The National - Boxer (w/ guest Lisa Grosso)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are charmed by "music business big wig" Lisa Grosso (you can check out her PR outfit, Effective Immediately, at ei-pr.com) as we talk about one of The National's long list of critically acclaimed albums, Boxer (2007, Beggar's Banquet). Despite the band's affinity for complex rhythms and ornate orchestration, we discuss how The National stays rooted in rock and roll. Obtuse lyrics and a gravelly baritone vocal are also analyzed in depth as we listen to the album one song at a time.

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0:00.0	Stayer
0:07.0	Stayer Stay out super late tonight
0:22.6	Picking apples
0:24.6	Making pies
0:26.6	Put a little sun blind in our lemonade
0:30.6	And take it with us
0:32.6	A half away
0:34.6	In a faking pile We're half away Howdy, in a fake empire?
0:44.3	We're half awake in a fake empire.
0:50.4	Howdy?
0:52.3	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast.
0:52.7	I'm Bill.
0:53.5	And I'm Brian.
0:55.8	And today we have a guest with us,
1:02.7	Lisa Grosso. Hello. Hi, Lisa. Welcome to the show. Thank you. I've been told that you are a music business bigwig. Yeah, that's that's pretty much the gist of it. Um, yeah, you can check out my
1:08.7	company. It's effective immediately PR. We're based in Lower Manhattan
1:13.4	in Tribeca. I worked there as a social media manager. I was there last weekend. Oh yeah? Yeah. You
1:18.7	should have stopped by. I was at a wedding. Oh, well, you still should have stopped by.
1:23.7	No, it's cool. So we work with bands. We're a, you know, a growing music PR company. I've been there for about eight months. I'm in the artist development section, which is called the outlet music. And yeah, so any, any bands looking for PR, artist development, definitely check out effective immediately PR.
1:42.7	Nice. Yeah, awesome.
1:51.3	Today we are going to be talking about the Nationals, I guess, kind of breakthrough album.
1:51.8	Yeah.
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