the 1975

I'm waiting to try and find a copy below $40

This is a joke, right? You're not seriously telling me that the vinyl costs four times as much as the CD?

This is extremely common nowadays.

Unfortunately I'm not joking about that price. Most modern records it's usually $12 for the CD and around $20 for the vinyl which seems reasonable to me. There are exceptions and this is sadly one of them.

from my very cursory investigation it looked like they actually tried to make the packaging for the i like it when you sleep vinyl actually worth the $40 where a lot of times it's just a record in a sleeve with a single piece of paper

and at least it's legit double album length, not like the recent trend of distributing albums that barely break 40 mins over four sides of vinyl.

this video is so fukkin dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trbwqF0d7NA

does anyone know what its referencing? i assume something specific

such a good video

listened for the first time this morning, cool album
this track and the title track early favs

Inspirations, from the hand typed PR from Matthew …

Fellini - The Clown (1970)
(make up/facial expressions/era/mood)
Michael Jackson as Charlie Chaplin
(Smile/childhood/messages of a better world)
Gene Kelly (Not as smooth, less confidence)
Bob Fosse (youtube various clips of Bob Fosse dancing. Around 6mins, the duet)
The Wiz (the way the feet shuffle when they walk up the yellow brick road for the first time)
The Cloud
www.richardclarkson.com
Robbers
la poesie est dans la rue
sense of resignation.
I want to convey the resignation in being a clown. i am have been and will always be a clown. i think it can tire people.
for the sake of subtext and self reference it should be in black and white. also more chic

i guess i should see the clown

Just been listening to my "highlights" of the second album and I think this flows nicely:

The 1975
UGH!
A Change of Heart
She's American
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
Somebody Else
I Like it When You Sleep...
The Sound
This Must Be My Dream

Hardly radical. Would maybe move "I Like It..." to the end.

no paris no credibility

Ah, good point well made.

The 1975
UGH!
A Change of Heart
She's American
The Sound
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
Somebody Else
This Must Be My Dream
Paris
I Like it When You Sleep...

no 1975 at all maximum credibility

No more changes

ideal version of this album has "The Ballad of Me and My Brain" play three times in a row.

But apart from that the correct short version of this album is:

I Like it When You Sleep...
The Sound
If I Believe You (HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF)
UGH!
She's American
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
This Must Be My Dream
Paris
Somebody Else
A Change of Heart (with extra two minutes of the final guitar loop)

Brad's right. No Paris, no credibility.

the lack of "nana", you're all psychopaths

If I believe you is a top 3 song...

yes

i like that in everyone's short version of the album no one got rid of the three long mostly instrumental tracks

"everyone" meaning, i guess, michaellambert and tim

I would not either

also "loving someone" is weird, it's easily my least favorite track on the album and yet i know several people who think it's the best thing ever

yeah "loving someone" is the only one i routinely skipz

skip...............

it would be a great bonus track maybe, but it's the only song that breaks the album's flow.I really like the song on its own though, the verses are where it's at, dull chorus though.

the production on the second verse of "if i believe you" routinely blows me away. the sudden choir bursts, the decaying percussion

the production on that entire song is unbelievable. the way his voice mutates slowly mutates into a robot's on the outro is one of my fav parts on the entire album.

it would be a great bonus track maybe, but it's the only song that breaks the album's flow.I really like the song on its own though, the verses are where it's at, dull chorus though.

― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, May 13, 2016 11:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the album is stylistically all over the place & better for it. chorus is awesome

i absolutely love "loving someone" but then i also enjoyed large swathes of the ed sheeran album so

WE'RE ALL HUMAN
WE'RE JUST LIKE YOU MAN
WE'RE SENTIENT OR SOMETHING OR OTHER I CAN'T REMEMBER WHATEVER

and i think it flows very well in the album, the "you should be loving someone" opening as the echoes of a ghost that haunts the characters of "somebody else" or something or other

be honest y'all are being unfair to it bc it's sandwiched btwn the 2 best songs of all time

idk it's grown on me a lot but it's still a lesser "so far it's alright"

also the thought of the album not starting with "the 1975" into "love me" is making me want to kill myself your tracklist edits are offensive

don't get me wrong I really really like Loving Someone it's just an awkward moment in the flow

I think this album's sprawlingness is a big part of its charm so my edit would keep it more or less as it is, with possible removal of If I Believe You to irritate the real headz

'if i believe you' is p good actually. i wouldn't change it at all

yeah jeez

i had to hear it not on a loud tube train where the subtleties were lost

this is srsly the most a band has ever improved between 1st and 2nd album tho

lol

I still like the first one more

The difference isn't as great as imago pretends anyway; if you work off the deluxe version of the debut it basically disappears.

Yeah

it's a big improvement but it's not like where they started is anywhere close to bad. the biggest improvement is probably just the increased focus on the production from having a bigger budget?

Loving Someone is definitely one of the weaker tracks but I wouldn't skip it, and it's better than So Far (It's Alright) for sure

"So Far (It's Alright)" has better lyrics - some of Matt's best probably.

yeah that really makes all the difference

plus laura nyro sample

via j dilla probably

the 1975

lol i was like "i know i found that out via this thread i just can't remember where or who mentioned it"

:)