same tbh
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
only way i could see it not being is if she releases an even better single
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
12 months is a loooooong time
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
"Juice" almost inspired me to post my first selfie video a couple weeks ago.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
i was an early Lizzo booster on this board and I certainly don't begrudge her success (or, nearly as important, what it means culturally for her to break through to the pop world) but the kind of pseudo-Bruno Mars, funk faking arena anthem rock she's doing with "Boys" is anathema to me.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:40 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
think it's in ILM's contract that there has to be one of these in every countdown
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
a dissenter?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
Here's a young plucky band y'all may have heard of.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cfga6PR.jpg
27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” – 252 points – 8 votesvideo
the 1975
Lyrically I think “TOOTIME” is really simple and direct in a way that complements the breezy atmosphere of the music well. – kevin k
"TooTimeTooTimeTooTime," which may be the catchiest thing they've ever done. - ilxor
oh fuck I didn't think this one was going to place lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
this really grew on me, it seemed relatively slight for them at first but now it just feels delightfully breezy
i wasn't sure if this would place, guess they're probably getting 4 tracks lol
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
ffs we're getting all four aren't we
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
possibly five
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
i thought they only placed one time, maybe it was two timesit'll probably be three times
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
one of which will be #1
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Can I change my vote in Simon's poll?
― jmm, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9
fuck you -- I was about to post this
can't be more than four times?
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
you place these boys sometimes
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
I like this song and no I will not be reflecting on what this says about my hatred for drake
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
it's much more joyous than any drake song
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
good song
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
great video too just sayin
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
only time Healy's been cute in a video ever
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
yeah the video rules
it's probably the happiest-sounding song about relationship drama i've ever heard and i'm not sure how they pulled it off
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn) at 2:57 31 Jan 19one of which will be #1
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:57 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if they place four times i can't decide whether the other one will be "give yourself a try" or "it's not living"
prob the former i guess
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
but also i really hope they don't place four times lol
think we'd need to rewind at that point
love it if they made it
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
the poll reform accelerationist in me is hoping for 5 placements
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
i reckon five
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:01 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I had no idea the lead singer of this band looked like Shia Labeouf pretending to be Ben Whishaw.
anyway, this might be the least hatable 1975 song I've ever listened to?
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
five would be wretched, especially as imo LIIWMI is the only great song this time around. the last album was so much better!
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
okay, let's give something completely different a try.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GbYx0K7.jpg
26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try” – 254 points – 9 votesvideo
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25726
“Give Yourself a Try” spills over with sincerity and solemnity. These characteristics have always been present in The 1975’s music, hidden with irony, or in the last two tracks of a long, long album, or buried in parenthesis — “Before you go (please don’t go)” — but they have never been so pronounced. From the gentle encouragement of the title to the wise old man lyrics (a sort of millennial “My Way”), any worries of self-help corniness are instantly dampened by Matty Healy’s careful, generous, knowing delivery. The characteristic musical steals are earnest too: Joy Division, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Postal Service, all bashed-up CDs on a Mancunian teenager’s shelf; the return to the parental home in a crisis. There are quotes from their own songs, too, because The 1975 are the only (white, rock-adjacent) band audacious enough to position themselves as equals to their greatest musical influences. Irony is present (“getting STDs at 27 really isn’t a vibe”), but spoken in the deadpan voice of a friend who has only ever been able to tell you that he wants to kill himself in the format of a joke. There are the familiar competing layers of profundity and jokes psyching each other out: Matty’s wide-eyed tribute to sincerity in the context of getting clean and surviving his 20s that introduced the song’s first radio play is repeated almost verbatim from a therapist’s couch by the coked-up rock star cliché he plays at the start. He knows that advice from a famous rich man is laughable, but he’s going to do it anyway… and I’m glad he has. Maybe I’m projecting, but I can hear the exhaustion that comes from rapidly switching emotional states for months and, specifically, the hopeful exhaustion of getting to the other side. It’s a culmination of the self-knowledge, the diagnosis, the reflection, the therapy. Even though I don’t know him, and it’s childish, it feels like Matty is two steps ahead of me, like he always is. Listening to “Give Yourself a Try” feels like readying myself to be exposed to the viscera of life while having my hand held by the person I love the most after months and months and months of mutual struggle. – Claire Biddles
Millions of people in their late 20s will deeply relate to the words of Matty Healy in “Give Yourself a Try”, not because he’s a bearer of truth — he’s equally prophet and charlatan — but because these are times so confusing, we tend to turn to the unreliable narrator to make some sense of them. Only in this generation, where the lines between irony and sincerity are so blurred, could we use (and need to use) the language of self-deprecation to convey hope, speak of isolation to form of communal bond, and co-opt a freakin’ Joy Division guitar line for a track that we all agree to call uplifting. - Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa
Both albums are equally bogged down by the leaden ballads.
xpost
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
come on
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
I mean at least it's outside the top 25
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
I like Boys better than Juice. That first 1975 song wouldn't make my top1000. That second one is just as bland.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
All 1975 from now on, maybe we'll get 1950 as a break?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
hahaha
wrong way round imo, i like "give yourself a try" a lot but i wish it switched things up a little bit more as it went on rather than just changing the guitar line in the third verse
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
also not sure what alfred is talking about, the last album wasn't anywhere near as heavy on the ballads and they were largely stronger ones too
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
personally i think this is the right way around
the chorus is so simple and yet it's the perfect amount of liftoff for the rest of the song
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
well, I lasted a minute and 25 secs into TOOTIME, which is about 40 seconds longer than the last track to place. Sounds like Owl City.
1 minute 10 = me giving Give Yourself A Try a try
― Jeff W, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
Sounds like Owl City.
i'll never get this comparison that everyone makes
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
tsj blurbs not doing this one any favors christ
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
i'm just assuming no one making that comparison actually remembers what owl city sounds like because it's been like a decade since "fireflies" now and who would want to remember that
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link