One of the best drum beats ever.

@radd157

Жыл бұрын

Apparently Bryan snagged the beat directly from Interpol's Take You On A Cruise, but yeah, agreed!

Man, I had a calculus exam yesterday and this song was in my head about the whole time.

great lines... here "another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults"

It's a toss up between that and "You wouldn't want an angel watching over surprise surprise they wouldn't wanna watch another uninnocent elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults." and yes, that drummer is definitely one of the best out there right now. I love this songs beat especially.

'On you wouldn't want an angel watching over' 'Surprise surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch' Great lyrics, great band. The best.

10 years, feeling as it was yesterday

@arathlopez3114

2 жыл бұрын

14 years, today

This gives me life

This is the video that made me realize The National was one of my top three favorite bands. Whoo!

This song is very powerful. I think that this is indirect poetry, or maybe you can still say that it is. I can't explain how pinpointed they are with their metaphors. on top of it all, they graced it with a rhythm and melody that just compliments all together. music at it's finest. amazing.

Really good lyrics

Fantastic song and band!

@kc42291 I felt the same especially "another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults" is just amazing. It expresses so much i nearly cry everytime i listen to it because its exactly what happened to us. Every single word of this song is so true.

You wouldn't want an angel watching over Surprise surprise, they wouldn't want to watch SO good.

is it me or is it sad that the two top rated comments don't even pertain to The National? or how great this song is? "make up something to believe in your heart of hearts so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves" and "another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults" .. "The National has some of the greatest lyrics I've heard in a long time.

@TrungNguyen-kt3lt

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's kinda sad that good lyrics like this are not being appreciated enough. Well I guess we just have to accept the fact that beautiful honest heart broken lyrics are not attracted for everyone and that's OK.

I love the drummer

I saw them live in Portugal, Guimarães! Best concert i've ever seen absolutly amazing ; D

i genuinely cant stop listening to this

watching them perform this song live makes me want to learn how to play the drums.. damn this song is sooooo good!!

Best band on the planet!!!

The drumming is even better on brainy! It gets stuck in your head like no other!

wow these guys have a HUGE sound... l ike.. blowing my mind

That's the best version of the song by far!

The pure rawness of this is unreal . Don't hang the DJ , hand the Producers . Actually dont as these guys make both work . So every single THE NATIONAL live and studio version fur us mere humans . You do realise your Gods don't you !

the national for life!! im da new fan..

beautiful

This is the best band in the country.

the vibe IS totally joy division/new order...the guitar/bass sounds very familiar but some commentators don't get it. Sounds great whatever the influence.

this band is so badass!

wistful!! beautiful!!*

the drummer is great!!!!

This band (mainly the vocals and the percussion)reminds me of Joy Division... And thats definitely a good thing.

The National is heavily influenced by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (at least on Boxer) and Interpol has an impressive range of post-punk and non-post-punk influences (not only Joy Division, there's Josef K, The Chameleons, the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Afghan Whigs, Kitchens of Distinction, etc.) Ugh...

perfect

crazy how different their performance of this song is now from what it was then

I love you Esteban!

I LOVE THE NATIONAL AND I LOVE JOY DIVISION

Great band and you're right, the drumming is great.

dude the national wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them as well as many other great bands!

Fuck!!! That drummer is just classy! Awesome band

lovely guys ;)

The most unique sound

great!

Awesome drum beats!

I can see what you mean. I have been ennamored with this drummer ever since I heard the first song and his driving galloping style is so full of surpise changes that is has a almost random feel. I have never heard anything like him.

Reminds me of JD :) Love them both.

This music moves me.

agreed. listen to the dismemberment plan - specifically emergency and i - every song on that album has some of the best lyrics i've ever heard.

That's an awesome drum beat.

bryan devendorf, what a drummer!

i already saw them up close at coachella fest

goes to show what good songwriting can produce

@MikaelLilienthal because the drummer, contrary to popular belief, is the leader of the band. he controls how fast the band plays the song. the drummer holds the tempo, and the rest of the band follows him.

I never understood quite the meaning of this song lolol to put it bluntly I never really understood the main theme of any National song except "Mr.November." This one seems to be about crisis or misfourtane.

COW BELL!

yeah! I know!

Check out "Heavens" His voice sounds like him kind of.

@kc42291 So well said abstract but yet mean so much

the singer's speaking voice is almost exactly like Nathan Fillion's... But the song is amazing... Anyone who likes these guys should check out Editors and The Cinematics as well.

Gee, never heard that way too many times.

Esteban sent me here. xD

John Lennon on drums!

where is the 'fake empire' vid from this live set?..used to be there...

“AOL”...what is that?? 😂

Aw, man, I was so disappointed to see the drummer cut his hair. There was something so appealingly Vietnam vet about him. His drumming is wicked understated, one might say laconic, if I may extend the meaning a bit.

the twins look like the two brothers from lord of the rings

It's totally Lennon. He's been hiding out from Yoko but he can't stay away from music!

why is it that most national videos have the comment of john lennon on the drums?

@d4sh94 yeah, but I think that's got less to do with facts than rather just not to know that a similar sounding voice and similar sounding instruments doesn't inevitably mean it's the same music

Lol Lennon is so casual at 1:03

If you're going to suggest listening to "Heavens" you need to also suggest Alkaline Trio since it is Matt Skiba after all.

a jutro grają na off festival :) spełnienie marzeń :))

@angeldog1 hang on, i signed him on football manager yesterday....

"...surprise, surprise ! they wouldn't wanna watch ..."

Is this recorded in "The Basement"?

@d4sh94 they're two different bands, but I think that The National reach some quality and aesthetic levels that are hard to reach. just like JD.

its like radiohead in their beginning

John Lennon on the druuuums!!! XD

@ziggystardust93 LMFAO xD It's true!

@d4sh94 that and comment on ther videos...not the national's video!!!!

@bucjo813 google a picture of John Lennon then look again at the national's drummer, you'll understand xD

I think both Johnny Cash and Piero Cappuccilli were both trying to be Ian Curits as well.

Internet arguments are funny.

lenord cohen meets joy division?

after getting my fucking facts straight, I have come to the conclusion that these guys sound like joy division or ian curtis.

guitarist looked like greg rudeksi?

They're just very new york. Awesome though.

@d4sh94 I don't understand why people complain about it. If Joy Division is such an amazing band, what's wrong if someone sound similar to them?

FUCK! my twin brother on the drums!!!

Great song! And the acoustic player has the biggest baby face ever! He's like 12!

Why did the drummer count in the guitarist playing by himself?!?!

The drumming is the greatest, right?

if anyone is going to comment on anything about joy division or Ian Curtis, they should get their fucking facts straight.

I don't know it's tough to play drums better than stephen morris.

Dude, I'm so gay too

Who the hell is Esteban...?

Random beats over and over again? whats the random part then?

Both Matt Berninger and Paul Banks sounds a bit like Ian Curtis. But honestly, Berninger voice is far better. I could listen to the man sing the phonebook for days.

The drummer looks like 70s John Lennon

Off the wall a thing of POWER and Beauty John Lennon is just a pop start in comparison to this song . I know everyone go WHAT but the truth is in the song its hard - simple - new Punk in the National Way with a bit of Joy Division thrown in an done in a whole new way .

@d4sh94 What Facts? He sings exactly like Ian Curtis