July 24, 20187 yr Maybe I'll head up to Dallas that weekend so I can go to the game and my wife can go to this show. Because the National plays chick rock! (jk. like what you want. music is subjective. except muse. they just suck.)
July 24, 20187 yr just got two for dallas. very happy to be able to see them at a show that I don't have to travel too far for, and outside of the festival venue
July 25, 20187 yr Fan club presale.Oh ok anyone have code they can share would appreciate it.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
July 25, 20187 yr Good timing as I got the citi presale code. First time seeing them and can’t wait.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
July 26, 20187 yr Alligator through Sleep Well Beast is an amazing run of albums. They're a great band. I've never seen them live though, and even though I always hear how amazing they are live, all the footage I've seen on Youtube leaves me unimpressed. Matt seems like a lot of the time he's singing live he's drunk, flat, and off key. What am I missing? Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Tom
July 26, 20187 yr when i saw them last in 2005 at haileys in denton for the alligator tour it was awesome as shit.
July 27, 20187 yr Just got mine. Seen them twice before -- once on Boxer tour at Granada (got to hang out with the band backstage after the show) and then for the album after that at House of Blues. Had tickets a couple years ago for their show on same day as Texas-OU and got too piss drunk to make the show. Oops.
September 22, 20187 yr i have two tickets for the show 10/6 at Southside Ballroom Dallas FS. Will be overseas til the 10th. can pick up in Austin or will mail/do paypal outside of Austin paid $49.50 face plus tax and fees - will sell both for $90.00
March 5, 20196 yr Oh hell yeah. New album out May 17th https://thenational.ffm.to/iaetf.owe Edited March 5, 20196 yr by mdmost
March 5, 20196 yr On 7/26/2018 at 9:38 AM, Tom said: Matt seems like a lot of the time he's singing live he's drunk, flat, and off key. What am I missing? You are missing a great show. No his singing isn't as good live. It doesn't matter.
March 5, 20196 yr I Am Easy to Find: 01 You Had Your Soul With You 02 Quiet Light 03 Roman Holiday 04 Oblivions 05 The Pull of You 06 Hey Rosey 07 I Am Easy to Find 08 Her Father in the Pool 09 Where Is Her Head 10 Not in Kansas 11 So Far So Fast 12 Dust Swirls in Strange Light 13 Hairpin Turns14 Rylan 15 Underwater 16 Light Years
March 6, 20196 yr I could see them tacking it on after Houston before they take their break. They do seem to like amphitheaters and concert halls which we don't really have that great of options. Closest to that option would be Bomb Factory or Toyota Music Factory. They also aren't doing Red Rocks or Colorado in general so I'm sure that's in the works. They could still tack on Red Rocks after Houston. IIRC, the shows last tour were Dallas>KC>Red Rocks. Edited March 6, 20196 yr by mdmost
March 6, 20196 yr Great track, who is singing along with Matt at the end? Sixteen songs is a fucking gift. So damn excited about this. Hate 360 but seeing ALVVAYS is a total bonus.
March 6, 20196 yr Gail Ann Dorsey, formerly a Bowie bandmate. Sharon Van Etten and Lisa Hannigan (who provided backup vocals on Sleep Well Beast) will also be on the new album.
March 6, 20196 yr 12 hours ago, mdmost said: I could see them tacking it on after Houston before they take their break. They do seem to like amphitheaters and concert halls which we don't really have that great of options. Closest to that option would be Bomb Factory or Toyota Music Factory. They also aren't doing Red Rocks or Colorado in general so I'm sure that's in the works. They could still tack on Red Rocks after Houston. IIRC, the shows last tour were Dallas>KC>Red Rocks. They would crush it at the bomb factory. I saw LCD there and it was fantastic. I doubt no Dallas on the ticket is a venue issue. That would seem like a cop-out excuse. I think they went with 2 Texas stops and picked Austin over Dallas.
March 6, 20196 yr Dallas tends to get tacked on as a show after initial announcements. The one last year wasn't announced till well into the summer after ACL lineups came out. But I'm planning to go see them in Atlanta at a venue that looks exactly like the Bomb Factory. I mean a carbon copy.
March 6, 20196 yr Got 2 to the Houston show. May pick up tickets later for the Austin show, but COTA does nothing for me, really.
March 6, 20196 yr There are a couple of bands I just don’t get. The National is one of them. But I’m glad you fellas are getting to see a favorite band in their prime.
March 6, 20196 yr Dallas tends to get tacked on as a show after initial announcements. The one last year wasn't announced till well into the summer after ACL lineups came out. But I'm planning to go see them in Atlanta at a venue that looks exactly like the Bomb Factory. I mean a carbon copy.It’s a good venue, I saw Ghost there a couple months ago. I like how the stage is elevated so that it’s easy to see from the floor. And the Battery is pretty cool with plenty of places to booze and grub beforehand.
March 6, 20196 yr Cool. We actually went with upper level seats. Wife is tired of people she can't see over. We may try to hit up a Braves game before. The Phillies are in town. And yeah, The National aren't for everyone and that's okay.
