it sounds looser to me than any hold steady thing i can think of
― new rap guy (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 6 November 2011 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
ive got a good feeling about this album
― nostormo, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
what's the over/under on Place Names Invoked
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
nostormo, would you say you're "feeling pretty positive"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
streaming now:http://www.npr.org/2012/01/15/144960565/first-listen-craig-finn-clear-heart-full-eyes?ps=cprs#playlist
sounds pretty awesome to me
― nostormo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
Good record.
― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
so this is now out, still have yet to listen to it
― Bee OK, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
you won't be disappointed
― larvae o'dooley, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, I'm hoping its a grower because I was really not impressed on first listen. Lyrically Finn delivers his usual schtick, one which I happen to like, but I don't think it works as well against half-hearted Americana and pedal steel as it does against electric guitars and Hammonds. A couple songs were decent, but I don't know, the whole thing just feels too "AND NOW I'M GOING TO DO MY MATURE SINGER-SONGWRITER ALBUM".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
This has grown on me tremendously, finding I'd rather listen to it over most Hold Steady and definitely post-Stay Positive Hold Steady. The Americana base tames his worst tendencies toward bad arena rock.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
Never really took to 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' and haven't listened to it much since it came out, but got 'Faith in the Future' and am really enjoying it - I think "Newmyers Roof" is my favourite thing he's done in years.
― michaellambert, Saturday, 12 September 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
Really good album, this. Possibly the best thing he's done since Separation Sunday.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Saturday, 12 September 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
seamless ad with this dude at subway stations, rip lifter puller
― adam, Saturday, 12 September 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
gotta hear this i guess
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 September 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Love the first two Hold Steady records and like most of Boys & Girls. The rest of them have barely registered with me. This is a great little album, though!
I think "Newmyers Roof" is my favourite thing he's done in years.
Agreed
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Monday, 21 September 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
He's got his talky old-school Springsteen delivery down and the musical backing is better than he's had lately
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
It's a lot easier on the ears production/mixing/mastering wise than most of the Hold Steady records.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
played Seth Meyer tonight - he seems really locked into certain mannerisms (talky Springsteeny, but it also sounds like he's writing short stories instead of songs to some extent) now and the song (Newmyers Roof) didn't, I don't know, take off (on album or live). This sounded a lot more like the last couple of Hold Steady albums lyrically where the first solo album felt more like the early HS.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:44 (eight years ago) link
please someone make him stop flapping his hands when he performs
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:45 (eight years ago) link
never
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 October 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
thats his thing man
if he didn't then he'd die
he's not goin "I think I'll flap my hands," it's just what he naturally does so don't hate
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 October 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
<3
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
New record 'We All Want The Same Things' out today.
Only one listen so far, but I think I like it as much as the last one already. Lots of horns and synths!
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 24 March 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
Saw him last night and the horns and textures sound so good. Listened to the album once in one sitting, and it was like reading some extraordinary short stories — one listen might be all it needs. Coming from the Twin Cities, so many songs have details that I know but have never heard captured before: “Found her serving breakfast in a cafe in a skyway in St. Paul.”
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
Damn, I've always been kind of lukewarm on his solo stuff, but this new one is incredible. Some of his best songwriting and storytelling yet and getting Cassandra Jenkins onboard as a foil was a great move.
If you can't stand his speak-singing thing, this isn't going to convince you, but I think this is easily the best thing he's done since at least Stay Positive.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
Not heard any of this one yet but I’ve really enjoyed most of his solo records, the first one is the only one I’m not bothered about. “God in Chicago” is one of the best things he’s done.
― hamicle, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/dp0Gh3HPBa— Craig Finn (@steadycraig) October 11, 2022
I know there is talk about the touring difficulties in other threads, like AnCo and Santigold, but this is another challenge I've seen come up - when there is a cancellation, lots of artists can't reschedule because every artist on earth is touring at the moment.
Looks so dismal out there and I don't think this is sustainable much longer.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
it's true across the board. having just dealt with sending a kid to college, I know that a lot of gap year kids who had taken the year off because of COVID threw off the numbers and made things that much more competitive. only so many days and nights of the year, only so many spaces, only so many seats, and so on.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
welp
Announcement regarding our October Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers shows pic.twitter.com/n2bKWKfFAE— Craig Finn (@steadycraig) October 12, 2022
but but I was told covid was over.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Not to derail from Finn to tour cancellations, but am thinking of all the reverberations from just one tour cancelled: the club losing a night's revenue, the hotel setting rates based on availability, the restaurant adjoining or next to the club depending on a crowd, and of course the morale of the band and everyone adjacent to it.
Anyway. Still loving Finn's songwriting -- pretty much every song has some detail from life that I've never heard in a song before. And as someone who grew up in the Twin Cities in the 80s, even moreso.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's just one more sign of how dismal things are right now. I feel like there's going to be some sort of breaking point soon.
Agreed re Finn, his new solo album is terrific.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Harry Styles canceled/postponed one of his many shows here last Thursday I think. Think how much that screwed things up for people who traveled in, plane tickets, hotels, camping out, all that stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 12, 2022 11:49 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Love this Finn lyric
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
is craig finn the least likely yet perhaps greatest classic rock frontman of all time y/n
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:34 (two months ago) link
i don't even care about charlemagne or ybor city
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:54 (two months ago) link
perhaps
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:58 (two months ago) link
it's a y/n question curmie
but now i demand reasons for a N answer
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 04:15 (two months ago) link
I was leaning Y
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 April 2024 04:57 (two months ago) link
ty
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 05:01 (two months ago) link
sorry/not sorry about calling you curmie
I don’t know about unlikely he kind of looks exactly like what a young(ish) classic rock frontman would look like in 2024. He wears the rumpled button down shirt of a man with strong opinions about the best Bruce bootlegs.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 April 2024 05:14 (two months ago) link
idk he’s kind of round, wears glasses, absolutely cannot hit any of the high notes earlier classic rock singers attempted
he’s not even elvis costello, but yet
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 05:53 (two months ago) link