let's do this
http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
<333 this band
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 19:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Nice new song.
― Marty Innerlogic, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
played great expectations while downing my second double whiskey & coke at the bar yest and i was in...well, heaven isn't the word.
yeah "great expectations" is just
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
the gasface anthem
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
sb
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
suggest bantham
suggest you read jeremy bentham
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
have and do son!! have and do.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
:)
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm watching you right now tbh
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
weird.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
sub-the Killers
― skogsturken, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Emo Street Band.
― ithappens, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
you all suck fyi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
the HOOSlight anthem
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
<3 <3 incomprehensible hoarse vocals in the background of the chorus <3 <3 <3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
i still listen to the 59 sound like once every two weeks, i'm sure this new one is going to own but it has a tough act to follow
― k3vin k., Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Heavily influenced by late period Replacements and some Hold Steady, I think.
I would have said mid-Period Replacements.
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
I can't let HOOS ride on this alone, loved the last alum lots. Excited for a new one, but yeah, will be hard to top The '59 Sound.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok i have now listened to 'american slang' 20 times tonight and am beginning to want more songs like it to listen to so this album needs to hurry
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
they cut me to ribbons and taught me to drive in a dream i had ohhhh in a dream i hadi had your name tattooed inside of my arm in a dream i had ohhhh in a dream i had
^^^ dope
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
didnt even notice til tonight that dude actually does a full throated non-background-vocal glory note at the end and its kinda thrilling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh here's the youtube btw if you want that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
*digs new album*
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
*feels bad for band that album leaked 2 months early, am probably going to wait for release date*
― Spiney G. Porcupinegarden (some dude), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
*digs new album*― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:41 AM (Yesterday)
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:41 AM (Yesterday)
This.
― Mordy, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah it's good, maybe not 59 Sound good on first listen, but it's early days.
Also, the sun's just coming out, there's a whole summer of adventures and possibility ahead, it's exactly the right time for music like this.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Their Facebook page has a stream of "American Slang" (just the title track, mind you) with noticeably better sound quality than the Youtube and Myspace feeds.
Didn't discover "'59 Sound" until this year (!!! late to the party again), loved it, so, totally looking forward to a new record.
― Tantrum The Cat, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Bring It On" is a killer track.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think this album is just about every bit as good as the last one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
BTW, why can't bands (labels) be more careful with their albums? Leaks this early are pretty inexcusable/inexplicable.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
i know it's early, but they have made another classic album imo
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 April 2010 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
and you're slow like motown souuuul
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Between this and the new Against Me! it's a great year for post-warped tour rock.
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
my favorites are "american slang", "orphans", and "the spirit of jazz" but i'm feeling this whole thing. not sure about that retarded mayer affect he's putting on for "the diamond church street choir" but the song picks up eventually.
― ban c u tty (k3vin k.), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
really? people who like some music i like seem to like this band. i just find them so grim.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Grim? Grim is about the furthest adjective that comes to mind when I think of these guys, I actually find most of their stuff to be uplifting.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
maybe i need to give them another chance. they seem like "blue-collar springsteen rock" without his sharp lyrics and insight -- but again, maybe i judged too quick/harshly.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think this one is certainly, well, grimmer than the last, at least. Lots of bittersweet, getting older, rearview mirror stuff. Don't know how much "insight" I'd cite in them, but they do capture the same sort of innocently myopic desperation that Springsteen did. "We have to get out of this dead-end town to make a record!" sort of stuff. Lots of riffs on the healing/escapist power of listening music, too, when you're living in said podunk. Mean streets of New Brunswick?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay, I haven't heard anything off the new one yet, so maybe I shouldn't be so quick to dismiss "grim".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
the music itself is anything but grim
― ban c u tty (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
No, the music is exultant. The lyrics are a tad grim. But barely.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
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― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Friday, 30 April 2010 05:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
Was listening to this tonight and the second track, "Stay Lucky" is freaking fantastic. They've got amazing narratives, and I love the very end when he whispers something like, "if you're in new york over the next eight days, let me know," like their protagonist has been waiting inside, dreaming about when he was younger, but when Gaslight Anthem is in town, let them know and they'll reignite his youth. (At least that's what I got from it.) I love this Rock + Roll redemptive stuff, esp whispered at the end like it's a guilty secret that Rock n Roll will save you.
― Mordy, Friday, 30 April 2010 06:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Spirit of Jazz is my favourite so far. I don't think this one quite has the rush and momentum you get from the first few tracks on The 59 Sound but it's still so so great.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 April 2010 08:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Queen of Lower Chelsea" is their "Straight to Hell."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 April 2010 11:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
i mean on thought their presence made a lot of sense and i'm not really sure what sort of crowd i expected--*a room full of haunted-eye moleskine clutchers* or whatever--but it struck me as incongruous somehow
can't really finger why
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2012 04:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
"45" crossed over to hard rock radio a little bit, they are on a major label now, etc. the whole reason indie's been running from anthemic guitar bands the last x years is "man i didn't know there were gonna be baseball caps at this show"
― trinidad jokes (some dude), Friday, 30 November 2012 12:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
i think maybe it's bcz the bruce influence codes as 'blue collar' to me--though obv that's a whole thing to unpack as like obv not every dad fist pumping at the staples center to darkness on the edge of town is a dust farmer by day--and hollister definitely does not code as blue collar to me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:20 (5 months ago) Permalink
shit collar
― buzza, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
sure
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:35 (5 months ago) Permalink