Would absolutely recommend that Sad Dads hoodie, very comfortable (Btw there’s a poll in the description to vote on who gets covered in future DDDs! I also added a section for feedback for the first time - I wanna hear what you think about the DDD as a series1)

@gruntingskunk2237

5 ай бұрын

Gay sex

@finnaboing

5 ай бұрын

Lana's still in the poll

@emilyjane7027

5 ай бұрын

Praying for a Clipping DDD 🙏🏻

@robertonal

5 ай бұрын

hoping for a sufjan's DDD

@Ppilots7

5 ай бұрын

WEEN

It's always a good day when a snare uploads a 40+ minutes-long video about a band I know nothing about.

@JDEdwards2331

5 ай бұрын

Right? I'm about 16 minutes in and none of the music Snare is sharing has made an impression but I'm patient.

@OrgaNik_Music

5 ай бұрын

@@JDEdwards2331 It all sounded very samey to me. Not bad, but not very interesting either.

@Bringmethehorizondude

5 ай бұрын

I got into the national when I was in college but realized very quick their music is all the same and usually underwhelming. I only love like 3 songs. The rest is meh

@janier234

4 ай бұрын

@@OrgaNik_Music umphhh... using your comment as a reply space, still this is my attempt to respond to all 4 responses under this comment thread... right off the bat, 😓🥲 will be completely honest and admit that i agree with what everyones said on here. i wouldn’t say I’m a huge T. National fan, but the songs i do dig from them....OMFG they’re absolutely amazing and incredible pieces of music. Will also bring up the point, well at least for me, that watching some of their songs being performed live absolutely adds another layer and kicks them up a level in regards to what makes their music epic... just watching the hammering of the guitar and drums being executed live during BloodBuzz Ohio always sucks me in and tricks me into believing there’s something special about this band... but in short if i can describe this band and perhaps their aimed fanbase i will use a similar joke that trended when Jay Z dropped his 4:44 album... he made a rap album for golf players... 😅 The National makes music for individuals with doctorates or medical degrees that love artsy tunes.... seriously 🤣 yet... it all sounds so similar

@_nolandd

4 ай бұрын

The National is a slow burning band; you may get into them, or you may not. And it does take some time to truly fall in one direction or the other. Their songs hit harder if you grew up with them too; each album has different focuses from dealing with young adulthood, work, relationships, broken relationships, family, and the shaky self of self that comes with age. Like the comment above me said, their live performances are the best way to get a feel for the soul of their music. Songs like “Bloodbuzz Ohio,” “The System Sleeps…,” “Graceless,” and “England” to name only a few just hit different. Overall, though, they’re a band to check out when you’re feeling contemplative and want something more chill playing. Bonus points if you have time to read some of the lyrics at the same time.

There is absolutely nothing like a stadium of people shouting "I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT, AHHH, ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER WAY" one of my favourite moments in life, period.

@jacobgregersen377

2 ай бұрын

hping to expeirence that in october

@cl8804

Ай бұрын

kinda gay

I’m literally seeing the National in about 6 hours. Hella good timing there Michael

@nothinghandle

5 ай бұрын

update the people how was it??

@starryscar22

5 ай бұрын

@@nothinghandle hasn’t started yet, check back in a few! (estimate was off)

@satelliteimagerymusic

5 ай бұрын

@@starryscar22you’re actively nationalizing as I write this I assume

@starryscar22

5 ай бұрын

Can confirm - best night of my life

@h3lveticastandard

5 ай бұрын

how was the show??

WE ARE SO BARACK 2024 BAYBEEEEE JUST CAME BACK TO EDIT TO SAY I DIDNT SAY THIS COMMENT BECAUSE OF 15:29

@takyON207

5 ай бұрын

OBAMNA

@docmartian6938

5 ай бұрын

SODAAAAAAA ​@@takyON207

@waywardlaser

5 ай бұрын

SODA!!!

@Soulkinthehuman

5 ай бұрын

WE HAVE NOT BEEN TRUMPED

"sadder, daddy"

Mic this is yet another day of me requesting a Nine Inch Nails DDD for the love of Trent

@HotStrange

5 ай бұрын

Yes please. And Spoon.

