Somewhat Manly Nerd » high violet http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog infrequent blogging from some dude Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Your Second Attempt At This Song Of The Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 04:00:24 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2778 The National – Sorrow

*sigh*

So The National’s latest album, High Violet, is actually out, so I hope posting this mp3 is cool now. And just because maybe some people already listened to this song the first time I posted it, I’m going to add this performance of “Afraid of Everyone” on Letterman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRPz3kvou0

Edit: Just listen to “Bloodbuzz Ohio”, which is embedded in the comment below.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/feed/ 1 Your Deleted Song of the Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/04/21/your-heartbroken-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/04/21/your-heartbroken-song-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:28:00 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2624 The National – Sorrow

:(

Lots of albums have leaked recently, but High Violet is really the only one I’ve listened to. And I’ve kinda been listening to this one song from it over and over. I’d go on and review the album or all the songs that comprise it, but I’ve stated numerous times how unqualified I feel to talk about music. It’s definitely a great album and I highly recommend checking it out — when it comes out legally, of course. The National’s previous album Boxer put me to sleep at times, and I guess that’s a weird criticism if I’m posting this song from High Violet, but I just find the latter much more varied and less minimalistic.

Note: If the very beginning of the song is corrupted for you, let me know. I had a weird issue listening to the MP3 directly in Chrome — which, combined with other bugs, has me close to writing a negative post about the Google browser. It worked fine in Firefox.

Note 2: I was emailed by Web Sheriff to take down the song, which I almost thought was a joke at first, and then I found the Wikipedia entry. Damn.

Note 3: The New York Times has the album streaming until April 27th. Go and listen now.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdlsaQH6ao

If it sounds this good on Jimmy Fallon’s stage, the studio version will be pretty damn incredible, especially since Matt Berninger’s voice is much more suited to the studio from what I’ve heard. He really does sound great here, though. High Violet hits on May 11 (if you didn’t catch that) — be sure to check it out.

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