I enjoy it quite a bit. There's one lyric from the adamant refrain of 'This is The Last Time' that seems to explain a lot about The National's overall thematic preference: 'It takes a lot of pain to lift me up/it takes a lot of rain in the cup'. The National are composed of two sets of brothers and 'a big blonde guy' as one magazine put it. Here's to the power of music:). Who do I think I'm kidding? The bittersweet lounging in melancholy that adds substance to us. Essa é a última vez.
They have written songs about planets, Abraham Lincoln and the Mayan creation story Popol Vuh. Watch the band perform an intimate special acoustic show: The National: NPR Music - Tiny Desk Concert. Video shows how bank notes changed over the years with the Queen's face. Like many of the songs on High Violet, it has a big build-up crescendo and an ending almost shattering in its urgent loudness and power. It takes a lot of rain in my cup. From the new album, 'Don't Swallow the Cap' declares in a deadpan tone: 'I have only two emotions/careful fear and dead devotion', which one reviewer commented was the best lyric of the whole album, if not one of the best he's ever heard!
I think it was Matt who commented that sadness can be 'sweet', and sometimes I suppose, it is. This song is about "doing drugs" as stated by Matt at the end of the song in his show at Outside Lands in 2013: Drunk and Sparking: The National Vs Charles Bukowski. We talked our way through city lights. The National are that rare type of band, regarded with reverence by audiences and critics alike. 'Graceless ', also from the new album, propels this head-scratching line at us: 'There's a science to walking through windows', while the album ends with ' Hard to Find' and the line: 'they can all just kiss off into the air. ' Though some might dismiss their work as miserablist dirge, an Eeyored monologue backed by guitars, this would be to overlook the National's keen sense of lyrical humour, their delight in language and musical experimentation. But it's the accompanying rising melodic tones that indicate an emotional renewal of some kind, a crushing but enlivening feeling at the same time, like tears filling up a vale, so high that you become buoyant.
7: This is a good song. For it takes a great band to articulate sincere sadness. But this morning, with his professional hat on, there is an intensity to his conversation – his thoughts specific, precise, his words carefully planted, that seems to echo the way he works. Walk on the cracks of the same old sidewalks. Is there sunlight on your bed. Well, they are the ones who bring me back. It's like in their melodies, in their lyrics, there's a code that can unlock everything that's locked up in me. And I'm so lucky to have found them. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. Indeed High Violet is often deemed 'epic' by reviewers.
And in the vocal recording process there were a few battles. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind. I think I'm like Tennessee Williams I wait for the click, I wait, but it doesn't kick in. ' A marker of a great band. A band that come with many superlatives attached. Can't get these thoughts out of me to (pick me up).
And ' Son' always stands out to me as an one-of-a-kind in their songs, the soft beat a lulling reflection of fulfillment. There's a million little battles that I'm never gonna win, anyway. Eu achava que você ligaria para alguém. Comments most dearly welcome on who your favourite band(s) is/are and why. Você se sente como cem vezes você mesma. They especially remind me of the bleakness and greatness (and the sound and the fury) of Faulkner, Steinback and O'Connor; quirky, dark, wry and contrary, but all the time, deeply contemplative and resonant.
He looks a little testy. How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? The music is an overwhelming.