The Spike Jonze video Drunk Girls off This is Happening is outstanding.

For some reason it reminded me of YYYs Y Control video from when I first saw it years ago.

Someone recently asked me to name my top 10 The National songs — this is a nearly impossible task given the fact that there are live and alternate recordings of each song out there and on top of that a new album is days away and I am in love with two of those tracks.

Anyway, pre High Violet here it is:

1. About Today (White Sessions)
2. Fake Empire (Live)
3. All the Wine
4. Abel
5. Murder Me Rachel (live)
6. Apt Story
7. Start A War
8. All Dolled up in Straps
9. Cardinal Song
10. Slow Show / 29 Years

For the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me:

1. I am an Animal – Soft Black
2. Easy – Deer Tick
3. 1901 – Phoenix
4. Idiot Heart – Sunset Rubdown
5. Help I’m Alive – Metric
6. Young Hearts Spark Fire – Japandroids
7. Crystalised – The xx
8. I and Love and You – Avett Brothers
9. My Girls – Animal Collective
10. Blood Bank – Bon Iver
11. Daylight – Matt & Kim
12. Zero – YYYs
13. Lovesick Teenagers – Bear in Heaven
14. Who Can Say – The Horrors
15. Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
16. Little Bird Courage – Old Canes
17. Home -Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
18. Save Me from What I Want – St Vincent
19. Beach Demon – Wavves
20. Summertime – Girls
21. Slow Burning Crimes – East Hundred
22. Some Trees (Merritt Moon) – Cymbals Eat Guitars
23. Substitution – Silversun Pickups
24. Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors & David Byrne
25. Tegan  & Sara – Hell