The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It (Feb 26, 2016) Album • Page 117

looks like this is the end with The Sound.......RIP. im so emo wtf

 

OMG

 

fuck

 

I can't believe the cycle is over.

 

HOLY SHIT

 

Add me to list of people who cried during Paris live

 

same

 

What an incredible album cycle. Still so sad I didn't get to see them :(

 

This was an amazing album cycle to be a part of. I can't remember the last album I was ~so~ excited for as this one. My love for the band began to really grow in the fall of 2015 during a very tough time in my life and then seeing them in December of 2015 really began the hype train for me. That show changed my life and I became obsessed with this band.

I remember when this album leaked (I had pre-ordered it) and waking up around 6am, involuntarily, and checking my phone to see any notifications. I had intended to go back to sleep since I had the day off but saw friends talking about the album and that it leaked. It was like Christmas morning for me. I got up so fast and was truly awake and present in the moment and I will never forget my first listen to the album. I was blown away and I still am blown away by this album more than a year later.

It hasn't been out for very long, but I can't think of another album that has been so important to me in my life as I have struggled with a lot of different aspects in my life, some of which have been big changes. This album and band have been there for me through all of it and getting to see them twice on this album cycle was very special. This album, without a shred of doubt, has become my favorite album of all time at this point. It has become so important to me. I can go on and on and on rambling more about how much this album means to me, but I want to close out this post feeling excited for the future rather than reminiscing over the past.

2018. Music For Cars. I will be here for it.

 

sorry im so fucking emo yall.

 

_28_...
Drive Like I Do is actually happening isn't it?

 

Guess I'll get sentimental about this album too.

trigger warning: description of drug addiction
So I've been a huge fan of this band since the minute I heard "Sex" in 2012, followed the release of the EPs and debut and loved it all. They released "Love Me" in November 2015 and announced the December tour, which would finally give me the chance to see them. I drove to Kansas City from St. Louis. Unfortunately this was two months into the start of what would become a horrible addiction to heroin. So, my life was pretty shit, but that night everything was fine and the new songs led me to believe this album was going to shatter all of my expectations. Fast forward two months, I'm so far down the hole of addiction I can barely recognize myself. I decided if I didn't get out in front of it then I never would, and I did my last dose the day this album came out. The next three days were horrible, my first experience of full blown detox and not just going through it for a day or two til I could pick up again. But at least I had this album. I pretty much cried for three days straight because every song on this album hit so damn hard, I could relate to it all in one way or another if I applied it to my situation, and songs like Ugh and Paris were literally about my situation. I ended up using again after just over a week for a variety of reasons, and from then on things took a turn for the worse. My life became a nightmare day in and day out for months. I hit lows I thought were unimaginable and did things I never thought I'd do to maintain my addiction. I spent so many days sick and out of money but I still wasn't ready to be honest with myself about how bad my situation was, I wasn't strong enough to get help. I just wanted to die. But the entire time I listened to this album non stop and cliche as it sounds it gave me so much hope, it was a tiny little light when all I could see around me was darkness. And at some point I started talking to my now girlfriend which brought more light around me. So in June things were at their worst, i was a complete shell of a person and I saw no way out of it and had two options. I almost took the worst option possible. But it didn't work out that way. I did what I had to do and sought help. My parents got me into an outpatient detox and rehab program and I went through an excruciating detox, but this album was right there once again to get me through. And this time I made it out the other side.

A bunch of stuff fell into place from then on, I started dating my girlfriend and she came and visited me for a few weeks, after she left I drove up to Chicago to see The 1975 at a Lolla after show at the house of blues, a very intimate show, with one of my best friends. I got to see Paris live and it was one of the most cathartic experiences, I was still in early recovery and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The whole show was phenomenal. So a month after that my girlfriend ended up coming to live with me for a bit and in a November we got to see them at a really nice venue in St Louis, and it was the full ILIWYS experience with the majority of the set list consisting of those songs AND having the full light show, which the house of blues show was missing. Seeing them with the girl who saved my life was one of the highlights of my entire life, and I got to see Paris once again, a song that has affected her as well with what I went through, it was once again just an unreal moment and overall one of the best shows I could've asked for.

I wish I could say my story stops there and everything worked out. Unfortunately addiction is a tricky thing to navigate when you're far removed from the worst of it. In January I moved to Philadelphia with my girlfriend so she could resume college, and less than a month in of living there I relapsed at seven months clean. I remember the first time I used I felt like absolute shit the next day. Once your body is as reliant on that drug as heavily as mine was, it goes back to that state very quickly if you relapse. It wasn't full blown sickness but I was definitely sick. That next day I put this album on to try and remind myself how far I had come and why I had to try not to use again. I made it about a week and couldn't take the cravings anymore and caved. I'd go through the cycle of using for a day or two, not using for a few days, then caving in again. And then the gaps between my on and off days got shorter and shorter and after a month of playing this stupid game with myself I realized I used five days in a row. I was fucked. I confided in my friend who I saw them with in KC and Chicago and he went to my family so that I could get help again. I came clean to my girlfriend, I detoxed, and since February 26th of this year I've been clean from heroin. It hasn't all been easy since then and I still turn to this album constantly to help me through the hard times, at least a few times every week if not more. Twice today. The last 20ish months of my life have been insane, I never thought any of that would happen to me and I never thought I'd make it out of that. This album will forever be the most important of my life because of how often I turned to it and how much it just spoke to me, and this band has become one of my favorites of all time as well. You don't come across many albums that leave this much of a mark in your life. I'm forever grateful this band and album exist. Without them I don't know if I'd be here to tell this story.

