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Our new album Lobes has arrived. Do us a favor and check it for errors.
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What’s becoming increasingly clear is that one candidate’s taste in music really stands apart.
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Right?!
Listening to scientists is not a bad thing.
I can’t believe that has to be said.
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How it started: “Dude, fly down! It’s sunny, it’s warm — the beach is like 2 blocks from my apartment.”
How it’s going:
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Dear Sir or Madam: Thank you for not stealing anything from our van last night. The only request we’d make for next time would be, don’t shatter the windows. But that’s nitpicky — you gotta be you.
Xx, WAS
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't explain to him how charged with metaphor that is.
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Thanks for a beautiful couple of weeks, y’all. When we recorded With Love & Squalor (almost 100 years ago TODAY, tho it wasn’t released till decades later), we knew we it was shit-hot, but had no idea how many of you discerning geniuses would agree.
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The 50th anniversary of “With Love & Squalor” is coming this autumn(!). To celebrate, we’re reissuing the album on vinyl, and playing it live at a short run of shows in Germany, Holland, & the UK. Reserve your copy & pre-order tickets now:
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NOBODY MOVE, NOBODY GET HURT I really wanted the album to start with This Scene Is Dead, but the label said the intro would annoy people at those CD listening stations that existed in stores, back in 2005. Nobody Move would snare them.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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MEGAPLEX is out now, and we don’t care what you do with it — JUST BUY IT!!!!!
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MEGAPLEX! Our new album lands April 27th. Pre-order now and download the new single, “One In, One Out,” directly to your toaster!
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Join us in wishing a happy 10th birthday to "Brain Thrust Mastery," our sad lil' sophomore slump. 😖😫😩🎷(*j/k—this album kicks a dumptruck full of ass)
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Sunday at 10pm BST (5pm EST) here on Twitter, we'll all listen to "With Love & Squalor" together, tweet a bunch of affectionate or mocking stuff about our past selves, and post photos of apocrypha, & tell wild tales. This's what they call a
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@Tim_Burgess
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A lot of great names on this list. Sadly, it might as well be called “Bands whose work will be subsumed into the lightless void behind and beneath We Are Scientists’ new release.”
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New song tomorrow! Please set aside whatever food, batteries, personal space you will need to enjoy some music. Reserve the conference room at work, tell your parents you’re sleeping over at Banana’s house, etc. (We worry about you)
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We Ate Scientists
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Happy Birthday to this fearsome fraternity! Keith and his twin are 216 year-old today, which doctors said would never happen, but wizards made sure did. We are thankful for their longevity, & nervous of their strange powers. Long live The Cake Heads!! [*mother of CB2: Davina Bye]
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From us in this cold, dirty, vandalized hallway to you in your cozy, cinnamon-scented home: Happy New Year.
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New
@katyperry
track is a pleasant enough listen, but gets an extra ⭐️ for its raw opening line, “Boy, tell me, can you take my breath away, cruisin’ down the Hershey highway?” Not enough playfulness in music today.
#HarleysInHawaii
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Pushing back our listening party with Mr
@Tim_Burgess
in order to give you all more time to lay in liquor and upgrade your headphones.
🚨 now JULY 5th🚨
*New date*
Sunday July 5th
10pm (U.K. time)
@wearescientists
are our
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
guests and With Love and Squalor will be the featured album
See you there?
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New album: January. UK + Euro tour: February/March/April. Preorder “Lobes” & peep the tour at (Tickets on sale Friday but preorders get tour presale Weds., for the Universe demands Balance ♎️)
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PROUD PAPAS! “Huffy” is out today in all its multi-splendored glory😂🤘🐣🍾 This one took longer than usual to create, & a heroic effort from our label friends & mgmt to bring to life. A giant sloshing cheers to all of them, & all of you listening today
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THE GREAT ESCAPE I’m only now realizing that none of our singles on this album actually have titles taken directly from the chorus lyrics. There’s no way you’d hear this song on the radio and assume it’s called The Great Escape. That’s bad marketing
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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"I Cut My Own Hair" — a single, a video, a new way to live
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Ashamed and embarrassed that we have not yet figured out how to hold our instruments. The audience deserves better. We have disgraced ourselves. If you can find it in your hearts to give us more time, we solemnly vow to improve.
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THE TOUR CONTINUES! Leeds is on tonight. We recommend a rapid test before attending, and feel quite free to mask up at the show whenever you’re not slugging ale. This will help keep the fun alive, the tour strong 💪, and the oceans clean for future generations. See you soon!
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Hey, guys. Thanks for your concern. Keith is in Paris tonight but is safe.
