the 1975

"inside your mind", "i couldn't be more in love" and "i always wanna die (sometimes)" immediately the 3 best songs i've ever heard

your memories are sceneries
for things you said but never really meant

Y'know, for all of the use of autotune as effect on this album, I feel that the record also contains some of Healy's best singing, particularly on the ballads/slower tracks: 'Inside Your Mind', 'Surrounded by Heads and Bodies' and particularly 'I Couldn't Be More in Love' ... I know that there's been some criticism about the number of ballads on this new one upthread, but I genuinely believe that many of the ballads are highlights.

Having said that, if I was asked to pick favourites from this album, I'd probably near enough name the whole album as this point.

Another thing I'm beginning to appreciate about this band is the way they place some of their older musical ideas in new contexts. It's not just that they have a different version of their "theme tune" on each album, it's the way 'Lostmyhead' is an extension of 'Facedown', or the way 'How to Draw' is treated in comparison to the earlier piano-led version. I suppose the similarity between 'Settle Down' and 'She's American' was intentional, too.

we're fucking in a car
shooting heroin

increasingly convinced that Love It If We Made It is song of the year

Surrounded by heads and bodies is only me and Ross. Ross played bass. I played everything else. George and Hann produced it. And this is the only song where George sings a line #abiior

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 1, 2018

You’re supposed to be like ‘you played drums!?’ Not all ‘which line!? ooooo I love George’

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 1, 2018

increasingly convinced that Love It If We Made It is song of the year

― ufo, Sunday, December 2, 2018 4:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know if it's my song of the year, but it's one of them. I actually like it far more than the song it's obviously influenced by. Have you seen any of the live footage of it yet? It gets the crowd really fucking amped.

Agree there are too many ballads, agree ballads are the best part. Also think the album's great strength is that it is explicitly about heroin, which is sort of a shift from the expected coy shit a la, say, Jason Pierce.

Inside Your Mind is so pretty.

i put on the eps this morning. i still can't believe how good this song is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQox1ztjKA

and why stay if you hate it so much?
you think you're well cool
you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school

It's a great song. That and 'Antichrist' would be two easy picks for me to put on a personal best of.

I've got to admit that this new album was kind of a tough nut to crack, but I put it on when I went for a run this morning and it finally clicked. Not that it's particularly good music to run to, but it really did make me pay attention to the fine balancing act he is doing. It's a particularly compelling juxtaposition that he does not seem like some navel-gazing sad sack, just kind of compulsively transparent, or at least the character he thinks he is playing is.

I'm actually really glad that I waited until the album was released to hear the likes of 'Love It If We Made It' and 'TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME', because I just know I would have played those songs into the ground by now.

Trying to decide whether “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is more like Geneva’s “Tranquilizer” or Puressence’s “This Feeling”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzfKn-hlZwo

xpost -- pvmic for you and me because you and I might be the only people on the planet, including members of those two other bands, to know what's being talked about.

It's kinda amazing to me that they didn't end an album with anything as big and epic as 'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)' until their third one. Their first two end in a far more low-key way.

the way they've gone from really terrible music videos for the first album to some of the great ones they've done for the last two is such a turnaround

Trying to decide whether “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is more like Geneva’s “Tranquilizer” or Puressence’s “This Feeling”.

I think "Tranquilizer"? Which I seem to have bought both CD singles of back in the day. “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is a lot better than either though.

The first minute of "I Couldn't Be More In Love" (and to some extent the rest of the song) are very Provision-era Scritti Politti to me.

I think I have to come clean and admit this was never a metaphor. It's not about a girl. You know what it's about. And I've always felt weird about it. And I'm kind of sorry https://t.co/FQj88Z60nq via @YouTube

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

I just think it's important to recognise 'Medicine' considering 'It's Not Living' and the two perspectives. It's a journey; and it happens. And you're wrong and you're right at the same time. I love you guys you make my life worth living

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

And it makes me sad because I think Medicine is my favourite song and I don't know what that means

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

i liked but didn't really *get* "medicine" until i saw it live, both times it was the best part of their set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HzyUxtgco

matty <3

OMG somehow I have forgotten about Medicine since it came out - I keep all the albums and EPs on my phone except this never made it. Can't believe I've haven't been playing next to me/fallingforyou etc these last few years.

FUCKING IN A CAR
SHOOTING HEROIN

didn't think it possible but this songs's even bigger in the album context. strolling through the album for the first time rn.

This is great but 'The Man Who Married A Robot' is a cringe worthy OKC rip-off that should have been left off :(

The 1975 do not need *STATEMENT* songs or interludes ffs

agreed. this band (who I love) should hire me to edit down their tracklists and sequence their albums.

I fully endorse them hiring you as tracklist trimmer.

Rest of the album is obv as expected, great. The closer, wow.

Listened twice to this one, it’s better than their last one but I still don’t get them. Even the Disorder hommage (?) makes me want to listen to Joy Division instead and god knows I hate that band.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MYxNyeoedoJw

this is still going on but i think it's getting close to the end, they're playing "chocolate" rn

this may be the first normal haircut matty's ever had and it's weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpZaK9ApqI

the versions of sincerity is scary and love it if we made it are rly great

this rip might be better, i think the audio gets off track in the first link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfXQN_76VqM&t=324s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJm6tSWn418

I'm listening to this one and the audio has been good about halfway through. and agreed about those two songs in particular -- he really belts on "love it if we made it" in a way you don't see much from him

what a fucking ham, man. I love him

I think I finally get love it if we made it

watching the whole thing now. i just said it earlier today but "medicine" is so fucking awesome live

my friend told me last night she got me a ticket for seeing them end of next month, p excited for this

final track probs my fave of the new gems, but love it if we made it gonna be an anthem for this age i think

ill be a little disappointed if they don't close their shows with i always wanna die this tour

Was kiiiinda wondering what he'd say when this quote start going around.

This bit of me talking in an interview reads as patronising, uninformed and reductive. And to be fair it is. And I’d like to apologise....(thread) pic.twitter.com/UMO62lzVgn

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 5, 2018

Milkshake Matt

What pub was that in

matty is cancelled

mods delete thread

matt tea

whiney assuming you have some #bars in the chamber you've been holding back on 1975

Nah, record is pretty cool, though I could certainly do without the post-Bon Iver "Earnest white man pants into vocoder" shtick and the "What if Kitty Pryde wrote Fitter Happier" interlude. And also, of course, the entire discourse around this record.

from: https://www.thefader.com/2018/11/29/matty-healy-the-1975-a-brief-inquiry-into-online-relationships-interview

this happening in fader ... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIUQeSOFm0M

fuck