The National - I Am Easy To Find (May 17, 2019) Album • Page 78

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SWB
Boxer
HV
Alligator
SSFDL
TWFM
IAETF
S/T

 

but no

 

TWFM
Boxer
SWB
Alligator
SSFDL
HV
IAETF
S/T

 

Even though there are some wildly different takes about their best/worst albums I bet if we did a weighted poll in here Boxer would win #1 by a lot just because so many people would have it somewhere in the top 3. Seems pretty universally respected

Would be like that year when the guy who won the cy young was #2 on almost every ballot and people split about #1, someone help me out here

 

Similarly, High Violet winning best National album over Sleep Well Beast would be like when Giancarlo Stanton won the NL MVP over Joey Votto in 2017.

 

Boxer
Alligator
SWB
IAETF
Sad Songs
TWFM
HV
S/t

IAETF, Sad Songs, and TWFM is pretty much a tie for me but the rest is probably locked in for all time.

Boxer is a near perfect masterpiece. Alligator and SWB are close (and both end with a masterpiece stretch). Next 3 are great but flawed. HV is fine. S/t is bad.

 

Boxer
Violet
Beast
Trouble
Gator
Easy
Sad
National

 

I agree with Pat’s top 3. I’ve also never heard either of the first two records.

 

Boxer
SWB
Alligator
HV
IAETF
TWFM
Sad Songs
NTL

 

The high violet disrespect in here my goodness

 

It was third for me and then SWB happened. I can take or leave Runaway & England and they put the wrong version of Terrible Love on there. no such missteps on Gator. the highs on HV are amazing though.

 

IAETF
Trouble
Violet
Sleep
Boxer
Old stuff

 

Boxer, HV, TWFM and SWB are pretty much interchangeable for me. What a run.

 

i asked for it and i still wasnt ready for it

 

I include Sad Songs in the “classic” camp for this band. Maybe a shade worse than the ones that have come since, but like an 8 out of 10 among a bunch of 9 out of 10s.

 

HV has better peaks but SWB is more consistent imo

 

disagree on both honestly. i think of sleep well beast the way i think a lot of people think of this record

 

SSFDL is good. you aren’t missing much with the debut

 

this album over TWFM makes my brain bleed

 

SWB is the only one of theirs that has continually grown in my estimation. a lot of them i love as much as i did when i first heard them and a few have fallen off for me. SWB is a grower.

 

Come post in the MLB thread lol we love new people

 

I agree with this. I wasn’t big on SWB when it came out and now I absolutely love it, whereas I really liked IAETF a lot when it came out and I never come back to it.

 

I think its weak material is pretty generic, but the best songs on it are tremendous. The opening 4 song run is right up there.

 

shoutout to the guy who included alligator in “old stuff” up top lol, absolutely wild

 

This is more or less my feelings on it - I think each of their albums has a few songs that i either don’t care for, or don’t like in the context of the album (especially as they write more and more piano ballads, which are all fine songs but there’s just more of them than i want there to be). But my favorite songs on SSFDL feel essential to the National in a way nothing off the self titled does, so i categorize it with the rest.