#head.cars.bending

[bl33dings-incidental]

drink, fuck, spew, …. telephone you // if you’re alone in your room, what’s that boy doing ?

[daily1975lyrics]

❝drink, fuck, spew telephone you if you're alone in your room what's that boy doing?❞

[god-has-entered-my-body]

sex playlist but it's just this

[kennedy-brooke]

I’m so serious if they play inside your mind or head.cars.bending while I’m NOT there I will be throwing myself off the nearest interstate bridge.

[bedforddanes75]

how am i meant to say notes is better than self titled when all of deluxe exists

[cryley]

I was listening to the 1975 in the car on the way to family’s house this morning and tonight I caught my partner humming ‘this must be my dream’ around the apt. I’m slowly brainwashing him to like their music.

[wiintring]

the little text message sound in the back of head.cars.bending when he says ‘telephone you’ just scratches my brain so well

[k4tie75]

Hearing Head.Cars.Bending live is something that i feel i have to experience in my life

[controlmyfeet]

i saw 2 seconds of a video of the boys playing head.cars.bending in 2014 and had to put my phone down for a bit

[daily1975lyrics]

❝keep your voice down and stop looking at my friends❞

[god-has-entered-my-body]

im the biggest slut for ST because they gave us the most raw and lyrically dense songs. You??? Menswear?? HEAD.CARS.BENDING??? ROBBERS???? anyone who disagrees you are fundamentally wrong i will die on this hill

[starker1975]

The 1975 Song Recs & Info

For @starkerscoop

Disclaimer: I recommend everything they’ve ever done but some songs are instrumental or not prevalent at concerts so I omitted them.

Self-Titled (The 1975)

🖤Heart Out

🖤Sex

🖤Girls (banger idc what anyone says, FAVE)

🖤The City

🖤Chocolate (first well known song of theirs)

🖤Robbers (they play this 99% of the time)

🖤Menswear (learn the rap and you’ll feel iconic)

🖤M.O.N.E.Y.

EPs (IV, Music for Cars, Facedown, Sex)

🖤Antichrist (they don’t play this, FAVE)

🖤Me (FAVE)

🖤You (FAVE)

🖤Milk (hidden track at end of You, FAVE)

🖤Undo

🖤Head.Cars.Bending

🖤So Far (It’s Alright)

🖤Anobrain (FAVE)

🖤Fallingforyou (they play this often, starker song rec btw)

ILIWYS (I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it)

💗Somebody Else (FAVE)

💗Loving Someone

💗This Must Be My Dream

💗Change of Heart (references The City and Robbers, FAVE)

💗She’s American (FAVE)

💗Paris

💗Ballad of Me and My Brain (so satisfying to learn by heart, FAVE)

💗If I Believe You

💗Love Me

💗UGH

💗The Sound (they play this often and you have to jump!)

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

🌈Give Yourself a Try

🌈TooTimeTooTimeTooTime

🌈Love it if We Made It (they play this a lot make sure you can throw down to it!!

🌈Be My Mistake (not my fave but Matty performs it on the B Stage a lot)

🌈Sincerity is Scary (they play this a lot!)

🌈Inside Your Mind (FAVE)

🌈I Like America & America Likes Me (FAVE)

🌈It’s Not Living if It’s Not with You (FAVE, know this: SELLING PETROL, you have to scream it when Matty says)

🌈I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) (Absolute FAVE 10/10 prob my fave song of theirs of everything)

Notes on a Conditional Form

💛The Birthday Party (FAVE)

💛If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know) (FAVE, they play it often)

💛Frail State of Mind

💛I Think There’s Something You Should Know (FAVE)

💛Me & You Together Song

💛People (Screamo song they sing often)

Being Funny in a Foreign Language

(Newest so they play most of the album, but it’s not my fave)

💙About You (FAVE)

💙I’m in Love with You

💙Oh, Caroline

Singles

🌆Medicine (FAVE)

[nriacc]

NRIACC: Chapter Summaries

🚨 SPOILERS 🚨 SPOILERS 🚨 SPOILERS 🚨 

!DO NOT READ IF YOU’VE NOT READ THE FULL FIC!

I realise that not everyone is as sad as me and remembers every tiny detail of this rollercoaster of a fic, so I’ve put together chapters summaries that I've tried to make as concise as possible. Hope this helps with those rereading, love you all. Thanks for reading x

Part 1: Only Ones Who Know ~ The walk home. The night. The morning after.

Part 2: House is a Circus ~ Matt’s house party. Spin the bottle, shots, saucy times in Matt’s room. Fuck Josh.  

Part 3: The City ~ Wheels goes to Manchester and meets boys. Pool antics. They teach Wheels how to skate over the summer. Matty is a simp.

