LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening (Deluxe Edition)

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As the mastermind behind LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy has always knowingly played with rock-star tropes. So when he and his entourage were spotted around Hollywood dressed in head-to-toe white in the summer of 2009, it was clear the outfit’s third full-length would be the time-honoured LA album. Always on the nose, Murphy set up shop in a dilapidated mansion in Laurel Canyon that had once been the home of Errol Flynn, and where super-producer (and current owner) Rick Rubin had famously recorded the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ seminal <i>Blood Sugar Sex Magik</i>. (It was also rumoured that Harry Houdini had lived in the house, giving it a haunted reputation that members of the LCD entourage did little to dispel.) Throughout the recording of what would become 2010’s <i>This Is Happening</i>, Murphy and his housemates covered a wall with Polaroids of various hipster luminaries who’d dropped by the house for late-night shenanigans. The resulting album pays tribute to another famously haunted LA transplant: David Bowie. His influence can be found all over <i>This Is Happening</i>, from the louche strut of “Somebody’s Calling Me”—a sonic homage to Bowie’s “Nightclubbing” collaboration with Iggy Pop—to the cover image, which recalls the art of Bowie’s <i>Lodger</i> album. Another parallel with late-1970s Berlin-era Bowie is that the famously polyamorous star had recently become estranged from his wife Angie—and Murphy was still dealing with a divorce before he began writing the songs on <i>This Is Happening</i>. His feelings about romance at that time can be gleaned from lyrics like “Love is a murderer” (from “I Can Change”), while his complicated relationship with another consort, the music business, is neatly summed up in the title of “You Wanted A Hit”. (The punchline? “But maybe we don’t do hits.”) Hits or not, LCD Soundsystem was now big enough to be billed just below JAŸ-Z for Coachella 2010. But a month before that performance (and two months prior to the album’s release), Murphy announced that <i>This Is Happening</i> would be the final LCD Soundsystem album. Another rock-star trope—though many fans, rightfully, suspected LCD’s demise wasn’t actually happening.

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LCD Soundsystem

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  1. Dance Yrself Clean 8:56
  2. Drunk Girls 3:42
  3. One Touch 7:45
  4. All I Want 6:41
  5. I Can Change 5:55
  6. You Wanted a Hit 9:06
  7. Pow Pow 8:23
  8. Somebody's Calling Me 6:53
  9. Home 7:51
  10. Throw 10:00
  11. Oh You (Christmas Blues) 3:53
  12. Us v Them (London Session) 8:00
  13. All I Want (London Session) 6:29
  14. Drunk Girls (London Session) 3:41
  15. Get Innocuous! (London Session) 6:52
  16. Daft Punk Is Playing at My House (London Session) 5:03
  17. All My Friends (London Session) 7:31
  18. Pow Pow (London Session) 8:10
  19. I Can Change (London Session) 6:48
  20. Yr City Is a Sucker (London Session) 5:49