A thread about THE NATIONAL

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A thread about THE NATIONAL
« on: December 29, 2021, 09:33:51 AM »
Just a thread to promote, and hopefully discuss, the works of this awesome band.

I’ll post a few songs for those who’d like to know them better.

https://youtu.be/A-Tod1_tZdU
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2021, 09:34:28 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2021, 09:35:22 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2021, 09:36:25 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2021, 09:36:55 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2021, 09:39:30 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2021, 09:41:30 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2021, 09:43:33 AM »
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2021, 09:57:58 AM »
They're an amazing group. High Violet is one of my favorite albums of the 2010s.

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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2021, 10:43:56 AM »
High Violet has some nice things. They’re a bit boring, though.

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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2021, 03:33:50 PM »
don't really know their music but i've mentioned a few times on here already that my film school buddy is the lead singer's little brother and he made the documentary Mistaken for Strangers (which i make a brief cameo in).

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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2021, 04:31:05 PM »
don't really know their music but i've mentioned a few times on here already that my film school buddy is the lead singer's little brother and he made the documentary Mistaken for Strangers (which i make a brief cameo in).
I remember that.
Well, if you can get me backstage at their Paris concert in May, I’ll owe you one !
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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2021, 11:14:03 AM »
don't really know their music but i've mentioned a few times on here already that my film school buddy is the lead singer's little brother and he made the documentary Mistaken for Strangers (which i make a brief cameo in).
I remember that.
Well, if you can get me backstage at their Paris concert in May, I’ll owe you one !
i've never seen them perform. i've been drunk in the backseat of Matt Berninger's BMW driving around LA, but have never actually met any of the band.
have you seen the film by chance?
there was supposed to be a series based off the band and the brother- a fictionalized version of the real life people as how they were portrayed in the documentary, but it hasn't materialized and when i heard about it, never thought it would.  it was announced about 5 years after the film debuted- far too late.

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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2021, 01:24:38 PM »
Actually spent the morning at work playing a few of their albums.  There's a few tracks i really like, but overall the droll voice wears on me and i can't take too much of it at once.  Fake Empire i think is the song i like best.

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Re: A thread about THE NATIONAL
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2022, 06:38:53 PM »
Yeah it’s the voice and subject matter that get tedious after 2 or 3 tunes. I really like the blood buzz song. The singer sounds like he’s grown a pair on that one.