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New National Album is like a personal fuckin holiday. Listened to the first 2/3rds on way to work, aside from Turtleneck I'm enjoying it. Didn't listen to any singles leading up to release.
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I listened to it once last night and thought it was alright. Still love Day I Die and Dark Side of the Gym ruled. It's no Trouble Will Find Me, though. I listened to that whole album over and over again after it came out. I couldn't get enough of it. Here's them performing Day I Die on Colbert last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOC_g_CHM8
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Sep 8, 2017 20:05
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Turtleneck is good what is wrong with y'all
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Sep 8, 2017 20:05
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I'm listening to Turtleneck again now and it very much reminds me of a Franz Ferdinand song
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Sep 8, 2017 20:20
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Turtleneck fuckin' rules but I had to listen to the album about 10 times to come to love it
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Sep 8, 2017 23:57
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Listened to the album this afternoon, it's as great as the rest of their discography, definitely on par with my favorites. How these people manage to do soul-crushing somberness so well, I'll never know. Liked it a lot!
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Sep 9, 2017 01:09
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CJacobs posted:How these people manage to do soul-crushing somberness so well, I'll never know Same way most musicians do it - years of drug addictions and failed relationships! See also: Spiritualized (greatest band of all time).
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Sep 9, 2017 03:47
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Empire line/I'll still destroy you just made this album jump from a 7 to a 9 for me.androo posted:New National Album is like a personal fuckin holiday. No kidding maeng. The only other band that gets a similar treatment from me is Radiohead. But God drat this was a long day waiting to be done driving/farrying/flying so i can balls deep in a bottle of gin and celebrate "new national album day. God drat satalite radio kept advertising the album would be played in new york and streamed live an hour after I had to turn the car in. TheAbortionator fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 9, 2017 04:28
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I gave it a proper 2nd listen at home loudly on my big speakers as opposed to not too loud in my car while driving, which is how I heard it the first time. Liking it more, but still don't think it's as good as Trouble Will Find Me. Nobody Else Will Be There, Day I Die, Guilty Party and Dark Side of the Gym are the highlights for me. Spotify shuffled to I Should Live In Salt after it was done and that song is just so much more my poo poo than most of this album. It has that signature National morose sadness but it has this weight and energy to it that I feel like the majority of this album lacks.
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Sep 9, 2017 09:50
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After a full listen I think it's a really really good album with only one weak track (Empire Line). That one may grow on me too so who knows. If I had one complaint it's that it's just kinda... more of the same from The National. Not a big deal and good on them for doing what they do best. But at some point I'd like to see them try something a little different. I feel like Turtleneck is kind of the seed of that so who knows.
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Sep 9, 2017 18:14
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BonoMan posted:After a full listen I think it's a really really good album with only one weak track (Empire Line). That one may grow on me too so who knows. they apparently have a bunch of other more aggressive songs they wrote in the wake of the election that they decided not to put on the record, opting for a more meditative and introspective sound, so you might be right source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-national-learn-to-cope-with-the-trump-era?source=TDB&via=FB_Page quote:The National recorded approximately 15 other song sketches for Beast, many of which feature the band playing together in punk-inspired fashion as a visceral reaction to the, er, national mood leading up to election.
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Sep 9, 2017 20:00
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They should've released that album instead.
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Sep 9, 2017 20:37
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I've only listened to it once but I really like it. I think it's better than Trouble Will Find Me, it seems a bit more varied and interesting production wise. I am curious to hear those apparent punk-ish songs after hearing Turtleneck. That could be pretty neat.
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Sep 10, 2017 17:28
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I'm still not digging it as much as their earlier post-Boxer albums. They all kinda work as a trilogy, with this one. But god drat Empire Line is fuckin crushing. Might be my favorite song. The lyrics are so sad.
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Sep 11, 2017 21:50
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I love Sleep Well Beast as a whole. The pieces work well on their own but come alive as a full listen. It's wonderful to hear elements burbling in the background come full circle on Sleep Well Beast, which is just a crushing song for me. The Internet seems to imply it's about a dead marriage that refuses to die, but to me it seems more like a man coming to terms with addiction (there's so much mention of weed and alcohol in the lyrics this time around) but not overcoming it. Then again we tend to apply our own readings to things like these...
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Sep 14, 2017 00:01
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I've been talking about you to myself Cause there's nobody else And I want what I want And I want everything I want everything Usually there's at least one total gut-punch of a verse on a National album, and this is it. I don't think I've ever heard a more perfect encapsulation of that pathetic, bargaining-tantrum at the end of a crumbling relationship as Empire Line. Also, Turtleneck fuckin' rocks.
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Sep 15, 2017 06:00
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Bon Iver or rather I assume Justin Vernon played Slow Show with them tonight in Cork. I'm supposed to see them monday night in Dublin but I'm working and we're so understaffed no one can work my shift. It's literally the first monday I've had to work this year and I never thought to ask for it off because I didn't realise the show was so soon. Feeling so good right now.
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Sep 17, 2017 01:03
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Matt made up a story about Donald Trump stealing Joey Ramone's girlfriend and then they covered The KKK Took My Baby Away in New York, it owned fuckin bones. And they played I'll Still Destroy You so I was a very happy camper
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Oct 9, 2017 02:28
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I was in the mosh area when he came down into the crowd for that cover, was the dude he touched foreheads with during the bridge of Day I Die, and was the one he scolded for almost letting him fall off the railing during Vanderlyle at the end. It was en eventful night
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Oct 9, 2017 02:31
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You guys in the front were having a hell of a time. The enthusiasm was electric and infectious. I loved hearing the stadium-wide choruses on Conversation 16, Terrible Love and Vanderlyle. I bought pre-sale tickets in the stands instead of GA since I knew I wouldn't get to the venue early enough to get close, but for some reason we were siloed off in the left corner so I was looking at the stage almost directly parallel. It made the sound weird and a little washed out, you could hear conversations over the music, but we were still able to hear everything. Stellar show.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:15
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Just saw the second Montreal show last night. I'll Still Destroy You was one of the songs they skipped that night, so I'm bummed out about that, but otherwise it was a great set. They are really overdue for doing a live album. Even their songs I'm not a fan of have an amazing energy in concert.
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Dec 9, 2017 20:01
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kuddles posted:They are really overdue for doing a live album. Even their songs I'm not a fan of have an amazing energy in concert. Hahah, does "A Lot of Sorrow" count?
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Dec 9, 2017 20:23
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I noticed on the long list of songs they have performed this tour, Sorrow isn't in it. Can't blame them for having no interest in performing it ever again.
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A bit of thread necromancy and a total long shot here, but are any kiwi goons going to their show at the end of the month?
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