C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

it took me some time to get into it but i p much like all 3 albums equally now

1st album is a little rough imo, but yeah that EP is great

how was that side project btw?

horrible

horrible something was the name of it, can't remember. never heard it.

Some Kind of Horrible

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.

a bit chuntering and mid-paced and Mojo-friendly

how i'd characterize pearl jam & latter day foo fighters tbh

no arguing it was midtempo though

Yeah I'm kind of thinking of Foo Fighters pre-1997 or therabouts really.

matt dc otm

Side project basically sounds like Gaslight Anthem.

gaslight anthem spoke in class today
--Mordy

Gaslight Anthem = Jeremy

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

honestly its just that i hate pearl jam tbh

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"

Pearl Jam would do a great version of "Black Diamond."

Oh, of course they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERfV7x2ctI

Huh, apparently I even saw them do it once. Way to go, memory.

Last time I saw Gaslight Anthem, they covered Lucero.

oh man, was it 'the war'? i kinda hated the version i saw on youtube.

Yeah, it was "The War."

did you enjoy it or

To be fair the worst thing about Pearl Jam is the Vedder voice and unless they're getting him to sing on the record I doubt that'll be an issue really.

Also given how much Pearl Jam veers close to mid-period Springsteen anyway I'm surprised this is even something the Gaslight Anthem felt the need to bring up.

somehow i totally missed that the band finally gave into the inevitable and signed to a major last year, so this is coming out on Mercury Records -- would kind of like to see them get huge, frankly. Tom Petty it up, fellas!

nice!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-exclusive-the-gaslight-anthem-45-20120430

i was sold 30 seconds in before they even got to the harmonies in the chorus

love the vocals mixed a liiiiiittle lower in the mix

i can hear where one might say 'tom petty' with this but my first association is bouncing souls

love it! this is gonna get a lot of play from me this summer

the record's out in mid july! whole thing'll be on my summer playlist, i suspect

sounds dope, "American Slang" was a really uninspiring lead single for a good album imo but this hits the spot

you guys are getting me excited

whoa, this sounds perfect. there's a tone to his voice i haven't heard before from him - there's this emotional urgency that's implicit in all his songs but never really released like this

I have a hunch what you hear in his voice is him in the hands of a capitol P producer, but hopefully Brendan O'Brien will be pretty sympathetic throughout.

is ted hutt not a capital P producer

i mean i know brendan o'brien is big shit poppin and all i'm just not sure i understand the distinction

Well, Hutt has stuck pretty much within the same range - blue collar punk/pop-ish stuff, with the occasional horns in Lucero or I guess the Bosstones (right?). But Brendan O'Brien has produced several huge, arena-filling bands with a much bigger, wider musical range. He seems like a go-to guy when a band wants to make a step up. Hutt seems like the Side One Dummy in-house guy.

anyone have an mp3 of this btw? can't find one right now

oh man do i fuck w this song

NEED MP3 HALP

http://t.co/hLudePya

tybg

WHOA. The single's out! I am a sucker for this.

this song is ridic

I'm sayin

a-aayyyyyyyyyyyyy

this leak?

i wish. i mean idk, but i just bumped because '45' is dope

THE TICK, TICKING OF HOURS

^best part of song