The National - Sleep Well Beast (September 8, 2017) Album • Page 10

Honestly, I paid more for the Chicago Theater shows a few years ago. This was reasonably priced.

 

Damn I really want to go in Boston but also the thought of paying $70 to see a band for not the first time who will also be almost surely back three times in the following year between festivals and a second headline jaunt is making me clench my wallet in fear

 

It was only giving me near the back in the orchestra or middle-back first balcony so I kept re-searching and after eight or nine minutes of more of the same it spit out a front row jam. Deliberated for a second before jumping on it. Might as well do it up big if I'm gonna be driving four hours and crossing the border for it. Especially considering they don't seem all that interested in playing Cleveland anymore.

 

Interesting. I haven't been to a show in Chicago since 2007 so I have no real understanding of what's "expensive" there or not. I also don't go to a lot of shows anymore so I'm used to $50 tickets at max when I do go.

 

I don't even know how my seats are. I've never been to the Wang Theater in Boston but I got ORCHRC row CC.

 

I would imagine that's pretty close. Possibly third row

 

I don't think I saw anyone talk about Green Gloves in the past few pages. Easily one of my favorite songs by them.

 

I'll just keep an eye on stub hub from now til December

 

green gloves - slow show - apartment story is one of the best mid album runs ever omg

 

I like Green Gloves it might be my least favorite on Boxer but it's still a fine song with a really cool lyrical concept, this idea of "green gloves" brings to mind like surgical gloves and the theme of basically prodding into other people's lives.

 

my love for that one isn't even so much the lyrics. that chorus is so haunting, it moves me every time.

 

Slow Show is sooooo good

 

i still have never listened to anything pre-alligator, and i also haven't listened to the virginia ep. i should change that.

 

im a sucker for a past reference, which ive come to realize The National do quite a bit throughout their songs, and I love the throwback to "29 Years" plus I just love how....awkwardly infatuated Matt is with this girl. I relate so much to the image of being somewhere I dont want to be and instead wanting to get back to a significant other and enjoy their company.

Sad Songs is about as good as the big 4 imo, The Virginia EP has some essential b-sides and the Cherry Tree EP is quite good as well.

 

To this day I cant quite pinpoint exactly what it is about the line "here in the guest room, where we throw money at each other and cry" that breaks my heart every time I hear it but it really just wrecks me.

 

Green Gloves is very good.

Sad Songs is also very good.

The National is very good.

End of post.

 

that line randomly got to me a summer night in a Montana hotel. i'll never forget it and like you, i can't quite pinpoint why that line and why at that time.

(maybe not oddly enough, i've had this happen a lot with National songs - random lines kill me at random times (and always when out and about, never when i'm just listening at home))

 

yeah a lot of times i can usually extrapolate on WHY a lyric or a line or even a word just moves me or sticks out to me, even with Matts sometimes lofty lyrics, but for whatever reason I just cant quite crack why that line gets me so emotional. I guess it evokes the image of two people in a relationship who did everything right, have success and have well to do lives, but when put in a room together they just cant keep it together. It kinda feels like its a predecessor to "Conversation 16"

 

that quote for me was "I was a television version of a person with a broken heart"

 

as sad / terrible as the relationships in these songs sound, i really want to have one haha. i remember telling a gf once while we were driving and listening to "Conversation 16" that i wanted our relationship to be like that and she asked what was wrong with me (my answer was a shrug of "who really knows?")

 

I didn't ask for this pain it just came over me

 

Parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"

You said "I think I'm like Tennessee Williams"
I wait for the click. I wait, but it doesn't kick in
I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
I wait for the click. I wait, but it doesn't kick in

 

i was in one like that, albeit it wasnt quite as dramatic. But there were times where we would just pick fights just to do it, or keep it together in front of our friends and once we were in private be pretty cruel to each other. The good times were really really good but the bad times were maddening. I guess "Guest Room" kinda gives me shades of that, albeit the moral I get from it is "even if you have an abundance of material riches, you cant force yourself to love someone"

 

I see you rushing down
Tell me how to reach you
I see you rushing now
What did Harvard teach you?

 

I've always really connected to the line, "Tired and wired, we ruin too easy." It's pretty simple, but also rather catchy and relatable.