Comments on: The National: Are We Sure These Guys Aren’t British?

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:01:00 +0000

@SuperUnison: @CharlesRockyPamplin: I agree. The first two are just amazing. Huge records...long, epic in scope. The first one is a little more all over the place and the second one more dark and orchestral, but both are masterpieces. Curtains, the third one is unbelievable, too. They were never afraid to wield an orchestra or record different versions of the same songs or do a duet or any of the stuff that others think is too campy. They had serious balls and the production was generally astounding.

By: CharlesRockyPamplin

CharlesRockyPamplin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:48:06 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: hear hear...

@SuperUnison: the first 2 'sticks album are pretty great introductions to their 'thing' (an amalgam of Nancy and Lee, Francis Lai and C86).
the later records incorporated more soul influences, and are as good, but in a different way...

By: SuperUnison

SuperUnison — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:28:53 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: What's the best place to start?

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:56:54 +0000

I guarantee these guys will be working with Eno and/or Lanois within the next decade. Failing that, Steve Lillywhite.

Nigel Godrich. Anyone want to take the other side of this bet?

By: NickEddy

NickEddy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:42:22 +0000

That closing scene with Tony Soprano in bed with the shotgun in the next-to-last episode of Sopranos (set to Tindersticks) was ace.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:16:21 +0000

@SuperUnison: I don't want to sound like a crazy person, but Tindersticks were, to my ears, one of the two or three most ambitious British outfits of the last two decades.

By: stephenbush

stephenbush — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:59:19 +0000

Tindersticks > The National.

That is all.

By: SuperUnison

SuperUnison — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:37:27 +0000

I don't know if you're making fun of The National for sounding like Tindersticks or not, but either way I'm checking that band out.

Also, I'm psyched about both the EP and the DVD.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:21:25 +0000

Barring Idolator (natch), is Brooklynvegan.com really the most far-reaching media outlet they could score for the press release of this, um, “documentary”?

By: Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:58:38 +0000

Can we stop putting microphones in front of musicians?

Unless they're, you know, singing.