The National

Subject: Re: The National Wed 30 May 2012, 20:16

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it. I'm not familiar with "Game of Thrones," so that's probably part of it. I also think that it just feels like a Matt Berninger feature, as opposed to it being a legit National song. Ionno. Matt's voice does sound very lovely on it, though.

Subject: Re: The National Wed 30 May 2012, 21:40

To me it feels more of a Dessner piece. But I agree, it's not really a National song.

Subject: Re: The National Fri 06 Jul 2012, 10:14

I was pretty surprised when they popped up on Game Of Thrones, thought it was a very interesting choice on the TV show's part as, excluding that episode, the entire score so far is orchestral.

"The Rains of Castamere" is a song in the GoT world so the lyrics were already there, but very curious to know whether The National wrote the melody themselves, or if that was already written too and they were just approached to record it.

Subject: Re: The National Sun 15 Jul 2012, 03:05

Having looked it up, they were just asked to perform it. The lyrics are from the book, as you say, and the music was written Ramin Djawadi, the person responsible for all the music present on the HBO series.

newborn Number of posts : 8 Registration date : 2010-11-20

Start A War
Green Gloves
Runaway
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Daughters Of The Soho Riots.

Although to be fair, anything off Alligator and Boxer could be in there. Two albums devoid of filler tracks..

Subject: Re: The National Wed 08 Jan 2014, 21:19

What did everyone think of "Trouble Will Find Me?"

Subject: Re: The National Fri 24 Jan 2014, 22:16

Got this as the in car cd at the moment , really growing on me a lot .

Subject: Re: The National Sat 25 Jan 2014, 09:57

I really need to listen to more of these guys. I love the few tracks I've heard so far, mostly what's been played on Finest Hour - ie. Green Gloves, The Geese of Beverly Road, and England.

Any suggestions on where in their discography to start listening?

Subject: Re: The National Sun 26 Jan 2014, 10:45

I love what I have heard of this band but I need to listen to them properly. I have an especial love of their song "England" from High Violet.

Subject: Re: The National Mon 10 Feb 2014, 18:36

Kim wrote:: I really need to listen to more of these guys. I love the few tracks I've heard so far, mostly what's been played on Finest Hour - ie. Green Gloves, The Geese of Beverly Road, and England.

Any suggestions on where in their discography to start listening?

Personally, I started out with "High Violet," and I think it's pretty much perfect. Maybe start with that and work your way backwards, throwing "Trouble Will Find Me" somewhere in the mix.

Subject: Re: The National Sat 19 Apr 2014, 18:52

Great band, only got turned onto them last summer by a neighbour, here's some bootlegs I have of theirs.....

http://www.filefactory.com/f/6b21d07af66262c5