High Violet

despite the drummer's occasional best efforts, it's still very BORING

2 точни, защото е боза - 1 точка, защото най-слушаната му песен е с ТС = 1 точка.

Very boring

Whoever put this on the list must have been High

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Why?

What Shelly said. Singer mumbles, the lyrics you do hear are dumb, they sound like they’re trying to sound like a really thoughtful band for low IQ people.

I can’t totally put my finger on why this band annoys me so much, but they really do. I used to think they were just kinda sleepy, and i was being a contrarian hater, whatever. But listening to the songs and thinking about how huge they are, this album became actively irritating to me…they know four chords, one drumbeat, and the singer has a 6 note range, so they make the same dirge of a song over and over again. But hey, you can always cover it up with some strings, uninteresting horn parts, major 7ths on a piano, and a bunch of reverb/delay pedals, and it will be hailed as “yearning genius” among people who wear wool hats that don’t cover their ears. The fake poetic lyrics are even worse - “Stuck in New York and the rains coming down”….how original. “We’ll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries”….deep. “I don’t have the drugs to sort it out”. What are these songs about? Where is any sense of melody, story, excitement, or even just fun? This is just mumble lo-if for people who lived in Williamsburg in 2011 and take Polaroids at their parties. Annoying.

Good god this was so boring. A lot of this kind of music from this era rubs me the wrong way. It’s so morose and self-important, but worst of all, it’s SOOOOOO BORING. And in my opinion, that’s the most unforgivable thing that music can be. I had this on all morning while I was doing some chores around the house, listening straight through probably 4 times, and not a single track stands out. Forget standing out, I could barely tell one track from another. 200 something albums in and this is going to get my first ever one star rating. And that’s not because it was so bad, per se, but because it committed the cardinal sin (in my opinion) of being irredeemably lifeless and boring. The National…fuck off. 1/5 Highlights: None

Finally, some MILLENIAL slop. Maybe I was wrong for judging Britpop so hard. This is just as terrible but at least Britpop was exciting. This is just fucking boring and dreary. Not only was this boring as fuck, it also completely lacked creativity. This album could have been one song, it all sounds exactly the same and I unfortunately tuned into the lyrics, which were just vapid stupid shit about "leaving the city" or "I need the pills to fix me". Fuck me, no wonder everybody was depressed back then. My personal favourite, "I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees" This is exactly the kind of shit a 2010's latte sipping hipster was bopping when that was cool. Holy fuck am I glad we left this shit in the past. I'm just shocked I haven't heard any of these songs featured on an ad for a 2015 Kia Sorento or in a sad scene in Suits. I genuinely couldn't finish this piece of shit, and I don't need to, every song is the fucking same. Fuck this trash.

Gay loser 2011 coming of age movie that is critically acclaimed and then immediately forgotten soundtrack. Did not like it and don’t know who the audience is that goes out of their way to listen to this. It’s about 15bpm away from being car ad music.

Yawn. Not terrible but so bland.

I couldn't wait for this one to end. So monotonous and tedious. And I feel like I'm just missing something while listening to this album... " I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees". "You and your sister live in a lemon world". Pretty bad.

Again who makes this list

1. terrible - 0 2. zorrouu - 1.5 3. ghozt - 1 4. Faith - 1 5. Afraid - 1.5 6. Ohio - 1 7. Lemon - 1 8. Run - 1.5 9. Conversation - 1.5 10. England - 1 11. Geeks - 0

Even the band sounds bored lol

its like “indie rock” as defined by A.I. shit’s weak

Yuck. This is mega lame. Mega ultra Uber lame. Do any of these people even want to be here making this? Sure doesnt sound like it. Just flat from the first moments till I trudged through to the end. Maybe I could see the lyrics having some punch to them but I dont listen to them sorry. But coming out of this monotone boring ass voice who even cares if the content has any legs. Dude doesnt want to preform it. Just let it dribble out of his mouth. The backing music isn't horrible but its so boiler plate nothingness. This could be the backing to any indie band that has ever existed and it would also fit just the same. Its so boring. All around a horrific waste of 45 minutes. I'll always listen to everything all the way through but this was getting close to a dnf.

bland and monotonous

Beige music. Absolutely terrible

Falta sustância

Not in my edition of the book! 2010. 1 star. Tedious dirges. Dull dull dull. WTF is this doing on the list?

