"Pop Pavement"... I don't even know what that means
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
ahahaha neither do i, but i feel you ned
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
It was a strange time.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
This music is so allusive of different reference points that are hard to reconcile together. Third Eye Blind, yes - the chorus on "Chocolate" being the other obvious orbital crossover point. Edward O says Robbie Williams for some tracks! Some of the more ambient stuff makes me think of A Mountain of One if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli. Ned says 80s "big music" generally but then also Kitchens of Distinction which I def. hear, and then makes me think of The House of Love a bit. But I also hear Placebo in their emoness and open searching for different ways to be big. And then of course (crossover) emo generally.
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Also I don't think this is even out yet but it takes the nascent 80s pop influence to new levels, feels like something from a big Hollywood soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77_BS9Pww0
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
when i first heard "sex" i was like "okay post-punk bassline, crossover emo everything else"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah totally
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
It also occurs to me that this band could have played every night at The Bronze and handily catered to any and every mood required by the narrative.
― Tim F, Monday, 17 June 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The Cityback to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track
back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track
Oh for sure, hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied). Was trying to figure out remember the sample source for that song you posted and figured it out...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gvptdghwowhich samples the last 40 seconds of thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 17 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied)
The advantage of their heyday being a dim, murky horror of shitbaggery means I can listen to the 1975 without such trammeling, for which I am eternally grateful.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
holy shit that's a dilla/laura nyro interpolation?
officially i think this band is smart as hell
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
lol Ned
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
The "Under our pet-ee-coats" line in "chocolate" is so well enunciated
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 22 June 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OEngTOA.jpg
1. The 19752. The City3. MONEY4. Chocolate5. Sex6. Talk!7. An Encounter8. Heart Out9. Settle Down10. Robbers11. Girls12. 1213. She Way Out14. Menswear15. Pressure16. Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?
out sept. 9th. 16 tracks feels like a bit much. feel really bad for "milk" and "you"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
I feel bad for everything on the EPs that was not a single.
I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
let's do this
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
same. when i fell in love with "sex" i had a "what the hell is this shit" reaction to the rest of the ep and man i was so wrong
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
OMG every single thing on that EP.
I feel like we haven't talked enough about their lyrics yet. So many awesome moments.
"She should 'use your hands in my spare time / we've got one thing in common, it's this tongue of mine'"
"Drink, f**k, spew... telephone you"
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
i can't exist within my own headso i exist alone in your bed
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
actually that might be "so i insist on haunting your bed" which, differently good
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
"oh well i'm coming to the end of 23," she said, "is that all right?""and it's coming to the end of you and me," she said, "is that all right?"how can you complain about life and talk about being boredif you just sit at pete's house playing video games, doing sniff that you can't afford
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
i was late but i arrivedi’m sorry but I’d rather be getting high than watching my family die
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
i could do this for a while haha
"Now I'm not trying to stop you, love / If we can't do anything we might as well just f**k"
""Oh I think I did something terrible to your body, don’t you mind? / I put your mother through hell, don’t you mind? / I had your brother as well, don’t you mind? Don’t you mind?"
(might be "I hurt your brother as well", not sure)
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
oh i was thinking 'bout killing myself, don't you mind?i love you, don't you mind? don't you mind?
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
NONE MORE EMO
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
PUMPT FOR ALBUM
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 24 June 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
these guys were awesome live. they opened with "head.cars.bending" which i thought might not function live but it was massive. they played about half new songs, all of which sounded great, one of which kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile, another ("settle down," i think) which gorgeously mined the same kind of gauzy fake u2 as "you"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
oh i guess via setlist.fm that cute jam/lewis/blue nile song is called "heart out"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
listening to the ep and yep, i'm sold on this - "me" is definitely hitting some kind of blue nile sweet-spot for me
― IKEA-Guinea (donna rouge), Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile
Geeked up for this even more now
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
re: "me"
The idea for ‘don’t you mind’ came quite naturally. I was i the process of writing this song and i found myself listening to that 10cc record ‘I’m not in love’. In that song the words ‘I’m not in love’ are used so frequently; as such a statement, that by the last chorus you think ‘….this guy is really in love’.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
"And why stay if you hate it so much? You think you're well cool / You just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school"
― Tim F, Sunday, 7 July 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
Funny how whether or not a band could have played the Bronze is an instantly recognizable descriptor. (Although it also makes me feel a bit old).
― MikoMcha, Monday, 8 July 2013 07:47 (ten years ago) link
haha at least by understanding you make me feel less simultaneously old/weird
― Tim F, Monday, 8 July 2013 08:26 (ten years ago) link
btw they totally rerecorded "sex" for the album
https://soundcloud.com/the1975/the-1975-sex
it sounds... cleaner. in a good way!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
idk i probably prefer the original tho
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
OG version is better but this is fine
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Sep 9th is too far away.
this is odd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIhXi-yiw8
anyway!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
oh and nsfw i guess. that was a surprise
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Bout what you'd expect with a song like that I guess.
― caek da killa (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 27 July 2013 06:12 (ten years ago) link
I struggle to imagine how "Sex" could possibly be improved on.
Kinda ridiculous how emotional I feel about these songs now.
― Tim F, Saturday, 27 July 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
#moremalenudity
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
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ok i am listening to them now
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
wow, "sex" is the shit
don't hear a ton of 3EB (whom i love) in them, but agree with ned on the shoegaze touchpoints. this is going to sound lame but the first thing i thought of was actually...glasvegas
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Wow not sure how you can't hear some 3eb in there!
― caek da killa (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
He may not have gotten to "Chocolate" or "The City" yet.
― Tim F, Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
is "this is how it starts" an explicit ref. to LCD's "all my friends"?
i think this is merely okay. maybe it will click. i have terrible taste now "anyway!"
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
i have heard this
even through an extremely low quality stream, uh, album of the year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
new song from some Apple+ TV show is gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZFDJgVa0w
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 17:37 (three months ago) link
i need an album by the 1975 focused in this vibe. unfortunately, that will never happen.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:01 (three months ago) link
self titled expanded edition -core, nice
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:51 (three months ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/matty-452970975/loads-of-crisps
full release of a demo from the notes sessions that matty teased on instagram ages ago
― ufo, Friday, 29 March 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link
yeah this rules
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:47 (one month ago) link
for the next album, can they get A.G. Cook instead of Antonoff plz
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 27 April 2024 06:44 (one month ago) link
i'm hoping they work with bj burton
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:26 (one month ago) link
they said they worked with him a little before making the last album but scrapped the sessions because they weren't really feeling another album with a focus on electronics right after notes or something like that?
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:28 (one month ago) link
Yeah I think that collab would be great, but Burton and basically anyone would excite me
― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:04 (one month ago) link
The last album is good but I wouldn't call it classic. It came after Notes on a Conditional Form so it had a lot to live up to and came up short.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:57 (four weeks ago) link