The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 335

Post that track list!

 

Don’t Worry just hit me like a freight train... music doesn’t really hit me on the first go since I’m just taking it in, but I realized it was the one Matty sang with his dad.

And having lost my dad last year... hohhhh boy I’m a mess.

 

The last 35 sec on what should I say are replacing the intro to this must be my dream as my ringtone.

 

In regard to “Tonight”, I don’t see where he’s saying he felt insincere about leaving it off the record or calling it a failed experiment. Did he say that somewhere else?

 

Yoooo bagsy not in net a Futbol reference changes EVERYTHING

 

Streaming this all day on repeat at a low volume so these boyz get a number 1

 

There's a weird reggae song on Britney's first release that doesn't really fit and it does kinda sound like that, so he's right

 

Spotify

 

Come on— foolish? I’ve given the artist’s vision a chance. I didn’t like it, and didn’t think it worked. Foolish would be to try and force myself to like something just because... that’s what the artist wants? If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. I don’t owe an 80-minute album multiple listens just with the hopes that I’ll suddenly have a change of heart (thank you). Never mind we’ve had 8 of these tracks to live with beforehand.

Now, if I think something in there works with some adjustments, why wouldn’t I try to put it together? To use your example: if I don’t think a song transition works, and I replace it with something I think flows better, why not try it out? Why not have fun with it? It’s just the ability to enact what music fans have talked about for decades: “if this track wasn’t on it...”; “if the album ended here...”; etc. They’re just used to fuel imagination and aid discussion. What is the harm in that?

If you think the album is great as it was released, awesome. That doesn’t mean other people can’t find value or meaning in an amended version of it. I think the point of creating these “fan edits” of albums is to make an album that cohesively works for that individual. Maybe it’s not the vision the artist originally intended, or maybe it’s a refined attempt at that vision, or maybe it’s just a playlist. Whatever that may be, does it really matter? None of these playlists are ever going to replace the album in the 1975 canon. But people should be able to engage with art how they please.

 

The melody in that last love you on don’t worry ...Witt the piano and horns ughhhhh

 

Woah paragraphs are out and about today!

Listen number 5. I think I really like this record

 

Bagsy was already becoming one of my favs but now that I've read the lyrics and what it's about I love it even more.

 

Mad Karen paragraphs errrewhere in here lol

 

WE WONT STAND FOR THIS!

 

For all intents and purposes, I’m glad ABI is the length it is, and this is where they got expansive. ABI is a much more exhaustive listen even with the shorter run-time

 

Remember that Bagsy was nearly called Being Funny in a Foreign Language and was changed last second

 

The fact “bagsy” almost wasn’t on the album and they wrote/recorded it that quickly...

their minds....

 

Thank you! Didn’t know there’s even more out there.

 

One of my favorite current moments on the entire record. Just a gorgeous and cutting tune.

 

See, the book/TV/movie comparisons don't make a lot of sense to me. I've listened to this album 10+ times since Wednesday. I haven't read a single book or watched a single movie more than 10 times over the course of the last decade. It's easier to accept the things you don't like or don't think work about a work of art when you're only engaging with it infrequently. And frankly, if there's a movie or book I think is as bloated and inconsistent as I think this album is, I'm probably not revisiting it, period. Music is a wholly unique form of art in that you engage with it repeatedly over a short period of time. It's also unique in that it is really easy to curate your music experience into something you enjoy more.

I get your point about missing the artist's vision or ignoring the transitions they intended, but I also think there's a wide spectrum in terms of how deliberate artists have been about putting an album together. There are records I would never even think about pulling apart or skipping a track, just because everything is assembled with such clear care and attention to detail. I personally don't think that's the case with this album. It feels slapdash and random to me, in how it was assembled. And if that's the case with an album, I think it's fun to step in and imagine how you'd reshape something if you were a producer or A&R person or band member working on the album.

 

Not mad at all— but I will die for my album edits!!!

 

Hmm that’s interesting. A similar point was made about ILIYWS being only 7 (I could have the number wrong) minutes shorter than this. I find this is a much more exhausting listen than either of those two

 

Would y’all want the Spotify commentary typed and posted here? Possibly the Apple Music commentary too? They’d be walls of text/really long posts but I’m already typing up the Spotify stuff for myself.

 

yeah, this

 

Yes, because I am dumb and don't know how to read the commentary on the Spotify app.