yeah I meant more that it's only the opening stretch that feels unusual for them - their previous albums all have a clutch of big singles in at least relatively short succession after the opening eponymous track.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
I love the greta song, just a random observation
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
I prob said this before but it makes me think of Dune like it’s a diary entry from the princess irulan
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
this album is really, really addictive. not sure if i like it as much as the second album but man what a fucking band.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 28 May 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
one thing I hate about this band is that their songs are so hard to stack up against one another. is “yeah I know” the best song they’ve ever written? or is it “me and you together song”? whomst can say
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 May 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
what a preposterous fucking album, man. you go and get stoned on your day off, forget some of the tracks at the end until they pop up and you're all "ok, you're gonna go and hit me with a 'tonight' AFTER you've ALREADY given me "roadkill" and "the birthday party"??? and then "if you're too shy" is still to come. embarrassment of riches
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
look who's cancelled now!!!!!!!
― imago, Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
real talk: everyone get off fucking twitter
actually fuck it, let's just keep talking about the album lol. it's really good!
― imago, Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
lmao that is extreme nonsense
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
we should cancel all writers who have linked to their past work during the current situation
what actually "happened"
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
he said "#blacklivesmatter" and linked the video for "love it if we made it" and apparently got such blowback he deleted his twitter
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
lmao
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
doofus move, total overreaction, sounds about right.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
hahahahaha
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 May 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
matty = perpetual 22 year old who has somehow forgotten that he’s now in his 30’s lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 May 2020 05:59 (four years ago) link
i have burning desire to hear "tonight (i wish i was your boy)" chopped & screwed with some houston legend like say big moe (rip) riffing over it
― tpp, Friday, 29 May 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
Having No Head bangs like The Social Network soundtrack and you know it
― anza808, Friday, 29 May 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
you could make a killer EP out of just the uk garage tracks
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4iOeCPv96w
the new no rome track, produced by george, is great
― ufo, Saturday, 30 May 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
why are we not talking more about this amazing record
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 May 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
Nappieeeeees
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
happyyyyyyy
― J. Sam, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
today 'I Think There's Something You Should Know' is the best song ever. channeling some 'Menswear' vibes.
― Nourry, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
you guys are the best thing that ever happened to me
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
closest reference point i've come up with yet for the kitchen-sink eclecticism of this album is super furry animals' guerilla
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
first three songs in sequence today have me weepy
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
i feel like the exuberant stylistic promiscuity fits pretty tidily into their agonies and ecstasies of late capitalism thematic
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
and i seen the girls and they were all like"do you wanna come and get fucked up?"listen i got myself a missus, says there can't be any kissing"no, don't be a fridge, you better wise up, kidit’s all adderall now, it doesn't make you wanna do it"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
lyrically “the birthday party” is like the entire cosmos of the 1975 mapped out in a single song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
also my replacement copy of the record arrived today and it is an awesome radioactive sickly yellow-green color and i’mlistening to it now and it sure sounds like the best album ever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
“then because she goes” is like... a portal opens to a universe where every genre of guitar music i love is enfolded into one shimmer
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
really amazing how the bridge in “roadkill” turns this half-smirk of a song into the most beautiful and romantic thing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
the division of the album into four sides is really satisfying
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
― Heez, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
still not really into this one but I think I know better why at least. oh well!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
lyrically “the birthday party” is like the entire cosmos of the 1975 mapped out in a single song― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
'the birthday party' is becoming more and more one of their best songs, for sure.
― Nourry, Monday, 15 June 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
so, matty is spending quarantine working on new music and writing for a new album.
― Josh (phantompenguin), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
sure it’ll be out this december 2022
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
they've been making videos for every song on the record by outsourcing them to different digital artists. some are really uncanny and creepy and some are incredibly awesome. my favorite so far is "shiny collarbone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXj4XcZBwK4
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 13 July 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Wau THAT is the 1975? I'd never have guessed.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 July 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
everything is the 1975
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 July 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
I think my favourite for now is the video created for 'then because she goes'.my goal after this is to hear/watch the album as whole with these new images. because they always keep on giving.
https://youtu.be/CcoFDAujHgo
― Nourry, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
the whole thing has been playing on my mind
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 August 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
Why? You didn’t pay your electric bill or something?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 10 August 2020 04:49 (four years ago) link
the newest Song Exploder is about "The Birthday Party", time for more once-a-year listen to that podcast
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 15 August 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link
*my, goddammit
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 15 August 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
The Birthday party is probably top 5 of their best songs and one day the world will acknowledge it.
― Nourry, Saturday, 15 August 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
birthday party, me & you together song, if you're too shy are three of their best singles... also three of the best singles of this year
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 August 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link