Pre-listening thoughts: oh FUCK me man i HATE the national Post/during listening thoughts: most boring fucking group to cross the face of the planet. Stupid lead singer with a voice that couldn't be bothered to earn some participation points. Sounds like he's actually falling asleep at the mic. It's like someone took a glass of the magic of Bleachers or Bloc Party and spit in it, peed in it, and watered that shit down so there was only a speck of glitter left. Fuck this stupid band. 2/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: NO Fav tracks: I could not even tell you what I listened to. Boring slop Least fav tracks: all of it

Not my cup of tea

A clearly fatigued man with an unpleasant baritone struggles to get through torturous and cliched lyrics while the band struggles to build up to a cinematic crescendo, but seems to give up half way through when they just can't seem to muster up the necessary energy. No, it's not subdued, it's musical myalgic encephalomyelitis.

I have tried a few times to get into the National, and there are a few tunes of theirs I really enjoy (Tropic Morning News, Abel, Mr. November, Lit Up, basically just all of Alligator). However, this record did nothing for me. Runaway was okay but the rest was in one ear and out the other.

Jezus, wat is dit dan? De zanger klinkt continue alsof ie net is wakker gemaakt en daar actief van aan het balen is. Muzikaal is het ook niet bijzonder, dit is gewoon mijn minst favoriete muziek: Slaapverwekkede indierock. Ik snap gewoon niet waarom dit zo populair is? Want er zijn echt zo ontzettend veel bands die precies dit doen, dat coolige, zing praten. Het klinkt niet mooi, het leidt ontzettend af van de muziek en ohja, het zorgt er ook nog eens voor dat ALLES hetzelfde klinkt. Nee, ik heb me door dit album moeten worstelen. Dit is pure 13 in een dozijn liftmuziek, en ik snap werkelijk niet dat dit hier tussen moet staan. Dit is voor mij althans inspiratieloze indierock en ik geef het dan ook 1 ster. Meestal kan ik nog wel iets moois erin vinden, maar het trage zingen, gecombineerd met dat het klinkt alsof niemand het naar zn zin heeft zorgt er bij mij voor dat ik me actief heb zitten irriteren aan dit album.

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This is some indie slop Will I listen to again: 0%

I dont like this at all. I cant even listen to it ngl.

I suspected when this came up that this would be one of those records. And sigh, yes it is. Maudlin, dirge like, sub Coldplay parping on. Some lyrical flashes that light it up, but I really wish I could get that hour back and listen to some Sly,(RIP)

My first thought hearing almost any 2000's indie is "People really listen to this by choice?" Total snooze fest. Shit vocals. This music for people who don't listen to music. God damn I hate this garbage.

Rubbish

1.5 - boring

I liked two of the songs on here and the rest are just so boring. The singer sounds like he so badly wants to convince you that the lyrics are so important that it doesn't matter that he doesn't sound all that good singing them. Reminds me of 80s British new wave but with significantly better vocal production, which is really saying something after I already said his voice doesn't sound very good.

Tiresome, bland, and uninteresting. I actually felt my body's energy draining while actively listening to this. Just nothing memorable in its melodies, and no dynamic range of the lead singer's voice. There's no wow factor or reason for me to go back to listen to more from this band.

felt zero emotion listening to this

Purple in the sky?

Zzzzzzzz

Very boring and numbingly repetitive. I didn’t like one song and since they all sounded the same the whole album is terrible. I can listen to depressing music if it’s at least somewhat cathartic, which this was not. Why did I have to listen to this album before I die? Swing and a miss.

chato para caramba, não lembro de nenhuma música porque todas são monótonas e iguais

Dull.

I found nothing redeeming in this album. The songs were bland and purely annoying. I have no clue why this album is considered important in anyway.

Rubbish

Dull

Pedestrian.

Seriously?! First time an album has made me genuinely frustrated and angry on the list. How droll and boring is this, a couple of songs were OK for the first minute until I realised it was going to end up in the same place as the rest. There is flow, just like a syrupy river would flow, slowly and boringly to the next song, well it may have been the next song, I gave up caring after 15 minutes. I was listening to this thinking, if you're going to a National gig what are you doing, you aren't bouncing, not dancing are you just staring and hoping that eventually it will stop and you can go home? I couldn't even pick out any choice lyrics just droning. Until the doo doo doos in Lemon world? Then I shut down completely. Think this is the longest I've written on one album yet, that's how much it got under my skin. Try hard (badly), boring.

irrelevant crap. absolutely boring. after the second song I almost fell asleep. not my thing, let someone else enjoy it

Boo you bad, boo boo Wendy

Not the biggest fan of this one. I did like Runaway, but everything else just kinda fell flat. Not a huge fan of the drolling on and on. Miss me with this one.

Nicht meine Richtung

boring as fuck and not for me, most of the lyrics are just "I'm sad cause we broke up" :( atmosphere is interesting but jesus fuck it gets repetetive after 2 songs. production was also really weak, drowned out drums and guitar on some songs and when they're not they still don't stand out. 1/5

esse é ruinzinho demais. Um chororô melancólico dismórfico. Nada com nada o som, nada é marcante. Guitarra fraca, a voz do cara puxa pros anos 80 mas não chega aos pés dos grandes daquela década. Sonzinho bem meia boca mesmo. Passo longe.

