Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
smae anarchist
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Album Rating: 4.5
"Alligator was the first National album I ever heard and it was immediate for me."
I feel like there's something wrong with me but I still can't really get into Alligator. I really don't like the production/mixing in comparison to the stuff that followed, particularly Matt's voice. This, Boxer, and probably SWB were the most immediate National albums for me.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I have always claimed to prefer Alligator or Boxer, maybe I did... no I'm sure I DID. This has quietly reached the same lofty plains, as I could only deny it's subtle allure for so long.
It dawned on me how I listen to an absurd amount of The National's music and this is an absolute mainstay.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Love to see it! This album is the mother of all classics.
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High Violet is indeed a silent seductress.
Funny enough, according to last.fm The National are my most listened to band. Whooda guessed.
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"if I could add to the hot take pile further - Bloodbuzz Ohio is kinda really boring and I never understood the acclaim it gets"
Yo guys you know that song on that album by the hashtag BORING band the NATIONAL with the most accessible melodies and the mobile dynamics and either the most or second most gratifying crescendo depending on your definition/how much you overrate Terrible Love? ye, boring shit. that one-wavelength song about lemons that literally no-one understands is best
(half jking bc Lemonworld is the business, but also)
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Lemonworld is top tier Johnny, takes your crude jokes elsewhere !!
If I had to pick a weak track here, it'd be Little Faith. But that's only "weak" by comparison. Though not quite my favorite overall, this might be The National's most consistent album to date.
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Lemonworld is just south of top tier, but close enough. Little Faith and Vanderlyle are the skip-songs, rest is aight
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
yo Little Faith is amazing
NOW IM STUCK IN NEW YORK AND THE RAIN'S COMING DOWN
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Album Rating: 5.0
The bass in “Little Faith” does naughty things to me.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Lemonworld is ok, sorrow is the crappy one
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Album Rating: 4.0
When I was a kid, I remember reading a metacritic review saying Lemonworld is like National doing a parody of themselves. And I actually took it literally and thought it was a literal parody so I never liked it until years later lol
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
nah Pika, "Sorrow" is the best one
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Album Rating: 4.0
Always thought Sorrow was the worst one here
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Sorrow is like the quintessential National song, easy top 10 for them
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
easy top 1*
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ummmmmmmmmmmm
yeah okay
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Top 10:
1. I Should Live in Salt
2. Brainy
3. Sorrow
4. Fake Empire
5. Secret Meeting
6. Hard to Find
7. Slow Show
8. Guilty Party
9. Don't Swallow the Cap
10. Lemonworld
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Sorrow" is just so quintessentially National that it's hard for me to understand any fan not totally loving it. Part of what makes it so perfect is it's got a hint of self-parody to it; they're obviously in on the joke given the A Lot of Sorrow perfomance. In fact there's quite a bit of that throughout the album (I guess all great National material to an extent) and part of what elevates this for me. Not addressing this at anyone here but I feel like a lot of the band's detractors, those who say that they're all doom and gloom, are really missing that side of them. IAETF's relative lack of humor/self-parody is a big part of what holds it back from true greatness imo.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don’t see the appeal. The instrumentation is dull, the verses are dull, there’s almost no chorus, and the lyrics are Matt at his least clever and interesting
Bloodbuzz rules though you guys are nuts
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