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― Nourry, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
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
i have always been correct about the 1975
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
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"i told her i only use it sometimes"
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
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The arts are pretty much a rich kids thing now
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, November 29, 2018 6:20 AM (three hours ago)
hmmmmmmmmmm
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
pretty surprised this is not up on streaming services yet with all the glowing reviews pouring in
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Drug is the love and I neeeeed to score
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
AND I'D LOVE IT IF WE MADE IT https://t.co/fKqyFxSHO0— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) November 29, 2018
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
lmao
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
that is a good ass tweet
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrqm8F7TgM
this is the bonus track on the japanese release of the album. it's also an old solo matty song
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
thank u, the 1975.
― Nourry, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
oh man that’s good
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
Wow, if I didn't read that (weirdly short/incomplete?) Pitchfork review I don't think I would have picked up on the now blatantly obvious Joy Division nod in "Give Yourself a Try." Certainly when we devised that huge list of comparisons that came up discussing the last record I doubt any of us expected to see Joy Division added to the litany.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
lmao at P4K bnm'ing this
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
I doubt any of us expected to see Joy Division added to the litany.
me, in the very first post: post-punk tendencies
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
WHAT ABOUT
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
THEEEEESE FEEEEEEEELINGS
i've got
which i wrote bc the bass line in "sex" reminded me of post-punk
xp
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
What if they pull a Sufjan and never release Notes on a Conditional Form or whatever it's supposed to be called
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
i v v v much hope they release it because i've been realizing how much a brief inquiry is blasted with daylight, and i really want to hear nighttime side
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
*looks both ways and speaks in a low whisper* i chatted w matty a few weeks ago and he was pretty adamant that the album will be coming out when they say... i had asked him about roy hargrove and he said roy played on a song that will be on the next album, but i also got the sense that the album making process is very fluid and i wouldn't put a ton of stock in the way he's described that album in the press so far
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 November 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
oh yeah i don't actually expect to get the night bus 1975 record i want
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
i'm thrilled hargrove is on another 1975 song, that rules
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
he mentioned on twitter that track is "Frail State of Mind"
― ufo, Thursday, 29 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link