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Universal acclaim- based on 238 Ratings
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Positive: 217 out of 238
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Mixed: 11 out of 238
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Negative: 10 out of 238
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Jul 2, 2021
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Apr 24, 2018Though I'm glad this didn't end up being their last album, if it had, I don't see how James and the Soundsystem could have gone out any better
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Apr 15, 20189/10.......................................................................
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Aug 29, 2017
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Jan 15, 2016
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Jan 6, 2015What a load of junk, it sound cheap and computer-generated. There is no actual melody, even the voices are composed from 3 to 5 notes in no sensible way. I guess some teens are finding hidden meanings in all of it, otherwise I can't imagine how this is getting a good score. 2 out of 10, because at least it has a beat.
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Feb 16, 2012
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Feb 1, 2012This Is Happening was my favorite record from 2010. The LP has more of a rock sound than previous efforts, but still shows electronic flare. LCD Soundsystem will be missed.
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Jan 28, 2012The magic of the electronic LCD reached lofty levels. It's a unique feeling listening to songs like "All I Want" and "I Can Change." Wonderful album, where the limits are impossible in our hands.
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Oct 25, 2011LCD Soundsystem end on a good note. While this isn't as good as Sound of Silver, it's certainly better than their debut. I found this album to be a grower requiring multiple listens to really get into it.
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Oct 8, 2011The best but last album of this great project by James Murphy gets to it's end with remarkable songs and different lyrics. Not as great as Sound Of Silver, but great at the same way, songs like "I Can Change" e "Drunk Girls" show us that mr. Murphy might be the creative genious we-ve been looking for.
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Oct 6, 2011When "New York I love you" I literally cried. Great album for a great band. I had the pleasure of seeing their final concert, I will never forget it
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Aug 6, 2011Along with Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and Josh Ritter's So Runs the World Away, this was my favorite album of 2010. I'd hate for this to be the last LCD Soundsystem album, but we'll always have "Home".
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Apr 28, 2011
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Apr 8, 2011They say it's better to quit while still on top, and this is LCD at it's best. May not be as good as the magnificent Sound of Silver but it certainly holds its own. Now LCD has released 3 great albums, enough to earn a distinguished place in music history.
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Mar 22, 2011
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Nov 22, 2010The album should've been revisited before release, although the most beautiful thing about this album is that it's actually fun to listening to, but some of the songs need some editing for run time.
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Nov 12, 2010
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Nov 2, 2010
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Oct 21, 2010I can't stop listening to this album. The Dance Yourself Clean track is addicting. Please check it out this album. I love the genuine, and positive spirit and feel to the music and lyrics, you would have to quite thick headed not to percieve and appreciate this. Love it.
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Sep 14, 2010A hip, rocking album that puts other artists to shame, "Happening" has a lot of great jams and snyth tech beats, chugging along with LCD's off-beat lyrics its a must have for this year best music.
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Aug 13, 2010This Is Happening had the potential to be one of the greatest EPs of this generation. Instead, James Murphy has produced an album of three or four hits, intertwined with shameless time-consuming noise.
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Aug 13, 2010This is Happening wonâ
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ChelvisMJun 9, 2010By far LCD's worst effort yet. A sad recycling of the other albums. These lyrics are whack.
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drunkenstepdadrummyJun 5, 2010j. murphy et. al. are maturing. "derivative"?, nah, a lot of homage to best-of 80's dance pop and some of these tunes are ass shakers while others aint. innovative, memorable contributions from all the player's. i like it, i spent the $ & bough it, no regrets. actually is happening, actually a bit of a landmark.
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JackGMay 31, 2010
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ShannonTMay 27, 2010This is the best album of 2010!
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joycekMay 27, 2010Wow, I did not enjoy this at all! Way too slow and boring.
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THallMay 26, 2010
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MaxKMay 23, 2010Slightly disappointed with this album after the stellar Sound of Silver. Just a tiny bit too much balladry on here IMO. Still pretty kick-ass, though. Recommended.
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LeifHMay 23, 2010
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NickMay 22, 2010The album proclaims "You wanted a hit/Well maybe we don't do hits". If the charts were up to me, LCD Soundsystem would have had loads of hits by now.
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ChristopherMay 20, 2010More of the same. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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MarkFMay 20, 2010This is an excellent album, I'd say better than Sound of Silver. I don't really feel like writing much more, but I could go on for a while.
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TonyNMay 20, 2010I guarantee you James Murphy is going to pull a Jay-Z and make 15 other albums.
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KevinG.May 19, 2010Really really good.
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LukeMay 19, 2010Wow, this album is the extreme opposite of the last, which was amazing, except for "All My Friends." I think he let that song get to his head...this album is just so dull and one-dimensional. It really goes nowhere. People only love it because they're supposed to. It's really sad that he has to end it like THIS.
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DexStudMay 19, 2010Best dance album ever!!! Every track builds slowly and climaxes into audio splendor! Even better than Sound of Silver.
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mgMay 19, 2010This guy wants so much being the new talking heads that it hurts.
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andrewcMay 18, 2010Enjoyable but not mind-blowing.
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GeoffTMay 18, 2010Brilliant!
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SteveAMay 18, 2010At some point between LCD Soundsystem
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ZeusMay 18, 2010"...it doesn
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RodrigoTMay 18, 2010Very great album!
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Awards & Rankings
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This Is Happening suffers no shortage of really great songs. Each track is a well-executed study in the finer points of the long form, each thumping and building, wavering and shifting in the haze of its own self-contained ecosystem.
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While it’s certainly still working for him now—This Is Happening is, in all respects, LCD’s best album—it doesn’t take much to imagine the act becoming a tired gag a couple more albums down the line.
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What keeps Murphy from being an insufferable know-it-all is how he folds deeper emotions into his references....Older, snottier, his edge remains.