S5E199 - The National 'Trouble Will Find Me' with Brian Franklin

<p>Political Consultant and Speechwriter <strong>Brian Franklin</strong> knows a thing or two about the impact words can have, and the existential dread and barely repressed frustration of <strong>Matt Berninger's</strong> lyrics paired with his band <strong>The National's</strong> viscerally elegant music hits him in all the right places. We discuss the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Cincinnati band’s breakout 2013 album <strong>'Trouble Will Find Me'</strong> in this slow-burner of an episode. <br /> "If I stay here I'll never leave<br /> If I stay here trouble will find me<br /> I believe..."</p> <p>Songs featured in this episode: <em>A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours </em>- The Smiths; <em>All Your Tone Is Wrong </em>- The Rat Opera; <em>Mr. November </em>- The National; <em>Push The Sky Away </em>- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds; <em>I Should Live in Salt, Demons, Don't Swallow the Cap, Fireproof, Sea of Love, Heavenfaced, This Is the Last Time, Graceless, Slipped, I Need My Girl, Humiliation, Pink Rabbits, Hard to Find </em>- The National; <em>Cardigan </em>- Taylor Swift; <em>Outside This Bar </em>- Mark Eitzel; <em>Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks </em>- The National</p>