The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 254

BFIAFL
ABIIOR
ILIWYS
NOACF
ST

Love all 5 a lot.

 

i think you might have just leaked the title of the next record

 

It would be an honor

 

Funny to see this bumped as I've been on a kick the last few days and been missing having a tour of theirs to look forward to.

I think my taste is all over the place and not at all consistent of the type of song that I like.

Example, 'be my mistake' does absolutely nothing for me, but I love other ballad type songs like 'I couldn't be more in love' and 'If I believe you' and 'All I need to hear'.

I also always think I'm over the self titled until I listen to the guitars. 'Noodly' riffs as I call them - like the guitar in 'Girls' and 'Chocolate' are always going to be amongst my faves, even if the vocals are 'rougher'.

I probably rank ILIWYSFYASBYSUOI as my favorite as I like more songs off of it in general, but there are stronger songs on other albums if that makes sense.

When they do tour again, I'd love to hear Love Me and Ugh on the setlist back to back as they are on the album. UGH! is 100% an all time top 10 for me.

 

a few of my absolute favorite songs by the band are on ABIIOR, but as an album experience it has never really worked for me and I don’t know if it ever will. part of that is that I played the absolute shit out of the singles leading up to the album, so some of them I had been so deeply familiar with for almost half of a year prior to the release of the album proper and so they just kinda feel separate from the album to me by nature. I think even besides that I would have issues with the record’s flow regardless tho. what’s funny tho is I don’t have the same kinds of issues with NOACF, even tho some of those songs we had even longer and that record is pretty infamous for some of its oddball sequencing choices. something about it just works for me more for whatever reason.

 

Album ranking:

Brief Inquiry
Being Funny
I Like It When You Sleep
Self-Titled

*massive gap*

Notes

 

I like it when you sleep
A brief inquiry
Being funny
Notes

I never listen to self titled. I really like notes and it has some of my favorite songs but it’s bloated and too all over the place.

 

Notes is so good haha

 

I don't really think they have any albums that are front-to-back amazing, but the most recent is the most consistent of them all. The best moments of the middle three albums are my favorite music the band has made though

 

Self Titled
I like it when you sleep

*Gap*

Brief Inquiry
Being Funny
Notes

 

I like about six songs on Notes, which, considering that album's length, is not a good batting average!

 

I Like It When You Sleep
A Brief Inquiry
Being Funny in a Foreign Language
EP's
Notes on a Conditional Form
The 1975

My absolute favourite songs are from the EP's and Notes though. I love all of them but the self-titled is easily my least favourite.

 

If it follows the trend of me liking whatever is newest the best:

GHEMB
BFIAFL
NOACF
ABIIOR
ILIWYS
ST

 

ABIIOR
ILIWYS
BFIAFL
NOACF
Self Titled

(Not to say that Self Titled isn't great, there's just a large gulf between that album and the rest imo)

 

This miiiiight be my ranking as well

 

lol

 

ST is definitely my least favorite. The rest are all very strong. I think ABIIOR is probably my favorite, then this

 

I think right now I would say something along the lines of:

ILIWYS
BFIAFL
EPs
ABIIOR
S/T
NOACF

The EPs had some kind of sauce that I really can't find anywhere else. I've found myself revisiting those more than a lot of the albums below it.

 

I listen to my late night version of Notes way more than I’ve ever listened to Notes in the last few years

 

I’m kinda hoping that for the next album, to keep with the duo parings, it will be a focused album around their electronic influences.

 

I’d like them to swing for the fences again. They’re going to have so many eyeballs on them, use it!

 

I’d like that too but I think when they were having the conversation of “what the 1975 is” it produced a concept greater than just what BFIAFL is and it’ll inform the next record too

 

i'd rather rank my favorite songs of theirs than albums

oh wait it's impossible

 

Now it is, no excuses

Welcome to the The 1975 song sorter.

 

I’ve done that, total waste of time. They have too wide a range of styles and I like different songs based on my mood.