The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden

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The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 19, 2014 (2014-04-19)
RecordedApril 2, 2011
Venue Madison Square Garden (Manhattan, New York)
Genre
Length188:00
Label
Producer James Murphy
LCD Soundsystem chronology
London Sessions
(2010)
The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden
(2014)
American Dream
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 4058/10 [2]
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The Line of Best FitStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo (6/10) [5]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]

The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden is a live album by American rock band LCD Soundsystem released in 2014. It is a near-unedited live recording of their final show held at Madison Square Garden in 2011. At the time, this was billed as the band's final show ever.

Contents

Release

The album was released on Record Store Day 2014 as a limited edition 5-LP box set. [10] This release has a dedicated mix overseen by James Murphy and mastered by Bob Weston that is advertised as "an entirely different mix to the movie". [11] In 2021, it was re-issued as a 3CD box set. [12]

Track listing

All songs written by James Murphy unless otherwise notated.

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dance Yrself Clean" 9:48
2."Drunk Girls"
3:40
3."I Can Change"
  • Murphy
  • Mahoney
6:23
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time to Get Away"
4:08
2."Get Innocuous!"
  • Murphy
  • Pope
6:53
3."Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" 5:15
4."Too Much Love" 4:42
Side C
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All My Friends"
  • Murphy
  • Mahoney
  • Pope
7:20
2."Tired/Heart of the Sunrise"2:58
3."45:33" ("Intro") 1:50
4."45:33" ("You Can't Hide") 4:58
Side D
No.TitleLength
1."Sound of Silver"4:58
2."45:33" ("Out in Space")10:25
3."45:33" ("Ships Talking")9:22
Side E
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Freak Out/Starry Eyes" 10:25
2."Us V Them"
  • Murphy
  • Mahoney
  • Pope
9:21
Side F
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."North American Scum" 5:20
2."Bye Bye Bayou" Alan Vega 4:42
Side G
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Wanted a Hit"
7:47
2."Tribulations" 4:51
3."Movement" 4:16
Side H
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Yeah (Crass Version)"12:35
2."Someone Great" 6:32
Side I
No.TitleLength
1."Losing My Edge" (interpolates "Ghost Rider" by Suicide and "Da Funk" by Daft Punk)8:48
2."Home"7:07
3."All I Want"5:54
Side J
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jump into the Fire" Harry Nilsson 7:16
2."New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" (interpolates music from Twin Peaks written by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch)
  • Murphy
  • Mahoney
  • Pope
9:55

Personnel

LCD Soundsystem

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2021)Peak
position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [13] 29

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