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"We're taking this track by track NOTE: I tend to dig way too deep into new records from bands I have I bias to like because they've already connected with me before I tend to feel things in songs that might not actually be there. That being said these songs still made me feel certain ways that I ...""We're taking this track by track NOTE: I tend to dig way too deep into new records from bands I have I bias to like because they've already connected with me before I tend to feel things in songs that might not actually be there. That being said these songs still made me feel certain ways that I have to give the album props for, even if I imagined some of the personal connections I made in my listening journey.
The 1975: I think the idea of starting the album this way is genius but it's just way too long. However, ending it with "It's time to rebel" gives me chills
People: The uncomfortable nature Nine Inch Nails meets the banging guitars and drums of a Nu-metal track, it took guts to make this track, the juxtaposition of this as the opener compared to Give Yourself a Try is amazing, I REALLY wanna hear more of this from the band on a later release because for better or worse it's not here
The End: It's an interlude with an interesting sinister tone to it (that's a word you'll be hearing more from me)
Frail State of Mind: A great representation of how crippling yet nonchalant a mental illness can be at the same time if that makes any sense. Something as scary as dreading going outside followed by "seems unlikely" shows how double-sided these feelings can be. Also it sounds like if tootime was better
Streaming: another short interlude
Birthday Party: This song is too long for its own good once again, if your song is gonna be 5+ minutes you need a climax, in my opinion. This song is just meandering and frankly boring. Lyrics are also decent at best
Yeah I Know: This is one of the first songs on the album that to me that feels like a mental breakdown, and I think that's actually really an interesting concept they keep playing with on the record. It feels like growing tired of the people around you in combination due to what they say just not leaving in impact on you as well as you don't think you deserve to be around them.
Then Because She Goes: I get an overwhelming sense of one-way feelings from this song. Matty sings about wanting the best for this girl as well as becoming extremely sad when she leaves, and they only thing we hear about this mystery woman is that she has to leave at half-past 8, and Matty says "please stay" which gives me very anxious feelings of this girl not wanting to be there longer than she has to (once again I could be reading too much into it but that doesn't matter because this is the first thing that came to my mind when listening to it). The instrumentation adds to these feelings as well with the sad drowning guitars that make me feel like something's slipping away. Also the reverbed, autotuned "I love you" that keeps repeating shows a sort of desperation. This song breaks my heart and I love it
Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America- I really loved this song when I first heard Matty play a solo acoustic version of it over a year ago. Matty telling a story of a boy who has feelings for another boy but wanting to hide that feeling due to his love for god is heartbreaking. The next verse I figured to be about the same boy forcing himself to have service level feelings for a girl also was originally really sad, until the studio version swapped out that verse for a female singer. In my eyes that makes a huge portion of the songs depressing nature go out the window in exchange for a less satisfying, "I'm a girl and I'm gay too" Nothing wrong with that really but I loved how depressing the original story was and now it's gone, oh well I still enjoy the tune with my own little head cannon.
Roadkill: It sounds like a Pinegrove song which I'm assuming is intentional due to the reference to the band in The Birthday Party. This song feels like a slice of life anime in the sense that it just captures a blissful moment in a day, nothing really happens in the story but you just can see yourself walking around town with your bros and catching a glimpse of a beautiful woman that you're too shy to talk to but you fantasize about what could be.
Me & You Together Song: This song sort of builds on Roadkill's feeling of bliss, it's just recounting how you met a girl and how you got to be in your current Honeymoon phase. I also heard someone say this song reminds them of Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind and I think that's perfect, it's just a bit more British and 2000's. Third Eye Blind +Oasis+Slice of Life Anime
I Think There's Something You Should Know: It just sounds like if someone was told they have to copy Frail State of Mind, so it's not bad but I literally just listened to this song with better lyrics eight tracks ago
Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied: It's the third in the line of amazing gospel 1975 songs with a new twist each time. The original, If I Believe, was a straight gospel song that ironically was about how unspiritual Maty is and how he envies the faithful. The sequel Sincerity is Scary, a more jazz-gospel song dissects why people are afraid to be themselves and let down the facade of a personality that everyone seems to have, whether it be just from hiding online to actually be two-faced in real life. Then the conclusion on this album features gospel and r&b/ hip hop influences and is appropriately enough about Matty letting down his own facade that he has sort of created through his own past lyrics. Rather than explaining it here are the best examples "Life feels like a lie, I need something to be true, is there anybody out there" "Apathy for me is an issue, you see I just talk about the things upsetting me" also the guitars are beautifully growing once again on this track.
Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy): Opening with more gospel influences helps transition from the last song. While a hint of gospel is in the whole song this track is more accurately funk, and it's funky as heck. Yet as you could maybe guess this is not a happy song, the guitars are on the brink of bright and heartbreaking. The once again drowning guitars in combination with the high pitched Kanye-esque backing vocals show a sort of downward spiral as Matty wishes he could be with a girl even though he "effed up royally"
Shiny Collarbone: This song continues the album's hardcore downward spiral into sinister sounds. The chanting vocals sound like you're being attacked. Then the soundscape of synths and drum tracks feels like you're questioning your own reality. This song is when you start seeing the code in the Matrix, but on my second listen I noticed the code all over the album. What some people would write off as a meaningless interlude I'd say is one of the most important tracks in the overarching theme.
If You're Too Shy Let Me Know: This almost feels like a break in the album, but not quite. It's a 80's throwback which is always a surefire hit for the 1975 and this one might actually be my favorite song of theirs (Paris is close) I say It's like a break because it doesn't continue the sinister nature of a mental breakdown that seems to be happening at this point in the album. It seems to be a more inward song about Matty having an odd relationship with a girl, and he has no idea if it's gonna go anywhere. Yet it's so fun he has a hard time questioning it. Which is a really good parallel to how this fits on the album. You don't know how it's gonna thematically elevate anything but gosh dang it's so catching and anthemic that you have to jam out to it.
Playing On My Mind: It a fairly simple song that is quite literally Matty spilling his brain on things that he's been thinking about it. Am I okay with living as a rockstar forever? Is it bad I'm always on my phone? Will I get in a divorce? Why do I call you when I have nothing to say? (that's right because I'm in love with someone who doesn't feel the same way) or the age-old question, why am I always cold? One thing this songs shows really well that the rest of the album also does is that it doesn't really give any answers. All of these songs are just questions left for the audience to answer if they chose. This song is just an extreme showcase of that. So I respect it lyrically even if the acoustic backdrop is forgettable.
Having No Head: Welcome back to the emotional breakdown. I think it's another testament to the relation of mental health that we had two one incredibly upbeat song right after our previous mental breakdown. Then we started asking a lot of questions and think about our life and we're back to an emotional breakdown. This one is less violent than Shiny Collarbone though. It starts with a feeling of sobbing in a corner than slowly remembering some heartwarming things that have happened in your past that lead to a sort of wave of sadness that the past is gone, yet you're happy at the same time of the idea that the future may be even better. Yet there are brief moments in the songs that encapsulate the fear that it never will get better.
What Should I Say: Sounds a bit too Khalid-esque for my liking but the ideas of questioning your stance with another person to an obsessive level are a bit moving, not a great sounding track though. Maybe if there wasn't so much autotune it'd work better for me. A decent track that only overstays it's welcome a tiny bit.
Bagsy Not In Net: I don't really know what this song is trying to accomplish, the strings are as good sounding as always but I just get nothing out of this song.
Don't Worry: This one reminds me a lot of Mine from their previous record in the sense that it's a soft sort of tune that is all about putting someone else's feelings before you. It also shares the feeling that Matty is actually happy from caring about this person so much instead of other tracks where it seems that when he puts this much heart into someone it just hurts him. It's important that this song is at the end of the album as well just because it helps the listener feel that Matty has gotten better even through hard stuff he's had to deal with. He's in love with someone and he's at ease. Which brings us to our final track
Guys: Not only is Matty happy with whatever he's decided with women, he's acknowledged that all that he's ever needed has been there all along, his bandmates, his guys. This song also draws a big parallel to the closer on the last album, I always wanna die sometimes. That track wrapped up the thesis of the whole album by saying part of being alive is wishing you weren't sometimes and celebrating that fact. Guys further says that whatever you go through there will be people there for you, even if you can't see it at the moment. Or even if things aren't the best right now there have been good times, there have been great times! And there will be more, you just have to be strong enough to make it there, and you are.
