GetGlue

Alligator

Reviews

Check-ins0

Likes689

Reviews13

- New! Awesome Twitter integration.
  See the best Tweets about your favorite shows. Reply without having to leave GetGlue. Get your entire social TV conversation fix on GetGlue.com.
  
  X
Your Review
Top Reviews
- - Hot!
    
    Kristen Scharold liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    Rock that gets deep into your bones. The members of this band are lyrical geniuses and musical prodigies. They've created an album that reminds me of what music can do to a person, and how it can... more
    
    Rock that gets deep into your bones. The members of this band are lyrical geniuses and musical prodigies. They've created an album that reminds me of what music can do to a person, and how it can transform a dull subway ride into a jammin' session of deep reflection.
    
    2 years
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Kristen liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    Love the lyrics on the whole album
    
    3 years
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Driusha favorited and reviewed Alligator
    
    "Saved from a life of big hat music, their music is almost defiant in its lack of polish." - BBC (2005)
    
    1 month
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Ana Carolina liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    this album is perfect. i like it better than boxer (2)
    
    11 months
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Mariel Sandico liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    this album is perfect. i like it better than boxer
    
    11 months
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    ZacharySupertramp liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    one of my top five albums ever
    
    11 months
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Erasmus Zacharias favorited and reviewed Alligator
    
    Oh memories. I feel like I went through my twenties with The National, every album coming at just the right moment in my life to become the soundtrack to that moment in time.
    
    1 year
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Vangel Imreorov liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    absolutely awesome,
    an album that is close to being perfect!
    
    1 year
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Hutami Citarasri Herman liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    good
    
    1 year
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
  - Hot!
    
    Vaysh liked and reviewed Alligator
    
    Rather like this.
    
    1 year
    
    Vote
    
    Agree
    
    Cool
    
    Funny
    
    Reply
    
    Vote on this interaction!
    
    Press enter when you are done typing.
More Reviews

Editing Alligator

You can edit this page because you have earned special privileges on Glue.
Only make changes if you are certain that they are correct.

Cancel

Suggestions

Description

These five Cincinnati friends recorded two albums for Brassland before signing to Beggars Banquet. Their last effort, "Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers", was touted as one of the year's best by Rolling Stone and other magazines. On "Alligator", Matt Berninger's potent baritone still intones about matters fraught, funny, and sad; about record collections, missing persons, and medium-sized American hearts. "Startling and subtly affecting, The National creeps in like the killer in a bleak gothic novel. Strings tremble, hearts break, and each smoldering song brings a harrowing tale of new pities"--Magnet.On their third recording, the National strikes a delicate balance between light and dark, fast and slow, American and British. While their sound is undeniably tinged with darkness, it isn't gloomy or depressing. This impression is mostly due to Matt Berninger's deep baritone, which brings to mind such sensitive, but manly Brit vocalists as Scott Walker and Stuart Staples of the Tindersticks. The National, however, are American. Formed in Brooklyn in 1999, the quintet hails from Cincinatti and doesn't sound much like a New York Band (Interpol, the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.). Instead, they could be Midwestern or even Canadian in the way they combine alt-country, chamber-pop, and post-punk angst, like Toronto's Royal City or Montreal's Arcade Fire. Often compared to Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits, the National's music is actually faster-paced and has a lighter, almost jaunty touch. In other words: they rock. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Enter a descriptionChecking description...OkInvalid description

Source (optional)

Important: You can edit this page because you have earned special privileges on Glue.
Only make changes if you are certain that they are correct.

Your description has been saved!

GetGlue

Alligator

By The National, 2006

Reviews