@ChristianVazquez12

5 ай бұрын

@@HotStrangeHe’s said before that Spoon will (literally) be the last DDD he ever does, if/when he decides to move on from the series 😔

@HotStrange

5 ай бұрын

@@ChristianVazquez12 I thought I remembered him saying something to that effect. Sad day

I want an episode on Alice In Chains so badly you have no idea

@pufstuf_soon

5 ай бұрын

🎵I FEEL SO ALONE GONNA END UP A BIG OL PILE OF THEM BONES 🎵

@thehauntedattic4279

5 ай бұрын

@@pufstuf_soon DUDE IMAGINE HOW GOATED A DDD ON AIC WOULD BE their story is so crazy it’s unreal

@explodingegg123

5 ай бұрын

I love aic to bits (though I haven't listened to any of they're post tripod albums aside from their mtv unplugged performance) and I would kill for an aic ddd

@thehauntedattic4279

5 ай бұрын

@@explodingegg123 ya AIC kinda died with Layne but I DEFINITELY recommend listen to “Black Gives Way To Blue” sure, it doesn’t have Layne but the entire album is a tribute to him and it is the best song writing found the the post-Layne era, and FRICKIN ELTON JOHN PLAYED PIANO ON THE TITLE TRACK!!!

THANK YOU for mentioning "so far around the bend." their best song imo

@Mickey_Barho

5 ай бұрын

Wow, William Maranci himself. I fucking love your mashups

@agusohyeah

4 ай бұрын

exile vilify too!

I think Mike lives in a lawn chair on top of my brain because whenever I start thinking about getting into a band, he always releases a DDD about them. I really appreciate it, Mike, but I’m going to need you to start paying rent.

@zachthomas5272

5 ай бұрын

Not that my opinion means anything, but I can’t recommend them enough.

@DaneDansk

5 ай бұрын

@@zachthomas5272 your opinion always matters 🫶

2:14 Interpol is if Lana del Rey wrote songs about NYC and was also multiple dudes. I feel as it was a personal attack on me.

@janier234

4 ай бұрын

lmao

@razinahmedkhantalha936

2 ай бұрын

Same

i am so happy to see mic finally covering my favourite sad dads!

Mr. MicTheSnare, just wanted to thank you for introducing me to so much new music over the last few years. It is actually insane to me how much you've been able to change how I genuinely enjoy music. In the crowded space of how music has been reviewed over the last decade or two, and definitely longer, your videos have made me look at music in a much less toxic lens. Genuinely, your videos, and especially Deep Discog Dive, have helped me appreciate music more than I ever have. Probably cringey, I don't care. Thank you.

Sooooo Interpol next?

Welcome back to The National; my favorite band.

@cl8804

Ай бұрын

yikes

I saw The National at Boston Calling 2013, I was 11 years old but my dad brought me to the front row for the set and Matt jumped into the crowd on Terrible Love pretty much right on me, and that experience was what seriously got me into music and live shows.

To this day, Conversation 16 is my favorite song I’ve ever heard. I credit the entirety of High Violet for shaping my music taste as a teenager, but that one track is just such perfection and started a deep love for this band that has never faded. So glad to see you talking about them.

i’ve been a fan of this channel for years and the national is my favorite band. i’m so happy i could cry. this is awesome!

this is the most exciting thing i have seen on youtube in like 5 years

@ninamarkl8392

5 ай бұрын

i also only have careful fear and dead devotion (and it’s the latter for the national)

INTERPOL MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I was hoping you would one day get around to redoing the National’s discography. So hyped when I saw what the video was!

also Alligator is their best album. Thanks!

I love this series so much. You've given me a much greater appreciation for listening to albums in their entirety and, as you put very well, mapping what changes and what stays the same over an artist's career. I even started taking a Music History class at my college in large part because of your channel and how much the topic interested me. Keep up the great work! :)

Great group. My dad loves them

@callanyvegetable

5 ай бұрын

Dads, by law, are required to be a Foo Fighters fan or The National Fan. They give you a form to fill out at the hospital after the arrival of your first born

Something I love about watching the deep dive's is when you cover a band I love, but have fell behind on keeping up with, and I get to love them all over again

I’m obsessed with The National and was so excited to see this video pop up! Thank you for brightening my Saturday 😊

My favorite music KZreadr doing a video on my favorite band was a fantastic surprise! Also, I'm so happy you gave a shout out to "So Far So Fast", it is maybe my favorite song by them and I rarely see it talked about. The whole of "I Am Easy to Find" is so rich in textures and emotions and it is still my favorite album by them and I think it's really underrated. Other highlights like "Quiet Light", "Hairpin Turns", "Oblivions", "Where Is Her Head" and of course the title track are all just so powerful and so beautifully composed, I really do believe it is a very special album and I encourage anyone to listen or re-listen to it. I also really loved their recent two albums, and I feel very confident in that they are both going to stand the test of time. Anyway, this was a really great deep dive, thank you so much for doing it, amazing video as always!

