C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

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

sounds great on the radio

i'm invested in this band like i haven't been since like, of montreal's peak
/corny

ahem

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/10/156551726/first-listen-the-gaslight-anthem-handwritten#playlist

oh shit thanks for the heads up

attn: sarge, hoos, ships, mords

xp np!

i'm no devil / but i've got things on my mind

Flying out to Boston to interview this lot later today. Anything anyone wants asking?

"What does Brian Fallon's wife think about the fact that there is always a vicious female antagonist in each of his songs?"

Cheers.

"What does Brian Fallon's wife think about the fact that there is always a vicious female antagonist in each of his songs?"

Cheers.
--sam b

He's said before that he "almost got married" at a really young age and I've sorta taken that figure as "the wife of my youth," character that causes so much heart trouble in song, but yeah that dynamic has to be interesting.

Saw them last night btw. Mix of stuff from Sink Or Swim on up to a couple off handwritten. Great show.

listening to Gaslight Anthem and after one song ended before the next started my son went "more!" like he does when he wants another episode of Sesame Street

haha aw

have to say apart from a few highlights this isn't really knocking my socks off - i was hoping '45' hinted at a return to some of the raucous uptempo stuff from the 59 sound, but most of this is in the vein of the more midtempo joints off american slang, which initially underwhelmed (but which i eventually came around to)

if there was any change between the avg tempos or energy level from 59 Sound to American Slang i didn't notice it tbh -- looking forward to the new one

I am anticipating this album

I will ask about vicious female antagonists.

Both of the last two were great. '59 Sound's highs were a little higher for me than American Slang's. Splitting hairs though.

xpost Good question, said Fallon. He's put it to her before. She doesn't mind, apparently.

Ha! Awesome.

I got really excited after the first two songs but after that this is another boring album. Too much stodgy midpaced chunter and they're just not very good at it.

The cover of Sliver is completely redundant when Nirvana's exists, not that they try to do anything different to it.