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JohnnyoftheWell
September 14th 2020


64287 Comments


you did a dumb short thing for low attention spans and you know it !

ShadowRemains
September 14th 2020


28711 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

there's a few too many lower tier songs on boxer for me to consider it a 5, also never been the biggest fan of apartment story despite many others' love for it

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 14th 2020


48446 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lol ok I was just kinda matching the vibe of that page of that thread but w/e



I can write a whole dissertation on why this is my favourite/preferred over Boxer if you like, I'm certainly willing, but "a few lower-tier songs on Boxer" is a good summation of a major point

Slex
September 14th 2020


17870 Comments


Every song on Boxer is achingly perfect : (
But I mean same w this too

ShadowRemains
September 14th 2020


28711 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

put another way, most of the best songs on boxer have vibes resembling this (mistaken for strangers, slow show, guest room, brainy, start a war, etc)

JohnnyoftheWell
September 14th 2020


64287 Comments


A Tik Tok boi on a Tik Tok page! Hit up my desk with that diss by tomorrow morn plz, sir
Lower tier tracks is a moot argument when this album has more of them than Boxer, and Boxer's brick all over the likes of Val Jester and Looking For Astronauts.
Most of the best songs on Boxer resembling this is a dumb argument because most of them demonstrate obvious sense of refinement in dynamics and string arrangement, and this is not retroactively applicable

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 14th 2020


48446 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Val Jester is incredible lol



Squalor and Gospel are weaker than anything on this, and some of their weakest pre-TFWM songs tbh. good live maybe but the Boxer versions are flat and kinda dull

Romulus
September 14th 2020


9117 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

whomst will join me on the train that out of the Holy Trinity (A/B/HV), alligator and boxer are largely perfect (though this is my fave) and high violet is largely The National Sparknotes Version

JohnnyoftheWell
September 14th 2020


64287 Comments


Okay lol if you're bashing Gospel and calling Squalor flat I'm not gonna pretend to take this seriously
+ the real train and the real trilogy = Boxer/HV/TWFM. this is a great warm-up act

Romulus
September 14th 2020


9117 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

given that people seem to age into their later albums i will probably agree with you in like 5 years

Romulus
September 14th 2020


9117 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

can't wait to be 96 and be mad on line about 'i am easy to find' being the best national album

Pikazilla
September 14th 2020


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Any opinion on the national is correct as long as the last three aren't in your top three.

JohnnyoftheWell
September 14th 2020


64287 Comments


"can't wait to be 96 and be mad on line about 'i am easy to find' being the best national album"
Ok this is too far, I'm declaring an armistice for Rowan. Be nice plz ;]

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 14th 2020


48446 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

this thread went from fun to aggro real quick, classic sputnik



IAETF is in fact, good though. I bow out now

Lucman
September 14th 2020


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"+ the real train and the real trilogy = Boxer/HV/TWFM. this is a great warm-up act"



Most accurate thing I've read all day. This is fantastic but a tad patchy. Some less interesting moments ("Daughters....") and one clunker ("Baby We'll Be Fine").

theBoneyKing
September 14th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

uh Daughters is a perfect song wtf are you on

JohnnyoftheWell
September 14th 2020


64287 Comments


Yeah Daughters is one of the 4-5 songs that matter here

tectactoe
September 14th 2020


9228 Comments


and sorry but 'Baby, We'll Be Fine' is not at all a clunker. great track.

Pangea
September 14th 2020


10946 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

baby we'll be fine is amazing

YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
September 14th 2020


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Boxer is great but this has Geese, end sentence"



Geese is my favorite song ever written so I love you for this Row



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