The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 334

Such an amazing thing.

 

Yeah - that must be it, then. What a tease some of these breakdowns are lol

 

curious about this, I kinda think these two songs are very different and also that the first couple seconds of "Roadkill" are actually kind of jarring. why do you think they blend together

 

also I tend not to cut and rearrange things, but listen to the songs you like how you like. who cares.

what I will do (especially with long albums like this) is sometimes pick out a side of the vinyl to listen to on its own (which, depending on the artist, can be just as arbitrary tbh)

 

Mostly because I don’t love either of them. So it’s two songs I’m not hugely into back to back.

 

I feel like this band is so polarizing in the "whole album" or "pick and choose" listening experience because their albums are so all over the place. Two songs on the same album can sound SO different, and there's not many bands with a following as big as theirs that do this, so you'll have diehards that say it all is great and perfect and others that are content to leave the songs they don't like (a genre they dont like, instrumentals) behind after only listening once.

 

oh okay that's fair

 

This is so good.

 

Interesting to hear Tonight was pretty much a failed experiment in his eyes

 

Yeah so too many people to quote - but I have no problem with making 1975 greatest hits playlists or adding a few songs to an existing playlist - whatever. Obviously that’s fine. I’m talking about just altering the “album” specifically. I hate the idea of just deleting a few songs off to make it the album that you want it to be. Like that almost seems rude to me? I’ve literally never done it and have never even thought to - if I don’t want to listen to a specific track in that moment, i’ll skip it. Like, if the version of the album in your app in five years is still the same one that you altered and changed yourself, you aren’t giving those songs even a chance to grow on you. Your brain is eventually going to think of the flow of the album to be in the order of this version that you created, undermining the artists vision and that seems foolish. And you’re missing every transition that they intended. Now these transitions from track to track are becoming one that isn’t even proper and that seems so confusing and messy to me. And so permanent. To each his own, I suppose. But in my head I just don’t like the idea of messing with the album itself. The same way I wouldn’t take specific scenes out of a movie or delete episodes out of a TV show. It feels disruptive, idk. Maybe i’m out of line but that’s just the way my brain works, man. Not trying to offend anyone I just feel strongly about that. Always have.

 

Is this commentary on Spotify? I'd love to see the quote, but I have Apple Music.

That would make me sad cause it is my favorite song on here.

 

Yeah they don’t blend together in the sense that the songs sound the same, but because I’m not a fan of them the 7 minutes becomes a slog. I’ve been able to appreciate Roadkill more when it’s not coming off jc2005. I’m mostly just playing around with the album trying to find a sequencing that I love because I really like a LOT of the songs on here and the whole second half is brilliant to me.

 

He said he wanted max martin meets college drop out or Backstreet Boys meets Kanye and they couldn’t get it to work but he felt insincere leaving it off the record so they decided to keep it as is. Far less commentary on it than other songs - it at least reads like he doesn’t have the same affinity for it.

 

huh, so Birthday Party, JC2005, and Roadkill already make me like this album more than the last one.

 

the only time ill listen to the greta intro again is when I put the vinyl on and im too lazy to try to skip to People.

 

While there is that “other” nighttime side to this record - I think this is the primary heart of the collection.

 

That's kinda what it sounds like to me. He nailed it lol.

 

This is basically how I feel. I need to just take the songs I like from each album, cut out all the filler and put them into one super-album. Would be an incredible listen.

 

Whoa Matty namedropping Limbeck in his Apple Music commentary for “Roadkill” is a fun surprise.

 

NOT ALLOWED YA WEAPON. Didn’t you read the art consumption rules before entering?

 

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I think it’s truly bizarre to say it’s wrong to make a playlist omitting / rearranging certain songs when the band a) is on the record saying that they didn’t really write these songs with any kind of sequencing in mind, and b) literally released stems of the songs asking their fans to manipulate and experiment with them.

I maybe would have agreed that it’s weird to manipulate tracklists 10 years ago but now that just seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of how the majority of the world listens to and composes music now.

 

I’ve listened to the full album probably 10-ish times. I also created an abridged playlist (which I called Cliff’s Notes) with 16/22 songs that I made mostly for my friends, who are into The 1975 a fair amount but I know them well enough that the full 22-song album they would switch off, and also for those times when I don’t have an hour and a half to listen to the full thing. I will listen to both versions on an ongoing basis

 

the bit after the second chorus when he adds the high notes to "if you're too shy let me go" is what fuckin sends me

 

Cliff notes lol cutieeeee