The OFFICIAL The National Thread

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:46 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:37 am I didn't like the joke because it worked on two levels and one of those is mean to me.

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mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:00 pm

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govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:03 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:00 pm

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mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:07 pm

“We acknowledge we hurt some of you with that last album and we’re going back to our strengths.”

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:02 pm

“It’s all very exciting: it kind of feels back to the classic National sound in a way, which was really just the five of us, and it has a lot of energy in it,”

So, Alligator and Boxer? High Violet had a lot of Padma and I think that was the tour when they started having Ben and Kyle play with them.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:15 pm

Yeah, the wording seems contradictory. Classic sound is Boxer + High Violet, energy (and being reinspired by Idles) is Alligator.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:24 pm

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rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:44 pm

I guess HBO does a great job of keeping their shit off of YT because I can't find this clip anywhere but I decided to go back and finish the last season or two of Eastbound and Down and in season 3 episode 4 there is an extended scene at a funeral and after things really go to shit the intro of Runaway kicks in and the song plays us out through the rest of the episode that sees Kenny reading Penthouse letters to his baby as a night time story while in another room in the apartment his friend/personal assistant Stevie gets pegged by his wife and cries (not from the pegging, but because he cheated on her earlier at the funeral). Great use of a great tune.

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govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:45 pm

rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:44 pm I guess HBO does a great job of keeping their shit off of YT because I can't find this clip anywhere but I decided to go back and finish the last season or two of Eastbound and Down and in season 3 episode 4 there is an extended scene at a funeral and after things really go to shit the intro of Runaway kicks in and the song plays us out through the rest of the episode that sees Kenny reading Penthouse letters to his baby as a night time story while in another room in the apartment his friend/personal assistant Stevie gets pegged by his wife and cries (not from the pegging, but because he cheated on her earlier at the funeral). Great use of a great tune.

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Oh man, that may be my wife's favorite National track. This sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun to show to her.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:56 am

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat May 28, 2022 6:48 pm

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mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat May 28, 2022 8:48 pm

Yeah.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:10 pm

Watched this last night and its pretty clear Berninger was mixing weed with weed before the show. Rough start, not the best overall, still watched it straight through.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:15 pm

Barcelona? He probably got into el vermut.

How cool are the Devendorfs?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:18 pm

I don't really mind tipsy Matt. Adds a sense of danger to the show. He was that way the first night of Homecoming and he seems to have a good handle on not going too far and getting into a rhythm.

Sounds like I need Al-Anon, I know.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:41 pm

Not sure if you've watched, but this wasn't Drunk Matt, this was High & Moving Awkwardly Matt.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:47 am

Only watched the first song

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:02 pm

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:24 pm

Well?!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:51 pm

I’m waiting until I can really listen.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:56 pm

I read the the 33 1/3 entry on Boxer at the beach today a thought you were somehow yelling at me until I re-read the last post.

Gotta say I don’t know where they’re going with the instrumental side of things these days sometimes….

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:46 pm

I'm going in ...

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:55 pm

See you on the other side, brother.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:00 pm

- The first beats sound like the song from that viral Maggie Rogers + Pharrell video
- Lyrics/cadence sounds like old Berninger
- I really like that Vernon didn't get co-billing which would have made me fear the next album will also focus too hard on guest vocals
- Around 1:33 I decided I liked it and by 1:50-something I was all in
- I expect this one to be really good live
- Only negative, and its a big one, is Bryan seems far more background relative to the Bon Iver machinery

This plus the three I've heard in the recent live shows leaves me really confident the next album will be good unless the production is shit.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:35 pm

Waiting until after the LLWS game. Need to listen to the new Archers of Loaf as well.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:22 pm

It'll grow on me. There isn't a ton of Bon Iver there, vocally anyway.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:34 pm

I think its a really nice standalone. If its indicative of the production of the album or even part of the album, I'll likely be upset.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 3:29 pm

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 3:46 pm

yeah...

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:44 am

Every size sold out within a few hours and everything is going to secondary pre-order. This is like when a new PlayStation or new Jordans(?) are released.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:47 am

Just know there will be a guilty party if my wife didn't order my xmas present as soon as I sent her the link (around noon yesterday).

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:58 am

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:14 am

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:47 am Just know there will be a guilty party if my wife didn't order my xmas present as soon as I sent her the link (around noon yesterday).

This hoodie feels like one my better chances at organically making a local dad friend.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:16 am

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:14 am
rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:47 am Just know there will be a guilty party if my wife didn't order my xmas present as soon as I sent her the link (around noon yesterday).
This hoodie feels like one my better chances at organically making a local dad friend.

My Drive-By Truckers directly led to us meeting some of our newer best friends.

Him: Hey, saw your shirt, do you know Jason Isbell?

Me:

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:23 am

ruined my fall

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:28 am

Hoping mine arrives by Florida fall.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:45 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:28 am Hoping mine arrives by Florida fall.

It's here! As is my new coffee grinder! And on a cool and rainy edge of a hurricane day!

I'm such a cliche

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:51 pm

Haven't worn it yet (a dad wearing a "Sad Dads" hoodie isn't universally appropriate) but it seems like good quality.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:00 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:51 pm Haven't worn it yet (a dad wearing a "Sad Dads" hoodie isn't universally appropriate) but it seems like good quality.

For sure. Definitely feels well made.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:21 pm

Can't wait to go walk around like I was the one who found dead John Cheever.