C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

yeah word this has grown on me like crazy, '59 Sound is a very good album. "great expectations" is my favorite song. it's also nice to have an album i can recommend to/have in common with my lame-o pop-punk/emo friends

-liking friends

haha unrelated to my prev post but jordan s would like this

I really really love this band. Their latest album The 59 sound was olne of the highlights of 2008 for me. Saw them play a great show at a sold out Vera three months ago. They also did their coverversion of Left Of The Dial, and they played State Of Love And Trust as a second cover.

Strangely enough last year they were still touring with hardcore-bands, like Annihilation Time.

-liking friends

on an unrelated tangent, i'm curious how you perceive this addition changes the meaning of the previous statement.

ha idk i mean my 19/20 y.o. friends don't dress like
http://trickledown.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/emo-kid.jpg
but listen to "emo" music

I kind of missed out on The 59 Sound last year but picked it up after people repped for it in the end of year poll thread. Utter classic, anyway. They make me want to go and drink beer and have ridiculous adventures. Is the first album as good?

Also I was listening to it heavily while reading The Savage Detectives and the two feel completely intertwined in my head now.

I got into the title track of 59 Sound last fall after Breihan repped hard for the album on his blog, but I sorta felt like the record was real samey as a whole and let it fall by the wayside as I got really into The Hold Steady again. In the last month, though, I've totally fallen in love with it whole hog (and got Sarge into it too iirc). I know all the words and am learning to play most of it.

If Hold Steady are the wizened older brothers who've made all the mistakes and spend their time telling half-grinning cautionary tales, these guys are the younger brothers who're gonna hear all the stories and ignore the advice and go and make the same mistakes. They sound like the decision to stay young and reckless when you maybe ought to know better.

I fuckin love this band.

good post dude

Great record, but too many pick slides at the same point in the arrangement. Minor quibble? Perhaps. But it bugs me as much as a scratch in an LP.

I can see how that would be irritating. Of course, a similar charge could be leveled against the entire Verse-Chorus-Verse format.

by the way, is there a reason why the word "repped" appears so much in this thread?

Paid cash money for it. After more than enough listening, thought this about it on Rolling Country last year, posted for its Americana vibe:

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The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound Don't know where to put this and it's Americana, so here by default.

Heavily influenced by late period Replacements and some Hold Steady, I think. Which makes it sound hand-wringingly sincere and Bruce Springsteen as filtered through indie types. Lots of ringing guitars but not in the classic rock sense ala Tom Petty. Ringing guitars in the sense that everything sounds the same and indie after fifteen minutes and all the guitar solos are octave riffs and nothing ever sounds like Chuck Berry or Little Richard.

Guys singing about standing in the pounding Jersey rain. Forget this dead man's town! O-ooo-oo-oh-o---ooh! Yo-ho! Eesh. Fuck me, why do I get sucked in by stuff like this? Just ain't my style. When I think of the '59 Fullerton Fender guitar sound, I don't think Jersey/Long Island bar band as reinterpreted by dudes doing the indie thing. Why doesn't this stuff ever sound like the Norman Nardini's or Joe Gruschecky's of the real genre. Makes the Mudcrutch album earlier this year sound inspired.

Can you believe they've actually entitled songs "The Patient Ferris Wheel" and "Here's Looking at You, Kid"?

― Gorge, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
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Is the first album as good?

― Matt DC, Monday, June 8, 2009 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, but it's not far off, it's pretty impressive how fully formed they were from the jump. the EP released in between, Senor And The Queen, is good too.

i would get into why these guys are good and Hold Steady sucks but let's not and say we did

are you one of those dudes who loved lifter puller but doesnt like hold steady?

i'm one of those dudes who has no love for any of the above

just some dude

i really really fucked up by not listening to these dudes till like last week

these guys were fun live

i sort of actively avoided bands that sounded like these guys when i was in HS in north jersey (lots of my friends were into the new brunswick uh "scene" but i was too busy being lol indie) and now i'm like "damn, i probably missed out on some stuff"

Haha the first album is almost exactly the same as the first one except shorter and not quite as good.

They're playing Glastonbury in a couple of weeks, which I'm psyched about.

Someone's gotta say it: DUD DUD DUD. Third-hand nostalgia for shit that wasn't that good in the first place. I mean, if you like Night Ranger, maybe these guys come off as an OK update on that. But does every fucking song have to have the word "tonight" in it?

Yeah, what I've heard has been pretty uninspiring and rote.

Third-hand nostalgia for shit that wasn't that good in the first place.

I'm not gonna argue with this, dudes quote fucking Counting Crows in their lyrics, but i still like it.

I've tried listening to the rest of the album, but it's not quite gelling for me yet; I like "Great Expectations" though. It has a great vibe, and the lyrics are so forlorn.

