Album Rating: 4.0

I found the Boxer Live in Brussels very refreshing after years of avoiding The National, I probably prefer that to the studio version by now.

Album Rating: 4.0

> The band went from suave to arsehole after this album although TWFM is top drawer.

so they went to arsehole after TWFM then lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Nah, the arseyness had crept in but it is a good’un

Album Rating: 4.0

they definitely disappeared up their own arseholes eventually, I’m undecided on when that occurred exactly, bit around TWFM sounds about right (great album mind).

Album Rating: 5.0

It’s always been there but it was revved up around TWFM and then all out from there on after.

Album Rating: 4.7

I still gotta hear the 2 newest albums but I dig IAETF a lot tbh.

Album Rating: 5.0

‘I’m listening to TWFM as we speak, still need to find out what’s the hype about with that album.’



Strangely it’s become the only one of their albums I need now. It’s just the ‘everyday always feel like listening’ set of theirs.



The other albums I need to bring something to now, bit of emotional investment or memory baggage or conscious concentration I don’t know exactly. TWFM I can listen front to back or dip in anywhere any time and it’ll just hit me perfect.



The other classic ones like Boxer or HV I know are excellent but I park them like Ok Computer or Laughing Stock or Spiderland now…it is an effort to actually remember to play them once again.



I’ve played TWFM at least three times as much as any other National album at this stage.

Album Rating: 4.0

TWFM is the BEST national album. Also the first album I ever heard by the band. So good start to finish.

Album Rating: 4.0

do do do do do do do do do do

Album Rating: 4.0

Little faith



Follow meeeEEEEeeeeEEeee

Album Rating: 4.0

really is such a shame they gave this album their worst closer

Can't believe you're just gonna talk about my baby like that right in front of my face.
Justice for the geeks.

is this the worst closer damn it rly might be

Blaspheme. I need to see receipts. By my estimation (and I realize my estimation isn't worth any more than anyone else's) it is second-best, though I could see it shuffling freely amount the next 3 or 4 tracks on the list. Which would put it middle-of-the-pack on a bad day. Not loving the song is one thing, saying it's legitimately worse than bottom feeders like 'Send for Me' and 'Anna Freud' or even middling ballads like 'Smoke Detector' or 'Light Years' is incomprehensible !

1. Hard to Find (yeah yeah, I know, whatever)
2. Vanderlyle
3. Gospel
4. Sleep Well Beast
5. Mr. November
6. Lucky You
7. Light Years
8. Smoke Detector
9. Anna Fraud
10. Send for Me 🤮

Album Rating: 5.0

Gospel is easy number 1 for me, not too sure after that but Geeks is probably in the upper half

Album Rating: 4.0

gospel, lucky you, about today, swb t/t are the best ones easy



the not great ones like hard to find and mr november at the very least dont piss all over the album the way geeks does. like send for me all things considered is nowhere near that albums biggest offender. also england is right there, woulda ended things fine

Album Rating: 4.5

Man remember when Anyone’s Ghost was the most fanbase polarising song this band had ever put out? How times change.

oh boi
love dropping back into a thread that ended with an onionbubs take so glaringly correct that no one could be bothered to embarrass themselves disagreeing. those times ain't changed yet!

Album Rating: 4.5

Tec calling Smoke Detector a “middling ballad” pulled all the air out of the room I think.

As I sit here after reading your comment, I am trying my damndest to think of what 'Smoke Detector' sounds like. A riff, a melody, a lyric, anything. Can't do it. Cannot for the life of me think of what the song actually is.