Surprising, because two listens in, I still haven't totally fallen for the '59 sound.
― Alex in Montreal, Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i still love the '59 sound more and more every time i listen to it - it will be v high on my 05-09 ballot
― k3vin k., Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Other way 'round for me. Two listens in and I'm still not head over heels for the new one the way I was with the last, but then that one was a bit of a grower for me as well. Still think the new Against Me! is a little better than this.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Seeing these guys tonight and am kinda psyched. Still listening to 'American Slang' at least once a week. I picked up the first album and can echo what's upthread: kind of a dud, but what an amazing jump in songwriting ability from the first album to '59 Sound.'
― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been listening to the senor and the queen EP more recently and it's really a nice warm-up for the '59 sound
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I have that one as well but haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet.
― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
first three songs are nice and show the direction they're about to go in, songwriting-wise, but are a bit stripped-down compared to the 59 sound. the fourth song I consider to be among their best
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. This show was pretty fucking terrible. Kind of shocked but not really surprised I suppose. If you think the albums sound corny and bombastic (which I mentioned upthread), the cheese factor is just amped up by 10 for the live show. While they did not play some tiny club, it wasn't a stadium so why put reverb on the singer's vocals? I think he might have even stolen some of Springsteen's onstage banter. Basically all they were missing was Clarence Clemons on sax and pulling a girl up on stage to dance with -- which actually could have happened because my wife and I left with probably about 30 minutes left in the show. I just couldn't let the show ruin my enjoyment of the albums. So disappointed.
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Reverb on vocals is a pretty common thing ime?
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
let's do thishttp://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:17 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink<333 this band― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:58 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkayyyyyyyyyyyyyy― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:52 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark
http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:17 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
<333 this band
― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:58 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:52 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark
go team btw
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway i mainy just bumped this to say that "boxer" has slowly become one of my favorites even tho i hated it at first
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
and it's still kinda opaque to me, lyrically
they're playing here next week, trying to get on the guest list for it. liked them live when i saw them a year or two back, and lately i've been playing "The Diamond Street Church Choir" constantly.
― J@den S. (some dude), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Not that often live and generally not that noticeable. Listening to American Slang recently and while there is reverb on the vox, it isn't as pronounced.
― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 24 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
damn missed this revive! sup hoos
i'm still digging the new album fine but "the 59 sound" just becomes one of my favorite records ever more and more each time i listen to it. my recent favorite has been "casanova, baby!" - love those jangly guitar sounds in the chorus so much, and how they kind of mimic the vocal melody but except they're like one phrase ahead (lol does anyone know what i mean?). plus the the delivery of "i'm still these nervous feet and heart of stone" gets to me, esp in the second chorus, fuckin killer line. and "if i could put down this old hammer / i'd take you somewhere new". god i'm such a fanboy for this shit
adding to what i mentioned in my NEGLECTED, CRIMINALLY UNDERPOSTED-IN '59 sound poll (the gaslight anthem - the '59 sound POLL) about how incredible the bridges in these songs are (NOW I DRIIIIIIIIIIVE THE 101) and how they add to the songs' shelf lives - they way fallon switches up phrasing or little melodies here and there in choruses makes it really hard for them to get stale, think about the line i quoted above in "casanova, baby!" or the tune to "i always kinda sorta wish i looked like elvis" from "high lonesome" and how they get tweaked in each iteration of the chorus. i mean this obviously nothing that's unique to this band or anything but i just feel like it's done with great care and thought with these dudes.
looks like they either already came through the northeast this go-round or aren't coming :( i'm a pretty laid back dude but for these guys i would totally go crazy and scream the words to every song the whole set. i can't imagine not totally loving them live
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 October 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I fuckin love this band.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, June 8, 2009 6:43 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
good post dude
― and why?!? (k3vin k.), Monday, June 8, 2009 6:44 PM (1 year ago)
(the 'good post' was directed at the one you made right above this one but lol
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 October 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
al what do you think about this drummer?
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
their drummer's pretty good and dependable, nothing to write home about but at the show the other night he got in some sweet fills.
― algernod shiplies (some dude), Sunday, 3 October 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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