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artist:The Hold Steady
album:boys and girls in America
this is the album that started my love affair with the hold steady.
i had just finished reading the book love is a mixtape by rob Sheffield (if you haven't read that yet i suggest you check it out) and was tooling around in the CD section at the library trying to decide if anything looked good. i noticed this CD and i vaguely remembered the band name from the book id just read, so i figured id check them out.
i checked that CD out with a few others and went out to my car to head home. i popped it into my CD player when i started my car and i think i was in love before the end of the first measure. i listened to this CD nonstop for a few weeks, forcing it on all of my friends.
at some point after this initial meeting with the album, i was in Philly for some reason or another and bought the album on vinyl, and fell in love all over again. there is an adorable comic book inside that stands in for the liner notes, and i can vividly remember sitting on a bench at the train station waiting to come back to jersey and looking at the record and thinking about how freaking awesome it was.
my infatuation with this band has since died off, though i definitely still like them. i no longer can listen to them for extended periods of time, though. small doses for me.
if you take anything away from this, know that Craig Finn is a fucking amazing lyricist, and his delivery of those lyrics is absolutely what makes this band worth listening to.
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