Lyrics to this are truly ridic.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
the 1975 is a superlatively dope name for a band that sounds like 80's music imo
― james brooks, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
I think it's very important this band has a "The" in their name.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
imago have you ever listened to "haunt // bed"
― Tim F, Monday, October 12, 2015 8:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
o hey they can do mbv-inflected balearic vibez q well, reminds me of Strategy a bit (were u a fan? surely)
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:23 (eight years ago) link
haha shit, they're not only still around but they had an album out this year
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:27 (eight years ago) link
Of Strategy I only know (but love) 'Future Rock'. I vaguely recall they went quite minimal ambient after that?
The reason I asked re "Haunt // Bed" is that, for me at least (and maybe others in this thread) that kind of thing was a big part of the initial attraction of this band, rather than they looked like they might become "pop royalty" or whatever. And there's a lot of material on their EPs in this general vein - "Facedown", "Intro/Set 3", "Undo", "Anobrain", "Fallingforyou". They even did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im87CVVb46M
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 October 2015 12:01 (eight years ago) link
This sounds alot like the Sound and Vision version of Bowie's "Fame", doesn't it?
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
You mean Fame 90?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-qDhR2shQ
Then yes, yes it does.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't remember the year.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 09:39 (eight years ago) link
There's a lot of Notorious/Big Thing-era Duran Duran in this too.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
What an amazing piece of filmmaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5bZuUlftI
― cpl593H, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
sloppy rig imo, put a jacket on
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
also lol @ the Charli XCX and Rita Ora cardboard cut outs
I bet Rita Ora is horrified to be included.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
I almost died when i saw him kissing the harry styles cardboard cut out.
― Nourry, Friday, 30 October 2015 06:19 (eight years ago) link
this video is my sexuality
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Did I die? Am I in heaven? omg
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
just a teeeny bit of michael hutchence realness too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
maybe it's the shirtless flailing but this song has started to make me think of an alternate-universe bubblegum Jane's Addiction
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Is there an alternate universe where this Sideshow Bob-fronted atrocity doesn't exist? I'd be down on my knees praying for one, if this wasn't enough proof that there is no God.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, Hutchence totally came to my mind when I saw the video.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
He always reminded my of some long lost white Wayans
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
i'm of course watching live videos of the new songs. "change of heart" sounds like their "say hello wave goodbye." "she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2 but i don't mind that at all
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
and "the sound" is like their aesthetic applied to disco, and is the most exciting of the three
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
anyone who wants to spoil themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-YVJ9icDI
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
"she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2
i'm crying already
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
the last minute of "change of heart" my heart is bursting open & i'm in agony
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
YES.
Though LOL at "you used to have a race straight out a magazine" and "I never found love in the city".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
They... Can't seriously propose to pass "She's American" off as a new song can they?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
lol it's so "settle down"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
i never found love in the cityi just sat in self-pity and cried in the cari just had a change of heart
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
"change of heart"'s lyrics are all crazy good (when you were coming across as clever / and you lit the wrong end of a cigarette)
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
oh.... oh boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARWzRGlfvs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
this is the one
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
lol look @ me just watching shitty live videos of new songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
their "say hello wave goodbye."
smh at you comparing this band to the greats here.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
get out turrican
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
u would totally love this band with a different singer prob
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
like we would love this thread with a diff turrican
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Hello!
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
"somebody else" is prob the best fusion of the ep and lp 1975 yet?
*makes extreme pronouncement about v poor quality youtube video*
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
imaglol
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm in fact open to being cool with these guys, esp after that ep track Tim F posted
more stuff like "we represent the declining standards we've come to accept" pls
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Listen to this as well Imago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfyOrAjq4YU
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
really wish we were getting a collection of eps around this record but oh well
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
^^^^ Yeah I bet there's some amazing stuff that simply won't see the light of day as a result.
OTOH, OMG at "Somebody Else".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
lol i'm already wearing this album out
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link