Album Rating: 4.5
'Trouble' is better, and this album does have a slight dip tracks 6-8, but it's still a classic.
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 10 and maybe 11 sound like they could have appeared on Trouble pretty much
Also, 'Walk it Back' is growing on me to the extent I see it as sounding a bit like an improved version of 'This is the Last Time'
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
As others have said, The National make grower classics, not instant classics. If I do eventually 5 this I don't think it will be for a good while.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I know people who weren't keen on TWFM and year after year it slowly grew on them, now they consider it the best National album.
It's a cliche to say but The National are a band that specialise in slow burners.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I adore TWFM, but I think that there's more layers to this one, more secrets and small nuances. Dunno, time will tell.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Boney - exactly.
Plus, despite 'Trouble' being in my top 5 Albums of all time, it does have dips in the tracklist.
'Sea of Love' - 'Heaven faced' is a slight dip, and 'I need My Girl' isn't a favourite of mine.
So again, similar to this, three songs I'm less attached to. Classic albums are always 'imperfectly perfect' for me, no such thing as absolute objective perfection. A few cracks in the road are a good thing.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I have to agree, this is much less immediate.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
TWFM is way more direct, it's an almost immediate gut punch for me. This one's like a car crash in slow motion or something like that. It's cryptic, ambiguous, darker, way more complex. Hope i'm making any sense lol
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I think what this album is missing is a stripped down song. Trouble had Slipped, High Violet had Runaway, Boxer had Start a War and Racing Like a Pro, Alligator had Daughters of the Soho Riots...where's the equivalent here? It it has something as quietly devastating as any of those that would help elevate it for me.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Maybe the opener @Boney
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Album Rating: 4.5
The closest would probably be Carin or No One Else
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Nobody Else Will Be There is too early in the tracklist to have the same impact as any of those other ones.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Even Carin is more of a "rock" song in the way it builds. It could be performed with just piano though and then it might fit that bill.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I think it has a different kind of impact, it's like their eeriest opener ever, and it prepares you for what's comin. That's just how I feel, of course.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Beg' and 'Carin' are the equivalents I'd say
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Beg has quite a bit going on in the background though, not truly "stripped down"
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Yeah, I would go with Nobody and Carin.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Nobody also has too much background noise to be stripped down.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The song itself is bare bones and has that 'Slipped' feel
I remember the days everyone thought 'Slipped' sucked, bad times tbh
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Album Rating: 5.0
Just about every song has sunk in for me now. Such an amazing and consistent album.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Right now I think the lyrics are the barrier between me loving this as much as their other albums. They're great of course, but a bit too plain.
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