March 6, 20196 yr 17 hours ago, mdmost said: I could see them tacking it on after Houston before they take their break. They do seem to like amphitheaters and concert halls which we don't really have that great of options. Closest to that option would be Bomb Factory or Toyota Music Factory. They also aren't doing Red Rocks or Colorado in general so I'm sure that's in the works. They could still tack on Red Rocks after Houston. IIRC, the shows last tour were Dallas>KC>Red Rocks. So glad I got to see them at the Granada when they came through on the "Boxer" tour. So fucking great. Then I saw them at House of Blues, which was pretty good. I've had tickets for -- and missed -- two shows at Southside Ballroom. Why can't they play Bomb Factory? The place in Grand Prairie is great in every way except having a shitty location.
March 6, 20196 yr 4 hours ago, Jack Straw said: Got 2 to the Houston show. I'm holding off. I'll just stop in and buy them at the box office in person to avoid the 30% service fee. I really wish they had opted for an indoor venue. An outdoor show in September in Houston is not something I'm thrilled about, and I think their acoustics are 100 times better at indoor venues. Even when I saw them at Red Rocks, it didn't hold a flame to their show at ACL Live. I still get shivers thinking about them closing the show with Vanderlyle Crybaby.
March 7, 20196 yr Cool. We actually went with upper level seats. Wife is tired of people she can't see over. We may try to hit up a Braves game before. The Phillies are in town. And yeah, The National aren't for everyone and that's okay.Braves and a show is a very solid day. Getcha a Terrapin Chopsecutioner IPA and a Holeman & Finch burger from the stand in right field.
March 16, 20196 yr Me and my daughters know all the words to runaway and mr november. Actually we know more songs but I tell my now baby's momma a lot of people cuss.
March 16, 20196 yr There's a science to walking through windows without you All of my thoughts of youBullets through rotten fruitCome apart at the seamsNow I know what dying means I am not my rosy selfLeft my roses on my shelfTake the wild ones, they're my favoritesIt's the side effects that save us Grace
March 16, 20196 yr I gave my heart to the Army, the only sentimental thing I could think of. -------- Berninger explained what a Lemonworld is "A Lemonworld is an invented, sexy, weird place where you can escape from New York. I had some image of it being a big beautiful, maybe semi-decrepit house. You know the documentary Grey Gardens? It's set in a house out in the Hamptons, it's about this crazy mother and daughter who live there in their own little world. It's also very depressing and odd and beautiful. Anyways, I had this sense of a Lemonworld as a place where these two sexy sisters who wear bathing suits all the time and drink a lot, y'know, 'put flowers in my mouth and we can say we invented a summer lovin' torture party' — that's awesome! That's sexy, weird, and fun. My wife and her sister are very close in age, they're both hilarious and sexy and brilliant, so I think I was channeling them a little bit. It's a fun world."
May 17, 20196 yr "I Am Easy to Find" is out today. Listening to it for the first time now. "Not in Kansas" is a classic National song.
May 17, 20196 yr Halfway through it, and what's with the female co-vox on all these albums now? Its fine but fuck duets, i just wanna hear matt's voice sing some poetry man. And I'm also not sure how that'll all translate live, and the national is nothing if not a spectacular live band (last tour notwithstanding, tbh). That said, the immediate song that jumps out to me so far (apart from the drip fed singles) is Hey Rosey. I can't wait to hear matt sing it instead of the guest vocals. Also, so far Bryan Devendorf hasn't really featured on this album and he's my favorite part of TN. Edited May 17, 20196 yr by Bottlecap
May 17, 20196 yr I think the female co-vocals are because Carin Besser, Matt's wife, wrote most of the lyrics for the new album so maybe the idea was to have a female singing portions alongside Matt. Waiting on my copy to come in today so I can listen. Edited May 17, 20196 yr by mdmost
May 17, 20196 yr 9 minutes ago, mdmost said: I think the female co-vocals are because Carin Besser, Matt's wife, wrote most of the lyrics for the new album so maybe the idea was to have a female singing portions alongside Matt. Waiting on my copy to come in today so I can listen. Makes sense, and these are very creative lyrics. But they'll obviously need to tour with a female guest vocalist or this album won't translate. They probably will this year, but I hope they don't get, like, one of the other members to falsetto through the female parts on future tours.
May 17, 20196 yr commentary on every song on the new album by band members: https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-interview/?mbid=nl_051719_newfriday
May 17, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Bottlecap said: Halfway through it, and what's with the female co-vox on all these albums now? Its fine but fuck duets, i just wanna hear matt's voice sing some poetry man. And I'm also not sure how that'll all translate live, and the national is nothing if not a spectacular live band (last tour notwithstanding, tbh). That said, the immediate song that jumps out to me so far (apart from the drip fed singles) is Hey Rosey. I can't wait to hear matt sing it instead of the guest vocals. Also, so far Bryan Devendorf hasn't really featured on this album and he's my favorite part of TN. Yeah I got like 3 songs in this morning and the female vocals were a huge turnoff if I'm being honest. The National and Matt's voice are inseparable.
May 17, 20196 yr Halfway through.... not really doing anything for me. All the way through. I didn’t like that at all.
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