the 1975 - i like it when you sleep POLL

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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

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

"theremin" sound on Change of Heart is just a synth with the portamento cranked up to the max (imo)

at first 'somebody else' was my favorite but 'change of heart' has more replay imo

kinda overdosed on this record last year but i'm revisiting it today and it's... just so great

i'm just with my friends online

^^^^

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?'

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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.