The National - I Am Easy To Find (May 17, 2019) Album • Page 50

great question. going chronological cos ordering is a whole different beast:

Cardinal Song
Lucky You (Daytrotter)
All the Wine
Geese
Mr November
Mistaken for Strangers
Slow Show
Lemonworld
Conversation 16
Don't Swallow the Cap
This is the Last Time
Pink Rabbits
Guilty Party
Quiet Light
So Far So Fast
Rylan

 

Pink Rabbits
I'll Still Destroy You
Slow Show
Afraid of Everyone
The Geese of Beverly Road
Mistaken for Strangers
Sea of Love
I Am Easy to Find
Conversation 16
Guilty Party
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Quiet Light
Terrible Love
The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Secret Meeting

 

I have a feeling I’m just going to be looking at every one of these lists and thinking that’s a good list over and over again

 

The Perfect Song
About Today
All the Wine
Mr. November
Fake Empire
Apartment Story
Mistaken for Strangers
Terrible Love (alt version)
England
Conversation 16
This is the Last Time
Graceless
Pink Rabbits
I'll Still Destroy You
I Am Easy to Find
Rylan

 

Oblivions might be the best song on here

 

“It’s the way you say yes when I ask you to
Marry me” wrecks me every tiiiime

 

favorite lyrics / lines from this album at this time. not necessarily how they were sung or the music that accompanies them, but just the writing itself:

"I'm not afraid of being alone, I just don't know what to do with my time"

"I'm not that spiritual I still go out all the time to department stores"

"I know I can get attached and then unattached to my own versions of others"

"Sometimes I don't think I'm really around here half the time, sometimes I don't think I'm really around here at all"

"Don't you know someday somebody will come and find you? If you don't know who you are anymore, they will remind you"

"Underwater you're almost free"

"there's a little bit of hell in everyone"

 

"I'm the rocks they weigh the angels down with"

 

"I will love you like there's razors in it" / "there's never really any safety in it" one of my faves

 

"There's never really any safety in it" is probably my favorite line and delivery on the album.

Even though I have no idea what it means, I love "there are police in the museum" because it's delivered in such a cool way.

 

yeah, there's a lot of lines that i like the delivery on but can't say they're a favorite or that they mean anything to me because i have no idea what it's supposed to mean and it just ends up making me more confused than anything else lol

 

The Maplethorpe exhibit at the Cincinnati Creatives Arts Center in the early 90s!

 

I love that line. Even without knowing what it’s actually alluding to, it conjures up some striking imagery in my mind.

 

Funnily enough, I saw the Smith exhibit honoring Maplethorpe at the Cincinnati Modern Art museum (might be butchering the actual name of it) in 2013 while on a week long Reds watching trip. I knew the Patti/Robert connection but didn’t know about the obscenity law issues that that line is referencing.

 

This album is such a grower that I’ve upped it from “Perfect 10/10 - the Nationals 6th best album” to “Perfect 10/10 - the Nationals 4th best album”

 

The way Matt is referring to California on Rylan is definitely in the vain he uses “Californians” in All the Wine and I love shit like that

 

Since so many of you asked it’s

Boxer
HV
Gator
IAETF
SWB
TWFM
SSFDL
ST

 

While we're talking about delivery and lyrics - I really enjoy Matt's delivery accompanied by the music at this part in "The Pull of You"

"Maybe we'll talk it out inside a car
With rain falling around us
We all know this rain is hard to take"

Not my favorite song on the record but that could be my favorite moment.

 

I think this is a major step up from Sleep Well Beast, which I do like but I just find this album to be better in quality. On par with their best work no doubt.

 

If this is on par with their best work, that means it’s on par with Sleep Well Beast

makes u think

 

Easily one of my favorite moments as well.

 

Probably the 93rd person to ask this but is that Alicia Vikander in the Light Years video

 

she’s also in the short film.

 

Ummm wow... That was incredible.