The National

[justinandimcool]

my top 10 hasn't changed much from a few years ago when we were doing this game: Bloodbuzz, Apartment, Geese, Baby WBF, Slow Show, City Middle, Ada, All The Wine, Karen, Green Gloves...I can see Pink Rabbits in there too, the 8-10 spot pretty much changes all the time.

[iMAC386]

What'd they play on SNL?

[justinandimcool]

Graceless so far

[justinandimcool]

apparently INMG right now

[laura22]

just watched the SNL songs
they went ham and the end of graceless

[jiggajm18]

'mistaken for strangers' is showing this sunday at the trocadero in philly, followed by a Q&A session with matt and tom berninger.

[Benny003]

Are they on The Tonight Show tonight?

[coldengrey12]

Benny — Yes, they are.

[canes101190]

Just finished the movie. It's pretty great, especially if you have a younger sibling and understand the dynamic that comes along with that. I enjoyed it.

[coyn113]

I plan on watching this tonight after all the hockey thats on .. NCAA and NHL

Wanted to see it at TriBeca last year but it didnt work out.

[~Crashintome89~]

just came back from the Troc. Great film, great audience. Tom did a very nice job with this.

[coldengrey12]

Help a brother out — is the movie a doc about them? A fictional piece they made? What are we looking at here?

[clayj41]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

Help a brother out — is the movie a doc about them? A fictional piece they made? What are we looking at here?

Per IMDb:

In 2010, rock band The National were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career. After ten years as a band, and five critically acclaimed albums, they were finally enjoying wider recognition. Lead singer Matt Berninger invited his younger brother, Tom, to join the tour's crew. A budding horror filmmaker, Tom - who is nine years younger than Matt and listens exclusively to heavy metal - decided to bring his camera along. Tom's at sea in the world of indie rock, and living in his brother's shadow brings out the younger sibling in him - he drinks, complains, and struggles to balance his ambition with his tour responsibilities. The result is a film about brothers and about making something of your own.

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by clayj41

Per IMDb:

In 2010, rock band The National were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career. After ten years as a band, and five critically acclaimed albums, they were finally enjoying wider recognition. Lead singer Matt Berninger invited his younger brother, Tom, to join the tour's crew. A budding horror filmmaker, Tom - who is nine years younger than Matt and listens exclusively to heavy metal - decided to bring his camera along. Tom's at sea in the world of indie rock, and living in his brother's shadow brings out the younger sibling in him - he drinks, complains, and struggles to balance his ambition with his tour responsibilities. The result is a film about brothers and about making something of your own.

Thanks! I suppose I could've googled that myself. Sounds interesting.

[iMAC386]

Did you guys see the AMA they did a few days ago with Matt's brother about the documentary? It was like half band talk, half documentary talk. Aaron dropped this tidbit about "Terrible Love", which I never knew:


Hi! On The High Violet Expanded Edition there's an alternate version of Terrible Love. What was the motive behind putting another version on the album? Do you like it more or less than the 'normal' version?


TheNationalandTomVerified[S] 38 points 21 hours ago

The album version of Terrible Love is actually my demo for the song. I felt like I could never recapture that guitar tone (the loose wool sound) because when I did I was looping myself and it built up into this big thick fuzzy sound that we all loved. So we didn't even try to record it "properly", we just built the song around the demo. Bryan played along to it one day just briefly in my garage studio and I only had one mic up...it sounded really cool so we just kept. We only realized how amazing the song is live when we played it for the first time on the Jimmy Fallon show in 2010 -- that's when we realized it would have been a good idea to at least record the drums with more than one mic to capture all the detail in bryan's playing. Anyway, later on we just re-recorded it in a studio in Williamsburg one day. It came out pretty well so we used that for the radio single, but we all prefer the album version aesthetically still. Aaron


Here's the rest of it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/commen...aaron_dessner/

[justinandimcool]

i saw that. good idea. alternate version rules.

[Arby]

Went and saw Mistaken For Strangers yesterday. Holy shit was it funny. Great film all around

[laura22]

Originally Posted by Arby

Went and saw Mistaken For Strangers yesterday. Holy shit was it funny. Great film all around

wait
did you go to the concert too?

[FromTheMorning]

Super excited that I'm missing their string of Chicago shows this weekend!

[41ravens]

saw them tuesday. awesome show. during terrible love, matt came down into the audience and was right over by where we were sitting. sat down in my aisle about 4 seats away and then walked through the aisle directly in front if me on his way back to the stage. pretty fucking cool experience.

[Arby]

I was at the Chi theatre show on Wednesday. They put on a great show

[justinandimcool]

things that happened in the past 2 weeks:

Sea of Love opener
Secret Meeting opener
Start A War opener
Lit Up returned
Ada returned (omg)
Racing Like A Pro returned (omg)
Runaway returned
All Dolled Up In Straps returned (omg)
Astronauts returned (omg)
Murder Me Rachael returned
Lemonworld returned
Wasp Nest returned
Little Faith returned


only took a year to start mixing up the sets, but god bless them

[FromTheMorning]

I love that new iPad Air commercial with England playing.

[thebridge15]

In a fashion coat I float down my city

Don't you think I look pretty anymore

[laura22]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

In a fashion coat I float down my city

Don't you think I look pretty anymore

love that song

sad songs for dirty lovers is good

[justinandimcool]

Green Gloves, Slow Show, Gospel = introverts' theme songs

[joshizzle3]

In 3 shows, I've seen these songs 3 times: Available, Mr. November, Fake Empire, Squalor Victoria, Slow Show, Terrible Love, Afraid of Everyone, Bloodbuzz Ohio, England, and Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.

Just miles better than the Jimi, Shake Me, You & Me, etc you get at every Dave show.

[justinandimcool]

Played guest room last night

[iMAC386]

Saw the documentary last night. People actually liked it? I found Tom so annoying that I couldn't even come around to liking it. It was ego-centric around Tom to a fault. The only redeeming parts were seeing behind the scenes stuff of the band.

[Arby]

The fact that he was so self centered was part of what made it so funny.