Three years ago or so, and came to town and played me “Citrus” and “Party Pit,” and I fell into this band crush headlong. “Boys and Girls in America” is totally the most accessible record, and where lots of fans (including me!) got started. Then “Separation Sunday” really got the narrative ball rolling it’s entirely a concept album based around Holly, Charlemagne and Gideon, slightly rawer than the other records and still totally lyric-based and groovy. The aesthetic is set up on the first record, “Almost Killed Me,” with a growling lyric-rich Craig Finn and some old-school hair band/punk guitar licks. There are four albums so far, and while individually they’re amazing, and while individual tracks on each album can also be isolated as a-fucking-mazing, there’s an even better story happening across the four albums, starring the same set of characters (Hallelujah the teenage burnout, Charlemagne, the struggling drug dealer/pimp, and Gideon, the gang member - and a whole cast of other supporting characters who get drunk at music festivals, get fucked against dumpsters behind townie bars, get in knife fights, fall in love, party till it almost kills them, and wake up in Ybor City looking for a change). Take it as a taster if you like it, just keep rocking the fuck on with the rest of their discography. Here’s their one single, though I don’t even know if it got radio play the opening track from “Boys and Girls in America,” Stuck Between Stations. They are all these things and more, people! They’ve drawn comparisons to Springsteen and REM, the Tragically Hip and Sonic Youth, Ted Leo and even Billy Joel. Now it’s the Hold Steady, and I’ve actually become unable to listen to anything else without wishing it was Craig Finn’s Jersey vibe and half-spoken lyrics against that 80s real-band-playing-real-instruments track.
rar file.Ībout… four years ago I got hooked on Regina Spektor and her entire songography was on repeat on my Zune for months. Another B-side, covered by some other bands, but this is my favorite version.ĭownload the mix, Music for Dogwalking, in a. Holly, who you met in First Night, bites back.
Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls. An introduction to THS’s recurring cast of characters, showing up across five albums and more than a dozen songs.
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV frankly that thing doesn’t really interest me. “Plea From a Cat Named Virtute” – The Weakerthans.He said go, you don’t know how much I missed you but we’d better run because I haven’t got the funds to pay this fine. Off the album of the same name, yours at a discount to convert you to Canadiana love like the rest of us. “Reconstruction Site” – The Weakerthans.She said you’re pretty good with words but words won’t save your life and they didn’t so he died. “Stuck Between Stations” – The Hold Steady.There are only about five or six artists represented, most twice or even three times, because my music tastes of late have been fairly insular, and, really who wants to listen to anything but Kate Nash and The Hold Steady anyway? You’ll love them. And so, I made you guys a mix tape! Download, enjoy. And I’ve been walking around listening to a whole host of BBC radio plays too, and all in all getting down with my aural self.īut I also downloaded a handful of albums, mostly stuff that’s been on my mind lately, artists that are new to me over the last decade and stuff that I’ve been craving this year. I just got a dinky little mp3 player, generic RCA brand, scant 8 gig, mostly for podfic (audio recordings of fanfic, most housed at Jinjurly’s archive) to accompany me on longish dog walks and even longer car rides.