god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
which i think is actually BECAUSE of her voice which is just...there
the 1975 covered a 1D song today on Radio 1
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
time-honoured indie gimmick :\
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
My AltPress.com review.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:14 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
same
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
wow i really do not get this album at all. like i don't have the proper context to like it, is it a britpop thing or something?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
acts referenced so far itt:
("prime-time") 3rd Eye BlindJames Blake ("expiring")("next gen") Matchbox TwentyMy VitriolKitchens of DistinctionPooleRobbie WilliamsA Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")The House of LovePlaceboParamore("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile("gauzy fake") U2GlasvegasWham!("bience")Snow PatrolWang ChungFun Boy ThreeGeneral PublicJohn MayerVampire WeekendMy Chemical RomanceThe StreetsSavage GardenThe OutfieldM83Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")Hot Hot Heat
― max, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i only like about 2 of these bands so maybe that's the problem
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
which 2
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
lol at anyone referencing poole (though "car" is probably the second-best indie rock song called "car" ever)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
vampire weekend and wham!, obviously
lol at anyone referencing poole
Fine, be that way.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVXmzHY1lU
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
that's lovely
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
way to make a one direction song kinda sound like a stripped down "angel of mine"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
studio vibes unreasonably suited toward this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaT1dWMnCCY
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
otm noodle posts today
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
their other remixes are hot garbage so you might never have to
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Lex not liking this is not shocking. Him not hearing the hooks in the Paramore album is a bit befuddling. It's got hooks for days.
― Greer, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
I have tried so many times with that album but to no avail, every time I start wondering when it'll end about halfway through and I can never remember any of it when it ends. It's like if ashlee simpson made a really samey, really long, really one-note and personality-free album
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Like I can hear exactly how it should hit the spot for me but the songs are just not there
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
p tenuous posturing even for u tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
they sound like guster
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
and dispatch
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
man those bands suck
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
PRITCHFOKR SPAEKS
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18467-the-1975-the-1975/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Damn. Fucking lack of middle 8's. A rookie mistake.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
it's like he's butthurt they kept changing their name
― prolego, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
Is this album something I need to hear if I didn't like all their early stuff, or does this band still just sound like regurgitated Bloc Party?
― Evan R, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
evan : i actually think this thread answers that very question
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
I didn't mean to be rude or lazy; I just read the posts under the "now skipping" jump and still couldn't really get a sense of whether this is something people are repping for or not
― Evan R, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
no worries evan.
i did not mean to be snappy .. tis not my groove.
to answer your question : this thread implies that they are indeed ripping off bloc party (to a degree)
several ilm'rs love this album with a passion rarely seen in bits and bytes round these parts, the rest it's a resigned : 'meh ... '
for the record i'm with the 'meh .. '
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
ha I never really got too deeply into Bloc Party so my reaction to it was "this seems to be like a more successful version of what I think the Franz Ferdinand album is trying to do", an opinion I formed by playing three songs off of FF, getting bored, and switching over to The 1975
― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
bloc party had that one decent song
― fresh (crüt), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
It doesn't take much for me to dismiss British buzz bands. I've been burned so, so many times (and the funny thing is I usually like the influences those bands are playing with, but they almost never add anything to them)
― Evan R, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
And I liked that first Bloc Party album, too, but I don't need a second helping of more of the same. British post-punk is some of my favorite music ever, but the revival stuff gets more dire every year
― Evan R, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
Given my first exposure to the band was listening to the EPs without prior exposure to the singles I'm finding people's reference points really curious even when objectively they make sense - but it's hard for me to conceive of a band who make songs like "Haunt // Bed" or "fallingforyou" as "ripping off Bloc Party".
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Oh dear. And I was going to upload the new Franz Ferdinand to my iPod for a plane ride tomorrow.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
the fourth song on the new FF is the only good one, DJP!
― monotony, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
i can't believe you have any time for franz ferdinand alfred smh, i thought you were proud of your taste
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
I have a lot of affection for about an album's worth of material.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
the fact is, if they had tried to rip off the departure then i would be more interested.
(now thats just bloody weird .. banquet has just dropped on the playlist .. )
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Haha lex don't ever look at Alfred's people's list.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
The only song by The 1975 that I think sounds like Bloc Party would be "Sex", but that might just be due to my limited understanding of what Bloc Party sounds lke.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
"chocolate" is such a great track. not too sure about the rest of the e.p. though
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
"The City" is pretty Bloc Party, but the resemblance stops after those two tracks.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
― Evan R, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:05 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark
white rose movement!
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
this album gets pretty dire for me when they slow down the tempo. i'm also puzzled as to how they had enough material to release a deluxe 2 CD EP. also puzzled by all the interludes (and, upon relistening to the paramore album, the interludes there as well).
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
― Tim F,
ha -- which?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link