Part 4: Despair in the Departure Lounge ~ Wheels gets her fishnets and she takes her skateboard back home. Everyone’s at the park, Alex led her on, Wheels’ spot in the park. Peter is a gem and cheers her up but Josh is a dickhead.

Part 5: Heart Out ~ 2004: Wheels’ 18th birthday. 2005: Skating and Wheels gets her nickname. 2006: Never have I ever, club night where Matty takes wheels home early. 2007: Matty’s 18th, his house party where he and Wheels kiss. Matty drives her back to Sheffield.

Part 6: Hiding Tonight ~ Alex and Bestie comfort Wheels at Alex’s birthday party. The Fab Four (Wheels, Bestie, Al, Matt) night in, Wheels and Alex kiss just after midnight on her birthday. Matty turns up at Wheels uni flat with her birthday present and they agree to spend their summer together.

Part 7: Sex ~ Matty and her have their summer fling. Alex isn’t happy about it. Wheels and Matty have their fair ground date. Get tattoos and Wheels goes back to Sheffield.

Part 8: Dance Little Liar ~ Wheels starts to like Alex as more than a friend and they start dating but don’t address it. Favourite Worst Nightmare tour. Alex is a cheater. Wheels leaves and Matty comes to get her and comforts her.

Part 9: An Encounter ~ Wheels memories of her and Alex in her house make her move out into her flat. Both bands meet each other, bar antics, Alex tells Wheels he’s moving to NYC with Alexa.

Part 10: Do I Wanna Know? ~ Alex and Alexa split, he comes to live with Wheels. She shows him her spot in the park, he catches feelings, has a wet dream, and moves out. Alex and Matty both show up at Wheels flat and they chat whilst making her show them her dress for the wedding. The wedding.

Part 11: Settle Down ~ Movie night with Alex. Night in at Wheels flat, Alex wants to ask Wheels out properly but realise she already really likes Matty. Wheels back in Manchester and her and Matty are getting closer, Matty plans to ask her out and gets the boys to help him with grand ideas. The gig, Matty and Wheels are official. Alex cuts his hair then finds out about the new couple. Wheels does everyone’s eyebrows. MCU marathon. Matty’s parents divorce, his nana dies. Alex takes Wheels to the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony. The 1975 get the green light for releasing their album.

Part 12: Head.Cars.Bending ~ The 1975 release EPs, Matty asks Wheels to be in a music video but she turns it down. Wheels and Alex talking album release dates, Wheels goes to catch the end of the Girls music video. Matty and Wheels argue. The accident, the hospital, and chapter ends with Alex finding Matty taking him to the hospital.

Part 13: Do Me A Favour ~ Wheels recovering. Matty’s a cheater. Alex looks after Wheels, AM gets number 1 album dethroning The 1975. Matty changed his number, Adam collecting Matty’s things. Alex and Arielle split up. Ben D*tto being a bellend, 75 boys come to save the day, Matty ends up ruining it.

Part 14: R U Mine? ~ Christmas flashback, Wheels gets upset at Matty’s presents, she smokes, Matty leaves and she brings him back. 2014 Brit Awards with Alex and the Monkeys. Brits afterparty.

Part 15: Separate And Ever Deadly ~ Andy’s wedding. Start of the AM tour. Wheels finds out about Matty and Alexa, Alex takes her around Perth to cheer her up. Matty and Arielle, Wheels leaves him a drunk voicemail. Wheels goes to see The 1975, Adam tells her about Matty and Halsey.

Part 16: One For The Road ~ Wheels has nightmares, Alex helps her. Wheels tries to draw and can’t, Alex comforts and talks to her, cosy bunk morning. Jealousy at the festival, Alex being cute on stage. Pick out new perfume. One For The Road music video and Wheels and Alex kiss. Breana loses Wheels bikini in the sea, Alex is the cutest.

Part 17: Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? ~ Alex and Wheels get high and it gets heated, they go to the beach and they both reflect on the past, bunk antics. Wheels shows Alex her skating. Alex takes her around Vegas and they get their tattoos.

Part 18: Somebody Else ~ Alex and Wheels watch the sunset on the decking as she writes a poem. Wheels extra happy and Alex knows why. Wheels’ brain jumps to wrong conclusions about pictures of Alex and his ex. Starry night with the Monkeys, shoulder tap happens here. Leeds Fest 2014 with The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys, afterparty disaster.

Part 19: How to draw / Petrichor ~ Back home from tour, The Fab Four have a drunk night in. Fun times but then the phone rings and Alex reveals he’s moving to LA. Time skip to 2015 Wheels having a boyfriend and her first gallery that Matty crashes. Alex tells Wheels to dump her boyfriend. Wheels reconciles with Matty.

