Should have called it Shrewd Moves
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 12 October 2015 21:15 (ten years ago)
Lyrics to this are truly ridic.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 21:23 (ten years ago)
the 1975 is a superlatively dope name for a band that sounds like 80's music imo
― james brooks, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:26 (ten years ago)
I think it's very important this band has a "The" in their name.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 15:46 (ten years ago)
imago have you ever listened to "haunt // bed"
― Tim F, Monday, October 12, 2015 8:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
o hey they can do mbv-inflected balearic vibez q well, reminds me of Strategy a bit (were u a fan? surely)
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:23 (ten years ago)
haha shit, they're not only still around but they had an album out this year
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:27 (ten years ago)
Of Strategy I only know (but love) 'Future Rock'. I vaguely recall they went quite minimal ambient after that?
The reason I asked re "Haunt // Bed" is that, for me at least (and maybe others in this thread) that kind of thing was a big part of the initial attraction of this band, rather than they looked like they might become "pop royalty" or whatever. And there's a lot of material on their EPs in this general vein - "Facedown", "Intro/Set 3", "Undo", "Anobrain", "Fallingforyou". They even did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im87CVVb46M
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 October 2015 12:01 (ten years ago)
This sounds alot like the Sound and Vision version of Bowie's "Fame", doesn't it?
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 03:01 (ten years ago)
You mean Fame 90?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-qDhR2shQ
Then yes, yes it does.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 04:10 (ten years ago)
Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't remember the year.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 09:39 (ten years ago)
There's a lot of Notorious/Big Thing-era Duran Duran in this too.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:20 (ten years ago)
What an amazing piece of filmmaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5bZuUlftI
― cpl593H, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)
sloppy rig imo, put a jacket on
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)
also lol @ the Charli XCX and Rita Ora cardboard cut outs
I bet Rita Ora is horrified to be included.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:53 (ten years ago)
I almost died when i saw him kissing the harry styles cardboard cut out.
― Nourry, Friday, 30 October 2015 06:19 (ten years ago)
this video is my sexuality
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:28 (ten years ago)
Did I die? Am I in heaven? omg
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:34 (ten years ago)
just a teeeny bit of michael hutchence realness too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (ten years ago)
maybe it's the shirtless flailing but this song has started to make me think of an alternate-universe bubblegum Jane's Addiction
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (ten years ago)
Is there an alternate universe where this Sideshow Bob-fronted atrocity doesn't exist? I'd be down on my knees praying for one, if this wasn't enough proof that there is no God.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)
You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:21 (ten years ago)
Yeah, Hutchence totally came to my mind when I saw the video.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 19:58 (ten years ago)
He always reminded my of some long lost white Wayans
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 00:36 (ten years ago)
i'm of course watching live videos of the new songs. "change of heart" sounds like their "say hello wave goodbye." "she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2 but i don't mind that at all
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:06 (ten years ago)
and "the sound" is like their aesthetic applied to disco, and is the most exciting of the three
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)
anyone who wants to spoil themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-YVJ9icDI
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:16 (ten years ago)
"she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2
i'm crying already
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:50 (ten years ago)
the last minute of "change of heart" my heart is bursting open & i'm in agony
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
YES.
Though LOL at "you used to have a race straight out a magazine" and "I never found love in the city".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:11 (ten years ago)
They... Can't seriously propose to pass "She's American" off as a new song can they?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:22 (ten years ago)
lol it's so "settle down"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)
i never found love in the cityi just sat in self-pity and cried in the cari just had a change of heart
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:47 (ten years ago)
"change of heart"'s lyrics are all crazy good (when you were coming across as clever / and you lit the wrong end of a cigarette)
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:48 (ten years ago)
oh.... oh boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARWzRGlfvs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:52 (ten years ago)
this is the one
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:57 (ten years ago)
lol look @ me just watching shitty live videos of new songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:58 (ten years ago)
their "say hello wave goodbye."
smh at you comparing this band to the greats here.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)
get out turrican
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:01 (ten years ago)
You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:03 (ten years ago)
u would totally love this band with a different singer prob
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:04 (ten years ago)
like we would love this thread with a diff turrican
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:11 (ten years ago)
Hello!
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:12 (ten years ago)
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:13 (ten years ago)
"somebody else" is prob the best fusion of the ep and lp 1975 yet?
*makes extreme pronouncement about v poor quality youtube video*
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:15 (ten years ago)
imaglol
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)
I'm in fact open to being cool with these guys, esp after that ep track Tim F posted
more stuff like "we represent the declining standards we've come to accept" pls
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:17 (ten years ago)
Listen to this as well Imago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfyOrAjq4YU
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:34 (ten years ago)
really wish we were getting a collection of eps around this record but oh well
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:37 (ten years ago)
^^^^ Yeah I bet there's some amazing stuff that simply won't see the light of day as a result.
OTOH, OMG at "Somebody Else".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:41 (ten years ago)