the 1975 - i like it when you sleep POLL

i wanted to vote "the ballad of me and my brain" but i stayed as close to my truth as possible and went with "if i believe you". i'm a sucker for it on a conceptional level (the 1975 doing a song with d'angelo band members) and that it turned out so good sealed it for me. "me and my brain" has his best vocal performance i think and some of my fav lyrics of his that aren't like really pushing absurdity envelope.

after that i would go with... ugh, change of heart, somebody else and the title track. the title track is what really blew my mind, that they could make a beat that good was crazy to me, and i like that it references the same era as the other songs but different artists... i hear janet by way of benoit and sergio once it really gets going.

anyway i could write about every song on this album but those are my thoughts for now

i'm in a dave and busters and the music video for "the sound" is playing

i heard the opening drum fill of "she's american" in a radio commercial and almost flipped my car over in excitement

i heard "loving someone" at my buddy turrican's house we both were like 'oh word?'

Lol

voted a change of heart
somebody else and paris runners up for me

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It was actually "eurgh, turd" and I said it after pretty much every song aside from 'UGH!' during which I said "'UGH!' is a turd"

"the sound" is perfectly placed after the run of four or five challenging songs in a row. this whole album is pretty much impeccably sequenced

I hope "She Lays Down" gets a vote.

tbh imo the last 2 songs shoulda been bonus tracks

Definitely. They're the only two songs on the album I don't have any time for. Paris would make a perfect closer.

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this album is basically all i've listened to since i started this poll

it's actually The Sound.

"Love Me"

change of heart

btw favorite lyrics on this are from "love me"

i'm just with my friends
online

for whatever reason this band has the most extreme disparity between how intensely i love them and how much luck I've had turning literally anyone onto them

same lol

funny because this band has the most extreme disparity between how intensely I dislike them and how much luck I've had losing friends because of it

heh

"loving someone" is pretty much an animal collective song

Flopson's post would be true for me as well but then I discovered lil peep

Lol

I voted for "This Must Be My Dream," which I figured out doesn't sound like Alexander O'Neal so much as a track from Human League's Crash, also produced by Jam-Lewis.

there are so many weird directions this album goes in but they all work. the title track kind of reminds me of owl city

ILM's shamful love of this band is my fave phenomenon.

lol OTM

I voted for "This Must Be My Dream," which I figured out doesn't sound like Alexander O'Neal so much as a track from Human League's Crash, also produced by Jam-Lewis.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah def. love is all that matters

Still don't know what to vote for. Few albums are so much more than the sum of their parts

oh yeah def. love is all that matters

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson)

my man

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that's the right top 3

a little surprised that no one else voted for "if i believe you" -- i see it as the album's centerpiece

i love it but it's too pastiche

Wow these results are surprising. "The Sound" seems low

i might be coming around to "a change of heart" being the correct answer

starting to crack the second half of the album. the title track, 'loving someone', 'paris', all crucial to me now. still not sure about the jesus one, 'this must be my dream', the shoegazey one, or the last 2

actually nah i love the jesus one

the jesus one = "if i believe you"?

ya

bro that's like the best one

it's got a sax solo and sounds like it came from the alexander o'neal christmas record

haha this is so otm

Increasingly convinced that "Paris" is their best song, edging out "Somebody Else" and "A Change of Heart." They're such a spotty band for me—makes sense when you make a 74 minute album indebted to a million disparate influences—but they've been on repeat since February 2016. Matt Healy can be insufferable (as on "Loving Someone" or "She's American," or in some of his interviews) but he's one of the funniest lyricists of the last couple years. "You said I'm full of diseases/Your eyes were full of regret/And then you took a picture of your salad/And put it on the Internet" would be a Drake lyric if he had a sense of humor. Moments in "The Sound" and "Paris" are also funny.

"You said I'm full of diseases/Your eyes were full of regret/And then you took a picture of your salad/And put it on the Internet" would be a Drake lyric if he had a sense of humor.

lol i've thought this to myself before

that line actually resonated for me tho no joke

like if you take diseases to not be literal lol u_u

"You're so conceited, I / said I don't love you / what does it matter if I lied to you?"

is a perfect lyric

"She's a pain in the nose/And I'm a pain in women's clothes/And you're a walking overdose in a great coat" and "Mr. Serotonin Man, lend me a gram/You call yourself a friend?"

are also great

i've got two left feet and i'm starting to cheat on my girlfriend again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI

I heard 'She's American' on holiday and liked the PSB-ness of the chord progression in the chorus. I enjoyed it far more than anything I'd heard circa the first album and kept humming the chorus. I decided to give the album a go and was incredibly surprised. Firstly by 'A Change of Heart', then the stretch from 'Please Be Naked' to 'The Ballad of Me and My Brain', but as the album wore on I realised I was listening to this stupendously long record that just kept delivering - it really felt like they'd put their all into making it, and I admired that.

I love how with 'Lostmyhead', they took elements of 'Facedown' and created something better out of them.

So much of people’s perceptions of this band are premised on what they first heard - i’ve always maintained that the pre-album EPs gave a very different impression than would have been given by the debut album alone, notwithstanding that they share several songs.

With the debut you’d be forgiven for thinking that the band was desperate for a hit and “about” these big pop-rock anthems with a few diversions and curios thrown in out of obligation, whereas the EPs (and in a different way the second album) basically reverse that formula. But once that the reversed impression is fixed in yr mind the first album sounds quite different.

I've had 'Paris' stuck in my head a fair bit today - one thing I like about this album is that it's quite well sequenced, just when you expect it to start flagging they pull something like 'Paris' out of the bag.

"...and had a revelation!"

Choir: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

I'll be very surprised if they better this record. The more I listen to it, the more I'm convinced it's one of the best of the decade.

def gotta throw your hands up in praise at that part. the choral harmonies really make that song.

i heard "loving someone" at my buddy turrican's house we both were like 'oh word?'

― sleepingbag, Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:08 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that must've been the turning point

That twofer of 'Please Be Naked' and 'Lostmyhead' is some beautiful shit.

And having that followed by The Ballad Of Me And My Brain. Quite something.