The National - First Two Pages... & Laugh Track Album • Page 84

Smoke detector is just unreal

 

dreaming and eucalyptus are the best national songs ever

 

Tropic, Euc, Grease, Deep End, Turn Off, Space Invader, Laugh Track, Smoke are all worthy entries. They’ve released enough solid albums that being outside of the top 30 is no kind of slight, as well.

 

I love how frantic Smoke Detector is. Unreal song. Those vocals and the rest of the band occasionally having an outburst of frenzied emotion is just top notch.

 

I think the looser this band can sound for future records, the better

 

I'm enjoying F2PoF way more since Laugh Track dropped.

I think the minimal, subtle nature of most of the songs on F2P kind of just failed to excite me about the bands return, so the album kinda passed me by. I like their softer material well enough, but there was always exciting music to contrast it against previously.

Now that I have Laugh Track to contrast it against, I am enjoying it a lot more because it is just one half of their offerings for 2023. I usually end up listening to both back to back haha.

 

PAUL’S IN PIECES!

 

Slipping Husband tonight!

 

I admit I did not enjoy it

 

Cherry Tree vol. 5 showed up today

 

I got me orange sock print and orange bumper. Still haven’t had a chance to play the record!

 

Y'All Know I'm Still On My Bullshit

@EntryLevelDave

 

Empire Line at 112 what the fuck dude

 

About Today at 69 nice but also what the fuck dude

 

Not in Kansas at 7 and Abel at 77 lmaoooo

 

I like About Today but it's probably their most overrated song based on everyone on here for some reason putting it up there with their best. It's still very good. the 69th (nice) best National song is still better than the vast majority of bands best songs

 

I’m tempted to do it but I haven’t heard their pre-Alligator stuff

 

Sad Songs is very good but easily their weakest outside of maybe their debut but I haven't listened to that one

 

I think Sad Songs is pretty whatever when I revisited it a month ago. Made it all the way through SWB, but didn’t have the heart to finish the last three albums and finally check out the self-titled

Maybe I’ll power through, but idk

 

lunatic behavior

 

These can not all be my fault

 

100% of them are.