man settle down -> heart out -> pressure is soooo good in this show
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
the show from "settle on" is basically untouchable, i loved all the sax parts
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
idk if this is coming knowledge but matt says they're recording a new album right now
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
for whatever reason one thing i kept thinking during this show is that 1975 are what bloc party could've or should've been... like if they weren't afraid of how good "i remember" was or kept making songs as dope as "flux" (i'm still sour)
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
common knowledge **
oh yeah he mentioned working on a new album last night, forgot
it'll be interesting bc most of the songs on the album are older than the songs on the eps
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
So are Healy and Swift an item? can you imagine their respective breakup albums omg
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:32 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure he's not her type
― prolego, Saturday, 6 December 2014 10:04 (nine years ago) link
I love the sax in 1975. That sealed it for me, listening to "Heart Out", then hearing the sax coming in and what were they thinking, these guys have totally lost it, they're not ordinary at all.
― cpl593H, Saturday, 6 December 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
xxport all the media reports are suggesting they're heading in that direction. Also she dated John Mayer so all bets are off really.
It def. makes sense to me that stuff like "Haunt // Bed" and "fallingforyou" were written after the majority of the album.
― Tim F, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Hey guys getting into this late obv, big fan here, etc
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
yessssssss
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I stupidly bought the version on Amazon that's like 16mp3s do I just by the other songs track by track or
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Deeeeeej yesssss
― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
the deluxe version with all the eps is $18 itself. don't know which is cheaper
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Also: who's written some good shit about this?
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
ithappens has written some great stuff about them for the guardian http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/31/1975-matt-healy-success-is-brittle
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic piece from Brad
http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147286-memory-as-sound--haim-the-1975-and-the-electricity-of-influence
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― prolego, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
wtf deej, get and read everything now
More specifically:
1. You really need every single EP track.
2. Brad's piece on 1975/Haim was one of my favourites of last year.
3. This is the first time I've read ithappens' interview though and it's great.
― Tim F, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
matt and taylor are totally a type imo -- i mean... john mayer, harry styles etc
also she's seen them twice on this tour and he's a total rock star on stage
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
rooting for them to get together so that it might help 1975 really breakout in the US next album
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Nah cos then it'll cost too much to see them
― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
i paid $60!
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Was discussing this with murgatroid and brad on Facebook: the main problem with them getting together is that he'd be an even better songwriting/production foil for her than fun. dude, which may be foreclosed by a six month forever // down in flames relationship.
Mind you given Matt is almost as details-focused as Taylor it could make for interesting she said / he said comparisons on their respective next albums.
― Tim F, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
I paid closeTo that too but don't want it to double!
― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
xpost It's kind of amazing and perfect that the two artists about whom I feel most fanficcy are on the verge of hooking up though.
― Tim F, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
imagine the DUETS you guys
we need to make this happen
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
i'm here for it just to see lex's reaction
― prolego, Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
well lex accepted taylor + jack antonoff so anything is possible when she's involved
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
i think if we tell him it's either Matt or Russell Brand, he'll be amenable
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
idk if i want anybody to date anybody who drinks a bottle of champagne on stage
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
yr so picky
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
true, i'm just mystified how he can still play guitar later in the set
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
Feel like deej getting into this band is the final missing piece of the puzzle in terms of an ilx hivemind compact.
― Tim F, Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
otm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
i listen to the album + brad's playlist of the other tracks pretty much constantly
i told a music industry friend how into this band i was and that i thought she would like them and she was APPALLED. she's been telling all her colleagues the hilarious story of how her friend thought she would like the 1975. "real rock music" people (is this a thing? idk) really hate this band!!
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Sunday, 7 December 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Heard 'girls' on the radio and finally had to get the album. Pretty good stuff... first new band I've really gotten into this year.
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 7 December 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
post that's been the reaction I've gotten too - they're dismissed as a boyband dressed up as rock.
― Tim F, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah and with certain people you get the combo of boy band dressed up like rock PLUS mainstream rock
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
they're the skid row of their day (minus the weird homophobic flare-ups)
― maura, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
They did get the award for worst band of 2013 by the NME, though that's probably a plus nowadays.
― cpl593H, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
I find it interesting that they seem so strongly disliked by a lot of people who, for instance, gave The Killers a free pass for so long.
― Tim F, Monday, 8 December 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
isnt there a song where they explicitly reference the killers lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
i can't think of what song you're thinking of deej unless you're referring to the "all my friends" quote that introduces "sex"
which lol/otm to mistaking that song for the killers
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
The boyband reaction is interesting because it's partly otm -- there's definite boyband dna in Healy's vocal approach (though maybe that's because "boyband" is the most recent reference point for what is essentially blue-eyed soul singing). Not that boyband should be an insult, but it's not like people who are hearing that are imagining it.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
i think there's a concision to the songwriting that scans as pop v much
its also produced very 'clean'
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 8 December 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
i'd think boyband (or at least boyband aimed at midteen rather than tween) is a totally reasonable surmise for a casual scanner, anything else would be unusual
name that sounds industry lazy + hot singer + girlhordes + jangly jaunty 'girls' and 'chocolate' radio singles etc
the unfair dismissal is perhaps that they haven't really had credit for being a really good boyband rather than for the underappreciation of the rest of their variform oeuvre (but then without instruction i doubt that penny would have dropped for me either in fairness)
― r|t|c, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
personally i had a hard enough time justifying bloody paramore past guitar acquaintances last year (lol proper angry unreconstructed rockism argument like it was 2002 ✌) so the notion that a cool norm might spot the interest in this lot on their own is super absurd to me tbh
― r|t|c, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
the boyband thing might also be in part due to their working with / being close with one direction
― katherine, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Is it possible they've gotten a lot better live the last year? I've never seen them live but their reputation in the Netherlands has been pretty much destroyed last year after some sloppy, mediocre, meh gigs, according to a unanimous press.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link