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We have to look at the bright side: pets will probably remain legal, as will warm food, exercise, and chairs.
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Wrong! Two of them happen to be United States Senators! The other owns a profitable chain of highway rest stop vending machines, stocking international brands like Frito Lay, Hershey’s, and Little Debbie!
Sad thought for the morning. The
#kittens
on the cover of
@wearescientists
’ With Love & Squalor are probably dead.
#HappyWeekend
Good record though!
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Nahhh, don’t do that. We’re going to reissue it in the next year or two. Hold on to your cash!
@wearescientists
I've been desperately trying to find "Brain Thrust Mastery" on vinyl but this is literally the only option via discogs and it makes me sad
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Our new album, "Helter Seltzer," is out April 22 worldwide.
Learn the facts & pre-order at
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We will bring back our loved ones who have died! We will bring back Jesus Christ and Cecil the Lion! Did you like Prince? He's back, too!
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth - and we will bring back our dreams!
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Snow Patrol tour kicking off tonight in Dallas. Soundchecking now — sounds amazing. So far we have not seen any sign of the birds from the album cover, but wouldn’t be surprised if they’re holding those cards close to their chest.
TONIGHT --
@SnowPatrol
w/
@WeAreScientists
and
@RyanMcMusic
! Show starts at 8PM. Some tickets are still available at the box office & online:
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Every time I sing it, I get a little squeamish about the grammar in “I’m not going home with no one,” but I just remind myself that the narrator is drunk. And also, I’m also usually drunk when I’m singing it, so…
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Where’s his football anthem? Talk is cheap, Justin.
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We’re not mad if Daft Punk isn’t mad
@paramore
@nucosi
@wearescientists
Absolutely, I'm not mad if
@wearescientists
aren't mad. If they are though I'll fight Paramore to the death/IP court room
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Listening to "With Love & Squalor" with you and
@Tim_Burgess
in about three minutes! Please change into your listening outfit, and prepare to hit play at exactly 10pm BST, 5pm EST.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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No disrespect to
@klaxons
’ and
@BestCoast
’s fine album covers, but surely there’s a more obvious reference here…
It's
#InternationalCatDay
!
Quote tweet with your favourite album cover featuring a cat.
🐈 photoshop is not discouraged 😻
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💋🎸
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Hmm. Watched the whole video, and our music isn’t in there anywhere… Possibly a mistake in the edit??
When I said I would listen to the scientists as president, I meant it.
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WITH LOVE & SQUALOR 🌸
🌸 LIVE IN WOODSTOCK🌾
🌼🌸🌺1969🌺🌺🌸🌼
🍃🌾🍃🌾🍃🌾🍃🌾🍃
Stream it now:
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While sympathetic, we are ill-equipped for such an effort.
⚡️ “The search for missing flight MH370 has been called off”
Sad to realize all these families will not have closure.
@NOAA
@noaaocean
@oceanexplorer
@wearescientists
any scientific exploration firms going to take this over?
#MH370
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Ne'er was there a more charming host than
@jowhiley
. Thanks for playing the new jam, and for admitting that our jokes are the best you've heard in a long time, maybe ever. 💐
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TONIGHT! We’re giving HUFFY the Tim’s Twitter
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
treatment at 9pm BST. Bring your ?’s, musings, & gripes. We’ll give up some inside dope.
@Tim_Burgess
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We would accept this honor, as well as a fat stack of "samples"
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Big thanks to this man, and compliments on his wonderful format — a beacon in these dark times!
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THIS SCENE IS DEAD This intro is performed with a piece-of-crap digital delay pedal that I got when I was like 15. I’ve tried other, better pedals, live, but they never sound the same on this specific song, so I’m forever chained to this garbage pedal.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Hey, Happy Birthday to dear sweet LOBES, our 8th studio album! 📷 We released it one year ago today (that's what a birthday is), and have never once regretted it.
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Tomorrow: Kick your weekend off WRONG with our brand new SONG! >>> It rhymes! (But actually it will be a good start to your wknd.)
#newsong
#newmusicfriday
#rhymingislying
#poetryforthesoul
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You nitwits! This is an objectively great album cover.
#YouHadOneJob
@BadAlbumCovers
haven't sent you a cat one for ages :)🐱
We Are Scientists : With Love And Squalor
#Caturday
#TeamCat
#BadRecordCovers
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In 2009, Dan Martin took me (Keith) to a press junket for the Ghostbusters video game, as I was the only adult in NYC he knew who would care. Dan Aykroyd only wanted to talk about his dumb vodka brand, but we were both still thrilled. Dan’s article was better than the game. RIP💔
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Guyzzzzzzz: we added the third part to this video — the part that says our song sounds like Daft Punk. We did not make the claim about
@paramore
's song. Lots of songs sound like lots of other songs. Ain't no thing. Chill. Out. Please. 💋
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Well, first off, we still exist.
