Someone made the comment "Percussion happy" about a song I can't remember now.
This fits quite well here. =) 

Please play this on a regular basis!

I like these guys ... based on the comments below, though, the live show might be an iffy proposition.

This is one of my favorite songs

i saw the same show in ny, and gotta say that modest mouse made the national look silly.  the national has ZERO energy - totaly yawn/bore-fest.  modest mouse brought the rock.

These guys opened for REM and Modest Mouse (they sucked) at the Greek up in Berkeley last summer. We gave The National a standing "O", and they deserved it. They are a very good live band, well worth the time.

To those who complain and moan that songs ("It's always the songs I don't like, waah, waah, waah") are "overplayed" on RP, I am cross-posting this excellent analysis originally made by listener DrLex (click here) in the comments for the Paul Simon song "Late in the Evening."

DrLex wrote:

I think expecting Radio Paradise to have a playlist of 8 billion songs, or even 8 million songs, is quite a bit of lack of perspective. Do you ever come out in the real world? Even in my country where FM radio doesn't suck as hard as in the US, you'll hear the same song multiple times a day unless you'd go working, shopping and dining while wearing industrial ear protection.

Because you seem to like numbers, here's some mathematics. Suppose a station has a playlist of 10000 songs. I have no idea how many songs the active playlist of RP has, but this seems reasonable, especially in the light of the following assumption. Suppose this station is run by DJ Random, who gives every song a number between 1 to 10000 and uses a perfect random number generator to pick the next song. Suppose you listen to 120 songs this way (at an average of 4 minutes per song, that would take 8 hours). The birthday paradox says that in this case (see simulation below), there's a 50% chance that you'll hear the same song twice in this time span!

For a playlist of 50000 songs, the 50% chance of repetition is already reached at approx. 250 picks, not the expected 600.

Of course, while many radio streams work this way, on RP this is not how it's done — luckily. First of all, Bill avoids the horrible transitions that DJ Random would produce, by combining songs that actually belong together. This reduces the amount of randomness, but of course Bill has a memory and will try to avoid repeating the same song often. To minimize repetition, he would need to create an ideal sequence of all songs once, and repeat this eternally. But that would become boring too, so as a compromise and to keep managing RP tractable, Bill recycles 'stretches' of playlist, slowly mutating them and discarding them after a while. And Bill is only human, so he'll play the songs that he likes a little bit more often than others.

I wasted some of my time telling this story to show that things can be a whole lot worse, and I believe RP comes damn close to an ideal radio station. You just have to accept the fact that ideality doesn't exist and that some of the songs you don't like will be played, and repeated after a while.

I don't usually do this, but: 30% of your song ratings are 1s. And you've rated a shitload of songs. 1400 1-rated songs? You can't be listening to the right station.

Ok, I've now heard it enough times that it would merit a 0.

it's really too bad there's not a 0 ranking

it's really too bad there's not a 0 ranking

1 -> 1

No matter how many times I hear this on RP (which is a LOT), it just doesn't change.

this is a tedious drone after the first 500 plays!

OVERPLAYED.

Good lyrics plus really, really boring music and singing equals a writer who should be going to poetry slams and not fronting a band.

It's the first time in a long time I've listened carefully to the lyrics and spent the rest of the day pondering them.