Album Rating: 5.0

Same. TWFM is the reason the band doesn’t have 5 straight 5s for me. Seeing a huge chunk of it live didn’t even rlly help. Might give it a spin now that I’m thinking ab it, been a loooong time

Album Rating: 4.5

Crossing my fingers the rumoured second 2023 album is still a goer

Album Rating: 5.0

Ur finger crossing worked. Better than Frankenstein, but still just nowhere remotely near their best. Oh well

Album Rating: 4.0

gonna start pretending england is the closer of this

Album Rating: 4.2

Excellent and reliable strategy

Album Rating: 4.5

that means Vanderlyle is the opener

Album Rating: 4.0

No i will put that one in the trash where it belongs

Album Rating: 4.5

this is live acoustic singalong erasure

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't have time to explain myself now but Vanderlyle is a perfect and essential National song and if you don't at least appreciate it I question how much you really understand this band.

^ gotta explain everything to the geeks, though!

I love this album. There isn’t a moment i don’t love

Album Rating: 4.0

okay not liking a song is akin to not understanding a band??



no sorry vanderlyle is sappy af in not an appealing manner and the chorus is limp shit



it might have value live, but this is no live album!

Album Rating: 4.2

now that the National are a dead band, Boney is firmly banned from gatekeeping them

Vanderlyle pisses this album's stoney mystique over the band's own porch and is the only misstep on otherwise maybe their most consistent tracklist (Runaway is still corny, but at least it's unobtrusive)

Album Rating: 4.0

I like runaway, wish it was like a minute shorter though

Album Rating: 5.0

Mr. November >>>>> literally every other closer this band has



I do love Vanderlyle tho, beautiful track

Album Rating: 4.2

Lucky You / Gospel / About Today (in any order) are the best National closers by a punishingly wide margin

Album Rating: 5.0

About Today isn’t a closer, Lucky You is extremely overrated and not even top 6 songs on that record, Gospel rules, but no way is it even near Mr. November

Album Rating: 4.2

Lucky You is by far the strongest piece of songwriting on Sad Songs and thinking so strongly otherwise suggests exactly the kind of proclivity for the bargain bin NYC landfill post-punk sound that Mr. November lives and dies by

and there was a memo sent round a couple of years that you might have missed, but both the throwaway final tracks on Cherry Tree have been retconned out of existence

Album Rating: 4.5

"Lucky You / Gospel / About Today (in any order)"



sleep well beast erasure

“Mr. November >>>>> literally every other closer this band has“

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“Lucky You / Gospel / About Today (in any order)”

Gospel, really? Yawn.