High Violet Sleep Well Beast Trouble Will Find Me Boxer Alligator Don’t really know self-titled or Sad Songs well enough to rank them in there. They’re at the bottom. Too early to say on this one. Probably before or after Sleep Well Beast.
This is an absolutely phenomenal album, but I don't like it *quite* as much as everyone else seems to. I do have some critiques and it seems like most people feel this is complete and utter masterpiece. This is an amazing band putting together a run of albums for the ages though. No question.
Counterpoint: anyone willing to put this album into their rankings already is jumping the gun in comical fashion.
I'm so sorry I started the rankings again, it was intended as a joke in that I refused to rank them Also I've heard the album maybe ten times, how about don't tell me I can't have an opinion on it
Counter-counterpoint: these rankings are arbitrary and no one is going to hold anyone to any of this so placing the new album is harmless and a fun way to contextuallize initial impressions within the grander scheme of their body of work
There is no such thing as jumping the gun with an opinion. Opinions are fluid not etched in stone for eternity.
I mean, they're not really "arbitrary." We're music fans, lol. We think about this stuff obsessively. I haven't really wrapped my head around this album yet, so I'm not going to hold it up against stuff we've had for years.
Honestly, I really do not care whether you rank this album at the top of their discography, ha. I just thought your post was silly.
Matt on "Not In Kansas" "That must be what happened—I took it as an invitation. I was walking around this little Danish town north of L.A. that was totally empty and listening to this instrumental on repeat. The music was so addictive. I opened up an email to myself and started writing. The original version is about 10 minutes long and it’s got 17 more stanzas." Would love to read the other stanzas.
You know who's a fucking coward? Scott Devendorf. Scott Devendorf Ranks the National's Seven Stormy Rock Records
I’m not ready to rank this album above High Violet, but I am totally prepared to say that it’s better than brackets.