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artist:the gaslight anthem
album:'59 sound
OH MY GOODNESS. take 3 minutes and 53 seconds out of your mundane life and go listen to this track. if that doesn't make you feel all tingly inside, you may need to check to see if you have a soul. seriously. (i am partial to it, however, because it is from bonnaroo.) i read a comment on songmeanings.net that "the opening riff of this song is sheer porn" and I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment. the first time i heard this song i was blown away. i kept repeating it because i couldn't even deal with how much i loved it. i still do that, actually, when listening to the CD.
the gaslight anthem is a decidedly "jersey" band. Brian Fallon's voice has a Springsteen-esque rasp to it that made me take notice to begin with, and the band came out of new brunswick, which is where anything that means anything in the jersey music scene happens, at least in the last 10 years or so. its no Austin, TX, but hell, ill take it.
gaslight was another one of those bands that were bouncing around on the peripheral for a long time, but that i didn't pay attention to right away. I'm really stubborn like that. at any rate, there was an article in AP magazine a year or two ago about the 100 emo songs you need to know or something like that, and a girl that i was friends with had most of those songs on her itunes, so she made me a CD with the like 20 tunes that i didn't have, "the high lonesome" being one of them. i heard it, but it didn't really do a whole lot for me right away. then i was listening to wxpn one day and i heard it again, and the line "maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand. i always kind of sort of wish'd i looked like Elvis" JUMPED out of the speakers at me. i am a huge counting crows fan (this is an obvious reference to 'round here' by the counting crows) and i needed to know what i was listening to. i whipped out my cell phone, went to the "song ID" app and found out that it was the gaslight anthem. then i remembered that that was the song on the CD Melissa burned me. i searched out anything else i could find by gaslight and i haven't looked back since.
i didn't listen to anything else but this CD for a few weeks straight. in the car, on the ipod, at the computer, in my room. i didn't want to waste my time with anything else. as a matter of fact, if I'm having fun now by jenny and johnny hadn't come out when it did, i probably would STILL be listening to nothing but the '59 sound.
i am really angry because i got into this band RIGHT after i got home from bonnaroo, so i missed them there and i missed them the next week at the pier. i think i need to make it a point to see them this summer. i was hoping they'd show up on the 'roo line-up for this summer, but so far no dice. there are a few more rounds of announcements to come, but i think that at this point they are a big enough band to be announced in the first batch, so I'm not holding my breath.
at any rate, if you have not heard this band yet, what are you waiting for. i already gave you a link. just go listen. explore. fall in love. i triple dog dare you not to like them.
(2/15)
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