Tuesday, 24 Apr 2007
We continue to be amazed by The National’s upcoming album, Boxer (due May 22nd), and our week in New York next month got all the better when we heard that they will be opening for Arcade Fire when the two play Radio City Music Hall – yeah we’re pretty excited. In addition to that Muzzle of Bees will be welcoming The National and Shapes & Sizes to the High Noon Saloon on Saturday, June 9th.
Because we can’t keep all this excitement to ourselves, I wanted to repost The National’s Black Sessions from French radio which we originally posted in December of 2005. I never came across too much information about this show, but I do know it was recorded in Paris on April 29, 2005 and the audio is pretty high quality.
Here’s the track list:
1. All The Wine
2. Secret Meeting
3. Driver Suprise Me
4. Lit Up
5. Cherry Tree
6. Baby, We’ll Be Fine
7. Geese
8. City Middle
9. Looking for Astronauts
10. Mr November
11. Daughters of the Soho Riots
12. Abel
13. Wasp Net
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MP3: The National – Fake Empire
April 24th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Boxer = album of the year, no question
April 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
thanks for the tracks…9 and 11 aren’t working. Boxer will be an epic album!
April 24th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
9 and 11 aren’t working!
April 24th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I’ll fix 9 and 11 shortly.
April 24th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Tracks 9 & 11 should be working now, let me know if they aren’t.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Am I the only one who hears blips at around 1:18 of #9 – Daughters of the Soho Riots?
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Boxer is all I’ve listened to the past 2 weeks. My favorite album of the year so far.
Thanks for these live tracks!
May 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Thanks!!! Im really happy i found this. The National along with the hold Steady are the class of contemporary music.
May 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
ooo i could be wrong but i think this version of Geese of Beverly road is the one that was on the bonus disc for Alligator