Monday, 27 Aug 2007
The race for my second favorite album of the year has been underway for a couple months now. Boxer, the brilliant follow up to our 2005 favorite Alligator has certainly locked down the number one record of 2007 for us here at MoB.
We’ve been lucky enough to see the band a bunch of times this year, and each time, though similar, holds a different but meaningful memory. We were thrilled to help present their recent Madison stop at the High Noon Saloon and are anxiously awaiting their performance at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on Friday, September 21st. Joining them on this tour will be another MoB favorite and Tuesday’s Gold approved, St. Vincent.
Muzzle of Bees would like to send you and a friend to the upcoming Milwaukee show. Since we’re a big fan of the lyrics on Boxer, please leave a comment letting us know your favorite line or two, and we’ll select one winner at random.
Update (9/4/07): We chose a winner at random today. Dan, who was lucky number 12 won with his favorite lyric, “Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours, la la la la.” Thanks to everyone for your submissions, and we’ll see you at the Pabst!
Related: Download 4 Free MP3′s from the National’s Daytrotter Session.
Myspace: The National
MP3: The National – Fake Empire
Video: The National – Mistaken For Strangers
August 27th, 2007 at 9:40 am
From Slow Show (I like the daytrotter version):
“…every minute more unprepared”
and then
“You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for…”
It’s like the happy ending version of Neutral Milk Hotel’s My Dream Girl Don’t Exist. Well, maybe not exactly, but it made me think of it.
August 27th, 2007 at 10:06 am
“It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky”
-Fake Empire
August 27th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
from Start a War:
We expected something, something better than before. We expected something more
from Racing Like a Pro:
Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something
sometimes you stay in bed
from Apartment Story:
Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours, la la la
August 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
“I’m so sorry but the motorcade will have to go around me this time
Cuz God is on my side”
- All the Wine
“I’m perfect piece of ass
Like every Californian
So tall I take over the street, with highbeams shining on my back
A wingspan unbelievable
I’m a festival, I’m a parade”
- All the Wine
August 27th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
“Ada I can hear the sound of your laugh through the wall.”
This line and this song (not to mention album) are destined for eternity. It always reminds me of another song about an absent girl, Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna.” Except in Ada the songwriter’s feelings are focused so acutely and nearly exclusively on the sounds he hears . Sounds from other rooms, opposite lofts. These two songs play so well in sequence.
That particular line is so achingly precise though and is first heard at such a visceral point in the song that it’s hard for it not to be the line that stands above the rest for me on this album.
August 27th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
“We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
do whatever the TV tells us
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days”
-Apartment Story
August 27th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I have your good clothes in the car
So cut your hair so no one knows
-Daughters of the Soho Riots
August 27th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Get inside their clothes
with my green gloves
watch their videos, in their chairs.
Get inside their beds
with my green gloves
Get inside their heads, love their loves.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
it floats around and takes me over
like a little drop of ink in a glass of water
green gloves
and
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
mistaken for strangers
August 28th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Easy, from “Start a War”
“Whatever went away I’ll get it over now. I’ll get money, I’ll get funny again”
There is something heartbreaking about that line that I can’t quite figure out what it means to me.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
“you’re the tall kingdom I surround
think I better follow you around”
brainy
“I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up”
slow show
easily my album of the year
August 28th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
“Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours, la la la la”
August 28th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights
August 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
tired and wired we ruin too easy
August 29th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
“Turn the light out, say goodnight; no thinking for a little while. Let’s not try to figure out everything at once.”
August 30th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
So you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
hey mob-just wondering if you’re going to announce the winners soon-i need to know if i should buy tix so they don’t sell out
September 4th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Update (9/4/07): We chose a winner at random today. Dan, who was lucky number 12 won with his favorite lyric, “Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours, la la la la.” Thanks to everyone for your submissions, and we’ll see you at the Pabst!
November 30th, 2007 at 8:48 am
tired and wired