Just seen
@themaccabees
final gig. Amazing night very sad. Now
@wearescientists
what package can you offer to be my new favourite band?
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We Are Dumbs here: some P’more stans are hot & itchy about our TikTok vid, so, to clarify: somebody else posted a thing suggesting that P.’s song sounds like ours. We added the part to the end noting that our song rips D-Punk. Must be a TikTok thing 🤷🏼♀️
who the fuck are you? stfu both don't even sound similar, stop calling attention to yourselves in such PATHETIC way
you should rebranding as "we are dumbs"🙄
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Making songs this good may not be easy, but listening to them sure is.
"Operator Error" out now:
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We’re working tirelessly with very few breaks for family or down time, but on a new album. If it ends up containing a COVID-19 vaccine, all the better, but people shouldn’t pin all their hopes on that.
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Tonight’s the night. Strap in.
Tonight!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
(U.K. times)
19:00
@thecharlatans
with me and Martin
20:00
@DavidBowieReal
with
@mikegarson
and
@reevesgabrels
22:00
@wearescientists
with
@wearescientists
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Not sure what “do one” means, but have a good guess based on context, and the rest of this is right on👇
Enraged at the news that
@RishiSunak
thinks musician should retrain during the economic disaster he helped create. You failed our sector and now you're throwing us to the wolves.
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Hard at work prepping for tonight’s show at
@WhelansLive
(a dozen tix still left on the door). BELFAST tomorrow. WELCOME TO THE EMERALD ISLE!
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To get rid of the bath water, America just threw out the baby, sledge-hammered the shit out of the tub, then burned down the building.
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PICTURED: You, waiting for
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
"With Love & Squalor" edition to begin. You've got about 90 minutes. Plenty of time to grab another beer, or smoke a few more cigarettes indoors(!).
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As born-and-raised Americans, we’ve only experienced the often harrowing alternative to public care like the
#NHS
. Stories like our buddy Guy’s👇 sure make it sound like something worth fighting for.
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Every year we write thousands of songs that don’t make it onto an album. Some are too wretched for human ears. But some are so tight they demand to be heard. Enjoy “Second Acts”…
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Thanks to
@Tim_Burgess
for having us back for our 2nd
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
! Very excited to do our other 5 albums, and start in on U2's catalog. Thanks to everybody who showed up!
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Speaking of bad marketing, here’s a polaroid excerpt from one of our earliest photoshoots. We quickly decided that it would be a good idea to use the kittens that were living in the apartment that Michael and I shared and obscure our faces with them.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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We pretended this cat, Lewis, was producing the album. He lived in the apartment where we slept (on the floor) while recording, and he bit us a lot. So, in his way, he really affected the album.
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LOUSY REPUTATION This song is a companion piece to Textbook - both are about not listening to people when they helpfully try to offer third-party perspective on your relationships. I liked making my own mistakes, back then, and so I made many.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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TEXTBOOK This was the final song written for the album. We’d gotten signed based on the album we’d already recorded, and the label told us we’d need to record a shit-ton of b-sides. We wrote like crazy, and this one appeared in that batch.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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TOUR NÜZ: The "Come On, Get Huffy" tour unfolds today like a tropical flower smelling summer. 25 new dates in the UK & EU, on sale Friday. (Huffy album pre-orderers get presale access Wednesday.) IT IS TIME.
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IT’S A HIT This was the final single from WL&S. I remember running into
@steve_lamacq
at the London Metro as the album was beginning to do well, and he insisted that we release this one, next. Obviously, the label was gonna take *his* advice
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Took a stupid hike up this dumb mountain in Northern CA. I'm going to need to be emergency choppered off. To a bar.
http://t.co/S312Qsvxjo
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Tom, "struggling on a wedding band" implies that you've gone out to a fair few before us. Frankly, we are not comfortable being somebody's second (or 17th) choice. We want you to want us, & only us, completely.
Hoping the dynamic with your future spouse is better than this one.
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“With Love & Squalor” is back on vinyl October 18th in three eye-massaging colors: Kitten’s Nose Pink, Keith’s Jumper Red, and Space Black, aka Classic Black, aka Black.
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Best of luck against the Blues today, England! Here’s a last minute reminder of how the game is played.
#itscominghome
#euro2020final
#threelions
🎧
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Might drop a song this week… thinking about it… might just play it live at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta…
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