i'm in a dave and busters and the music video for "the sound" is playing
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 March 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
i heard the opening drum fill of "she's american" in a radio commercial and almost flipped my car over in excitement
― joshywinty (josh), Thursday, 2 March 2017 06:42 (seven years ago) link
i heard "loving someone" at my buddy turrican's house we both were like 'oh word?'
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 2 March 2017 07:08 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 2 March 2017 07:21 (seven years ago) link
voted a change of heartsomebody else and paris runners up for me
― nxd, Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:39 (seven years ago) link
xx-post:
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"
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 2 March 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
"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
― k3vin k., Friday, 3 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
I hope "She Lays Down" gets a vote.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 4 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
tbh imo the last 2 songs shoulda been bonus tracks
― k3vin k., Saturday, 4 March 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Definitely. They're the only two songs on the album I don't have any time for. Paris would make a perfect closer.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 4 March 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
this album is basically all i've listened to since i started this poll
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 March 2017 01:29 (seven years ago) link
it's actually The Sound.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
"Love Me"
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:12 (seven years ago) link
change of heart
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
btw favorite lyrics on this are from "love me"
i'm just with my friends online
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
same lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
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
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
heh
― flopson, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
"loving someone" is pretty much an animal collective song
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
Flopson's post would be true for me as well but then I discovered lil peep
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
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, 9 March 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
there are so many weird directions this album goes in but they all work. the title track kind of reminds me of owl city
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 March 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
ILM's shamful love of this band is my fave phenomenon.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
lol OTM
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Still don't know what to vote for. Few albums are so much more than the sum of their parts
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson)
my man
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
that's the right top 3
― ufo, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
a little surprised that no one else voted for "if i believe you" -- i see it as the album's centerpiece
― k3vin k., Friday, 10 March 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
i love it but it's too pastiche
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Friday, 10 March 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
Wow these results are surprising. "The Sound" seems low
― monotony, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
i might be coming around to "a change of heart" being the correct answer
― k3vin k., Monday, 20 March 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
actually nah i love the jesus one
― flopson, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
the jesus one = "if i believe you"?
― k3vin k., Monday, 20 March 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
ya
― flopson, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
bro that's like the best one
― k3vin k., Monday, 20 March 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
it's got a sax solo and sounds like it came from the alexander o'neal christmas record
haha this is so otm
― flopson, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Handsome Bookor, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
"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
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
that line actually resonated for me tho no joke
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 March 2017 03:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 08:02 (seven years ago) link
"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
― Handsome Bookor, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
i've got two left feet and i'm starting to cheat on my girlfriend again
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link
for some reason "a change of heart" gives me vibes similar to modern vampires of the city as well as those of hats, so basically the best shit ever
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 March 2017 02:47 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
I love how with 'Lostmyhead', they took elements of 'Facedown' and created something better out of them.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link
"...and had a revelation!"
Choir: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
def gotta throw your hands up in praise at that part. the choral harmonies really make that song.
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Friday, 13 July 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:08 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Friday, 20 July 2018 07:01 (six years ago) link
that must've been the turning point
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Friday, 20 July 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link
That twofer of 'Please Be Naked' and 'Lostmyhead' is some beautiful shit.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 10 September 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
And having that followed by The Ballad Of Me And My Brain. Quite something.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link