The National Band • Page 11

Track list and single fucking rule. 12 songs 58 minutes.

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Glad Day I Die is there

 

Gonna be hard as hell, but think I'm going to try to not listen to any singles before the release. Want to hear the whole thing at once.

 

New song is A+

 

I'm so glad they're touring again I've wanted to see them for so long.

Love the new song.

 

New song is fantastic

 

Managed to get standing tickets to see them in Edinburgh

 

can anyone help me out? I remember reading a really long feature on High Violet from like 2010 and I'm trying to find it. I thought it was Paste? and I remember reading it on an archive but I'm not positive

 

10 years of Boxer today

 

Just noticed on "Racing Like A Pro" that Matt says "you're shooting up the ladder", a reference to Chutes and Ladders. Can't believe I never noticed that before.

 

Happy Boxer Day


I can’t think of another album that has helped me get through times of joy, of sadness, or downright introspection.

The lyrics, the music, the production… Modern Masterpiece.

 

It is indeed a masterpiece. And sometimes I don't even think it's one of their top three albums.

 

And to think... the best song wasn't even on the album, Tall Saint.

 

Ha, it's a line about someone succeeding over the narrator in life, maybe in a career yet is still new/out of their element.

 

For some reason I'm just now listening to the s/t and it's pretty fucking great

 

umm... I feel like an idiot. This is amazing.

 

Beautiful Head is one of my favorite National songs ever. S/T has some real gems on it.

 

Beautiful Head and The Perfect Song were my favorites after 1 listen

 

...the back half of TN is so underrated, Theory of the Crows/Bitters & Absolut/Anna Freud are some of Matt's best.

 

Same goes with the back half of Sad Songs...

Available is of course great (in my top 10), but Sugar Wife/Fashion Coat/Patterns/Lucky You are so so great. Sugar Wife and Lucky have 2 of my favorite Matt lines of all time.

 

Nice retrospective.

The National 'Boxer' Turns 10

 

I've really grown to love this album over the years, there's always a different song I grow attached to every time I revisit Sad Songs. Right now the song is Trophy Wives, I really love the way Matt sings "I don't wanna be what I'm becoming" on the last verse. It's kind of haunting yet nonchalant at the same time.

 

Was sitting in a car wash and Fireproof came on.
Sort of an unexpected spiritual experience. ha

 

Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers is really clicking with me this afternoon.

 

Lucky You is a top 5 song for me