The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
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Free Music Review: bought Sad Songs...after to listening to "alligator" 1,000 times.
Hit: 5 Stars
If you have listened to "Sad songs..." once it may not click, but it'll whet your music curiousity. I have to say it, although cliche, it is The National's "The Wall". Pieced toghether song by song with a purpose. One of my best listening experiences ever was playing "sad songs..." and "Cherry Tree" at high volume in my living room with a nice glass of Sapphire and ice.
I laughed, I cried, and caught a good buzz...
You should buy this album if you like true musical talent and thoughtful, intellegent lyrics. This album reverberates on another level.
Buy this album, or Cherry Tree, or Alligator, love it, then go see them live.
Free Music Review: absolutely amazing
Hit: 4 Stars
Songs 2 through 9 are some of the best stuff The National has done. Slipping Husband lodges in your head and refuses to leave. I kind of wish it had been the first track on the record. Cardinal, Track 1, has 3 am feel that seems misplaced as the first song but who cares this CD has Husband, Murder Me Rachel, 90 mile water wall (best title ever) etc...Free Music Review: Masterminds
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent band. Saw them live somewhere in europe a couple years ago and wasn't impressed. Man have they evolved. Buy it, become a better person.Free Music Review: A great discovery
Hit: 5 Stars
The title of this album is misleading. It could be called Funny Songs for Angry Lovers ....or Dirty Songs for Sad Lovers....lyrically, the songs explore different sides of relationships and there is a lot of levity..... song titles like Trophy Wife and Sugar Wife make me think the album title may be intended as a joke. Though who can say. Whatever the case, this is an interesting, intense album.
There are quiet acoustic and electronic ballads like the frst song Cardinal Song and one of the last, Patterns of Fairytales ....but also totally blistering, raging rock songs like Murder Me Rachael and Available. I am partial to the latter....but I think they wouldn't be as effective without the quiet, beautiful moments. As far as influences, there are some hints of americana in the Wilco sense in spots (like 90 Mile Water Wall) but also Joy Division in other songs like Available. I was turned onto the National by a friend who is also a fellow Nick Cave fanatic, but I can't really compare them to any specific Cave era or album. I am more reminded at times of Leonard Cohen and even Silver Jewsand Wilco.
Free Music Review: try the Cherry Tree EP too
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard a song called All the Wine on the radio in Chicago from the National's more recent Cherry Tree EP and fell in love it. Got the EP and it is fantastic, one of my favorites of the year. It took me longer to get in to Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers -- probably because the first song, Cardinal Song, is a long, quiet sad and slow ballad --- but it is beautiful and I like it more and more. The second song, Slipping Husband, is the opposite -- up tempo, catchy and then unhinged in the end. The National keep you guessing though -- each song is like a new adventure and there are lots of different moods on this album. Overall, I have to say I prefer the Cherry Tree EP -- but Sad Songs will be in heavy rotation for me for some time. And I am very intersted to hear what comes next.