top 100 Hold Steady lyrics

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100. "she said you remind me of rod stewart when he was young. you've got passion, you think you're sexy and all the punks think you're dumb."

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

99. "we stayed up pretty late with some rock and roll performers. it's always entertaining when you're hanging out with entertainers."

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

98. "We're jammin' jet skis into the jetty with this guy who looks like Rocco Sifredi"

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

We already did this, mostly -- it was "best Craig Finn lines" or something -- but I don't care. He's fun to quote.

97. Tramps like us, and we like tramps

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

You have no idea how excited I am about this topic.

96. "When they say killer whales, they mean they whaled on him till they killed him up in Penetration Park"

― WillS, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

95. "Yeah, damn right you'll rise again."

― mte22 (mte22), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

94. "everyones a critic and most people are DJs"

― jamc, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

93. I'm not going to do anything sexual with you; I'm kind of saving myself for the scene

― WillS, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

92. "a ray of light in tight white rayon slacks"

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

91. we didn't go to dallas. 'cause jackie onassis said that it ain't safe for catholics yet.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

90. reach into the speaker and try to hold on to the quarter notes.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

89. Do you want it like boy meets girl and the rest is history? Or do you want it like a murer mystery?

― casey (t. fiend), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

88. I have to try so hard not to fall in love, I have to concetrate when we kiss.

― Quinn (quinn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

87. "She mouthed the words along to 'Running up That Hill.' That song got scratched into her soul. He's never heard the song before, but still he gets the metaphor.:

― a. begrand (a begrand), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

st. louis had enslaved me.
i guess santa ana saved me.
st. peter had me on the queue.
the st. paul saints, they waved me thru.

― Alex Pareene (Pareene), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

85. she was half naked and three quarters wasted

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Moderator, PLEASE LOCK THIS THREAD. It's too painful for words, but if Craig Finn tried to describe it, I'm sure it would be so loaded with clichés, word puns, homonyms,etc. it would topple under its own weight.

― hector savage, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

"new orleans, I don't think you understand what that means..."

― cdjk, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Already encountered:

Fave/Best Lyrics/Lines of the Oeuvre: Craig Finn

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

hey let's not lock thread!

'she seems shallow but she's neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars'

― bandied bottleneck, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

83. they did she's got legs into ain't too proud to beg into something by the dixie dregs. they faked their way thru fairytale of new york. when the band stopped playing we howled out for more

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

82. the st. paul saints they waved me through, and i was all messed up in some video booth when i heard her say "i love you too".

― ian p is playing at my house (ian p is playing at my house), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

81. "All your favorite books wouldn't seem that well written if you were just a little more well-read."

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

(Oh, and Hector, we get it. You don't like The Hold Steady or Craig Finn, and think he's overrated. Noted.)

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

80. the gangster disciples knocked me off of my bicycle

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

word puns, you say? as opposed to the other kinds?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

79. "So you better go back to your bars, your temples...your massage parlors..."

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

"word puns" is the best back-fire insult on ilm since someone said axl rose looked like a "walking thug".

78. jesus rolled his eyes when his dad made jesus jokes

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

77. "And in the '90s we were wired and well connected/Put it all down on technology and lost everything we invested"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

76. i guess i heard about original sin. i heard the dudes blamed the chick and the chick blamed the snake and I heard they were naked when they got busted and I heard things ain't been the same since.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

do these lists ever get to #1?

i think 100 lines might end up covering everything on both albums.

love this band but...

― yerry holton, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

I don't get the love for this band, myself. Not that rock lyrics have to be great. But to me, they sound like they live in a very tiny scene and all they know of the world beyond is from record collecting and TV and some Jim Jarmusch films, maybe. It sounds like he's free-associating without going back to fill in the blanks.. something doesn't add up.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

75. at least in dying you don't have to deal with new wave for a second time

― jamc, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

74. I got through the part about the exodus. Up till then I only knew it was a movement of the people.

Sorry we're displeasing you, Hector. We can do the top 100 Mr. Mister or top 100 Gordon Lightfoot lyrics next so you'll wanna play along too...

― casey (t. fiend), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

73. The drinks taste like Pantene, the visine wipes clean all the bad dreams

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Hard drugs are for bartenders

― Jack, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

72. "it's hard to keep trying when half your friends are dying. it's hard to hold steady when half your friends are dead already."

― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

71. "she's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. b-1 is for the good girls. it's only the good die young. c-9 is for the making eyes. it's paradise by the dashboard light. d4 is for the lovers. b12 is for the speeders. and the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. and they're playing it again. ellen foley gives us hope. certain songs they get scratched into our souls."

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

70. listen up closely to the lit tips of your cigarettes, can't you hear the serpent hiss

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

69. I've been trying to get people to call me Freddy Knuckles
But people keep calling me Right Said Fred

― casey (t. fiend), Thursday, 1 September 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

68. she said it's good to see you back in a bar band, baby. i said it's great to see you're still in the bars.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 1 September 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

67. and when we hit the twin cities i didn't know that much about it: i knew mary tyler moore and i knew profane existence

― ian p is playing at my house (ian p is playing at my house), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

66. "She got high for the last time in the camps down by the river. Lord, to be 33 forever."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

"my name's steve perry baby but people call me circuit city -- I'm so well connected, my UPC is dialed into the system"

― cdjk, Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

it took awhile before people got to the "my name's... but people call me..." ones. they kinda bug me sometimes. nonetheless,

64. "...call me sunny d cause i got the good stuff that kids go for"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

We got the last-call bar-band really-really-really big decision blues/We were born to bruise

I don't know that anyone has really brought out the relationship between blues and really big decisions before.

― Brent Mix, Friday, 16 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

62. "I feel Jesus in the tenderness of young and awkward lovers"

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

^ fucked that up, h8 @ self

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

"I feel Jesus in the ~~tenderness~~ clumsiness of young and awkward lovers"

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:04 (fourteen years ago)

61. "After the show I spoke with the singer. And he tried to hand me a pamphlet about Hare Krishna. I said you've got to be kidding. Who the hell is the blue guy?"

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:07 (fourteen years ago)

60. you came into the er/man troll gas beany jim jam

― esteenban HOOTez (kkvgz), Thursday, 1 September 2011 09:48 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

59. Later on we did some sexy things, took a couple photographs and carved them into wood reliefs

Haven't listened to the Hold Steady in a while, but this lyric came into my mind this morning. It provided for a disappointing etsy search anyway.

― how's life, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 08:41 (ten years ago)

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