinatra or anything.

His vocals are sloppy, but they're also almost always winking and knowing and totally appropriate to what he's saying.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

do you mean they are ironically bad?

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean that you don't get it at all, and you should hush up.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slantmagazine.com/images/blog/colinfarrell.gif

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, that is the greatest gif ever

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

*_*

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

which ones are getting the remix treatment? and by who?

according to this interview, James Murphy!

― grady (grady), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Man does the album suck.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Man does the album suck.

Are you still listening to the first one? You must be.

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

So, I'm going to act like I didn't hear the LCD soundsystem album.

It's the graceful thing to do.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

There are a few songs on this that I'm not all that impressed with. That's all I'm going to say. 70% of it is great, no doubt.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gonna go 72.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank god it's easy to search the sandbox.

I was just going to say that as a long time anglophile, "North American Scum" is the absolute shit.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the "Blockbuster" yells in that song.

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I right that he says towards the end - "where the DJ plays on his phone"?

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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