we were due for another one of those
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
so apparently this isn't hitting spotify for a couple more weeks, UGH! is right...
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, February 26, 2016 10:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's on Tidal and Apple Music, though, so it's a good time to be crazy like me and use multiple streaming services
― some dude, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
he's the thread's greek chorus xp
― odysseus (imago), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
the sax sneaking in under the final chorus of "she's american" <3
― uberweiss, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Going to pat myself on the back for the final par of my review of the first album:
What first appears to be a weakness for the 1975 might turn out to be a strength. You wouldn't call theirs the most distinctive of sounds: you can point to almost all the elements of most any song here and tell where it came from. If that suggests there's still some musical character to be formed, it also means there's space to form it: they haven't got the curse of the sui generis band, condemned always to churn out decreasingly exciting simulacrums of their original statement. For the 1975, what comes next might be even better.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Friday, February 26, 2016 4:48 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nice. Agreed
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 26 February 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
also "nana" reminds me of "haunt/bed"
― uberweiss, Friday, 26 February 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Re favorite 80s. He likes lillo thomas. Thats...of course.
― bert newtown, Friday, 26 February 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link
Surprised he identifies Speaking In Tongues as indicative of the likely sound of their third album, it would seem like a diagonally backwards step to parts of the debut.
― Tim F, Friday, 26 February 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
actually I hear "Pull Up the Roots" on a few tracks
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
enjoyed him busting back at miko re hats as album name
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
one of my fav moments on this record is when the trumpet solo on "if i believe you" like melts right into the synth going into the outro. that entire song is very dense but also sort of loose and leisurely paced.
overall it's such a detailed album
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
they put this filter on maty's vocals as it fades out
anyway im tripping
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
literally?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:21 (eight years ago) link
if I needed to trip it wouldn't be to goddamn Pink Floyd, it'd be to The 1975 and Reagan speeches.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
if i'm lost, then how can i find myself
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
no im not literally tripping
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:34 (eight years ago) link
or literally tripping either...
i think "loving someone" is the only one that doesn't really work for me
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
That's the one I've seen singled out in reviews, too, but I like it. It's kinda DJ Shadow-y.
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
the sound is a jam
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
"loving someone" is "so far it's alright part ii"
ie great but not as great
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Loving Someone isn't the best on the album but I love the crystalline keys. it definitely improves on So Far (It's Alright) just by having something instead of a third verse
― ufo, Saturday, 27 February 2016 06:11 (eight years ago) link
nothing on this album touches "Somebody Else" or "If I Believe You" and that's OK, but they kinda make me long for a whole album of their extended/distended torch songs
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 February 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
*nothing else
Had no idea "White Lines" used a sample/interpolation until checking out the "Liquid Liquid" clip in that article
― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 February 2016 10:06 (eight years ago) link
"The Ballad of Me and My Brain" really is the best thing ever, perhaps implausibly.
― Tim F, Saturday, 27 February 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
otm
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 February 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
lol i love the early posts in this thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I would like to thank Alfred S0t0 for seguing "This Must Be My Dream" into "Criticize."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
"the sound" sounds like the biggest thing in the world after the title track
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
in that way it sort of resembles the sequencing of the eps, they way they'd bury their big singles within ambience and suggestion
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
Nice to see Andy Gill in the Independent deciding She Lays Down is about an addict girlfriend, rather than post natal depression. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-1975-i-like-it-when-you-sleep-for-you-are-so-beautiful-yet-so-unaware-of-it-contradictory-and-a6897916.html
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Sunday, 28 February 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Ugh
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 February 2016 12:01 (eight years ago) link
OOPS I DID IT AGAIN STARTED PLAYING
― uberweiss, Monday, 29 February 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
i am seeing them tonight for their Radio 1 gig in Kentish Town :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 February 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
im so mad at myself for not instantly realizing how stunning "somebody else" is
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 February 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
i was in the sleepiest normiest bar & grille in a sleepy midwestern town yesterday afternoon that had a very innocuous top-40 satellite radio feed playing and "love me" came on
― gr8080, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
The 1975 will win the battle to rule next Friday’s sales chart, with Adele likely #2. Things may be closer on the SPS chart, but Adele will have to stay relatively flat in order to challenge.
The U.K. band’s laboriously titled, saucily un-capitalized I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it sits at #1 on the iTunes album chart, followed by fellow debut This Unruly Mess I’ve Made by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Kelly Clarkson holds the #3 spot, with Adele currently at #4. Stay tuned for updates; in the meantime, here’s how the week’s top two debuts are shaping up:
The 1975 (Dirty Hit/Interscope) 90-100k album, 95-105k SPSMacklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore) 45-55k, 50-60k
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
saucily un-capitalized!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Easily the song I've replayed the most this year, with no sign of wearing it out.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 29 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l3894
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
crazy how you sit through an hour of this album and then "paris" just the most disarming song
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link
my heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyf4pnOPo5M
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2016 02:47 (eight years ago) link
Took my daughter down to the London pop-up shop on Sunday (because we were told we could come straight in). Felt guilty about queue jumping past several thousands people. And very self conscious as a middle aged man - was only there for my daughter. In consequence, I ended up letting her spend £170 of my money. Including £100 on a framed print of the Ballad of Me and My Brain photo (https://images.rapgenius.com/4526a817ad55bfdba66ec5c45bbc80d4.1000x666x1.jpg), for her room. It was billed as an edition of 1/1, so with a bit of luck that's my pension sorted.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
uh link above was ronghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l3syv
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link
"ugh" is kind of amaing live
i also love that the "ballad of me and my brain" image actually includes a sainsbury's lol
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
it is the very Sainsbury's from the song. The second window up on the far side of the street, cut in half by the corner of the Sainsbury's block, is Matthew's old flat in Shepherd's Bush.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
omg "if i believe you" live
ok i wasn't going to see them at barclays but now maybe i have to?
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
apparently there's a twitter...listening party? at 5 today? idk what that means.
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link