Showing posts with label the national. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the national. Show all posts
Think You Can Wait
Buy Buy Buy
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| The Replacements - I'll Be You 7'' |
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| Lake Heartbeat - Trust In Numbers LP |
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| The National - High Violet 2LP |
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| Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 2LP |
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| The National - Boxer LP (I lent my CD, and never got it back, so I bought this) |
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| Slowdive - Souvlaki 2LP (Classic!) |
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| Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin' LP (Love it so much!) |
Rabbit Redux
While reading this book, it kept reminding of The National, especially from the new album High Violet. With keywords like, bathing suit, New York, morality, army, run away, let it get so far out of hand, silver girls. My conclusion is Matt must like Rabbit to some degree.
Unlike the Rabbit, Run, Rabbit has let it go so far out of his hands this time. Sleeping with a 18-year-old girl, and living with a crazy negro. The craziness of a middle-class middle-age loser guy, who lives alone somehow reminds me of Haruki Murakami's boku (the protagonist).
Enough said, I surely enjoyed reading it. It's too much fun, and too disturbing at the same time. Though on a different level, but just as brilliant as Rabbit, Run.
往事...很痛
我現在終於理解為什麼有些歌手在現場表演，就是不會演唱某些歌。不然就是一邊表演一邊痛哭流淚，就像 Beyond的這首MV一樣。就算沒有像家強這麼誇張，也有像 The National 唱 Daughters of The Soho Riot 這樣默默哭泣的。因為Daughters of The Soho Riot的歌詞實在太抽象了，我想只有寫歌的 Matt 自己最清楚背後的故事。不過我想說的就是音樂背後的故事和我們各自不同的個人經歷，讓音樂變的不只是音樂，而是一段沉重的往事。就像李宗盛唱的:「舊愛的誓言像極了一個巴掌 每當你記起一句就捱一個耳光」。到目前為止，還好，被我封鎖的音樂還不算多。不過我以後再也不要跟愛人分享音樂了。因為當他們離我而去時，也把音樂從我身上帶走了... 歌還是留給自己就好。李宗盛，給自己的歌。
Dark Lord
剛在New York Times試聽了新專輯，個人覺得專輯沒有像上一張有那麼多超級搶耳的單曲，但是每首歌都維持在相當高的水平。因為這又是一張讓人逃不出黑暗的專輯，我應該還是會很喜歡。現在最期待的事－就是再去親臨他們的現場一次！沒有語言可以形容去看現場的 The National 的感受。剛剛也時看完了New York Times五頁的大篇幅介紹。如果你很喜歡The National，實在沒有理由不看。
Sleep All Summer
I've been listening to this song for a while now.It's from the Score! compilation. This song and Yeah! Oh Yeah! are the two songs I listen to so often from the album.
All The National's stuffs are so good. I can't get enough of them.
I was going to find the guitar tab, nothing's there.
But I found Nick Hornby just wrote about this song!
Indeed, a perfect song, a lovely combination of Matt Berninger and St. Vincent's voices, a real heartbreaker.
Originally by Crooked Fingers. (never heard of them either...)
I would change for you but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man.
Listen: The National and St. Vincent - Sleep All Summer
Weary sun, sleep tonight, go crashing into the ocean
Cut the line that ties the tide and moon, ancient and blue
We take our empty hearts and fill them up with broken things
To hang on humming wire like cheap lamps down a dead end street
Close your weary eyes until the wintertime
And every time we turn away it hits me like a tidal wave
I would change for you but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man
Give the ocean what I took from you so one day you could find it in the sand
And hold it in your hands again
Cold ways kill cool lovers
Strange ways we used each other
Why won't you fall back in love with me?
There ain't no way we're gonna find another
The way we sleep all summer
So why won't you fall back in love with me?
Combing over Broken Cross I held on you
Haunted by the ghost of something new
Curtains fall, fashions fade, an endless summer over
Another tide to launch an autumn moon over the dunes
There must be a better way to pull a whole apart
To keep a world from caving in
Another way to while away from you, frozen and blue
Close your weary eyes until the wintertime
But everytime we turn away it surges like a tidal wave
I would change but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man
Give the ocean what I took from you so one day you could find it in the sand
And hold it in your hands again
Cold ways kill cool lovers
Strange way we love to suffer
Why won't you fall back in love with me?
There ain't no way we're gonna find another
The way we sleep all summer
Why won't you fall back in love with me?
Why won't you fall back in love with me?
Slow Show by The National
Standing at the punch table swallowing punch
can’t pay attention to the sound of anyone
a little more stupid, a little more scared
every minute more unprepared
I made a mistake in my life today
everything I love gets lost in drawers
I want to start over, I want to be winning
way out of sync from the beginning
I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I’m very, very frightening
I’ll overdo it
Looking for somewhere to stand and stay
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away
Can I get a minute of not being nervous
and not thinking of my dick
My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins
I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in
You could drive a car through my head in five minutes
from one side of it to the other
I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I’m very, very frightening
I’ll overdo it
You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for
for twenty-nine years
Baby We'll Be Fine
by The National
All night I lay on my pillow and pray
For my boss to stop me in the hallway
Lay my head on his shoulder and say
Son, I've been hearing good things
I wake up without warning and go flying around the house
In my sauvignon fierce, freaking out
Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror
And say, look at me
Baby, we'll be fine
All we gotta do is be brave and be kind
I put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile
I don't know how to do this
I'm so sorry for everything
[repeat]
Baby, come over, I need entertaining
I had a stilted, pretending day
Lay me down and say something pretty
Lay me back down where I wanted to stay
Just say something perfect, something I can steal
Say, look at me
Baby, we'll be fine
All we've gotta do is be brave and be kind
I pull off your jeans, and you spill jack and coke in my collar
I melt like a witch and scream
I'm so sorry for everything
[repeat]
About Today
Today you were far away....
Tonight you just close your eyes
and I just watch you
slip away
How close am I to losing you
Hey, are you awake
Yeah I'm right here
Well can I ask you about today
by The National
Tonight you just close your eyes
and I just watch you
slip away
How close am I to losing you
Hey, are you awake
Yeah I'm right here
Well can I ask you about today
by The National
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