Album Rating: 4.5
If you ever doubt the enduring influence Pitchfork has just remember they slated 'Slipped' and 'Vanderlyle' - both tunes were maligned for ages after that.
Both are top tier.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I feel like those 2 songs (Carin and Nobody) are the ones meant to fill that "stripped down" void of sorts. I mean, it's not a void for me cause the album's nearly perfect for me as it is and I didn't really missed those elements, because it has songs like the title track that are unlike anything they've ever done. All of The National's essential elements (for me) are there.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm done trying to compare this to previous albums, I'll just keep listening and let it all sink in.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Watching the band perform 'Slipped' bathed in blue light and play an acoustic version of 'Vanderlyle' with the crowd singing every line...incredible stuff, greatest show I've ever seen.
Two weeks on Thursday, two weeks on Thursday...going to be emotional, 'Slow Show' will be tears after it being my first dance and all.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
What I like about those stripped down tracks is that they are the ones that grew on me most over time...all the ones I mentioned on the previous page would have originally been among my least favorites on their respective albums but eventually I realized how essential they are. Maybe that means that one of these songs will eventually fill that void and I'm just not there yet.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I think this is probably where my rating will stay. Nothing wrong with a superb non-classic in a discography. High Violet remains the class of this band's incredible output.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Yeah Tuna, this is definitely its own beast (sorry), I just can't help but compare it.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I like how civilized most of The National's threads are in comparison to others. That speaks volumes on how great the band is, I mean, they spark debate, but in a good way; cause any of their albums from Alligator onward are a valid and justifiable choice as a favorite.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Sowing - (in the French accent of Monty Python's Meaning of Life' restaurant scene)
"Just one more waffer thin masterpiece?"
{salivates, gobbles, belches, then explodes}
Agreed, probably best to call an end to the feast of 5s here
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Album Rating: 4.5
^ I watched that yesterday, what a coinkydink
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Album Rating: 4.5
a bucket for monsieur!
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Album Rating: 4.5
Greedy Sowing, can't help himself
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Album Rating: 4.0
One of the most underrated moments when Chapman opens the door to the Grim Reaper, glances down at his scythe and asks "Is it about the hedge?"
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Album Rating: 4.5
pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
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Album Rating: 3.0
Sleep well bitch
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'll take as many classic National albums as I can until I burst
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Album Rating: 3.0
And until then, we just have to deal with albums like this
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Album Rating: 4.5
no
you just have to deal with albums like this
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Album Rating: 3.5
I don't get the hype for this band. I'm bored and don't drink much gin
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Album Rating: 4.5
A g&t is one of those 'once in a blue moon' drinks for me, don't really get the hype
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