Have you guys heard this AM Taxi band that is such a blatant ripoff of these guys?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 3 October 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
no but will check out!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 October 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
btw no idea if anybody else has heard this or loves it like i do, predicting hatred from obvious quarters, but this fuckin kills me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgZXTttUTk&feature=related
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 October 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm real serious about this shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 October 2010 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 October 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
On Jools Holland show at the moment, they have an FC St Pauli flag hung over their bass drum, so kudos for that. Sadly to me the singer sounds 30 years older than he actually is.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
in a good way or
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sadly in a good way
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
we like our choruses sung togetherlock our arms in our brothers' arms
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
call every girl we ever met mariaonly love virginia's heart
― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 20 August 2011 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
Saw this in my updated bookmarks and excitedly thought I had a new end of summer album. :(
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 20 August 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
sorry :/
any day now, i hope
― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 20 August 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
they're about to put out a new one?
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
hoos i sing that to myself all the time in my own little faux-raspy voice
i'll luuuuuv you forever if i ever love at all
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
more and more i think 'senor and the queen' is their best single statement
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 August 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
'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
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 August 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
anyone listen to Fallon's Horrible Crowes side project yet?
― some dude, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I just learned there even was a Horrible Crowes side project yesterday. S'OK.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
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."
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."
:/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
gaslight anthem spoke in class today
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
it took me some time to get into it but i p much like all 3 albums equally now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
1st album is a little rough imo, but yeah that EP is great
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
how was that side project btw?
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
horrible
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
horrible something was the name of it, can't remember. never heard it.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Some Kind of Horrible
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 26 April 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
a bit chuntering and mid-paced and Mojo-friendly
how i'd characterize pearl jam & latter day foo fighters tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
no arguing it was midtempo though
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm kind of thinking of Foo Fighters pre-1997 or therabouts really.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
matt dc otm
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
Side project basically sounds like Gaslight Anthem.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
gaslight anthem spoke in class today --Mordy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Gaslight Anthem = Jeremy
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ✧✧✧✧✧✧@are.forever (some dude), Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
honestly its just that i hate pearl jam tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
Pearl Jam would do a great version of "Black Diamond."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, of course they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERfV7x2ctI
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, apparently I even saw them do it once. Way to go, memory.
Last time I saw Gaslight Anthem, they covered Lucero.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, was it 'the war'? i kinda hated the version i saw on youtube.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was "The War."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link