The National

[Zoo Music Girl]

I love Friend Of Mine! And Conversation 16. And I Need My Girl. And Slow Show. Tis way too hard.

[Yesiamaduck]

EVERYONE STOP GETTING THE NATIONAL WRONG

1. Karen

2. Karen

3. Karen

4. Karen

5. Secret Meeting, because when it ends it's Karen

Least Fav Song:

Lit Up... because it's not Karen when it was Karen a few seconds ago

[Vanderlyle]

City Middle

Lucky You

Pink Rabbits

Slow Show

Daughters of Soho Riots

Apartment Story

Sorrow

Hard to Find

Afraid of Everyone

Fake Empire

Karen just misses out

[Yesiamaduck]

That's the weirdest top 5 I've ever seen!

Yeah.... it doesn't have Karen in it or anything! DA FUCK!?!?

[home to you]

City Middle

Lucky You

Pink Rabbits

Slow Show

Daughters of Soho Riots

Apartment Story

Sorrow

Hard to Find

Afraid of Everyone

Fake Empire

Karen just misses out

Much love for Hard to Find.

And Sorrow!

[Vanderlyle]

That's the weirdest top 5 I've ever seen!

The ten wasn't in order.

But I don't think that first five is that weird.

And Matt does sing about Karen in City Middle....

[Vanderlyle]

Much love for Hard to Find.

And Sorrow!

Hard to Find really has some good lyrics. Don't want to go all angst but the verse beginning "Don't know why we had to lose / the ones who took so little space" always gets me.

And Sorrow is great. Like a better Terrible love. Plus they talk about "rag and bone sympathy" which takes me back to Bubs in The Wire.

So yeah.

[Tuna]

In no particular order

Karen

Slow Show

Fake Empire

Gospel

About Today

England

[When Jokers Attack]

The Geese Of Beverly Road

Available

Slow Show

Humiliation

Fake Empire

It's impossible to pick a top 5 as I have missed out Exile Vilify, Mr. November, Secret Meeting, England..

[Zoo Music Girl]

EVERYONE STOP GETTING THE NATIONAL WRONG

1. Karen

2. Karen

3. Karen

4. Karen

5. Secret Meeting, because when it ends it's Karen

Least Fav Song:

Lit Up... because it's not Karen when it was Karen a few seconds ago

Karen is awesome (it's The National) but dude you are so missing out.

[Dog Burger]

Karen's my least favourite song on Alligator.
My favourite would be The Geese of Beverly Road

[Dog Burger]

Ah we're on to top fives hey. Never really considered it, but off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Afraid Of Everyone

The Geese Of Beverly Road

Guest Room

Slow Show

Slipped

(About Today misses out because it's the live version I like most, rather than the official recorded version)

[Zoo Music Girl]

Ah we're on to top fives hey. Never really considered it, but off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Afraid Of Everyone

The Geese Of Beverly Road

Guest Room

Slow Show

Slipped

(About Today misses out because it's the live version I like most, rather than the official recorded version)

That's not bad for off the top of your head...

I don't see why a live version can't count, to be honest. Nothing in the rules about that. I'm counting the live version!

[Dog Burger]

That's not bad for off the top of your head...

I don't see why a live version can't count, to be honest. Nothing in the rules about that. I'm counting the live version!

Because I'm trying to justify cutting it down to five and leaving out one of my favourite songs in the world!

This will go on forever...

[Zoo Music Girl]

Because I'm trying to justify cutting it down to five and leaving out one of my favourite songs in the world!

This will go on forever...

Yeah, I know, I'm far from set in stone about mine to be honest. Just passes the time until Manchester, hey...

[Dog Burger]

Yeah, I know, I'm far from set in stone about mine to be honest. Just passes the time until Manchester, hey...

Indeed can't spend every hour of every day drinking wine and eating hummus...

[Zoo Music Girl]

Indeed can't spend every hour of every day drinking wine and eating hummus...

Really? That's what I've been doing with my life so far. Oh, and listening to The National.

[Riggins]

Just had to sell my Manchester ticket due to it being in the middle of nowhere, would miss a train and even if I could stay with a friend it'd be a tram ride then a bus ride in the middle of the night and double train fare so they best be at Glastonbury.

I couldn't possibly decide on a top five, but my top five most listened to are ...

1. Terrible Love

2. Little Faith

3. Demons

4. Don't Swallow The Cap

5. Fireproof

Going with my heart I think my actual top 5 would be

1. Slow Show

2. About Today

3. Fake Empire

4. Slipped

5. Mr November

I think a top 20 would be more accurate

[fightoffyour]

a lot of love for Geese pleases me.

Couldn't even start on a top 5 or 10 so I won't bother.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I'm tempted by the top 20 challenge. I might get on that on my way to Manchester, as I will have a good four hours to kill.

[Dog Burger]

Just had to sell my Manchester ticket due to it being in the middle of nowhere, would miss a train and even if I could stay with a friend it'd be a tram ride then a bus ride in the middle of the night and double train fare so they best be at Glastonbury.

I couldn't possibly decide on a top five, but my top five most listened to are ...

1. Terrible Love

2. Little Faith

3. Demons

4. Don't Swallow The Cap

5. Fireproof

Going with my heart I think my actual top 5 would be

1. Slow Show

2. About Today

3. Fake Empire

4. Slipped

5. Mr November

I think a top 20 would be more accurate

Just had to sell my Manchester ticket due to it being in the middle of nowhere, would miss a train and even if I could stay with a friend it'd be a tram ride then a bus ride in the middle of the night and double train fare so they best be at Glastonbury.

I couldn't possibly decide on a top five, but my top five most listened to are ...

1. Terrible Love

2. Little Faith

3. Demons

4. Don't Swallow The Cap

5. Fireproof

Going with my heart I think my actual top 5 would be

1. Slow Show

2. About Today

3. Fake Empire

4. Slipped

5. Mr November

I think a top 20 would be more accurate

Someone else who picks Slipped in their top 5! Will you be my friend?

Edited February 18, 2014 by Dog Burger

[Roonwilldo]

This is a wonderful song. Shame they haven't (to my knowledge) recorded it yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf02SGcMPvo

[Riggins]

Someone else who picks Slipped in their top 5! Will you be my friend?

Certainly! ha.

I loved that song since I first heard it, such a weight to it and some of those lyrics just break my heart, I mean this passage..

"I'm having trouble inside my skin

I try to keep my skeletons in

I'll be a friend and a fuck-up

And everything

But I'll never be

Anything you ever want me to be

I keep coming back here where everything slipped

But I will not spill my guts out

I keep coming back here where everything slipped

But I will not spill my guts out

I don't need any help to be breakable, believe me

I know nobody else who can laugh along to any kind of joke

I won't need any help to be lonely when you leave me"

[Anderson19]

Mistaken For Strangers

The Geese Of Beverly Road

Anyone's Ghost

Looking For Astronauts

Vanderlyle

[fightoffyour]

"We're gonna play a different one, just to mess with it"

"R-Y, L-A-N. Rylan"