The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 323

I think "People" ---> "Give Yourself a Try" ---> "Frail State of Mind" is going to be a good playlist starter for me one of these days

 

Also, I think The Birthday Party is my favorite single. I love everything about this song. I also identify with the lyrics, and at least how I've interpreted them some of Matty's narrative in this song seriously gives me goosebumps every single time I hear it. The first time I heard Streaming fade into it I teared up. This band, if nothing else, just creates the most intensely beautiful ocean of sounds in every track.

 

Other than the first two I actually like this and I think you could then easily make a separate set based that Nothing Revealed, Tonight, and Don't Worry and you would get that "late night" R&B feel.

I normally don't like rearranging songs on albums but I feel this one is an exception and I might make two separate playlists based on this format lol

 

If I hadn't read the description, I'd be upset that you left off my favorite track, "Frail State of Mind." But, I like that, instead of doing this in an "improve the album" kinda way (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but boring & lame to do w/in the first week, imo), you're just messing around w/ hypothetical themed playlists/remixes/whatever.

I wouldn't wanna lose A Brief Inquiry for this (it's my personal clear fav album of theirs), but I do wonder about a hypothetical timeline where the 37 "Music for Cars" tracks were a trilogy of shorter annual albums instead. I remember getting jumped in here the other month for "judging an album you haven't heard" when I complained about longer albums, lol. But, while I don't dislike anything on this & like the experience of listening to the whole thing through more than a lot of people... I do see value in multiple smaller albums instead of one big drop.

 

One more day baby

 

"Guys" makes me cry like a child. When/if they do it live in the future....I will need like a gi

 

just wanna say that "Frail State of Mind" into "Yeah I Know" is actually super cool. it's like the narrative leaves the narrator of FSOM at home and follows everyone else on a filthy night out

 

Still waiting for that ringtone guys lol

 

Excited for everyone who hasn't heard this to hear this in full tomorrow!!

 

Lol I can make it for you tonight hahaha

 

Any new crazy reviews?

 

Tucked up erection line was honestly a solid metaphor, leave it to Matty for even a dick joke to require a genius annotation

 

YAS!

 

waiting for the pitchfork joke of a review either way

 

yeah! the songs are notes and the album is the conditional form. I think this album is meant to be deconstructed.

anyway, playlist 2 seems to work for me too so I may as well share that too.

((MUSIC FOR CARS)):
1. The End (Music For Cars)
2. Frail State of Mind
3. I Think There’s Something You Should Know
4. Yeah I Know
5. Having No Head
6. Nothing Revealed/Everything Denied
7. Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)
8. What Should I Say
9. Shiny Collarbone
10. If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
11. Bagsy Not In Net
12. Don’t Worry

the darker, moodier boy. I cannot stress enough: The End *perfectly* follows I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) sonically. if I were making some crazy massive MFC playlist, I think I’d order it ABIIOR—>”Disc 2”—>”disc 1” for that reason (also feel like it would make the final stretch fly by too). I liked the idea of doing an album that basically exclusively hones in on their more electronic/experimental tendencies. I like to envision this as the night to the other playlist’s day. I like the idea of it soundtracking a night out born out of sadness and boredom where you end up meeting someone and falling head over heels for them. I’d say my one complaint with this and what I miss from this *is* the release songs like M&YTS, Roadkill, People, and the like bring, the energy and excitability was trickier to balance here, but I like it a lot overall.

I toyed with this actually, I still kinda like it but I think a lot of people would complain the tracks are “too similar” or something if it was like this on the official track list

 

Kinda curious what an all bangers hybrid between both MFC full lengths would look like

 

fair enough, I actually think "I Think There's Something you Should Know" is a lot more similar to "Frail State of Mind" vibe-wise but I can see why people would disagree. fully agreed about "The End" following "I Always Wanna Die" absolutely perfectly too

 

If you were to divide the tracks into musical styles what categories would you use? I want to go through every mfing song and categorize them for separate playlists.

 

Ok, I ended up making a 20 song record that'd be structured a bit more closely to the first two albums and it's absurd. I did throw in some interludes etc but this seems like it flows well. Gonna listen in a bit.

1. The 1975 (ABIIOR)
2. Give Yourself a Try
3. Frail State of Mind
4. It's Not Living (If it's Not With You)
5. TooTimeTooTimeTooTime
6. Streaming
7. The Birthday Party
8. Me & You Together Song
9. I Think There's Something You Should Know
10. Sincerity is Scary
11. Love It If We Made It
12. What Should I Say
13. I Like America & America Likes Me
14. Then Because She Goes
15. Nothing Revealed/Everything Denied
16. Having No Head
17. If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)
18. Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)
19. I Couldn't Be More In Love
20. I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

 

The bridge of “I think there’s something you should know” is so damn good

 

maybe my favorite part of the album

 

So excited for the wider world to hear this album tomorrow - seeing this thread go wild again should be fun

 

same tbh

 

Not counting singles, my favorite moments of the album are probably:

- bridge/outro to Roadkill
- bridge to I Think There’s Something
- What Should I Say’s chorus ( Tell em the the things that you told me!)
- Bagsy “do you want to leave at the same time?”

 

They better fucking play Roadkill live I need to JAM