C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

i'll luuuuuv you forever if i ever love at all

otm

more and more i think 'senor and the queen' is their best single statement

'say i won't recognize' in particular could fit on any of their records, plays at their 59 sound 50s tropes while also dropping replacements refs and having the wheedly lead lines and having the fast punk parts of sink or swim and the fat anthem bridge/chorus build of the american slang stuff, 'don't make me dance all night alone' just kills me every time

anyone listen to Fallon's Horrible Crowes side project yet?

I just learned there even was a Horrible Crowes side project yesterday. S'OK.

http://www.spin.com/articles/gaslight-anthem-get-grungy-nashville

According to Fallon, the songs to which the band did get attached sound "huge." "It's really big, like Tom Petty songs played by Pearl Jam or the Foo Fighters," he says proudly. A less sonically obvious Gaslight fave also influenced the upcoming music. After Fallon saw Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell play a solo acoustic concert, he left gobsmacked. In a good way. "I was like, maybe this is going to be awful and it turned out to be mind blowing," he says about going to see Cornell. "I left the show and ran home to write a song because it struck me how Soundgarden wrote about their dads or moms or lives."

That subject-matter spur inspired Fallon to write more personal lyrics this time around, as opposed to the familiar Americana-soaked storytelling of albums past. "In the beginning it was hard," he says of the new approach, "because you get in the habit of doing something and you feel like you can put a name here or I can put a little story to throw the people off so they don't know I'm talking about me." Fallon was able to rid himself of this routine when he came to a simple realization. "You only have your stories. You don't have anyone else's."

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gaslight anthem spoke in class today

sounds awesome, am much more looking forward to the prospect of this album than i was just assuming it'd be more of the same

"It's really big, like Tom Petty songs played by Pearl Jam or the Foo Fighters,"

i mean this is just not a description of a record i would buy unless it said 'gaslight anthem' on it

their 'the river' obv

kind of pissed they skipped nebraska

god, i cannot wait for this

btw after only liking "blue jeans and white t-shirts" from it i've completely fallen for all of that EP, esp "say i won't (recognize)". still can't get into the first album tho

it took me some time to get into it but i p much like all 3 albums equally now

1st album is a little rough imo, but yeah that EP is great

how was that side project btw?

horrible

horrible something was the name of it, can't remember. never heard it.

Some Kind of Horrible

Given that The '59 Sound sounded like Tom Petty or Springsteen as performed by Green Day, I'd say this is a pretty good sign. The last album went wrong partly because they took the adolescent rock component out of the equation so the whole thing felt a bit chuntering and mid-paced and Mojo-friendly.

a bit chuntering and mid-paced and Mojo-friendly

how i'd characterize pearl jam & latter day foo fighters tbh

no arguing it was midtempo though

Yeah I'm kind of thinking of Foo Fighters pre-1997 or therabouts really.

matt dc otm

Side project basically sounds like Gaslight Anthem.

gaslight anthem spoke in class today
--Mordy

Gaslight Anthem = Jeremy

i just think it's hilarious that HOOS is worried about a band that quoted Counting Crows on one of its best songs being tainted by '90s mersh rock

honestly its just that i hate pearl jam tbh

i had a roommate who owned a shelf's worth of pearl jam bootlegs

and who, on hearing The 'Mats cover of "Black Diamond" coming from my room, said "oh who's covering this pearl jam song"

Pearl Jam would do a great version of "Black Diamond."

Oh, of course they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERfV7x2ctI

Huh, apparently I even saw them do it once. Way to go, memory.

Last time I saw Gaslight Anthem, they covered Lucero.

oh man, was it 'the war'? i kinda hated the version i saw on youtube.

Yeah, it was "The War."

did you enjoy it or

To be fair the worst thing about Pearl Jam is the Vedder voice and unless they're getting him to sing on the record I doubt that'll be an issue really.

Also given how much Pearl Jam veers close to mid-period Springsteen anyway I'm surprised this is even something the Gaslight Anthem felt the need to bring up.

somehow i totally missed that the band finally gave into the inevitable and signed to a major last year, so this is coming out on Mercury Records -- would kind of like to see them get huge, frankly. Tom Petty it up, fellas!

nice!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-exclusive-the-gaslight-anthem-45-20120430

i was sold 30 seconds in before they even got to the harmonies in the chorus

love the vocals mixed a liiiiiittle lower in the mix

i can hear where one might say 'tom petty' with this but my first association is bouncing souls

love it! this is gonna get a lot of play from me this summer

the record's out in mid july! whole thing'll be on my summer playlist, i suspect

sounds dope, "American Slang" was a really uninspiring lead single for a good album imo but this hits the spot

you guys are getting me excited

whoa, this sounds perfect. there's a tone to his voice i haven't heard before from him - there's this emotional urgency that's implicit in all his songs but never really released like this

I have a hunch what you hear in his voice is him in the hands of a capitol P producer, but hopefully Brendan O'Brien will be pretty sympathetic throughout.

is ted hutt not a capital P producer

i mean i know brendan o'brien is big shit poppin and all i'm just not sure i understand the distinction

Well, Hutt has stuck pretty much within the same range - blue collar punk/pop-ish stuff, with the occasional horns in Lucero or I guess the Bosstones (right?). But Brendan O'Brien has produced several huge, arena-filling bands with a much bigger, wider musical range. He seems like a go-to guy when a band wants to make a step up. Hutt seems like the Side One Dummy in-house guy.