C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

yeah "here's looking at you, kid" is great, probably their second best slower song after "blue jeans and white t-shirts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cunR6Jz0ARQ

I think the new album is better than The '59 Sound. Much less samey sounding. From reading the reviews I thought I was going to hate the "reggae" song "The Queen of Lower Chelsea," but no the song is great. Smart lift of "Straight To Hell." Everything about this band is so corny and bombastic but I love it.

"Bring It On" is a killer track.

― Mordy, Friday, April 23, 2010 10:32 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

it's definitely not on the same level as the '59 sound, but it's a very good follow-up. still haven't gotten into a couple songs fully and the highs aren't quite as high (though the title track, "orphans", and "the spirit of jazz" are all incredible). too short, too!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/arts/music/20gaslight.html?ref=arts

yeah that was sweet, also cool to see my two favorite artists on the same page (in the print edition - the-dream and gaslight) when i hardly read the NYT music section

jordan have you even listened to this? where u been?

yeah i listened to this -- probably top 10 of the year -- incredibly solid and often thrilling -- prob will get better as the year wears on

Yeah, J0rdan likes it a lot, from what I know.

This grew on me so much from the initial spins. It went from a "this is nice, albeit derivative, i guess" to HOLY SHIT I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM.

Surprising, because two listens in, I still haven't totally fallen for the '59 sound.

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

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.

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.'

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

I have that one as well but haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet.

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

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.

Reverb on vocals is a pretty common thing ime?

let's do this

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

anyway i mainy just bumped this to say that "boxer" has slowly become one of my favorites even tho i hated it at first

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.

Reverb on vocals is a pretty common thing ime?

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.

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

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

al what do you think about this drummer?

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.

Have you guys heard this AM Taxi band that is such a blatant ripoff of these guys?

no but will check out!

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

i'm real serious about this shit

:D

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.

in a good way or

sadly in a good way

we like our choruses sung together
lock our arms in our brothers' arms

call every girl we ever met maria
only love virginia's heart

Saw this in my updated bookmarks and excitedly thought I had a new end of summer album. :(

sorry :/

any day now, i hope

they're about to put out a new one?

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

otm

more and more i think 'senor and the queen' is their best single statement

'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

anyone listen to Fallon's Horrible Crowes side project yet?

I just learned there even was a Horrible Crowes side project yesterday. S'OK.

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."

:/

gaslight anthem spoke in class today