Been waiting for this one for so long, finally!

You deserve more appreciation for these! So good and detailed oriented--you can tell you put a lot of work into these.

Always been aware of The National, but never did a more thorough listen of their catalog. Started that process last week, so this was a welcome listen to get me up to speed. Thanks Mic!

Love your work. I started listening to The National several deep dives ago because of you. This closed the loop; thanks!

Great video, hopefully one day you'll make a rolling stones DDD one day

“Nobody else will be There” from “Sleep Well Beast” features in the 2019 Academy winner Short Film “The Neighbor’s Window”. If anyone has the chance to watch it do it. It’s beautiful, through that song and short film I found about The National.

This sparked in me the possibility of Mic doing Beirut one day, and I’m suddenly filled with an urge to live forever

Thanks for showing "Trouble Will Find Me" so much love. I think it's their best, but for my money it gets overlooked too often.

The National!!! Also, Interpol DDD when?

Thank you so much for this series and especially this video. I’ve heard great things about The National for years but for whatever reason I never checked them out, and now I have so much great music to add to my favorites! And I’m so happy to get into them at this point in their discography because I am enjoying all the phases of their career and am loving their more recent and varied albums so much. It’s great to hear the diversity and excitement they seem to have making new soundscapes while keeping true to their sound. You have helped me dive into other artists too, and also rediscover artists that I have lost touch with and then realize I have been missing with your videos. Keep up the great work 🙏🏻

What an incredible video. I'm surprised to see anyone go to bat for Sleep Well Beast and I very much appreciate it. High Violet is one of my favourite albums of all time and I got to see them live for the first time last month, and they blew me away even more than I already expected. I completely disregarded Laugh Track when it came out since I did not like Last Two Pages, but since the concert I have really been playing that album out and it's so much better than I gave it credit for. Smoke Detector is an absolute highlight. This video is so expertly crafted in both analysis and humour, very fun and cool. Great work!

Love The National so much. Great retrospective!

i love your deep dive videos so much. thanks for the hard work you do

Welcome back Mic Me’ Snare

i was just thinking of getting into the national and now i have a handy guide to it. thank you mic the snare i owe you my life

I've loved The National ever since I first heard Bloodbuzz Ohio back in 2010. They really help when I have those sad dad blues that not even a trip to Lowe's can fix. And while I don't plan on getting married, Dark Side of the Gym is on the short list of songs I'd want to have my first wedding dance to.

Great content as always.

I was waiting for this moment!!!!

Tropic Morning News has been my jam for the last few months so this is gonna be neat.

This is my favorite band and you're my favorite youtuber I love your work so much thank you thank you

Dude, you are releasing banger after banger DDDs. No notes. We have the same music taste, it’s just unreal. This band carried me through so much darkness and taught me how to express my emotions through song. I listened to them my entire high school run (2004-2008) and when I tell you I was so mad Macklemore stole Fake Empire from me 😂😂😂 god this wS a trip down memory lane!!! Thanks Mic!!!

Will always have a soft spot for "Turtleneck," the first National song I ever encountered after it was featured in FX's Legion. Everyone say "thank you" to FX's Legion! Great video as always. Can't wait to check out the playlist and discover more from this band.

Was not expecting a part of my fan made music video for "Exile Vilify" that I made for a Portal Music Video Contest in 2011 to jump scare me in a deep discog drive :V While I'm here, I always enjoy your deep discog dives not only because of your wonderful descriptions of the elements that you enjoy and not enjoy with each song in a given album but I also chuckle at your jokes sprinkled throughout. Thanks for the inclusion and look forward to your future deep discog dives. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna actually try and get into The National now that I think I have some room in my music heart for some melancholy midwestern dad songs.

Sleep Well Beast truly IS the best National album!

I was obsessed with High Violet when it came out. Absolutely love this band.

since this video came out i haven't listened to anything other than the national so thanks for that Mr the snare

I really respect the ability to evolve on opinions. I appreciate these videos.

'Lean' from the Hunger Games Catching Fire soundtrack will always be my favorite National song, those albums always had a who's who of early 2010s indie groups

@lad9732

5 ай бұрын

This was my introduction to them and i remember being confused as to why I liked it so much when so many bangers shared the tracklist. That album was lightning in a bottle.

