The National - First Two Pages... & Laugh Track Album • Page 83

It's pretty much equal to Frankenstein in that department for me, only it's 16 minutes longer, and I really feel each of those 16 minutes when I try to listen to the whole album. Laugh Track beats them both there for me.

 

My favourite aspect of The National was when each part of a song would be another hook. Pink Rabbits is the perfect example. I don't get that feeling from most of the new stuff.

 

THEY PLAYED GEESE OF BEVERLY ROAD AND MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS (DEDICATED TO SCOTT HUTCHISON) AND LAUGH TRACK AND ABOUT TODAY AND VANDERLYLE

I AM IN PIECES

PERFECT SHOW

 

That’s fair and I should probably do that. I tend to not delete songs from albums, as that isn’t how the artist intended for the music to be hard. But yeah with Easy To Find I might do it cuz them interludes are bad.

 

The Top 20 Songs by The National to Cry Alone to in Your Studio Apartment

 

Or at the damn grocery, as I experienced today.

 

I know you’re being sarcastic but I sometimes forget I can skip tracks lol. I mostly listen to albums all the way through and I get on autopilot

 

Lost it at Bloodbuzz haha

"Oh God. She’s from Ohio. Whatever you do, don’t think of Skyline Chili"

 

few complaints about the list, the biggest being the omission of Pink Rabbits, and potentially Nobody Else Will Be There (since i once made a meticulously-crafted, 4 hour narrative-driven playlist that featured the song during one of the more moody moments, lmao)

 

Sleep Well Beast is one of my best preorder decisions in recent memory that I can remember. I think I’m getting to a point where I have been whelmed by so many albums that I need to hear the thing first before purchasing.

 

I've spent the last week basically listening to nothing but this new record--it hits everything I love about this band and I'm not finding a single song that I find skippable.

 

After Leeds on Saturday I am absolutely in love with both of these now.

I still think it’s a real shame about the production on Frankenstein because the songs are unbelievable. Having seen them live they now exist in this strange hybrid studio/live in my head.

 

Remember when Bryan said he wanted the new National to sound like IDLES? Lol...good times. The National's Bryan Devendorf wants band's new album to be "stripped back and minimalist, like IDLES"

 

becoming a daily ritual for me to decompress to Turn Off the House after work

 

I can't get enough of Laugh Track. Have played it every day since it came out.

 

Same.

 

Feels good to love a new National record.

 

Just finished my first listen to Laugh Track and my initial thoughts are that it’s good and that Space Invader is the best song they released this year

 

Gave both albums another listen. nothing on either would make a National Top....30, even

 

nah. Turn Off the House is top 10

 

There’s a handful in contention for my top 30…eucalyptus, laugh track, turn off the house, space invader, hornets, smoke detector.

 

Turn Off the House and Smoke Detector are both already top 15 National tracks for me.

 

Turn Off the House was another one that stood out to me

 

Crumble & Laugh Track are the best songs with features on these albums.

 

Can’t wait to make my EOTY list and be the only person with Frankenstein one slot above Laugh Track. The best tracks on this absolutely hit, though, especially “Smoke Detector.”

I made a playlist that’s just these two albums that I’ll listen to on shuffle, and while the two albums have their own clear identity, they also work great as companions. Easily the most I’ve liked listening to this band since Boxer knocked me down all those years ago.