The National

Memo said:
Anybody else get emotional/cry when he starts singing...

I was solid gold
I was in the fight
I was coming back from what seemed like a ruin
I couldn't see you coming so far
I just turn around and there you are
I'm so surprised you want to dance with me now
I was just getting used to living life without you around
I'm so surprised you want to dance with me now
You always said I held you way too high off the ground
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My favorite National song ❤
 
By the way, tonight's the last National show this year. They are playing in Lisbon at a beautiful place called Campo Pequeno (Google it, the stage is in the middle of the crowd).

OH and guess who is precisely in Lisbon for a few days and have two tickets for this show? Guess who?
 
LeSamourai said:
I'll always say Alligator, because downloading that from eMusic back when it came out exposed me to the band. Lots of memories rocking that album on my click-wheel iPod back then.
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same. i remember seeing that tour where Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was blowing up and opened for The National and it was super sold out. But then about 90% of the crowd left when CYHSY wrapped and at the time I never thought The National would be a big deal 15 years later.

Time really is a flat circle or something...
 
Skalap said:
What an Encore : Pink Rabbits, Mr November, Terrible Love, About Today & Vanderlyle
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Ah still haven't seen About Today live. Really really hoping they pull it out at Homecoming. Also I wonder whether their normal set at Homecoming will be more diverse or similar to their setlist for the IAETF tour.
 
Skalap said:
By the way, tonight's the last National show this year. They are playing in Lisbon at a beautiful place called Campo Pequeno (Google it, the stage is in the middle of the crowd).

OH and guess who is precisely in Lisbon for a few days and have two tickets for this show? Guess who?
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I saw the pics from the National's facebook account from the Lisbon show...that venue looks insane! Glad you had fun, what a setlist (and poster! the poster from the show I went to in Palo Alto was so hideous I didn't even pretend to want to buy it)
 
tvham said:
I saw the pics from the National's facebook account from the Lisbon show...that venue looks insane! Glad you had fun, what a setlist (and poster! the poster from the show I went to in Palo Alto was so hideous I didn't even pretend to want to buy it)
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they've had some amazing ones and some stinkers, I'm glad the show I saw was a good one.
 
I saw them in Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago and it was very good - probably the "best" show I've seen them put on musically and so on, though maybe not my favourite. Very little pre-'High Violet' in the set list - "About Today", "Mr November" and "Fake Empire" out of 24 songs, but that's similar to Edinburgh a couple of years ago so no real surprise.

The Copenhagen poster was very nice, a pal and I were both tempted but neither of us wanted to have to transport them home.
 
I got a really dope little bohemian Bed & Breakfast for Homecoming, less than a mile - walking distance - away. Staying through Monday, want to adventure a lot on Sunday... since last time I arrived the night before late and left early the day after the second “show day”.
 
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