 

Chainsmokers split 7" 2018

no but for real i love all of you and this band and im crying to Paris as we speak

 

@sophos34 wow what a hard and difficult thing to go through but i understand the attachment to music in hardships! Music correlates to so many of mt memories, good and bad. I could understand how some of the lyrical themes on the album were related to you. I was getting a bit emotional even reading what you said. i could never imagine having to go through something as difficult as that but super glad to hear youre doing well.

 

Getting really, really into this band has added a real richness to life. I can get pretty detached from reality sometimes, and passionately listening to such a lovely band helps me enjoy life to a much filler capacity. I still use this album and the other releases as an escape from bad things going on, but I truly beloeve I wouldn't have as positive a mindset as I have now without them. Loving Someone drove that home for me a lot, particularly.

 

Should we lock this thread from new posts?

 

Makes sense, They end the era, so shall we!

 

Wrote the below for their slot in my top 10 EOTY list. Feels like a good time to revisit.

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If a truly great album is a document of its time, then The 1975’s sophomore effort deserves a lasting place in my collection. This record is brimming with ideas, finding meaning in every moment that its creators lived and translated to (digital) tape.

One of my favorite things about The 1975 is their sense of history: everything from the lyrical callbacks to previous albums to the three-act structures within their tracklistings to the carefully cultivated aesthetic in their live shows are all geared to serve a central creative vision. And that’s a great thing! It makes you feel like every measure of these 17 songs is real–like they mean it, like this is the story of their lives tracked and told in the most honest way possible, finding equal time for a 3-minute ditty about dancing while on coke and a romantic ballad about standing alone on a stage in Paris afraid that you’re too fucked up inside to make a lasting connection with someone else.

The band delivers it all with a confidence far beyond their years (and peers), swirling together 80s wave, synth-drenched pop, gospel choirs, fuzzy electronics, and more into a collection of music that isn’t afraid to digress for 5 minutes or so before coming back to stadium-worthy hook. Lead singer Matt Healy’s lyrics stagger (swagger?) back and forth between overly clever wordplay and pure openhearted cheese, never surrendering his British colloquialisms in his quest to communicate plainly. If you’re not used to Healy’s mannerisms and confident in his ultimate intent, he can honestly come off as divisive. But the point is that once you peel back his defense mechanisms–the layers of pop philosophy, drugged haze, and meta lampshading–there’s nothing left to hide behind. You’re naked, with nothing separating you from communicating with someone else. It’s just like the album’s title: easily mockable and intensely sincere in equal measure.

Maybe a little sincerity isn’t so bad. If there was one common theme in 2016, it’s in everyone talking about how the year was a horrible one. Between musical icons like Prince, Bowie, and Leonard Cohen passing away; police violence; Zika; mass shootings; and the ever-darkening geopolitical landscape, it’s been a difficult time to be alive. The world seems determined to leave its marks on history and, by extension, on everyone in it.

But my life isn’t solely defined by the world’s marks on me. Here are some other things that happened in 2016: I fell in love. My dzadzi passed away. I got more involved in politics. I learned to amplify unheard voices. I grappled with my faith. I rediscovered how much I love reading. I danced by candlelight. I questioned my career. I learned how to backflip. I cared more about someone else’s happiness than my own. There are so many reasons why this year left a personal mark, and every one of these memories is etched into me like a wordless groove, often soundtracked by songs from this project.

There’s no album that can explain the world to you. Yet there’s something to be said for trying — for packing romance and hysteria and loss and triumph into 74 minutes of music that grasps at everything life can offer, often at the same time. The 1975 do that on their sophomore album, and it was the perfect soundtrack for a year of my life that felt like it could be the start of something new, something vital. Maybe it can do that for you too.

 

New Pale Waves

 

Can't get enough of Pale Waves. Imagine your first NYC show being at Madison Square Garden?

 

Really digging the pale waves stuff

 

yeah, that song is bangin

 

Alright folks, I'm finna get a bottle of red wine and blast this baby tomorrow night. Who's got the good wine recs that won't break the bank for me?

 

Smoke a joint too. It's what Matty would want.

Also, I have a rec for red wine but I gotta remember the name first

 

Leelanau Cellars' Great Lakes Red. So good.