By all accounts from people who were at the show to those who watched the Pitchfork stream to those who tweeted about it early Sunday morning, LCD Soundsystem at Madison Square Garden was a last show of epic proportions. Over three and a half hours long, a humongous 29-song set split into five sets (full list below) that took in every facet of the band’s career from the first album to the superb 45:33 Nike mix, to random songs like ‘Bye Bye Bayou’ and a cover of ‘Jump In The Fire’. Appearances from Arcade Fire, Shit Robot and comedian/musician Reggie Watts all attributed a celebratory bowing out to the proceedings. Of course, the best moments are LCD’s most cherished songs ‘Someone Great’ , ‘Home’, ‘All My Friends’ ‘Yeah’ and a stirring Twin-Peaks intro’d version of ‘New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’ to end it all. Overall though, this was some last hurrah. A HELL OF A SET.
You can relive it all above. A torrent of the stream is here and an audio download is here.
Setlist:
Set 1:
2:10 Dance Yrself Clean (with “I’m Not In Love” by 10cc intro)
12:40 Drunk Girls
17:09 I Can Change
23:45 Time To Get Away
28:16 Get Innocuous!
35:18 Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
41:45 Too Much Love
46:53 All My Friends
55:30 Tired (with “Heart of the Sunrise” by Yes snippet)
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Set 2: (55:30 – 1:54.39)
45:33 Part One
45:33 Part Two (w/ Reggie Watts)
Sound of Silver
45:33 Part Four
45:33 Part Five (w/ Shit Robot)
45:33 Part Six
Freak Out/Starry Eyes
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Set 3:
1:54:39 Us v Them
2:04:00 North American Scum (with Arcade Fire)
2:11:45 Bye Bye Bayou (Alan Vega cover)
2:16:30 You Wanted A Hit
2:24:07 Tribulations
2:29:15 Movement
2:33:48 Yeah (Crass Version)
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Set 4:
2:45:30 Someone Great
2:53:06 Losing My Edge (With “Da Funk” by Daft Punk snippet)
3:03:36 Home
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Set 5:
3:15:53 All I Want
3:22:18 Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson Cover)
3:30:30 New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (with “Twin Peaks Theme” by Angelo Badalamenti intro)
I’ve seen them so many times at this stage that I wasn’t too impressed with all this Final Gig Ever talk.
But that looks like an absolute monster set.
It’s not until you see the breadth of the setlist that you realise just how special the gig had the potential to be. And it delivered.
is it just me or is ‘NY I love you’ the worst song ever to finish a set with? the first time i saw them the ended on it and completely killed an otherwise amazing show as far as I was concerned and the last night in Tripod he almost did it again to me … he played it second last! That said, they will be missed and as live shows go they are hard to top. Good on him for calling time at their peak – too many bands keep going too long and it’s just not pretty!
I am heavily in debt from flying over the gig, but I’d do it ten times over, it was amazing!!
or over to the gig even!