The end of 2009 saw The Gaslight Anthem entering the studio once again with producer Ted Hutt, to begin recording their second album for SideOneDummy Records, due out in the first half of 2010.
goddamn this can't come soon enough, i want to give a shit about a rock record
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 October 2009 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
just listening to that EP for the first time now, "blue jeans and white t-shirts" is slaying me
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 October 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf dud
― akaky akakievich, Saturday, 31 October 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
sb
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 31 October 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
new lucero album goes well with this btw
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 31 October 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i always kinda sorta wish i'm someone else
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
let's do this
http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
<333 this band
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice new song.
― Marty Innerlogic, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
the gasface anthem
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
have and do son!! have and do.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
weird.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sub-the Killers
― skogsturken, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The Emo Street Band.
― ithappens, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
you all suck fyi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
the HOOSlight anthem
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
<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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
oh here's the youtube btw if you want that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBhrinnwVs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
*digs new album*
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
*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 (fourteen years ago) link
*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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
"Bring It On" is a killer track.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this album is just about every bit as good as the last one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
and you're slow like motown souuuul
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Between this and the new Against Me! it's a great year for post-warped tour rock.
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Tbf, after 5 albums in 7 years, three years of indefinite hiatus might as well be 30.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
I adore how shamelessly, earnestly corny/cliched this album is. Great tunes, though. Probably his best batch since "'59," or at least "American Slang."
I guess he says not to expect another Gaslight album, but really, this is close enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
huh, i suppose i'll have to take a listen
i'd sorta been figuring they'd revive in 5-6 years going Back to Basics
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 February 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
halfway through and this is solid
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Is there any songwriter who references other songs (and songwriters) as much as Brian Fallon? I've been listening to "Sleepwalkers" a lot lately, and from song titles to song lyrics, even names of other artists, this guy is just constantly breaking the fourth wall.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
i hate this guy/band so much that i can't even really explain it
if he really loved NJ/bruce/the working man he'd tattoo his face about it
wah oh oh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 August 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
absolutely exhausted by craig finn but his every bathtub fart remains better than this
whoa oh ah oh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 August 2021 05:53 (two years ago) link
When did "gaslighting" -- as deception -- enter the common lexicon?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
Past few years, so several decades after James Redd saw both film versions of Gaslight.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
quite the the thread revive.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 23 August 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
love this band, mookieproof is now my mortal enemy sorry
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 24 August 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link