The National - I Am Easy To Find (May 17, 2019) Album • Page 70

I like Walk it Back for the first minute or so and then yeah, it’s dull. The ‘reality-based community’ part is also very silly. Although it did lead to the National being able to tell Karl Rove to fuck off.

 

Sleep Well Beast is definitely my favorite from them. I agree that the closer is definitely the weakest song on there but I can’t abide with this Walk it Back slander. That’s got to be probably my favorite National song. I don’t get the Day I Die shade either. I can see the Turtleneck hate; I do like that song but think they should’ve put it somewhere else in the album

 

Oof. SWB is a top 10 National track for me. Never understood the lukewarm response to it. It feels like falling asleep high lol

 

Walk it Back is sweet and the closer is ridiculously great

 

If you post slander against SWB and IAETF, you must also disclose whether you consider “England” or “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks” to be top 5 National songs. You can’t disparage the band’s best songwriting and composition without providing context to explain where you’ve gone terribly wrong in your National fandom.

 

The fucking off of Rove would be nice if it happened over 10 years ago.

 

Yep, the song SWB is a trip and I love it.

 

Top five National songs, maybe:

1. Bloodbuzz Ohio
2. Apartment Story
3. Start a War
4. I'll Still Destroy You
5. Mistaken for Strangers

 

Brainy>

 

Impossible for me to rank this songs bands besides I’ll Still Destroy You and Brainy being the top two

 

Geese
City middle
Mr November
Fake empire
I’ll still destroy you
I am easy to find

 

Not enough Cherry Tree love in here.

Wasp Nest and About Today would both be inside my top ten without really thinking about it

 

1a. Geese
1b. All the Wine
2. some other stuff that's not Geese or All the Wine

 

1. Nobody Else Will Be There
2. I Am Easy to Find
3. Light Years
4. Don't Swallow the Cap
5. Mistaken for Strangers

 

Yeah cherry tree is amazing. But admittedly I’ve always felt about today is overrated and all dolled up in straps is the real highlight

 

My gut-feeling top 5 without putting too much thought into it, in no particular order:

1) pink Rabbits
2) City Middle
3) start a war
4) Lucky You
5) lemon World

Honorable mention: conversation 16, about today, I’ll still destroy you

 

Are the SWB haters High Violet stans? That’s my wild guess/justification for why someone might hate on peak adult National.

 

If we’re gonna make this the official national shitpost thread I cannot stress enough how much the stretch of the last 5 songs on alligator towers above the rest of their catalog despite the rest of their catalog being mostly 9 out of 10s. It is the greatest 5 song stretch of the 21st century

 

yeah that 5-song run is just about peak music for me tbh

 

Alligator is like the best Friday/Saturday night on the town you ever had, captured on record

 

not sure what my top 5 would be at this point but Pink Rabbits will always be number one

 

I don’t like SWB but HV is probably top 3

 

My top five depends on my mood so I'm not even going to try.

 

I don't like England but love Vanderlyle