Just so boring

I was heard of this band for the first time a few days before it appeared here. Pretty boring, monotonous stuff. The singer might want to try adding a third note to his singing. Maybe some inflection would be nice.

Hated it. "I listened to Radiohead once" indy trash.

really fucking boring NNN

Basically the same song over and over again. Lead vocalist has no range.

So bad. This "1001 albums" list is so full of intolerable garbage like this that it makes me want to give up this endeavor.

Stupidly boring. They sound like they don't like what they're doing.

Ohio. 7.1.24. Kinda borring. Sounds all the same.

Zzzzzzzz

It just became more more annoying as it went on.

slow and whiny, not for me

dreary

Did not like this one. After reading the wiki and comparing them to Morrissey, I couldn't unhear it.

"the lyrics are raw and honest and really make you think." "I’m on a blood buzz, yes I am I’m on a blood buzz I’m on a blood buzz, God I am I’m on a blood buzz" "Y'know when you have a wine buzz, you’re drunk. And I think it’s a little bit, y'know, like something about like your history or family or what’s in your blood. Ohio’s in your blood. I don’t know, it sounds good." -T N "Smooth." Albumi mukavaa kuunneltavaa kuitenkin ei ole ykkösen arvoinen kaveri laittaa kolmosta..

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I fell asleep twice.

Liked one song the rest just blended together and at some point I didn’t cared at all

Slow maudlin Indie, extremely not to my taste

Gave up on this after about 3 tracks. No idea what "Didn't want to be your ghost" means, but this seems to fit that genre of big-budget "indie" albums - made to sound meaningful, but really just all about the dramatic and over-blown production. See also Arcade Fire. Feels soul-less and a bit empty, for me. I don't like the voice, the music seems a bit templated and the songs are nothing to write home about. Deep and meaningless.

Boring and morose. I prefer his/their work with Taylor Swift.

Meh.

Didn't hold my interest

Too boring

Fellas, you can play your instruments faster. You never know, it might cheer you up !! Everyone else.... awful !

na lagna unica, ma in viola

After the first track, I'm prepared to believe that this is going to be an absolutely awful album. It possesses all of the pomp and self-aggrandizement of the worst of the Arcade Fire, Elbow-y type shite that infected the mid-2000s. I've made it as far as "Little Faith" and I've decided that there is nothing in this album for me. I've no time for this kind of guff.

didn’t even get past the first song

Didn’t really rate it as a good album at all. Not my style it music. Maybe 1 or 2 okay sounds but don’t think I’d ever go back to it and a very long listen

Awesome

spawn child of Radiohead popularity, created whole series of album based on "No Surprises" thinking alternative rock music is now just lamenting

Overall 1.5/10

I remember when this band first started to hit it big, and I thought I'd get in on the ground(ish) floor with an up and coming band. But I lowkey kinda hated them and after a few spins of an early album gave up on them. Fast forward >10 years and so when I saw this I thought "excellent - let's give 'er another go..." And I still hate it. Some mental notes as I was cleaning the room trying to get through this: laconic, plodding, god I hate this dude's voice Leonard Cohen sucked enough the first time around, won't these songs go somewhere [I appreciate and often love songs with a great long build but these seem like cheap U2-knockoffs and U2 did it better and I generally don't like all that much U2].... I don't exactly know why this band bugs me so much - a song like "Little Faith" is actually pretty good and almost great - they did that dramatic one right for me; a little Radiohead-ish oddity near the end. But virtually everything else is a chore to get through. "Lemonworld" holy stab my ears "dih dih dih dih dih dih..." AWFUL. I'm sure over 75% of all of this stems from the mopey vocals - I'm not fully anti-mope, I liked a bit of Depeche Mode and early Cure, even a few Joy Division songs hit right. But if the goal of this was to sound miserable while making me feel miserable, goal achieved. I feel not *entirely* right giving this one star, as I consider some of the trash i've listened to and given an easy 1 star... because there's absolutely talent here and oddly i *can* see how people would like this. But not me. It actually did put me in a lousy mood while listening to it and as soon as I realized I'd probably go out of my way to not listen to this band again...1 it is. 2/10 1 star.

é o pop de 2000 bem basico, chato pra cacete, bateria monotona e eletronica. detesto

As boring is boring can be

Did not enjoy. Music was fine but content was very sad and did not keep my interest.

Music was good, didn’t like the vocals. Appreciate the craftsmanship at work but this did nothing for me.

initial thoughts: “oh I know one song from the national” realizing I know one and like one only I think fav off album: conversation 16

Did not like

So, so bad

Not my cup of tea☺

kinda boring white people music

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