tbh a band that stays so unfalteringly true to its formula from album to album kinda invites pre-written pans
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
Don't recall any pans of the last two, but I know the Horrible Crowes album rubbed some people the wrong way. And then comes an album that if anything upped the earnestness, which seems hard to do. Fork review otm in that it would be nice to hear a glimmer of humor in this endeavor.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 July 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I agree this band is becoming a bit formulaic, but I don't hear much of a qualitative difference among the three albums. Did this band ever have a sense of humor? I don't remember chuckling at any of their previous songs. Either way, that's not something that I care about at all (big Radiohead stan here).
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 29 July 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
i agree that the last 3 albums really very nearly equal -- i was just saying being consistent, while it can be enjoyable, can set a band up to get some pretty paint-by-numbers reviews
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
Finally bought this. I didn't love American Slang at first either, but this is seriously growing on me.
― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 29 July 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
('59 Sound is easily my fave rock album of the last five years, btw.)
― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 29 July 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
but this is seriously growing on me
^ this
― Mordy, Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
I would more or less describe all three albums the same way, but I think the quality of the songs on "59 Sound" and "American Slang" are superior. I haven't made it through a listen of the new one yet that didn't make me wish I was listening to one of the other ones instead. Does not make the new one bad, per se, but I definitely think it inferior, and not just because it is more of the same.
Don't think the idea is that the band was ever funny, just that a glimmer of humor or wit could be a nice way to shake things up without really changing much, sonically. On its face Gaslight Anthem does not seem any more conservative than, say, Lucero, but Lucero seems a little less beholden to a specific template. But it's not like I'm writing off Gaslight Anthem at all. I'm curious to hear if the group ever grows beyond the sum of its (wonderful, exciting, anthemic, etc.) cliches.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
Right, I feel like where Lucero asks the girl to dance cause they're downtown and drunk and it's Friday, Gaslight asks the girl to dance ~for redemption~. that's part of what I like about them, but 4 records without much of a wink gets kinda staid.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 29 July 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
"here comes my man" is becoming my favorite on this. i think taking a different voice - something, as we alluded to upthread, that fallon does infrequently - really opens him up on this song. lines like "and i'll never let you drop another tear in my eye" and "don't you think i knew about all your pretty girlfriends" affect partly because of just how unusual they are.
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoW3Pgv-gng
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
seeing these guys in philly in november @ electric factory. pretty excited actually - especially if they play older stuff and not just new material
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
when i saw them a lil while ago they played stuff from all four records, it was p rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think one benefit of them having figured out their sound from the get-go is that they seem to mix the old and the new pretty seamlessly. 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, 15 October 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
show was excellent!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
i noticed that a lot of their lyrics include some variation of the words "sad songs"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
i was also sad bc no "lucky" or "american slang." lots of other great songs tho including 'blood bank' and 'just like heaven' covers. 'too much blood' and 'handwritten' were huge too -> over capacity electric factory crowd, philly seems to be huge gaslight anthem fans
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, and astro zombies cover!
i was sort of shocked at how many frat types appeared at their last show
have they always been a fratty band and i just didn't notice with my headphones at home
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
i had tickets to monday night in boston but couldn't go :(
― liljon /bia/ bia (k3vin k.), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
'handwritten' would probably be epic live
rly
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 November 2012 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
DEFINITELY a fratty band.
just not my thing, I guess. i'm not big on the Americana sound
― everythingsgross, Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
i mean on thought their presence made a lot of sense and i'm not really sure what sort of crowd i expected--*a room full of haunted-eye moleskine clutchers* or whatever--but it struck me as incongruous somehow
can't really finger why
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
"45" crossed over to hard rock radio a little bit, they are on a major label now, etc. the whole reason indie's been running from anthemic guitar bands the last x years is "man i didn't know there were gonna be baseball caps at this show"
― trinidad jokes (some dude), Friday, 30 November 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
i think maybe it's bcz the bruce influence codes as 'blue collar' to me--though obv that's a whole thing to unpack as like obv not every dad fist pumping at the staples center to darkness on the edge of town is a dust farmer by day--and hollister definitely does not code as blue collar to me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
shit collar
― buzza, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
sure
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
the album "handwritten" is a tragedy, the first three songs are so amazing
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
new one is streaming.
i had no use for it but RIP
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/08/stream-the-gaslight-anthems-new-album-get-hurt/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
― trinidad jokes (some dude), Friday, November 30, 2012 12:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a+ post
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
i'm never going to love a gaslight album as much as i love american slang, am i? the new one is okay.
― Mordy, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
i am sort of too down on those first three singles to even listen to it man. i'll always love those first three records, all sort of perfect even in their flaws, but yeah--barring some unexpected breakthrough i think i may be out of steam for these guys.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
man get hurt is just not great
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
i really tried to like it but i got nothing
with the benefit of a few years, i think american slang has actually become my favorite record of theirs--59 sound, in retrospect, is too weighed down by fallon straining to fit into The Boss's leather jacket.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
love the solo album
― Mordy, Saturday, 12 March 2016 14:47 (eight years ago) link
btw h00s otm american slang is the best album. the new solo reminds me a lot of it.
already got teary once at "i don't want to survive / i want a wonderful life"
― Mordy, Saturday, 12 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I like to think that Fallon runs his albums by Springsteen first, the way Weird Al makes sure his marks are cool with his parodies.
But yeah, this is good. I was afraid to listen to the last GA, since someone said it was more Bon Jovi than Bruce. But this is good.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
it's much better than the last GA which i haven't gone back to once. it's how i wanted things to go after american slang + get hurt in terms of GA sound.
― Mordy, Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Fallon gets more unabashed mileage out of the C-G-Am-F change than every other pop-punk act combined.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
― Mordy, Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:47 AM (4 months ago)
whoa what there is a solo album?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 02:52 (seven years ago) link
btw is there a better band to listen to drunk by yourself? i say no
this is a little crazy imo. "59 sound" is one of my favorite albums ever
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
tw no idea if anybody else has heard this or loves it like i do, predicting hatred from obvious quarters, but this fuckin kills me
http://www.youtube.com/v/HUgZXTttUTk&feature=related&fs=1&hl=en
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, October 8, 2010 8:19 PM (5 years ago)
btw hoos you were on point with this post because this is a sick cover
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
tdlr this band fucking rules and no one cares
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
i listened to their whole catalog again just the other day. the new solo album is not as good as the band work but it has its moments
― Mordy, Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
i'm listening to the "b-sides" on spottily and yes i am drunk
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
EVERY WORD HANDWRITTEN
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link