@texmartinez220

5 ай бұрын

​@@lad9732 right?! That and the Twilght albums had zero right to be that good, Angus & Julia Stone, Sea Wolf, POP ETC, like wtf how?!

@ashleyleckwold5091

5 ай бұрын

Okay, I thought I vaguely remembered them doing a Hunger Games soundtrack! I was kind of pissed about the Catching Fire soundtrack at the time cause I preferred the country/folk bent of the first one and Sia doing ‘Elastic Heart’ with The Weeknd doesn’t hit the same as The Carolina Chocolate Drops and The Civil Wars in terms of in universe atmosphere. Probably a bit short-sighted, but I was really into The Hunger Games at the time and can recognize how stacked that soundtrack was in retrospect.

@lunarvisions7

5 ай бұрын

That album introduced me to them and so many other artists that shaped my teenage years.

I have been waiting for this for so fucking long I love it

my main knowledge of this band is that one review that Fantano did of Frankenstein where it was just him sleeping the entire time. Which is one of the funniest ways to express boredom with an album

IVE BEEN SO EXCITED FOR THIS DEEP DIVE!!!!!!

you have no idea how excited i was to see this on my youtube front page

Do you know for how long I’ve been craving a deep dive on the National? I’ve searched long for a mini documentary on the National. Even paid to watch the 2010 documentary. Thank you for this!

I crossed the Atlantic to watch them at Primavera Barcelona too and was by the stage. It is lovely to watch a video that deeply encapsulates many of the same feelings I feel for them. Thank you!

This video just came up in my feed and I'm glad it did (good timing, too as I'm seeing them play in Melbourne in three days) as it was like listening to myself talk to people about The National. So afterwards - based on things you like about The National and other artists you mention that I also appreciate - I went to see if you'd done a Discog dive into Andrew Bird , only to find none. If you're a fan of Andrew, I'd love to see your dive into his work (although it would be long). Anyway, just wanted to say that I love the vid and because us music nerds love to give backstory of our own musical discovery when no one has asked: I first came across The National from Dark Was the Night and got High Violet when it came out (so technically their first for me). I actually found that Trouble Will Find Me didn't grab me at first, but grew to be one of my favourites. Sleep Well Beast I (ironically) almost slept on, but have come to love it too. I'm Easy to Find was the first National album to grab me from the get go (weird, I know because I think your description of it was spot on) since High Violet. I love Matt's voice when coupled with female voices though so that probably was a factor. Frankenstein & Laugh Track are good albums and I enjoy them, but I certainly wouldn't offer them to someone as a starting point (although The Alcott is one of my top ten National songs)

I just can't express how much Exile Vilify and it's Portal series context (together with the Lab Rat) mean to my heart... It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of art I have ever experienced

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE FOREVER

so glad you mentioned aaron working with sharon van etten! tramp is such a heartbreaking record

This could not have come at a better time. I see them live next Friday!

I'm so glad you mentioned Exile Vilify. gorgeous gorgeous song. great video, pretty lights ddd please :)

A Wilco deep discog dive would be amazing.

I loved Return to the Moon by EL VY but I never realized it was Matt singing for some reason !

Wake up, babe! New DDD

So happy about this:)

I saw this video when I was quite sick. After this video I listened to a couple of their tracks and fell asleep. I then had fever dreams of Mic touring with them and collabing with Lil Uzi Vert, Beyonce and other artists I have forgotten. 10/10 video, can't wait for the tour dates

The edit was top tier

One of these days Mic will run out of bands and then I’ll get a Porcupine Tree Deep Discog Dive. One day. Great as always dude, our retrospective series on this band really gave me a renewed appreciation for them when I thought I couldn’t love them more, and then subsequently burnt myself out on them… and watching this makes me wanna listen to Sleep Well Beast like right now lmao

Thanks for this video bc I've been slowly getting into The National's music both through the Taylor Swift pipeline and because my sister is a fan, but their discography is vast enough that I didn't quite know where to go next. I actually loved First Two Pages, as well as many of the more classic songs from past albums so I'm excited to go deeper!

WOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA DAMN thank you for this !

I feel like you covered everything in this review; extremely thorough and interesting! Actually you forgot about the song Lean. Anyway love this video ❤❤

IM SO F HERE FOR THIS

I really want to become best friends with you after this video. Loved everything you brought and laughed at every joke or reference, this is a spectacular video on The National and YES Sleep Well Beast is their greatest record!!!!! I'd like to add that Eucalyptus is a banger tho and Laugh Track is the album I was kind of hoping for when they announced the ok-ish Frankenstein album. Cheers and congratulations on the great work man!!

i called it in my head after that don cheadle tweet lmao

The National might be my favorite one-line lyricists ever. "Standing inside an empty tuxedo with grapes in my mouth, waiting for Ada."