Also, I had a thought; this may be an album that requires a particular context to work best. I'm thinking that it would work a lot better in a bar.

^^^ this is so true, a bar is where I first heard this band and it sounded pretty great in that context.

But yeah, staggerlee is also OTM, and objectively theres no reason why I should like this. But I do. Just spun the record again this morning and enjoyed 90% of it.

holy fuck these tickets are more money than i expected them to be

I just got a copy of The '59 Sound. Am I gonna love it?

idk. i hope so. i've been continuously surprised by people's reactions to it.

Turning it on... I'll let you know how it goes.

continually is i think the word i wanted there

I like this a lot more than Hold Steady so far.

Their album The 59 Sound is one of those albums I can't stop playing, even though other band have basically done the same before. I really like Brian Fallon's voice.

The end of 2009 saw The Gaslight Anthem entering the studio once again with producer Ted Hutt, to begin recording their second album for SideOneDummy Records, due out in the first half of 2010.

goddamn this can't come soon enough, i want to give a shit about a rock record

just listening to that EP for the first time now, "blue jeans and white t-shirts" is slaying me

wtf dud

sb

new lucero album goes well with this btw

i always kinda sorta wish i'm someone else

let's do this

http://www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem

<333 this band

Nice new song.

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

played great expectations while downing my second double whiskey & coke at the bar yest and i was in...well, heaven isn't the word.

yeah "great expectations" is just

the gasface anthem

sb

the album "handwritten" is a tragedy, the first three songs are so amazing

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/

"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, November 30, 2012 12:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a+ post

i'm never going to love a gaslight album as much as i love american slang, am i? the new one is okay.

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.

man get hurt is just not great

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.

love the solo album

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"

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.

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.

Fallon gets more unabashed mileage out of the C-G-Am-F change than every other pop-punk act combined.

love the solo album

― Mordy, Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:47 AM (4 months ago)

whoa what there is a solo album?

btw is there a better band to listen to drunk by yourself? i say no

btw h00s otm american slang is the best album. the new solo reminds me a lot of it.

― Mordy, Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:47 AM (4 months ago)

this is a little crazy imo. "59 sound" is one of my favorite albums ever

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

tdlr this band fucking rules and no one cares

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

i'm listening to the "b-sides" on spottily and yes i am drunk

EVERY WORD HANDWRITTEN

i miss 2009-2010 ILX where are the bros posting about this band

they mostly rep for carly rae now

k3vin my man i am feeling u 4 all time

first 3 songs on HANDWRITTEN (‘45’ -> ‘handwritten’ -> ‘here comes my man’) are still 10/10 classic and worthy follow ups to the 59 sound

Agreed, but it's all downhill from there, sadly. Although Fallon's solo album is pretty great IMHO

“The Blue Dahlia”, from the deluxe edition of ‘Handwritten’, is pretty good too.

Loved the Horrible Crowes album when it came out but haven’t listened to it much lately.

I like the title track from Get Hurt very much tbh

I keep meaning to go back to Get Hurt and wrestle something likeable out of it but I flashback to the visceral dislike I had at first listen and don't do it. Maybe I'll try again tonight.

The solo album was as best as I can remember about as good as a good Gaslight Anthem album.

yeah the solo album is good

Huh, I guess Fallon has a new solo album out. Sounds like you'd expect/want it to sound.

I like this one too. he's in fine voice.

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, October 15, 2012 1:07 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://thepunksite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Gaslight-Anthem-July-18-Tour.jpg

some headlines have it as "gaslight reunion" bcz they haven't played live together since 2015

Tbf, after 5 albums in 7 years, three years of indefinite hiatus might as well be 30.

I adore how shamelessly, earnestly corny/cliched this album is. Great tunes, though. Probably his best batch since "'59," or at least "American Slang."

I guess he says not to expect another Gaslight album, but really, this is close enough.

huh, i suppose i'll have to take a listen

i'd sorta been figuring they'd revive in 5-6 years going Back to Basics

halfway through and this is solid

Is there any songwriter who references other songs (and songwriters) as much as Brian Fallon? I've been listening to "Sleepwalkers" a lot lately, and from song titles to song lyrics, even names of other artists, this guy is just constantly breaking the fourth wall.

i hate this guy/band so much that i can't even really explain it

if he really loved NJ/bruce/the working man he'd tattoo his face about it

wah oh oh

absolutely exhausted by craig finn but his every bathtub fart remains better than this

whoa oh ah oh

When did "gaslighting" -- as deception -- enter the common lexicon?

Past few years, so several decades after James Redd saw both film versions of Gaslight.

quite the the thread revive.

love this band, mookieproof is now my mortal enemy sorry