The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 183

Listening to this Tape Notes episode, yeah there are soooo many cool little tidbits in here. There’s one Happiness stem George played that I’ll never unhear haha. Opener demo is wild too. And The Chicks were supposed to be on the closer!

 

Noel Gallagher just loves to talk trash. He inevitably gets along with people he talks shit about (Damon Alburn, Chris Martin, etc)

 

I'll never unhear the loud, cheesy bell/horn noise that starts at the same time as the guitar break at 2:35 after listening to that episode.

 

Same, that air horn sample is burned into my brain now

 

Exactly the part I was talking about! Haha

 

06/13/2023

 

I dare this band to do something without giving a 60 day build up

 

Total random but wild that tweet has 500K views but only 6K in likes. I thought this band was huge but maybe I’m confusing them with a different band or with all the Twitter stuff recently people aren’t as present there as before. Not a knock on the band, just surprised to see only 6K likes as I would have expected that to be closer to the 500K view number

 

Yeah dude they've never been mainstream. Biggest US hit was Chocolate, ten years ago. Peaked at 80 on the Hot 100

They were like five-ten years too late with their sound. Stuff like Imagine Dragons took off in the US, they never did

 

views aren't a real metric on twitter, come on

 

honestly they were too early with their sound? still tons of bands making shit that sounds like the s/t

 

they're influential to people who want to start rock bands, the window is just gone to cross over

 

yeah but i'm not even sure what the window to crossover was. when people were really into foals?

 

they're definitely one of the most "popular" bands ever... the cult following is just on the more extreme end

 

They’re pretty big. Its kinda weird people might know the name but not the music or they’ll recognize an alt radio hit but not know the band name.

 

I was talking to a random bloke I met on the first night of their Melbourne dates in April, and we actually spoke about how impressive it is for them to sell out a 15,000 capacity arena two nights in a row considering they’ve never really had radio play over here. They’ve had a couple of number one albums on the ARIA chart, but for the most part nobody talks about them and nobody knows who they are. Those two nights though, they felt like the biggest band in the world. Such a great experience.

 

They sell more tickets than 95% of the bands we talk about on here. They’re big

 

They’re like a modern day LCD soundsystem band imo, like they’re huge and sell out the msg and influenced your favorite band, but never really had a huge hit or anything

 

if you think view counts on twitter are accurate or inductive of anything that relates to number of likes you’re a rube

 

and we’re talking about a tweet teasing tour dates not a new album or single drop or even the actual dates lol come the fuck on now what are we doing here

 

Somebody Else has over half a billion streams on Spotify. Just throwing that out there.

 

yeah every single real metric says this band is popular lol

 

Yeah seriously, if you just think bud US billboard chart success you’ll cut your legs off of some of the most successful bands internationally… e.g. gang of youths, the tragically hip, etc

 

I just think they're extremely polarizing to the general masses, and this Taylor Swift debacle was probably the most "high-profile" situation any member of this band has been involved in. Their popularity is essentially unchanged, but the people who don't like them were just louder about it for a couple weeks.

More of a general complaint, but bands need to stop teasing/announcing things so god damn far in advance. Between the teasing of tours and the releasing 4 singles 3 months before your album comes out it's genuinely so annoying.

 

It’s a winning strategy. Unless you drive the market in some sense (Beyoncé, etc), it’s the most effective strategy that’s beneficial for the label and the band. Sometimes these decisions are driven by more than just the band. It may be annoying but it works