To conclude I really don't know how to rate this album. I love this band to death. While some choices on this album were questionable, it's so rare that an album even gives me this much to talk about and dissect. For that alone I have so much respect for this project and I will definitely listen to it a ton, wether my love will grow or shrink for it as time passes who knows, but at this moment I am satisfied and happy with this release. Some tracks will not get as listened to as others for me but the highs here are too high to pass up.
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"A pure unadulterated aural stimulus that incites feelings of being wholly consumed by the diverse stages of a love affair–intensity, passion, hope, despair and all the experiences in between."Reply
"47:a Riffin' the Scotch aka Better To Burn Out... He's hot as Hades A lady's not safe in his arms when she's kissed But I'm afraid that when he's cooled off And maybe I'm ruled off his list I'll never be missed - I MUST Have That Man (Billie Holiday) People forget. They just do. Jazz was the Devi...""47:a Riffin' the Scotch
aka Better To Burn Out...
He's hot as Hades
A lady's not safe in his arms when she's kissed
But I'm afraid that when he's cooled off
And maybe I'm ruled off his list
I'll never be missed - I MUST Have That Man (Billie Holiday)
People forget. They just do. Jazz was the Devil’s music. It wasn’t no place for a “Lady.” Day or night. These people lived hard. Partied harder. And you know who ruled that scene back in the thirties? Came in and turned everything upside down. A young Billie Holiday. The tempestuous Lady Day!
We tend to be too referential of the old-timers. Especially if they were a Lady. But there’s no denying it. Billie Holliday was a badass. She could zip when Teddy & his gang would zag. Her improvisational skills & riffing changed jazz forever. And she could drink you under the table while doing it. Don’t ever forget that. That would be cheapening her legacy.
And before I bid you good night, remember this as well, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra was just positively sick => Benny Goodman on clarinet. Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge on trumpet, & Ben Webster on tenor sax. Those three are household names for a reason. Billie's early recording sessions were positively oozing with talent.
Try just a little taste & you'll see what "just a little moonlight can do"..."[+]Reply
"The tackier, more offensive bits on this record had me rolling my eyes but they still can not overshadow how unique this record was in 1988. Ricks flow and story telling rhymes are still shockingly fresh and original and its clear that later stars like Snoop Dog and Nas loved this record."Reply
"This is a great follow up to the excellent Afrique Victime, the tracks flow together really well and Mdou's lyrics are on point. Plus it goes without saying that his guitar playing is phenomenal"Reply
"Compelling vocal performance that blurs the lines between poetry, rap and story-telling as Tempest brings tales from modern urban life with romance, drug dealing, gang violence, sex work, and family set to grimy beats packed with ear pleasing noises . Once the initial thrill of discovering the st...""Compelling vocal performance that blurs the lines between poetry, rap and story-telling as Tempest brings tales from modern urban life with romance, drug dealing, gang violence, sex work, and family set to grimy beats packed with ear pleasing noises . Once the initial thrill of discovering the story of Becky and Harry is over, after repeated listens, there is still the catchy songs and great one-liners to enjoy on all the subsequent listens."[+]Reply
"There's a little more going on in this album than is obvious at first Whilst Yes do not have their ultimate lineup (missing Steve Howe and Rick Wakemam), this is an important transitionary album, and very progressive with more than a little infusion of psychedelia. Some say that the orchestral wo...""There's a little more going on in this album than is obvious at first Whilst Yes do not have their ultimate lineup (missing Steve Howe and Rick Wakemam), this is an important transitionary album, and very progressive with more than a little infusion of psychedelia. Some say that the orchestral work in combination does not fit in well - I beg to differ. I think potentially the problem lies when comparing the quality of production and sound between this and the hugely successful Yes Album, Fragile and CTTE. These follow up albums are undeniably where Yes were at their peak. Time and a Word, however, is a classic timepiece in its own right. Anderson, Squire and Bruford show their raw talent here. Banks on the guitars and Kaye on the organs/pianos also have great moments and balance it all out really well. I think this is where Yes had a stronger focus on rock, but they experimented with their jazz and classical elements to great effect. Highlights are Then, Sweet Dreams, Astral Traveller and the title track."[+]Reply
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