Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Just now, Gucci Piggy said: The final track is a certified banger tbf but the few tracks preceding it are boring. To paraphrase Bamber, I'm not saying the 1975 are bad, they're not. They're just not as good as Jessie J. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 @Mash011 flying into this thread right now like 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouseboy11 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 This is comfortably the worst thread on efests Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gucci Piggy Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Just now, Mouseboy11 said: This is comfortably the worst thread on efests Hardly surprising when it's a 75 thread started by Mash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 8 minutes ago, Mouseboy11 said: This is comfortably the worst thread on efests Mash making liking this band so hard. I think we’re only a few pages away from some Matty-George slash fiction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 OK, finally got to finish the album. Also read the interview with Healy in Q this morning, which puts it all in a bit of context. Some good stuff on there I think, so definitely not a bad album. LIIWMI and Always Wanna Die are great, some of the slower ones are actually better than I was expecting (really liked the jazzy noodlings of Mine), but overall I just don't quite get why it's had such a strong critical reception. The best way I can describe a chunk of the album is like driving when you're tired, and suddenly realising you remember nothing from the last 10 miles. What I will say for it is that I do want to listen to it again, partly because I want to figure out what I've missed from the reviews and partly just because I want to hear it again. But I really really don't get the equivalence with Radiohead and OK Computer. Maybe it's a thematic thing, which I might pick up on further listening, but I don't feel like it's hit me in the same way. But then I was 17 when that came out and I'm 38 now, so maybe the themes just aren't as relevant to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Girl Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Given your definition of bops Mash, I should love this album. I’m a bit underwhelmed though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 41 minutes ago, Quark said: But I really really don't get the equivalence with Radiohead and OK Computer. Maybe it's a thematic thing, which I might pick up on further listening, but I don't feel like it's hit me in the same way. But then I was 17 when that came out and I'm 38 now, so maybe the themes just aren't as relevant to me. I was very late the party and actually hadn't heard OK Computer in full till a couple of years ago (I was 6 months old when it came out), so I don't have the time gap between the two. Still I think you could hardly find two more contrasting albums - musically, lyrically, contextually, in terms of its meaning or influence. Really puzzled. On my second listen now and struggling to finish it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Can a banger bop or a bop bang? Can either slap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash011 Posted November 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 minute ago, priest17 said: Can a banger bop or a bop bang? Can either slap? I think bangers are much more likely to slap than bops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 19 minutes ago, nysmaw said: On my second listen now and struggling to finish it... I dread to ask, but which one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 minute ago, Mash011 said: I think bangers are much more likely to slap than bops. OK that I can get on board with. Just. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Quark said: I dread to ask, but which one? Overcoming the urge to downvote this is not nearly as hard as finishing the album. And just to be absolutely clear, it's The 1975. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gucci Piggy Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 59 minutes ago, nysmaw said: I was very late the party and actually hadn't heard OK Computer in full till a couple of years ago (I was 6 months old when it came out), so I don't have the time gap between the two. Still I think you could hardly find two more contrasting albums - musically, lyrically, contextually, in terms of its meaning or influence. Really puzzled. On my second listen now and struggling to finish it... The OK Computer comparison came from NME and they probably just noticed that it had a 2018 rip off of Fitter Happier on it and decided to compare it to OK Computer. Nobody reads NME except 14 year olds so they can write anything tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 minute ago, Gucci Piggy said: The OK Computer comparison came from NME and they probably just noticed that it had a 2018 rip off of Fitter Happier on it and decided to compare it to OK Computer. Nobody reads NME except 14 year olds so they can write anything tbh. I first saw it in Guardian who wrote that it's the "millennial successor to Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gucci Piggy Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, nysmaw said: I first saw it in Guardian who wrote that it's the "millennial successor to Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer." Awful comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Q's take isn't quite that bad. "The Man Who Married a Robot - The 1975's homage to Fitter Happier - is not their only debt to rock's classic statement of the desire to find some peace in a world that's moving too fast" They've taken the "inspired by" line rather than "successor to". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 "Healy and the rest of the 1975 have reappeared with an album that clearly wants to be an epochal statement: the presence of a spoken-word track performed by Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant, and the distinctly Radiohead-like song I Always Wanna Die Sometimes implies it wants to be a millennial OK Computer. But behind the handwringing angst and existential despair, OK Computer was remarkably focused and direct. A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships feels more like the musical equivalent of a drunk early hours social media post, as a spew of unedited ideas veers from inspired to faintly regrettable." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/29/the-1975-a-brief-inquiry-into-online-relationships-review-sex-social-media-and-the-state-of-the-nation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Ouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash011 Posted November 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Still a 4 star review innit fam. I will admit that Robot track is pretty corny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearbm95 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 This is such a bizarre album...it almost sounds like a mixtape, but something about it is kind of mad. I Always Wanna Die is the song Oasis should be writing today though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jass Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Just listened to “OK Computer for Millennials”. Millenials are fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 16 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said: Just listened to “OK Computer for Millennials”. Millenials are fucked. We know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest17 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Hugh Jass said: “OK Computer for Millennials”. avaKardo Police 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nysmaw Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 18 minutes ago, priest17 said: avaKardo Police Exit Music (For a student loan you'll never be able to repay, an apartment you'll never afford to own, being the first generation poorer than our parents, and a climate too effed up to ever fix) This actually sounds a bit like a 1975 song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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