To this day I choose to believe that Matt Berninger high-fived himself after writing "When I walk into a room, I do not light it up... Fuck."

I LOVE THIS BAND

terrific video, really will check everything after, it was really interesting, but to give you the other specter of the thing, i would really love if you did a blink-182 DDD 😂😂😂

we NEED a deep discog dive for Arca

Fuuny that you mention IAETF as a non-introductory National album: because it was my introduction to the band. I've been a fan of Mike Mills' film 20th Century Women for quite some time, and after the announcement and trailer for C'mon C'mon I was interested in checking out any more of his work, which sent me to the short film. Quiet Light' is far and away my favorite from the album, and I can hear the piano so distinctly in my head, much like Light Years. Thank you for the video. P.S: Ugh, I can't forget to talk about the strings on the outro for Quiet Light. Beautiful.

Nicholas - this is one of your best yet, I’m going to go listen to all of these albums right now and become the saddest dad (I have no children).

Smoke Detector legit blew me away the first time I heard it, one of the most electric and raw things they've ever recorded by far. I love the use of auto-tune in that track too, really sells the deranged rambling delivery of the lyrics. Surprised you didn't talk more about Space Invader too, hearing Matt's mumbling get buried in the mix while the climax builds and explodes around him for like three minutes straight is one of the highlight moments of their whole discography honestly.

AHHH YOU DID THE NATIONAL FINALLY

@danielsvarietychannel3781

5 ай бұрын

He actually already did it( it was the first DDD),this is just a remake.

Señor Snare if you only knew how welcome of a distraction this is 🥺❤️ Here I fucking goooooooo!

One of my favorite bands ever, but it took me awhile to get there. I didn’t know what to make of them but I felt like there was something there. Took about a year until I made a breakthrough and I was like “hey! This band is pretty good!” Took about another year before I made another breakthrough and I was like “oh my god! This band is amazing!”

Hiiii! Your friendly neighborhood Claire here to chime in on all the love for this video because WOW. This is absolutely perfect. No notes. And sure, maybe I'm biased because this band has spent the past year burrowing deeper into my heart. But regardless, hearing you talk about a band you're so passionate about makes this video shine so bright, and I truly love that. Now buckle up because this is gonna be a longie 😅 First of all, how do we have the same favorite songs??? I Need My Girl was the first National song I fell in love with, but Apartment Story has recently taken the crown for my favorite song of theirs ever--partly for all the reasons you mentioned but also because of the ending refrain. As someone who's struggled with anxiety and seasonal depression for most of my life, it's truly comforting. Sometimes you just need someone to say we'll be alright, you know? This is going to sound so lame but genuinely, I didn't think to check The National out until I heard the opening of your original DDD almost exactly a year ago--so glad you expanded on that by the way, it's genuinely so endearing. And that plus a deep dive of my own into their past records inspired me to buy a ticket for one of their Chicago shows after only listening to them for like, a week. And let me tell you, I am SO glad I did. Even though I was up in the balcony and could barely see the band and barely knew the words to most of the setlist, I still walked out of there knowing it was the best show I had been to in years... possibly ever? And that is SO special. I can't thank you enough for pointing me (and so many others, I'm sure) in the direction of this band. I would love to pick your brain about all their music (and so much more), but for now I'll settle for watching this video on repeat. Because again. Perfect video is perfect. (And if it wasn't already obvious...I think I have a crush on you 😊) Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU ❤❤❤

I am apparently not young, cool, or terminally online enough to have previously heard of the "quirked up white boy" meme, but somehow it describes the EL VY album perfectly and I am never getting over it.

England great song! Also, thank you for the english subtitles 🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾🎂

The band of a generation. Very rare to see a discography where every album is above average and at least four albums are genuinely classic.

YES thank u

I think you already know you gotta do Interpol next...

Love these, Mic. Personally, i would like to see a D3 for The Electric 6

I have seen this band in different parts of the world and loved watching them live. Sydney Opera House, Splendour in the Grass, Brooklyn Arcade, brilliant each time. They’re a band I grew up and changed with.

i didn't even know that "Exile Vilify" was in Portal 2. i first heard in in a TF2 SFM video