Name one problem with this album.
Protip: You can't.
snore-fest
not as good as sound of silver
>>60587344
It's far more varied than Sound of Silver...
I was gonna say that Somebody's Calling Me is a complete ripoff of Nightclubbing but I like that song anyways. The live version of All I Want is a million times better, that's all I can think of right now.
Most of the second half.
All I Want is overrated too.
>>60587306
Drunk Girls isn't longer.
>>60587373
but it's not better. it doesn't have the three song run of north american scum-someone great-all my friends for example
one touch is too long
>>60587378
Drunk girls is undeniably a rip off of White Light White heat though
I don't care for it too much tbqh
I still can't dance myself clean :(
>>60589055
I've always seen it as more of a homage
>>60587306
All I Want and Somebody's Calling Me
I prefer it to Sound of Silver but they're nearly equal. SoS is more consistent but This Is Happening has more top-quality tracks. It has higher highs and lower lows (but even the lows are still good).
>>60589219
All I Want is in the top 5 LCD tracks. This is one of the worst opinions I've seen on this board.
I could never believe the stigma against Somebody's Calling Me. That song is comfy as FUCK.
Also Dance Yrself Clean is like their best fucking song
>>60589249
>All I Want is in the top 5 LCD tracks
This is one of the worst opinions I've seen on this board.
>>60589219
All I Want is the best track desu
>>60589340
Just admit you have bad taste, it will make everything easier.
>>60587306
Drunk Girls
James Murphy's singing
>>60589219
>>60589340
fucking embarassing
>>60587306
>aging hipster takes old dance music and removes all the energy and passion
>>60589473
this
found it
>>60587306
the album cover is crooked 90 degrees to the right
>>60589608
How do you know it wasn't taken while he was falling?
>>60587306
I like that album. But it's far from flawless, m80.
>>60587306
somebody's calling me really brings it down.
>>60587306
>Murphy was already 40 when he penned This is Happening (DFA, 2010), and suddenly his limitations came to the fore: his lengthy high-tech ruminations were simply rehashing synth-pop, dance-punk and disco-music of the 1970s and 1980s. And his lame shout was certainly not making the imitations more appealing than the originals. The nine-minute hysterical threnody Dance Yrself Clean harks back to the Talking Heads' fusion of funk, electronics and rock (alas, minus David Byrne's neurotic genius). The eight-minute Home is emblematic of the general problem with Murphy's tactic: a slightly intricate beat is looped and repeated with minimal variations for a long time so that the vocals can sing a rather pedestrian melody over and over again and take their time in doing so. The throbbing eight-minute One Touch is pure fluff, and derivative of the age of Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue (1982). The (thankfully much shorter) single Drunk Girls crosses over into boogie-rock of the new wave (a` la Modern Lovers) with insistent tribal drumming. The same kind of methodic beat, leaning this time towards the disco, propels the decadent croon of All I Want, a bit like early Roxy Music. The very slow jazzy seven-minute Somebody's Calling Me sounds like a very slow cover of Donovan's Mellow Yellow. Plagiarizing the past classics is not necessarily a bad idea. The problem is that Murphy dilutes his imitations to the point that artistic pretenses border on self-mockery. What could have been a sprightly power-pop ditty, You Wanted A Hit, is stretched to become a midtempo nine-minute jam (three minutes of minimalist intro, an instrumental duet between atonal guitar and videogame noise). Regardless of the ambitions, I Can Change is just a trite ballad crooned by a bad singer and wrapped in electronic effects. Pow Pow is eight minutes of spoken-word (or, alternatively, of really slow and plain rapping) over the most trivial of beats. This music must be incredibly easy to make.
:-)
>>60589219
>>60589872
Can someone please explain to me why Somebody's Calling Me is so disliked? It's got a great tone and atmosphere and the beat is nice.
>>60589997
People come to an LCD album for maximalist, feelsy dance music, not minimalist, feelsy dance music
A good track can seem worse in the right context, just like the lighting on a piece of artwork can make it look better or worse
>>60590230
Huh. I think it works well in the context. It offers a sluggish, sleazy break from the excitement before the uplifting ending.
>>60589473
take an hour to pee
you wanted a hit
>muh rockist label quarreling about 'art'
>>60590475
Yeah, I like it too. I'm just saying that that's probably why people don't like it as much as they potentially could if it were on a different spot in the album/one a different album/released as a single (probably the way it would have been best recieved since it's so different from the usual LCD sound)
