those two jokers, identify thyselves
― Simon H., Thursday, 28 March 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
I’ll own up to it.
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
(That Said it was out of a genuine desire to see the song represented, not pure nose-thumbing)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, totally unsurprised by these results.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 28 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Owning up too. It was only my 2nd favourite track, but I thought enough people would have voted for LIIWMI anyway.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 March 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
ilx pollbot accepted my vote for "sincerity is scary" but not my earlier one for "i couldn't be more in love." then again maybe i never voted for "i couldn't be more in love" lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
Listening to this again, and feeling that 'Be My Mistake' and 'Inside Your Mind' should have at least got one vote each.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
i was thisclose to voting for inside your mind, shoulda pulled the trigger
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
inside your mind is top 3 for me for sure
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
kinda get why it would have no number one votes tho
it's an amazing song.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
I think this album could have been sequenced a lot better
it's weird how it comes in hot then end w/all slow jams
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
I’d be interested in suggestions of better sequencing because yeah I never got into this past the songs released early
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
start by removing "Be My Mistake" and "Man Who Married a Robot"
― Simon H., Monday, 8 April 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
Nah, start by removing 'Mine' and keep the rest.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Ha, I'm actually having a go at this now and this set of songs is actually proving to be a pain in the arse to sequence and include everything. The best I was able to come up with involved getting rid of 'Mine' from the main tracklisting (an easy one, as I don't like it) and 'Surrounded by Heads and Bodies', which seems to feel wrong no matter where I put it - so both ended up being hidden tracks in the '90s stylee!
(0. Mine - pre-gap hidden track)
1. The 19752. Give Yourself a Try3. TooTimeTooTimeTooTime4. Be My Mistake5. Love It If We Made It6. I Couldn't Be More In Love7. Sincerity Is Scary8. How to Draw / Petrichor9. I Like America & America Likes Me10. The Man Who Married a Robot / Love Theme11. Inside Your Mind12. It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)13. I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
(*gap*)
14. Surrounded by Heads and Bodies (hidden track)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
who will be bold enough to suggest moving "the 1975"
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
my resequencing:
The 1975Give Yourself A TryTOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIMELove It If We Made ItBe My MistakeSincerity Is ScaryHow To Draw / PetrichorI Like America & America Likes MeInside Your MindIt's Not Living (If It's Not With You)MineI Couldn't Be More In LoveI Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
― ufo, Monday, 8 April 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
There's also other factors to consider when compiling an album - things such as crossfades and gaps between the tracks. For mine, insert about 2 seconds of silence in between 'Sincerity is Scary' and 'How to Draw / Petrichor', crossfade the sounds at the end of 'Inside Your Mind' with the sounds at the beginning of 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' for a more seamless transition, and add about 3 seconds of gap between 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' and 'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)' ... I wish I could swap the opener for a better version of it, but given that's what they came up with then it is what it is.
(xxpost)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 8 April 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
Here's a hot take: imo this album is perfectly sequenced and its gradual descent into softness is one of its best features
Actually, no. Remove Be My Mistake and then it's perfectly sequenced. Before the full album came out and i'd just play the early singles on repeat, the transition from Love It If We Made It to Sincerity is Scary always worked so well. Also Be My Mistake sucks.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link
I like 'Be My Mistake' ... the only criticism I can level at it is that the arrangement is so bare that you can't help but focus on the lyric, which isn't one of Healy's best, and he isn't a great lyricist to begin with. Otherwise, it's quite pretty and far from the bland elevator muzak of 'Mine', which is some Harry Connick Jr. style shit direction which I hope is gone completely on the next album.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
resequencing records is not interesting
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
15. "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" 3
This song deserves better. One of the best 3 songs on the album, along with the two that placed highest in this poll.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
that one blew me away at first but then i cooled on it, likely because it’s the one that most betrays their well-hidden blurophilia
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
I was listening to the album tonight and I realised that 'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)' and 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' are the only moments on the album, for me, where they sound like a band. A lot of the rest sounds like it was either written from scratch or pieced together on computer, or a Healy solo performance was recorded to Pro Tools and overdubs were applied to that ('Be My Mistake', 'Inside Your Mind') ...
... I have to say, I'm not taken with some of the production/mixing on this record. Their first two albums - particularly the second - sound really thought out in the production department, but something like 'Give Yourself a Try' - even though I like it as a song - sounds like it was thrown together "in the box".
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
Not that there's anything wrong with the approaches they used to create, say, 'TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME' (on one hand) or 'Inside Your Mind' (on the other), but on their next record I'd like to hear them be more of a band.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
I would definitely appreciate a little more thematic cohesion in the next record
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 June 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
I like a couple of the zero-vote-getters on this poll ("Be My Mistake" especially), but generally speaking, they are spot on.
I will always lean toward "give us more and we can ignore/tolerate the stuff that's not up to par" as opposed to "release 9 songs every 5 years" (especially early or in a particularly fruitful period of a career) BUT I do hope that at some point someone in this band decides/learns to cut the weaklings and gives us a perfect 10-to-12-track album.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
I dunno, I'm listening to I Like It When You Sleep... again now, and even though it's 74 minutes long it's just breezing by. I think it was LJ that said that even though A Brief Inquiry... is a shorter record, it actually feels longer. I definitely agree with that. I love how rich and detailed the production is on I Like It When You Sleep..., too. It sounds like they were very focused making it. The first album actually plays like a Greatest Hits to me now that I'm willing to overlook how ropey Healy's vocals are on it at times.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
I don't disagree with any of that ... Sleep is a better, more focused album than the newer one, imo. But I still think there are 3 or 4 songs they should've/could've cut from Sleep.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah - I mean, they could have cropped 'Nana' and 'She Lays Down' off and had the album end on 'Paris' and I wouldn't have minded. Or cut 'Loving Someone' ... but I dunno, I'm glad they're there. I Like It When You Sleep... feels like a very generous record that I can't get enough of, whereas A Brief Inquiry... feels like too much.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link