Too many ballads in the middle.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/the-1975s-matty-healy-dissects-every-song-on-a-brief-inquiry-into-online-relationships/
There was one moment while making the record that, if you could bottle it, it would be better than any other drug. I was sat in my car, and I had to get this line. I had, “Consultation, degradation, fossil-fueling masturbation/Immigration, liberal kitsch, kneeling on a pitch...” And then I had “excited to be indicted.” I had all these things, but I didn’t have that one bit in between. I needed seven syllables. And I’d just written the Kanye line, and I was thinking, “What else has he famously said?” Then it was like [sings triumphant melody] the syllable spaces of “I moved on her like a bitch” just went in, game show-style, and I was like, “Oh my god! I’ve got it!” And then [my bandmates] were like, “It’s another swear word.” And I was like, “Oh yeah, that’s a bit annoying.” But then I was like, “No, if we’re going to get censored, we’re going to get censored for verbatim quoting the leader of the free world.” That is the song in its essence. How weird is reality?
Of course the natural next step in the story is for someone to link this thread to Healy and have him see what that moment of inspiration has wrought
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
oh wow what a nice post
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
if your intention here is to slyly needle at and/or resurrect a months-old horrible argument: hey, don't do that
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
my friends and i are going to do our first listen thru the album on thursday with some kind of interesting visuals on mute in the background. (for our first listen thru Life of Pablo we played the animated Watership Down film on mute lol)
my brother suggested Tron. i think something that mirrors the blocky, neon-lit sound of their music is definitely a good idea (anime?)
any suggestions?
― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
hypernormalisation
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
tron would've been a good visual for i like it when you sleep, less so for this one
i can't 100 percent guarantee this is a good idea but: try playing the new one with koyaanisqatsi on mute
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
sans soleil would also prob work
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
i still can't get my head around loving this as a whole, though that may well come later on, but my god "i always wanna die (sometimes)"
― petey v, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
THX 1138 imo
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
i have a lot of thoughts about that song that pretty much all require a content warning for suicidal ideation xp
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
oh excellent suggestion simon
i have a lot of thoughts about that song that pretty much all require a content warning for suicidal ideation
lmao I tweeted something very similar
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
really any 70s sci-fi with a lot of open space will do. Solaris would be dope as well
yeah i was mostly thinking of something brighter and less actively digital than tron, solaris is another good one
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
honestly the Clooney/Sodes one might be a better fit
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
prettier people, for starters
Can't imagine watching the original Solaris without granting it my undivided attention.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
xp Hey sorry no needling was intended on my part, carry on
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
sorry for reacting so poorly, it was just a very bad time for everyone involved
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Honestly reading through that whole thing led to kind of a rough night for myself and I thought that post would provide some closure, really didn't mean any animosity Brad
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
<3
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
any suggestions?― caulk the wagon and float it
― caulk the wagon and float it
i'm imagining that 'southland tales' can be a good fit (but I'm obsessed with that film, so). and in some weird way, '#horror' by tara subkoff as well.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
omg lol southland tales is perfect
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
southland tales is perfect
with our without the 1975, that's always correct.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
or*
this must be my dream
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
my half-suggestion might be evangelion: death given the montage-like editing & runtime, it fits almost exactly if you append another song afterwards, but obv if you haven't seen the series etc
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
thank u all for the suggestions !
koyaaniqatsi & hypernormalization both occurred to me but i think i want to steer away from the actively dystopian/overwhelming vibe
my brother also initially suggested thx 1138 alongside tron, i'd never even heard of it til today! seems like a sign
― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
how does everyone in this thread have the exact same taste in movies as me
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
hivemind otm
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
also 'Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk'.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
and 'manhunter'.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
The 2-part Miami Vice pilot would be my vote
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
As others have said, there is a lot to take in here. My first thought and only really complaint is that I don't really like what they've done with the intro. The way the second version went into Love Me was a moment and this time it doesn't quite work.
I was never keen on the acoustic ballads that closed ILIWYS as they always felt so out of place. I love that this time round they've really given the album the big ending it deserves. Mine gives me George Michael's Kissing A Fool vibes and I Couldn’t Be In Love More is an even better version of Versace On The Floor. Holy crap at I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes). That chorus is incredible. It's a kind of power ballad meets some Britpop album closer from the late 90s (I feel bad saying this, but I get Mansun vibes from his falsetto). There's so much great stuff here, but I'm coming back to those three songs right now.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
the ballads could have worked to close ILIWYS but they just weren't as strong songs as the most of the album so it was an underwhelming ending. the closing trio on this one are fantastic though, if they want to do ballads then please more like those, or more like the synth ballads from the EPs which are still some of their best songs
― ufo, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
more matty interviewshttps://www.vulture.com/2018/11/interview-matty-healy-of-the-1975.htmlhttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-1975-matty-healy-interview-brief-inquiry-760583/
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Mansun mention otm, get kind of a Little Kix vibe from some of this
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
I can imagine them covering Forgive Me, almost
― imago, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Has anyone said Her for the movie thing. That might work.
― gman59, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
it's a little odd that this album's the real critical breakthrough when the last one was better and a bigger step up, but i guess that lead to more critics taking them seriously this time?
― ufo, Thursday, 29 November 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
^^ this has always been a thing, i think, although i also feel like i'm seeing it a bit more these days: critics, *very* generally speaking, really latching on to a great band approximately one album "late"
― alpine static, Thursday, 29 November 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
Bazingalatepassapedia: records that were light years better the ones indie dudes eventually endorsed as classics
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 November 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
BNM'd (8.5): https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-1975-a-brief-inquiry-into-online-relationships/
2 points up from their previous LP, so it checks out.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 29 November 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
Holy Shit! I had absolutely no idea who Matty's parents were until reading that Pitchfork review.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 29 November 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
Definitely there will be critical reactions to this album that reflect critics belatedly putting aside their prima facie assumptions about this band too late to get published articles about the second album.
But I would go further and say that I don't even really feel like the second album was a "step up" in a strong sense. Perhaps it seemed like one relative to the first album's laser eighties pop focus. But this band's capacities and proclivities have been fairly well established since the IV ep at the latest. They're still trying to find ways to top "Me" and "fallingforyou".
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 November 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
Also I have decided that all the songs on this album that purportedly are about cheating ("TootimeX3", "Be My Mistake") are actually about heroin.
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 November 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
the second album was a big step up in every way from the debut - songwriting, production, ambition, musical range. the debut wasn't bad or anything but it was just very solid pop rock for the most part with only a few hints of the sort of range they'd displayed on the EPs, though that's understandable though since the EP tracks were written after the debut was. they'd definitely demonstrated what they were capable of between the EPs and debut but then fully delivered on that and more on ILIWYS
but i completely agree that they've still yet to top Me and fallingforyou at that particular thing, those were the tracks that initially hooked me on this band
― ufo, Thursday, 29 November 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
No you're right - I meant more that ILIWYS only seemed *surprising* if one ignored the EP material. I agree it's a much more ambitious album than the debut.
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 November 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, November 29, 2018 6
From Lennon to New Order, 90 percent of artists write about drugs. It's all they know besides pillow density at a Radisson vs Courtyard Marriott
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link