C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

Someone's gotta say it: DUD DUD DUD. Third-hand nostalgia for shit that wasn't that good in the first place. I mean, if you like Night Ranger, maybe these guys come off as an OK update on that. But does every fucking song have to have the word "tonight" in it?

Yeah, what I've heard has been pretty uninspiring and rote.

Third-hand nostalgia for shit that wasn't that good in the first place.

I'm not gonna argue with this, dudes quote fucking Counting Crows in their lyrics, but i still like it.

I've tried listening to the rest of the album, but it's not quite gelling for me yet; I like "Great Expectations" though. It has a great vibe, and the lyrics are so forlorn.

Also, I had a thought; this may be an album that requires a particular context to work best. I'm thinking that it would work a lot better in a bar.

^^^ this is so true, a bar is where I first heard this band and it sounded pretty great in that context.

But yeah, staggerlee is also OTM, and objectively theres no reason why I should like this. But I do. Just spun the record again this morning and enjoyed 90% of it.

holy fuck these tickets are more money than i expected them to be

I just got a copy of The '59 Sound. Am I gonna love it?

idk. i hope so. i've been continuously surprised by people's reactions to it.

Turning it on... I'll let you know how it goes.

continually is i think the word i wanted there

I like this a lot more than Hold Steady so far.

Their album The 59 Sound is one of those albums I can't stop playing, even though other band have basically done the same before. I really like Brian Fallon's voice.

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

just listening to that EP for the first time now, "blue jeans and white t-shirts" is slaying me

wtf dud

sb

new lucero album goes well with this btw

i always kinda sorta wish i'm someone else

let's do this

http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem

<333 this band

Nice new song.

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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

the gasface anthem

sb

suggest bantham

suggest you read jeremy bentham

have and do son!! have and do.

:)

lol

I'm watching you right now tbh

weird.

sub-the Killers

The Emo Street Band.

you all suck fyi

the HOOSlight anthem

<3 <3 incomprehensible hoarse vocals in the background of the chorus <3 <3 <3

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

Heavily influenced by late period Replacements and some Hold Steady, I think.

I would have said mid-Period Replacements.

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.

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

they cut me to ribbons and taught me to drive
in a dream i had ohhhh in a dream i had
i had your name tattooed inside of my arm
in a dream i had ohhhh in a dream i had

^^^ dope

didnt even notice til tonight that dude actually does a full throated non-background-vocal glory note at the end and its kinda thrilling

oh here's the youtube btw if you want that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBhrinnwVs

*digs new album*

*feels bad for band that album leaked 2 months early, am probably going to wait for release date*

*digs new album*

― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:41 AM (Yesterday)

This.

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.

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.

The solo album was as best as I can remember about as good as a good Gaslight Anthem album.

yeah the solo album is good

Huh, I guess Fallon has a new solo album out. Sounds like you'd expect/want it to sound.

I like this one too. he's in fine voice.

plus i think they know no matter how big they get The 59 Sound is gonna be the record that they need to give people a certain amount of songs from every night.

― flaming goon pie included (some dude), Monday, October 15, 2012 1:07 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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some headlines have it as "gaslight reunion" bcz they haven't played live together since 2015

Tbf, after 5 albums in 7 years, three years of indefinite hiatus might as well be 30.

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.

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

halfway through and this is solid

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.

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

absolutely exhausted by craig finn but his every bathtub fart remains better than this

whoa oh ah oh

When did "gaslighting" -- as deception -- enter the common lexicon?

Past few years, so several decades after James Redd saw both film versions of Gaslight.

quite the the thread revive.

love this band, mookieproof is now my mortal enemy sorry

I think Fallon's solo albums, especially "Sleepwalkers," are really underrated.

I’m sure I’ve listened to it but will do so again. been a while

I’m sure I’ve listened to it but will do so again. been a while

I like them. They definitely released the right singles for them too. A Wonderful Life is among my favourites of his catalogue.

"I don't want to survive/I want a wonderful life" is a beautifully anthemic sentiment.

And it really captures succinctly the romantic side of the Gaslight world to me (maybe not the divorce album so much lol)