Part 20: UGH! ~ Wheels baking at 75 boy’s flat, Matty sees her bracelet, Matty names their second album. Wheels goes to LA and listens to ILIWYS and misinterprets songs and watches the videos. Alex lets Wheels listen to EYCTE.

Part 21: The Birthday Party ~ Wheels’ 30th birthday party… Aftermath with Alex at the park, then at the flat with Matty.

Part 22: Settle For A Draw ~ Redo of 30th at a bar and both bands attend. Wheels kisses everyone. Adam’s house warming where Wheels gets very drunk and George carries her to bed. The day after where there’s an Alex v Matty ceasefire and Wheels and Bestie threesome reveal, Jamaica NDA reveal, and lots of band banter.

Part 23: What Should I Say ~ Wheels drunk on twitter, baiting Alex into phone sex, hangs up to chat to Matty. Everything revealed to her the next day, and George takes her out for Valentine’s Day. 2017 Brits with The 1975, and afterparty. Never Have I Ever at Wheels’ flat.

Part 24: Be My Mistake ~ Alex comforts Wheels about Matty being in rehab. During her trip to London, Adam gives her the letter from Matty. Wheels and Matty talk everything through and he tells her to give Alex a shot. Bestie’s boyfriend reveal. Wheels joins the Monkeys on tour and after listening to Only Angel they reveal how they feel and decide to try again.

Part 25: D is for Dangerous ~ Alex lets George take her out for Valentines so he can set up a cute date. Wheels and Bestie’s wine night with Alex ends with spice. Bestie teasing them the following morning. Wheels flat hunting in London with Alex. Wheels attends George’s sisters party with the 75 boys, meeting Matty’s girlfriend. Alex stands Wheels up and he says obscene things because he’s a drunk jealous twat. Wheels finishes things with him.

Part 26: It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You) ~ Wheels’ gallery, 75 boys are there and Alex shows up. Matty is single again. New Years with Alex and the Monkeys. Decorating gingerbread houses at Christmas with Matty. Matt Helders is a cheater. Wheels drives with Alex from London to Sheffield for the last date of The 1975’s UK tour. Matty’s a little shit on stage and Wheels leaves to go McDonalds with Alex, arrangements are agreed upon. After gig drinking in a bar, bathroom antics, Wheels and Alex leave together.

Part 27: Star Treatment ~ Wheels receives star treatment from Alex. The day after they talk, Wheels shaves Alex’s head, Alex cuts Wheels’ hair on Instagram live.

Part 28: From The Ritz To The Rubble ~ Another George and Wheels Valentines date. Matty says the wrong thing at the 2019 Brits, he and Wheels argue, Adam and Bestie end the arguing. Alex has a girlfriend, Wheels and Bestie go to Paris to see them, Alex’s girlfriend is a fucking bitch, Wheels is a bilingual legend. Ross and Wheels heart to heart, he makes her see sense. Alex doesn’t show up to Wheels’ birthday. Wheels tells Alex about what his girlfriend said, he doesn’t believe her so he gaslights her.

Part 29: Playing On My Mind ~ Leeds Fest 2019, Matty and Wheels reconcile, amazing afterparty. Matt Helders’ redemption arc, Alex listens into his and Wheels phone call and doesn’t apologise so he puts Alex in his place and tells him to fuck off. Wheels on US tour with The 1975. Matty and Wheels talk about love and they’re adorable. Wheels and Matty in Tennessee and they meet Ella and Matty buys cowboy boots and a hat. When back in London, Alex turns up at Wheels’ flat and apologises.

Part 30: Frail State Of Mind ~ Wheels and Bestie in Me & You Together Song music video. Wheels and Alex go to jazz club, end up dancing, get coffee afterwards before walking home. The 1975 O2 show where Wheels, Bestie, and Alex are in the crowd, they dance to Too Shy and cry at Guys. Back in Whee’s old flat, mystery caller turns out to be Peter, Party games and Bestie gets engaged. UK lockdown starts, Wheels is really struggling with it and she makes her decision and calls the man she can’t live without.

I Wanna Be Yours ~ Alex’s ending.

Me & You Together Song ~ Matty’s ending.

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Happy reading besties, love you all x

[bedforddanes75]

head.cars.bending is amazing and i need george to explain to me how it was made in unreasonable detail

[nowshesdoingitallthetime]

🌈 & 🍓 <333

Hi!!<3

🌈 -what's the last 1975 song you listened to? I’m actually currently listening to Head.Cars.Bending! It’s one of my favorite of the deluxe songs (if they touch it while I’m not there I’ll start a riot.)

🍓 -what is your fav 1975 fic you've read? is it a one-shot or a series? Oh that’s so tough there’s so many good ones. I think series wise it has to be don’t fuck the line cooks by @lottiecrabie but I also adore I’ll do anything that you wanna by @toomuchracket but it’s very hard to choose with so many incredible writers on here!