LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
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Album Review
Release date: 17 May 2010
Album Review: LCD Soundsystem - 'This Is Happening' (DFA/EMI)
He’s set the bar high, but if this is to be James Murphy’s swansong, it’s a brave and powerful way to bow out
LCD Soundsystem kicked off the last decade by making the mother of all rods for their own back. The band’s 2002 debut 12-inch ‘Losing My Edge’ can now arguably be called the best single of the noughties. A chromium-plated rave/rock monster, it celebrated the final breakdown between rave, punk and indie and emergent iPod culture. With a fucking killer beat. It was a meditation on the...
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- Dance Yrself Clean
- Drunk Girls
- One Touch
- All I Want
- I Can Change
- You Wanted A Hit
- Pow Pow
- Somebody's Calling Me
- Home
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LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening: Wikipedia Album Entry
The third LCD Soundsystem album to be released May 17th/18th via DFA records. 'Drunk Girls' is the first single to be released from the album.
According to Songfacts, This Is Happening was named the top album of 2010 by the Rhapsody music service. "LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is a consummate student of pop music, and the perfectly executed This Is Happening synthesizes '70s art rock, early '80s avant disco and '90s post-punk without sounding like self-conscious post-modern pastiche, which is no small achievement," observed Rhapsody CEO Sam Chennault.
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LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening Lyrics
LCD Soundsystem - Somebody's Calling Me Lyrics
Somebody's calling me to be my girl
Somebody's calling me to be my girl
But my hands don't work, they're more like feet
And the wake-up call, 'go back to sleep'
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls Lyrics
Drunk girls, drunk girls
Drunk girls, drunk girls
Drunk girls, drunk girls cause a couple of heart attacks
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean Lyrics
Walking up to me, expecting, walking up to me
Expecting words, it happens all the time
Present company, accept it, present company
Except the worst, it happens every night
LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit Lyrics
You wanted a hit but maybe we don't do hits
I try and try, it ends up feeling kind of wrong
You wanted it tough but is it ever tough enough?
No, nothing's ever tough enough until we hit the road
LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow Lyrics
From this position I will relax
From this position I can see the whole place
From this position, oh, oh, just relax
From this my position I make some stand
LCD Soundsystem - One Touch Lyrics
I don't think that we will be pleased with this
We have waited for a long time
I recall the promises made to us
We've been patient for a long time
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change Lyrics
Tell me a line
Make it easy for me
Open your arms
Dance with me until I feel alright
LCD Soundsystem - Home Lyrics
Home, home, home
Home, home, home
Take me home
LCD Soundsystem - All I Want Lyrics
Wait for the day you come home from the lonely part
And look for the girl who has put up with all of your shit
You never have needed anyone for so long
